loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Or it's now, and you're an adult millennial doing brand mascot based nostalgia for the 1980's but some modern stuff gets mixed in and you live the horror of Internalizing things like Flo and the British Gecko. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Bureau. I always cram an extra e or a or both somewhere in the front. 020
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Educational materials are key: docs.google.com/presentation...docs.google.comSWAG LIKE OHIO 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Look I am sure someone would say it's because we're all God Has A Plan For Us psychos but as a Braves fan who saw us down 1-0 and thought "ah, well, our hitting hasn't been great but we're in this" I would like to counsel / console my Philadelphian brethren. They're too doomer. It's okay! Have hope! 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026youtu.be/VCC_DHc0P7Y?...youtu.be1-800-EAT-SHITYouTube video by Rickshaw Billie's Burger Patrol - Topic 011
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Renaming my Bluesky app to "this MF said gif economy" 011
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I guess none of it made it into my morning Claude briefing. Try to convey more machine interpretable info next time. Thanks, big dawg!" 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026So the monkeys are gif economy contractors? This checks out! 120
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It was the best possible answer to "what is a Magic Man at the end of his redemption?" Just what he was before, not Magic. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026I think often of the old cartoon character Magic Man who torments people saying it will stop when they have learned their lesson, and when they ask what the lesson is he says "how big of a jerk I am." 110
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is where me calling it a "balancer" really fails it-it tunes things to my expected deadliness / the narrative, including for players who would be big "combat is a fail state" sign tappers. My argument is even GMs who tap this sign have a deadliness expectation, mine is just more mathematical. 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"Difficulty is the players' problem to solve" is my charitable summary. At the risk of generalizing about attitudes in the OSR sphere, I kind of expected that response. But I run some of my games at a public meetup intended to be new to hobby friendly, so I have different goals than many OSR GMs 120
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Doing a lot with Cairn, where numeric outcomes seem less dice based, and made myself a primitive scenario balancer, and just the process of making it helped me tune my probabilities closer to expected experiences in all my games Also my OSR group chat said I violated OSR principals with "balance" 120
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Thank you, this is very helpful to know as someone who has spent more time learning about weird probability wrinkles from their game players than explaining the basics to them. Also wondering if my recent use of more systems with less public high-stakes dice rolls is shielding me from this a bit. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026This might be the opposite of what you wanted as a response to posting it, but: what in particular drives you mad? Genuinely curious because I have extremely narrow band exposure (my own TTRPG games which often have very high probability literacy) but am making modules I want to share more widely. 0280
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Every couple years I remember Vontaze Burfict and shake my head 030
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Harry Styles? What's next, Shaved Fashions? Give me a break!!! 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026He is the perfect model of the Unfortunately Ideal Service Business Accounts Person: nobody should want to even be seen associating with them but they keep getting you out to drinks and somehow sneak onto your wedding guest list and they're everyone's favorite guy there. 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I can only credit my sister the AAU national champion and D1 college basketball player with my own deep rationality here. Being related to a woman who would absolutely torch the average NYC afterwork pickup game is a hard lesson to not pick up on. 110
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I had the weird experience of not even internalizing the identity and COVID layers because I saw my worst experience trying to address any community concern about a "third space" aggregated and amplified 10x. 110
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026There is the small group of people who can be appeased in a business setting by showing that you know their little preferences but this to me is worse and when I see someone ceremoniously brought Their Little Thing The Precious Way They Like It at the outset of a meeting, I brace myself. 050
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Back when I roasted my own coffee I learned really fast not to divulge this even when directly asked about hobbies. People either increased their estimation of the probability that I was annoying, or were excited and immediately revealed themselves as annoying. 0120
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 24/09/2026AI is kind of like a reverse Neon Genesis Evangelion in that older people are desperately thrusting themselves into machines that are destroying them, for no urgent reason, and younger people are yelling at them not to. 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Hey, it's really hard after making 4x the average American's lifetime earnings in 3/4th the working years, to drive a golf cart around a private high school part time because you decided you'd only use your pension for the Caribbean timeshare, and you still have payments to make on the SVT Raptor. 0130
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I find myself becoming more like the Parson's Puppeteer aliens from Ringworld as time goes on, opting out of super low probability but terrible impact for low return risks. Wanna see the cool machines in my machine shop? Actually no seems like people are working, don't want a 0.005% beheading event 030
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I don't think "finding common ground" with Republicans is a worthwhile enterprise but if you're going to try anyway, at least take a long look at how Tyler Cowen wrote tons of bad stuff about cops to a conservative audience for a long time. 001
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026One thing I have found a surprising amount of even pro cop people will casually discuss, with some clear consternation that it happens, is cops who on paper do 3000 hours of some kind of work a year while also catching plenty of naps in the cruiser. 1450
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026If you are developing a New Admired Person, I think it helps to go ahead and assume they have had or will have one Pretty Bad But Not Irredeemable Plot Arc. It's healthy for expectations. Let a great researcher be kind of the bad guy in a small, silly very local politics squabble or whatever. 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This reminded me of the David Cross Rickey Henderson leaves an answering machine message for Rickey Henderson bit 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm glad you thought of this in time to get us two shots at Al Jolson in a Diaper before the next election. 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Death metal cover band called Job For a Femboy 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Sometimes I see people say "I don't even know that is and I don't want to understand it" when they do understand it and think it sucks, and it's frustrating and bewildering to me. Denouncing something is so much stronger than vaguely insinuating it's nonsense with a shrug and an "I dunno" thrown in 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Now we need the equally excellent post about how the ideal number of non-scammer and non-bot accounts that get hit with countermeasures aimed at those is also not 0, unfortunate as it may be. 050
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026I am eternally chugging a water bottle I overfilled right before I have to throw it in a bin while someone probably is accidentally bringing the full kit needed to Do A Bad Thing in front of me. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I once worked at a company that offered a debit / credit card hybrid to an extent I didn't think was legal, and they explained it wasn't law that held anything back, it was that nobody before ever wanted to redo the foundational COBOL and machine language stuff needed to build it. Legacy systems! 150
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026(clearly surprising myself by saying the words) Let him Mackle... 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 15/09/2026MUD ASCII art and wild text color scheme magic items on a 74" curved monitor with DLSS enabled 021
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was my favorite but I can see how it doesn't make a Platonic Pizza New Haven Style top 3. But that's why I liked it most, maybe? All the NYC pizza I ate, I could appreciate a whole "this is THE center heat coal over originator" pitch but also ate more No Legacy Modernist Pizza in my time there. 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026You're right, it was Bar I was thinking of, which others in this thread have thrown into contention. 120
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I loved playing it at launch but I mean, yeah, that Marathon player base doom loop kicked in a long time ago. Most can't just go pick the game back up after a while off at this point, I tried-forget muscle memory, I don't remember all 34 button locations for the back door into Pinwheel! Sorry! 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Is Modern the place that has the shockingly good mashed potato topped pizza? It's been a while since I have been to New Haven. If it is, or whatever place does that, it's a great second stop if you have time and stomach for it. 110
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 12/09/2026That's the other benefit to this kind of familial car approaches, a guy I went to high school with drove an 80's diesel Mercedes that was sick as hell and could still be toodling around somewhere right now for all I know. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I know a whole family clan unit that deploys a car strategy of buying a BMW every 12 years because it has built into basically a miniature fleet of still-running cars so any given nephew or whoever can have a 1990's 3 series or something as a learn to drive car. 110
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Knife blind TSA is real. I got a large hunting knife as a gift for being in a wedding (IDK man) and put it in a backpack's obscure pocket and forgot it. Started using that backpack as my main carry on for YEARS before a guy in LAX finally pulled my bag and showed me the huge knife I forgot about. 2621
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I have this same itch and following guys like Colan Neese and also some indie studio / publisher heads has helped me start to wrap my mind around the even weirder than I thought world of marketing your steam game. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Me in on deck circle: When you're sliding into first, diarrhea cha Cha Cha lol MLB umpire imagining genocides without number: Fix your cap on straight, race traitor 000
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And in the intermediate 70's / 80's zone you have all the great ones like: "The detectives had completely given up-they had no solid leads. But then something incredible happened. Over the next two months, dozens of people in the area called in to report an armed man threatening to 'kill again.'" 140
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 09/09/2026A critical part of coming into a long-running tabletop RPG game with a new character is helping existing players understand your character, its probable dynamics within the group, and how much they're going to hate it. 010
loudandboring @loudandboring.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Awareness of Shirley Franklin among Democrat Mayors Who Do Real Things likers is far too low IMHO, my bias being I am from and now again live in Atlanta 000
