the kids have never seen a computer that doesn‘t lag

I realize that this is a crazy-person thing to say but I’ve done some statistical analysis on the Yi Jing and everyone has read it wrong

what do I make with excessive lemons and limes? do I get really into American-style pies?

frosty morning

wtf happened to all my macrons here? I typed them with my phone keyboard so it shouldn’t be an encoding issue… bizarre?

gəorgə pollɐrd@porg.es · last mo.

Went for a short 3km walk in Tãwharanui and unexpectedly spotted Toutouwai (NZ Robin), Tieke (Saddleback) & Pāteke (Brown Teal)… along with the standard Tüï, lots of Korimako, Kererü, a bunch of Pōpokotea, and a silly number of Piwakawaka. Do recommend! all my bird photos were bad so some walkways:

Went for a short 3km walk in Tãwharanui and unexpectedly spotted Toutouwai (NZ Robin), Tieke (Saddleback) & Pāteke (Brown Teal)… along with the standard Tüï, lots of Korimako, Kererü, a bunch of Pōpokotea, and a silly number of Piwakawaka. Do recommend! all my bird photos were bad so some walkways:

I have discovered the worst tic-tac-toe/noughts-and-crosses implementation of all time

I do think Rust should have had different traits for 1:1 (injective) conversions vs those that might normalize/be non-invertible

I’m not parochial about much, but I do feel that what the government is planning to with conservation lands is essentially treason

North Head was real nice, last weekend

*adds two exponents together* ha! ha! I’m doing homomorphic encryption!

I miss pre-prestige television.

this one plant just won’t quit, it must have made like 60 habaneros by now. I have multiple bags in the freezer. I have a litre of hot sauce. running out of things to do!

gəorgə pollɐrd@porg.es · 5mo ago

this heroic little habanero plant has grown 26 chillies so far this season 🙏

Beans! Beans! Beans!

which way Western dude

Chaos Magick News@cmnpod.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A good 2/3rds of Occultism is deciding which silly diagram you'll attempt to relate to everything.

toki pona auto-glosser, ha

we use an old Google device in the kitchen for adding stuff to the shopping list and setting timers. recently it changed to Australian mode† it’s not going well

winning on the op shop finds

when I ran Hot Springs Island the opera scene from the Fifth Element was the centerpiece

Chris Person@papapishu.bsky.social · 3mo ago

“The average movie does not contain the Opera Scene From The Fifth Element and, in fact, the most number of Opera Scenes from the Fifth Element a movie has contained is one. But imagine: what if an entire movie was just The Opera Scene from The Fifth Element. How powerful would that movie be?”

am I stumbling my way into running something that is both Pendragon and Silent Titans at the same time? I sure hope so!

Maze Meal

trained ones, strays, sirens, denumerables, those included in this classification, and those that—at a distance—resemble flies

madeline odent@oldenoughtosay.com · 3mo ago

what are the Six Genders? wrong answers only

slipping Bruno into an internal slide deck again, ha, ha

I do think choose-your-own-adventure books had a significant detrimental impact on my ability to make decisions

ceej@ceej.online · last yr.

Don’t fuck with gamers. We know that you get to try everything over and over again with no meaningful consequences for failure

🎲 Exploring Sicherman Dice: Discovered in the 1970s by George Sicherman, these unique dice, with numbers 1-4 and 1-8, mimic the standard D6 sum distribution.   #TabletopGames #DiceInnovation gametek.substack.com...

Sicherman Dice - by Geoff Engelstein - GameTek

A GameTek Stocking Stuffer

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turns out there’s a nice way to encode Sorceror-style dice pool rolls making them very susceptible to analysis

Morgan Davie@fromthemorgue.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Ooh i might need to chat with you at some point - I’ve tried to run some numbers on the Sorcerer system and its update in Hot War and Cold City and they broke anydice into smithereens; i ran lots of samples and got rough approximations but this sounds like it could do some magic on that problem

this is my Ozymandias

Michael@michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I will keep making increasingly more specific things until no one can understand what they’re about

example one bajillion of how graphic design makes or breaks your tabletop rulebook

making my own dice roller, on steroids, for when you need… a lot of dice (the output here is analytic, not generated by sampling, but it _is_ a close approximation [mean off by 0.0005%] and not an exact calculation — it has to be, with values this large)