site banner
ArjinFerman  Tinfoil Gigachad  5d ago (text post)   565 thread views

Tinker Tuesday for April 22, 2025

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service

1
Top Bottom Old Controversial Comments
Jump in the discussion.

No email address required.

I passed the N3! While I probably won't take a higher level test, I will be continuing to build up towards full fluency. Anyone else get their results back? Any suggestions for new anime to watch, podcasts/books to listen to, web-serials to read, or japanese shows to watch?

Also, I finished the first part of an overhaul project porting my personal DMing tool from Netbeans to Excel. The main driver was how clunky the java was but I also lost the central file and only had the executable. Rewriting it in netbeans wasn't going to happen and if I was doing it from the ground up, I wanted something easy to edit and use on other devices. Lots of interesting math and structure, but the basic foundation is using Excel to pull random magical items, groups of magical items, and treasures based on a central, fixed seed. Since I wrote the original, I've changed how I DM in some major ways so I've been meaning to update it for years. Next steps are to add back in the random encounters, rooms, and other things back in. https://anarchydice.wordpress.com/2025/03/16/random-item-generator/

Update on the liqueurs: https://www.themotte.org/post/1259/tinker-tuesday-for-november-19-2024/271334?context=8#context Those walnut and pecan liqueurs? They aged really nicely and mellowed into a delicious, well-rounded, nuttiness. Definitely moved up the list to be right around the brown-sugar oatmeal.

Do you read manga? It’s pretty ecchi but I reallly liked 地球の放課後: the language is straightforward, the writing and plot really surprisingly good, and the art of post-apocalyptic Tokyo beautiful.

Also 海の御先, a harem manga but with again really good characters including MC.

For less moe stuff, I really like ぐらんぶる, a comedy about the Izu University Scuba Diving Club and its collection of (mostly male) morons.

I'll give them a look to see if I'm interested, thanks!

If you find 地球の放課後 nicely drawn but too ecchi you could also try YKK. If you haven’t figured it out I have a weakness for pen and ink ;)

What is this place?

This website is a place for people who want to move past shady thinking and test their ideas in a court of people who don't all share the same biases. Our goal is to optimize for light, not heat; this is a group effort, and all commentators are asked to do their part.

The weekly Culture War threads host the most controversial topics and are the most visible aspect of The Motte. However, many other topics are appropriate here. We encourage people to post anything related to science, politics, or philosophy; if in doubt, post!

Check out The Vault for an archive of old quality posts. You are encouraged to crosspost these elsewhere.


Why are you called The Motte?

A motte is a stone keep on a raised earthwork common in early medieval fortifications. More pertinently, it's an element in a rhetorical move called a "Motte-and-Bailey", originally identified by philosopher Nicholas Shackel. It describes the tendency in discourse for people to move from a controversial but high value claim to a defensible but less exciting one upon any resistance to the former. He likens this to the medieval fortification, where a desirable land (the bailey) is abandoned when in danger for the more easily defended motte. In Shackel's words, "The Motte represents the defensible but undesired propositions to which one retreats when hard pressed."

On The Motte, always attempt to remain inside your defensible territory, even if you are not being pressed.


New post guidelines

If you're posting something that isn't related to the culture war, we encourage you to post a thread for it. A submission statement is highly appreciated, but isn't necessary for text posts or links to largely-text posts such as blogs or news articles; if we're unsure of the value of your post, we might remove it until you add a submission statement. A submission statement is required for non-text sources (videos, podcasts, images).

Culture war posts go in the culture war thread; all links must either include a submission statement or significant commentary. Bare links without those will be removed.

If in doubt, please post it!


Rules


Recommended Posts And Communities

Recommended Realtime Chats