Also, For Pete’s Sake, Girls Already Know About Engineering Day.

This morning was full of all-hands meeting. I hope we aren’t betting the whole company on AI.

Watched (anime): My Hero Academia 8.10-11: The End! There is nothing to disprove my theory that Froppy and Uravity are married now.

Read (manga): The Apothecary Diaries vol 9 (Natsu Hyuuga, Nekokurage, Itsuki Nanao, Touco Shino): Getting to the Foreign Dignitaries storyline, plus assorted random mysterious mysteries.

Read (essay): Why All Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Are Historians (Ada Palmer): It’s because they have opinions about how the world changes. Literary people on the slack (so, pretty much the whole slack) had many opinions on this when Marith posted it.

Read (novel): Saints and Monsters (Ellen McGinty): A disabled princess has to save her sister and her Japan-flavored country with the unwilling assistance of a dragon. It was not bad, but could have used 80% less heterosexuality, and probably 30% fewer words.

Written (game design): 192:

It may seem like we’re making techniques into Hero powers, but my hope
is that we aren’t, because techniques don’t let you do anything your
powerset doesn’t already let you do. They just let you do it with fewer
tradeoffs or outright penalties than maneuvers do. Also, they don’t
(usually) grind away at hit points, they inflict conditions, which we
still don’t have a good handle on.

Other vital things we have no handle on: weakness for NPCs/complications
for PCs, skills, normal human abilities, gaining experience. Well, human
abilities are easy: everybody starts with the powerset Human, with
whatever capabilities and dice are needed to get 2d6 strength, normal
vision and other senses, etc.