Theory review #228 – ropeblogi
Some mutual decisions by Canyon reports play of ”It was a mutual decision”, including the social dynamics around the table and playing out (or not) sex scenes. On the frames (Them deepe…| ropeblogi
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Some mutual decisions by Canyon reports play of ”It was a mutual decision”, including the social dynamics around the table and playing out (or not) sex scenes. On the frames (Them deepe…| ropeblogi
Check out the evidence for this fascinating theory.| TrekMovie.com
There is already a prior question dealing with why certain bit-widths were chosen (although I do find it somewhat insufficient, but that's another topic), but what strikes me as unusual is how the bits are distributed rather than anything else. If we are to divide a 32-bit, single-precision floating point number into bytes, we see that the exponent is split across bytes 3 and 4, with one bit in byte 3 and seven in byte 4. There are various "homebrew" floating point libraries around online tar...| Recent Questions - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
By: Travis Wayne The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. Build the branch to build the party. “The party” has as many definitions as there are blades of grass. Each tendency and caucus tends to imbue “the party” with its own nuances, […] The post OPINION: 2025 DSA Convention – Build the Branch, Build the Party appeared first on Working Mass.| Working Mass
The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them Websites have evolved over the years, but in the name of evolution, there seems to be mistaken thinking that the process of building a website needs to get more complex, using Javascript frameworks and| Good Internet
Making a website would be so much easier if the web came with a good conceptual model for thinking about site construction. If you’re making a spreadsheet, the spreadsheet grid provides a vital conceptual and spatial scaffold for your work, helping you break down your data entry and analysis| Good Internet
Should designers explain what rpgs are in their games? My short answer is no. My long answer is complicated.| Explorers Design
In Part I, I discussed those questions that distinguished Catholicism and Orthodoxy, on the one hand, from all of Protestantism, on the other. In Part II, I began to discuss questions that distinguish "High Church" traditions (Catholicism and Orthodoxy again, but also including Lutheranism, much of| LarrySanger.org
I picked up the Vermis fictional game books, and it sparked some ideas about the nature of game design. I’ll repeat the thread here, since it seems the internet is disappearing things quicker…| Deeper in the Game
Schema theory is now officially on MCT! In a hurry – read: Schema Theory – A Quick Background Have the time? Dig in to: The Schema Theory overview page| Mass Communication Theory
New page on Systems Theory is now live! Systems theorists study the interaction of an input through a system to its output, anything influencing this that isn’t part of the system can either be termed “environment” or “noise” depending on … Continue reading →| Mass Communication Theory
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This post is a classic piece by Karl Marx, “The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof.” It’s the last section of the first chapter in Capital, volume 1. This analysis had a big impact on me when I first read it in grad school, and it has shaped a lot of my own work. At … Continue reading Marx’s “The Fetishism of Commodities” and Its Implications for Education| David Labaree on Schooling, History, and Writing
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Eight: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Seven: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Economists have developed different types of models describing the interaction of agents in markets. Early models in general equilibrium theory describe agents taking prices as given and do not consider the incentives of agents to manipulate prices strategically. With appropriate convexity assumptions on the preferences, such models can be cast as convex optimization problems for which efficient algorithms are known to find a competitive equilibrium. Price-taking behavior might be a reasonabl...| cacm.acm.org
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Freedom Friday, kirjoittajana James Maliszewski, pohtii pelinjohtajan esiintymisjännitystä. For the queen – helppo tarinapeli, kirjoittajana Laku Laukkanen, kuvailee pelin toimintaa.| ropeblogi
By: Emma Buckley The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not represent the official position of Working Mass. We try to help the working class to get the smallest possible but real improvement (economic and political) in their situation and we add always that no reform can be durable, sincere, […] The post OPINION: DSA Can Bring Socialism to the Shop Floor appeared first on Working Mass.| Working Mass
this is maybe the longest post ive ever made and certainly the longest theory post and yet it also contains: invisible things to show your players, alternatives to "resolution" as a means for interacting with fiction, a kung fu fighting procedure, 1d6 ways to win d&d, and two whole entire games. so you'll just have to take a chance won't you.| wasitlikely.blogspot.com
We're talking about violence, racial killings and rape - Which uhhh, very heavy needless to say. I'm not sure I handled it all with the grea...| www.failforward.moe
Wondering how to best organize your folders in Obsidian? After many years I found a solution I like, which I call FINVA.| Obsidian Rocks
This is the second set of questions and answers about the distinctive doctrines of the Christian denominations. My aim in this series is to help me to decide on my proper denominational home. […]| LarrySanger.org
Understanding solver technology is very challenging. You not only have to grapple with the technology itself, which does not come naturally to a lot of people, but you also have to determine why the solver takes lines you could not even conceive of. The post Building Better River Strategies (And When to Ignore Equity Advantage) appeared first on GTO Wizard.| GTO Wizard
In this era of game theory and solvers and poker games running at a huge variety of stakes at venues all around the world, as well as on dozens of apps and online poker sites, it’s easy to forget that, for the majority of its existence, poker has been a game of hustlers. The post The Case for the Hero Check: Why Great Players Know When Not to Bet appeared first on GTO Wizard.| GTO Wizard
I think one of the phrases of modern RPG design I’ve grown to dislike is “fragile design”, because it misses the context of larger game design outside of RPGs: many games are made with just enough rules to work, and when you pull some out, the game stops working, or works in such a different […]| Deeper in the Game
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Here is the section 3.5 of Nancy Lynch’s 1989 paper – A Hundred Impossibility Proofs for Distributed Computing, which is profound:| Lu’s blog
The relative power matrix gives organizers a more sophisticated way to think about shifting the balance of power in their favor.| Waging Nonviolence
I had never watched Bob Ross’s Joy of Painting series until that magnificent twitch run back in 2015. The thing that really stuck with me (other than the fact that Bob Ross was a saint now but had clearly been through some shit) was how much he emphasized that paintings were entirely optical illusions. It’s […]| ars ludi
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to authority.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss this game's approach to consequences.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss the rules for combat.| A Knight at the Opera
Continuing my posts about The Seven-Part Pact (7PP) and some of its nifty mechanical design ideas, I want to discuss the rules for Companions.| A Knight at the Opera
We sometimes joke that blogging is a method of exorcism for the game design demons inside us. And right now, I'm possessed by the demon called Legion, for it is many. That's right, I speak once more of The Seven-Part Pact. I'm going to blog about this game until I've purged myself of Wizard Madness.| A Knight at the Opera
In a previous post on LarrySanger.org, I listed some “questions that distinguish the denominations.” More precisely, I attempted to list, tentatively, questions that, taken together, are minimally adequate to distinguish the doctrinal commitments of the major denominations (and quite a few minor ones, as well). I got much useful feedback on that list. What follows reflects the first section of an edited list, i.e., not the original list. I will cover later sections in later posts.| LarrySanger.org
Poker theory offers many conceptual tools for answering the question, “What is your hand worth?” You may be familiar with equity (EQ), expected value (EV), and equity realization (EQR), which are essentially different methods of taking a snapshot of a hand’s value. The post What’s Your Hand Worth? From Thin Value to Playing for Stacks appeared first on GTO Wizard.| GTO Wizard
Digital version of my pamphlet on Itch! Investigating the historical context and legacy of Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written to proselytize radical liberalism right before the American Revolution.| Traverse Fantasy
I’ve gotten comments from people asking questions that I thought would be nicer to answer in longer form! Thank y’all so much for your interest and responses :)| Traverse Fantasy
I wanted to keep making mini versions of Capital volumes because it'd be fun, besides hopefully being useful for others to get a conversational grasp on Marx's critique. Like, "Yeah, I've read Capital, in the form of these stupid little things." But while working on this and revisiting the second volume, now published on Itch, a thought struck me which I've included as a postface. Let's start with the content of the zine, and then I'll get into that.| Traverse Fantasy
There are so many urgent—one could argue, dire—issues which members of the community of historians face. The ongoing right-wing war against public and higher education…| The Tattooed Professor
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Six: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. Across her works, Octavia Butler taps into and destabilizes a primary process of Eurocentrism—relativizing […] The post Writing Against a Fascist Aesthetic appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
This piece is part of a series of essays from artist Kandis Williams on Octavia Butler. “(Euro)Futurism failed to depict the terrors of captivity shaped by race, reality, and materiality. […] The post Octavia Butler and Creative Resistance appeared first on MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food.| MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
Politicians regularly partner with business, when they should collaborate with grassroots movements.| Waging Nonviolence
You can make a game that is very easy to learn and play if you ask the players to do very little. But here’s my theory: the more a game lets you contribute — the more it asks of you — the more rewarding play can be. And I mean rewarding in the sense of […]| ars ludi
Truth in finance is often subjective. This is a case study in fighting natural bias, avoiding blind spots, and dealing with human nature.| Portfolio Charts
I have now been running my open table Marmoris game for closer to a year and a half, a game that started out as me setting out to make a small dungeon to introduce a friend to osr-style dungeon crawling or at least the version of that that I have inside my own head.| The Colours of Pentagrams
There's a cliché quote often falsely attributed to Oscar Wilde: "Everything is about sex, except sex, which is about power." Thankfully, thi...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Talia Bhatt wrote a really good essay called “ The Third Sex ”, about how the third-sexing of individuals who display male-to-female cross-s...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
Years ago I first started talking about the split between Procedures & Directives in RPG design. As I’m currently writing up a game for some friends, I realize that some aspects of GMing …| Deeper in the Game
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Overlays for Type Four: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
Winning high-stakes fights against powerful opponents like Avelo, an airline working with ICE, requires targeting its key pillars of support.| Waging Nonviolence
Free will and determinism have exercised me since my teen years, and I’ve thought of myself as a compatibilist since college. I have found no reason to change my mind. Since my conversion in 2020, questions about freedom and divine sovereignty have weighed on my mind, and Calvinists—crusaders for God’s sovereignty that they are—have sternly insisted that I join their side. Well, I do think God is sovereign, and I am inclined to compatibilism. So, I do have much in common with my Calvi...| LarrySanger.org
"Did you hear that? It sounds like... click bait!"| Spouting Lore
I've got a little process that I use whenever I start a game of Dungeon World or Homebrew World. It's similar to the first session procedure that's described in the book, but different in some key ways. I've found that this approach reliably kicks off a new game quickly and with a lot of energy, in a way that makes it pretty darn easy to run and improvise. | Spouting Lore
I've been working on the GMing chapters for Stonetop, and it's made me think about how the conversation really flows. I've also been thinking about GM moves, and Principles and Agenda, and how they all work together. I thought I'd talk about them a little here. | Spouting Lore
As I’m writing this, it’s January. Soon after ‘Blue Monday’, in fact. Said to be the most depressing day of the year And I’m thinking about comfort. The ways that we can soothe ourselves through the dark days of winter and the things we might need to help us achieve that aim. Even though the […] Source| theoretical minimalist
“If everyone paid their bills like Tim, I wouldn’t have a job!” This is an actual quote from my utility company. I am unusually good at paying bills, and I barely even think about it. How do I do it? I have a system. But it wasn’t always this way. I used to wake up […] The post Paying Bills in Obsidian appeared first on Obsidian Rocks.| Obsidian Rocks
I have a contentious relationship with clipping articles in Obsidian. Here are a few reasons why you may or may NOT want to clip articles,| Obsidian Rocks
While writing my review of Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors , I sketched a model of patriarchal ideology and society. It can be read t...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
I read Transgender Warriors by Leslie Feinberg around December 2023, and I’ve vaguely gestured towards having opinions about that book in ...| traversefantasy.blogspot.com
(Continued from Part 1, which looked at the state of TTRPG dungeon design pre-Jaquays. These two posts are cleaned upContinue Reading| Pathika
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …| Pathika
Yavor Tarinski The man who wears the shoe knows best that it pinches and where it pinches. ~John Dewey [1] One of the main pillars of contemporary oligarchies worldwide is the institution of electi…| Equality by lot
My house rules and mouse-sized hacks for the sword-and-whiskers roleplaying game, Mausritter.| Explorers Design
All the hammering and pounding and forge-labor is done (for now). The first draft of the Ground Table principles has been nailed to the door. But how do you test a thing like that? How do you know you got it right? Well one test is the basic gut-check: does it *feel* right. Another is […]| ars ludi
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth The post Type Overlays Type Two: country and family appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
Accurately identifying your Enneagram type really does matter, and here’s why. Mistyped people pay attention, although unintentionally, to the wrong things (or misinterpret why they do something) and subsequently pursue a development path that isn’t going to support their growth| The Enneagram in Business
I’m a big fan of On/Off data, which compares a team’s point differential with a player on the court versus when he’s off the court. I’ve referenced it frequently in the past and think it’s one of the more telling reflections of a player’s value to his team in the advanced stat family. The nice part […]| Back Picks: Fleeting Sports Thoughts
The post How to Perform a Quarterly Business Review (QBR) in 2025 (w/ template) appeared first on Wallaroo Media.| Wallaroo Media
The post How to Get More Email Subscribers Without Spending a Fortune appeared first on Wallaroo Media.| Wallaroo Media
As search engines and digital interactions evolve, traditional SEO is being reshaped by the rise of large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT and Google Gemini.| Wallaroo Media
Credit Konstantin Vavilov| Meandering Banter
The US administration recently announced a sweeping series of tariffs on seemingly every country in the world, and the immediate market reaction was starkly negative with stocks falling double digits in just a few days and volatility shooting through the roof. Naturally, many people who track markets for a living are freaking out. If you’re…| Portfolio Charts
In our last post, we explored the Comfort Zone versus the Opportunity Zone—how the familiar, though soothing, can become a prison of predictability, and how the Enneagram’s Three Centers of Intelligence can help us expand into new freedom. But to The post Moving from the Comfort Zone to the Opportunity Zone for each Enneagram Type appeared first on The Enneagram in Business.| The Enneagram in Business
So those tariffs, huh? Years of folks collectively manifesting US global economic dominance and imperialism to take a hit has finally begun actualizing to the dismay of many (especially given it's at the hands of a hasty transphobic megalomaniac who managed to bankrupt a casino, instead of at the hands of a globalized labor movement). If you're curious what this means for you, the beloved consumer, here's a pretty good breakdown of what's happening. TL;DR stuffs getting more expensive for con...| Fail Forward
From Sir Ian McKellen's Excellent Acting Advise Quite a few people are aware I have somewhat... complicated feelings on theater. Even more s...| www.failforward.moe
Pssst! If you're coming here from the Glatisant, Part 1 is here!| A Knight at the Opera
Does this guy have any actual solutions for us? Of course I do! I'm not just here to poop parties! But first, we must once again return to the ancient wisdom: the difference between game design and level design.| A Knight at the Opera
Ready for a major departure from everything I've been arguing in this series so far?| A Knight at the Opera
Credit: Mike Schley| A Knight at the Opera
Credit: Ralph Horsley So you're trying to make your ultimate citycrawl procedure anyway. And right there, you've already run into the second...| knightattheopera.blogspot.com
We all have a comfort zone—a psychological space where things feel safe, predictable, and under control. It’s the familiar routine, the emotional autopilot, the well-worn mental tracks we’ve been traveling for years. Inside this zone, risk is low, reassurance is| The Enneagram in Business
While thinking about a certain book on the history of religious ideas, I considered how my own approach to theology might fit into that enormous history. This led me to the following summary […]| LarrySanger.org
Revisiting the old-school maxim "Combat is a fail state" and redefining what it means at my table and as a design theory for the OSR.| Explorers Design
Macro Ops: Unparalleled Investing Research | Low Vol Trend to High Volatility Momentum Trading| Macro Ops: Unparalleled Investing Research
Alternative series title: My (Frequently Tested, Yet Still Dubious) Theory of Urban Gameplay| A Knight at the Opera
Macro Ops: Unparalleled Investing Research | Maximizing Momentum for Superior Returns| Macro Ops: Unparalleled Investing Research
Do we have good communities, how can we build better ones, and what role do award shows have in community-building?| Explorers Design
A house rule I am using now is the Prime Swap. Perhaps I can let Prodder and Scrunt explain this approach:| Sham's Grog 'n Blog
Seven Observations and Equations presented for your dissection.| Sham's Grog 'n Blog
“Our ground is level and our table is round” What do we want out of role-playing games? What do we think they should do? What do we value? Our crew has been talking about this stuff for ages, in person, in posts, and through the games we design. But I realized we never put all […]| ars ludi
