Depends. I've found that it was able to explain to me (about Spanish) why, when and how to use this form or the other. But it won't come up with a plan of lessons. And the level of support will depend on the amount of resources available for the language you want to learn
I think I've found an app some time ago that was just setting up an HTTP file server, so you could share whole directories. But I didn't have use for it and I forgot the name
Are you guys fine with these new shenanigans from Github. I found a bug and wanted to check what has been the development on that, only to find out most of the discussion was hidden by github and requesting me to sign-in to view it....
No, that is actually useful. Blocking access for anonymous users is not
If anything, the boom of LLMs like copilot and chatgpt actually shows the power of open source and open access to information. Underlying algorithms would mean nothing without open source, open access to stackoverflow, forums, etc
From what I read around, the first RPG to have flashbacks and something like downtime was Leverage. The downtime part was not as prominent, but with the parts about closing the hooks from the beginning of the heist, I think it is very close. Whole game was rooted in some tv series about criminals breaking the law. So I think these rather come from other media that depict heists
Alien RPG Starter Set has a discount currently. I think I've heard somewhere that it's doing some things well but I don't remember what & where. And I very rarely can get answers to my questions from description or reviews....
Once in a few sessions. Party because that's on our characters to decide how they address the goal and partly because I create jobs where "covert" seems to be first thought. Not that I would be against them going berserk, it just often seems like the proper approach
I still prepare maps, though. I've learned that theater of mind does not work with me, my players were sill lost in what's where. Probably it would be a good idea to learn how to do ToM properly but I feel I still need to learn other things first. And these are still useful for showing where the cameras and the doors are
I almost never use battlemap, but sometimes I prepare map
Wait, what's the difference? A grid?
I prefer to have some kind of grid on mine as it helps with seeing the scale. But the moment a player starts counting squares of movement, so the the squares of range fit, I get triggered ;) I don't play rpgs to measure ranges with a ruler
A map of the crime-scene sometimes really helps the PC figuring out how the clues say something about the story
Exactly! it can backfire, though. You put something somewhere becuase "it fits" but suddenly your players are sure something you didn't intend has happened because of the layout
Cthulhu Hack, the simple and accessible Mythos tabletop roleplaying game from Just Crunch Games. This fast-playing standalone investigative game, based on David Black's minimalist fantasy RPG The Black Hack, pits ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. With simple Save die-rolls and three...
Unless there's a bunch of people that create open-source firmware/HAL
But even if, I think it's still an improvement. Even if firmware is proprietary, you could flash it on "titan-compatible" chip when yours dies making your device independent from chip ownership etc
This last decade, the big trend in game design has been the success with consequences that you'll find in system like FU RPG, * PTBA*, FITD and other I forget....
I only played Karma in the Dark, I'm not sure how vanilla it is
In the end it's just a game. If skipping some consequences makes everyone happy with the game, then everyone is happy ;)
But my 2¢ would be:
GM told us about all the holds he didn’t use to try to stay in the “plot” and not add extra complication to an already complicated story
I think the plot might have been over-defined
Take a look at Onion Plots and Lazy GM, these work very well with loosely defined plots. Instead of having a plan point by point, have a "bag" of points to choose from when complication happens
I don't want to say railroaded because that's a loaded word, but I'd guess that they focused too much on how the job will progress, instead of the moving parts of the situation. Also, if the planned story was complicated in itself, maybe they moved too few of the planned complications to the "complications to reveal when a complication comes out from the dice" bag. You can have a few "really have to reveal those" in such a bag. It just takes a little practice to know how many
When a complication happens, it does not have to be a plot-changing heavy hitter. I'm not familiar with Kult but a consequence could also be a Clock that means "someone in the setting will figure out something (connections, location, identity) when it fills". And it's ok if it lays dormant for a few other jobs. When you have many plot Clocks open it can lead to culmination when a few of these suddenly fill up a few jobs later. "play to find out" also means that there will be some loose ends in the plot, you never know if a random 4-out-of-6 Clock won't come in handy just before a plot-important job to raise the tension
When a consequence occurs, the GM has the control over how hard it is in fiction - whether it should be a twist or just business as usual
A consequence does not have to be a complication. It can be
a lower effect - you are progressing towards the goal but the obstacle is well guarded and so far only managed to get half-way
harm - if the fiction is in a state you want to keep, you can always deal harm as a cop-out. A sprained ankle can happen to everyone
lost opportunity - you hear footsteps down the hall
Complication does not have to be something right here and right now. "When hacking the node an ICE managed to identify part of your signature. This is not a Trace Clock, but if you don't Resist or address it somehow later on, your Contact/Hideout will be in trouble because the Police (not the Corp yet - here's my choice on gravity) will come looking for you and they won't be asking nicely"
I haven't played Cyberpunk but I've been the GM when we transitioned from Warhammer to Shadowrun. This is what I'd say to myself back then:
This is not a game about resource management. Don't view combat as "we should do X combats of such and such difficulty between rests". Focus on obstacles like "if they get inside with guns blazing, the elevators might be blocked" and leave to the players to decide how to approach them
Don't plan how will the gameplay progress, focus on who (meaning NPCs) does what, why, what are their obstacles
Don't try to get all the mechanics right from the beginning. Try to get a grip on general flow of the rules and when you meet a situation for the first time, make a ruling on the spot. Look it up after the game
If you know which flavour you are going after (black trenchcoat vs pink mohawk) describe it to your players so you're on the same page
is a booster-bot not really of linux, I would say ANTI-LINUX, and promotes constantly marketing by 3-4 corporations that seek to dominate linux and displace all alternatives.
Like the title says I am trying to understand how these things should work together. Part of my issue is I don't have a good mental model on the Flatpak permissioning / sandbox model. My use case is running a game on Lutris, which is a Flatpack, and using my package install of Mangohud. I am also curious if I should using a...
I don't use flatpak but I didn't have to configure Lutris or Steam in any way for that.
If you look around goverlay you'll find that there are two ENVs that you can set up in X/wayland service to have MangoHud automatically in every context it can render in.
So first try running with MANGOHUD=1 env exported. If that doesn't help, try mangohud steam.
If I understand correctly, flatpack run in some kind of container, so it's possible that you might need to set the env or the command, so it happens inside the container
Do they want to let the world know the truth with the risk to get in trouble with the corpos an law. or do they want to protect themselves by repeating the narrative about bad environmental activists who are just eco-terrorists ?
Oh, that would be great. But they were specifically ordered by Fixer (Lofwyr himself. But they don't know that yet and frankly the players themselves don't really know who that is - yet ;> ) to disable the rig in a way that the eco will be blamed for it. So far the world only knows the message the hijackers sent out.
Looking at how their cooperation has been going on, I don't expect my players to blink an eye. So I'm looking around for other things to spice runs out until I pull the rug
But that's a very good point, thank you :)
(btw, you marked your comment's language as French, so somehow I can see it only in my "mailbox")
will TerraFist be ok with a shooting match with mtc and likely losing those operatives?
I agree with Ziggurat that they should be the punk side of the setting. So underfunded good guys, who should rather go with "hit and run" modus operandi. Not a show of force like that.
Unless they really take orders from the Sea Dragon and the rucus grabbed her attention? Food for thought
“The eco terrorists aren’t the ones who took over the oil trig after all? But then they showed up anyways? What the hell is going on?"
Yes, you're right. As a GM I'd accept my players simply blowing it up, because mimicking eco-terrorists' MO perfectly is not why they were given that heist. Fortunately they came to similar conclusion themselves and plan to break the drilling part
Show us some pictures of your gaming, notebook or binder. I’m getting back into using a physical binder now that my games are more in person, and I need the inspiration!...
Not much to show, I just use a ringed notebook for noting down things that happen during the game.
I've found that I prefer A5 format. With A4 it gets big and by the time I get to the bottom of the right page, the notes at the top of the left one are ancient. A5 is easier to manage
I prefer systems where I don't need so many stats. Savage Worlds is the most crunch I can work with. So for the plot I only need a way to check up on ideas and "arcs" and for that I use ObsidianMD on mobile or PC. I'm jumping around different topics a lot, so even having bookmarks in notebook would be hard to work with
If you want something local and open source, I think your main problem will be the number of parameters (the b thing). ChatGPT-3 is (was?) noticeably big and open source models are usually smaller. There is, of course, an exchange about how much the size of the model matters and how the quality of the training data affects the results. But when I did a non-scientific comparison ~half a year ago, there was a noticeable difference between smaller models and bigger ones.
Having said all of that, check out https://huggingface.co/ it aims to be like GitHub for AIs. Most of the models are more or less open source, you will only need to figure out how to run one and if you have some bottlenecks on PI
Let's say I want my RPG players to find a corporate mail that gives them some plot info. Why not ask an LLM to write the boilerplate around the info I want to give them? Just as example
But machine will not do the creative part. It can only fill in the time-sinks around our creative ideas. Ask an LLM to tell you a joke no-one has ever heard before and then google it. The creative part still has to come from humans
EDIT; and the truth is that we very rarely come up with something creative. We mostly just recompile previously met combinations
My mom and grandma are using Manjaro. With grandma I'm the only one doing the updates of course, but with mom she usually can do it herself just using pamac-tray. If that fails a phonecall is usually sufficient. Once in a few years I have to come and do something by myself
And when that happens I work with a distro that just works, instead of some broken crap
EDIT: I tried having Mint on their computers. Big mistake, it's as broken as Debian and Ubuntu
EDIT: Xfce is very nice in such cases. It looks familiar for them while being manageable for me
no rolling-release: around once half a year you have to reinstall the system because it can't update some core library to a more recent version. And it's only the distro's limitation because rolling releases have no issue with it
you can't just define a package of your own. So if a piece of software is not in packages, you need to compile and install it manually without packager managing it. It tends to break in the long term and when the software suddenly becomes packaged
deb-hell: if you come to the idea to solve the first problem by compiling your own package, the packager will give you hell for that. And compiling your own deb with bumped up version is no easy task. Which means that when your version of the system goes out of life, you have to reinstall. Pray that you thought about this before and put /home and /etc on separate partitions
package dependencies are too baked in or stability is too high priority. Even if your issue got resolved recently, it will take a long time for an updated package to appear. And you can't roll your own in the meantime (see 2, or even worse 1)
Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don't have it ( except for flahub iirc)...
Pure speculation:
I think it's just not that popular. Does it do something more than rclone or simple rsync? If not, then its main selling point would be GUI. But then, I think, either one can use the remote location via their file manager (like thunar with MEGA for example) or there is not that much difference between opening another app and using web. And if the selling point would be pausing and resuming download, torrents are probably more verstile
It is available in AUR, though, so maybe it's only me that haven't heard about it earlier
Also, it's a java application. There is not much to package or depend on, I guess
In the end everything is maintained by the community, the only difference is that AUR is "everyone can maintain" and official is "we have team of official maintainers that decided to maintain these packages". Personally I can't imagine running without using AUR
But it's fair if it doesn't count for you
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Search is working fast, which is nice. Unfortunately it seems to focus on articles in my language without possibility to switch to English, so 1. someone might argue this narrows down who is using it, and 2. sometimes I need to search for an article in other language.
Also, from issues on github it seems that it can be a little buggy atm
At the same time, on wikipedia, ublock sees only wikipedia and wikimedia domains. And the page even doesn't need to ask about cookies. I don't think wiki has a problem with privacy, per se. Of course in countries with stupid governments this might be a good idea
Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...
Tinkering is all fun and games, until it’s 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you’re about to execute… And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought bouncing in your head: “damn, what did I expect to happen?”.
Nah, that's when the fun really starts! ;)
The package refused to either work or install complaining that the version of glibc was incorrect… So, I installed glibc from Debian’s repos.
:D That one is a classic. Most distributions don't include packagers from other distros because 99% of the time it's a bad idea. But with Arch you can do whatever you want, of course
My two things:
I've heard about some new coreutils (rm, cp, cat... this time the name really fits the contents :D) and I decided to test it out. Of course it was conflicting with my current coreutils package and I couldn't just replace it because deleting the old package would break requirements. So without thinking I forced the package manager to delete it "I'll install a new one in just a second". Turns out it's hard to install a package without cp, etc :D
I don't remember what I was doing but I overwrote the first bytes of hdd. Meaning my partition table disappeared. Nothing could be mounted, no partitions found. Seemingly a brick.
Turns out, if you run a rescue iso, ask it to try and recognize partitions and recreate the table without formatting, Linux will come back to life as if nothing happened
Security & Privacy: Device Unlock: Screen lock settings: Lock after screen timeout: Shortest duration you are comfortable with
These don't affect "the amount of tracking and data collection these devices perform". Might be good ideas in themselves, but bundling these with options that really diminish the amount of data broadcasted, washes the picture out IMO
And I was commenting on the article. Which only has two lists and at the bottom
By enabling all of these settings, you are significantly reducing the amount of tracking and data collection these devices perform, but keep in mind that you are not completely eliminating it.
When I run open RGB my Mouse shows up but not my keyboard and I’m not familiar with how to read hexadecimal so using Wireshark does not help me to add a new keyboard to open RGB
[HELP] My issues are not getting accepted
I recently created a new Github Account but probably there is some issue with my account....
Any good FOSS alternatives to DuoLingo?
Light weight Local peer to peer file sharing application which has well to do client and host for android and linux.
I want to do this kind of transfer....
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Are "Blades in the dark" Downtime/Flashback mechanics inspired by (nordic) LARP ?
Very often, people praise Blades for "popularizing" the concept of "downtime actions" and "flashback" in TTRPG....
What are your thoughts about Alien RPG? ( preview.drivethrurpg.com )
Alien RPG Starter Set has a discount currently. I think I've heard somewhere that it's doing some things well but I don't remember what & where. And I very rarely can get answers to my questions from description or reviews....
How much combats in your game ?
Just a general conversation thread,...
[Bundle of Holding] Cthulhu Hack Bundle ( bundleofholding.com )
Cthulhu Hack, the simple and accessible Mythos tabletop roleplaying game from Just Crunch Games. This fast-playing standalone investigative game, based on David Black's minimalist fantasy RPG The Black Hack, pits ordinary people against the sanity-shattering horrors of the Cthulhu Mythos. With simple Save die-rolls and three...
OpenTitan open-source chip ( spectrum.ieee.org )
I was very excited to see that open hardware seems to be happening, despite my perception...
Dealing with "chaos" in consequences-based (fiction first) games French
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Advice for Cyberpunk RED?
I'm thinking of running a Cyberpunk RED campaign. My group has played D&D together for about five years now....
Help using Mangohud / Gamemode with Flatpak version of Lutris and Steam
Like the title says I am trying to understand how these things should work together. Part of my issue is I don't have a good mental model on the Flatpak permissioning / sandbox model. My use case is running a game on Lutris, which is a Flatpack, and using my package install of Mangohud. I am also curious if I should using a...
[Shadowrun][GM discussion] Should eco-terrorists appear at an oil-rig under attack they are already being blamed (directly or indirectly) for hijacking?
I know that eventually the answer is "whatever I want" but I would like to hear what others think....
What does your gaming notebook or binder look like?
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Why is jdownloader not available in most software managers?
Despite it being one of the most popular and feature rich download managers out there and it being foss, it seems that most repos don't have it ( except for flahub iirc)...
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What's (are) the funniest/stupidest way(s) you've broken your linux setup?
Tinkering is all fun and games, until it's 4 am, your vision is blurry, and thinking straight becomes a non-option, or perhaps you just get overly confident, type something and press enter before considering the consequences of the command you're about to execute... And then all you have is a kernel panic and one thought...
Android and iOS settings for better security and privacy ( thenewoil.org )
The article lists settings to change on Android 14 and iOS 17....
My corsair k100 keyboard doesn't show up in openrgb
When I run open RGB my Mouse shows up but not my keyboard and I’m not familiar with how to read hexadecimal so using Wireshark does not help me to add a new keyboard to open RGB
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best privacy security based email client that supports third part apps ?
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