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rivetgeek

@rivetgeek@dice.camp

Old school commie fiction first story gamer swine
Elderly rivethead
Senior SQL Server DBA
Tribes in the Dark Lead Designer
(He/Him)

#ttrpg #storygames #CortexPrime #TalesOfXadia #TribesInTheDark #FitD #FateRPG

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montecook, to random
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Pro Tip: If you're going to make a book, game, or any kind of product, the bare minimum you should do is a Google search for the name to make sure there isn't already a product called that. It doesn't necessarily mean you can't also have that name (if it's not TMed) but you should at least be aware of possible issues. (And really, this is so basic it doesn't seem like it's even a tip for pros)

rivetgeek,
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@montecook cf the Tribe 8 rpg. We tried to tell them when they revealed the name that it was the name of a dyke punk band—and that name was an alliteration to scissoring—but at that point, it was too late to change it.

rivetgeek, to CSS
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So freaking annoying. Somewhere along the way, a reminder box showing what playbooks to type in stopped working. I couldn't get it to work again without breaking things I had added (it's important to know I don't know what I'm doing exactly). So I got the bright idea of making it a clickable icon that reveals it, like the sheet settings. The hiding and showing part works but I can't get the text actually appear (again, I don't know what I'm doing).

[

](https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/111/104/217/260/367/634/original/48ce8ef4c0f0c468.png)
.sheet-header .sheet-text { color: black; text-align: justify; padding: 3px 0 2px; line-height: 13px; }
.sheet-playbook .sheet-reminder { position: absolute; border: 1px solid ; background: white; top: 48px; z-index: 3; border-radius: 5px; width: 267px; font-size: 12px; text-align: center; padding: 3px; }

rivetgeek,
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It might be relevant that the data-i18n thing is a Roll20 thing. Since it's running within their character sheet container or whatever there are limitations on what can be done with .css/HTML/Javascript. But this seems like something very straightforward.

rivetgeek,
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@carpedavid Those are there. This something whacky. I might whack at it in the console until I find something that appears.

image/png

rivetgeek,
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@carpedavid I did it. It's not perfect but I can tweak from there:

<div class="setting-char label">  
<label>  
<span class="top-holder" data-i18n="autofill_reminder_playbook"> </span><br /><span class="top-holder" data-i18n="list_playbooks"></span>  
</label  
</div>  
</div>```
rivetgeek,
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Ta-daaaah!

joegkushner, to random
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rivetgeek,
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@joegkushner Me everyday

signalstation, to random
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One of the internet's most beloved US governmental agencies, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), who baffled people with their social media posts incorporating silly collaged animals and the like, have dropped an album of bangers called "We're Safety Now Haven't We: Volume 1".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gozH72CON5s

rivetgeek,
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@signalstation This is pretty amazing tbh.

hishgraphics, to random
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What's scarier than Amos Burton in space?

Armoured Amos Burton in space.

rivetgeek,
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@hishgraphics

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rivetgeek, to animals
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We are not amused.

#CatsOfMastodon

rivetgeek, (edited ) to random
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I guess I have some catching up to do.

A Song That Makes Me Feel Like I'm on a Music Video: Take on Me - A-ha

A Song You'd Cry to in the Shower: Nova - VNV Nation

A Song For Hanging Out With Friends: *Groovy Train *- The Farm

A Song That Gives You Inspiration: *Warning Call *- CHVRCHES

A Song That Isn't In My Usual Genre -
"Fire For You" - Cannons

A Song That Makes You Miss Someone: Sometime Around Midnight - The Airborne Toxic Event

#31DaySongChallenge

rivetgeek, to random
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My son got an electronic drum set for his birthday. It doesn't have a speaker so for now he needs to plug in headphones to hear it. My wife said we should get a speaker or a monitor for it.

Me:

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valthonis, to random
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Looking back at how mostly-read-only reflective optical media kinda interposed themselves between the rewritable cassette tape past and the rewritable flash storage future, it really feels like a technological anomaly rather than the huge innovation it was touted as in the 90s and 00s.

rivetgeek,
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@valthonis They were so prevalent. Unlike cassettes, we had hundreds of the damn things. We'd buy spindles and spindles of them. Now I don't own a single one. If I need portable storage I have a few assorted thumb drives in my desk drawer.

JoshuaACNewman, to random
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Electronics Guys: Be sure to take into account the internal resistance of your batteries!

Me: Is there an empirical chart? Because you can't measure that with a multimeter.

Electronics Guys: It's important!

rivetgeek,
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@JoshuaACNewman

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SwiftOnSecurity, to random

A firm with an 8,000 employee building moves 200 computers every week.
https://reddit.com/r/sysadmin/s/4jBmSObqwA

rivetgeek,
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@SwiftOnSecurity

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UncivilizedDan, to random
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... just got off a call with the head of IT Security for a client. Not a small client, either. Main Security guy, head of Security, in charge of all IT Security initiatives, that guy.

I just explained the concept of a timestamp server irt code-signing certificates (the code-signing certificates that this guy is, indeed, spearheading the deployment of in the enterprise).

First time he'd ever heard of the concept. Just a mind-blowing concept to him.

JFC

rivetgeek,
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@UncivilizedDan I once had a call with the head of IT for a school district (in FL, natch). They had no idea what an FTP server was. At the same time, I guess they were really good at filling out funding proposals and whatnot and had bunch of server hardware sitting in the district warehouse that they had no idea or plan for what to do with it.

foone, to random
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wow, this is not a problem I run into that often: the game I want to reverse engineer is, in fact, easy to dig into, with lots of easily decompiled classes!

except I can't read any of them, because they're named in Finnish.

class HuoneenNroPaivitysScripti
class KakkosTalonTapahtumat
class MrspookKontrlScript

rivetgeek,
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@foone I once administered SQL Server databases for an app that was originally written in Swedish. So it had gems like Slutdatum, Slutid, and Programkanal.

rdonoghue, to random
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Power outage. Can’t check the BGE site because the outage tracker requires your account number or the associated phone number, neither of which I am going to find in an abruptly dark house.

Good thing it’s not anything important.

rivetgeek,
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@rdonoghue The last two times we've lost power, one was a car running into the substation around the corner and the other one was somebody shooting at another substation. And to think one of the reasons we were happy to move to WA is because of PG&E in CA shutting off the power during wildfire season.

_L1vY_, to random
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WTF, gas station

#Covid19

rivetgeek,
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@_L1vY_ We had a few of those on the Central Coast CA. Big time rural area, much MAGA.

rivetgeek, to random
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My dream VTT would allow uploading PDFs (or images) of sheets and allow defining the fields to be filled in, assigning them to die rolls, etc. Why has nobody done this yet?

#VTT #TTRPG

rivetgeek,
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For reference, I used to work for an educational testing company. We allowed for teachers to design their own assessments. They could upload existing paper tests and define the fields for when the tests were scanned and OCR'd. So I know it can be done (obviously a VTT doesn't need the OCR part, I'm talking about the field definitions).

clarkvalentine, to random
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Lord, I don't know what I would have done when Amanda got sick (and endured several surgeries + chemo etc.) if I wasn't working from home.

"Oh, see? You weren't working! You should have claimed family sick time for all those days!"

No, you don't get it. I burned all my family sick leave almost immediately and went to using vacation time for days I need to take her to doctors and hospitals.

con't

rivetgeek,
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@clarkvalentine That's is good news and yeah, WFH is a blessing.

goldenlassogames, to random
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It finally is here!! 🤩 I’m probably going to be wearing this all weekend.

FYI, if you pick up a copy of Decuma it now comes with a sticker showing it’s a Gold ENnie winner. 🏅

rivetgeek,
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@goldenlassogames Congratulations!

nyrath, (edited ) to random
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Ways for scifi artists to jazz up their combat starship art.

Military Insignia: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/symbols.php#id--Military_Insignia

Heraldry: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacesuits.php#heraldry

Dazzle camouflage: https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/spacewardefense.php#cammo

#AtomicRockets #SpaceShip #SciFiArt #CombatStarship

rivetgeek,
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@notasnark @nyrath @cwwilkie Wouldn't even just the variation between light and dark portions change the IR signature? Or would it not be enough to matter?

majordopolis, to random
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This small carving of a water bird was created 33,000 years ago. Sculpted in mammoth ivory, it was found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany in 2002 and it's the earliest known representation of a bird.

rivetgeek,
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@bombadillo @majordopolis Tool marks most likely.

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