Help me out, lazywebs, while I try to figure this out:
XOR
AND
OR
Can I use these three to get to NAND or a NOR gate?
In other words: Are those three a complete logic?
In other words: Does the automation in Oxygen not included include a complete logic?
Update: not is included. We're in business.
Friday, August 31, 2018
Management: We're concerned people aren't pulling their weight, and that about 3 people on each team are doing the...
Management: We're concerned people aren't pulling their weight, and that about 3 people on each team are doing the work.
Me: ....
Me, later to my boss: I trust every member of my team. I believe they are all pulling there weight. If anyone wasn't, I would escalate that until the problem was resolved.
Me: ....
Me, later to my boss: I trust every member of my team. I believe they are all pulling there weight. If anyone wasn't, I would escalate that until the problem was resolved.
Thursday, August 30, 2018
a pm: I need you to invite me to your standups, planning sessions, and retro.
a pm: I need you to invite me to your standups, planning sessions, and retro.
Me: silence.
My boss: Wait. The fucking daily standups?
PM: Yes. I need to be invited to everything.
Me, later, offhand to the pm: I don't think it's a good idea for any management to be at a standup.
Her: I need to be there.
Me: The point of that meeting is not to inform management. You being there changes the meeting.
Her: You assume I'll interfere.
Me: No. I assume that your presence will change things.
She's likely to be at tomorrow's. If so, I expect she's going to fucking ruin everything.
Me: silence.
My boss: Wait. The fucking daily standups?
PM: Yes. I need to be invited to everything.
Me, later, offhand to the pm: I don't think it's a good idea for any management to be at a standup.
Her: I need to be there.
Me: The point of that meeting is not to inform management. You being there changes the meeting.
Her: You assume I'll interfere.
Me: No. I assume that your presence will change things.
She's likely to be at tomorrow's. If so, I expect she's going to fucking ruin everything.
Monday, August 27, 2018
a political advertisement opens on television.
a political advertisement opens on television.
It is in blue. Talks about improving government and fighting for Virginians.
Show the opponent, in red. Wants to raises taxes for everyone. Hates Virginia or whatever.
Back to the candidate. Back to blue. "Independent voice for Virginia"
You'd be forgiven for thinking this was a Democrat's advertisement, as was clearly the intention.
This is an ad for Barbara Comstock, a woman who once proudly claimed she helped repeal the ACA. This is a woman who is against abortion (Save for bullshit exceptions), is pro the keystone ppeline, and is against net neutrality.
She's going to lose. And her seat is going to a Democrat. And so goes the House.
It is in blue. Talks about improving government and fighting for Virginians.
Show the opponent, in red. Wants to raises taxes for everyone. Hates Virginia or whatever.
Back to the candidate. Back to blue. "Independent voice for Virginia"
You'd be forgiven for thinking this was a Democrat's advertisement, as was clearly the intention.
This is an ad for Barbara Comstock, a woman who once proudly claimed she helped repeal the ACA. This is a woman who is against abortion (Save for bullshit exceptions), is pro the keystone ppeline, and is against net neutrality.
She's going to lose. And her seat is going to a Democrat. And so goes the House.
... I don't know where to begin.
... I don't know where to begin.
From the same person, one after another:
1. Story points are useless because we cannot compare them across teams.
2. Story pointing is useful because it gets the team to discuss the difficulty from different perspectives.
That guy what is the problem came into the office today (unusual, he's in the office maybe once a month), and spent it leading a smear campaign against my boss. Essentially telling folks that process needs to be standardized across the scrum teams, and it is boss's fault that it isn't.
Oh, and: We have an entire team (~4 people) whose primary job is to manage feature numbers, user story numbers and names, and build presentations. This is a BA team, and the primary tech skill is Excel and ppt. They use Jira for project management, and think the point of a planning session is to say what you're going to do to people watching.
To be clear: It isn't.
So here was a fun conversation:
BA: And there's no way to manage this with what we have other than either Excel or Access. Connected Excel sheets gets messy, and Access is slow and clunky.
Someone in conversation: Well, there's Tableau. Or Qlick.
Me: ... There's always Microsoft Power BI.
Everyone: What's that?
Me: It's microsoft's BI solution. It's part of 365, with the E5 license. I think we have E3, and the upgrade is cheap. We can have a database in third normal form, and display whatever we want in Power BI. It's the cheapest and now best BI solution in the space.
Them: You know it?
Me: I used to lead a team of DBAs using power BI and sql server, running in the cloud.
Everyone: ::stunned silence::
What they'll get from it, unfortunately: I can solve it.
I can't. And I won't.
What I want them to get from it: There are solutions for what we are doing. These are all solved problems, and there are solutions that are effective, cheap, and that won't explode the way management through spreadsheet will.
But, I ran out of brain juice after the same woman told me that estimation is great and estimates are useless and we therefore shouldn't do estimation.
Also: I had my first monthly lunch meeting with my boss. When it came around to how I'm feeling about the team, I said I wanted to make sure pay was equitable according to whatever metric he has in his head.
Notice: Equitable. Not equal. And I trust him enough to think he'll have reasonable criteria in his head. Anyway, he said it mostly is equitable and there was one he is looking to solve.
That was my Monday. I'm a wreck. How are you?
From the same person, one after another:
1. Story points are useless because we cannot compare them across teams.
2. Story pointing is useful because it gets the team to discuss the difficulty from different perspectives.
That guy what is the problem came into the office today (unusual, he's in the office maybe once a month), and spent it leading a smear campaign against my boss. Essentially telling folks that process needs to be standardized across the scrum teams, and it is boss's fault that it isn't.
Oh, and: We have an entire team (~4 people) whose primary job is to manage feature numbers, user story numbers and names, and build presentations. This is a BA team, and the primary tech skill is Excel and ppt. They use Jira for project management, and think the point of a planning session is to say what you're going to do to people watching.
To be clear: It isn't.
So here was a fun conversation:
BA: And there's no way to manage this with what we have other than either Excel or Access. Connected Excel sheets gets messy, and Access is slow and clunky.
Someone in conversation: Well, there's Tableau. Or Qlick.
Me: ... There's always Microsoft Power BI.
Everyone: What's that?
Me: It's microsoft's BI solution. It's part of 365, with the E5 license. I think we have E3, and the upgrade is cheap. We can have a database in third normal form, and display whatever we want in Power BI. It's the cheapest and now best BI solution in the space.
Them: You know it?
Me: I used to lead a team of DBAs using power BI and sql server, running in the cloud.
Everyone: ::stunned silence::
What they'll get from it, unfortunately: I can solve it.
I can't. And I won't.
What I want them to get from it: There are solutions for what we are doing. These are all solved problems, and there are solutions that are effective, cheap, and that won't explode the way management through spreadsheet will.
But, I ran out of brain juice after the same woman told me that estimation is great and estimates are useless and we therefore shouldn't do estimation.
Also: I had my first monthly lunch meeting with my boss. When it came around to how I'm feeling about the team, I said I wanted to make sure pay was equitable according to whatever metric he has in his head.
Notice: Equitable. Not equal. And I trust him enough to think he'll have reasonable criteria in his head. Anyway, he said it mostly is equitable and there was one he is looking to solve.
That was my Monday. I'm a wreck. How are you?
Sunday, August 26, 2018
The President of the United States is neither a genius, nor a criminal mastermind.
The President of the United States is neither a genius, nor a criminal mastermind. He is, I am well convinced, a criminal. And, it seems likely, a long-time mob boss.
He's a criminal in the same way I am a gamer; it is part and parcel of who he is, and not something he consciously decides to be. It's just a part of his identity.
Plus, of course: He's a racist and a fascist and a bigot and a sexist. I don't mean to order these; they are each very bad.
Any one of these in the president of the united states, is very very bad; for the world, for Americans, for civil liberties and freedom and the economy generally. The combination is terrifying.
Add on that he is an old man, likely with dementia, who is bamboozled by television personalities and falls prey to fear mongering and does not believe in science, and we have something worse than a constitutional crisis: It may be an extinction-level event.
That is: The presidency of donald trump may sufficiently harm the ecosystem that the number of living humans able to survive becomes a tiny fraction of what it is now.
What can you do about it?
-- Vote him out
-- Vote for democrats, the party who at least doesn't want to destroy humanity
-- Volunteer, both politically and in the greater community
-- have conversations about it with those who do not yet see what a con man he is.
He's a criminal in the same way I am a gamer; it is part and parcel of who he is, and not something he consciously decides to be. It's just a part of his identity.
Plus, of course: He's a racist and a fascist and a bigot and a sexist. I don't mean to order these; they are each very bad.
Any one of these in the president of the united states, is very very bad; for the world, for Americans, for civil liberties and freedom and the economy generally. The combination is terrifying.
Add on that he is an old man, likely with dementia, who is bamboozled by television personalities and falls prey to fear mongering and does not believe in science, and we have something worse than a constitutional crisis: It may be an extinction-level event.
That is: The presidency of donald trump may sufficiently harm the ecosystem that the number of living humans able to survive becomes a tiny fraction of what it is now.
What can you do about it?
-- Vote him out
-- Vote for democrats, the party who at least doesn't want to destroy humanity
-- Volunteer, both politically and in the greater community
-- have conversations about it with those who do not yet see what a con man he is.
Oxygen Not Included, cycle: The 60s.
Oxygen Not Included, cycle: The 60s.
We're dying.
Not everyone gets to eat today, and a few of us may die of starvation. We're out of algae. The Bloom Blossoms that had sustained us for so many cycles are not growing, as they are too hot.
Solutions, short term and long:
1. Microbe Musher. Hate to use it, but we need calories like yesterday.
2. Slime into algae. Do it in the cold zone.
3. Move the plant that makes things cold to where the overly hot plants are. This'll mean fewer plants, but should help.
4. Rewrite water, plant more crops.
5. Find more ways to move heat away from crops.
Lessons learned:
1. Oxygenate less area to conserve algae. Use more airlocks, and keep many buildings outside the base. These produce heat, too, so that's another good reason to have them outside the base.
2. 18 duplicants is too many. I'm having to find make work for them, but at that it does mean things get done quickly.
3. More crops than that. No, more than that.
4. Make more water. More than that. Don't stop turning polluted water into good water. Do this outside an airlock.
5. Exosuits are neat.
We're dying.
Not everyone gets to eat today, and a few of us may die of starvation. We're out of algae. The Bloom Blossoms that had sustained us for so many cycles are not growing, as they are too hot.
Solutions, short term and long:
1. Microbe Musher. Hate to use it, but we need calories like yesterday.
2. Slime into algae. Do it in the cold zone.
3. Move the plant that makes things cold to where the overly hot plants are. This'll mean fewer plants, but should help.
4. Rewrite water, plant more crops.
5. Find more ways to move heat away from crops.
Lessons learned:
1. Oxygenate less area to conserve algae. Use more airlocks, and keep many buildings outside the base. These produce heat, too, so that's another good reason to have them outside the base.
2. 18 duplicants is too many. I'm having to find make work for them, but at that it does mean things get done quickly.
3. More crops than that. No, more than that.
4. Make more water. More than that. Don't stop turning polluted water into good water. Do this outside an airlock.
5. Exosuits are neat.
Saturday, August 25, 2018
That guy what is the problem: Stop the fucking discussion and be consistent across Scrum teams.
That guy what is the problem: Stop the fucking discussion and be consistent across Scrum teams. SMs must all do things the same way.
Head Agilist: That's bullshit. We'll discuss this at the next Scrum of Scrums. We do not make decisions because you sent a fucking email, you putz.
Or at least, that's what I'm hearing.
Head Agilist: That's bullshit. We'll discuss this at the next Scrum of Scrums. We do not make decisions because you sent a fucking email, you putz.
Or at least, that's what I'm hearing.
Friday, August 24, 2018
I am 50 pages into The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel, by Mary Robinette Kowal
I am 50 pages into The Calculating Stars: A Lady Astronaut Novel, by Mary Robinette Kowal,
You should read it. That is all.
You should read it. That is all.
That guy what is the problem.
That guy what is the problem.
So.
So.
So.
One of the managers (team size: 2) at our company keeps trying to tell the scrum masters to do our jobs differently. Through email.
Which, first: This is why we have retros, you fuck. I am not changing the group norm in the middle of a sprint because you sent a fucking email. No fucking way, and you go fuck right off.
And, second: Your knowledge of how to lead people and methods is dangerously low. Like, for fucks sake you thought it was revolutionary that when I started I scheduled time to talk to people instead of just grabbing people while they were working.
So.
What my group has decided to do is for each person to create their own subtasks. This is generally the same for each task: Dev, Migrate, Test, blah blah blah who cares. Point is: The norm my team has decided on is for them to be responsible for creating their own subtasks.
Then, I go back through and make sure they were created because I'm cool like that.
What he is asking: SM's to make all the subtasks so that devs and testers can focus on real work.
Why I think it is good for the team to make their subtasks: Ownership. If they make the subtask, they feel like it is theres. And it takes, like, a few seconds per task. Do them all at once and now you know what your tasks are for the sprint. Cool, right?
So.
So.
So.
One of the managers (team size: 2) at our company keeps trying to tell the scrum masters to do our jobs differently. Through email.
Which, first: This is why we have retros, you fuck. I am not changing the group norm in the middle of a sprint because you sent a fucking email. No fucking way, and you go fuck right off.
And, second: Your knowledge of how to lead people and methods is dangerously low. Like, for fucks sake you thought it was revolutionary that when I started I scheduled time to talk to people instead of just grabbing people while they were working.
So.
What my group has decided to do is for each person to create their own subtasks. This is generally the same for each task: Dev, Migrate, Test, blah blah blah who cares. Point is: The norm my team has decided on is for them to be responsible for creating their own subtasks.
Then, I go back through and make sure they were created because I'm cool like that.
What he is asking: SM's to make all the subtasks so that devs and testers can focus on real work.
Why I think it is good for the team to make their subtasks: Ownership. If they make the subtask, they feel like it is theres. And it takes, like, a few seconds per task. Do them all at once and now you know what your tasks are for the sprint. Cool, right?
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
Sprint review today. I want to talk about it.
Sprint review today. I want to talk about it.
The client is the PO. Technically.
But not really. The PO position is broken into three groups:
1. The client, who provides specs and knows what we are building. Really do.
2. Management, who pushes the team like management should.
3. Functional design, who takes the requirements from the client and turns then into useful user stories and acceptance criteria.
What this means: we first do a design demo, to tell the client about items designed in the last two weeks. We do an estimation session (planning poker) away from the client. This time, I asked the functional to be there and that was very helpful.
So, today, we did:
1. Design review
2. Dev review
3. Planning session with client.
4. Retro.
The first was at 11 AM. The retro ended at five. Between noon and two, I wasn't in ceremonies.
I have essentially been talking in front of the client, or getting others to do so, for most of the day.
I am tired. And that's ok: it's a big thing and we do it every other week. Tomorrow should be easy.
Not sure if there is a better way to structure this. Having so many ceremonies at once gets them done, but dang am I tired.
The client is the PO. Technically.
But not really. The PO position is broken into three groups:
1. The client, who provides specs and knows what we are building. Really do.
2. Management, who pushes the team like management should.
3. Functional design, who takes the requirements from the client and turns then into useful user stories and acceptance criteria.
What this means: we first do a design demo, to tell the client about items designed in the last two weeks. We do an estimation session (planning poker) away from the client. This time, I asked the functional to be there and that was very helpful.
So, today, we did:
1. Design review
2. Dev review
3. Planning session with client.
4. Retro.
The first was at 11 AM. The retro ended at five. Between noon and two, I wasn't in ceremonies.
I have essentially been talking in front of the client, or getting others to do so, for most of the day.
I am tired. And that's ok: it's a big thing and we do it every other week. Tomorrow should be easy.
Not sure if there is a better way to structure this. Having so many ceremonies at once gets them done, but dang am I tired.
Tuesday, August 21, 2018
Oxygen not included.
Oxygen not included.
Cycle 53ish.
There are 18 of us. We're not accepting more duplicants right now.
We're doing some major infrastructure changes: reworking power plants to use transformers. This'll mean each wire won't be under strain. It'll also mean we can consolidate to mostly coal power plants, locked in a vault with an airlock.
It's also pretty nifty to think about and do!
There's still a completely untapped water reserve. And there's a steam geyser just barely visible past the Ice.
Continuing to explore. There is slime everywhere. How do we get past it without getting slime lung?
Cycle 53ish.
There are 18 of us. We're not accepting more duplicants right now.
We're doing some major infrastructure changes: reworking power plants to use transformers. This'll mean each wire won't be under strain. It'll also mean we can consolidate to mostly coal power plants, locked in a vault with an airlock.
It's also pretty nifty to think about and do!
There's still a completely untapped water reserve. And there's a steam geyser just barely visible past the Ice.
Continuing to explore. There is slime everywhere. How do we get past it without getting slime lung?
Sunday, August 19, 2018
I am uncertain: How much human time and energy and natural resources do we spend ensuring human time and energy and...
I am uncertain: How much human time and energy and natural resources do we spend ensuring human time and energy and natural resources are directed the way Capital wants them to be?
That is, how much is spent on:
-- Protecting money
-- Protecting assets
-- Moving natural resources to where rich people want them to be
-- Defending "what's ours" from "all those other people"
-- Ensuring employees track enough time.
-- Ensuring employees bill time correctly.
-- Ensuring employees are paid on time and just enough.
-- The maintaining of a de facto under class who cannot obtain economic security.
I think the answer is: a lot more than we think.
That is, how much is spent on:
-- Protecting money
-- Protecting assets
-- Moving natural resources to where rich people want them to be
-- Defending "what's ours" from "all those other people"
-- Ensuring employees track enough time.
-- Ensuring employees bill time correctly.
-- Ensuring employees are paid on time and just enough.
-- The maintaining of a de facto under class who cannot obtain economic security.
I think the answer is: a lot more than we think.
Saturday, August 18, 2018
Oxygen not Included.
Oxygen not Included.
Cycle: In the 30s.
I am now, somehow, producing too much clean water. My clean water pipes that supply my 4 toilets and 2 sinks are bakced the fuck up. My waste water is also enlargening, and is now pretty high.
I am bulding more pipes to move the water into a clean water cistern, whcih should help. I'm also going to add another layer to the waste water, which should buy some time.
My oxygen not comes from water. I'm looking into moving to a water-based economy. Well, water + meeple power, but in partcular: No coal, no algae.
Cycle: In the 30s.
I am now, somehow, producing too much clean water. My clean water pipes that supply my 4 toilets and 2 sinks are bakced the fuck up. My waste water is also enlargening, and is now pretty high.
I am bulding more pipes to move the water into a clean water cistern, whcih should help. I'm also going to add another layer to the waste water, which should buy some time.
My oxygen not comes from water. I'm looking into moving to a water-based economy. Well, water + meeple power, but in partcular: No coal, no algae.
Friday, August 17, 2018
I am pretty sure Neil Patrick Harris has a super power: To summon a chorus on demand.
I am pretty sure Neil Patrick Harris has a super power: To summon a chorus on demand.
Am I wrong?
Am I wrong?
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included
Cycle 30 or so. There are a dozen of us, which is a nice number.
We are running low on oxygen. We've found a nice large vein of algae, and we have a lot of water.
The toilets not longer use up fresh water: these are now rigged to use filtered water from the waste plant. All the waste water collects in the same spot.
We have enough food. It isn't very good. We have the technology for better, but no one seems to know how to rig it together.
We need more oxygen.
Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen. Could we ... nah.
I mean, we couldn't pump that water into an electrolyzer to separate the hydrogen and oxygen, burn the hydrogen for power (to charge the electrolyzer, of course), and use the oxygen to breathe?
The oxygen coming out might be hot. Or cold. Who knows which.
Maybe to bring it to regulate temperatures, we shuffle it through water. Can an air vent go through water?
Cycle 30 or so. There are a dozen of us, which is a nice number.
We are running low on oxygen. We've found a nice large vein of algae, and we have a lot of water.
The toilets not longer use up fresh water: these are now rigged to use filtered water from the waste plant. All the waste water collects in the same spot.
We have enough food. It isn't very good. We have the technology for better, but no one seems to know how to rig it together.
We need more oxygen.
Water is made up of oxygen and hydrogen. Could we ... nah.
I mean, we couldn't pump that water into an electrolyzer to separate the hydrogen and oxygen, burn the hydrogen for power (to charge the electrolyzer, of course), and use the oxygen to breathe?
The oxygen coming out might be hot. Or cold. Who knows which.
Maybe to bring it to regulate temperatures, we shuffle it through water. Can an air vent go through water?
On socks.
On socks.
I have 3 types of socks. White, Brown, Black.
That's (mostly) it. I also have a novelty pair of socks from the prime meridian, but that is the one case.
Once a year or so -- or, more precisely, when I notice the brown socks are getting worn, hopefully when I find some fantastic deal -- I replace all the brown socks. Usually with a different brand, so I know if I find the old ones. I do much the same thing with undies, though I've been replacing en masse a lot less since I started buying extra pairs on vacation.
Anyway, yes. I do that.
Once, I bought a dozen pairs of undies for five dollars. It was fantastic.
I have 3 types of socks. White, Brown, Black.
That's (mostly) it. I also have a novelty pair of socks from the prime meridian, but that is the one case.
Once a year or so -- or, more precisely, when I notice the brown socks are getting worn, hopefully when I find some fantastic deal -- I replace all the brown socks. Usually with a different brand, so I know if I find the old ones. I do much the same thing with undies, though I've been replacing en masse a lot less since I started buying extra pairs on vacation.
Anyway, yes. I do that.
Once, I bought a dozen pairs of undies for five dollars. It was fantastic.
Wednesday, August 15, 2018
New job, new habits.
New job, new habits.
I started a new job 2.5 weeks ago. Shorter commute, and need to get there a little later.
By waking up at the same time, I've got an extra half hour in the mornings.
Now, I could have spent this time in any number of ways: video games, reading, longer showers, making elaborate breakfasts, studying.
Instead: I am hitting the gym for ~20 minutes. Plus a 5 minute cool down, and getting on my gum clothes and it about exactly eats up the 30 minutes.
I've really done this every time we've woken up at home since Camp Quest, but the big thing is I have done it every day since work started.
And, well, the Big Performance measure that I've got for myself is not something like "run 2 miles each morning", but is instead: Put on my running shorts.
If I do that, it's a success. It just so happens that (almost) always after I put on my gym shorts, I also go for a run.
I started a new job 2.5 weeks ago. Shorter commute, and need to get there a little later.
By waking up at the same time, I've got an extra half hour in the mornings.
Now, I could have spent this time in any number of ways: video games, reading, longer showers, making elaborate breakfasts, studying.
Instead: I am hitting the gym for ~20 minutes. Plus a 5 minute cool down, and getting on my gum clothes and it about exactly eats up the 30 minutes.
I've really done this every time we've woken up at home since Camp Quest, but the big thing is I have done it every day since work started.
And, well, the Big Performance measure that I've got for myself is not something like "run 2 miles each morning", but is instead: Put on my running shorts.
If I do that, it's a success. It just so happens that (almost) always after I put on my gym shorts, I also go for a run.
Tuesday, August 14, 2018
I am Mikel, an architect in training. I live in the Concordance of Malqort.
I am Mikel, an architect in training. I live in the Concordance of Malqort.
My home city has only recently joined the Concordance. I heard the word fairly early, after the Paladin and Wizard showed the Nobility of the city were consorting with demons.
Meanwhile, the Paladin and Wizard were inviting anyone to join their services. My mother brought me, and my father refused to go. The Prayer services were like nothing I'd ever seen; they never asked for money. Instead, they gave away money and said just by being here we'd helped them raise up new Lifeless. The Lifeless they set to cleaning the streets.
As in, literally cleaning the streets. They got rid of the trash and excrement. Members of the church helped out, doing some of the work that the Lifeless weren't so good at. That seems to be anything requiring real finesse. The Paladin and Wizard starting letting anyone sleep in the Church if they needed it. We did, once my dad left. My mom couldn't support us on her own, but started volunteering for the Church more and more.
After a while, Paladin and Wizard started offering classes. These started off in the basics of the Faith. I learned that Malqort was the first to raise the Lifeless, and that the cities of the Concordance have no want among believers. So long as you pray, there is always a place for you.
Our own government doesn't feel that way, and asked the Paladin and Wizard to vacate. We stood up to them. Maybe it was the dozens of people they helped, or the Lifeless sweeping up, but the government let the Paladin and Wizard stay. I like to think it was the Arguments made by the Wizard, who showed how useful the Lifeless could really be.
A few months on, a few more members of the Convocation arrived. This includes my mentor, Zaha. She taught me how to use the Lifeless to build roads, barracks, and watch towers. She is a full architect, and I want to be just like her when I grow up.
Now, twenty of us along with twenty lifeless are building a road back into the Convocation. We're making the road out of packed dirt. We're not moving fast, but are making good progress as we go. Zaha is overseing our work, and making sure it is up to the standards of the Convocation.
I'm so glad the Convocation came to town!
My home city has only recently joined the Concordance. I heard the word fairly early, after the Paladin and Wizard showed the Nobility of the city were consorting with demons.
Meanwhile, the Paladin and Wizard were inviting anyone to join their services. My mother brought me, and my father refused to go. The Prayer services were like nothing I'd ever seen; they never asked for money. Instead, they gave away money and said just by being here we'd helped them raise up new Lifeless. The Lifeless they set to cleaning the streets.
As in, literally cleaning the streets. They got rid of the trash and excrement. Members of the church helped out, doing some of the work that the Lifeless weren't so good at. That seems to be anything requiring real finesse. The Paladin and Wizard starting letting anyone sleep in the Church if they needed it. We did, once my dad left. My mom couldn't support us on her own, but started volunteering for the Church more and more.
After a while, Paladin and Wizard started offering classes. These started off in the basics of the Faith. I learned that Malqort was the first to raise the Lifeless, and that the cities of the Concordance have no want among believers. So long as you pray, there is always a place for you.
Our own government doesn't feel that way, and asked the Paladin and Wizard to vacate. We stood up to them. Maybe it was the dozens of people they helped, or the Lifeless sweeping up, but the government let the Paladin and Wizard stay. I like to think it was the Arguments made by the Wizard, who showed how useful the Lifeless could really be.
A few months on, a few more members of the Convocation arrived. This includes my mentor, Zaha. She taught me how to use the Lifeless to build roads, barracks, and watch towers. She is a full architect, and I want to be just like her when I grow up.
Now, twenty of us along with twenty lifeless are building a road back into the Convocation. We're making the road out of packed dirt. We're not moving fast, but are making good progress as we go. Zaha is overseing our work, and making sure it is up to the standards of the Convocation.
I'm so glad the Convocation came to town!
A little on the economy of the Necromancer Kingdom, which isn't a Kingdom at all. It's a Convocation.
A little on the economy of the Necromancer Kingdom, which isn't a Kingdom at all. It's a Convocation.
Everyone who Prays 4 hours / week has access to: Barracks, Cafeteria, bath houses, some sort of health care (TBD, but what sort do you think Necromancers would offer?), clothing, education, etc. These are things provided as a matter of course.
Those who show need or have been on a mission, or a variety of other things can live in the Dorms instead of the barracks. The Dorms offer increased privacy, and come about by being more trusted.
Any two people, so long as one is a Believer, can live in an Apartment instead of the Dorms. The Apartments offer still increased privacy and comfort. This also means a Believer who is raising a child alone has access to the Apartments, so long as they went on a Mission. It's also fine for child free couples.
Any three people, so long as one is a Believer, can live in the Large Apartments or Houses instead of the Dorms. A family with one Full Believer and one person who prays, with kids, can readily live in the Large Apartments.
These are the church-provided accommodations; nothing prevents other types of lodging, jobs, etc. But, everyone has these basic needs filled, if they want them filled. This is not meant to be coercive.
There is Labor needed that is generally best fulfilled without the use of Lifeless labor. This ranges from work in the military (Lifeless are good as shock troops, not so much as archers) to cooking to sewing to magic to leading worship to researching to ... etc.
Essentially, anything highly skilled, knowledge work, or that just requires a high degree of finesse is not so good for Lifeless to do.
Some experimental ideas various parts of the Concordance have tried out:
- Capitalism: Renting out Lifeless labor in exchange for human labor. Shudder.
-- Service as rite of passage: Do two years of Service in a variety of possible ways.
-- Everyone works one day a week: To maintain Good Standing, folks need to do a day of service every week. Everyone, doing work that no one enjoys.
I'm personally in favor of a combination of (2) and (3).
Basically, the economy is: We've got plenty of labor. Basics of everything can be done through Lifeless labor, and the culture is not one that favors hoarding wealth.
Everyone who Prays 4 hours / week has access to: Barracks, Cafeteria, bath houses, some sort of health care (TBD, but what sort do you think Necromancers would offer?), clothing, education, etc. These are things provided as a matter of course.
Those who show need or have been on a mission, or a variety of other things can live in the Dorms instead of the barracks. The Dorms offer increased privacy, and come about by being more trusted.
Any two people, so long as one is a Believer, can live in an Apartment instead of the Dorms. The Apartments offer still increased privacy and comfort. This also means a Believer who is raising a child alone has access to the Apartments, so long as they went on a Mission. It's also fine for child free couples.
Any three people, so long as one is a Believer, can live in the Large Apartments or Houses instead of the Dorms. A family with one Full Believer and one person who prays, with kids, can readily live in the Large Apartments.
These are the church-provided accommodations; nothing prevents other types of lodging, jobs, etc. But, everyone has these basic needs filled, if they want them filled. This is not meant to be coercive.
There is Labor needed that is generally best fulfilled without the use of Lifeless labor. This ranges from work in the military (Lifeless are good as shock troops, not so much as archers) to cooking to sewing to magic to leading worship to researching to ... etc.
Essentially, anything highly skilled, knowledge work, or that just requires a high degree of finesse is not so good for Lifeless to do.
Some experimental ideas various parts of the Concordance have tried out:
- Capitalism: Renting out Lifeless labor in exchange for human labor. Shudder.
-- Service as rite of passage: Do two years of Service in a variety of possible ways.
-- Everyone works one day a week: To maintain Good Standing, folks need to do a day of service every week. Everyone, doing work that no one enjoys.
I'm personally in favor of a combination of (2) and (3).
Basically, the economy is: We've got plenty of labor. Basics of everything can be done through Lifeless labor, and the culture is not one that favors hoarding wealth.
Saturday, August 11, 2018
Note to creators: Due to changes in my own financial status, I am likely to cancel some Patreons.
Note to creators: Due to changes in my own financial status, I am likely to cancel some Patreons.
This isn't personal. It's ramifications of capitalism. I still love you all.
This isn't personal. It's ramifications of capitalism. I still love you all.
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Obvious lesson: don't violate a will.
Obvious lesson: don't violate a will.
Even reddit finds this obvious.
Originally shared by Steve S
Short version: The executor of a man's will -- his sister -- decided to steal the money he left to his boyfriend, and then complains on the Internet that he's suing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/95c289/ma_late_brothers_partner_suing_family_for_money/
Even reddit finds this obvious.
Originally shared by Steve S
Short version: The executor of a man's will -- his sister -- decided to steal the money he left to his boyfriend, and then complains on the Internet that he's suing.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladvice/comments/95c289/ma_late_brothers_partner_suing_family_for_money/
Monday, August 6, 2018
Rewatching the end of the Tennant Doctor Who series, I am reminded that Moffatt is problematic as fuck.
Rewatching the end of the Tennant Doctor Who series, I am reminded that Moffatt is problematic as fuck.
There's a lot of reasons for this. I do not pretend to have all of them.
This is one of them.
He has no understanding of humanity. Or of the point of the companions.
The world is saved by Donna Noble, who can only do so by becoming a Timelord.
[ I mean: It's also not great that The Companions all try to blow up the earth / the daleks. But, that's a different rant. ]
The point of the companions is their humanity. Being human infects the doctor and makes him something besides a soulless god.
And while that is how the Donna plotarc starts, it is the opposite of where it ends. Her destiny is to become a Timelore and lose her humanity. Without her doing that, existence ends.
When Donna is the Doctor Donna, she has his mind and ethos. She isn't human. Oh, sure, she has one heart, but so does the Half Doctor, and he's not human.
There's a similar moment in the first season, when Rose becomes the Bad Wolf. The difference is she has mere power, and is driven by her humanity. She makes mistakes, like Jack. The Doctor Donna has the knowledge and soul of a Timelord. She can not just see the time vortex, but understands it.
Compare to when Martha Jones saves the world: She walks the earth. That most human of movements, and talks to people. That is her greatest contribution: conversation. Not guns or teleports or power: walking and stories.
Meanwhile, Donna does her best Tennant impersonation. Loses her own personality, subsumed in his.
This is also why neither Clara nor River Song work well as a companion.
River Song was never human and, while her initial introduction is as an independent awesome human, her plot arc is to become more and more subordinate to The Doctor.
Clara, that impossible girl, is never really human. She's a Dalek or whatever, then she doesn't exist. Then she's never in place. I don't know how that ends, but I imagine it negates her humanity.
And that's part of the problem with Moffat as show runner: He doesn't understand the importance of humanity.
There's a lot of reasons for this. I do not pretend to have all of them.
This is one of them.
He has no understanding of humanity. Or of the point of the companions.
The world is saved by Donna Noble, who can only do so by becoming a Timelord.
[ I mean: It's also not great that The Companions all try to blow up the earth / the daleks. But, that's a different rant. ]
The point of the companions is their humanity. Being human infects the doctor and makes him something besides a soulless god.
And while that is how the Donna plotarc starts, it is the opposite of where it ends. Her destiny is to become a Timelore and lose her humanity. Without her doing that, existence ends.
When Donna is the Doctor Donna, she has his mind and ethos. She isn't human. Oh, sure, she has one heart, but so does the Half Doctor, and he's not human.
There's a similar moment in the first season, when Rose becomes the Bad Wolf. The difference is she has mere power, and is driven by her humanity. She makes mistakes, like Jack. The Doctor Donna has the knowledge and soul of a Timelord. She can not just see the time vortex, but understands it.
Compare to when Martha Jones saves the world: She walks the earth. That most human of movements, and talks to people. That is her greatest contribution: conversation. Not guns or teleports or power: walking and stories.
Meanwhile, Donna does her best Tennant impersonation. Loses her own personality, subsumed in his.
This is also why neither Clara nor River Song work well as a companion.
River Song was never human and, while her initial introduction is as an independent awesome human, her plot arc is to become more and more subordinate to The Doctor.
Clara, that impossible girl, is never really human. She's a Dalek or whatever, then she doesn't exist. Then she's never in place. I don't know how that ends, but I imagine it negates her humanity.
And that's part of the problem with Moffat as show runner: He doesn't understand the importance of humanity.
Sunday, August 5, 2018
Oxygen Not Included
Oxygen Not Included
Cycle 40.
Everything was fine. We were a little short, on water, but dealing with it.
We went digging.
Found neutronium. Neat. And ice. Even better!
Annie came down with slimelung. We quarantined her. She's not getting any better.
Then Sally came down with slimelung.
We may quarantine both of them until they die. That'd be a waste of good people, but at least we'd get rid of the slimelung. There's that.
Alternatively: We could simply blow up the base and start over.
Cycle 40.
Everything was fine. We were a little short, on water, but dealing with it.
We went digging.
Found neutronium. Neat. And ice. Even better!
Annie came down with slimelung. We quarantined her. She's not getting any better.
Then Sally came down with slimelung.
We may quarantine both of them until they die. That'd be a waste of good people, but at least we'd get rid of the slimelung. There's that.
Alternatively: We could simply blow up the base and start over.
Saturday, August 4, 2018
"Running is the cheapest way to exercise! All you need is shoes!"
"Running is the cheapest way to exercise! All you need is shoes!"
Nonesense.
Here's what I need to do a daily 20 minute run:
- Shoes ($50, replaced every 200 - 500 miles)
- Shorts. I own like 3 pair, at maybe $20 to $30 a pair.
- Shirts. I own like 3, same cost as shorts.
- access to a gym (included in rent.)
- phone ($700 + ~30 / month)
- Headphones (used to be $5, now $40. Because 3.5 mm headphone jack)
These all wear out, and need replacement call it every year. So that's 50 + 20 + 20 + 20 (phone use direcred towards running.) + 40 = $150 / year. Baseline.
That's just to do a run in the gym. If I want to go outside, I need:
-- sidewalks (where I grew up did not have sidewalks)
-- A safe neighborhood (cost: a lot)
To do it well, I also need:
-- Neighbors that are pro running. (cost: countless efforts by local governance.)
- WATER. I've got a fancy coffee shop that has free and easily nabbed water. Ice cold, perfect as runner bait. Direct cost is zero.
Running causes injuries, so I also need:
-- Healthcare. Visits to a physical therapist easily run $20 after insurance, and before you go you must see a doctor. This runs more. Plus, the ruinous premiums.
Running is expensive.
Nonesense.
Here's what I need to do a daily 20 minute run:
- Shoes ($50, replaced every 200 - 500 miles)
- Shorts. I own like 3 pair, at maybe $20 to $30 a pair.
- Shirts. I own like 3, same cost as shorts.
- access to a gym (included in rent.)
- phone ($700 + ~30 / month)
- Headphones (used to be $5, now $40. Because 3.5 mm headphone jack)
These all wear out, and need replacement call it every year. So that's 50 + 20 + 20 + 20 (phone use direcred towards running.) + 40 = $150 / year. Baseline.
That's just to do a run in the gym. If I want to go outside, I need:
-- sidewalks (where I grew up did not have sidewalks)
-- A safe neighborhood (cost: a lot)
To do it well, I also need:
-- Neighbors that are pro running. (cost: countless efforts by local governance.)
- WATER. I've got a fancy coffee shop that has free and easily nabbed water. Ice cold, perfect as runner bait. Direct cost is zero.
Running causes injuries, so I also need:
-- Healthcare. Visits to a physical therapist easily run $20 after insurance, and before you go you must see a doctor. This runs more. Plus, the ruinous premiums.
Running is expensive.
Within the Necromancer Kingdom, the Concordance of Malqort, the standard unit of work is the Lifeless Equivalent...
Within the Necromancer Kingdom, the Concordance of Malqort, the standard unit of work is the Lifeless Equivalent Unit. (LEU).
This refers to how much labor you provide. As you provide more labor for the benefit of everyone, you have better access to anything the Church provides.
At about an hour a week of labor, you have access to the Barracks. These aren't great, but you have an assigned place to sleep, food, and basic health care. And, to be clear: freedom of movement.
As you do more labor per week, you have access to greater resources. These can be pooled, of course: If your spouse is on a Mission, they can use that to give you an effective maximum LEU, so long as you are a Believer.
The max is pretty nice! In the cities, this is a 2,000 square foot dwelling or so. If you want, you can open up a shop (this requires an LEU of only 4, so it's not like it's highly limited. I'm just saying, with an LEU of 10 you can get this, too.).
A combined LEU of 7 for a family gives access to an 800 sq ft places in the insulae. This requires about 40 hours a week, pooled across adults.
All of this comes with access to food & health care, of course. The Necromancers want you to be healthy. Also, education.
There are absolutely other means of producing wealth. These are the ones the church cares about -- hours of service, in return for being a person in good standing. It's never particularly arduous work -- that's better done by Lifeless.
The key thing is an individual needs just a few hours a week in a communual prayer service to be eligible for decent housing and food. Living alone in the common apartments takes less than 4 hours a week of service.
Note: I'm not necessarily stuck on the term LEU. It seems to bureaucratic. Ideas?
This refers to how much labor you provide. As you provide more labor for the benefit of everyone, you have better access to anything the Church provides.
At about an hour a week of labor, you have access to the Barracks. These aren't great, but you have an assigned place to sleep, food, and basic health care. And, to be clear: freedom of movement.
As you do more labor per week, you have access to greater resources. These can be pooled, of course: If your spouse is on a Mission, they can use that to give you an effective maximum LEU, so long as you are a Believer.
The max is pretty nice! In the cities, this is a 2,000 square foot dwelling or so. If you want, you can open up a shop (this requires an LEU of only 4, so it's not like it's highly limited. I'm just saying, with an LEU of 10 you can get this, too.).
A combined LEU of 7 for a family gives access to an 800 sq ft places in the insulae. This requires about 40 hours a week, pooled across adults.
All of this comes with access to food & health care, of course. The Necromancers want you to be healthy. Also, education.
There are absolutely other means of producing wealth. These are the ones the church cares about -- hours of service, in return for being a person in good standing. It's never particularly arduous work -- that's better done by Lifeless.
The key thing is an individual needs just a few hours a week in a communual prayer service to be eligible for decent housing and food. Living alone in the common apartments takes less than 4 hours a week of service.
Note: I'm not necessarily stuck on the term LEU. It seems to bureaucratic. Ideas?
A week ago, I started a new job as a Scrum Master.
A week ago, I started a new job as a Scrum Master.
A SM is a servant leader who facilitates scrum ceremonies and practices, with the goal of leading the team to increased consistent performance. Basically.
By the book, a scrum team should:
-- Be cross functional, including everyone needed to push code
-- Be small, usually 6 +/- 2. Three is OK, so is nine, but these are outlyers.
-- Everyone should be 100%.
-- The Team should have the trust to do their work.
-- The Team should have a Product Owner and a Scrum Master.
-- No real hierarchies.
-- User stories are the requirements.
Here's what I've got instead:
-- Design is separated. They do the designs, and it flows from them to the dev team.
-- The team is huge, like 20 people.
-- No one is 100% except me.
-- The Team does not have the authority to push code. This goes through a manual process that is managed outside the team. To be clear: We do not have modern version control.
-- The PO is the client, and I have yet to hear from her.
-- Hierarchies abound! Each functional group (dev, integrations, design, BA, test, etc) has a hierarchy with a Team Lead. The contributors take marching order from their functional lead, instead of committing to work in the Spring Planning Session.
-- There are user stories linked to requirements, and this is kept up manually by a third party who is pissed about doing it.
I'm picking this team up from a scrum master who I had wanted to work wth. She put in notice, and next week is her last week.
So, here are some crazy ideas I've had so far:
-- Set up the codebase to have modern version control. This is priority number 1, and the folks who manually push the code have already said they are against it. Time to find out why.
-- Work against the hierarchies by engaging with the contributors. So far, two have admitted to playing D&D, so I am thinking about a Dungeon World (or something) night. I'll run the first, then hand it off. The real goal here is to give everyone a fucking voice. I am open to ideas for games.
-- If I do get a cross-functional group together to play games, I can think about this group acting as a Scrum Team. If I can get someone from each functional area, I'll be in good shape. Gosh, that's ambitious and crazy.
That's what I'm thinking. This is all subject to change, but after the first week I can already see the pain points.
A SM is a servant leader who facilitates scrum ceremonies and practices, with the goal of leading the team to increased consistent performance. Basically.
By the book, a scrum team should:
-- Be cross functional, including everyone needed to push code
-- Be small, usually 6 +/- 2. Three is OK, so is nine, but these are outlyers.
-- Everyone should be 100%.
-- The Team should have the trust to do their work.
-- The Team should have a Product Owner and a Scrum Master.
-- No real hierarchies.
-- User stories are the requirements.
Here's what I've got instead:
-- Design is separated. They do the designs, and it flows from them to the dev team.
-- The team is huge, like 20 people.
-- No one is 100% except me.
-- The Team does not have the authority to push code. This goes through a manual process that is managed outside the team. To be clear: We do not have modern version control.
-- The PO is the client, and I have yet to hear from her.
-- Hierarchies abound! Each functional group (dev, integrations, design, BA, test, etc) has a hierarchy with a Team Lead. The contributors take marching order from their functional lead, instead of committing to work in the Spring Planning Session.
-- There are user stories linked to requirements, and this is kept up manually by a third party who is pissed about doing it.
I'm picking this team up from a scrum master who I had wanted to work wth. She put in notice, and next week is her last week.
So, here are some crazy ideas I've had so far:
-- Set up the codebase to have modern version control. This is priority number 1, and the folks who manually push the code have already said they are against it. Time to find out why.
-- Work against the hierarchies by engaging with the contributors. So far, two have admitted to playing D&D, so I am thinking about a Dungeon World (or something) night. I'll run the first, then hand it off. The real goal here is to give everyone a fucking voice. I am open to ideas for games.
-- If I do get a cross-functional group together to play games, I can think about this group acting as a Scrum Team. If I can get someone from each functional area, I'll be in good shape. Gosh, that's ambitious and crazy.
That's what I'm thinking. This is all subject to change, but after the first week I can already see the pain points.
Friday, August 3, 2018
Oxygen not included.
Oxygen not included.
This game hits some sweet spots for me. It's essentially Sim City in Space.
I'm discovering new & fascinating ways to help out my meeples. For instance:
-- ROOMS. Once I started putting things into rooms, my meeples got happy and more able to do their jobs.
-- AIR LOCKS. This has made exploring much easier, as what I find won't affect my meeples. I want to put some O2 producers just outside the airlock, so there's less crossover. Or wait, maybe I should have two airlocks? Oh jeez. That's obvious: two airlocks makes an airlock.
-- MESH TILES. I was producing so much O2, and it wasn't going up to my plants. Change out tile with mesh tile, and suddenly the plants have oxygen.
-- There's stuff in them exploration regions. I found a computer that can affect my duplicant tags. Neat!
This game hits some sweet spots for me. It's essentially Sim City in Space.
I'm discovering new & fascinating ways to help out my meeples. For instance:
-- ROOMS. Once I started putting things into rooms, my meeples got happy and more able to do their jobs.
-- AIR LOCKS. This has made exploring much easier, as what I find won't affect my meeples. I want to put some O2 producers just outside the airlock, so there's less crossover. Or wait, maybe I should have two airlocks? Oh jeez. That's obvious: two airlocks makes an airlock.
-- MESH TILES. I was producing so much O2, and it wasn't going up to my plants. Change out tile with mesh tile, and suddenly the plants have oxygen.
-- There's stuff in them exploration regions. I found a computer that can affect my duplicant tags. Neat!
Every day since Camp Quest that I have woken up at home, I have put on exercise gear.
Every day since Camp Quest that I have woken up at home, I have put on exercise gear. The first day back, my luggage was missing (and had my running gear) so I put on rando shorts.
That first day back, I also then immediately took everything off and curled up on the couch. I was tired. Turns out, a week of taking care of kids followed by drinking too much makes me tired for days.
But, that's ok: the pattern was set. Get up, put on the shorts. And if I can do it that day, I can to it other days.
Every day after that -- including every day this first week at a new job -- I have gone to the gym and done some gym time.
During the week, this has been fairly limited: Call it 20 minutes of running/walking very fast on the treadmill. Get sweaty, get hart rate up.
This has been great! But, whatever should I do this weekend. That is the question.
That first day back, I also then immediately took everything off and curled up on the couch. I was tired. Turns out, a week of taking care of kids followed by drinking too much makes me tired for days.
But, that's ok: the pattern was set. Get up, put on the shorts. And if I can do it that day, I can to it other days.
Every day after that -- including every day this first week at a new job -- I have gone to the gym and done some gym time.
During the week, this has been fairly limited: Call it 20 minutes of running/walking very fast on the treadmill. Get sweaty, get hart rate up.
This has been great! But, whatever should I do this weekend. That is the question.
Thursday, August 2, 2018
Whenever I wind up at a large scale campground -- like Camp Nerdly or, more recently, at Camp Quest -- I started...
Whenever I wind up at a large scale campground -- like Camp Nerdly or, more recently, at Camp Quest -- I started thinking that the camp is the default human habitation.
Generally, these have:
-- Some central building, with a bunch of comforts and amenities. If there's a Big-ass kitchen, it is here. This is usually big enough to hold everyone, though not necessarily comfortably.
-- groups of cabins. These are usually small, and only good as places to sleep. If that.
-- bathrooms scattered, usually with groups of cabins and the central building.
-- other out buildings, such as craft lodges, pools, archery huts, etc. Basically, places to manage training and recreation in specialized buildings.
-- a parking lot,
-- no fucking cell signal at all.
This one to two hundred habitation informs a lot of how I think about fantasy armies, necromancers, and cities.
As I do so, I realize that I'm essentially planning how to build out a campsite, with such things as:
-- a central building, often dedicated to the local government/deity.
-- groups of barracks or other sleeping arrangements
-- privies
-- training and recreation, the same fucking thing
-- roads, which these serve to guard and maintain
I feel like I need exposure to other basic units of putting people together outside of cities. Cities I've seen -- loads and loads! -- but communities that exist outside of a city? Essentially just camp sites.
So: Got any ideas?
Generally, these have:
-- Some central building, with a bunch of comforts and amenities. If there's a Big-ass kitchen, it is here. This is usually big enough to hold everyone, though not necessarily comfortably.
-- groups of cabins. These are usually small, and only good as places to sleep. If that.
-- bathrooms scattered, usually with groups of cabins and the central building.
-- other out buildings, such as craft lodges, pools, archery huts, etc. Basically, places to manage training and recreation in specialized buildings.
-- a parking lot,
-- no fucking cell signal at all.
This one to two hundred habitation informs a lot of how I think about fantasy armies, necromancers, and cities.
As I do so, I realize that I'm essentially planning how to build out a campsite, with such things as:
-- a central building, often dedicated to the local government/deity.
-- groups of barracks or other sleeping arrangements
-- privies
-- training and recreation, the same fucking thing
-- roads, which these serve to guard and maintain
I feel like I need exposure to other basic units of putting people together outside of cities. Cities I've seen -- loads and loads! -- but communities that exist outside of a city? Essentially just camp sites.
So: Got any ideas?
Played fucking Catan last night.
Played fucking Catan last night.
That fucking game. I was sitting at 9 points for half the game session. Then other people were. Nobody could get to ten points.
At one point, I had everything I needed. Then I got robbered.
The game lasted like two hours. In the end, we were checking each turn to see if the person could just win. Eventually, with a little help, I could just win.
Christ. It was fun for the first half hour to hour, but not the second hour.
I blame myself: I was facilitating, and went for all and only hard points. f my initial strategy had worked, it would have been quick game.
Alas. That's what I get for trying to show off.
Much prefer: Carc, Seven Wonders, Between Two Cities. These all have something in common: the game has a time limit.
That fucking game. I was sitting at 9 points for half the game session. Then other people were. Nobody could get to ten points.
At one point, I had everything I needed. Then I got robbered.
The game lasted like two hours. In the end, we were checking each turn to see if the person could just win. Eventually, with a little help, I could just win.
Christ. It was fun for the first half hour to hour, but not the second hour.
I blame myself: I was facilitating, and went for all and only hard points. f my initial strategy had worked, it would have been quick game.
Alas. That's what I get for trying to show off.
Much prefer: Carc, Seven Wonders, Between Two Cities. These all have something in common: the game has a time limit.
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