If you've been going down youtube rabbit holes, spending time on social media, or have family who do, you might have a video similar to the below come to your attention: Of course, at the end, the video exhorts us to have more awareness of our connection to nature. It's part of a general leftist trend of looking at the changes quarantines and "social distancing" hath wrought, and drawing the wrong lessons from it. When I had this passed to me, it was with a "why can't it be like this…
Things were actually slower this week, and next week, excepting a job that I'd have to get on a lift for an on-site mount, is going to be an opportunity to get some longer-term projects knocked out after catching a breather. That also means being able to catch some time with the gang other than the usual Saturday session. In the meantime, I discovered that Floor Jansen, the most recent and, in my opinion, best singer of the three who've fronted Nightwish as female vocalists, had appeared on a…
I've decided to ditch Angular for now. On the advice of a friend, I took a look at Vue.js. No, it's not "batteries included." When it comes time to wire up node.js for the backend, and connecting to mongoDB there will be more to learn, but here's the thing. I'm comfortable doing that for the backend, whereas the learning curve for angular to get the simplest things done was getting exceedingly steep in terms of all the different pieces that needed to be touched for every little thing.…
For those of you who have used Roll20 to play online with friends, but don't do more than a quick "/roll d20" and you want to try out 1st edition AD&D, method three presents a challenge. Roll each stat in order. Roll 3d6 for each stat. Six times. Pick the best. Go to the next stat. To make this easy, you can use the following: /roll {3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6,3d6}kh1 This translates to "roll six sets of 3d6, keep the highest one"…
Alexandru Constantin notes that not only is much of modern fantasy shallow in substance, but it also posesses no depth of style [https://barbarianbookclub.com/2020/03/26/its-all-about-style/comment-page-1/], rendering it almost unreadable. > Most of all, all three of the books had pedestrian writing that lacked any hint of style. The prose felt like early young adult, middle school grade, nothing fancier than early Animorphs, and the plot and characters felt stolen from a overwritten D&D modul…