646: Hard Code & Soft Skills

I feel like that is an accurate retelling of of what happened to Twitter though. So, like, it's I that's exactly how I remember it. Loosely inspired by actual events. Hey there, Shop of Maniacs. You are listening to a special episode of the Shop Talk Show, a show within a show. Welcome to hard code and soft skills, a tabletop role playing game created by me, Dave Rupert, based on lasers and feelings by John Harper. You can find the game at hardcodesoftskills.daverupert.com, and I'll be the GM for the evening. But with me, as always, is Chris Coyier. Hey, Chris. Well, I'm just excited. I'm excited to be here, Dave. This is not a normal episode. We're, you know, we're sitting around a virtual table ready to roll some dice. We this is gonna be a a actual play podcast. We're we're converting the whole show into an actual play podcast. And then we also have Alex Fimeon, Reverie. Alex, how are you? I am great. I am super stoked to be here. And we have Ben Myers. Hey, Ben. Howdy, howdy. Happy to be here. And then we have, Miriam Suzanne, and I'm most excited about your character. I I will, no spoilers, though. Okay. Yeah. I'm here. I'm ready to tank my career, doing my role play. Yeah. What could go wrong? It's just an hour of potential disaster or, as Ben pointed out, five hours in over multiple seasons. So we'll see how it goes. That's the only way that a one shot goes, Dave. I know. I should have planned this out a little bit better and blocked a whole five days worth of time. But, I'll give like, I'm gonna set up the story, the game, just for audio listeners so you're not lost throughout the next hour or whatever. And then we'll have y'all introduce yourselves, and then we'll get into the game. Does that sound okay to everybody? Sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. With me are the employees of the start up Raptor. Your job is to scale the company, interface with customers both friendly and deadly, and defend fellow employees against workplace dangers. Your CEO, Chad, has just come back from Burning Man and is overcome by a strange psychedelic energy, leaving you to fend for yourselves while he recovers in a napping pod. So how it's gonna work is you each have a character. You've created a character, generated a character, but each character has one stat, and it's a number between two and five. So it's either two, three, four, or five. And that determines whether you are hard code or soft skills. Hard code means like science and reason, right, technology, and soft skills is rapport, passion, diplomacy, you know, love. That that is those are your skill sets. And what you're gonna do is you're going to whenever you take an action, you're going to roll dice against the, roll roll against, like, the the challenge. …