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jalanhenning

@jalanhenning@dice.camp

GM, blogger. Author of the book Langmaker: Celebrating Conlangs. Editor of Fantastic Worlds. They/them. Fan of: #boardgame #conlang #PbtA #RPG #StarTrek.

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revk, to random
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This is daft.
Even in the universe people age and die.
There is no way in hell any of these four would not restart their life as kids. Especially Guinan, winding back so many years. A few years “discomfort” of being a kid for a whole new life - no brainer.
And no way they would not then have a whole team research that “transporter accident”.

jalanhenning,
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@revk From Fandom: "As Ro was not seen returning to an adult in this episode, the writing staff considered having her choose to remain a child. Jeri Taylor commented, 'Where else but on Star Trek could you do something like that? But it seemed too drastic for us, and we were sort of squelched on that.' (Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion (2nd ed., p. 223))" https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Rascals_(episode)

grimalkina, to random
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I've spent the week reading like 50+ papers on learning to remember what I know about how people learn and this is what I know:

-people are bad at deciding what to learn
-people are bad at studying. We choose the worst ways to study and we hate the most efficient ways
-people give up on learning so much. Like more than anyone believes
-people aren't clear about what their goals really are for learning and if you try to get people to set goals they don't want to
-teachers truly work miracles

jalanhenning,
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@grimalkina Any good surveys we should review?

jalanhenning, to random Esperanto
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I'm reading a book about cavers, and I can't tell you how sorry I am that the word "spelunker" has fallen out of favor.

Spelunker.

jalanhenning,
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@SJohnRoss I didn't get the memo either! Still a Trekkie. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=trekkie&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

jalanhenning, to StarTrek Esperanto
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tlacamazatl, to linguistics
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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/human-language-study-origins-speaking-b2514451.html

@languagelovers

jalanhenning,
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@tlacamazatl @languagelovers “Indeed, future research may be able to tentatively recreate the likely organisation and structure of those first languages.” Great article but this point seems…improbable.

jalanhenning, to boardgames Esperanto
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I played Watergate today for the first time. I lost twice, first playing the Editor, then playing Nixon. But each time I would have won at the next card. Really tense! Captures the energy and tension of Twilight Struggle's gameplay.

jalanhenning, to wordle Esperanto
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The same gameplay of Wordle stems from a BASIC computer game written by Charles Reid of Lexington High School and published by DEC in the 1970s.
https://troypress.com/1973-implementation-of-wordle-was-published-by-dec/ https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112056599859452184 #Wordle

jalanhenning, to boardgames Esperanto
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Monday night we played Ticket to Ride: San Francisco three times. I really enjoy it, but I have played it 5 times now with 2 players and never really been blocked. It lacks tension. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/362541/ticket-ride-san-francisco #boardgames

Ticket to Ride: San Francisco map at end of game

masukomi, to random
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I just remembered that this has been sitting in a cabinet for… a year? A long time anyway.

I’ve been waiting for us to have a gaming table to play it on (because cat), but now we have one and I saw it when grabbing something from that cabinet!

For those who don’t know, #ATMA is an entirely card based RPG. I’m really curious to find out what it is like to play.

jalanhenning,
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@masukomi You’re in for a treat! For a one-shot system, we ended up playing it a lot.

jalanhenning, to boardgames Esperanto
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We played 1846: The Race for the Midwest yesterday for the first time. Took 6.5 hours, not counting setup and teardown. #boardgames

map, round 3
map, round 4
map, round 5

jalanhenning,
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@grayson Yes only 1 of us had ever played 18xx before. We had a banker for the first half of the game, a non player, and that helped a lot.

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@masukomi @grayson BGG lists its playing time as 2-4 hours. It has a streamlined opening but embraces randomness in a way most other 18xx don't, with a deck of private companies. https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/17405/1846-race-midwest

higekieiyu, to random

I wish I had the patience and creativity and talent and drive to create a massive, breathing, interesting, detailed world.

jalanhenning,
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@higekieiyu Have you considered #Lore24? https://spriggans-den.com/2023/12/10/lore-24/

lumpley, to random
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Our youngest is 18 today!

🎂

jalanhenning,
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@lumpley Our youngest (of 5) just turned 18 a few months ago. It's surreal to have no "kids" at home.

valthonis, to random
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I kinda hate that Reddit's real consequences for locking down their API were pretty much zero. The subreddit protests failed to make a significant impact, and Reddit has trucked along smug and happy.

Disgusting.

jalanhenning,
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@valthonis I left and haven't gone back. I had hoped more would do likewise.

jalanhenning, to StarTrek Esperanto
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Me explaining to my son what is going to happen in the Lower Decks season finale. #StarTrek #LowerDecks

jalanhenning,
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@Cassandra LOL, not at all!

jalanhenning, to Starwars Esperanto
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Oldie but a goodie. #StarWars #OSV

jalanhenning, to StarTrek
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Amusing #StarTrek book cover, for #StrangeNewWorlds fans: https://startrek.website/post/694006

jalanhenning, to neverwinternights
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A concise summary of different types of dragon-like creatures, from http://ignitedinkwriting.com #dragon #RPG

jalanhenning, to reddit
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Reddit thought it was worth $15 billion, Fidelity thought it was worth $10 billion, but now Fidelity thinks it is worth $6 billion. https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/the-reddit-protests-continue-but-company-has-a-much-bigger-problem.html #Reddit

What "third generation" Trek is worth watching?

I started with Star Trek after watching the Star Trek (2009) movie in college. After that I went wild watching everything I could since I was young with loads of time. I watched most of TOS, all of TNS, all of DS9, all of Voyager, all of Enterprise and all of the movies. I then stopped since I didn't have the time and wasn't...

jalanhenning,
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@AlteredStateBlob @dumples @tymon @actualeyes @durrandon Great point. “New Eden” is as close as Discovery gets to that.

jalanhenning, to reddit
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I've been boycotting Reddit. Turns out almost a tenth of my blog traffic comes from the site. :-(

I hope #Reddit caves.

genesisoflegend, to random
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As I do my rewatch of TOS, I really hope that they bring in the Doctor / Bartender from The Cage since he is absolutely the kind of character who would fit into Strange New Worlds.

jalanhenning,
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@genesisoflegend Since The Cage already happened, that seems unlikely, alas. He probably retired, transferred off, etc.

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