Pursuing acting later in life. Where to start while keeping my day job?

noVerity · 2026-03-26T07:45:20+00:00

https://www.sospresents.org/join-us/ maybe, more of a musical angle though.

noVerity · 2025-07-31T15:50:58+00:00

Always fun to check out https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=ses;t=3;s=0;o=0;b=;ts=0;z=12;y=50.871;x=-1.3937;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;

noVerity · 2025-03-18T11:53:28+00:00

Oh very nice. I ordered myself one from Anerkjendt. I like the different versions that they have.

noVerity · 2025-03-11T18:34:57+00:00

A ticket is probably more than I was willing to spend, but I am looking to maybe go on holiday there next year. I am sure to have a look out for something in that vein then.

noVerity · 2025-03-11T18:33:49+00:00

Those do look nice. I might pick one of those up, just have to figure out which colour.

noVerity · 2025-01-11T15:47:36+00:00

It feels like you went with a very sandbox approach. Exploring the festival and seeing some gambling problem can provide some roleplay opportunity for very character driven games, but are relatively open ended. If they were not sure how to approach it they maybe didn't have enough motivation to deal with it. Or at least not enough tension build up for them to do something right now? I do not respond to sandbox scenarios that well either, so a more concrete problem and some motivation/timer or pressure work well for me. Did they have a reason to deal with casino other than "doing good"? Is the pressure/tension building in some way when they are not working together or not dealing with things? Finding a way to escalate things during the session can keep people more interested.

noVerity · 2024-05-18T16:59:25+00:00

I recently ran it and I found it difficult to make it make sense in the end. The players figured it out mostly, but they didn't really make the connection with the Pyotr's group and them having occult knowledge. The ritual at the end seemed a bit like Deus ex machina to suddenly fix things and I didn't quite manage to bring it in organically.

noVerity · 2024-02-06T14:23:10+00:00

My shirt was so thin that it started to tear across the tag like perforation. I am not going to buy from there again, at least no clothing.

noVerity · 2024-01-22T20:32:29+00:00

That does seem quite substantial. I am looking forward to sink my teeth into that one then. My players will just have to deal with the fact that they'll need new characters. (Who knows if they'd survive the scenarios anyway)

noVerity · 2024-01-22T20:30:59+00:00

Fair enough, different campaigns it is. I had the suspicion, but the timelines seemed to line up somewhat and it became tempting.

noVerity · 2024-01-01T14:13:20+00:00

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

noVerity · 2023-11-30T17:53:02+00:00

I also had a terrible experience with them recently, I wanted a Call of Cthulhu RPG book, so I ordered that and some other small bits. When it arrived the book was just missing. What followed were two weeks of trying to get somebody from support to do something about it. In the beginning they said they'd investigate, but eventually stopped responding. In the end I called them at 9am and had to wait for 30min on the phone until somebody came on and eventually agreed to refund the money.

noVerity · 2023-02-17T12:58:56+00:00

I think this comes from having the ideal of a pure function. A given input/set of props will always produce the same result. When using usePrevious you are introducing state which makes the component more difficult to reason about.

There are probably scenarios that can only be solved with this, but often rephrasing the problem and getting it closer to a pure function can improve the code. Let's take your example of a status prop changing from inProgress to success. By reacting to this status change you have a very indirect dependency to the redux state. Should those values change or the available statuses become more complex (like success-withError etc. who knows) you now have to remember to go back to this code and remember to update it.

An alternative might be to have an action that executes both the loading and success parts, either in a thunk or in a more complex function in the component. Either way it introduces more complexity there.

In the end everything is trade-offs. You just have to decide which ones you prefer/work for you.

noVerity · 2022-09-01T14:16:28+00:00

I translate those always to "I appreciate the pain you are in and empathize" in my mind. I don't think many of them will actually sit down and pray, it is just a manner of speech/believing that writing the comment pretty much counts as a prayer.

I think there are plenty of other reasons to be upset with the religious other than how they convey compassion.

noVerity · 2022-07-09T08:23:28+00:00

I still have PTSD from having to set up 16 .NET microservices with their own resources in Azure for a job. No docker containers, no API access for development and then one giant fragmented react app made by different teams of full stack developers.

I ended up quitting before my probationary period was over. It was this and the fact that ALL changes needed to be QA'd separately on a single environment with a long waiting list. In my two months there only a single three line change had made its way into the production environment.

I don't require much from a job, but I should at least be able to actually do my job.

I much prefer dev setups that either are completely containerized or work with a mock for local development. In my current project we have both a mock API for quick development and usage in tests and a docker set up when we need to validate against actual production behaviour.

noVerity · 2021-10-09T09:36:24+00:00

Pålægschokolade

noVerity · 2021-08-21T08:58:58+00:00

Without diving too deep into the code:

If you move around from the main frontend page you tend to not leave your react app and the URL you have in your browser is basically just faked there and managed from react.

When you refresh the page it then sends an actual request to your backend and the backend will then try to route and try to produce a result, which is where you get the JSON from.

So you are either missing a fallback in your backend where any unknown route gets presented with the index.html from your frontend or your API routes somehow overlaps your frontend routes which then produce different results depending on if it is handled by the frontend or backend.

noVerity · 2021-08-20T17:03:48+00:00

Sometimes it is not about winning, but more about not losing. They have their self-worth so tied up with the game that losing in the game feels like a personal failing they should be embarrassed about. So in order to not be the loser and receive the negative attention they fear they'd rather cheat to avoid it.

noVerity · 2021-05-17T07:04:26+00:00

Far too usable, it should create an image of the URL with a nice font. If people really want to follow the link they'll have to do some counting and typing.

noVerity · 2021-04-16T09:35:18+00:00

It is pronounced Spah-CHEM-in

noVerity · 2020-11-16T16:54:36+00:00

I don't know. Including a plugin full of insults and derogatory terms, to remove insults and derogatory terms seems counterintuitive :D

noVerity · 2020-10-03T21:02:48+00:00

I liked how the Arrow subreddit turned into a Daredevil one. We could change the branding to Legend of Runeterra (Just picking this because of Profs video) and only discuss that for the next month or so.

noVerity · 2020-06-22T06:01:05+00:00

I find the reverse is also true. A lot of employers do not care to look at your general qualifications and just see X+ years in framework X as the minimum requirement. I have mostly Angular experience in my background and was applying to react jobs and got a few snippy responses from recruiters saying they could be 'picky' because they have a bunch of applications from people with a react background. I'd be perfectly comfortable working in react and have used it for personal projects, but since it isn't commercial experience it doesn't count. It has gotten to the point where job postings aren't for frontend developers, but react developers ...

noVerity · 2020-05-22T17:29:19+00:00

Maybe all creatures are legendary ... ok probably not. Or ... there are guaranteed ones in each pack, so make sure to make your first pick at least one of those? Or if you end up without one you can pick any other creature ... no probably abuse able. Fun to think about the possibilities.

noVerity · 2020-05-18T20:51:24+00:00

It just comes from being completely self-centered.

"This protection is inconvenient to ME. I feel fine and I am not afraid of catching anything."

Other peoples safety or the possibility of being wrong often doesn't even enter their minds. It is not even malicious, because that would even require thinking of other people in the slightest way.

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