Emacs Chat: Magnar Sveen (Emacs Rocks)
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Here are the notes from my chat with Magnar Sveen, the creator of the Emacs Rocks screencast series and a number of other great Emacs resources. Enjoy!
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9 comments
mbork
2013-11-25T23:58:08ZWow! As soon as I have some time to spare, I'll *have* to listen to that. Two cool people talking about cool things. Whoah.
Sacha, any chance of an mp3 version for commuters like me;)?
And one more thing: I can't find Magnar's email anywhere, and I guess he's reading this, so I've got a (non-Emacs) question: Magnar, what is your nickname on BGG? (I assume that a person having 100+ contemporary boardgames must have an account on BGG, of course;).)
sachac
2013-11-26T04:05:59ZGreat point! Added. Want to ping Magnar on Twitter? https://twitter.com/magnars I'll send him a note about your comment too.
Magnar Sveen
2013-11-26T08:27:51ZYou are of course quite right. On BGG I go under the discreet, subtle nickname of Superdeathflame. :-) http://boardgamegeek.com/us...
mbork
2013-11-26T16:36:53ZThanks a lot! I hope to listen to the rest of the chat today or tomorrow.
BTW, don't you think that Emacs might make a great A:N card? ;)
Magnar Sveen
2013-11-26T17:50:42ZThat would be cool. Probably overpowered. ;-)
Peter
2013-11-26T15:52:33ZHi Sacha, thank you for making this chat with Magnar (and thank you Magnar).
A small question: what board game did Magnar recommend for 2 persons at the end of the chat? I can't quite hear what he said.
Thanks/ Peter
mbork
2013-11-26T16:35:41ZIf I understood correctly, it was Netrunner (or Android:Netrunner, which is a modernized version). Though it might not be a very representative case for modern \(board\|card\)games, since it's an LCG (a genre descendant of CCGs), and being a Fantasy Flight Games release, it has a thick and not-the-best-written (though not a horrible one, either) rulebook.
My personal pick would be Race for the Galaxy for braver people, Innovation for a little easier option, Dominion for casual gamers (all cardgames), and - if you prefer *board*games - Agricola ("classical" or "ACBaS"), Village or Stone Age (from more hardcore to more casual gaming). (All these work fine for two people, most of them also for 3 or 4.)
Aurélien Bottazini
2013-12-05T13:32:32ZVery interesting. Thank you.
Tristan Nokes
2021-02-08T20:10:26ZHey Magnar,
Ive been looking over your "resting in Style" API script in roll 20 and I absolutely love it. There was a section though that i had a hard time understanding...
"What about items with randomly regained charges?
Let's look at Wand of Magic Missiles. The wand regains 1d6+1 expended charges
daily at dawn. We can approximate that by tying it to a long rest like this:
Wand of Magic Missiles [l+1d6+1]
The first character in the brackets is a lower case L, meaning it will trigger
after a long rest. The +1d6+1 is rolled and added to the resource (up to the
maximum). You can replace the l with an s to trigger after a short rest.""
Where am I supposed to but "Wand of Magic Missiles [l+1d6+1]" information? How do the step go i'm a little confused. Please Help!