Duolingo Skills. RPG Updates, etc
Aug. 8th, 2018 05:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipA few days ago I made the curious discovery that I've doing Duolingo 'incorrectly', which is an pretty odd discovery for someone who has a 780 day streak. It seems that the most efficient way to do a leaf, once it has been initially completed, is to use the test mode. I knew about this for groups of skills (such as when learning the French-to-English tree), but was unaware of it on single skills. It may have been part of the big April upgrade which included "crown" levels for individual skills. Anyway the practical upshot is that instead of doing an entire skill-leaf in painful quantity (which isn't necessarily a bad thing), I go just give the test a go, and if successful, get a bucket of points (which isn't really the purpose, but still) and feel confident of my knowledge of that particular skill or conversely, realise that revision is needed (which is the point).
I've been working pretty solidly the past few days on various gaming aspects for RPG Review. This includes an interview with Lee Gold, a review of Bushido, an update of my review of Legend of the Five Rings, an article on Roll-and-Keep mechanics, and an article on a very old campaign I ran many years ago based on the Malay archipelago. A couple more appropriate reviews and the 'zine will be ready for release (late again, of course). In actual play we finally caught up to play Eclipse Phase last Sunday as the Sentinels make their way to Vostok Station, but with no idea what's down there.
In other social events visited Brendan E., who treated us to a documentary on the Liven's Flame Projector from WWI, followed by the spy-thriller Atomic Blonde, both of which were thoroughly enjoyable. Vaguely related to the later, I was interviewed on Tuesday for Radio Skid Row on the state of the EU and Brexit. Finally, last night attended Linux Users of Victoria, which had a meeting discussing PF on BSD and fail2ban; good information and well attended.
I've been working pretty solidly the past few days on various gaming aspects for RPG Review. This includes an interview with Lee Gold, a review of Bushido, an update of my review of Legend of the Five Rings, an article on Roll-and-Keep mechanics, and an article on a very old campaign I ran many years ago based on the Malay archipelago. A couple more appropriate reviews and the 'zine will be ready for release (late again, of course). In actual play we finally caught up to play Eclipse Phase last Sunday as the Sentinels make their way to Vostok Station, but with no idea what's down there.
In other social events visited Brendan E., who treated us to a documentary on the Liven's Flame Projector from WWI, followed by the spy-thriller Atomic Blonde, both of which were thoroughly enjoyable. Vaguely related to the later, I was interviewed on Tuesday for Radio Skid Row on the state of the EU and Brexit. Finally, last night attended Linux Users of Victoria, which had a meeting discussing PF on BSD and fail2ban; good information and well attended.
