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It is interesting how many of these play D&D with AI games are out there. Here's one example (no affiliation): https://airealm.com/


My first thought: if I let AI play the PCs so I can DM for the first time in decades, wouldn't that be weird and pointless?

My second thought: how many hours of my life have I spent playing with/against computer game opponents again?


oh and the Calypso link is here: https://github.com/northern-lights-province/calypso-aiide-ar...

As others have mentioned, I have been using Claude to write some prompts for things, give me some ideas for scenarios with younger players, and name some cities and towns in my campaign.


This brought me to my first programming experience (outside of college computer labs while on field trips) - the VIC-20.

http://cini.classiccmp.org/pdf/Commodore/VIC-20%20User%27s%2...


The VIC-20 was the first computer I could call my own. It was a near perfect toy for a kid, just the way it worked when you were entering text seemed to encourage exploration. You could use the cursor keys, color control keys, and graphics keys to paint a picture without actually programming and when you did want to write a program, you could workshop your PETSCII on the screen before coding it in.

I love how the manual encourages you to experiment, and how it portrays error messages as the computer helpfully flagging up mistakes so you can fix them.


Ditto. If it weren't for my Vic-20 and Compute magazine, I might not have embarked on my career in software development.


A list of Physics movies, without mentioning the most accurate depiction of Graduate School? No list is complete without the glory that is Real Genius. "Self-realization. I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"" https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089886/?ref_=tt_ch


Real Genius was great. Are there any other movies about graduate school? I can’t think of any.


Cooking: while in grad school we started a cooking club, which has since evolved into a cookbook club. One person chooses a cookbook, and then tells the group which main dish they will prepare. Others chime in with side dishes, desserts, etc. The group gets together to discuss the book, the challenges, the triumphs, etc. It is one of the things I look forward to!


THANK YOU! I just lost a good 20 minutes reading through that blog, and I just bought the book! And ... I downloaded Karateka on my iPhone.


I have been using an App called Zero which (importantly for your question) has a "Learn" section which allows you to read up on fasting. (as an example they link to this: https://getkion.com/fasting-decoded/

I started with the 'skip breakfast' style of fasting, which was good, but then I did my homework on the different 'types':

16:8 16 hours no food: 8 hour 'feeding window' (generally normal dinner, no breakfast, later lunch)

18:6 - this is where I believe most Intermittent fasters go.

20:4 - I've done this a bit, and it works for me, but I can't do it more than once or twice(!) a week.


There have been studies on people as well, with encouraging results: http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/377/eaai8700

as well as

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S155041311...

Still, more work needs to be done.


Interestingly, Boston Calling won't enforce this rule: http://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2018/01/24/going-...

and also - Pearl Jam has released information on their upcoming tour - the tickets themselves will be SmartPhone only (from their Fan Club site, Ten Club):

Ten Club Mobile Tickets: No will call. No physical tickets. In order to distribute tickets more efficiently, Ten Club will be delivering all Ten Club tickets directly to your smart phone. Mobile ticket delivery requires an iPhone or Android smart phone. Instead of scanning a physical ticket at the gate, members will access tickets through their smartphone and scan directly from the screen of your mobile device. Step-by-step instructions on how to access your ticket on your phone will be sent to all Ten Club ticket holders via email when they are ready for mobile distribution. We plan to have this delivered to you by early July.


Mobile tickets; There are a few ways that they handle this. They may have a seperate line for mobile tickets, and then hand you a printed out reciept and then they deface your phone.

When I used the mobile ticket with the The Killers at the UC, they gave me a paper copy of the ticket for the seat info.


That's great thanks, added to Feedly!


Thanks for this! I just signed up ...


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