Rob Donoghue

@rdonoghue

Agile Nerd, Bag Nerd, Pen Nerd, Productivity Nerd and RPG Nerd (sense a theme?) Game Designer. Co-Founder of Evil Hat. Intermittently verbose. He/Him

Maryland, USA
walkingmind.evilhat.com
Joined March 2007
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    9 hours ago

    Two of the most skilled humans I know chatting. This is well worth your time. And a good time to check out Aydrea's Youtube show when you have a chance.

    Interviewing Experts with Aydrea Walden () is tonight & my class on why, when & how to work with an assistant (featuring & ) is next week, but if Patreon isn't accessible this is a reminder that you can still join the Lady Astronaut Club!
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  2. 13 hours ago

    Huh. Secret whiteboard.

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    17 hours ago

    Honestly, they keep doin the damn thing and I'm about it.

    2:27
    Cowboy Bebop presents… The Lost Session
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  4. 15 hours ago

    This is such a fantastic, educational example of the use of passive voice to obscure events that it’s easy to forget it’s also monstrous.

    According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the trooper entered the path of the motorcyclist which led him to crash into the cruiser and become ejected. Troopers said the motorcyclist then fell into the road and was hit by a semi.
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    Oct 18

    How to start with ? Company wide? Pilot? Whom to involve? One thing's for sure! You need passionate people to inspire others. asked for advice. I'm so humbled to be included next to experts such as who inspires me every day 😌

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    Oct 18

    John Deere is going to shut off striking employees’ health insurance Oct 27 to try to break the strike. - this is why we need It’s insane that we let corporations hold our health hostage in any situation, much less a labor dispute

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  7. 17 hours ago

    The different between brunch and blunch is that one is a delightful, intentional meal an one is "oh god it's 11:30 and I still haven't had breakfast"

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    19 hours ago

    It’s been incredible to watch Clive’s remove-everything-but-the-punctuation app take off, resonating with so many different communities for so many different purposes about everything from language use to translation to analyzing one’s own writing habits.

    What does your writing look like if you take out everything *but* the punctuation? I made a little web tool that lets you do this -- and see what yours looks like: Go give it a try! (Inspired by 's terrific work analyzing novels)
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  9. 17 hours ago

    Though if you are not sharing your slide deck before you talk because you’re constantly revising it right up until the minute before you start, welcome to my world.

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  10. 17 hours ago

    If you do not want to share your slide deck before you talk because you worry people will just read the slide deck and not attend/listen, then there is a very good chance you are solving the wrong problem.

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  11. 19 hours ago

    The “waiting for software to finish loading before you can exercise” part was weird and awkward, though.

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  12. 19 hours ago

    Another round of VR rowing this morning. In the interim, I watched a lot of youtube videos about things I was doing wrong on the rower (spoiler, there were many) so this time I paid more attention to form this time. Immediate, palpable (exhausting) improvement.

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    Oct 17

    PSA for anyone who might be dealing with robot gun dogs, from a farm robot specialist who wasn't really looking at robot wrangling from the public safety standpoint but here we are.

    They’re putting guns on robot dogs now
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  14. 20 hours ago

    I need to figure out why my brain likes writing these threads first thing in the morning and then get it to stop. Or at least reschedule.

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    Oct 17

    Women who have executive function issues are expected to bear the brunt of household skills while those skills are directly a challenge to their ADHD. Women who balk at this notion are treated as difficult, obstinate, and not feminine enough.

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  16. 20 hours ago

    This whole thread is super on point and I mostly want to underline this and point out that the violence (and harm) need not by physical. The same pattern works for keyboard warriors too.

    in its most extreme form, hate groups make their young recruits pick fights, sometimes forcefully dragging them into violence, so they can be there to bandage the wounds these days, this is very often a parasocial relationship, but the effects are similar.
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    22 hours ago

    people who recruit kids do it through the familiar cycle of abusive relationships, but the trick is that instead of or in addition to hurting the kid directly, they groom the kid into seeking out conflict, then ‘be there’ afterward to calm and reassure them

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    22 hours ago

    in its most extreme form, hate groups make their young recruits pick fights, sometimes forcefully dragging them into violence, so they can be there to bandage the wounds these days, this is very often a parasocial relationship, but the effects are similar.

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  19. 20 hours ago

    Of course, given all that, this ends at two pretty simple practices. 1. You don't need to dunk on another game to talk about your game 2. Respond to homebrewing as a success of imagination, not as a failure to learn the game *you* would have used.

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  20. 21 hours ago

    Game-which-I-have-spent-years-on-and-have-deep-and-nuanced-thoughts-about is, unsurprising, always going to come across better than game-i-read-part-of-and-have-filled-in-the-rest-from-imagination.

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