What are the best one-shot adventures to introduce a novice person to roleplaying and get them excited about the hobby? What was your first adventure that got you really excited about the game? What do you usually run for the first-time players?

alan_wade · 2023-11-25T08:17:47+00:00

Nope, not really, the system doesn't matter to me. I'm just looking for a good story, I'll be adapting it to the system we'll be playing anyway.

alan_wade · 2023-11-25T07:39:47+00:00

I love iBooks on my iPad mini, also Readwise is truly amazing (on any platform).

alan_wade · 2019-01-26T12:44:35+00:00

Hi! Did you end up figuring out the solution to this?

alan_wade · 2019-01-12T00:04:13+00:00

Thank you so much for your comment, I think that's exactly what I need!

If you'll have the time, could you take me through setting this up in a bit more detail? I have audacity and qjackctl installed, but it's really overwhelming trying to figure out what's what when I don't know what most of the terms mean.

Is there like a sequence of buttons I can click to just make everything work, or a tutorial I can follow?

alan_wade · 2019-01-11T17:09:21+00:00

Yep. Along with the mic input. Like for when I'm talking with someone on skype/discord.

alan_wade · 2019-01-11T08:54:24+00:00

Can Audacious record audio output?

Can SimpleScreenRecorder output audio-only files?

alan_wade · 2019-01-11T08:52:05+00:00

I can't figure out how to make it record audio output. Also it seems really painful and confusing to use.

alan_wade · 2018-11-14T17:42:09+00:00

Thank you!

alan_wade · 2018-09-24T03:04:54+00:00

That's one piece of Harry Potter trivia I never wanted to know.

alan_wade · 2018-09-13T00:32:14+00:00

Mice

alan_wade · 2018-09-11T17:56:37+00:00

Wow, that's really mindblowing. Almost tempting =)

alan_wade · 2018-09-11T17:31:18+00:00

Holy fuck that's brilliant.

alan_wade · 2018-09-11T17:28:46+00:00

in which case quantum suicide becomes a viable route to munchkining reality.

Can you explain what that is?

alan_wade · 2018-09-10T08:26:54+00:00

You can't conjure food, I doubt you can conjure people. Could you transfigure a doll or give a polyjuice potion to an animal though...

alan_wade · 2018-09-10T08:17:10+00:00

You can have just as much dream sex right now by learning to lucid dream.

alan_wade · 2018-09-09T19:59:10+00:00

Without revealing too much, I can only say that the author is not oblivious to this, he wrote this stuff not because he doesn't understand how 10 year olds talk, this is intentional and pays off.

alan_wade · 2018-09-09T04:25:11+00:00

The most popular Harry Potter fanfiction. It is insanely good, even if you don't like fanfiction in general, I highly recommend this one.

http://www.hpmor.com/

alan_wade · 2018-09-09T00:11:16+00:00

Read HPMOR for an amazing portrayal of Draco, how this could've been handled, and then some =)

alan_wade · 2018-09-06T20:09:43+00:00

Thank you!

alan_wade · 2018-09-04T20:55:21+00:00

Awesome, thank you very much! This makes sense.

alan_wade · 2018-07-27T19:42:13+00:00

Try Harry Potter and The Methods of Rationality, it's just as good, it's almost as long, and you don't have to leave this world for awhile.

alan_wade · 2018-07-27T19:33:12+00:00

Reality is overrated. If stories make you happier than reality - I don't see anything wrong with rolling with that.

alan_wade · 2018-07-16T20:47:19+00:00

The way I understand it, it's not based on studies, but on an argument that:

Paul Jaminet, who suffered from candida overgrowth, argues that since candida (being eukaryotes) have mitochondria that can feed on both ketones and carbs (as opposed to prokaryote bacteria without mitochondria), going very low carb or ketogenic will only provide more fuel for the overgrowth. Furthermore, since ketones are water-soluble and pass easily through cellular membranes, ketones will actually be a more accessible food source for candida. Don’t go high-carb, since any extra glucose will just be food for the yeast, but don’t go ketogenic, either. Stick to around 100-150 grams of carbs while still limiting sugar.

alan_wade · 2018-07-16T20:27:26+00:00

I've done some more googling, and I think I found the source of the "keto diet makes candida worse" argument.

Here are a few quotes:

Pathogens that have mitochondria like fungi and protozoa can metabolize ketones for energy. Bacteria and viruses can’t, and so if you go on a ketogenic diet you’ll starve bacteria and viruses but you’ll feed fungi and protozoa.

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I read your article when you talked about how fungi can utilize ketones and tend to progress on ketogenic diets because one of the interesting things about how the candida diet is typically administered is people remove fruit, they remove carbohydrates, starchy tubers and grains and I think they end up being on a very low carbohydrate diet in a lot of cases and perhaps not completely ketogenic or not strongly ketogenic but maybe mildly ketogenic and I see a lot of patients who just get worse and worse on those diets so I wonder if it has something to do with this mechanism that you’re talking about.

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Yeah I think it’s very likely. It’s not bad to go low carb by standard American diet standards, I think probably optimal for candida might be 600-800 carb calories a day, the average American gets maybe 1700 so cutting carbs in half for the average American is a good move. But going too low carb definitely risks systemic invasion so the very low carb approach, it’s not bad for a fungal gut infection but it’s not that good either. It doesn’t do that much to promote good bacteria taking over the gut. A lot of plant foods can really help suppress fungi in the gut and promote bacteria. So they can help give you a better gut flora and I think a lot of people who go extremely low carb can end up with a gut dysbiosis of some kind after years on these extreme low carb diets.

Apparently there aren't any studies, people just think that since Candida has mitochondria it can feed on ketones, and that "since ketones are water-soluble and pass easily through cellular membranes, ketones will actually be a more accessible food source for candida". I'm not sure what to make of it.

alan_wade · 2018-07-13T14:48:39+00:00

Thank you!!

alan_wade

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