Barbarian

@Barbarian@lemmy.ml

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Barbarian,

I guess by that definition I’d be an aspiring vegan :))

The issue isn’t access to raw ingredients, when we have the time my gf and I do cook vegan food (we made a vegan butter “chicken” just a few days ago). The issue is when we go to a restaurant or order takeaway due to work obligations and being super busy, there are no vegan options and normally 1 vegetarian option laden with cheese.

Barbarian,

I am definitely a hard-liner when it comes to meat. I do find it harder to be such a hard-liner with other animal products, even though I’m aware of the conditions in dairy factory farms. I do agree with you, I’m just saying it’s difficult.

Barbarian,

Yup, pack it up boys. Was a good 2 days, but as lemmy.ml has the only functional server on the planet, we're done here (/s, obviously)

Barbarian,

The rulebook is absolutely atrocious. Absolute garbage formatting that forces you to look in 5 different places for anything.

Once you get a basic handle on the game though, it flows really well, especially for a more trenchcoat style with lots of background plot and mysteries to uncover. The lore is what keeps me coming back more than anything else though.

However, there's 3 aspects of the rules that I consider very crunchy and clunky, and I houserule:

  1. Grenades in enclosed spaces. Nobody has time to sit there and do linear algebra to figure out how many times the shockwaves bounces between two walls doing damage each pass. If you throw a grenade into an enclosed space, chunky salsa and we move on with our lives.
  2. Non-combat decking. If you need to hack the system while your party is being attacked by enemies, that's a cool combat encounter for everyone. If you want to get the floor plans of the building during legwork, I'm not having the decker run a solo session getting the data while everyone else stares at their phones. I make the decker roll a computers + logic test, give them info depending on successes, and we all move on.
  3. Certain spells are absolutely horrendous in terms of how they affect the game. The 2 worst offenders are mob mind and chaos. Mob mind because you roll resistances for every single goddamn person in the area. I just make a very rough average of a nornal civvie, and houserule that the more excess successes you have the more people "failed" the save. Chaos has no written spell effect. I made my own table, with random effects ranging from fire to input failure to software glitch and lots of other possibilities. Keeps things fresh.

Jeez, that turned into way more of a wall of text than I intended, sorry.

Barbarian,

End of the month is gonna be D-Day when people need to make a decision. I'm pretty confident that a large majority will suck it up and switch to the official app, but that still leaves huge numbers of people that will be migrating. I hope Lemmy is ready for the real wave, this is all just precursor shit.

All that is a long-winded way of saying this is about to get a lot bigger.

Barbarian,

It's effectively the same as cutting it off for third party apps. No small-time app developer has 20 million lying around.

They're trying to profit as much as possible from the AI companies that want to scrape user data, and throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Killing third party apps are just a nice side benefit as they can get more eyeballs on ads.

Barbarian,

As a shadowrun GM, I really like those games. Rules-wise, they have very little in common with the tabletop RPG apart from using a few of the same words, but they capture the lore and the feel of the world really well.

Barbarian,

I regularly plan to learn DF, then just play RimWorld instead. It really is DF for normies.

Barbarian,

If you want to get your feet wet in the genre without diving into the bottomless pit of possibilities that is DF, I'd heavily recommend RimWorld. It's basically a simplified, streamlined DF with a futuristic space theme.

Barbarian,

They are credited with taking down wolfballs

I found it in your link, thanks. Jesus. I think lemmygrad deserves a medal for that if this post is representative of that community.

help me choose my next distro

I'm resetting windows 10 on my Thinkpad T580 for work but would like to create a partition for linux. It's an older laptop and really chugs through games like Minecraft or RuneScape but I enjoy playing relaxing games while I listen to audiobooks at night. I grew up using windows which is why I've mostly used Ubuntu and ZorinOS...

Barbarian,

I'm a Linux vet who's been around the block. I've tried all the major distros, used Gentoo for a few years, Arch the same, and a bunch of smaller distros.

Nowadays, I just want my computer to start up and run my programs with as little fuss as humanly possible. I'm far too lazy to rice or optimize anything, and I have little patience to troubleshoot the next big awesome thing.

Consequently, I use Kubuntu with Wayland. It chugs along and does everything I need it to.

Barbarian,

Hey! Glad to be part of the fediverse. Bit of a learning curve, but it's exciting and interesting!

Barbarian,

Such a bizarre linguistic thing that's happened with woke. It's now essentially meaningless. What was once a legitimate term meaning "alert to racial prejudice", now just means "thing I don't like".

Barbarian,

If you're on Android, Jerboa works pretty well.

Barbarian, (edited )

I'm a newbie as well, so take this with a grain of salt.

Lemmy is a language. Different "reddits" (called instances from this point on) can talk to any other instance that the moderation team hasn't banned. Every instance has their own rules, settings and moderation teams. Every instance can make "subreddits" (sublemmies). You can contribute to any sublemmy on any instance as long as they haven't banned your instance or your user.

What this means in practice is that if you don't like the moderators, go make your own instance or find one with like-minded people. If the moderators of an instance are not happy with the contributions of another instance as a whole, they can ban that. Assuming they're talking to (federated with) another instance, it's seamless and you can comment and post with all those people too.

Barbarian,

Your explanation is much clearer than mine, thanks!

Barbarian,

Swap from "Local" view to "All". It's on the top of the web page and in a menu top-left on Jerboa.

Barbarian, (edited )

Yes, that can absolutely happen. In fact, that exact situation is happening right now with !gaming and !gaming

Not really an issue if you subscribe to both though.

In the longer term, I fully expect duplicate communities like that to resolve themselves with people predominantly using one over the other. EDIT: Or another possibility is that they might end up different due to moderation and rules (i.e: one is the memey gaming community and the other is the more serious one)

Barbarian,

Give it time. The enshittification will continue. If they don't leave now, maybe it'll be when old.reddit.com is removed. Or maybe it'll be once they eventually ban NSFW content once and for all. Or maybe they'll start requiring admin permission for certain actions. Or maybe it'll be when ads are more common than posts and unblockable.

I am very confident this won't be the last stupid thing they do in the runup to the IPO and beyond.

Barbarian,

For me, the big difference maker is that I no longer feel like I'm shouting into the void. Quite often, I'd see a post, I'd have an opinion/comment/thought about it, start writing a comment, and then think "Why bother? This post already has 5000 comments, and default sort is hot. Nobody will read the 5001st comment".

Maybe it's just my monkey brain, but after a day of adjusting, it definitely feels better to have 2+ upvotes and/or 1 comment so I know somebody at least considered what I said rather than a buried comment that nobody will ever see.

Barbarian,

Figured it out! In the search options, make sure it's set to "All" and not "Communities". For whatever reason, that seems to be the issue for me.

This is in a browser, not on Jerboa. I don't know how to make it work there.

a vegan and vegetarian thread

i'm sure with the influx of people we have enough of a community for this to be a thread, or at least people who are interested in veganism and vegetarianism and incorporating aspects of the diet/lifestyle into their current life. so yeah, pop off! share your struggles, experiences, good times, recipes, all that kind of stuff

Barbarian,

As I said on !vegan, I would very much classify myself as an aspiring vegan. I don't eat meat at all and try and avoid dairy & eggs when I can, but takeaway, family gatherings and restaurants are basically impossible here in eastern Europe. Most places these days have vegetarian options at least, and my parents are fine with making sure I have something without meat, but EVERYTHING has cheese in it. I never realized quite how all-pervasive cheese is until I tried to avoid it, and I've given up hope of any vegan options that I don't cook myself.

Pathfinder 2e Remaster Changes - what do you think? (docs.google.com)

There's some really interesting changes coming for 2e! Bards have full martial proficiency, clerics can f finally get heavy armor from within their class, wizard schools of magic are gone... Then of course the big named news, like the replacement of dragons with the magic traditions (arcane/nature/religion/occult), and the...

Barbarian,

Wait, this community is for tabletop RPGs as well? Interesting. Was considering writing up a Shadowrun AAR post on !RPG (did I do that link right?), might post it here too if people are interested.

Barbarian,

If they're trying to kill third party apps, why do you think the solution is making essentially a third party app? Even if you go the web scraping route, I guarantee if this actually gets any traction Reddit will start making subtle semi-randomized changes to their DOM to make scraping as difficult as possible.

They want you on Reddit's app and site to show you ads. They will make it as hard as they can to avoid them.

The only realistic solution is to build communities here to replace the ones on Reddit.

Barbarian,

Yeah, the admin post at the start of the spike was talking about needing to stagger new registrants, presumably to avoid an eternal September like scenario where the community permanently changes character.

If this is the case, makes perfect sense. I may be a newbie to Lemmy, but looking around the best case scenario imo is a whole bunch of instances, both existing and new, take the load. That way each instance gets to decide what they want their own communities to look like.

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