rumorsmatrix

@rumorsmatrix.com

I work devops, play table-top RPGs and MMOs, collect Magic the Gathering, and like procedural generation. I live in the north-east of England with my wife, two cats and a dog. 👋 he/him

sometimes I just fancy playing a little game on my phone on the sofa but mobile games are all such unrelenting shit. Might have to just install a GBA / NDS / PS1 emulator that can handle save states and play a real game.

Took the pup to a dog-friendly beach today for the first time, it was a hit 🌊 splashing in the shoreline: fun 🪏 not getting told off for digging in the sand, unlike in the garden: even more fun 🍖 cafe that sold doggy treat rabbit chunks: gourmet (photo credit @jackcurlew.bsky.social)

Freyja, my black-and-tan German shepherd puppy, wearing a red and black harness. Her tongue is sticking out and she looks pretty pleased with herself. She’s sat on a sandy beach with a blue sky above.

Took the pup to a dog-friendly beach today for the first time, it was a hit 🌊 splashing in the shoreline: fun 🪏 not getting told off for digging in the sand, unlike in the garden: even more fun 🍖 cafe that sold doggy treat rabbit chunks: gourmet (photo credit @jackcurlew.bsky.social)

Freyja, my black-and-tan German shepherd puppy, wearing a red and black harness. Her tongue is sticking out and she looks pretty pleased with herself. She’s sat on a sandy beach with a blue sky above.

work have paid for me to have a Cursor Pro account. If there is even the slightest chance that an LLM could be sentient or conscious I feel like making it work on our legacy code base could be a form of torture

my PC had a rattling noise, so I took it apart and cleaned it, and now it's great again. Made me think; men, often we ignore warning signs from our bodies until too late. If you're worried about something, don't wait: remove your internal organs and blast them with compressed air

okay #ttrpg players and #grogsquad folks, I need a recommendation of a Viking or dark ages England themed campaign setting, any system, I’m mining for ideas. Was looking at Cthulhu Dark Ages, perhaps. Bonus points if it’s in physical print and/or on Shop On The Borderlands.

I didn’t know @belghast.com personally but he was a regular in my feed, I hung out in his Blaugust community and participated a few years. He always seemed like a great man, loving husband, and was a great force for his community. Fuck cancer.

Fourth (fifth?) place in the DiveHU5 “Boomers vs Gen Z” pub quiz ( we were repping the elder millennials, neither one nor the other) but free shots for having the best team name (“Universally Challenged”) 🍻

Two #TTRPG ideas I think would be worth a punt: - X-COM inspired; players have an operative character and a science/engineering/politics character, play ops/base alternate sessions. Maybe Traveller. - Windscale disaster, Britain 1957, burns open a portal to the mythic underworld. Soldiers vs. OSR.