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Gemini Links 12/12/2025: 'Kinetic Energy' and Browsing Geminispace With a GUI, TUI, or CLI Client

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 12, 2025

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• Gemini* and GopherPersonal/OpinionsTechnology and Free SoftwareInternet/Gemini

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Personal/Opinions

🔤SpellBinding — ABDEORX Wordo: CLIME

🖼️ xkcd: Fishing #3179

sitting hunchedly, grumbling, looking downward harumphedly

gripped by a sudden ambiguous lack of continuity, it decides that it will smoke the down in the bathroom. skooma, it means.. and hurriedly crumples the foil, straw , and lighter into a single ugly ball before quickly shoving it into the pants pocket this time.

Kinetic Energy Character Generator

The character generator follows the traditional design I've used in the past for Myrkheim, Lake Land and Helmbarten: It's a single HTML file containing some JavaScript at the top and a lot of random tables in the back. You can use the tables to generate text, you can look at the tables, and there's Help to explain how to write those tables. Feel free to download and modify!

Status in Kinetic Energy

I think I need to write something about how I want to use Status. My Kinetic Energy game has it, just like Traveller. And I also have the empire, and techno feudalism. I want to emphasise the terrible feudal aspects of this and encourage the game to be about the struggle against it. In this context, Status is your standing and social capital within the empire. How many friends in high places you have, how much favours you can call in, like the Resources test in Burning Wheel. Now, if you are exposed as a rebel, you can still pull strings but some things must necessarily change. And clearly, if you leave the empire completely, then your Status there drops to the minimum (1): You have become a stranger, a refugee. Or we could say: There is a new Status attribute for every hegemony. The default is simply: Your status within the empire.

Technology and Free Software

Internet/Gemini

Do you browse the Geminispace with a GUI, TUI, or CLI client?

* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.