🧵 Hey, all. I'm going to be doing some test runs of both campaigns I'm running for startplaying.games .

Well, that's two campaigns launched on startplaying.games .

🧵 So, I've been sans job for about three months now, and that sucks. So, while continue to try to find one, I have decided to try something I hadn't considered to supplement my income: being a paid game master on @startplaying.bsky.social .

Almost certain the answer is "write something new", but it never hurts to ask. Unless it does, I guess.

Just writing this post makes what I'm asking sound absurd. I'm probably up a creek and have to write something else. I would just like some income since I don't currently have any, and I was hoping this was going to be a source (albeit a little one).

Published author friends: I know generally publishers don't touch books that have already been self-published. What about books that have been, but only sold a handful of copies? I mean, it got good reviews from the people that read it. Even people I don't know!

Again, I ask: If you've got any leads on jobs, particularly remote and/or in IT, please let me know. Thank you to everybody who's been kind enough to send me leads.

This began a weird little game with HR that ended with me getting let go with pay for two months. Today starts my official unemployment, and I just found out I can't work there again for 6 months. As they're the biggest employer around here, this, well, sucks.

As you may have heard, I was let go from my job a couple months ago. I didn't talk much about the circumstances, but my manager (not Josh Dalcher, who was always the best) gave me a good rating and then decided I didn't know Java all within the span of a month.

I need to get employed again before I lose my mind @_@

The good news is I just need to take some practice exams to make sure I stuffed everything in my brain properly and then I can go get advanced certified, which certainly isn't going to hurt my resume any. But that costs multiple hundreds of dollars so I better be sure first.

Not sure what it means when you're taking enough online courses for certifications that you accidentally take the advanced course first and then you take the beginner stuff and for two days you're like "this seems sorta familiar".

it is a very good day to realize you have an overabundance of red and yellow filament. probably some blue too if I can remember what I did with it...

Superman easily the best Superman movie I've ever seen. Corenswet was great as a new-ish Superman, though Christopher Reeve is Superman in my head since I was a kid (just like Roger Moore is James Bond). Honestly never thought I'd see one better than the Donner cut of Superman II.

I've done everything from development to managing the federation servers (authentication/SSO) for a Fortune 100 company to networking. I'm not worried I'll be able to do anything provided I've got time to train. Really was not hoping to revisit the job market again anytime soon, but such is life.

So, I just got let go from my job. Not a fun surprise on a Friday. If anybody has any openings where they work for IT-related stuff (or anything else you think I might be a good fit for), please let me know.

Honestly, and this is not a serious answer to @gailsimone.bsky.social 's question: This just made me think about an X-Men series where they're all Godzilla-sized, and how this affects how they deal with the world around them. (At least, until stupid Reed Richards invents a shrink-ray.)

It's that time of year once again. I bet I get zero items on this list. We'll see. 🙃

Does anybody know of a good country/western sourcebook for Vampire: The Masquerade? In my gaming group tonight we were talking about a scenario involving the Oak Ridge Boys being Toreadors and I NEED THIS TO HAPPEN IN MY LIFE.

Absolutely shitty D&D session tonight. I cannot understand how I made a sewer and poop monsters for them to fight and I'm the one terrified of what they did with them. Sam will tell his grandchildren of what happened tonight.

I'm going to ask a question of you in the board game industry, and it's probably one you've already thought about: Your game rules will still work even if the pieces aren't physical. Most people have smartphones or tablets.

Printed a wither storm from Minecraft for Sam. I hope the glue holds. This was a weird one. 🙂

I look forward to being hooked into the pentagram 5G devil network government chemtrails. WITH ALL THE VACCINES I'VE HAD, WHERE IS MY ACCESS? WHERE, DAMMIT?! 2/2

I got my MMR (Measles, Mumps, Rubella) vaccine today, because I was born before 1989 and I don't want the measles. THESE ARE NOT THINGS I SHOULD HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IN THIS DAY AND AGE 1/2

I guess I should be happy Meta's AI didn't steal my book like so many other people in my feed. On the other hand, even an AI either can't find it or decided not to bother with it. 🙃

Today's mimic battle went about as well as expected.

Painted the sewers. I opted for slightly chunky. 💩

Today's project. It's a lot larger than normal for the inn I'm going to put it in, so I'm coming up with a storyline about how it ate all the people in the inn and it got too big and now it can't get out. #dungeonnutrition

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Today's project. The paints won't get here in time for me to detail the sewers I printed before this week's game, so I planned another encounter in an inn. Printed the models during work today, and did my best with some sharpies to give it some color.

who wants 2 gith matching tadpoles ✨️🖤✨️

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7xn5zeJ4D4 This song popping up as the song Brainiac got betrothed to in the latest season of Harley Quinn was the funniest goddamn thing I've seen in years.

Sam helped me with the initial spray painting of the dungeon tiles I printed. There were a few that need redone (two from the mine set that wound up green and not brown, and some walls I missed). Still have detail work and a clear coat over everything to do. Not too shabby so far.

As a cishet dude, when I see a Dem ditch trans rights, it sends a message: you ain't got no fight in you, no principles, just another empty suit. Think I'm some too-online outlier? Go ask your expensive consultants why people don't bother to vote. It's because they know you're all empty suits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoLN0YoErK0

There's just something about poop-filled trenches without the walls being constructed yet that brings out my inner 5th grader. I snorted multiple times trying to post this. 🤣

🧵 Printing something new with the group I'm running for Sam and his friends. All of these are OpenLock compatible, so you can hook them together as a unit. Right now I've got one basic dungeon tile set, and I've started printing a sewer set. The basic set has low walls, which the internets seemed

HMMM SUSPICIOUSLY TIMED BSKY'S ALGORITHM HAS MY NUMBER ALREADY

🧵 Let me say it up front. I tried to, in my own small way, help prevent Trump from taking office by posting here. When he got elected, it scared me. When Trump got into office and immediately started dismantling huge, important things at lightning speed, it terrified me.

Sam is now taller than me. I do not know how this happened, he was an inch shorter a month ago. I'm not mad. Having your offspring exceed you is optimal. It's just WEIRD

you know occasionally i see a project that resonates so strongly with me, on a deep, emotional level, like it has touched the core of what matters to me about technology, culture, society, and the future, and it is almost always the absolutely stupidest thing you could do with a computer.

Not that we should be surprised by this disaster for our civic life, but America is where it is today BECAUSE the Justice Department under-prosecuted white collar crime in the last two decades, not over-prosecuted.

I asked my old DM Josh Dalcher if this was what it was like to DM for me and he said yes. THE END FOR NOW 3/3

In the midst of the chaos, Sam looks at the crystal and says, "I lean over and lick it". I told him it tasted like citrus because the question did things to my brain. 2/3

The first session went well, though very unplanned. I used an adventure hook I came up with before he was born, in which an academy graduation gets interrupted by half the campus suddenly being encased in a giant purple crystal. 1/3

cults3d.com/en/3d-model/... 3/3

Printed an upscaled version for his desk, which was wise. You don't often get a "that's amazing" and have him swipe it with a place immediately in mind. 2/3

Started a new D&D campaign with Sam and his friends last week. Sam plays a wizard, and requested a flintlock pistol to use in-game. I couldn't find a mini to print for that, but I did find Gundalf the Strapped. 1/3

Guy at MAGFest was cosplaying as the Wheel of Fortune. He would ask people to choose a number between one and four and then say "NOPE"