lunch variations: a big chickpea / carrot / romaine salad * * * A while back I stumbled across a gaming community website about adapting a "monster parts" salvaging system into D+D. This is a trope we see a lot in MMO games like Warcraft, FFXI and their ilk, which meshes with their crafting subsystems. My initial reaction was "squee" but having let that concept simmer on the backburner of my brain a while now, I think it's actually kind of a dead end. In MMOs, the goal is "keep players subsc... (...more)

brekarito 30g cocoa/soy bev 29g litter genie Discord has folded to UK mandatory social-media self-doxxing regulation. So, soon Discord users will have to upload some form of ID or perhaps work with a third-party mass-doxxing service to keep using their accounts. Castle Age settled on Discord as a platform for community engagement around 2017. For my stint playing Realm of the Mad God, I also lurked on that Discord, and though I hardly followed them at all beyond initial landing, Mensa's TTRP... (...more)

cocoa soy and supplement powder pods pipelined thru Sat 8 pepper jack / turkey kielbasa brekaritos added to Mrs batch load / run shwasher * * * I should have internalized this lesson long before yesterday: browning and omeletting one burrito's worth of ingredients at a time is by far the most time-consuming way to make batches of brekaritos. BUT browning and scrambling 8 ritos' ingredients in one go, tends to give inconsistent filling ratios. The middle way is dice+brown all the meat at... (...more)

3+ weeks into the new tracker sheet, I haven't NOT taken 200mg caf to kick-start the day, or the cocktail of [phytosterol + isoflavone + creatine] powders; and the one time I skipped cocoa / soy protein bev, it was to have some other high-protein jigger. Clearly those habits are solid; those tracker rows aren't functional, just empty ritual. The 29g protein bev does figure into protein tracking though, so that should stay on the sheet. Last year I had a row-per-day tracker with: weight, cal ... (...more)

6:30a alarm, up by 6:45; metabolic usuals by 8a * * * Long thoughts about how character build choices led very different role-played portrayals of Tuzo and Clank in the last campaign. Tuzo was built on optimal melee features at the expense of soft skills or options that tie into less cut-and-dried aspects of the game. It's not a stunning new observation that a huge chunk of 5th Edition D+D consists of exhaustive coverage of resolving combat. What was a new thought today is that optimizing Tuzo fo... (...more)