Read a bit of Daggerheart last night and think it is fine but not for me.

Watching @mattcolville.bsky.social 's video on community and while I think it is correct it represents why I will never be a successful creator in the space: I like the community of people who play TTRPGs but only select parts of the community of people who discuss TTRPGs online.

A student asked for speculative fiction book recs and I suggested Ursula K Le Guin. She researched and came back to say "she sounds like a baddie." Yes, yes she was.

This was very common in the 90s and early 2000s internet: a veneer of quantitative slapped over something deeply subjective that falls apart when thought about. A full letter grade for popularity?!

I told my physics students that we were striking a question because it was too hard for them - a trap for students sneaking AI during the test - and damn some of these cheaters gotta get a better poker face

I'm reading Draw Steel and it's got some very solid ideas if you are a fellow 4e enjoyer

Explaining to my students that every natural phenomena is either a mass on a spring or a linear algebra

Critical feature of the new blog is that HR tags get a random @queerwizard.co.uk hex icon displayed on top of them

The Mom of that subliterate kid is going to devalue my literate kids' grades.

Dispatch chapter 2: I've only had Royd for a day and a half, but if anything happened to him, I would kill everyone in this room and then myself

refactored my code from 4,800 lines all the way down to 5,400 lines

Blog update: I forgot that clean, semantic html and css are nice to work with. Fun to just doodle around. Working on making every HR tag style with a randomly selected hex tile drawn on top.

I had an out of body experience because, reading this with a moderate flu-driven fever, I got confused as to what I was actually reading. This is so close in direction to my own metroidvania ttrpg post that I even have an infected crossroads slide in there.

I was in Disney Springs on Lorcana launch day, showed up with my kids 10 minutes after store opening only to find all the cards had already been bought by scalpers. The kids were disappointed enough that they never went back to check out the game ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

why

I stopped caring about trying to stop piracy in 1993 when a coworker of my Dad's showed me how he uses a filter to xerox "nonrepro" blue originals. This isn't a moral judgment for or against piracy, but I saw the futility of trying to stop it.

Do you have any idea how much extra math and reading practice my kids get because I play board/card/ttrpg games with them? Yes, TTRPG games is like ATM machine.

The most powerful feeling I've experienced playing a game this year was the serenity of walking up from the basement to the now open room 46. My 9 year old was on my lap and we were silent as we walked.

I love all my friends.

The most important question to be asking kids when playing ttrpgs with them is "What do you think [NPC] will do if your character does that?" They are often saying funny stuff without realizing they don't wanna roleplay the consequences.

We gotta stop the online gambling. You've no idea the hold it has on high school classrooms.

Avatar the Last Airbender update: Now I know why my kids jump on my back and say yip yip

Since AI psychosis seems to have leveled or dropped off post gpt5, I'm very curious to know how much OpenAI knew they were causing it

You're laughing? A grandma killer lost his dream job and you're laughing?

It's 2005, and I'm making a blue white control deck. It's 2015, and I'm making a blue white control deck. It's 2025, and I'm making a blue white cat girl wizard control deck.

I haven't played Magic: The Gathering since Zendikar and I don't have the brainpower to figure out all the Final Fantasy SKUs.

The new AP Comp Sci maintains what I think is defective ordering, starting with the connection between booleans and other values via comparison, moving to control structures, then backwards to boolean expressions.

We haven't cyberbullied this nerd off here yet? What's the point of this website

Making my unit 2 slides

shaw.

what if frasier have ipad

Starting to read @lytagold.bsky.social 's Dangerous Fictions as rec'd by @erikhane.bsky.social . Introduction does a very good job setting up the subject as worthy of time and about which interesting, new, and nuanced things will be said.

Underrated battle royale typing game strat: go on voice chat after the first few passages and just start saying fucking numbers

I'm being inundated with Tron: Ares posts on my Twitter For You page and there's no way that it isn't undisclosed paid advertisements.

I've called the process of designing a system from an inspiration set "story interpolation" (middling term, admittedly). I love to use this slide from a talk Tarn gave at Northwestern's Progression Mechanics to illustrate the concept

Hey there are federal agents disappearing people on the streets but, yeah, sure, this slop is "100." People need to grow the fuck up.

This is frighteningly specific and I'm sad to say I understand it

Where are the kid defenders to get mad about hormones on this one?

The students also didn't like this

IMPORTANT WARNING FOR CLASS TODAY

Telling my AP Computer Science that ohana means family, and that means nobody gets left behind or gets a 2

Not, uh. Not real happy with their framing of this article.

important 40 year old man life update: organized my letterboxd top 4

"I want movies to have less sex, just like foreign films" is wild shit to say

Bunch of fetal alcohol syndrome survivors telling me Tylenol is bad for pregnancy

If Jimmy Kimmel is too scary or spicy for you: make sure to remember to switch to a fresh diaper before bed today

This is because most consoles have what is called a "Usable State Buffer for Command Performance". Gearbox has been advocating for larger buffers for years. If you want learn more you can Google "Randy Pitchford USB CP".

I forgot the Switch 2 came out

Furries like "what the fuck did I do?"

I can't believe the kids we were grooming for night of the long knives 2 are acting uncontrollably violent