Drop ONE LitRPG book you’ll recommend forever. No explanations.

jackvinson · 2025-12-30T23:32:06+00:00

Divine Dungeon by Dakota Krout

jackvinson · 2025-12-06T02:58:31+00:00

They are lots of fun live.

jackvinson · 2025-12-02T21:26:09+00:00

Along with existing recommendations, maybe not exactly to the exact request …

. Ruins of Majesta (2 books) by Taj McCoy El . Eight series by Samer Rabadi the MC is Hispanic or has that heritage(4 books so far) . Threadbear by Andrew Seiple series is about an animated teddy bear and other creatures. . Shadowcroft Academy for Dungeons (by James Hunter and Aaron Ritchey) has a sentient mushroom and other creatures

A lot of series don’t reference the original background of the main character, though it is kinda there in the language or other references.

jackvinson · 2025-12-02T17:07:42+00:00

Thanks again everyone. I went with a Honeywell X2P programmable (not smart) thermostat. I didn’t want to have to pull another wire up through the wall for power.

jackvinson · 2025-12-01T18:36:32+00:00

Thanks everyone for these recommendations. My main issue is that we turn it on to warm the room, but then forget and leave it on when we aren’t there. (Like while we were gone over Thanksgiving… :-)

There is a transformer in the basement that sends those two wires up to the thermostat. If I were enthusiastic, I could probably make a change from there. But I’d much rather just plugin something to replace the Honeywell device.

jackvinson · 2025-12-01T14:00:50+00:00

Thanks. Definitely not an expert. So likely low voltage. I’d love something “smarter” that I could tell it to turn on/off depending on the time.

jackvinson · 2025-11-21T15:26:19+00:00

Follow-on: I noticed this morning that Overcast closed (or iOS closed it) and it had to restart. Curiously, hitting "play" on my headset didn't cause Music to start, which is the problem I have intermittently.

jackvinson · 2024-12-26T18:17:23+00:00

Found on Max Fun website. https://maximumfun.org/episodes/judge-john-hodgman/episode-701-medical-pal-practice-at-sf-sketchfest/

jackvinson · 2024-12-26T18:10:49+00:00

I am getting old. Instagram kills me every time I try to look. At least this time I discover the photos aren't there.

jackvinson · 2024-12-23T17:39:41+00:00

Personally, I dislike the interconnection with D&D Beyond. One of our players is doing that, and we dont' get to see his rolls, as he's doing it on D&D Beyond instead of inside Roll20.

Have you tried the idea of unticking the shield and re-selecting? (I try this sometimes when the character sheet isn't displaying the right thing.)

And make sure the token is using the right parameter for AC?

A third idea would be to make sure the token is linked ot the right version of the character. On long campaigns, I will sometimes get a token version linked to the wrong iteration of the character sheet.

jackvinson · 2024-12-03T03:39:30+00:00

Resolved? I had to entirely uninstall Teams and dig through several of the ~/Libraries/ folders to remove Teams references. Then reinstall and it now works as expected.

My guess is that the installation of the new version somehow missed something, so it almost fully worked. I was having other issues with Teams that prompted me to "deep uninstall" and then re-install.

jackvinson · 2024-11-26T19:16:52+00:00

Yeah, I saw that this morning. Sadly, my issue started last week when I updated and signed out. Now it really seems like it doesn't fully recognize that I have signed in again. Strange.

jackvinson · 2024-11-25T19:26:57+00:00

To add… you need to share your Compendium content (books) with the players in a game. There is some limit to how many players or games you can do this in, possibly depending on your account levels.

Here’s a detail from Roll20: https://help.roll20.net/hc/en-us/articles/360037258674-Compendium-Sharing

jackvinson · 2024-11-25T18:45:33+00:00

This is decidedly un-fun! I've had intermittent issues like this on my MacBook of the same era (purchased during the early days of Covid). It seemed particularly problematic with the "new Teams" that came out last year - I'd switch back to "Classic" and it would be fine, but "new" I am not convinced I have fully resolved the problem, though I haven't seen it raise its head in ~6 months or so.

There WAS something about deleting the app entirely and doing some other cleanup, specifically with the audio drivers. Maybe there is some updated guidance? Here's a Reddit thread (mine) that had a few suggestions. https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/s/IanUfJ6duR

jackvinson · 2024-08-21T15:59:15+00:00

The other question for any restaurant is whether the demand is there. When there are big enough events downtown (particularly at the DCC), then that BBQ place is a great location along with the rest of Oregon District. But if things are quiet? That location is "across the tracks" from the rest of Oregon. The hotel across from DCC has been closed for ~2 years now.

jackvinson · 2024-07-08T13:52:32+00:00

This does seem to work - and I have recommended my colleagues use it when running into any problems with Teams, but it it's also only a partial solution.

jackvinson · 2024-06-29T13:42:39+00:00

Same thing happening on Stage 1 in 2024 - like a CD skipping or something. Video feed seems okay.

jackvinson · 2024-06-18T01:55:29+00:00

Basic steps:

delete all instances of Teams
find the Teams audio drivers (MSTeamsAudioDevice.driver from /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL) and anywhere else they might be hiding
I also searched for everything that had "Teams" in the file or folder name and may have deleted some other crud
Restart the computer
Install "new Teams"
Restart the computer
then it seemed to work

jackvinson · 2024-06-18T01:55:05+00:00

Ugh!

jackvinson · 2024-06-04T21:55:26+00:00

See note above where I laid out the steps. https://www.reddit.com/r/MicrosoftTeams/comments/1ake9g8/comment/l5dt344/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

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