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@nolandda.bsky.social
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I like indie TTRPGs. I work on computer stuff. Maybe some philosophy, empiricism, history, cocktails, or linguistics as a treat.

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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Spotted lanternflies (lycorma delicatula)
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yay! Games on Demand!
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Fun game. Thanks for the playtest.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If I were tasked with engineering a solar collector that could withstand 60 mph (~100 kph) winds it would not occur to me to invent the tree, but they are manifestly quite good at it.
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James Wallis @jameswallis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Quick, can you name an RPG that got nominated for two Origins Awards: Best New RPG and Best Family/Party Game? It's The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, and right now it's Deal of the Day at DriveThruRPG, where you can grab it for under $5! www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Yep agreed "Risk". MD flag represent. www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-...
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
A photo of D&D co-designer Gary Gygax sitting at a table with some polyhedral dice and books looking derpy.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sent you a PM for location privacy reasons.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
@csecooney.bsky.social is there anything you can tell us about the "August 15th-18th—Washington D.C. and Baltimore Negocios Events TBA" on the Infernal Tour? I've been out of town. Have I missed them?
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Jim Lippard @lippard.org · 10/08/2026
Congratulations to Microsoft for sweeping the "Lamest Vendor Response" category! news.risky.biz/risky-bullet...
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Risky Bulletin: Pwnie Awards 2026 winners
In other news: Metabase zero-day used in data theft attacks; Russian hackers disrupted a second power plant in Poland; two US law firms pay mega ransoms.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Had a great time playing a weirdo in an alchemical vest trying to kill death. Thanks for running for us.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Oh hey I saw you with this game on the table today! Looked super cool.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Swords without Master and a bowl of weird eidolon trinkets now at Games on Demand (Westin 2nd floor) #TTRPG #GenCon cc: @epidiah.bsky.social
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Time for Games on Demand, the best event at #GenCon. #TTRPG
A table set up to play indie roleplaying games.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Some small insects will experience air as a syrupy fluid they almost swim through when flying. These folks won't experience that at their mass. But even something we call a light breeze could cause them exertion. They may have expressions about having the wind at your back, against the wind, etc.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I would say don't sleep on "air resistance". You have weather which is part of that. But for exactly the same square cubed law reasons small things have a comparatively large surface area exposed to the air compared to both the mass holding them down and the mass providing muscle power.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
@pelgranepress.bsky.social It appears that you have disappeared from the list of Gen Con exhibitors (formerly booth 423). Please tell me this is in error.
Gen Con exhibitor search page showing no results for Pelgrane
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I feel this
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Today is the DEADLINE to volunteer: If you're going to Gen Con this year and have an indie or small press RPG you are passionate about and want to share then Games on Demand would love to have you volunteer as a GM. Click the link below to sign up. #GenCon #TTRPG mailchi.mp/a262226abe9d...
The "Games on Demand at Gen Con" logo featuring simple text on a green background. Two dice are featured in the logo. The "o" in "on" is replaced by a six-sided die that has rolled with a single pip facing up.
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Jason Morningstar @jmstar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The Blue Way crowdfunding campaign is live! It's a cool game, and CMU has added peer review, a curriculum guide, and beautiful art from Sam Araya. Please check it out and spread the word! Thanks! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/c...
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The Blue Way: A Game of Lost Stories
The Blue Way is a game of lost stories, colonialism, and its cultural aftermath from Jason Morningstar and Central Michigan University Press.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Nice. Like the new printable version.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Awesome. My group enjoyed the playtest.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Going to Gen Con? Have an indie or small press RPG you are passionate about and want to share with others? Games on Demand would love to have you volunteer to GM. Click the link below to sign up. #GenCon #TTRPG mailchi.mp/a262226abe9d...
The "Games on Demand at Gen Con" logo featuring simple text on a green background. Two dice are featured in the logo. The "o" in "on" is replaced by a six-sided die that has rolled with a single pip facing up.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Sorry to let the team down, but I only rolled an Iota.
An ancient glass d20 a.k.a. icosahedron lies on a flat white surface. Each sides is labeled with a capital Greek letter.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
SQL seems fairly unobjectionable to me. Just one of those glue technologies a programmer bumps into eventually in their career. Remember to sanitize user inputs before adding them to a command to keep little bobby tables out.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Yay Games on Demand!!
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Probably something inside your countif() is returning a small negative number like -1 or -2 as an error code and when converted to a date where zero is 1900-Jan-1 you get a day or two earlier
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Lars @herrvonspeck.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Rabea Rogge, die erste deutsche Frau im All, hat einfach einen W20 mit rauf genommen. #PNPDE #Spaaace
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
github.com/corkami/coll...
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GitHub - corkami/collisions: Hash collisions and exploitations
Hash collisions and exploitations. Contribute to corkami/collisions development by creating an account on GitHub.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I suppose what I describe is direct written instructions to the facilitating player on how to give direct verbal instructions to the other players.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I don't know where or if this fits in your taxonomy, but the instructional thing I always create for myself is a dumb bulleted outline of "when you get to the table teach the rules in this sensible order and not in the random order your performance anxiety brain remembers the rules in the moment."
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
ed man! ed! Ed is the standard text editor
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm sure you've thought of this, but: strace? Is it hanging on some particular read() / select() ?
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Er maybe it is. Conflicting man pages.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Wait is `-k` a valid opinion?
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Yikes
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Mentioned above, but "This is How You Lose The Time War" is unequivocally the best thing I read in 2025.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Wait what!?!
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Finding fewer now.
Photo of book: GI Joe Roleplaying GamePhoto of book: Diana Warrior PrincessPhoto of book: GURPS: Callahan's Crosstime SaloonPhoto of an RPG book: Zoro the Roleplaying Game
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Becky Annison @beckyannison.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I was today years old when I listened to Hieronymous Bosch's butt music.
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Listen to this nightmarish butt song – painted onto a Renaissance masterpiece
Hieronymus Bosch is famous for his intricate and macabre visions of hell. But have you ever noticed this bizarre ditty, branded onto a poor sinner’s naked backside in his most famous painting?
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
* Lady Blackbird is not a pre-existing character so maybe she doesn't count. * There was a "World of Tank Girl" Masterbook thing I think should count. * And for elaborate subtitles we have "Fritz Leiber's Lankhmar: The New Adventures of Fafhrd and Gray Mouser"
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Deep breath: * Flash Gordon & the Warriors of Mongo * Dr. Who several times starting with The Doctor Who Role Playing Game (1985) * Judge Dredd * Uther/Arthur Pendragon * Prince Valiant * Usagi Yojimbo (more than once I think) * Buffy the Vampire Slayer * Lone Wolf * Bluebeard * Atomic Robo
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Users of RtL writing systems can simply parse 125 in the opposite order as "five and twenty and a hundred" just like we parse 16 as sixteen which is a contraction of "six and ten". I'm sure there are RtL exceptions somewhere, language is diverse, but most significant to the left is almost universal
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Thousandths are smaller than hundredths so I would expect them to go to the right for that reason just as months are smaller than years. Modern Arabic and Hebrew (both RtL writing systems) use the same numerical place order as Europe and the Americas: most significant digit on the left.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Precisely. Years go to the left of months for exactly the same reason that thousands go to the left of hundreds.
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LycanthrEppy @epidiah.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
It's happening! www.kickstarter.com/projects/unw...
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Coming soon: Swords Without Master
A ttrpg of strange sorceries, ferocious deeds, and astounding wonder by Epidiah Ravachol.
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nolandda @nolandda.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
daily.jstor.org/the-hidden-h...
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The Hidden History of Women Game Designers - JSTOR Daily
Nineteenth-century women turned music lessons into interactive entertainment, complete with spinning wheels and ivory counters.
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