PaulCzege

@PaulCzege@dice.camp

Maker of storytelling and roleplaying games. Dad. Herald of checklist NPCs.
Current projects:
Traverser, an RPG about women ex-soldiers in a solarpunk future.
Be With Me, a journaling game about your time on a show like The Bachelor/Bachelorette, finding love.
The Ink That Bleeds, a zine about playing immersive journaling games.

He/Him.

#ttrpg #solarpunk #rpg #parenting #creativity #morningpages #storygames #journaling #gamedesign #fedi22

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PaulCzege, to random

Social media platforms become dead to me when I'm forced to accept I won't find conversations on them. Instagram has been basically dead to me for as long as I've used it. Cohost, Bluesky, Twitter nowadays, and the dice.camp local feed are almost wholly devoid of actual conversations. Sounding off on stuff and hoping for engagement isn't conversational behavior. If it keeps up like this people are going to turn back to in-person socializing. 😱

mekkaokereke, to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Writing a thread on onboarding here, because I don't want to write it in the other place.

Context:
Good engineer onboarding is DEI. Teams that have great onboarding, tend to be more diverse and inclusive. Teams that have poor onboarding, tend to be more homogeneous and less diverse.

That's because poor onboarding makes life harder for junior employees and remote employees. Underrepresented groups benefit disproportionately from remote work options. Junior employees are a more diverse group.

PaulCzege,

@mekkaokereke

PaulCzege, to random

I spent a lot of time in reality yesterday and I'm still not back to normal today.

PaulCzege, to Zines

Tell me about a time you went to a show or event because you saw a handbill!

PaulCzege,

@rivetgeek
$12.50!

PaulCzege, to random

Board games, card games, dice games are compelling because on some level we feel they're training for the challenges of the material world. They give us practice at discernment, pattern recognition, matching, determining if someone is lying, resource management, eking out profit via smart purchasing and arbitrage, etc.

The thing is though, mostly we don't ever get so good at those things that we win at life with them. The people that win at life do it with some combination of ...

PaulCzege,

...luck, privilege, systemic advantages, inherited wealth, and sociopathy. (There are exceptions, like kids from poor villages that get good at chess. But they're the exception.)

So you don't make a TTRPG compelling by basing it on Liar's Dice or some matching game. All you get then is an RPG with an anomalous other game distraction in it. You make a TTRPG compelling by basing it on justice and compassion and honor and human connection — the ways the rest of us collectively win at life.

victorgijsbers, to random
@victorgijsbers@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

A Taco Bell has opened near to my house. These are very rare in the Netherlands, and I've never been to one.

Is it a place where you can eat okay Mexican food? Or is it a Tex-Mex styled McDonald's that should be avoided at all costs?

PaulCzege,

@SJohnRoss @victorgijsbers

Right, it's like calling Doritos with Hormel chili Tex-Mex.

PaulCzege, to books

"Wait, hear me out, then...he draws an Apache helicopter!"

#books

PaulCzege,

"Think of the review blurbs:

'Harold and the Purple Crayon out-Matrixes The Matrix!'

'You Haven't Seen a City Destroyed Like This Since the First Avengers Movie!."

PaulCzege, to random

What a horrendous thing it is to have taken the works of human artists, their drawings and paintings and poems and photos of the human condition, their love for the world and others and true experiences, and turned them into an easy engine for trickery, scams, and lies.

PaulCzege, to random

Among the various stamps I bought last year for mailing The Ink That Bleeds and other game/zines are these Women Cryptographers of World War II ones. I've been using them in combinations with others for ten months and only today noticed the purple letters in the margins of the sheet, and thought, "that has to be a cipher."
And of course it was.
Fun.

Now I wonder how well I can read the little blurry letters on the stamps themselves.

(If you buy a game/zine and want me to use one of these on...

RickiTarr, to random
@RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

This looks like the final clue in an episode of Law and Order: SVU:

PaulCzege,

@RickiTarr
I read a kid-solves-a-crime book as a kid where the crime was poachers who had boots that made deer tracks. The kid figures it out because the tracks aren't positioned like they would be for actual deer.
It's one of a handful of books stuck in my head from childhood with just small details that I've never seen again.

PaulCzege, to random

We're not even voting for candidates for their capacities anymore. It's just pure ideology. Can you imagine a debate between Trump and Biden? There absolutely won't be one. Trump calls his wife Mercedes instead of Melania. He mixes up Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi. Biden mixes up Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel. He mixes up François Mitterrand and Emmanuel Macron.

PaulCzege, to tarot

The danger of a tarot deck is the same as the danger of those thirty-six questions from the New York Times that cause you to fall in love with someone. If you spend time asking and answering the right questions with someone about your lives and how the world works, and you both answer truthfully, you might fall in love. Doesn't matter whether they're sitting across a cafe table from you right now or they drew their answers as a tarot deck forty years ago or more.

#tarot

clive, to random
@clive@saturation.social avatar

Behold Neal Agarwal's new game "Infinite Craft"

You combine materials and an LLM determines what the result will be

I stumbled upon it and soon my whole family was sending each other screenshots of what we'd created

"I somehow produced 'Shakespeare' and then had a blast combining Shakespeare with everything"

Item #7 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter 📬 , free to read and subscribe here here: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-18-infinite-crafting-the-reverse/

PaulCzege,

@clive
My twelve year old kiddo has been playing it non stop for days. He loves getting first discoveries.

He was the first to get The Flandersist by merging Ned Flanders and The Exorcist.

phildini, to fediverse
@phildini@wandering.shop avatar

Who do you follow here on the #fediverse to learn about #tarot ? #astrology? #numerology?

PaulCzege,

@phildini

I like how @Athenalindia thinks about tarot.

PaulCzege, to random

If the economy is not increasing my cashflow faster than it's increasing my rent and the price of groceries, then you can't convince me the economy is doing great.

PaulCzege, to random

""From Aether (Air) and Terra (Earth) [Gaia] [were born] : Dolor (Pain), Dolus (Guile), Ira (Anger), Luctus (Lamentation), Mendacium (Lies), Jusjurandum (Oath), Ultio (Vengeance), Intemperantia (Intemperance), Altercatio (Altercation), Oblivio (Forgetfulness), Socordia (Sloth), Timor (Fear), Superbia (Pride), Incestum (Incest), Pugna (Combat)." - Pseudo-Hyginus, C2nd A.D.

So many classical gods relevant to our times and writers only ever use twenty or so we all know. Like, tell me Mendacium...

PaulCzege, to random

The devil in my ear says, "If you were actually a good writer you'd be looking at a lot less work and pain to make this first draft publishable, but you're not, so you deserve what you're in for."

Aphelion, to poetry
@Aphelion@mastodon.sdf.org avatar

Unearth me
Slowly,
Pull me
Whole and
Gently from
The eon
Soaked
Horizons.

#Poetry

PaulCzege,

@Aphelion
I really like how your poetry isn't just your thoughts and emotions and ideas, but such a full bodily expression of yourself.

PaulCzege, to random

In all the times I've made penne I've never had them stand up at the end before.

PaulCzege, to random

I am wishing a horrible fate upon the sadistic engineer who made the removed tuna can lid the exact same size to get lodged tight in the kitchen sink drain.

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

A lot of people that claim that MLK jr was somehow loved by all and better than today's civil rights leaders, are just lying.

A lot of people claiming that "Black Lives Matter" or "Defund the Police" are bad marketing, and that they would support these movements if they were named something better like "Non-violent march," are just lying. It's not the phrase that these people object to. It's the underlying principle. They do not accept that current US policing is a negative on reducing crime.

PaulCzege,

@dancast @continuity0 @JizzelEtBass @mekkaokereke
That was how it was for me in all-white high school in Michigan. The textbook was current within a couple of years, but we ran out of time around the end of WW2.

PaulCzege,

@dancast @continuity0 @JizzelEtBass @mekkaokereke

I was kind of blown away by my son's third grade social studies that I saw first hand during pandemic remote learning. I expected it to be like my experience, about voting, and the branches of government, Benjamin Franklin, etc. They did a whole unit about Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez 😯

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