Author: chris
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Internet, Ownership
Republished from the April 2, 2018 Newsletter. If I had a mission statement right now it’d be this: more people exhibiting more ownership over more of what they produce online. Right now we’ve swung almost entirely to allowing social media to own everything about our activity online: both in terms of consumption and production. Social…
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Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette: Follow Up
We’ve officially crossed over a threshold in which there are subscribers to the Gazette that I don’t recognize by their email addresses. That’s an incredible thing, and also a bit scary! A few submissions have trickled in as well and they have exceeded expectations. Send yours in too! I promise it’s good enough. Read more…
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Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette: A Zine
TL;DR: The Ypsi-Arbor D&D Gazette is a zine for empherma, stories, art, and other whatnot from the tables of Dungeons & Dragons players in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and surrounding cities. You can sign up to hear more about it and get a digital copy when it comes out in April here: Subscribe to Receive the…
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Holiday One Shot
In early 2017 I ran a one-shot tabletop game that repurposed the story of A Christmas Carol and some rules from D&D 5e. It was quite fun! I can’t wait to run it again next year! Overview of What it Was The players were all newly deceased spirits in purgatory who had been assigned to…
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Games I Enjoyed Enough to Put On a List: 2017
I wrote one of these last year and found that it sparked some good conversations and also that I checked it throughout the year to remember what the heck I played in 2016. Always blog so you can remember it later. In 2017 my wife and I bought a house and our baby became a…
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Upgrading the Site to use CSS Grid
A few months ago I wrote a blog post about how amazing CSS Grid is and how I think it’s the future. And then proceeded to not actually update my personal site to use CSS Grid for 3 months. I finally got to working on that a few weeks ago, then ran into hugo version…
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Royal Emotional Mirror
The “Royal Emotional Mirror” technique is when a brand refers to it in the second person plural while reflecting back the emotional state of the customer on social media. Royal: think the “royal we”. A distant familiarity. Emotional: focused on emotional states (happy, sad, etc.)rather than facts Mirror: generally repeats the emotion of the person…
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How I Spent My Friday Night, or Why Framerate is the Wrong Choice for Managing Time-based Animations, Actions, and Effects
Of the bugs I have written a lot the one that keeps biting me is improperly locking an animation, effect, or action to the framerate of the game rather than to an elapsed time on a clock. You can never depend on your game running at a specific and consistent framerate across every device it’ll…