Gestern eine nette Geburtstagsrollenspielrunde geleitet. Das Geburtstagskind (46) hat sich was mit interessanter Mechanik gewünscht, und ich habe #Upwind von Jeff Barber aus der Schublade gezogen. Das wird mit Pokerkarten gespielt und es war tatsächlich Recht cool. Mal was anderes und auch das Setting (fliegende Inseln, Flugschiffe, magische Elementarmagie) war stimmig. #pnpde
Kedging Cannon

xkcd
Supercon 2023: [Pierce Nichols] Is Teaching Robots To Sail

Sailing the high seas with the wind conjures a romantic notion of grizzled sailors fending off pirates and sea monsters, but until the 1920s, wind-powered vessels were the primary way goods travele…

Hackaday

Really excited to make it to the finish line of my first race with some actual sea chop. Had to remount twice, finished dead last, but learned a lot and had a great time. More images may follow later.

#surfski #upwind #downwind #surfskirace #castricum

Word Search Puzzle 809

Word List : #camerist #manship #eritrean #unbundle #blumes #lookum #stylists #prelabor #reducing #offbeat #astyanax #upwind #cuon #tricia #arcanist #epulones #downflow #kingdom

Kara Finance
Sailing (Directly) Into The Wind

Humans have been sailing various seas and oceans for thousands of years, and using boats for potentially even longer than that. But as a species we wouldn’t have made it very far if it was on…

Hackaday
Star Trek: The Next Generation 1x06 "Lonely Among Us"

Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

Trakt

#letsroll

⚄ ⚃ ⚅ ⚅ ⚄→#slingshot
⚅ ⚄ ⚁ ⚅ ⚄→#upwind
⚀ ⚁ ⚅ ⚃ ⚀→#backdrop
⚂ ⚄ ⚅ ⚃ ⚄→#legal
⚁ ⚂ ⚅ ⚀ ⚅→#dodge
⚂ ⚀ ⚃ ⚃ ⚃→#freeload

slingshot-upwind-backdrop-legal-dodge-freeload

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚄ ⚁ ⚃ ⚅ ⚀→#rumor
⚅ ⚄ ⚁ ⚅ ⚄→#upwind
⚂ ⚃ ⚀ ⚅ ⚀→#humble
⚃ ⚅ ⚅ ⚃ ⚄→#referee
⚅ ⚁ ⚁ ⚂ ⚅→#thriving
⚂ ⚄ ⚄ ⚅ ⚅→#lash

rumor-upwind-humble-referee-thriving-lash

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

#letsroll

⚂ ⚃ ⚃ ⚃ ⚃→#immunity
⚃ ⚅ ⚀ ⚃ ⚁→#pushchair
⚅ ⚄ ⚁ ⚅ ⚄→#upwind
⚃ ⚂ ⚀ ⚅ ⚀→#overeager
⚀ ⚁ ⚃ ⚄ ⚃→#attach
⚄ ⚂ ⚁ ⚅ ⚄→#scorch

immunity-pushchair-upwind-overeager-attach-scorch

Roll your own @ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-passphrases

EFF's New Wordlists for Random Passphrases

Joe Bonneau dives deep into systems using dice to generate random passphrases and introduces EFF's three new wordlists.

Electronic Frontier Foundation