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No, he just looks at them admiringly

No way, you're in the pocket of Big Festival...

Read it after buying it at a primary school book sale. Not sure it was entirely suitable for 11 year olds, as I started to dot the phrase "sonofabitch" into my school story writing 😁

I think some of this comes down to your definition of expert - but I would certainly expect a GM to have a degree of 'expertise' at the given game

If you're not expert in a system tho, I think you need to tell the players in advance, because it can change someone's experience of a game (especially if they are an experienced player). System matters and all that.

Kinda but imo different enough to be it's own thing

I got notifications for a UPS parcel saying it was being delivered both at 9.30-12.30 and at 1.30-5.30 today.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a wall with papers on it . Alt: a man in a suit and tie is standing gesticulating in front of a wall with paper and red thread on it

Good morning! I have had a couple of people tell me Ex Ten shouldn't use 2d10 because it breaks the PBTA probability curve. They could not be more wrong and I am going explain why, because it's the end of my campaign and I need something to keep me sane, ok?

Strap in.
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Love that. Personally, I find the 2d10 probability curve more satisfying than 2d6, just because it has that smidge more granularity without going full 1d20 swingy, as your system embraces

Oh, Michael and his "only Whites" policy again eh? 😉

Actually, that fits

S'right

Genuinely good or just fan service good?

The trouble with being angry at work all day is I've done fuck all actual work. And I have a deadline. Which I shouldn't have. But I do. For reasons that make me angry. Oh no, there I go again... 🤬😡🤬

It troubles me that I’m starting to feel the same way about Bluesky that I do about the UK. Like: it sounds great, and some of the people I know are great, but the leadership is making some weird choices and I’m a bit worried it may all be over in a couple of years.

Historical scenarios adapted to your rules sounds like it was written for you, if you just put "ish" after "Historical" 😉

Last week, with the enthusiasm of a visiting speaker and some rapid examples, I wondered if AI had truly advanced in the last couple of months and was now capable of astounding things.

Today has confirmed this is still not the case

I can see it's a good game, and I have no doubt it's enjoyable with friends. But a single mission takes 45-60 minutes on PC, so probably 2-3x that in person. I guess if you're lucky and get good, you can play maybe 3 missions a night and win 2/3. That's still a hell of a slog.

I installed it 😀

yEah bUT tH05e iMmIGr@ntS....

Diagram categorizing various games and activities. The vertical axis ranges from "Strong emotions and drama" (top) to "Casual mindless fun" (bottom). The horizontal axis ranges from "Win mentality" (left) to "Storytelling" (right). A

New attempt at #larp #ttrpg typography just dropped. (From Oleg Roderick).

Played Gloomhaven PC game this weekend - chose original campaign, normal difficulty.

On that basis, I'm amazed it's so highly rated as a boardgame. Yes, clever mechanics and good story, but it's such a frustrating drag to have to replay missions coz of one bad moment. Who has that time?

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Oh yeah, of course. Damn.

Copilot update

I just contacted the person who's leading our AI exploratory work. A very lovely, intelligent person, and 100x less cynical than me.

I tell her how shit Copilot in Excel is.

Her reply?

"Wait til you try Powerpoint. It's even worse"

Bodes well...

I know it's not ideal, but can you digitise them?

Us management types have been upgraded to full CoPilot to test it out. So far, so unimpressed.

Whatever. I do it manually (not hard after all)

But I do need to know how many words are in the table. Figure I'll ask copilot. I select the table and ask it to count the words.

"There are 53 words in total, including all headers and cell content"

There aren't. There are 51 you dumb fuck.

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Asked it to do it again, exactly copying existing formatting.

It gave me the exact same ugly black and white table again.

I say "this isn't my original formatting at all"

Copilot responds "Oh sorry, I can't actually access or replicate precise formatting from your sheet"

2/

Ignored copilot. Created the table I wanted manually.

Asked the AI to turn it into high res image file.

Gave me this:

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Oh no. "Currently, I do not have the capability to directly modify or write back to your open Excel file"

But it offered me instructions on how to do it using conditional formatting. WHICH I OBVIOUSLY KNOW HOW TO DO ALREADY

What an incredible productivity enhancing tool this is.

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A coloured-coded 5 x 5 grid

This is what it generated. Shame about the legend.

It then said "What would you like me to do", and gave 3 options. One was "Export this into Excel"

I liked the sound of that, so I typed "export back into Excel"

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