I have met a large number of Canadians who have left the country, and they were not super well off. But no where near 1 in 10
They were mostly people who became citizens, then returned to the place they were born for one reason or another.
Sometimes it’s realizing that the grass isn’t greener, sometimes it someone “back home” gets sick, sometimes it a relationship they have in Canada goes away for one reason or another.
Walter was always awful, he just finally allowed himself to act on it.
Jessie was a generally good person acting like a bad person, Walt was a bad person acting like a good person. Their facades slowly fall away with each season.
Skyler was not perfect, but she gave her boss the money to avoid an investigation which could lead to Walt getting caught.
DEI is Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Not sure on SBI
But unless the game is late-seasons Glee levels of pandering, I assume it having some people who are not straight white men won’t feel that out of place.
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal says National Service Dogs did not discriminate when it took pet from a Mississauga home, where it was a companion animal to an autistic girl
And .af is Afghanistan, .tv is Tuvalu, and .ai is Anguilla.
But .af is used for “As fuck”, .tv is used for media, and .ai is used for sketchy startups jumping on a bandwagon after they didn’t get rich off of blockchain/crypto.
If a system’s rules are mostly for combat, and making a character mostly revolved around combat, then the reason people play it is probably for combat.
The idea of “the fruitful void” does exist, but I feel it exists more for systems that have fewer rules overall, or systems that are “loose” with all aspects, not games that have hundreds of rules in one area, and ignore the others. Games like Cities Without Number (which is am disappointed that the group Worlds Beyond Number isn’t using Worlds Without Number) have been great for getting players to think more about non-combat actions.
Choose a skill, choose an attribute, explain why those two, and roll if the GM agrees. Simple, leaves room for creativity, let’s players use their characters in interesting ways that still make sense.
Charisma and stealth because your character is “acting like they belong”? Go ahead, it makes sense. It also might have a different effect than another character trying Dexterity+Stealth.
If this is a *WN game, or some other game with a save where a failure means death, having them role the save makes sense.
If this is just a damage roll against the player, it makes no sense for that player to be the one that rolls. It’s not their character doing the action.
I get the idea behind this, people who are negative for the sake of being negative are a blight, but there shouldn’t really be a hard-line rule. Sometimes you just find yourself in a thread of the fediverse full of awful comments, not just things you disagree with, but things that are racist/sexist/transphobic/homophobic.
I know that I’ve gone into comment sections where I’ve handed out dozens of downvotes, though I also reported most of those same comments. I wouldn’t want to have a little pop-up that says “sorry, you can’t downvote in this thread until you upvote twice as many”.
I still think there might be issues with people who just don’t generally upvote, but run into the same type of awful comment section.
If the goal is to discourage trolling, all they would need to do is create a community where a bot posts 100s of comments, and you just go and upvote them all. It would be easier to vote sow.
I would occasionally like to use (wired) headphones, but 90% of the time I am fine with just hearing the audio that comes out of the crappy monitor speakers. If I plug the 3.5mm cable into the monitor’s headphone jack (even without headphones attached), then no audio will come out of the speaker anymore....
Most operating systems let you choose the output device of the audio.
So, you should be able to plug the headphones into the computer itself, then in software choose to have the audio go out of the HDMI when you want the monitor speaker, and line-out/headphone when you want the headphones.
I would take a cat over a dog any day, as I’m not a fan of pets that are clingy or constantly seek approval. I get the appeal of a bundle of energy that just want you to love/be proud of it, but it’s not my vibe.
I would also rather scoop a box indoors than carry warm bags of feces outside, and I spend as little time as possible outdoors once it’s below -30.
I’ve been writing a game based around super humans, and I need some people to help out with play testing my character creation. Here is a link to all the files in a Google Drive. Please read the README file and get the feedback form when you are done. Thank you all
The first thing that hit me is that these pages are formatted in a way that is unpleasant to read; it feels it’s a chore.
I would recommend making the pages 2 columns instead of 1. It’s a quick change that really makes a difference without needing to change the wording. The effort to payoff ratio is on par with learning to drybrush or ink a miniature.
In creating a character, the word “skill” appears far too often:
Skills are similar to powers in that they let your character do things, they just aren’t super-powerful. Skills are determined by how smart you are. When you roll your INT, you get to use that skill(attribute?) to determine how many skills you have, and how many Positive Modifiers you get to use for the skills. The Positive Modifiers can be spread to whichever skill you think needs them.
Assuming a character rolled 16 in INT and 11 in everything else, how do skills work mechanically?
This character would get 5 skill slots, and 8 positive modifiers.
Are these positive modifiers applied to a specific skill, and once applied they are there forever?
Is there a certain maximum/minimum number that can be applied to one skill?
So you normally roll 2d10 for things (I think), but do you add anything else other than the positive modifiers?
like, if I took boxing as a skill, would my STR or DEX add anything?
You randomly get a hold of your colleague's phone. It's unlocked. You don't mind being fired. What sounds do you set as his notification and ring tones?
I was thinking of something like the Duff Man theme and slapping sounds and moans, but I feel that Lemmy knows better....
Growing number of Canadians are moving abroad due to lack of affordability: McGill study (nationalpost.com)
The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.
Sad (mander.xyz)
Elon Musk Laid Off Supercharger Team After Taking $17 Million in Federal Charging Grants (gizmodo.com)
Despite its CEO railing against Biden, Tesla was more than happy to take the administration’s money.
Anyone else?
Manor Lords dev says the city builder's future patches will tackle storage issues, archer damage, and AI running rampant over every territory it can grab (www.gamesradar.com)
Alan Wake 2 dev won't speculate on Steam release, but 'hope gamers find it on the Epic Games Store' (dotesports.com)
Todd Howard Said Fallout Won't Leave The United States (insider-gaming.com)
18+ WTF is this sign? (lazysoci.al)
Reddit if full of bots: thread reposted exactly the same, comment by comment, 10 months later (files.catbox.moe)
For the threads with the older one on the left: lemmy.world/post/14859950...
Service dog removed from Ontario home because it got too fat (www.sootoday.com)
Ontario Human Rights Tribunal says National Service Dogs did not discriminate when it took pet from a Mississauga home, where it was a companion animal to an autistic girl
Why there is so much communist propaganda on lemmy?
Even from people that never lived in a communist state...
How do systems matter?
Here are two blog posts in response to a video and it’s all about the old discussion if systems matter....
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My monitor has a headphone jack in the back. Can I use it only sometimes without having to plug/unplug it?
I would occasionally like to use (wired) headphones, but 90% of the time I am fine with just hearing the audio that comes out of the crappy monitor speakers. If I plug the 3.5mm cable into the monitor’s headphone jack (even without headphones attached), then no audio will come out of the speaker anymore....
Are you a cat or dog person and why?
18+ Can i talk with a person who passed away ?
Need Some Play Testers (drive.google.com)
I’ve been writing a game based around super humans, and I need some people to help out with play testing my character creation. Here is a link to all the files in a Google Drive. Please read the README file and get the feedback form when you are done. Thank you all
Does the concept of the fediverse act as a template for original apps that couldn't be done with non fediverse software?
Best Linux Distro For Playing On Steam?
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/14762903...
Oh yes, I can finally play some gta v (lemmy.world)