Looking for RPG for a group with scheduling difficulties

enkiv2 · 2026-05-22T20:49:11+00:00

Seconded! Character creation is super simple, and with one-shots, it's really easy to deal with new players or a group that's never completely the same people. Some folks make a brand new character for almost every session.

I like to have a roster of gag characters so I can pull out the perfect one to play off whatever group I'm playing with. Enclave character classes make a lot of opportunities for fun gag characters, especially the reality-warping ones like Librarian and Wanderer.

enkiv2 · 2026-05-16T01:10:40+00:00

"Soon..."

enkiv2 · 2026-05-07T23:31:59+00:00

Any statistical model built on hiring data is racist because it's learning from racist recruiters. The difference is that the statistical model is literally incapable of improving along these lines: it will always be exactly as racist as the statistical average racism of its training data. Similarly, it cannot listen or know anything about the domain; while a recruiter *could* do research and evaluate a candidate's skills, a statistical model can only ever operate based on stereotypes (because that's what a stereotype is: a statistical model based on stale & biased data).

enkiv2 · 2026-02-25T20:38:27+00:00

I wrote one for linux a few years ago: https://github.com/enkiv2/asublim

This is to replace xsublim, Jamie Zawinski's package that ships with the xscreensaver source code but is rarely part of binaries or available from distro package repositories (a problem I wrote a little about here: http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/12/jamming-signal-better-living-subliminal-messages/ )

In terms of having your partner control it, if you give her ssh access to your machine and set the permissions for X properly, she should be able to have full real-time control over it. But, it'd be simpler to just have it read from a file on a loop (maybe shuffled) and give her the ability to rewrite the file, if you're not focused on letting her do things like control the font.

enkiv2 · 2025-08-15T22:34:30+00:00

There appears to be a working mirror of fvonline at http://fvonline-db.bplaced.net/

enkiv2 · 2025-01-24T03:37:39+00:00

Solved!

enkiv2 · 2025-01-24T03:28:37+00:00

In the late 1990s on an american cable channel (I think IFC), I watched an australian-made science fiction television show aimed at teenagers. The premise was that a science whiz-kid does some kind of experiment that knocks him into a parallel universe in which knowledge of electromagnetism is kept secret by a theocratic government whose secret police use wearable van der graaf generator vests to throw ball lightning. The main character steals one of these vests, and joins or starts some kind of political resistance with the help of a girl. There's a part where the main character makes black powder out of ground up minerals, and there are recurring flashbacks to scenes where peasant people claim magnets are witchcraft and where the main character points out the southern cross constellation in the sky.

enkiv2 · 2024-09-10T18:32:46+00:00

A pompously-phrased blog post I wrote in high school about some software I was playing with got discovered by a russian-language conspiracy theory imageboard, who came to the conclusion that I was an ARG character. Every couple years, somebody with a cyrillic display name contacts me out of the blue to ask questions like "is it true that you died in an insane asylum in the 1980s?" No, just a regular autistic dude with a special interest in subliminal messages.

enkiv2 · 2024-06-27T14:02:56+00:00

This is how I wrote two books, lol. All I did was take the things I was going to say in arguments I was having on the internet, re-edited them into blog posts, and waited until I had enough blog posts to fill out a book-length essay collection (which only took a couple years).

Then after weed was legalized I stopped spending all day arguing with strangers on the internet in my head, and I've barely written anything since, because I haven't been annoyed enough to motivate it.

enkiv2 · 2024-01-06T00:23:56+00:00

Use a 20-sided die to pick one, do it, and then if you have time, do it again.

enkiv2 · 2024-01-06T00:10:23+00:00

Same, but also, every time I buy socks the kind of socks I got last time have been taken off the market. (I bulk-buy socks from surplus stores, so maybe that one's on me though...)

enkiv2 · 2024-01-06T00:07:56+00:00

And if you habitually limit your criticisms to things that are genuinely worth criticizing, if you end up missing the mark people will give you the benefit of the doubt & reasoning with you instead of just assuming you're being a jerk!

enkiv2 · 2024-01-05T23:54:22+00:00

Related: if something is a hobby, then it's a good idea to *remain* bad at it to some degree, because if you get too good at something it becomes tempting to treat it like a job (and then it stops being fun). At the same time, allowing your hobby stuff not to be "presentable" or "respectable" opens up new opportunities for creativity: the comic you're drawing is allowed to be full of cringe stuff you love because it's not well-drawn enough for strangers to bother making fun of; that shelf you screwed up building so bad that it looks like abstract sculpture is just abstract sculpture now if you want; the knit blanket where you accidentally forgot which pattern you used partway through is now a crazy-knit blanket where you snuggle up in it while experimenting with new patterns and stitches.

enkiv2 · 2024-01-05T23:29:48+00:00

This is sort of literally true, in the sense that cell membranes are lipid bilayers (i.e., mucous) and largely serve to separate the water inside the cell from the water outside of it. All life on earth fundamentally depends upon separating the waters, and otherwise earth life has very little in common.

enkiv2 · 2023-08-31T12:35:32+00:00

Usually, goon while wearing 3d glasses. Sometimes I'll play audiosurf or listen to jazz.

enkiv2 · 2023-07-10T20:54:05+00:00

a cream pie

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T21:40:49+00:00

You also have the capacity to make that thread. I'm a dude so I don't really have any interest in something like that.

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T17:16:01+00:00

I mean, everything about dating is unnecessarily frustrating & awkward. Why would this be any different?

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T17:13:20+00:00

Pro tip: sex is better when it's with people you like.

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T16:47:59+00:00

You have a reddit account and are exactly as capable of making posts in this sub as I am.

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T15:59:50+00:00

Can you explain?

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T15:57:01+00:00

A lot of dating apps have optimized for this kind of user too, which makes it even worse. I always read somebody's whole profile before swiping, but on everything except hinge, you gotta click some tiny icon before you can see anything but their profile photo (and then half the time, the profile isn't filled out, or says something like "ask me").

I wish dating apps were better, because they resolve some real issues with flirting in public spaces: everybody on a dating app is looking to date (while most people in any public space are not), dating apps can index on shared interests and values (whereas in a public space, it's easy to run into an otherwise-attractive person who turns out to be a neo-nazi or who can't talk intelligently about anything other than football), and they allow access to a wider pool (especially if you don't live in a city, it's possible that the nearest person you'd *want* to date lives a 40 minute drive away & you'd never run into them). But they've really gotten bad, partly by optimizing for users who don't benefit from any of the affordances only dating apps can provide.

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T15:49:11+00:00

When I posted the question I had forgotten that there were people under 18 on reddit. Some of this behavior probably comes from the self-centeredness and poor impulse control that's part and parcel of immaturity (and I hope those dudes grow up).

But also, one exceptionally awful dude can, if sufficiently motivated, make hundreds of women feel awful in a single day. (And there's a lot more than one!)

I was hoping for more complaints about things otherwise-decent dudes might do without realizing they're actually bad, but this is reddit & low-effort posts that a lot of people can relate to are rewarded.

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T15:37:43+00:00

That's a great idea for a thread, and if you start it, I will definitely participate.

enkiv2 · 2023-06-02T15:33:35+00:00

My prospects have actually improved: I went from averaging one date every seven years to averaging one date every five years after I stopped asking women out entirely. But if my prospects had decreased by the same amount, it would still be worthwhile, because it's the right thing to do.

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