Procedurally Isolated Kawa @kawa@wandering.shop

A personal philosophy, riffed from Daniel Pinkwater's "Big Orange Splot":

New York City is me and I am it. My city is where I like to be; I hope I can make it look like all my dreams.

#nyclocal

Re-#introduction time? #Introductions time!

I'm Kawa! [they/them or she/her]

➕ #statistics day gig, would love more #math people on my feed
#queer/#pansexual, #nb-exploring, #polyamory practicing
🗽 #NYC native & resident, would love to hear from fellow outer-boro folx
🎲 #tabletop RP (lately #storygames), indie #gaming in the #roguelike tradition, #procgen art
💖 Also love #food, #origami, and occasionally #football as in #soccer (really fußball but who's counting)

Life updates:

1) My job did not start today, no idea when it is starting.
1a) If you know someone who is looking for a remote data analyst-shaped human, particularly working in Tableau, let a Kawa know
2) Disco Elysium is still wildly important to me, if you want some literary tragecomedy in your PC gaming please play it
3) My polycule is far from me physically but good
4) I did go on my trip and it was not as expected but i'm glad i got to before everything shut down

Life updates:
1) Ending old job March 6, starting new job April 6. This is a Good Thing for everyone involved!
2) Disco Elysium fandom has TAKEN OVER MY LIFE. Let me know if you need CWs on the game. Please consider playing it.(Also, please let me know if you ship it.)
3) My polycule expanded, that's neat as hell. 💖
3) I'm doing the *opposite* of recommended guidelines and coming to San Francisco precisely *because* GDC is cancelled to hang with my polycule and friends!

I greatly prefer dark background/light text aesthetics when working on screens. I get Google Docs to do that for me when working on screen-only writing. Here's how: https://imgur.com/a/jgClR5R

Feel free to spread it around!

okay nerds I finished #DiscoElysium over the weekend, who wants to talk some feelings and headcanons with your friendly local Kawa

Say you want to review lots of restaurants under standardized criteria. (A homage to
FiveThirtyEight's Burrito Bracket, but not nationwide or Mexican.) You don't have access to a pro panel, nor the stomach to do every restaurant that qualifies. How do you decide where to go?

Due to work stuff I had to be a totally normal, reasonable adult for #halloween. I was really nervous, though! Did I do a good job?

Oh hey, my #roguelikecelebration talk is up! Listen to me ramble about conduct history! #roguelikes #procgen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHJsJuJfYg

A Good Idea (if you like almonds): adding orgeat to coffee.

I just spent a bit adding to @BotFinds, my Robot Finds Kitten homage #Tracery bot. A few corpora, a few new messages - hopefully the message variety will increase.

(I know I could have just taken all the NKIs directly from the original, but chose not to for the practice using Tracery grammars. I am tempted to dump the Nethack rumors.tru and rumors.fal in though, we'll see.)

I just got my flu shot! If you can, you should as well! Many places will have them for free and cheap - check your local health clinics, pharmacies, and social services!

I did all my community work and recovering from serious relationship stress by ignoring my day job, and it's finally catching up to me. I'm scared.
Also my mom is staying over at my apartment for the first time, and she always makes me anxious so this is a lot.
I feel awful for complaining given what I do have, but ugh. I feel run down. Sleep is hard, self care is slipping, and I'm finding it hard to be present for those who need me.

It's ✨ ROGUELIKE CELEBRATION ✨ Come watch #roguelike #procgen funtimes!!! https://www.twitch.tv/roguelike_con/

If you ever wanted a framework for understanding wine, try @phildini's! https://ajuicebox.com/2019/05/24/how-to-taste-wine/ These are my notes trying an Albariño at a fancy seafood place in Seattle.

Albarino [sp] Idilico
Swirl ✔
Sniff: peach? lime? floral??
Taste 1: mineral, "sparkle" hit | mellows quick | sweet/tart
Taste 2: much smoother now | still tart | heavy?!
Taste 3: I do like it!
Hard to tell color in this light. Lighter, not greened.