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Pretty good episode about jj, with its creator, and a little bit of insight into how it is used and developed at google.

I’ll say i think the hard part of learning it is with Git, you’re used to making your changes and then adding them to a commit. With JJ, it’s kind of backwards. You start the commit, add changes to it, and you’re only really finished with that commit when you start the next one. And it’s a small change of workflow, but it’s a big change of ingrained habits and muscle memory. And the payoff doesn’t really come until you try and do your first merge or your first rebase. So if you give JJ a try, and I think you should… Make sure you get past that initial weirdness and get to the good stuff before you really make a decision, because that’s what you want to evaluate.

I’ve started messing around with jj a little bit, and I think it’s worth checking out because it makes rebases and merges and editing history much more simple and easy.

And I’m also excited to see jj in like 3 years. When it has multiple backends, and you can share code and have remotes that aren’t necessarily git. Because the part that’s a little clunky right now is trying to smash jj’s square peg concept of bookmarks into git’s round hole concept of branches. Not that it’s bad. It’s just awkward, and I bet it’s going to get better when there’s a jj native collaboration workflow.

Okay so I bought the itch.io TTRPGs for Accessible Gaming Charity Bundle because I think that Accessible Gaming is awesome, and one of the highlights on the bundle was this cute little game called Under The Neighborhood. Turns out these are the rules custom made for the Quest Freinds podcast! So I decided to give the podcast a listen. And it has been really fun!

I think Kyle’s Under The Neighborhood ruleset is spot on great. Dead simple, but also plenty of room for customization for the players. It’s 85% pbta and 15% cypher system, which makes sense because I think I remember hearing one of their first games together was Numenera. And you can see it in the phrasing of playbooks and modifiers: I am an “x” who “y"s.

And I like how modular they play it. All of the necromon rules are adapted from and layered on from Animon Story. Kyle makes heavy use of the “Paint the scene” mechanic from Brindlewood Bay. All of the courtroom mechanics are lifted straight from the Ace Attorney games. It’s a great example of how you don’t need to invent everything yourself. Beg, borrow, and steal from other games!

https://questfriendspodcast.com/hereafter

https://itch.io/b/2623/ttrpgs-for-accessible-gaming-charity-bundle

https://questfriends.itch.io/neighborhood

Been listening to a lot of back episodes of HPR. Lots of klatu’s old RPG episodes. And a couple of other grab bag episodes. It’s a nice variety of content and hosts.

Started listening to Indiepocalypse after duder started shipping thumb drives of the zine/game bundle in cassete tape cases, which i think was really rad. Nathalie Lawhead was in episode 1 which was really cool.

super raunchy and dirty but also bust a gut funny. i thought it was just gonna be an immature laugh fest, but there is also some damn decent character development and roleplaying too. this is gonna turn out to be a top tier D&D podcast, I think. not for anybody who wants to hear actual dice rolls: they edit those out. it’s all narrative and story telling.

tomasino is doing a podcast for nanowrimo! it’s all about solar punk. https://podcast.tomasino.org/@SolarpunkPrompts/episode

it’s the matthew perry book! i don’t know what kind of weird narcissistic a-hole can say with a straight face “I’ve done 30 years of therapy, there’s nothing else it can teach me” while continuing to have obvious personal issues the size of OUTER SPACE.

complete: Sat, 16 May 2020 09:42:50 -0600

The ending with the school principal / guidance counselor murder suicide WTFFFFF

plowing through Fantasy High starting episode 6 right now brennan lee mulligan is an absolute force of nature this is maybe Emily’s first time playing D&D? She sounds much less experienced than in NADDPOD Her flipping the car off the road was inSANE

• Dimension 20 Fantasy High
• Tales of Nowhere
• NADDPOD: Trinyvale

Can’t believe this thing is ending after 3 years

on the pen-penultimate episode. The scope and scale of the writing is off the wall. Brennan’s ability to improvise is amazing.

Naddpod: Over! ToN: Over! Season 2 of Naddpod started this week. Lapping it up. Season 2 of ToN has been teased. Anxious to hear it. We’ve been promised more in-universe (multiverse?) continuity than we’ve been given with Naddpod. I’m digging Evermourn (Naddpod) though. Murph managed to turn a triumvirate of gods into a fey vs. undead dichotomy that is really interesting so far. Also started listening to Dungeons and Daddies at the insistance of Triple D. It’s awesome and I’m loving it, and I’m loving seeing the effect that his listening to it is having on how much he’s been enjoying our own D&D sessions lately.

Started up season 2 of Naddpod. It’s pretty good! Don’t really have much time to actually listen to it..