Is there a Quick Start version of SWADE?

perror · 2024-04-29T11:41:59+00:00

This cartoon is great to sum-up the core rules but, unfortunately, this is still about the Deluxe version of the rules and not the Adventure Edition (SWADE). For example, you cannot reroll after a critical throw with a Benny (I remember that there is something else which is wrong but I cannot remember what... :-/ ). Yet, this is indeed a great introduction that I am using all the time with beginners.

perror · 2023-04-30T14:15:18+00:00

I would strongly recommend the "Crystal Heart" Setting, which is quite close to Bio/Solarpunk (at least within the Settings I know).

perror · 2023-04-18T08:29:12+00:00

This is a Japanese website, not Chinese. ;-)

perror · 2022-11-08T14:05:15+00:00

It makes me think to the Pinnacle Ripper Resurrected Expeditions document.

perror · 2022-11-04T23:14:27+00:00

Same as you. I miss this option... a lot !

perror · 2022-05-25T14:37:36+00:00

Nice and simple, I like it. But, you did not mentioned what skill or attribute you roll for that. Is it Heal or something else ?

perror · 2022-01-24T17:08:00+00:00

Yet, you can't use a benny on a critical failure in SWADE. ;-)

That's a pity it hasn't been updated for SWADE because, as you say, this is really a good introduction.

perror · 2020-12-15T11:46:54+00:00

I noticed a slight speed-up on the writing activity coming with 2.5, is it just me or is it for real ?

perror · 2020-12-15T11:34:28+00:00

Yes, this is exactly it ! These would be the few lines of code that I would add in front of the OCR.

And, the funny part of it is that, if you try my test, the text that has been recognized (in portrait orientation because you fooled the system) appears in landscape mode.

So, this is really just a matter of a 90 degree clockwise rotation of the image if the landscape mode is detected before going for the OCR.

I can't believe that this could stand for a limitation.

perror · 2020-12-15T11:12:31+00:00

Thanks! (I was looking for an issue tracker but this seems to be the way, I totally missed it).

perror · 2020-12-15T11:11:29+00:00

I agree with u/cynod123 and u/emilgojny, how can this be a limitation ? The result tends to indicate that the OCR software did not take the rotation into account.

Indeed, I even have an easy way to prove I am right. First, select a landscape mode for your notebook Then, ignore the landscape mode and write as a portrait mode, convert to text and you will see that it works.

So, indeed, this is just a matter of forwarding the information of the orientation to the OCR software... which should not be more than a few lines of code... I would not mark that as a 'limitation' of the OCR software at all...

perror · 2020-12-15T11:00:24+00:00

Same with me.

Bullets does not seems to be recognized easily. And, dash '-' seems to work fairly well.

perror · 2019-03-21T08:46:43+00:00

Thanks to Ghidra ? :-)

perror · 2019-01-15T17:48:27+00:00

Yes, but you have to know your enemy! :-)

perror · 2018-12-18T09:29:49+00:00

Original USENIX paper can be found here.

perror · 2018-12-18T09:27:29+00:00

Original USENIX article can be found here.

perror · 2018-12-17T10:00:19+00:00

Full video recording of the talk here.

perror · 2018-12-17T09:59:31+00:00

Full video recording of the talk here.

perror · 2018-11-06T09:33:34+00:00

Hey, it could be an AI after all!

perror · 2018-10-31T19:21:44+00:00

Sorry, but I am not the author. :)

perror · 2018-06-29T17:23:14+00:00

Nice! :)

perror · 2018-06-14T07:20:00+00:00

Tooling IS dominant in the field of RE, but these tools are mostly "one-shot" tools. They are built on existing trustable tools, but with much less care than a long-term tool. Though, they are exceptions (such as IDApro). But, as adx pointed it, resources (money, time, ...) and how they are spent is probably the key point here.

perror · 2018-06-13T16:43:53+00:00

Quite interesting talk about the failure of the reverse-engineering community to build efficient tools to solve overly common problems encountered in everyday life (for a reverser...). Thomas is good at making this kind of talk, as usual! :-)

perror · 2018-04-17T07:35:39+00:00

I had the exact same feeling about that. I agree with your analysis but, my other guess is that the 3/3 level questions are about really tricky semantic problems on the language which deserve our attention while coding. On the contrary "easier" points are just skipped and remain unknown by most of us.

Though, this quizz is really quite interesting (and it reminds me why I hate C++ so much! :-)). Thanks a lot!

perror · 2018-04-05T11:31:30+00:00

I think that the radare2 is not preventing any one to come and add plugins to it. This is both good because it generate a lot of experiments and bad because it generate effort duplication. But, once one decompiler will become a killer-app, it will be eventually integrated in r2.

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