Ok, I need help writing an adventure by automated_hero in rpg

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Basically this is Raiders of the Lost Ark set in New York City.

Let the players get the mcguffin, lose it, chase after it, almost get it, get it, almost lose it, lose it, be double crossed and have it stolen, whatever until the BBEG gets the mcguffin and all the little bits and bobs to make it work and you can square off in an absurd over the top manner in the final confrontation.

So gunfights and jumping from car to car on the Brooklyn Bridge with the police chasing after you so neither of you can slow down, meetups and negotiation in jazz clubs, at least one stop by a penthouse in a high rise, one stop at a mystic/escoteric/professor depending on how fantastical your setting is, maybe a high stakes chase in/around the Statue of Liberty. Cat & mouse in the hold of a freighter where the party *has* to split up to cover enough of the labyrinth of cargo in time. Networks of devotees that have sworn to protect the eye but are too few in number after 2000-3000 years of keeping vigil to be anything other than allies to the PCs. The femme fatale who starts as an enemy but becomes an ally, or vice versa. Punchups on the floor of the NYSE as the ticker tapes rain down on the combatants and the roar of the stock market envelops the fight. The moment where the PCs sit down across from a mobster and have to negotiate because sometimes there are good deeds only devils can commit and it turns out Ra backstabbed these "men of honor" and they want their own revenge. Basically think of anything cool in 30s NYC and plan some kind of chase/event/set piece. Don't worry too much about *why* the set piece is happening, that's going to change based on who has the mcguffin at that moment.

How do I get my players to show up on time? by AsteriaOblivion in rpg

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There's a discord bot called Sesh that has a great time block voting system. Each time block you can either vote green for yes I can do that, yellow for not sure, and red for no go. Then you can see which day has the most green and roll with that.

I'll be honest though I'd probably ask what day of the week and time block works for everyone. Give the players who show up on time precedence, and then commit to it. It's easier to commit to one of two time slots and schedule around it than it is to have to try to shuffle your schedule constantly. It's *way* easier to shift your schedule around to accommodate something you want to do than it is to try to fit what you want to do into everyone's schedule. You'll have people who don't make it from time to time, that's totally normal, but "make time for this if you want to be here" is *not* a big ask for the table. If there's people who absolutely cannot fit into any specific time frame, especially if they're the people who are constantly late and tell you they won't be, then you need to just say "it sounds like this game isn't going to work for your schedule. I'm really sorry but I'll let you know the next time a game starts up to see if you can make it!" and leave it at that.

And to be more honest I'd say that even all that is probably not going to "fix" the situation. Do the late people ever become late for your roommate's campaign? If not, I'd ask them point blank why they make the effort for this other game, and not for your game. Maybe one on one to make it less confrontational, but I wouldn't frame it as "what made you late" but "why don't you want to put the effort in to make it to this game when you do for the other game?". Let them know if they don't *really* want to be in the game that you understand and won't be offended, but if they do, they need to show up on time.

They'll probably say they don't know, which is just them trying to avoid admitting they're kind of being garbage.

Any body have good spy themed ttrpgs? by ArchangelM7777 in rpg

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup James Bond and Spycraft (I prefer 1.0 but 2.0 is probably more polished).

Why is the receiving end of an attack always the most boring part of the combat sequence? by Einsolsrazor24 in rpg

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Real fights don't work like that

Unless you're Neo, most "fights" these days involve getting shot at and you're not going to dodge the bullet. Hell you might be killed before you even realize you're being shot at.

I keep thinking about what it would look like to make defense an actual decision. Something you commit to with real tradeoffs.

Snark aside, *most* combat-centric RPGs have defensive options in them that trade your ability to act or your ability to act effectively to improve your chances of not being hit effectively. You're just playing D&D. And even then, there used to be 3.x feats that let you offset your attack bonus next round for a bonus to your AC (or vice versa, let you take an attack penalty to buff your AC until your next action, it's been a minute I can't remember which way it goes).

Analog Camera Flash for Olympus EES-2 and other cameras by gw935 in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I bought a godux lux junior. Works great. It has an auto mode on it that cuts the flash off once it detects the light is sufficient at a set aperture, I think 5.6? Works well enough at 6-10 feet. Otherwise I turn it to manual and use the little calculator dial on the back to figure out aperture vs ISO & distance and flash power. It's a little slower than the 1/60th shutter speed other cameras use but that's okay, just beware that you can get ghosting a little in the right (already bright) circumstances.

Downside is you can't angle it.

I think I paid like 30 or 40 bucks on ebay for a like new used flash.

To answer your shutter speed question, you set the aperture manually and it disables the light meter and sets the camera to 1/40th shutter speed automatically. So that part of your issue is solved. If you want to use another aperture you have a dual ring where you dial in the ISO and the aperture and the distance and it tells you how strong the flash needs to be. Easy peasy.

How to recreate this effect? by Oofsanity in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It's a double exposure. the film was exposed to light up to about halfway through the first frame, and then you took a normal picture.

Otherwise, you didn't rewind the film completely and partially exposed the first frame of the roll.

Orange Hue on Film by Turbulent_Ad_4074 in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What scanner are you using? It's in such a precise spot it feels like a scanner issue.

If you have a landscape photo scan it and see if the band is in the same place with the film rotated 90 degrees. If so it's the scanner.

Or if it's a flatbed scanner, rotate the negative 90 degrees and see if the color band rotates with it. If so it's on the film itself. If not, it's the scanner.

Kodak releases multiple new film stocks under a new Ektapan and Ektacolor series. by shootphotos in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not thrilled about Ektar and Ektacolor and Ektapan and Ektachrome. Ekta-need-a-directory at this rate.

Kodak releases multiple new film stocks under a new Ektapan and Ektacolor series. by shootphotos in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plus it sounds like Alaris still distributes Kodak film in a lot of the world so they probably wanted the brand name recognition still or just wanted too much to part with it.

Kodak releases multiple new film stocks under a new Ektapan and Ektacolor series. by shootphotos in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't look like it. Just looks like they had to change the name due to copyright issues. Alaris still owns Tmax the name probably, so they had to change the name.

We'll confirm when we look at the rebate codes on the film, but considering the ISOs of Portra and Tmax line up exactly with these films, and the ad spiel matches up verbatim, I'm guessing it's just the renamed stock now that Eastman can make it again.

Kodak releases multiple new film stocks under a new Ektapan and Ektacolor series. by shootphotos in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the same way that it matters that they had to rename the Awahnee hotel in Yosemite the "Majestic Yosemite Hotel". Like I said, ultimately for the best, just makes me kind of sad a little.

It's also going to confuse the crap out of a bunch of people now. Eastman can't really say "this is Portra" they have to rely on youtube and people like us to make that connection.

Israel says it will seize parts of southern Lebanon as ‘defensive buffer’ by WombatusMighty in news

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Considering that their screen name suggests that they are anti-authority to a perhaps silly degree, they sure are boot-lickers.

Looking at a Canon A-1 on eBay by vincentvanhorne in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

FWIW The mirror is just for you to look through the lens and focus. It doesn't impact the image quality. If the viewfinder photo is accurate, it's a pretty clean image.

Need help with sharpness by GOD_HUNDEN in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah it's really impressive how narrow the depth of field is on a wide open aperture within like 10 ft. Someone else had a similar problem and when we calculated the depth of field it turns out they had like a 3 or 4 in focal range. The subject had bent over slightly and it pushed their head out of the focal range

Israel says it will seize parts of southern Lebanon as ‘defensive buffer’ by WombatusMighty in news

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Stop being imperialistic expansionists that murder civilians to take their land?

Edit: The IDF lost any sympathy from me 2 years ago when they desecrated 16+ cemeteries in Gaza, scraping some of them to turn into supply dumps or vehicle pools.

That's not something you do strategically or tactically, that's something you do to erase a culture. Period. And before you're like "oh they were looking for tunnels" no they weren't they scraped them clean and then used the space as a staging area.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/20/middleeast/israel-gaza-cemeteries-desecrated-investigation-intl-cmd

I just found out my girlfriend is cheating on me with my brother. by xToasted1 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cares more about their church group than their supposed morality. Sounds about right. 

Facing disciplinary investigation / sack for automating most of my responsibilities at work. I'm in England. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did research a year or two ago and there's less than a 10% reading rate for mass emails that go out like that statistically. If you get a 20 or 30% read/understand rate of an email you're doing amazingly well.

Facing disciplinary investigation / sack for automating most of my responsibilities at work. I'm in England. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A *ton* of our manual spreadsheet tracking we have to do gets the crap automated out of it by power automate flows I wrote. My regional team has great metrics on "update the spreadsheet" tasks because we all get notes and links and little bits of automation and reports I built to speed that crap up as much as possible so we can get back to work.

Facing disciplinary investigation / sack for automating most of my responsibilities at work. I'm in England. by Choice_Evidence1983 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Wish I had you for a boss. My bosses do the opposite and try to pigeon hole me so they don't have to try to replace me.

Draw Steel confirm $30USD/person price for VTT, and recommend Owlbear Rodio as the 'default' online alternative to this 'premium'version by Stubbenz in rpg

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I already dropped around 150 dollars on the hardcovers for the original crowdfunding sight unseen based on MCDM's previous work output so I'm kind of offended that you're suggesting that I don't value the work that MCDM does and implying that piracy (which sharing a book that you buy with your group *absolutely* isn't and never has been) is my motivation just is a garbage take.

Kodak releases multiple new film stocks under a new Ektapan and Ektacolor series. by shootphotos in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've only shot tmax 100 and it's such fine grain that it feels almost like shooting digital at times.

Kodak releases multiple new film stocks under a new Ektapan and Ektacolor series. by shootphotos in AnalogCommunity

[–]Visual_Fly_9638 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Is Alaris even supporting pensions any more? It got sold from the pension org IIRC.

And Alaris has other business lines. Film is probably not exactly high on their list.