scottmoose.bsky.social
Engineer, gnome, store owner, and avid reader.
Discord: scottdmoose, https://www.scottrpg.com/llamafodder/
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The building codes are pure regulation... and almost every sentence is there because someone was injured or died for its lack.
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This was a terrible development; it hit my wife like a direct attack. She knows she's better with them...
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Oh, that's terrible. Hopefully it was caught quickly and you haven't emailed anything with SSNs or the like recently.
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It's amazing how long you can be very still while pinned under a light weight... but eventually, we all must move. Even to kitty disappointment.
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That is a very happy time! I love being a chin-prop or warming cat sides while they stretch out in my lap.
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That is a fascinating - and way more intense - event than I'd ever imagined.
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Oh no! Often a weak coffee flavor builds up over time with K-cups and the like. When I try to use the makers in hotels, it often ruins decent tea, even if you rinse it out first.
Glad it worked out okay for you this time.
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Everything LeGuin is amazing, but this one goes further in upending a lot of my default assumptions about how everything has to work. (I'm also so conformist that the idea of defying the list was incomprehensible... at first. The courage it takes.)
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(A few examples, like the train, are foregrounded, and it’s easy to extrapolate to the other industries and technologies, but those examples are briefly considered until the climax, when implementation is brought to the forefront.) #booksky
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The book functions really well on a lot of levels; at its most meta, it’s a story about exploitation and resource extraction. The world feels expansive but constrained, with the magic-tech present but not so grabby that you get lost in the sheen.
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The other storyline, Thomil’s, is briefer and intense. It complements Sciona’s story, but is more an accent to her tale than an equal story weight.
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Much like Sciona, it’s easy to get sucked into the details of magic making in the world – particularly given its strong nod to real world programming for structure. It works really well- coding is described without bogging down in the details of code.
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A nice twist is that her self deception is the dominant view from the start – but her family and other frequent contacts suggest that there’s some narrator bias and blind spots.
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There’s hope to know that our negative bias will overestimate how many people believe the worst – and if we approach the problem as skeptics gathering data, we’ll often be pleasantly surprised.
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The personal data collection – like writing down a prediction of how many conversations with strangers will go well, then going out and striking up conversations with strangers and recording how they went – was a powerful example and all too familiar sense of dread somewhat dispelled.
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The author documents some examples from trials they’ve run, and experiments from their personal life. That negative bias sharpens contrasts – it’s easy to miss the common ground when the microphone only picks up the loudest shouters.
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Part of the prescription is not telling us that we’re wrong, but instead suggests replacing cynicism with skepticism — come up with ways to test your cynical beliefs and see what happens in reality.
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The book is not bright-siding, and isn’t just hectoring cynical people. In part due to a human bias towards negativity (since negative information is more likely to be dangerous or important for self preservation), we naturally tend to overestimate negative outcomes.
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I could do it faster, but with many more errors that would then have to be fixed. Sometimes that feels like a decent tradeoff.
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That sounds like a delicious kick!
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💙📚 #booksky
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I do this too. Fortunately, I do have some standing obligations that drive me into the world, and a few friends who reach out regularly, so it rarely lasts long.
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Less broken up and truncated for word counts here: www.scottrpg.com/llamafodder/...
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That does sound delicious!
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Thank you for the thoughtful laying out of a process - it looks manageable and ambitious, which both seem important. (The parenthetical note about introversion rang very true.)
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Mine was a Yea last time; thanks for the prompt to research and attempt to persuade him to come back to serve his constituents.
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Polyphilia has a nice ring - but doesn't seem restricted to relationships. It "feel like" it's someone who likes many things - without much bounding.
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Yeah, I have to assume that it comes with tremendous magical powers (and motivation), or "guess that was the last real Christmas then".
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Lazy = done, and it looks delicious!
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It's a hoop that banks make you jump through for some loans.
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Becky Chamber's Robot & Monk books were the last time I reread as soon as I finished. It was just so warm and lovely.
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DC thinks that turkey time has been wonderful. Kitkat is willing, but far less enthusiastic.
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My wife often plays it on her insomnia nights; we love it. (She was a fan first and introduced me to Monk.)
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If you haven't seen it before, I bet you'd appreciate a nice explanation and play through of Stonetop. www.indiegamereadingclub.com/indie-game-r...
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After a few years of not bothering with turkey, I'm defrosting one in the refrigerator for next week. I hadn't really finalized my stuffing plans yet...
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Similar era, my lesser known series was Voyagers! a time travel/fix the past show. www.imdb.com/title/tt0083...
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All the empathy; my wife has very limited contact with her mom for similar reasons.
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Oathsworn is an rpg board game in a box for 1-4 players. You basically play through a choose your adventure for an hour or two, then set up a map where each bad guy has a special deck of moves and power that tells it what to do, then you move and roll for your team of heroes.
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True! And the different series each hit differently -- Child of Fire and its sequels is horrific but hopeful, while The Way into Chaos feels like a save the world fantasy adventure with weird and cool magic.