Listener (Aaron)
Appearances
Health Chatter
The Politics of Health Care
Absolutely, and before I ask my question, I think I should clarify that the data is not publicly available. You have to go about certain ways
Health Chatter
The Politics of Health Care
And it really it really should be available to the public. You should be educated about your health. You should be educated about the environment that you're living in. And I think that that would influence a lot of people's decisions about their day to day life if they had access to that data, especially for people who are interested in stuff like that, like me.
Health Chatter
The Politics of Health Care
Anyways, my question, I think to kind of tie up the episode two would be to ask what the priorities are. Maybe for you and your office on a small scale, maybe on a larger scale, what the priorities are for next legislative session in regards to health policy. Everything we talked about is such a big pill to swallow, and I think it's got to happen step by step.
Health Chatter
The Politics of Health Care
So I'd be interested to know what you think your next step in all of this is going to be in the next session.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
What's the Eldridge forecast?
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Alright, I'm gonna be the jerk here. Medium-low magic. So magic is rare enough to stay magical. You can go into most medium to large cities and find a magic shop. It sells common magic items and material components, as well as knickknacks meant to get regular folks in the door. Focus charms and stuff. Any magic of uncommon rarity or greater, you have to find or commission or buy at an auction.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
It's not in general, it's not generally available only. Okay.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Do you want me to answer that? Sure. So the idea is that, yes, the PCs can have a higher level of magic because they are exceptional, but in general, magic ability is on par with, say, having a PhD. Okay. Maybe 2% of the population at most.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
The world is at war, and it is weary of it. Battle lines have been drawn in scarred countries, isolating them from each other. And getting from one place to another requires smuggling or some other passing of bribes. You don't know what else is out there.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
All right, the reason that magic isn't so common anymore is all the wars have been killing off the dragons that are the anchor for the weave in the world.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
I feel like, you know, an inciting incident. You got Lodo, Midmagic, and Wartorn going off tails as, you know, is going away and the dragons are dying. The group finds a name or something, and that's what allows the characters to progress in magic normally, where everybody else is stuck at first level at best. And so they've got to decide which of the four dragons do you take it to?
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
What side do you lean to? And it's like a beacon. Not everybody's after them, so they have to pick quickly and go. Okay.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Yeah, you said if you need a power source or things like that, the dead dragons, the items made for them still maintain their magical power. That's actually like the weapon caches and armaments for all these countries. So they don't want the egg to hatch and there'd be more of a magical world for everybody, so they'll be wanting to take it.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
This is bringing to mind 13th Age and their icon system. Okay. You have a bunch of different icons directing things in the world, and who you align with determines who is against you and who is tenuously in your favor.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Well, I caught on to this smuggling piece of it because I think about, like, what's going to be unique about my game. Like, there's 30 games of this con that have all the media magic and dragons and things, but, like, I don't know any games, I mean, there might be some, but where... smuggling or kind of going around the war is kind of the core thing.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
So maybe this is a stealth game, or maybe that's something I would think about. And for smuggling to work, you'd need to, Keith's original point where magic dragons and chops and stuff, you need to have a robust economy now so that In order to smuggle something and for that to be meaningful, it needs to be something that people in this place want and people in this place can't get, sort of thing.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
I think about the mechanics I can include and the kind of building blocks I need to support that kind of emergent payment.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
I don't know if this is, so I like the smuggling idea. My brain is going like basically there is some group of people that go through old ruins, which is a fairly common thing, but the goal is explicitly to find smuggling routes, which if you can find and create and kind of like map the same smuggling route, that could give you a lot of money depending on who you do that route to.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Just one thing that I think gets left out in these kind of epic stories that makes the world feel flat is thinking about families. People are raising children in these worlds. What does that look like in these war-torn worlds with smuggling and these factions?
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Yeah, if you give... I just want to repeat that. If you give...
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Well, maybe there's this strange light in the sky, and you leave it for, you know, the game master to determine. Is that, like, a world-ending asteroid? Is that some sort of, I don't know, like, space-faring race that's coming to, you know, obliterate or take over or what?
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
We're talking about how it's going to end. I love you, Chris Knezak.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Yes. I'm going to follow up on your story about what's something from a previous edition of D&D, mechanically, that you'd like to see come back in the 50th?
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Can you speak to something regarding other systems that you're anticipating or you have some like happy anticipation to try out in your near future?
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
Over the past couple of years, what games have you seen that have influenced you, that you found interesting, or were your design into the show? And just in general.
Mastering Dungeons
Live from Gamehole: Create a Campaign With Us! (MD 212)
How does it feel to always be just number two to the elders broadcast?
Renewing Your Mind
The Barber Who Wanted to Pray
I remember first hearing Renewing Your Mind in 2002. I was so riveted by Dr. Sproul's explanation of the scriptures and his obvious gift for sound doctrine. I was totally blown away. I had come from a very... abusive childhood and at the time had been self-medicating and had wound up getting addicted to drugs.
Renewing Your Mind
The Barber Who Wanted to Pray
But after hearing Dr. Sproul and going back every day thereafter to listen to him on Renewing Your Mind, I started to develop a real hunger for God's Word. And I can't go a day without listening to one of his messages. And it's just such a great blessing. And I can't thank you all enough. I love what you're doing.
Renewing Your Mind
The Barber Who Wanted to Pray
And, you know, now that I'm, gosh, going to be 11 years into my sobriety in a couple of weeks, I can look back and really credit Dr. Sproul's inspiration with getting me where I am today. God bless you all. And thank you so much.
Renewing Your Mind
The Barber Who Wanted to Pray
I'm 86 years old and I listened to R.C. Sproul for about 10 years. And there was times when I was trying to commit suicide and He'd come up with one of those children's stories that he wrote, and it sort of got me through that. Then again, at another time, I felt like committing suicide because I wanted to give up because my family abandoned me.
Renewing Your Mind
The Barber Who Wanted to Pray
And again, I heard him do one of those children's stories and got me through the suicide feeling again. And even when I heard that he passed on, I missed some of his stories, and I'm glad they bring him on once again to describe the Bible and the love God has for us.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
Hi, this is for the caller who is thinking about marrying the guy that doesn't fit her usual, quote, type, and she's kind of worried about sexual attraction in the long run. I am here from the future to tell you that it's absolutely possible to get what you want with your wonderful, quote, not your type partner.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
I was in exactly the same place, always dated this specific kind of type of mine, which was really based on, like, childhood things and trauma and all of that. And I married the man who doesn't fit any of that at all. In fact, he was too nice at first and we broke up for a short while. And now we've been together for 18 years. We have opened our marriage.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
We explore all sorts of dirty things together. And it's just the incredible experience to have that wonderful, safe person at home to support you in all of those things. Good luck.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
Hi, this is a response to the caller in episode 945 who's trying to get away from the narcissist. I have been there actually in my early 20s. I was in a similar relationship. It sucked. Everything Dan said was spot on. And I also want to add, because you said the word addiction, I would recommend treating it as one, which means no contact. I wrote a letter to my narcissist and explained that
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
Being in contact with him was going to mean that we eventually repeated the cycle and I wanted more for myself. And so the letter was helpful because he couldn't respond to it, blocked him on everything, blocked his number, blocked the socials. Because if he has access to you, he will pull you back in to this familiar pattern. It hijacks your brain chemistry.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
There's almost nothing you can do about it if you stay in contact. The other thing I would do and did do is... Just really involve your friends and family in supporting you in this. I think it would probably go a long way to tell them, this is what I've done to try to just get this person out of my life. I need your help keeping me busy. Come with me to the bars or wherever you go to meet people.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
Just really involve them in keeping you busy so that your mind is not going to just stay stuck in this pattern. I promise better things are ahead. You just need to close the door and lock it.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
This message is for the caller in episode 945, the one whose wife doesn't want to have sex with him anymore after the birth and breastfeeding of two children. The question quickly becomes, how can we get this guy laid? But I feel like what he really wants is his wife back, not just as a companion, a partner, but as his lover. To me, it sounds like she's simply exhausted.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
I mean, she still masturbates, so she ain't broke. My question would be, what is he doing to alleviate that exhaustion? Is he doing fully half of all the household chores? What about the childcare place? Do they call him first or the mom if the kids get sick? Does he go to the grocery store? Does he make meal plans? Does he make dinner without even waiting to be asked?
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
And my question would be, what is he doing to make himself more fuckable? Women have been given tons of advice about how to keep themselves attractive to their husbands. What about this guy? Does he keep himself well-groomed and smelling nice? Is he friendly and easy to talk to, nonjudgmental? Does he play her favorite music and make her favorite meals?
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
Is he cleaning the house in his shortest shorts and no shirt on? I feel like the most harmonious resolution to this guy's problem is to be patient with his wife, to tell her that he appreciates her willingness to open the marriage, but for now, he just wants to focus on her and their marriage. Then start planning date nights where sex isn't even on the table.
Savage Lovecast
Savage Lovecast Episode 946
You're just out enjoying each other's company. I remember when my kids were young, I was always surprised by how quickly my sex drive would return when I would spend time away from them. Get her out of the house. Make her feel seen and appreciated and give her the time and space to heal and then come to you. Maybe she'll be your lover again.
Search Engine
Should we be worried about OpenAI?
My friend Zoe is lurking outside because she's the one that introduced me to the podcast. Ha ha ha! So she's looking at a leaf excitedly and giving me strange looks.
Search Engine
Should we be worried about OpenAI?
There are some fun use cases like extending images a little bit larger in Photoshop. There's languages that are like non-Latin that have funky characters with no spaces like Japanese. And sometimes I have to do translated websites for events that are happening in, say, West Japan.
Search Engine
Should we be worried about OpenAI?
And when that happens... I have to include manual breaks for the lines because if there aren't manual breaks, the meaning will change. And so I will sometimes use AI to help me find the best breaks that can be there every possible spot.
Search Engine
Should we be worried about OpenAI?
A little bit. I know we sent a site to a client in like a local office to someone who spoke Japanese, and it didn't go the best. They had to respond back and say like, hey, this doesn't work. This isn't going to be okay.
Search Engine
Should we be worried about OpenAI?
I get to spend more of my time doing the actual like creative, intensive and UX parts of web design versus the menial kind of repetitive parts.
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Big Suey: The New York Jets Mess Continues To Grow (Feat. Dianna Russini)
24 was rough, the dolphins are done McDaniel tried his best, just wasn't enough Bright spots they had a few and Johnny was one