Gemini* and Gopher

• Personal/Opinions

  • D&D History

    Good points, for those too lazy or time constrained is that the history on some of these monsters is very deep (or was a throwaway plastic kaiju from the 70s) and that monsters can be made more interesting by giving them a story or history for why they are there. This of course assumes your players are into that sort of thing, and are not simply looking for a bag of HP to collect lootpoints from, bespoke vs. industrial scale RPGing. Another point is that some monsters were invented to suit how D&D was being played, that there were multiple groups engaged in "real time" dungeon crawling, so group A killing monster X and looting treasure Q would influence what was available to subsequent gaming sessions, and of course you would need some means to cleanup all the dead bodies from the 20+ adventuring team leaving some number of their heros and hirelings behind, to say less the piles of monsters being carved through, therefore the carrion crawler.

  • Battle Styles

    One may find different styles of battle and disagreements when to use which; total war types may clash with someone who expects a honorable duel. To the total war type sneak attacks, picking off the weak, disrupting supply chains, and other such dastardly deeds are all cromulent. These activities of course are "not sporting", dishonorable, etc. to the dueler, especially if that person went in expecting a fair fight. Some art of war something battle on terms best for you.

    Professionals may thus tend to steamroll those who rely on a cult of personality or "softer" battle skills. See for example the Roman Army meatgrinder as opposed to Alexander the Great leading a charge, which of course is a totally hypothetical matchup.

  • peyote microdose

    I bought a few peyote microdose at the store yesterday. Decided to take them tonight, around 9:45. It's 10 now, and I can't say that I feel much at this point. We'll see by the end of this text.

    Peyote is a small cactus which contain higher dose of mescaline than the San Pedro. I keep seeing a cat from the corner of my eyes, so maybe something is happening.

    I like San Pedro a lot, or Huachuma as we call it. I've signed up for a Huachuma sitting after the yoga retreat for my birthday. I am really looking forward for it, not only for the healing aspect of it, but for the social aspect.

  • shattered horizon

    i've been building my own computers since the early 2000s. my uncle used to donate his old pc parts to my brothers & i, and that kicked off our foray into pc building. fast forward many years and many birthday trips to Fry's later, and i finally was able to construct a pc capable of playing Crysis. playing (& beating) Crysis was probably one of my first completed bucket list items. (i don't keep an actual list, but i'm sure it would've been on there if i did.) fast forward another few years (or so?) and you'll find me booting up SHATTERED HORIZON, another vizually stunning work of art. one that died too soon.

    most people are probably nostalgic for a few games. maybe some of those games even live up to the hype. but unlike a long-forgotten nintendo 64 or gamecube game, modern multiplayer games need more than just a cartridge/disk & a tolerance for outdated game mechanics. games like Shattered Horizon also need servers & players. the game might be playable alone, with bots, but that isn't the same thing. and i'm not even sure that's possible. i'm sure i'll get around to checking someday. but there are other games i've played that have been completely scrubbed from Steam. those games are 100% gone, never to be played again, unless by some miraculous incident they get uploaded to the Internet Archive or something.

  • some day

    There seems to be no end of things in life that one puts up with, thinking to yourself, I'll figure/sort/fix this some day, but now I just need to do something else.

  • emperor zed

    i spent 8,000 hours defi yield farming so you didn't have to

• Politics and World Events

  • Global depopulation agenda

    This is somewhat of my still disorganized thought, but I thought I should write this down since connecting these dots leads to something quite sinister.

• Technology and Free Software

  • Internet/Gemini

    • Small Web July

      I shall do my part this month, however I will not be giving up youtube. I use it all the time for old TV shows and such. I've also found really good music there.