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@gilarpgs.bsky.social any chance you could make a bundle of most/all of your stuff on itch so I can pick it all up in one go? 😅

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ngp @ngp.computer · 23h

A reputation system with delegated trust anchors can help to some degree. I've already built it, but it's currently replaying all of BlueSky so it's not quite usable yet provenance.ngp.computer/check tangled.org/ngp.computer...

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ngp @ngp.computer · 15/10/2026

There was a point in my career where I think I was the only person at my fortune 500 employer that understood SPNEGO and could configure a Linux webhost to support Windows KRB5/AD based transparent SSO and recursive LDAP queries black magic

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regularbird @regularbird.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The dream of endless baseball is alive in The Majors regularbird.itch.io/the-majors

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The Majors by regularbird

A baseball simulation

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ngp @ngp.computer · 14/10/2026

I have not once regretted building my over specced NAS, in fact, I wish hard drives weren't so expensive so I could have more storage

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ngp @ngp.computer · 14/10/2026

I was writing a document for an auditor and had an LLM clean up some text. It went in and absolutely demolished the intended voice of the document. I had to back out almost every single line because it was intolerable to read. I hate reading LLM generated text so much

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Yochai Gal @yochaigal.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Kettlewright now supports tokens, fog of war, and a whiteboard! Campaigns coming soon.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 12/10/2026

Cinestill 800T is such a nice film stock

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ngp @ngp.computer · 12/10/2026

I wish y'all luck 🫡

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ngp @ngp.computer · 11/10/2026

I presume it's to protect Anthropic staff more than anything.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 09/10/2026

Are there PDFs of those available? I didn't see anything on his itch page

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ngp @ngp.computer · 09/10/2026

I just wish we could break those pesky software ecosystem lockin. I'd really love to be able to back up my iPhone to my NAS instead of paying for iCloud, for example.

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Astronomy 🔭 @astronomy.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

NASA has released onboard video of Artemis II's reentry through Earth's atmosphere 🤩 Top speed: about 25,000 mph

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ngp @ngp.computer · 09/10/2026

Man, I never realized just how strongly I'm affected by the garbage I see scrolling. It's all garbage, but AI doomerism (particularly around SWE) is so draining and depressing

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ngp @ngp.computer · 08/10/2026

I was hoping you get a steam frame for this purpose, but I didn't get picked

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Bailey Townsend 🦀 @pds.dad · 08/10/2026

"The account you already own" seems like a fun tagline for an Atmosphere account?

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ngp @ngp.computer · 08/10/2026

The Launchkey is still a good buy, this isn't really in the same domain

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ngp @ngp.computer · 08/10/2026

Is this in VR or something?

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

There's no way it would happen for most tables. Maybe like "here's a picture book your characters were read when they were 3 that takes 5 minutes to read". Reading novels in the setting helps the DM more than anything, but it's also entertaining because it's not a dry lore dump

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

All this is to say that you should generally leave lore to be built up at the table. Your players probably don't care (unless you're running in LotR setting and your players are nerds about that) and *you* (the DM) would get more enjoyment out of reading a novel in the setting than pages of 'lore'.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

It's so unapologetically impotent as a setting useful to DMs that you would be better off ripping off real Greek myth and history to get a more interesting sandbox.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

... and proceeds to do absolutely nothing with setting up conflict between them outside of two very specific cases (both of which are between humans and non-human factions). All other conflict is relegated to historical 'oppressors' that are no longer in the picture in any meaningful sense.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

Just to call out a specific example, I really like the setting of Theros from WotC. I ran a several months long campaign in the setting. But it was also immensely frustrating to use for anything beyond very small episodic adventures. It goes to great lengths to set up many diverse factions...

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

This is why I find most "setting books" or lore-heavy games to be either poorly made (as is the case for many WotC 5e books) or overly prescriptive (as is the case for most of the Vampire series).

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

My personal preference for preparing lore is to establish broad strokes of the setting, enough to set up values, tones, and key characters for each faction and conflicts between them; leaving details to be improved at the table (and noted in notes for later). Flexibility at the table is nice

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

It's also a lot easier if lore is presented to players via characters. It's bound to be a lot more relevant to whatever is actually going on in the adventure and it feels more natural.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

Just how like the average construction worker probably has little idea who the king of England was 500 years ago, the average adventurer probably isn't going to know who their king was 500 years ago either.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

Now, there *are* some ways to avoid this, such as framing most 'lore' as hearsay, myth. Most of the time player characters aren't academics (though sometimes they are!) and not necessarily well versed in the history of their world beyond 'common tales' (at least in fantasy settings)

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ngp @ngp.computer · 06/10/2026

This is really why I don't like large, comprehensive 'settings': it's sooooo easy to hand-wave something away into a inconsistent corner. I tend to find them more stifling than helpful in most situations

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ngp @ngp.computer · 05/10/2026

I'm just so fucking tired man

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ngp @ngp.computer · 03/10/2026

I want to play a tabletop game that gives the same wacky feeling that Earthbound does

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ngp @ngp.computer · 03/10/2026

God, LLM generated code is still so ass

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ngp @ngp.computer · 03/10/2026

Wow, there was a lot more first party Troika! content than I thought

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ngp @ngp.computer · 29/09/2026

I hate that developers are now a significant enough demographic that warrant large ad budgets

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ngp @ngp.computer · 29/09/2026

I tweaked something in my next again and it's been hurting super bad all day. No idea what I did. I hope it feels better tomorrow because it has been distracting enough that I wasn't able to focus on anything much today :(

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ngp @ngp.computer · 28/09/2026

This is exactly why I ignore like 1/3rd of the rules on Chronicles of Darkness games

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ngp @ngp.computer · 27/09/2026

I guess character progression via item is orthogonal to attributes vs skills, but items can reasonably be taken away/lost in dramatic twists or betrayals while skills... sorta can't?

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ngp @ngp.computer · 27/09/2026

More realistically, I like equipment and magic items being a distinguishing factor in Cairn / Into the Odd and offers a natural narrative justification for 'getting stronger' that doesn't require 'combat as sport' style of encounter design.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 27/09/2026

Both: Chronicles of Darkness

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ngp @ngp.computer · 26/09/2026

As opposed to the more nebulous 'backgrounds' approach, which is sufficient but makes makes it less 'concrete' and has little opportunity to turn it into discrete character progression.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 26/09/2026

As someone who vastly prefers simpler systems, I actually like the Storypath (Chronicles of Darkness) system's character attributes and skills. Mechanically it's still very simple (not that the rest of the system is) but does a good job at making each character feel unique

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Rise Up (From the Grave) Comus @riseupcomus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Factions are such an important part of OSR play because the OSR is full of factions that all hate each other, so we really can really imagine what it's like.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 24/09/2026

That happened to me earlier today, but it ended up being a bug or something and went away.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 23/09/2026

You don't even really need to 'remember' it, the compiler tells you if it can't infer it. I think it would be nice to have everywhere, but I don't feel particularly strongly about it.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 23/09/2026

It *usually* can be inferred though, unless you're exclusively using it in APIs that take in Trait objects

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ngp @ngp.computer · 23/09/2026

tbh I think Rust would benefit from an implicit type name for struct literals basically everywhere. It's hardly magic, type inference is used all over the place anyways.

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ngp @ngp.computer · 21/09/2026

I mean, fair, but there's already a lot of indie/self-publishing out there that does *just* that. I'm not sure I really like the idea of saying "if you aren't already a successful business with a bunch of capital, do less."

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