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jjjalljs, to asklemmy in What do you wear for work?

T-shirt. Boxers. Sometimes a wizard robe. I work from home.

jjjalljs, to science in Ocean water is rushing miles underneath the ‘Doomsday Glacier’ with potentially dire impacts on sea level rise

From what I’ve read, there are a few things that change people’s beliefs. Fact is not one of them. What your in-group believes is a big factor. So if we could murder fox news, we’d probably do the world a lot of good.

But the other thing that apparently can push people into reevaluating their beliefs? Horrific, personal, trauma. Someone who’s whole town was destroyed by climate change might be shaken up enough to rethink their world view. Maybe.

You could also maybe trigger the effect by beating the living shit out of a climate change denier, because being dragged out of their coal-rolling truck and being beaten so badly they’ll never walk again would be traumatic.

jjjalljs, to rpg in You're the GM, but haven't prep anything for tonight. How do you make tonight game a succes ?

It helps I’m playing Fate, so it doesn’t require a lot of prep. My 2nd favorite system, CofD, also doesn’t require a lot of prep. Dnd’s math is so wonky it needs more prep.

In both of those systems stats are pretty constrained. A dude has like 5 health levels on average and you don’t need to scale things to player level like that.

I usually have a couple factions in the game that are up to no good. They can always start some shit by kidnapping NPCs or advancing their plots. Maybe today’s the day they dig too deep and a balrog awakens in Central Park.

jjjalljs, to rpgmemes in This is where the fun begins!

This sounds accurate.

As someone who liked CofD 2e a lot, I’m bummed they didn’t continue with it. I also think the heavy meta narrative stuff was kind of bad, and I preferred not having a strong canon.

I should probably read the new new WoD rules to see if I like them, but I haven’t had the heart. I actually bought print editions of CofD stuff.

jjjalljs, to rpgmemes in This is where the fun begins!

Not to be confused with its cousin, Mage: The Ascension. For complicated and stupid reasons, there’s both versions. Ascension was first, then there was a reboot of all the games. That gave us awakening. There was awakening 2nd edition. That’s my favorite. But then for some reason, another company went back and restarted publishing the old lines, and made new versions of them?

jjjalljs, to workreform in Wage theft now outnumbers all other types of theft in the U.S., reaching $482 million

My lawyer friend tried to explain it to me before, but I still kind of don’t get why civil and criminal law is split. That seems unnecessarily complicated.

Anyway, the answer is probably unions, where the unions make it clear they know where management sleeps at night.

jjjalljs, to memes in It is apparently controversial

Gods, it’s like some people never passed 10th grade English. Sometimes the important part of the text isn’t the literal meaning. There’s like metaphor and hyperbole and shit.

jjjalljs, to games in Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

I’ve never played cs. Does it have different characters?

jjjalljs, to games in Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

It’s essentially a hero shooter. You shoot. It has heroes. I don’t know what else you want.

jjjalljs, to games in Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

If you set the server config to limit one player per class, and set the max team size to like 8, you basically have a hero shooter. That’s not an unusual config- some servers were just like that for years.

What’s missing ? “Each class has two powers” is an extremely specific metric I don’t think is a requirement for hero shooters, and even if it was you have the unique grenades on top of the more obvious “he can build a sentry, he can turn invisible”.

You could maybe argue there aren’t enough classes, but I don’t buy that. As long as you have enough for everyone on the team to play something different, you’re good. The characters in TF2 certainly have personality.

I knew someone who got really upset when I compared overwatch to TF2, but I think it was because they were emotionally invested in overwatch and felt bad when I was like “it’s kind of like this much older game I like more”. Saying the thing they love is kind of a knockoff made them feel bad.

Anyway. To your point. I wouldn’t call tf2 a hero shooter first. It’s not the best representation of the genre, probably. But to my point, I still stand by overwatch added very little on top of TF2. Most of Blizzard’s changes were changes in minor detail. It’s basically "more classes, fewer game modes, you can’t run your own server, and we’re going to try to sell you micro transactions "

jjjalljs, to casualconversation in Happy Friday, Lemmy. What are your plans for the weekend?

I’ve thought about it. Putting aside the tremendous technical hurdles, bootstrapping a new dating app is hard. And what would make this one special?

I had an idea for some sort of trust network thing. Like you could vouch for your friends, and if they’re assholes you lose reputation. But that doesn’t work without a lot of people.

It would probably be easier to get rich some other way and just buy out Match group, and use that position to de-shittify their apps.

jjjalljs, to casualconversation in Happy Friday, Lemmy. What are your plans for the weekend?

A meetup is doing a picnic on Saturday so I might go to that. Otherwise just hanging out by myself. Probably some park walks. Maybe a bike ride. Video games. Frustratingly looking at tinder. It’s so clearly enshittified.

Monday/Tuesday I have plans with folks that couldn’t meet this weekend though, so that’ll be nice.

jjjalljs, to longreads in I Went Undercover as a Secret Only fans Chatter

I mean, no shit, but I don’t know if there’s a lot of people stupider than sad lonely horny men.

jjjalljs, to games in Images leak of Valve's next game, and it's an Overwatch-style hero shooter

I stand by my assessment that overwatch is essentially team fortress 2 with a limit of one player per class and fewer game modes.

I don’t know the name of the trope, but it’s like when a cover gets more popular than the original. Except the person doing the cover (blizzard) is a huge scumbag.

jjjalljs, to usa in Texas governor pardons Uber driver convicted of murdering Black Lives Matter protester

Well this is garbage.

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