gromnar 5 months ago • 100%
Hi! Thanks for your reply. I work with databases and I don't need to correct anything, just thank you for devoting a bit of your time to my question!
gromnar 6 months ago • 100%
Well said... Thanks for spelling it out!
gromnar 6 months ago • 100%
Thanks for these pointers!! Will look into those.
gromnar 6 months ago • 100%
I agree with this message: in fact I am not against doing it by hand. It could be a nice life project. I will look into all the advice that you have given me, thanks everyone!
Hello! I would like to catalogue my library (I estimate in the low thousands but I am unsure of the precise number). I would like to keep tracks of several things, from the "obvious" like author, title, publisher, edition, to more personal like "when"/"where" did I get it. Was it a gift? Is a lucky find from that one trip to Paris, etc. What's the best way to go about it? A physical collections of cards ? An app? I would like it to be selfhosted (maybe using sqlite as a backend?) Any idea, suggestion or anything (including your experience doing something similar!) is welcome!
gromnar 9 months ago • 100%
The Malazan book of the Fallen by Steven Erikson would be my recommendation. Start from Gardens of the Moon and go ahead... It keeps getting better and better!
gromnar 10 months ago • 100%
Your last one is a good question. I don't have an answer but I was leaning towards some sort of conservation law (e.g. normal stars have magnetic fields, when they get squeezed down to a neutron star those fields must go somewhere and it will be very much "concentrated"). Apparently this is a bit too easy (didn't expect to be nothing different). Wikipedia provides a reference to a not too recent (2003) survey, namely this one: https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307133 . I don't know if it's the state of the art but it surely is interesting.
gromnar 10 months ago • 100%
How much I do love those fonts. That proper spacing and balancing... It will always a place in my heart and I fear the day that I will fail to recognize it!
gromnar 10 months ago • 100%
I may well be wrong and too naive, but I think the hate is in many cases rooted in the scary idea that they could find them attractive. And so they signal that "it could never happen to them" and that they are doing it to protect other, weaker people.
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Same for me. I have been reading Linus (Torvalds) posts since decades and it really seemed out of character to me. I even clicked on the link but I admit that I haven't yet understood what is going on. I have decided that it's not for me...
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
So long, and thanks.
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
What is an "Analogue pocket" for those of us ... Out of the loop?
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
There is an optional Ocr pass, from what I understand
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Good job on making the right call and preemptively shutting the server down. Thanks for being alert!
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
One wonders how they market their services : "come to us, we are the best fake reviewers you can find on the web and these 5-star reviews prove it!"
gromnar 1 year ago • 0%
Our favourite: Arkham Horror LCG, Hero realms, Lord of the rings Journey in the Middle Earth, seven Wonders duel. We are currently playing Earthborne rangers. I also often propose war of the rings/twilight struggle/ other war games but they are tougher to sell :-)
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Great news! And looking forward to take part in some of these new communities.
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
It's mine, since it's the only one I own :-) now if only I were able to play it at least passably... That would be a real game changer !
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
This was a really useful post by Josh - who really is a great teacher by the way. Seeing the actual results and the way that the two basses actually compare was informative. With regards to your final question, for me it's action slightly on the low side.
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Of course I do.
I go through several phases: sometimes I am busy reading new books, and other times I am in "reread" mode. This happens for novels and essays as well. I have always been doing that, since I was a kid, and there are books that I have been re-reading since then.
And this is without even mentioning poetry which, in my experience, expects to be read multiple times (in no small part due to the same processes by which we enjoy music - based on repetition and familiarity).
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
I hope to be able to see it in a theatre. Nolan is one of my favourite directors and this is a movie I have been expecting since I first heard of it.
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Several of my bookshelves are devoted to a single (Italian) publisher, namely Adelphi. They have a strong esthetic coherence (Google them and you will see what I mean) and within that publisher I sort by series and then by number.
Otherwise I sort by genre/category (e.g. Tolkien, scifi, photography, fiction, history,...) And within it alphabetically (by author and then by title). When I have some other cases like Adelphi (e.g. Sellerio with its blue books or Penguin classics paperbacks) I strive to achieve adjacency.
Any other approach is clearly madness and nonsense! (I move books around every few weeks :-P )
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Snow crash was great back in the days! I recall 14 years old-me being upset at the "wrong acronym* but I remember it as great fun. I was coming from the darker novels and short stories by Gibson and Sterling and the lighter touch by Neal Stephenson (and others, like ... Rudy Rucker if I am not mistaken) felt nice, while at the same time did not drop the expectations on being engaged on the same kind of reflections/analyses on the human nature like the previous cyberpunk novels.
Those were the times! Plus, I was playing a lot of Cyberpunk 2020 (the tabletop rpg)... :-)
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Hi! Nice to hear that :-) Malazan is capturing me so much that I am worried of rushing it! I deliberately take the time to enjoy it at as many levels as I am capable of (e.g. writing style, choice of words etc).
For Iain M. Banks, you can't go wrong. Use of weapons is an incredible book, but maybe I would think it's better to start from Consider Phlebas. UoW punches... And punches hard.
gromnar 1 year ago • 0%
I just completed The Terror by Dan Simmons and I am currently reading the second book in the Malazan series by Erikson, Deadhouse Gates.
Malazan is amazing.
I found quite difficult to assess the Terror. It was quite a long read for the first 700 pages, then I really enjoyed the last 2 hundreds. But in retrospect I appreciate this slow pace so ... I am not sure about my judgement. In the end I am glad to have read it. I also learned a lot about people and cultures of the Artic circle.
After the Malazan novel I will probably follow upon the third one, but I could also switch back to (re) reading Iain M. Banks or reading Peake's Ghormenghast for the first time.
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
I understand. Just keep in mind that you don't need to "do the voices" or to treat it like an "improv theatre", a perfectly fine way to play is to refer to your character in third person: "so and so knocks quietly on the door and asks "is anybody in there?" Before kicking the door open with a roaring laughter"... And another player could sigh in first person, rolling her eyes: "oh no! Not again!".
As for knowing what to do, that's the job of the GM, to set up interesting scenes for the table!
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Another good alternative and somewhat similar in spirit to Heroquest would be massive darkness. There is a 2nd ed which should be quite good, I have only played the first edition and it was good fun!
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
The movie was quite fun! And it gave a good idea of a fun rpg session, but I prefer other game systems rather than DnD to have that kind of feeling!
Have you ever thought about trying ttrpgs?
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Thanks, I still have to get the hang of this "federation" of servers-thing. I found this beehaw community and the philosophy seemed welcoming and inclusive and so I went for this! I will check out the one that you linked above. Thanks!
Hello! I hope I am not off topic, this is literally my first day here (ok, maybe I should wait and know the community a bit better but I 'll try to be slightly bolder...if it's not ok just let me know). I understand that by choice there are no super focused communities to avoid an excessive fragmentation. So I wonder: is this the good place to discuss about tabletop RPGs? Coop/solo modes, too. I am thinking about Call of Cthulhu, Savage Worlds, Gurps, Fate, ... And not only the usual super famous one! I am a long time GM and sometimes player, both IRL and online, and currently I am playing a lot in solo mode (with the help of the mythic GM emulator).
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
I so agree with you! Been playing RPGs for decades now ...!
gromnar 1 year ago • 100%
Hi! This is my first post here so I hope I don't make some mistakes. If you like Heroquest you could look at other dungeon crawlers, like the dungeons and dragons boardgames (my favourite is "waterdeep: the dungeon of the mad mage"), or my beloved Star wars: imperial assault or Lord of the rings: Journeys in the Middle earth. If you want to expand to other genres, since you like AH you could try Arkham horror: living card game. Absolute masterpiece.
The latest addiction to my game library is Earthborne rangers and is quite a refreshing take.
I hope that some of these resonate with you!