[–] 3 points 2 months ago

Use yt-dlp to download all videos. Most RSS readers can automatically fetch YouTube channels.

Set the computer to download what you want overnight.

Upside: Recommendations will not appear.

Downside: I don't know if you can 'Chromecast' videos. I just have a small computer attached to my TV (any computer will do).

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Hard magic seems like an unavoidable perspective. Once someone casts spells daily, those spells become familiar.

    Tolkien avoided this problem with limited spells. Le Guine leaned into it so hard that the method became enchanting. The reader could see Sparrowhawk's point of view and start to wonder more about the rules of magic as they trickle out slowly.

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    When you cook well, you can eat the food.

    When the bot says something, you always need to look up if it's correct. That's the 'cook a new meal from scratch' bit, not the 'taste it' bit.

    You need to look things up every time, or do the taste test by asking if the bot's answer 'smells true' (which is tempting, but a bad idea).

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago

    Those are both manual tagging. One uses tag: sultan, the other uses [[sultan]].

    And you can word-search both of them for Sultan.

    Of course, if you have use for a WoD wiki, feel free to convert it. I assume Logseq will let people collaborate just as well with git.

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    In my quest for ever-easier RPG introductions, I present:

    • Choose-Your-Own-Trial is a CYOA[^1] where you're in jail, then on-trial. It introduces the system and gives you a tiny character sheet.
    • Induction at the Temple of Beasts is a mini lore-dump in a short story (set after the trial).
    • Another CYOA follows, where you hunt an albino basilisk who's definitely not Moby Dick.
    • The 'Halfshots' are tiny modules which take about two hours to run.

    Everything was made to be printed (so you can score through HP boxes with a pencil) but reading should be fine.

    [^1]: A 'Choose-Your-Own-Adventure' book was a short book disguised as a long one, popular in the twentieth century. You make a choice at each paragraph to have the hero fight or flee or whatever by selecting the next paragraph you jump to.

    [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    would allow for more connectivity between notes

    Databases don't have an upper limit of connections.

    I'm sure both work fine, but this thing's database-first, as it's meant to deal with queries like 'Events in Belgrade, between 1200 and 1450', or 'random male name from Catalan in 1520'.

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    This little database has historical events, battles, names, and population totals, because those things are the boring research questions you need to answer for Vampire campaigns and similar.

    The database is in plain-text, so you can edit it with notepad or vim. But it's also a relational database. Make of that what you will.

    Right now it mostly focuses on Belgrade.

    PRs very welcome.