Players beware, this review of Arcana Unleashed is exclusively for Dungeon Masters. Read at your own peril. The post Dungeons & Dragons Arcana Unleashed Review (for Dungeon Masters) appeared first on Hipsters of the Coast.

A little bit ago, I was approached by KibiFig after they saw my review here about the figures I had ordered. I had also spoken out online about how pleased I was with the figures in general.They offered me an upgraded figure, 6" or 15 cm. There was no expectation of a review afterward so I dug through some images and found one I liked.Last Friday, the figure came in the mail. I already knew what it looked like because Kibifig had been using my little Larina in their most recent ads. I have to…

‘@Play‘ is a frequently-appearing column which discusses the history, present, and future of the roguelike dungeon exploring genre. Violarium is another of that prolific genre of puzzle game, the grid- and turn-based series of progressively-harder problems where you learn the rules as you go, and new complications turn up periodically, until suddenly they’re all done and you’re looking at the credits. At the beginning Often this style of game takes the form of a block-pusher, but not this time.…

The Zz plant thrives in low light and minimal watering. 37 Zz Plant

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday is the seasonal TBR, and aaah, there are so many choices! But there are a few books that I know are coming out which go straight to the head of the pile, for a start… and some books I’ve started that I want to finish, as well as books I got for my birthday. Let’s see! After the Disabled God of War Became My Concubine, vol 4, by Liu Gou Hua. I loved the first three volumes deeply, and I can’t wait for this one, coming out in early November. The happy ending seems…

Doug Brown has dug up something previously lost to time. In working with an early Performa, he discovered a true gem on its hard drive: This Performa 410 was a store demo unit! This is the kiosk software that would have been running on a demo Mac inside a store like Sears or Circuit City. The machine was never wiped back to factory state before being sold, and the original owner kept the demo software the entire time they had the machine. Such a cool find! It includes a comparison between the…

Plautus, Amphitruo 648-653 (Alcumena speaking; tr. Paul Nixon): Courage is the very best gift of all; courage stands before everything, it does, it does! It is what maintains and preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things: a man with courage has every blessing. virtus praemium est optumum; virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto: libertas salus vita res et parentes, 650 patria et prognati tutantur, servantur: virtus omnia…

Drizzle thinning into wind-blown mist by mid-morning. The sky brightens. A pileated woodpecker clings to a skinny locust tree as it sways in the breeze, taps a few times and then tilts her head to the side as if listening for a response.

Here are my recommendations for how I believe people should vote on the nine initiative petitions that Massachusetts residents are voting on this year. TLDR I recommend you vote: YES on Question 1 YES on Question 2 NO on Question 3 YES on Question 4 NO on Question 5 (strong recommendation) NO on Question 6 YES on Question 7 NO on Question 8 YES on Question 9 Question 1: Expanding the Public Records Law I recommend a YES vote on Question 1. Question 1 would amend Massachusetts’s public records…

Another nice day agai. 600 galls oil. Cleared bins, workshop and hay lab. Howarth’s new car. Cutting the holly trees at the far end of the tennis lawn.

I've come to realize that many people I know can barely tell one plant from another. Yes, they may know a tree from a weed, or maybe a shrub from a cactus. According to science journalist Zöe Schlanger, "'plant blindness' is the tendency to view plant life as an indistinguishable mass, a green smudge, rather than as thousands of genetically separate and fragile individuals, as distinct from one another as a lion is from a trout."To one degree or another, most of us suffer from plant blindness,…

This week’s earworm is Reign, a track off the second album by UNKLE, from 2003. James Lavelle has always had incredible taste in collaborators (Ian Brown, Josh Homme, Autolux, Big In Japan, Mark Lanegan, 3D, Chris Goss), and even if the quality of his output has dropped since Psyence Fiction—which is an impossibly high bar to jump. Never, Never Land was a really good album, and this is one of the standout tracks. This is not the first time it’s been stuck in my head; something in the stuttering…

Absolutely delighted to announce I’ll be bringing some wonky tape loop action to the inaugural AURIS FESTIVAL, this October in Manchester! Three days of sound, listening and experimentation, spanning installation, live performance, spatial audio, talks, workshops and soundwalks, exploring the breadth of sound art and the many ways we experience sound. The Howlround Soundsystem will be in full effect, with live tape loops and analogue delay and not a single synth, sampler, pedal or plugin in…

🪰 Persistent fly at home. Bugging us for the past few days with its noise and not willing to leave or get killed 🤬

The Opus 88 Harmony is a mid-sized fountain pen with a JoWo No. 6 nib that comes in a wide array of colors. This week we finally get to introduce two new brands to our newly redesigned store! We are happy to welcome Opus 88, famous for their Japanese-style eyedropper fountain pens, as well as Retro 51, known for their Tornado-series rollerballs and ballpoints that are available in a wide variety of themes and finishes. Stay tuned as we completely revamp the shopping experience here at T.G.S.,…

Happy First Day of Fall! 🍂 The first song I listened to today that always reminds me of a cozy fall day: Jacob Collier's "Little Blue." A cozy poem read and shared by my friend Joe Chambers: "The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider. I'm going to buy a bag of candy corn later today and share with my son. My wife reminded me today that for the past seven years I've always gotten candy corn during fall time, and every time I kind of regretted the decision saying the candy wasn't really…

https://github.com/open-noodle/gallery A friendly fork of Immich, here's their comparison doc https://opennoodle.de/noodle-gallery-vs-immich/

https://immich.app/ https://github.com/immich-app/immich Quality open-source photo gallery

📷 238/365 - Special architecture

This will be a quick one - but as I think more about TypeScript and how I'd like to learn (and play, and build silly demos), I naturally thought it may make sense to look at how I'd use Alpine.js with that stack. Alpine's been my go to library for web apps that reach the level of complexity where I'd like some help with DOM manipulation and such. I don't always use it, because (imho) the default stack should be as vanilla as possible (obviously I'm going a bit off ranch with these explorations…

Another month, another agent-shell update. If you missed the last post, have a look at the 0.73 update. As usual, this post showcases highlights, but please check out the full list of changes if you're after the nitty-gritty. What's agent-shell? agent-shell is a native Emacs mode to interact with AI agents powered by ACP (Agent Client Protocol). New supported agents Two agents join the family, available as usual via M-x agent-shell, or explicitly as follows: Antigravity (Google), #795 by…

The phrase “if it hurts, do it more often” has bee applied variously to software teams and processes in the last fifteen years, and is a means to improve team processes and efficiency, but must be wielded carefully! This post covers my application of, and experience with this idea during my time leading Ubuntu Engineering and Charm Engineering at Canonical.

Kicking teh tires of jev for a very basic query understanding task

A researcher switched off a BYD Shark 6’s headlights while a journalist drove it at night. The same investigation demonstrated remote location tracking and access to the cabin microphone. Those are substantial capabilities to lose control of in something you use to get your family home.The demonstration, covered by Security Affairs, came from ABC’s Four Corners investigation. Researcher Dan Hreszczuk had the vehicle for two weeks before the test. He said the access he used lacked a password,…

Audible and Higher Ground LLC are sponsoring the podcast series A Great Book With Barack Obama. Our former President will discuss books which have been important to him, and by extension he believes to us all. The line up for the six podcasts is: Episode 1: Tom Hanks (Uncommon Type) on Gilead by Marilynne Robinson Episode 2: Ta-Nehisi Coates (Between the World and Me) on The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin Episode 3: Jill Lepore (These Truths: A History of the United States) on All the King’s…

The Boys in the Boat (2023) is about as feel good as they get these

On September 17th, I gave a talk at Stanford Law School based on my article, Technology and Constitutional Rot. My thanks to Michael McConnell, Jud Campbell, and Duncan Hosie at Stanford's Constitutional Law Center for the opportunity. Here is the video:

Red pandas may look like a charming mixture of fox, raccoon and teddy bear, but they are none of the above. The red panda, Ailurus fulgens, is the only living representative of the family Ailuridae—an ancient branch of the carnivore family tree with a fossil history stretching back millions of years.Fossil ailurids first appeared during the Miocene Epoch. Their remains have been found

The best thing that happened this week Better late than never, I finally got around to writing the notes for last week. On Friday night I had a look at the App Store Connect dashboard and noticed CalAction suddenly had a lot of downloads. Turns out some German company pushed the app to their employees which I think is absolutely bonkers. I have no idea how they found the app, who the company even is, or why they decided to push it to all their employees, but it's a really nice surprise either…