Glad you enjoyed. I definitely wasn’t writing for a broad audience. :)

Aw shucks. Wayfarers originated from a skill system derivation of 1E and 2E that our group played for about 12 years across several campaigns. Most feedback is that it has the spirit of 2E but the flexibility of a skill system.

The first edition of Wayfarers was a bit too tight in terms of variance, and it’s a total pc killer. It also has a couple oddities that were simplified in the second print.

One of my favorite mechanics is proficiency checks. They are graded I to IV, and You roll 1d20 for each grade you have and keep the highest roll. Non-proficient checks roll 2d20 and keep the lowest. Keeping the 1-20 range reduces target number creep and bonus bloat.

I’ll send you PDFs. If anyone else wants them, let me know.

All that said, this is my magnum opus:

http://www.yeoldegamingcompanye.com/pdfs/TCRPGOE.pdf

http://www.yeoldegamingcompanye.com/pdfs/UCRAP.pdf

You got your wish. Bloomberg shit the bed.

I expect that Volvo driver was texting to execute such a blasé crash.

I'm not flying in one, no matter what the FAA or Boeing says. FOD aside, no one would design a plane like the 737 Max from scratch.

I was saying to my wife yesterday that Bloomberg is probably Boomer racist. It's that old fashion racism that isn't racism in your mind because you don't use racist slurs. My grandpa tossed racist slurs around casually, and his kids made real progress by not doing the same. However, racism is not simply a choice, it is an understanding that changes your thinking. I don't think that all of my grandfather's kids have succeeded in that understanding. I suspect that Bloomberg is racist in that manner. There's also some evidence to suggest that he is a misogynist too.

I also hope that he performs poorly.

TBH Sanders not releasing his full medical records is BS. He promised to do so, and he had a heart attack. It's quite possible he has CHF. Everyone would demand the same of an opposition candidate.

Yeah, I'd be interested to know if you can reproduce it. Thanks!

I used to crochet about 20 years ago. I still have some scarves.

I miss gaming. I created the Wayfarers rpg in 2008, and released a second edition in 2012. The second edition was distributed by Mongoose Publishing, who never paid me. In free time I used to work on the third and final edition.

I'll finish it someday, but I don't have that kind of time atm.

I want to start gaming again too. There isn't anything like a good tabletop rpg session.

Good luck! Same industry?

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The Dem debate ought to be fun tonight. High stakes and Bloomberg debut.

Why did ‘select all’ become so difficult on the iPhone?

Oh, taxes? Well, yeah then. That's fucking bullshit. We need a progressive marginal tax on all income.

You are judging this accident from such a human perspective rather than seeing it from an engineering problem.

Actually, I think it's so difficult because self-driving cars is an engineering problem rather than a human one. It's like ironing and folding clothes. Looks really simple, but insanely difficult to build a computer to do it, because the domain is one that our brain is well-suited for, but computers are not.

If we see a squirrel add numbers, we see intelligence; but we are not much impressed with a computer adding numbers. If we see a computer dashing among the treetops we see intelligence; but we are not much impressed with a squirrel dashing among the treetops.

Self-driving cars are imitating human driving, and the imitation is hitting diminishing returns because computers are ill-adapted for the domain. We'd probably get more ROI changing the roads (the domain) at this point.

TBH that's actually how it used to work. In that sense, maybe your parents and theirs aren't lying. The ground moved beneath them, however. Banks were never in the business of lending to poor people. Banks lend to people that have money and have a plan to make more money. The more money you have, the easier it is to borrow it.

The current problem isn't the result of banks lending to rich people. If that were the case, we'd have been fucked from the get go. The current problem has to do with what the rich people are doing with the loans these days. The plans that rich people use to have involved building, hiring, and selling products. Now their plans are largely relegated to financial machinations which offered more for less.

The problem that HSBC is having, is that this has been going on for quite some time, and the longer you sell today for tomorrow, the smaller the returns. Now these returns are getting so bad, that they are now reaching parity with the costs of borrowing, as small as they are. Plan B is to pay rich people to borrow the money, but evidence suggests that they'll just use that money to sell today again. Plan C is probably going to be worse.

The rich people haven't changed, but the rules of the game they are playing have. The problem is structural. It looks and feels social, but it's structural. Banks used to give rich people more money, and they used to make more jobs. Now they don't.

Tom Steyer is winning Nevada apparently.

https://www.pointblankpolitical.com/nv-democratic-caucus-2020/

The math is not good. The chances of asymptomatic people from this ship spreading it on flights or elsewhere are high.

If the R0 is really something like 4 or more, then it would be difficult to fly and not transmit it. The Diamond Princess is a pretty good experiment for casual contact transmission.

I’m getting weird breaks on some comments, but having difficulty reproducing consistently. Is this happening to everyone else?

Let me know if Tim Apple is down.

Shelves are done.

I started in on a new painting last night. This one is for my wife. It's the first time I'm painting with oil on canvas, and at 4' x 3' it will be my largest to date.

I got a nice mitre saw for X-mas, so I am going to be making my own frame.

Those 370k Teslas aren’t autonomous, and won’t be any time soon. But that’s not what Elon is selling. My point is that the last 10% isn’t only more difficult, it’s nothing like the first 90%. You could spend incredible effort training the car not to drive under semi trailers, only to treat a trash bag on the wind like a falling boulder. The cars don’t understand the road at all.