peto (he/him)

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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • You are always going to have to adjust your approach to the space you are actually mapping as they are going to have different features you want to highlight. Even with a 3d model you will often want to see from the outside or otherwise generate projections of it rather than use the actual thing. Generally I prefer schematic maps for the most part. I care more about how you move through a space than where precisely things are.

    When I have done more traditional dungeon maps, the best tool I’ve had is using a stack of tracing paper, with multi-level features drawn on each layer they intersect. This is because most built dungeons are going to be built by human-like folk and we go sideways much better than we go up and down. For natural spaces Insuggest you look into the maps cavers draw. They care much more about distance from intersection and rate of descent than precise direction (which is actually hard to get right in caves in any case.)








  • A lot of digital signage runs on windows or a cut down version thereof. If you are already running a Windows office, and larger orgs often do, it means you can leave it in the care of that same tech team. If all you are doing is showing a slideshow you can run it on a cheap mini pc, even multiple screens off of one, but the screen is likely the expensive part.

    No idea about that program. It’s the most generic-ass icon you could have these days. Google thinks it’s a weather app but that AI crap doesn’t know anything. It might even be a web page running in application mode.





  • I use a Dilemma Max (another model by BK) for work and I ended up taking the trackpad off as it just didn’t suit me, and added extra bulk. I went with that over a Charybdis because, aside from the extra bulk, I think it sacrifices too much as a keyboard to make space for the trackball.

    As for price… Welcome to custom keyboards. You can save a chunk getting the kit, though that means sourcing your own switches. The soldering isn’t much hassle though. You can actually source everything yourself if you really want to, though I’m not sure if you’d make much in the way of savings.



  • If it is a standalone (and most x Borg type things are) there is no need to get Mörk Borg itself. It isn’t like it is a core rulebook that others need to build off of. If anything I would say that this family of games is the opposite to that. The books are so much about communicating the vibe of that particular game and the underlying rules are very simple. I’d even say you don’t need to use the game a particular supplement or module is explicitly ‘for’.

    You might get some clashing aesthetics but that isn’t exactly out of place here. Buy the one(s) that looks cool to you, hack at them how you like.

    You’ve played Blades, and FitD/PbtA is probably the closest to the Borg ecosystem out of the games you mentioned. There is no one ‘core rule book’ just different games founded on the same principles.




  • People also underestimate the danger of the flu. The flu kills people every year, and that’s the mild, endemic one. Only reason it doesn’t kill more is that we vaccinate at risk groups and people at high risk of spreading it. People sometimes call other things the flu, but if you get the real thing you know it.

    We’ve avoided several major flu outbreaks because we look for them and take the threat seriously, and frankly, got lucky.

    Influenza in the USA does 2x 9/11s a year.


  • There is generally a battery that powers the clock and keeps it running even when there is no external power to the system normally one of the larger coin shaped ones. It’s non-rechargable as it lasts for a long time. It’s being constantly drained but it’s only the smallest trickle.

    If you can get to the internals you should be able to find and replace it, it’s pretty obvious when you know to look for it. While you are in there you can check for corrosion/damage to the traces and components, give things a dust. The biggest issue is probably going to be an old battery, 20 years ago they were rather primative and though generally more replaceable than modern builds, getting a replacement might be harder.