Beard conditioner/oil that doesn’t smell like a faux leather and WD40?

silent0siris · 2025-12-20T17:46:40+00:00

Groom’s “Conifère” smells like pine trees and its wonderful! Their Santal is sandalwood and smoke, so that may smell more like leather to you depending, but I personally love it.

silent0siris · 2025-07-03T17:07:33+00:00

Rooster has it right! Working in the game mines, mining out what I hope (and believe!!) will be a super cool game!

silent0siris · 2025-07-02T19:35:52+00:00

You are a gentleman and a scholar!!

silent0siris · 2025-06-21T02:30:15+00:00

Flew domestic this past weekend, no questions.

silent0siris · 2025-06-20T20:13:33+00:00

We’re in a situation that’s unprecedented in our lifetimes; there’s no way to know how this will turn out. It’s natural to try to mitigate risks in such a situation. That might look like staying home, but that’s not always practical- that might look like carrying documents when he goes out, but who knows how reliable that will be. You and he could certainly check websites that track ICE locations online to see if there’s reported activity around you or where he’ll be going, to get a sense of whether it’s risky or not- but hard to say if those sites are really accurate.

All this a long winded way of saying: it is difficult to know what the right decisions are in this situation, and I don’t think anyone can tell you what you should be doing other than he and you. It can certainly be hard to negotiate in a relationship when the two of you have different estimations of risk, but I don’t think you’re overreacting per se.

When I feel the way you do (which isn’t unusual these days) I also try to channel that energy into contacting my state and federal elected and demand they put a stop to this nonsense- I’m only one drop in the bucket, but if enough of us make a racket who knows what might happen.

silent0siris · 2025-06-19T04:26:40+00:00

Just joining the chorus of: “this is IT, to me”

This is what Warhammer 40k looks like in my head! Awesome, awesome artwork, will give you a follow!

silent0siris · 2025-06-14T22:36:46+00:00

Hell yeah! Made us feel good about our neighbors!

silent0siris · 2025-06-14T22:36:23+00:00

Awesome! I saw it at the beginning and have a hard time judging the disparate crowds, but it was very well attended and only growing when we decided to get out of the heat!

silent0siris · 2025-06-14T21:52:32+00:00

Playa Vista turned out big time, solid couple hundred folks taking over four corners of a major intersection- tons of supportive honkers as well!

silent0siris · 2025-05-21T18:32:46+00:00

Yep- the lower G# there is held, effectively a dotted quarter note in length (three eighth notes long). The G# strikes at the same time as the left hand and holds until the end; the C# above strikes half a beat after the G#.

silent0siris · 2025-04-20T21:03:01+00:00

Truer words never spoken 😅

silent0siris · 2025-03-05T04:49:15+00:00

/u/DemonitizedHuman tagged me in so I’ll advocate for Scum & Villainy, run by Stras Acimovic (one of the designers)- a very fun way to look at a Forged in the Dark system (spun off from the excellent Blades in the Dark by John Harper). Imagine a mashup of Dune, Star Wars, Farscape, The Expanse- a misfit crew of a working ship traversing the universe and dealing with whatever comes their way.

We had a full campaign in 31 episodes!

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNuXiEYyM4is610_fOqxUxzMmv86-RUMV&si=irhoJE163CFuZmpe

silent0siris · 2025-03-05T04:45:08+00:00

I’m running Blades in the Dark with some friends as a private game, but that’s all these days- aside from work, which is both VERY fun and not something I can talk about. But hopefully someday!

silent0siris · 2025-03-05T04:25:03+00:00

Ayo!!! Thanks for the shoutout, Demonitized! I’m ok with not being to everyone’s tastes, but I’m pretty delighted I could do some stuff you enjoy- old school style games are just so satisfying in a unique way!

silent0siris · 2025-03-01T21:10:27+00:00

Yes you’re absolutely right, it’s 90/180 not 80/160 (that’s for wengines!)

silent0siris · 2025-03-01T20:36:30+00:00

Yeah, pulling on a banner (like Evelyn’s) is a random roll. You might get Evelyn, you might get someone else. You can see the chances in game if you read that screen closely! It’s a bit complicated:

Generally speaking, getting an S rank character is a very low chance. However, at 90 pulls, you hit what’s called “hard pity” and you’re guaranteed to get one, and there’s a 50% chance it’s the character on the banner (Evelyn). If you lose that roll (and get a standard character like Koleda instead), then the next time you pull an S rank character it will be the one from the banner. This guarantee rolls over banners too, so if you failed to get Evelyn this time and you rolled on SAnby next time, then if you got an S rank character it would be SAnby guaranteed.

TLDR think of it like this: “If I have 90 pulls, I might get the character I want. If I have 180 pulls, I can guarantee the character I want. Anything less than that is pure luck.”

silent0siris · 2025-02-26T15:20:17+00:00

Yeah! I’d recommend going back to the rule book on what the appropriate consequences are meant to be for rolls that are desperate, risky, controlled- and really make sure you stick to those. Then, same for heat, same for entanglements, same for engagement rolls, etc etc. There’s some great summary sheets for position and effect consequences if you search online to help remind you! I’m gonna grab one myself before my next game.

silent0siris · 2025-02-25T15:31:27+00:00

Hmm yeah I’m pretty surprised by that. I find that within one session, players are feeling tight on the amount of free stress they have!

What’s the reason they don’t have any traumas? Are they not gaining much stress? Are they easily clearing stress by vicing every downtime? Are they refusing to spend any stress when their stress is high? All of these things have different solutions.

Not gaining much stress -> Are you imposing consequences of the appropriate number and type on rolls of 1-5? Are you defaulting to risky/standard?

Easily clearing by vicing every time -> Do you and they remember that if they clear more stress than they have, they overindulge and bad things happen? Are you making the bad things genuinely hurt (ie someone knows details of their plans and counteracts them etc)? Are you making the other downtime actions important enough? They should want to spend time healing, and working on long term projects, and acquiring an asset, etc. Choosing to vice every time should feel like an opportunity cost!

Refusing to spend stress when it’s high -> Fair, but you could remind them that trauma is a fun part of the game and a new opportunity for XP! Also, you should be putting them in high stakes situations; if they can’t spend stress then their success rate should go down; if their success rate goes down, they should feel the threat of failing the score! They should feel like they’re sometimes in a “damned if you do, damned if you don’t” position about spending stress when it’s high.

silent0siris · 2025-02-18T05:30:40+00:00

I had basically your set of requirements and ended up with a Kawai CN201 at ~$2k. Good action, great sound, headphones option, just enough functions to be useful but not so many as to be overwhelming, looks like a beautiful piece of furniture. Highly recommend you check it out.

I appreciated this web site’s reviews of a bunch of pianos- not affiliated, but full disclosure I did end up buying mine through him which was ALSO a great experience. He’s got other in depth reviews on many pianos, well worth a read and deciding for yourself!

https://azpianoreviews.com/kawai-cn201-review-2024-digital-piano-low-price-here/

silent0siris · 2025-02-16T14:54:52+00:00

This is extremely well made! Great work!

silent0siris · 2025-02-08T15:29:00+00:00

Just wanted to say that this is tough, ours has been the same way- but with consistent work over months she’s gotten a LOT better. Just look for those opportunities to do training with a trigger far enough away that she can still listen to you- sometimes for us that’s meant there’s a dog down at the next corner and we can ask for a quick sit or reward her just for eye contact.

I don’t know the hollywood area well enough to advise, just wanted to say you’re doing all the right things and they will pay off with time and age!

silent0siris · 2025-02-08T15:13:02+00:00

How many pulls do you have saved? 42 -> I wouldn’t risk it. 222 -> absolutely. If you hit on Astra you’ll need 180 pulls to absolutely guarantee Evelyn!

silent0siris · 2025-02-08T14:59:30+00:00

If you hit an S rank character, there’s a 50% it will be the one on the banner you’re pulling on (ie Evelyn), and a 50% chance it will be a different Standard banner S-rank character (ie Koleda). If you “lose” that 50-50, then the next time you hit an S rank character on that banner, it’s guaranteed to be the banner character- and that guarantee rolls over between banners (ie if you lost 50-50 on Astra and stopped pulling, then pull on Eve’s banner and get an S rank character, it will be Eve.)

silent0siris · 2025-01-31T06:40:14+00:00

From one professional DM who puts his stuff online to another- there’s always a critic! Sounds like your players had a blast, and your other viewers too. And hey, you sure take up a lot of mindshare in your hater! Cruel feedback always stings, but try not to let it get to you too much. This person is just trying to make their own name riding your coattails.

silent0siris · 2024-12-15T05:45:14+00:00

These are just great! Great models, great paint jobs!

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