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Share your Interests! (piefed.social)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey there! Tell us what you like! Share your interests, you might find some other buddies who share interests with you. Either way, think of this as sort of a show and tell. Share as much as you'd like. Feel free to show/link some examples if you'd like. Let's have fun with it =)!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right now I have a very solid rotation of TTRPGs:

On Sundays, I play Pathfinder Second Edition with some people I met online.
On Tuesdays, I play Star Wars Saga Edition with people I've known for years.
On Saturdays, I ordinarily play Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4e, but the campaign is sorta on hiatus right now while the GM prepares for the next leg of our adventure.

I also have a solo game of Pathfinder 2e using the Mythic Gamemaster Emulator going on that is just... insane, it really went out of control fast. It started with three guys, Dave, Grimgir, and Goru, who wanted to find Dave's missing father. They went to a place a few days' journey away from the capital and came back to find that the local wizard academy had started a coup so they could have their own independent government, Dave's dad is a massive criminal with a rap sheet a mile long, and he got turned in to the government by the revolution he helped start. Where I last left off, Dave and co. ended the siege of the academy by deactivating their defenses from the outside, and then asked dad why he did it. Turns out he had sold his soul to a devil long before Dave was born in exchange for a perfect marriage and a happy family; they found that out moments before justice was carried out on him.

Radio is one of the most complicated fields of electrical engineering. What should work doesn't, and what shouldn't work does. It's amazing that these little gizmos work at all, given that the guy who discovered radio waves for the first time said he thought it was completely pointless. When my class wrote an essay on the most influential technologies of the early 20th century, everyone else wrote about the car. I wrote about the radio, because it paved the way for nearly every wireless technology we have today. If radio didn't exist, we'd all be stuck on landlines and ethernet forever.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Yooo, you are the person to go to when it comes to TTRPGs for sure. You are immersed! I recently had a convo with a friend about either a solo, or a micro-Carin sess. I'm pretty new to the whole thing (only gamed (Pathfinder) or D&D5e pre-pandemic). I am constantly astonished at what the shenanigans of your imagination (anyone's) can get into when you let it run wild. I think about how Junji Ito described his work on Sensor. He said he wanted to know his "main character" but she just kept running away. Which really sounds like what's happening with your solo-crew because Dave is about to unearth some kind of new power or something pertaining to being "half-formed" due to his dad =P! Sounds pretty epic by the by =)

I did think about radio a couple of months back. Like radio, radio - radio stations. On account of being some kind of social monster-butterfly and getting my gooey fingers all over the joint. I thought about the college radio station pre-covid and how I liked the jams people played but also how interesting it was to see as it is something relatively antiquated by this point in our culture. But that DJs are wonderful, in the sense that they very mindfully assemble a simple playlist and then share it hoping for the best. I guess I mean college DJs, things shift a lot when you leave that domain. Super observant bit at the end about the essence of radio. I think that would be peak "neurodivergent" thinking right? I remember it was the same for me. In school, people would always be looking one way and it would be a lot of leap-frog and I would always be looking the other and smacking things together to see if they worked. I used to be ashamed about it, but I think it might be our magic touch. Eh!

Thank you for sharing =)