I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up.
In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up.
In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
With cars if you wanted to bias yourself towards newer cars you could prioritize safety features alongside cost.
A Yaris and a Ranger (who doesn’t love a Ranger!) are going to serve you well, but they’re not going to have the active and passive safety features of a more modern car. Put next to cost it makes it a bit harder to perform maladaptive frugality.
> They circle around an idea using whatever word is within reach, and expect you to understand the meaning based on shared connotations. These people are tiring to interpret.
I find this notion a little strange. The implication here is that words are precisely bounded to bounds of thoughts. Language is a representation of our world (and our individual understanding of it) - we all (including you) will use different words to describe similar-ish concepts. This will always be more clear to you as the originator of the thought -> word process than the receiver.
You can’t hand wave away the work of interpreting (aka listening) to someone.
I’m sure if I spoke to your counterparts in the scenario you described they’d say different words which also ultimately amounted to something like “it’s difficult to interpret what they’re saying.”
That’s quite a take to assume willful blindness to widespread suffering.
What is pretty clear though: your obsession with constantly minimizing the lived experience of a minority with “no ackshually they deserve it because they really are this way” warrants a look in the mirror.
I commend you for the attempt, even if it’s clear that it’s falling on deaf ears to who you’re replying to.
The rest of us Jews appreciate that you didn’t let it slide.
It’s hard not to wonder why they even bothered clicking into this thread other than “oh the name sounds Jewish, I can push my narrative” especially with respect to their comment history.
Thank you! I’m a casual user of Wikipedia but after this thread I went through the history of edits on the article and...oh my.
I have a greater appreciation for folks like you and the other editors who seem to be constantly removing this type of stuf. Some truly horrendous slurs there.
I _really_ enjoyed this and love the concept! Scrolling on desktop was a little odd, but worked really well otherwise.
Content wise it's pretty eye opening just how much of our tax dollars go to things like social security, medicare and interest. Seeing it laid out in the exact dollar amount affecting me is pretty powerful stuff. I wonder how much voting habits would change if this was a common way to communicate the cost of federal programs. I had moments where I was thinking "why are we not spending more on education!" as a result as well.
I'm working on TableForge[0], it's a browser based, solo or multiplayer, D&D 5e game. TTRPG DMing can be effort-heavy and my friend group constantly has trouble finding enough time to play together let alone set it up. In TableForge, the DM is agentic with access to tools strictly following 5e rules. The DM is responsible for narration and reacting to players but your character sheet, inventory, spells are all real server resources you manage. The DM can interact with them through deterministic 5e-based tools (dice rolls, damage, sheet updates, memory). Players can play in real time or async.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
I noticed every competitor in this space was a chatbot with only the last ~10-15 messages stuffed into context. They forgot things, made up dice rolls and rules, and was generally not what I was looking for. So far TableForge has been working well for my friend groups and some random folks from Reddit/organic search. Solo TTRPGers seem to like it too.
It's still in early stages but fully playable. I don't feel comfortable charging anything for yet until I know people enjoy it. If you like it enough to hit the free tier limit, send me some feedback in the webapp and I'll gladly extend your free trial. If you hate it, please also let me know!
I’ve used S3 primarily in a professional setting but R2 has been a breath of fresh air on my side projects.
The zero egress cost is big and IMO their free tier is very generous. It’s S3 compatible so if you use any libraries it’ll just work™. One note is that AWS recently released static pricing for Cloudfront - I haven’t explored it in depth yet but it looks compelling if your primary use case is serving data out of S3.
I’d probably switch to S3 at least for app storage if I moved apps into the AWS ecosystem. It’s just easier if you’re already in AWS.
Getting a D&D group together in person has been getting harder and harder, and we've had less and less time to DM. I decided to build an agentic AI to handle the work of setting up and running a campaign so we could all participate. It supports real time (preferred, and probably more fun) or async. The agent performs most functions through tool use so it's all 5e rules based but I wanted to leave it a good amount of freedom so campaigns can go on tangents and have fun surprises.
I'm still playtesting it with friends and it's been fun. It's in early access, I don't feel right charging for it unless other folks actually end up liking it and thinking it's fun. If you sign up, send me a message through "Send Feedback" (or here!) and let me know if you like, but especially let me know if you hate it.
...until something goes wrong and you're dealing with a situation at best more annoying and worst downright hostile (ask me how I know). Your only recourse if something goes wrong is a random host whose income is directly tied to not helping you. If you're dealing with an issue at a hotel, there's strict policies in place and at the very least the person on the other end gets paid regardless of whether or not you're refunded, so you're more likely to actually be refunded via policy rather than the whims of a fraudster.
That almost sounds like a purposefully dense view into all of the possibilities of things you can do with your time. I'll give you my perspective as someone who grew up in and moved from NYC to small town in the south.
Everywhere I'd want to be regularly is easier for me to get to when living in the suburbs. Clubs, theaters, museums are still within a short drive on the occasions I want to be there, but no one is going to be there every day. I have more desire to be out in nature than I do in a club.
A non-exhaustive list:
- I don't need to travel 2+ hours to see nature, it's outside my door and huge swathes of public land are available with real nature and wildlife, not manufactured parks full of homeless.
- Restaurants and bars aren't restricted to cities, we've got plenty of them. If anything more of them have more usable outdoor spaces where I'm not sitting 5ft from a pile of garbage.
- I can host more than a handful of people for a dinner party, board game night AND I can do it with comfortable seating/table space for all (impossible in NYC)
- I've got space for _all_ my hobbies: DIY, woodworking, flower preserving, kayaks, cooking. I'm also not restricted by a lack of space to pick up new ones.
All of that _and_ I can be in a city and enjoy its benefits whenever I want to be with a short drive. 99% of my travel by car here takes less time than an equivalent trip by public transportation in NYC from where I could afford to live.
Having gone through something similar - therapy with an expert in burnout/depression (although any therapy is like a net positive) and finding the room to re-examine my life and understand what was important to me.
To me that looked like taking a few months to spend with my partner and traveling to spend chunks of time with friends and family. It re-oriented (or rather, helped me re-discover) to the importance of these connections relative to work.
That said, all of that is easier said than done and not everyone can just take time off from work. But seeing a therapist regularly was the 0 to 1 that gave me the energy and my soul back to figure out the rest.
Just dealt with this recently and up until then mostly had great experiences with hosts. When something goes wrong (ex: had a family emergency that blew up my travel plans a couple of weeks out), any refunds or resolutions are at the discretion of a host who is directly financially affected by the outcome. So there's never an incentive to be reasonable, and they'll often get hostile or combative - in this recent case pretty much immediately. I was able to easily alter/refund every single component of my trip, including a hotel stay, but couldn't do anything about the AirBnB because the host dug his heels in and started getting hostile.
You can provide the DM a premise (or pick one from the library) and it'll flesh out a full campaign story arc. Either way it's a fresh story arc reacting to your actual decisions, every time.
[0] https://tableforge.gg/