Lance Weber

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• Commented on Roll the dice
  Another observation: TTRPG's are far more popular, diverse and evolved than the 80's-90's. There's a significant audience for streaming live-play RPGs, for example Critical Role's videos have 150M+ views. I feel like that should somehow be a factor here....
• Commented on Roll the dice
  All of the campaigns and modules from Laundry Games Ltd are incredibly detailed and widely acclaimed for their fantastical world-building and challenging god-tier end bosses. Players are encouraged to share their campaign notes and approaches on /r/laundrygames, whose moderators never...
• Commented on The dog ate my homework
  I'll second Geoff's recommendation as a Mac alphageek living in a corporate Windows world. When I absolutely, positively have to have maximum Office compatibility with shared documents, it's time to boot my dedicated Office VM. You do get file system...
• Commented on Holding pattern (part N ...)
  I can't speak to Edinburgh, but for tech startups in general I think there's a common template for successful startup cities. Tech (vs Bro) entrepreneurs are attracted to environments that are open minded, lifestyle tolerant, risk embracing, future facing in...
• Commented on Holding pattern (part N ...)
  I've been thinking about the intersection of:The latest round in the Surveillance vs Privacy vs Security War which is inevitably a one-way ratchet. Assigning ownership of all your digital assets to shell companies originating in countries with strong privacy protections....
• Commented on The present in deep history
  It didn't start that way, but every time I started working on a bullet point I couldn't get this 2305AD sixteen year old history student's voice out of my head. Literally, because Disney's Facebook Messenger for AppleSoft iHead 8s has...
• Commented on The present in deep history
  Posting without seeing anything that may have hit while this was open. Sorry! This is a Western biased History. The -- notes are what most casual students "know" in the 30th century. Scientific Method and it's applications to Physics, Biology,...