1. Why I'm looking at Basic Roleplaying (BRP), (or Why GURPS is necrotic, and how to save what's left)

    "GURPS is dying".

    Type that into your favorite search engine and you'll see many posts talking about how GURPS (The Generic Universal RolePlaying System) is either dead, dying, or not-dead-yet-I-feel-fine-I-think-I'll-go-for-a-walk. If you look carefully you'll also notice that this has been a refrain of many folks for over five years …

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  2. Relative paths and the find command

    This past weekend I had an experience that I'd like to share with you. It's a lesson in how our assumptions can lead to unintended consequences, and how to undo them when they occur.

    I had a command running that would check a directory to see if there were any …

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  3. Drop the expectation

    I just ran into this with one of the notes that I wrote. In it I was discussing what I wanted to do for game programming / design and such, and the line that struck me (other than they're two sides of the same coin) was the following statement: "drop the …

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