Recent content by Autumnal

Search your feelings. You know it to be true.

The differences are small but beautifully formed.

I seldom need to discuss the quantity of anything in mmol/L or mg/dl except when talking to my endocrinologist, who’d be happy at a reading of 110 mg/dl or 6 mmol/L, but that’s just measurements of my blood sugar level. They’re units on two different scales for the same value. I don’t think of...

I agree with the flaws in “natural language”.

Natural language doesn’t count because your twitching eye isn’t jargon unless it verbalizes. (Quality misreadings an artform.)

I don’t think 12d8 is jargon. Its notation are expressions like 12’6” and 14t and 12:37 also jargon? That’s a serious question, by the way, since it’s never occurred to me that they could or should be considered as such. If we go to the instant replay Venn diagrams, is notation subsumed within...

I’m tempted to say “all of them”, but that’s a little overreacting. There are probably some not yet drained of all useful meaning. But broadly speaking, if you can find it in use on three different sites/services, it’s past that point. Very little useful discussion about gaming needs jargon, or...

Wow, a lot of items created to pander to my interests this week. Thanks!

Who knew @Snarf Zagyg also sings?

We have fifty years of outdoors, wide-open experiments to show that very few game companies ever grow very large. There are a wide variety of reasons, among them the reality that great business managers willing to work on gaming’s small scale are scarcer than great game designers and artists. In...

If Coca-Cola were the size of rpg companies and suffered a hit like this, I might well donate to help. If Jones Soda Company did, ditto.

But this isn’t any kind of sales data. It’s DDB usage data, and in the US, this has been a time of great job stress for both political and non-political reasons: foolish use of LLMs, massive government employee and contractor layoffs, drastically increased instability, etc. it’s quite possible...

It’s a plausible-looking curve of DDB users. I don’t think the problem is with the curve, but with people who want it to have more precision than that. It’s a bit like looking at someone’s sketched map and being unhappy it’s not up to USGS standards. It can’t bear any of the specific loads...