Michael Newton
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Be the elephant you wish to see in the room.
Christian, husband, dad, coder, trainer, speaker, rpg geek, adhd
I just encountered a website where they have entire paragraphs you're meant to read at a slight tilt, alternating between upwards and downwards slants per block, to make their design a little more "jaunty" by which I mean nauseating and unreadable
We need a council with the ability to revoke CSS privileges
@[email protected] Cowards! If they're not even going to animate the wave motion for actual motion sickness, why even bother?
Michael Newton
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Last week, I worked with a small group of 9-14 year olds to build a game almost, but not totally, unlike space invaders.
It is quite silly. And the week of first time #gamedev was great fun.
If you're looking for a silly and simple #godot project, the code is at code.mavnn.eu/mavnn/michael-...
Summer Invaders
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Michael Newton
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Caught this monarch in a posture that inspired millions of lower back tattoos. Butterflies don’t usually outstretch their wings this way but most of the reference illustrations that come to mind were based on pinned specimens. Which makes sense since they didn’t have high-speed photography at the time, and trying to draw a live butterfly in real-time puts a tremendous strain on the artist’s hands.
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Azure AD B2C has been one of the worst Microsoft products ever. But it worked.
Now it’s being replaced by Microsoft Entra External ID and oh my. I had no idea it could be worse. It’s so much worse! This product is completely broken. 😞
@[email protected] Worse than AD is quite a high bar to jump. I'm (somewhat reluctantly) impressed. And very grateful I have no reason to use either right now.
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LOADS of things impact whether you memorize content in a lab task (mostly attention) that are not the same as capacity to comprehend
@[email protected] Watch 90% of the participants with #adhd be marked as having zero comprehension. My wife was baffled for years that I could relay the content of conversations easily while being completely incapable of repeating the words that were actually said verbatim.
@mavnn Fair. I figure there's always going to be a few random graphic Ts or workout outfits or whatever.
@[email protected] I have nearly a full week of branded corp t-shirts from previous employers that I wouldn't particularly want to wear in public but it feels wasteful to throw away, so... yeah. You're probably safe.
Maybe I should do the tech CEO wardrobe: 14 copies of the same outfit, and wash clothes every 2 weeks.
@[email protected] I think the protip version is having 15 copies so you don't have to stand around stark naked on laundry day. (Or be boring and separate out the PJ wash cycle and only do laundry as overnight washer dryer cycles I suppose)
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My hope is that this article will serve as a single landing-point for folks curious about what I mean by "High-Trust Trad" roleplaying, or HTT.
https://rolltop-indigo.blogspot.com/2026/08/whats-forever-for.html
But, I know about hope, and the Internet. 😁
@[email protected] the mention of combinatorics reminded me to finally post about something: bonfire.mavnn.eu/pub/objects...
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I was teaching some 11-14 year olds to write choice based #interactivefiction this year, and at one point in the course I ask if there are any #ttrpg players (answer: always yes so far).
Then I propose that choice based fiction has a lot in common with with #ttrpg but one huge difference that changes everything for the author/GM: the magic moments in #ttrpg are when the players have their characters solve a problem in a way the GM never thought of, but is perfect for those characters in that game. While the magic in choice games comes when the author offers a choice the player would never have thought of, but is perfect in light of the choices made in this play of this game.
Which means in #ttrpg your role as GM is to encourage the explosion of possibilities, while in choice it is to make all the possibilities special (which requires them to be limited).
Interestingly, they all agreed without hesitation that unexpected in character problem solving was exactly what was magic in #ttrpg compared to #crpg
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@mavnn I mean, some of them deserve to be eaten. 😆
@[email protected] True - I still haven't had a chance to try your tofu suggestion properly, although I have stolen inspiration on prepping tofu pieces.
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@[email protected] Has it started staring back yet? That's normally a sign you have something. Or a warning. Maybe both. If it starts eating the other blog posts, you officially have a problem.
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