Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 22/09/2026Been reading up on resources for how you might get a basic dialogue generator for a game in place that works more broadly than just templates, and I found out there's an ISO standard for Dialogue. www.iso.org/standard/764... 000
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 18/09/2026I laughed way too hard at this. I'm finally in a better place and could totally see me doing this. 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 18/09/2026I thought Warframe was just another weird sci-fi techy robot looter shooter that was not worth reading about. This is the best endorsement of it I've ever heard! 110
Reposted by ErinDavid Revoy @davidrevoy.com · 01/04/2026Rubber Ducking #webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater 623154
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 09/09/2026The horror of creating a simulation of human needs and behaviors and how they meet those, only to realize that I am also a human who cannot escape those and thus must meet them. 😭 000
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 07/09/2026I do hold the general sentiment that every day life needs more whimsey, but, uh, that is an experience. 130
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 01/09/2026I'm making a bunch of noise looking at this, whether it's crying or laughing depends on the second. Too real! 010
Reposted by ErinAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Timeless humour! A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to: “I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂 Dated circa 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was recovered in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA #Archaeology 181013324
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 09/08/2026I like to have a little lemon for drinks around, but I can never consume it fast enough before it goes bad. I stumbled across True Lemon, and wow am I impressed with these little packets. Delightful little lemon powder you just throw in your drink or rehydrate and use! 000
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 01/08/2026I feel like your fortification series kind of addresses this, along with the baggage train posts, but if I try to imagine what a soldier carried in the march as a manifest to requisition, I'm vague on the production and equipment list. What if I had a battalion designer in a Rome mod of HOI4? 130
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 01/08/2026Troop types, carried both martial equipment, and just marching equipment. I believe you've talked about portable grain mills before, I assume those were managed above the level of the individual. Same with things like a tent. Or else stuff that was part of the baggage train, camp followers, etc. 130
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 01/08/2026I think especially comparing it to modern militaries would really drive home the point of just how different forces operate today even with infantry compared to the past. 000
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 01/08/2026@bretdevereaux.bsky.social something I'd love covered in your worldbuilder series is basically a Table of Organization and Equipment for forces in your scope. You've talked before about it across multiple articles in the abstract and conceptual, but even a guess would make it more concrete. 230
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 30/07/2026I feel like this just unlocked something for me. Now instead of just knowing I can't do as well as I want at the craft I'm trying to achieve, I'm just improving myself. The poor results are just artifacts of my improvement. 040
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 09/07/2026This is so cute 😁 I'm not sure the doctor on the right is going to cure me, but I'm going to die happy. 😂 000
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 09/07/2026I came across your Knight and King piece and loved it so much! Such beautiful yearning. 💖 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 25/06/2026This and a better representation of the principal-agent problem would go a long way towards making strategy games feel unique in how they handle different nations. Why the Roman state would be so much harder to collapse than a Hellenistic king, why their ally system was so effective. 020
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 25/06/2026@bretdevereaux.bsky.social This may be beyond your world builder series, but acoup.blog/2026/06/19/c... made me consider how you model societal capacity? I feel like games maybe capture this as mana rather than as a deeper system of engaging a population, much like recruiting being glossed over.acoup.blogCollections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and ProfessionalsThis is the second half of the second part (I, IIa, IIb) of our honestly-who-knows-how-many part series laying out some general guidelines for how pre-modern armies are recruited, raised, equipped … 100
Reposted by Erin"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 13/06/2026My country is not for cowards who fear difference, for lily-livered people who cannot bear the sound of a foreign tongue, the taste of a new food, the tempo of an unfamiliar kind of music. It is for the strong worker who welcomes new immigrants, not the slacker who fears the diligence of others. 434952
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 09/06/2026Thanks for sharing this! Even though I've pivoted to software development I'm still a data gal at heart. 110
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 28/05/2026Why is there no tower defense game called Scope Creep? Am I going to have to make this joke game myself? 000
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 27/05/2026This makes me laugh so much every single time I see it. I think this might be my favorite upbeat comic of yours. Probably my all time favorite is the few I send to people to explain dysphoria. Thank you for having such a big impact on my life and helping me understand myself in my journey. 030
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 24/05/2026@bretdevereaux.bsky.social Reading acoup.blog/2026/05/22/c... you use weight class frequently to differentiate troops. Would there be a meaningful difference between weapon types as well? Is weight the big one per unit?acoup.blogCollections: Raising Carthaginian Armies, Part V: How a Carthaginian Army FightsThis is the fifth and last part of our series (I, II, III, IV, V) looking at how Carthaginian armies were raised and constituted. Over the last four parts, we’ve looked at the larger componen… 080
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 23/05/2026With the recent update I decided to revisit Victoria 3, and I think one of my biggest frustrations with it is that there's so much more depth to the game than I interact with. As a middling bureaucrat simulator, this is good, but as a player of a game, I want richer context for decision making. 020
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 15/05/2026I have never cared for companions in a Bethesda game, but for some reason I always rushed to get Veronica and spent a lot of time trying to find me... uh I mean, her the bestest dress. 020
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 07/05/2026Which to be clear I know you didn't write, just saw a shout out to your work in it. 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 07/05/2026Die Hards and those who just discovered Venus Envy and really could have used that when it was new. Purchased! 210
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 29/04/2026I have other criticisms of Disney, but I do appreciate that they released a few Songs in Sign Language that re-does some more modern songs in American Sign Language. 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 28/04/2026😳 I think I have to call in to work that I'm too gay to weave/code today. 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 28/04/2026A very insightful read into comorbidity for the neurospicy. 020
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 05/04/2026The idea of ditching Windows when it can run both my games and my nix development isn't something I'd ever would have thought of. But when I'm writing security policy to defend against Copilot, maybe I'm done with Microsoft. 000
Reposted by ErinJenn Rostowsky🌸(Hiatus) @jennrostowsky.bsky.social · 12/03/2025Ira is currently living my everyday experience. 428269
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 30/10/2025That will have forever set the bar for me for immersion thanks to the audio and mechanics of that longer gun meaning your reactions were just a little less twitchy. 001
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 30/10/2025The Agroprom Tunnels in the original STALKER. I was so engrossed and scared going in when the graphics felt immersive and I'd just gotten surround sound headphones. Part way through I paused before entering a hallway because I was too scared to go in and just sat in my chair willing myself. 110
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 25/10/2025I'm excited for my third year of @roguelike.club Celebration and learning about game development challenges and techniques at www.roguelike.club .roguelike.clubRoguelike Celebration 020
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 08/09/2025I'm starting to think Cloudward, Ho! from @dimension20.bsky.social is just a recreation of a @magic.wizards.com game. 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 06/09/2025Happy Birthday Kayla! Unfortunately I'm not much of an artist, but I can say your work has meant a lot to me as I've figured myself out. I hope knowing that difference you've made in my life brings you a smile this day. 💖 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 20/08/2025I always appreciate the weird little human touches like this in art, but probably not as an everyday bowl to use. Do you think the folks from Jarburg would look at this like an ancestor? 010
Erin @einkleindatagal.com · 16/08/2025Now I'm laughing to myself as I think of the click bait headline: One secret your limbic system doesn't want you to know! 😂 I love these kinds of facts about how our bodies work. 010
Reposted by ErinSB Torchic @speedboosttorchic.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Dad's an old timer. He doesn't really understand all this stuff about gender and pronouns. But he knows enough to know he doesn't have to. His kid is safe and happy. The rest is just extra. #Pokemon #fanart #nidorina #nidoking #trans #transmasc 342289803
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![The photo by Juan Jose Fuldain for MOLA shows four images of the same Roman iron stylus (pen) one below the other, with knib to the left. The stylus is octagonal in shape, with a dot-punched inscription along its length on four alternate sides. The stylus is 132 mm long and 5 mm thick, and the letters are circa 2 mm high. The four images of the pen show the four lines of inscribed text (highlighted) which read:
'ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf (e)ro acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna darlelt quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus'
Translated as
I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.'
This inscription is generally interpreted by scholars as a humorous, tongue-in-cheek acknowledgment by the giver of the cheapness of the gift.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:j56ydp325adovobhwpkzc6sp/bafkreiflmumn37zldrqn4gepyqs55kamhvatkkpepk5tq56rqq4pssxb64)
