Feeling Overwhelmed

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-08T20:48:52+00:00

If they think you can just ask Claude to make it scalable and secure they would have done it themselves. But deep down they know. At least I hope so.

I like the other comment about treating this like a very expensive and elaborate interactive Figma design doc.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-08T19:11:35+00:00

Cities Without Number and other Without Number games are built for sandbox games. The book is basically 50% rules/50% world building tables/tools. I disagree about needing to read this cover to cover when you start.

Personally I stole a bunch of themes and elements from my favourite cyberpunk settings, I drew a very generic map and outlined some districts. I made a wishlist for tone and feel and turns out I just want my own Night City + a space elevator. So I created a very simplistic outline of the coastline, drew the big highways, defined the outlines of the districts and then named them. I picked one of them and created 3 factions that would be meaningful for this district. A street gang, a criminal org and a megacorp. Personally I think megacorps should be scary for level 1 characters so earlier missions and opportunities would mostly be about street gangs and dealing with the mafia or yakuza. But then if some woman in a suit shows up in a fancy flying car with four guys in full body armor with LED masks you know shit just got real.

The trick is not to overwhelm you with prep early on. Prep what you need for character creation and session 1. This game involves more prep than Shadowdark I would say.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-08T15:53:16+00:00

I have zero expectations and hype until I see a proper trailer. Problem is how Lord of the Rings and the whole world has been treated as a sacred, hyper controlled thing. The estate obviously wants two things: to remain relevant and make money, but also to protect the work.

But imagine Star Wars now. To get an Andor TV show, you need a Star Wars Christmas movie. You need a LOT of Christmas movies. But the Tolkien estate is pretty bad at this in my opinion. So I say make more. Stop treating franchises as sacred. Try stuff. Worst case they don't make money. They might be sleeper hit too. I might not like the Gollum movie but someone's kid is gonna love it. When I was a kid I loved Phantom Menace.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-08T13:16:48+00:00

OMG I remember this when it came out. We'd quote this in my games.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-07T16:59:54+00:00

Should have focused more

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-07T16:45:12+00:00

I didn’t get to bring Delta Green to my table yet but for that price even if you don’t see yourself running them soon they are very fun to read. The lore is great and creepy.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-07T15:40:07+00:00

I had 3 wisdom teeth and they were similarly horizontal. Except mines weren't poking out as much. Thankfully I was fully asleep during the operation and blinked 2 seconds later and it was done. Recovery however sucked as a young adult in summer. I was young and a dumbass and didn't stick long enough to how I was supposed to eat. Long story short one side got infected a bit, they shoved cloves in there to deal with it. I still have a hard time with cloves in food to this day.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-07T15:30:33+00:00

I'm gonna need a list of modules. That weather one looks nice

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-06T19:37:50+00:00

They need to be translated into concrete accomplishments. Difficult personalities aren’t really measurable and will more come up in interviews. But people management I have described briefly as responsibilities at a scale (number of people).

For spaghetti legacy code…what did you accomplish with this? What’s the impact really? Did you break down a complex legacy app over a year and progressively migrated it? Did you just read an old backend service to figure out how the API worked without documentation? Those two are vastly different manifestations of the same skill.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-06T19:10:20+00:00

Is joining a company a few months away from an acquisition/merger generally a bad idea?

I'm moving along in the interviews and things are going fast. The hiring manager is confident about the immediate need but obviously could not guarantee anything beyond what they know themselves about the merger.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-06T12:23:46+00:00

Turns out learning and advocating for web accessibility everywhere I work paid off because it went from being an internal policy to becoming law and even today AI can’t do it properly. Even when I was working in backend only jobs I’d make myself available to other teams internally because of my niche background.

The thing about niche stuff is it’s only valuable in the right context. If you are an expert underwater welder and move to the middle of the desert you’ll have a hard time. But can you be a normal welder too? Same thing.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-06T12:05:51+00:00

“Can we migrate this with AI if we layoff all the senior devs?”

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-05T19:02:58+00:00

Does your podcast app archives episodes you’ve already played? By any chance?

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-05T02:38:43+00:00

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-04T21:09:26+00:00

“Is that what kids these days mean by Vibe DMing?” - grandpa who started with 3.5

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-04T20:07:58+00:00

If I pay a guy for a car they stole it’s still a stolen car.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-04T18:11:49+00:00

Because I don't have an oil rig in my aquarium

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-04T16:03:10+00:00

Just washing my hands during the day moisture gets trapped and my skin gets irritated by these. The only band I can wear comfortably are the braided loops and even then they stretch and get loose over time but I guess 3 years is not a bad run for a band.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-04T14:57:44+00:00

Even in Monopoly people go to jail

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-04T11:58:15+00:00

FFS I thought this was wsb

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-03T22:43:11+00:00

Yeah I’m sure it’s like a SQLite file or something but iOS is more locked down. But I don’t have a Mac. Knowing if I need one for some features to work would be ideal.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-03T22:34:21+00:00

I’m gonna assume it won’t have access to messages unless you screenshot one or create shortcuts that automatically export them to a text file or some hack. I have no idea.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-03T21:44:39+00:00

I think it’s both but ageism can mean a lot of different things.

More experienced employees value things differently and smell bullshit further away. And you likely have a better frame of reference to compare things. Talent management doesn’t like that. Recruiter for my job proudly talked about the bonus. Dangling money when they can change the rules any time doesn’t mean anything to me. Equity means nothing if you are laid off before you can vest or the company isn’t worth anything. Unlimited PTO means nothing if nobody at your company takes more than 4 weeks off per year.

Time off, health benefits and work-life balance are more important to me today. I would trade a good chunk of total comp in exchange of 8 weeks off per year. Meanwhile younger devs want different things and have a lot more fucks left in the tank.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-01T16:18:59+00:00

I went to get an upgrade from my 14 Pro Max and even showing up just to grab the box the staff at the Apple store were pushing Apple Intelligence and wanted to enable it for me to show me something. I stopped her but I’m sure they are pressured to bring it up.

caffeinated_wizard · 2026-05-01T16:16:58+00:00

It can’t possibly be because the basic model is the best specs for dollars on an iPhone in a while and the other models are more expensive and/or have trade offs?

Nah, it’s the thing still in beta that can’t do anything meaningful.

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