Mike Sims
@mikesims.bsky.social
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Was Cabin in the Woods the one you did during Grimmtober watch party in 2020?
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Same guy was in the hospital waiting room this weekend.
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Congrats to you both
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You're going to miss out on some great food. My condolences.
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I do enjoy the messed up stuff from Obscurest Vinyl. He makes his fake album art (hes a graphic designer & musician). Writes the lyrics. Plays some of the instruments. Will sing to get converted to the style. And do the track mixing. There's a lot of copycats that are 100% AI though.
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It may be dim enough that your camera may compensate by dropping frames. Having foreground elements is great for interest, but they take up more space than your face. YOU should be the primary element. Also, too many layers (fore, subject, back) might mess with auto focusing.
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The cognitive dissonance you feel when a website (game, alcohol, w/e) wants you to pick your birth year, and you don't have to scroll all the way to 1900, but 2000 will suffice.
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Never liked that modern 'rule.' "No" shouldn't be used by a DM to control how the narrative playd out. For things that just aren't doable, it can begin a conversation. And for players abusing a situation with game rules, meta knowledge, or disruption, it is needed.
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That term needs to die.
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Sounds like it is set to default in the webcam properties, which is never good. Manual resolution/fps needs to be picked. Then the camera object needs to be reset to actual pixels if it was scaled up to fit the 1080 view point. Just a guess and don't know what OP did to troubleshoot.
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All I know about Kaye is what Clark Griswold told me.
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Similarly, I've had my best experience with history when it was taught as a contextual story versus memorize dates. My friend Kerry did this (She's a professor) when she did a historical world of darkness game, or when I had to take a military history class in college taught by a 3 war veteran.
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Then I won't tell you that Danny Glover was 40 in Lethal Weapon when he was too old for this shit.
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Labelling (or at least encoding like a digital watermark) should be in the visual/audio based ones, preferably w/ sourcing (that would be harder). It should be as filterable as adult content, easy to discern from truth, and original art should be assumed not ingestible unless explicitly allowed.
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I've done 2 AI/Tech ethics courses for college now. I definitely have issues w/ the copyright theft & socio impact of people not critically thinking. The ouroboros of AI slop has me concerned for the internet's future. But as a constrained tool used like every other innovation in computing, I'm ok.
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A Rolodex would destroy them.
Or what about the fact that people (businesses usually) would get phone numbers that spelled something on the keypad so you could remember easier
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Could be simple, like a router misconfig, or could be a DDOS. Hope the system is resilient and its quickly fixed for you.
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And then you get to count down to the Brimley Line (which I passed over a year ago) brimleyline.date
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My dude, you aren't at the age yet where that is an every day occurrence. Until then, you shush.
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I still have the pin Nathen gave me.
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OK, emailed you some bullet points for your notes or if you want to chat dig deeper.

Going to add @gallantgoblin.bsky.social to this thread, since I met Theo and Grady there.
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I was at d&d live 2019 the descent and was producing the b&g streams for 2020 which took the place of the orange county one that was supposed to happen that year