Personal website of Blake Watson Online since 2005

Minimal color illustration of a white man with brown hair, headphones, and wearing a red shirt emblazoned with a ringed planet silhouette.

I’m a software engineer, side-project enthusiast, hobbyist game developer, sometimes writer, and full-time wheelchair user.

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Damn.

A decade of employment

I celebrate ten years of being employed by looking back at the difficult journey it took to get there.

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Remember, folks, if you change a URL on your website and you don't create redirect, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will break into your house at night and kill you with a ceremonial dagger fashioned in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.

My DM pointed out that Shillelagh lasts for a minute which is a pretty long time in combat and also it doesn't require concentration.

Player’s Handbook: As a druid, we recommend putting your lowest ability score on Strength.

Also Player’s Handbook: Weapons? You get a quarterstaff and a sickle. Yes they both rely on Strength.

Yeah I know Shillelagh is a thing but I think it's weird that a druid has to burn a bonus action every minute to have a usable weapon attack (out of the box, anyway).

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