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[–] 3 points 1 month ago

Once in my early days, I ran a game where the players were all werewolves. I was reading a lot of GRM at the time and it was very edgy and I tried to give them a moral quandary: an injured baby. Do they curse the child with lycanthropy to save it?

That's when the players hauled out the cursed healing potion from 15 sessions ago they'd been hauling around this whole time :/

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    It's safe to assume that the US government owns all your software and the Chinese government owns all your hardware. The thing that protects you is that your local police department is too stupid to work a computer and you're probably not important enough to come to the attention of the heavy hitters in the government.

    As for whether or not the mcfascists will kick in your door: maybe. The answer would still be "maybe" regardless of your internet usage...it's random and arbitrary by design, to keep everyone terrified and encourage them to constantly compete to please the regime.

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    [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    TNG infamously had an episode about an asshole captain who, among other things, made arbitrary and annoying changes to the scheduling system. Did you feel the same way about it then? It just seems to me that bureaucratic and management difficulties are a totally plausible problem to deal with in starfleet.

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    [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    The thought entered my mind to go back to school and get a Masters or something. I have 14 years in the field already but my bachelor's was unrelated. Anyone else done something similar and have any input?

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    Reminder to use strong passwords (ttrpg.network)
    submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
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    Just got done investigating a spambot we had earlier, and it looks like they used a lot of compromised accounts on other instances to give their post an initial upvote boost. If you don't already, please remember to use a good strong password. Keeping your account secure helps reduce spam across the whole of lemmy, and keeps your account from getting banned for things you didn't actually do.

    I recommend Diceware! I use it in my professional capacity as an IT/Security person, and also you get to use your mathrocks!

    EDIT: Oh, also, all that numbers and symbols shit is no longer considered good practice. Just make it a really long collection of random words, at least 12, ideally 16+ characters. And make sure the words are actually random; your 3 favorite sports teams isn't good enough, which is why I recommend diceware.

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    Thoughts on preemptively banning Gen-AI? (ttrpg.network)
     

    I've been reading about the user revolt on the Twin Peaks subreddit calling for a ban on AI art. As best I can tell we don't really have people posting AI stuff here yet, but I'm wondering if it would be a good idea to ban it before it becomes a problem. I'm soliciting feedback from y'all on this, please let me know what you prefer.

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    A small logistics tweak that's worked well for me (ttrpg.network)
     

    Perhaps obvious to everyone else, but I've hit upon a little trick for better coordinating game time. Instead of announcing "Game will be at 1 o'clock" I've been doing something like "Doors open at Noon, Game starts at 1." This way, the people that want to hang out, level their characters, decide what they like on their pizza, etc all show up at noon, and the people that are running late or decide to come at 1 arrive with the expectation that they're going to walk in the door and immediately start playing. It also provides a natural transition point from the arriving/hanging out mode to game time, which otherwise makes me feel kind of uncomfortably teacher-y, calling the whole class together and whatnot. Try it out, maybe it will help you too.

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