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.
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.