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  • K [email protected]

    "Can I use my Sick Day to take a half day Friday to start my 24 hour Star Wars marathon this weekend?"

    "So, Rules as Written, absolutely not. But.... we're gonna go with the Rule of Cool on this one. See you Monday."

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    Only if you include the holiday special.

    ...looks like I'll be here until 5.

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    • phase@lemmy.8th.worldP [email protected]

      In my domain (IT, with On-Call), there's a practice called "Wheel of Misfortunes" or "Game hour". This is in fact a short TTRPG session to simulate incident. This works very well. I am a paid DM 1h per week for my colleagues ๐Ÿ™‚

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      I would love to hear more about this if you can go in to more details?

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      • phase@lemmy.8th.worldP [email protected]

        In my domain (IT, with On-Call), there's a practice called "Wheel of Misfortunes" or "Game hour". This is in fact a short TTRPG session to simulate incident. This works very well. I am a paid DM 1h per week for my colleagues ๐Ÿ™‚

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        Please share more. Sounds like a mini war game?

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        • thegiantkorean@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

          On the flip side, it's somehow easier to get people to attend scheduled meetings.

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          Since we all went remote, my job has been holding different virtual events we can join like a book club, cooking club, and some other stuff I canโ€™t remember but this makes me wish we held a tabletop game now! Iโ€™m picturing how it would go based on this, but safe for work lol

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          • K [email protected]

            I would love to hear more about this if you can go in to more details?

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            • Managing Misfortune for Best Results
            • Disaster Role Playing
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            • C [email protected]

              Please share more. Sounds like a mini war game?

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              I don't like the concept of wargames. We don't need war to do this, nor conflict.

              I see this more as an astronaut training: it has to be a solution, at least in the mind of the person proposing the situation. It also cultivates a spirit to always search for a way out of the invident.

              One rule we adopted is that when the responder doesn't know, they have to say it. Once it said, they need to say outloud what do they search. Then the focus shifts to the audience, they have to find 3 different ways to respond to what the responder is searching (to know or to do). It is hard and so far it balances well the dynamic (it is OK to not know, it is important to recognise we don't know, and it is funny to share how we can hack our way through the system (the 3rd way is pretty hard and is in general a hack)).

              I now realize that perhaps I could write a blog post on this.

              For links, see my response to the other comment.

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                Only if you include the holiday special.

                ...looks like I'll be here until 5.

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                I mean, they'd have to. There's six movies, each a little over two hours long. Let's say that gets you up to 14 hours. Then there's the two Ewok movies. Assuming that they're each two hours long (I can't be bothered to check) that gets you to 18 hours. The Holiday Special is 98 minutes long, but even rounding that up to two hours that only gets you to 20 in total. Then what? Watch the cutscenes for Dark Forces 2 and Rebel Assault 2? There's only so much Star Wars available.

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                  I mean, they'd have to. There's six movies, each a little over two hours long. Let's say that gets you up to 14 hours. Then there's the two Ewok movies. Assuming that they're each two hours long (I can't be bothered to check) that gets you to 18 hours. The Holiday Special is 98 minutes long, but even rounding that up to two hours that only gets you to 20 in total. Then what? Watch the cutscenes for Dark Forces 2 and Rebel Assault 2? There's only so much Star Wars available.

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                  9 main theatrical releases, Rouge One, Solo, 7 seasons of The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Andor...

                  That's just off the top of my head & I know I'm forgetting a lot...

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                    9 main theatrical releases, Rouge One, Solo, 7 seasons of The Clone Wars, The Bad Batch, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Andor...

                    That's just off the top of my head & I know I'm forgetting a lot...

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                    LOL. What the Mandella Effect are you talking about? There are not 9 main theatrical Star Wars releases.

                    Are you counting release updates? Stuff like the soundtrack change on the original Star Wars and changing OGSW to Episode 4 A New Hope?

                    Talking about the special edition Star Wars releases can upset some Star Wars fans, so it's best just to count the Star Wars movies as Episodes 1 through 6. Any other discussions could get someone doxxed and they could wind up with an enraged Star Wars fan knocking at their door ready to assault them with a dueling lightsaber. It's not really as dangerous as it sounds given the limp wristed sweaty palmed grip of your average Star Wars fan, but the threat of discomfort, embarrasment, and a nerd in a brown bathrobe showing up and making your HOA or apartment complex upset is very real.

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                      LOL. What the Mandella Effect are you talking about? There are not 9 main theatrical Star Wars releases.

                      Are you counting release updates? Stuff like the soundtrack change on the original Star Wars and changing OGSW to Episode 4 A New Hope?

                      Talking about the special edition Star Wars releases can upset some Star Wars fans, so it's best just to count the Star Wars movies as Episodes 1 through 6. Any other discussions could get someone doxxed and they could wind up with an enraged Star Wars fan knocking at their door ready to assault them with a dueling lightsaber. It's not really as dangerous as it sounds given the limp wristed sweaty palmed grip of your average Star Wars fan, but the threat of discomfort, embarrasment, and a nerd in a brown bathrobe showing up and making your HOA or apartment complex upset is very real.

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                      If we're going full nerd here, Machete Order says there's only 5 movies...

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                      • phase@lemmy.8th.worldP [email protected]

                        In my domain (IT, with On-Call), there's a practice called "Wheel of Misfortunes" or "Game hour". This is in fact a short TTRPG session to simulate incident. This works very well. I am a paid DM 1h per week for my colleagues ๐Ÿ™‚

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                        Oh neat, our team does this but we call it "WTF Wednesday." Usually the most senior engineer digs back into our incident log and tries to reproduce it in our dev environment, and we live-solve with him playing the role of the customer.

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                          Oh neat, our team does this but we call it "WTF Wednesday." Usually the most senior engineer digs back into our incident log and tries to reproduce it in our dev environment, and we live-solve with him playing the role of the customer.

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                          It is the same thing. In our case it's not attached to the seniority. The person ending their shifts replays its incident when there has been one, with the person who is taking the pager after them. We are deeper in the infrastructure so we don't have customers but we roleplay stakeholders (lead/head, principals, developer). My favorite is the person who has experienced something wrong but it is only this person and bad luck ๐Ÿ˜›

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                            On the flip side, it's somehow easier to get people to attend scheduled meetings.

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                            I like Hope is Not a Plan but it is a bit depressing.
                            I would like something to release the pressure of work. Something in the mood of Eat the Reich or Blades in the Dark/CBR+PNK. But I couldn't find a good game. Corp Borg has been a bit disappointing.

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                              On the flip side, it's somehow easier to get people to attend scheduled meetings.

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                              you haven't had a work meeting with me

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                              • phase@lemmy.8th.worldP [email protected]

                                It is the same thing. In our case it's not attached to the seniority. The person ending their shifts replays its incident when there has been one, with the person who is taking the pager after them. We are deeper in the infrastructure so we don't have customers but we roleplay stakeholders (lead/head, principals, developer). My favorite is the person who has experienced something wrong but it is only this person and bad luck ๐Ÿ˜›

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                                Yeah, I think the goal is to eventually make it irrespective of seniority, but right now he's the only one with 15+ years of institutional knowledge on the application, so he's trying to pass on as much as he can to reduce our bus factor.

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                                  On the flip side, it's somehow easier to get people to attend scheduled meetings.

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                                  I get her username reference! Gnome Anneโ€™s Inn from Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire.

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                                  • K [email protected]

                                    "Can I use my Sick Day to take a half day Friday to start my 24 hour Star Wars marathon this weekend?"

                                    "So, Rules as Written, absolutely not. But.... we're gonna go with the Rule of Cool on this one. See you Monday."

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                                    The rule of cool helps with honesty too.

                                    My team knew well in advance that we would be short-staffed on the day the Switch 2 released.

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                                    • thegiantkorean@lemmy.worldT [email protected]

                                      On the flip side, it's somehow easier to get people to attend scheduled meetings.

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                                      Fuck a dragon?
                                      What does that even mean?

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                                        Fuck a dragon?
                                        What does that even mean?

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                                        You put ANYTHING in a DnD and you better be prepared for your players to fight it or fuck it and usually both

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                                          You put ANYTHING in a DnD and you better be prepared for your players to fight it or fuck it and usually both

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                                          If a murder hobo is someone who kills everything in the game, what do you call someone who fucks everything in the game?

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