Notices by adiwan (adiwan), page 2

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What if school classes were RPG classes in a game? Having a party of students that is composed of a physics student, a foreign language student, a history student and a religion student could be for example a fantasy equivalent of a wizard, a bard, a rogue, and a cleric.

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I bit the bullet and ordered a Sony Xperia 10 VI. I am annoyed that 1) didn't get any cheaper and 2) the successor wasn't released/announced this month and 3) my battery of my Blackberry KeyOne only lasts barely half a day at idle and shuts down when any higher strain on the CPU is below 40% charge. The successor comes probably out at the end of Fall but it is too long to wait any longer.

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I'm digging through the campaign book. It is a slog for a slow reader like me. Additionally there are a lot of parts that make me think hard to solve the riddle on how to implement the written plot in practice as the instructions are very vague at times. Not an insurmountable problem but annoying. Also there are a few parts that could be incompatible with my group.

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I have decided to run "Hoard of the Dragon Queen" as my first campaign. I heard that it's not so good however none of my players have played that. It is definitely easier to DM than to make a campaign from scratch as a beginner. Also the other "good" campaigns some of the players have already played. I wanted to try a campaign in the MTG Theros setting, however my ability to create a large campaign from scratch is a little bit too low for the time I can spare. Also finding appropriate (battle) maps is impossible. I thought people would create more maps with white pillars and Roman/Greek architecture.

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Sad that Andor finished. Glad that it ended well.

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This weekend I bought 400kg (50 tiles at 8kg per tile) worth of concrete tiles and put my greenhouse tent on top of this. My arms are a little bit sore, as well as my back. This tent has place for 7 of my patented bucket solution that holds two tomato plants each with plenty of spare room to walk in the middle. Maybe I put something small there, like for herbs or my jalapenos.

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Bought myself a box again. This time it is a medium-sized wooden box that once contained a slide projector, according to the seller. The lid has a small crack but it has its charm. I have still some tools store. I am not determined yet but I guess it is quite fitting for my rasps and chisels and maybe some of my smaller saws, woodworking stuff in general.

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It is bonkers to me that people give so much authority to the catholic church. If they were doing the right thing the child diddling pieces of Fluffle Puff were in jail and excommunicated.

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I miss the old web in way. Everything nowadays is so filled with unnecessary JavaScript bloat and animations and endless scrolling and overlaying popups that it sucks out all the usefulness of the website while being laggy as it can be.

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Yet again a fantastic round of Andor episodes.

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Digging out tree stumps is hard. Stupid roots. I had to buy a new saw with large teeth to make it rip better through the very wet wood of the roots. The previous owner had cut off three trees and let the stumps behind some bushes and I created some of my own. I really want a greenhouse there some day and these idiots needed to go.

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I've disposed of my jalapeno plants. They were not in good health, floppy leaves and all-around yellowed and had a silvery layer (mildew?) on the leaves. Despite having flowers in bloom and some growing fruit I went to the decision to get rid of them in case they spread mildew to nearby plants.

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Ooof. I'm exhausted after another D&D session being the DM. I had to reshuffle and rework my prepared stuff to make sense with all the content my players have skipped. This time I really tried not to hinder the players with stuff that makes only sense to only me at the time. I tried to avoid hidden mechanics. Anything that only makes sense when knowing all the machinations in the background. If it is not presented to the players or convincingly told to the players it robs them to make an informed decision and thus agency. On the other hand it makes me do more work before the start of the adventure and also between the sessions. Practically I threw out half of what I did months before.

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I've operated an electric chainsaw today for the first time. It went easier than thought. I wanted to use it weeks earlier but the fuse in the electrical box always triggered because the starting current of the motor was too high. I bought a current limiter for this case and now it triggers only half of the time instead of always. The current limiter is just on the limit of the fuse's limit at 16A. At least I can use the chainsaw. Also I have a miter saw that also is kinda trigger-happy, so the bought current limiter is useful for more than the chainsaw.

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Andor is back. It is stunning that they release the series in batches of three episodes at once. An entire movie so to speak. Peak Star Wars.

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I have already used my 4th 1kg spool of PETG filament. I have only two spools of PETG left, one very old and one 1 year old. Already ordered 5 more spools. printing bins for oranization is taking its toll. Still cheaper than buying something off the shelf. I don't have Adam Savage money to buy racks worth of Sortimo cases.

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Who knew that wooden skewers are hard to find. I went to 4 stores and only one had some. I needed a bunch of them for propping up my tomato plants.

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Delving into smaller youtube channels. The sponsor segments are definitely weirder than the ones of the bigger and more established channels. It surely shows the desperation the creators have. A furniture modification/restoration channel that is sponsored by a LED beauty face mask? Questionable meets desperation.

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Today I was the D&D Dungeon Master and my players were skipping half of my content I prepared. Good that I had had enough to get over that without a lot of juggling around. I pushed the first big encounter I have prepared to the place of the second big encounter where they ended up due to excellent planning and circumventing my obstacles. The problem now is to fill out two more sessions with appropriate content.