Catapult @Catpult@octodon.social

It's always useful to have a generic system in your back pocket, especially one that you can memorize in its entirety *and* that has some interesting mechanics.

Enter minimal d6: https://analogkonsole.wordpress.com/minimald6/

Character creation: roll 1d6 for each core attribute that makes sense for your setting. Pick a class that gives you 2 skills, or choose 2 skills from a list.

Core mechanic: Roll 2d6 as a dice pool; 5 or 6 are successes. If you have an appropriate skill, roll 3d6; if at disadvantage, roll 1d6.

https://www.theroot.com/americas-oldest-gun-maker-goes-bankrupt-because-no-one-1824083254

So, a demand crash due to Trump's election certainly didn't help them, but the real reason is hidden in the article (and discussed in the comments) - Cerberus bought them on debt, stripped their operations to the bone, kept the profits, and saddled them with the debt.

Really, regardless of what you think of guns, that shit should be illegal - if you buy a company using debt, the debt should be your problem, not the company's.

People who shit talk Babylon 5's CGI don't realize how advanced it was for the time https://icosahedron.website/media/acJBnMaZaWEcb8j7ioA

Geek? Is this because I have a little plastic statue of Al Nagler on the dashboard of my car?

@chosafine We're very close to needing to do that too :S I hate spreadsheet budgeting though.

I made a flow chart of which Mastodon posts end up in which timelines!

So, you can see how each instance will have a different local timeline, and even a slightly different federated timeline - and you can see why the federated timeline moves so much faster than the local one, too.

#mastodon #meta #tootorial #howto #mastopedia

I think the best lesson you can give to a computer programmer is to let them know that they're not alone in trying to figure this shit out.

Hell, it's a young field and already we've created so many different cultures and languages. Nobody could possibly know all of this all the time.

Be gentle with yourself, computer programmer. The task is hard enough without being hard on yourself.

Postdocs at U of Washington (of which I am one) have been trying to unionize since last fall, against opposition from UW. Yesterday, I participated in a bring-your-laptop "work-in" at the president's office, and today UW said they wouldn't stand in the way any more of a unionization vote. ✊😀

@eskay8 saaaaammmme