Web access doesn’t work for months now and the admin has disappeared.

In der Praxis ist das Ziel solcher Überwachung doch dann Drogendealer und Umweltaktivisten.

The point of the author seems that autopilot is better than FSD for him:

Without FSD, you pay attention to the road and everything else is within your control. With FSD, you still need to pay attention but now there’s the additional cognitive load to monitor an unpredictable system over which you don’t have direct control. Forget about just being focused, you need to be hyper-focused, and you need to pay $99 per month or a one time fee of $12,000 for the privilege. With the limited functionality of autopilot, you hit the sweet spot: adaptive cruise control and lane centering work reliably, and you don’t need to worry about any other mischief.

Germany because a lot of family lives here.

AfD-Wähler haben offenbar eher Angst vor Kriminalität, Fremden, Islam, und Veränderung.

Ja, dieses Mal kann man noch eine Kleinpartei wählen. Nächstes Mal wären das dann verschenkte Stimmen. ☹️

Strategisch wäre Grüne aber nicht die Anderen, denke ich.

Große Frage ist ja, ob Ursula mit ECR oder mit Grüne/EFA wiedergewählt wird. Ihr Wahlkampf hat den Green Deal herunter priorisiert. Damit Klima auch nur genauso wichtig bleibt wie es bisher ist, braucht es also eine starke Grüne/EFA Fraktion.

Klimaliste und Letzte Generation sind nicht Teil der Fraktion soweit ich das sehe. Wäre also ein klareres Signal aber Realpolitisch mit weniger Auswirkung.

Alternative Mitglieder der Fraktion sind Piraten, ÖDP, und Volt.

Ich sehe da da gutgemeinte Ironie aber für Wahlwerbung ist das zu subtil.

Das dachte ich mir auch. Allerdings scheint der Originaltext noch nirgends verfügbar zu sein.

Another week of Tesla bashing, I guess. 😁

Who said anything about “five nines”? All we know from the article:

A couple of hundred claims a week would be a lot in normal times, he says. When the coronavirus hit, millions of claims suddenly were being filed and hitting the front end, which could not handle the massive increase in volume.

I’d say it wouldn’t be that critical if was down half the time.

Not sure of these “millions of claims” were submitted within days, weeks, or months. So we have no clue about the volume. Maybe a single server would be fine. But who am I kidding, the cheap Javascript guys will probably build a distributed cloud monster anyways…

I don’t understand why they need COBOL programmers when it is a frontend load problem. Let some cheap Javascript guys write a new frontend with a cache.

I mostly agree with them and i framed it as prediction markets are rarely useful.

Hm, ich hab von der Polizei gehört, dass man nicht sofort löschen sollte. Man könnte das ja wiederum als Vernichtung von Beweismitteln oder Behinderung oder so auslegen.

Anwälte wiederum raten eher möglichst nicht mit der Polizei zu reden weil “alles was sie sagen kann gegen sie verwendet werden”.

A single session should be doable with one or two pages. I like the style the Mausritter community uses a lot. For an example, see the Stumpsville adventure in the base game.

A larger good example is The Waking of Willowby Hall. Multiple pages describing every room in a big mansion.

• There should be a single paragraph intro which can be given to players in advance (so no spoilers!).
• An image is great to convey the mood and style.
• A map is usually useful but think broadly. The map of Stumpsville is more like a picture from the side. Still good enough to say “you are here in now”.
• Offering multiple plot hooks is great to embed it into a larger campaign.
• Lots of bullet point lists and bold text parts to optimize orientation during play.
• To avoid going “off rails”, just state a clear goal. If they go “off rails” then it is a short session.
• Something I miss in many adventures (especially if sandbox style modules) is a sense of urgency. Work some kind of timer into your adventure. Willowby Hall has an escalation mechanism built in which increases danger essentially because time passes. In other words, don’t just “rescue the princess” but also “she gets sacrificed in three hours” and it should be possible to reach her too late.

What I don’t need is a showdown scene. In general, I prefer “adventure sites” rather than “adventure stories”.

Was ich noch schlimmer finde, soweit ich das von einer Info-Veranstaltung der Polizei verstanden habe: Der Besitz an sich ist ja schon strafbar, sprich diese “alarmierten Eltern”, die das Bild nur empfangen haben, könnten in Folge den “vorbestraft” Stempel bekommen.

Ein besserer Titel wäre wohl „Weiterer Fehler der GroKo korrigiert“.

He has been “playing one campaign or another since mid-2014”. Also, “Of the last three years, one was spent entirely on a level 1-10 campaign of Pathfinder 2E, with the other two years jumping between Shadowdark, Mork Borg, Blades in the Dark, Monster of the Week, and finally a Heart: the City Beneath campaign that’s ending next week.”

Also, he writes “with the exception of PF2E, all the other systems I’ve tried are less mechanically demanding.” So he seems to have at least a vague understanding of multiple systems. Enough to voice an opinion at least.

There seems to be a lot of attention on WotC actions, so I guess people are concerned that it might work to turn D&D in this dreaded “lifestyle brand?” Statements like the “it won’t work” in the title serve to convince yourself then.

I don’t care about WotC. There is no threat to anything I’m playing. If they destroy the D&D brand, so be it.

Could it still affect me negatively? Maybe indirectly. If D&D blows up, then RPG community probably shrinks and fewer people join. The most popular game is the entry game for many after all. So it will hurt the many small indie creatives too. Maybe there will be a painful correction. On the other hand, it probably results in a more healthy and resilient community afterwards. Still, I would feel sorry for the people who live on a small RPG business now which might not survive a D&D implosion.

Nothing is wrong with just saying it. In practice, it sometimes doesn’t work out though.

For a very public drastic example, look at the Far Verona rape:

The reaction of the other players at the table while the scene plays out is telling. It appears that no one expected this storyline to go where it went.

Yet, nobody said “I don’t like where this is going.”

To be clear: I don’t blame them for not saying it. Probably, I probably would have been quiet in that situation too. I believe that safety/communication tools are usually not necessary but in rare cases they are. Thus, it is a good practice in general and worth some overhead.