jjjalljs

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jjjalljs,

There was an article going around a while ago that was arguing most users these days, including the youth we often stereotype as “digital natives” who “get computers”, don’t understand file systems. They might not even know they exist as a concept.

Which makes sense if you’ve only ever really used modern UIs. You don’t have to know anything about files and folders. I bet a lot of people don’t even know they exist in any meaningful way.

Most users are shockingly ignorant, and a lot of them are not really paying enough attention or interested enough to learn much.

jjjalljs,

What is casting a spell in debug mode?

Can you put a breakpoint in your spell? Picturing a devil having a smoke while the wizard puzzles over all the runes suspended in the air.

jjjalljs,

Blades in the dark is such a monkey’s paw for me. I’m happy people are playing something that’s not dnd nor a close relative, but I don’t actually like it very much.

It felt very downward spiral to me, which I do not like at all. I’ve got “and you’ll never fully recover” enough in real life. The book (or maybe just a quick start pdf the guy in my old group gave us) was like “horrible things will happen to your character! They’ll suffer and break! It’s going to be fun” and I was like no thank you.

Also I didn’t really like the group I played it with that much, so that didn’t help.

jjjalljs,

Basic income pilots nationwide have seen noteworthy success, despite conservative opposition.

Well, conservatives have bad ideas on just about everything so that’s not surprising. If all the conservatives just went away we could have a much nicer world like overnight.

jjjalljs,

Add stuff to the scene that’s not just damage. Stuff that splits their attention and requires some strategic thinking.

  • Mooks are doing a ritual that will have bad results if it’s completed in two rounds.
  • Mooks flee to sound the alarm/get reinforcements
  • innocent hostages are at risk
    • some of them are fake hostages and will attack if "rescued"
    • some of them are actually innocent, but are dominated/acting against their will
  • any number of gimmicks that force people into smaller groups.
    • the boss is tangible only to one player at a time. Like that time in bg2 when I cast time stop and everything stopped except my wizard, and the demogorgon.
    • the boss is split into X parts that need to be killed at the same time , in separate rooms.

Also, playing Mage and Fate most recently it’s been really refreshing not having any of these DND problems.

jjjalljs,

Article says

Clearly, you need to have conservative writers. But what kind?

Counterargument: No you don’t. Conservative ideas are bankrupt, cruel, and/or foolish. We do not need to give them a platform.

jjjalljs,

Also would have accepted the meme with the Muppet like puppets being asked "and what did we learn?’ and they all scream “Nothing!!”

I wonder if it would’ve been on net better if COVID had been deadlier. Like if people had been dying from a new disease with blood gushing out of their eyes, would idiots have taken it seriously? Probably not.

jjjalljs,

Someone posted a lengthy podcast about how many kids are taught to read badly. features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

There was another article a couple weeks ago that said less than half of us adults can read at a 6th grade level. 6th grade is before you really get into metaphor and subtext. That’s just reading for plot.

Some people legitimately might be bad at reading.

The people on text based sites are probably better than a whole chunk of people that don’t even post.

jjjalljs,

Conservatives are bad and should be removed from power.

jjjalljs,

If we know who the billionaires are, why don’t we, like, just get rid of them? This is the easiest trolley problem.

jjjalljs,

If everyone would just delete their x/Twitter account , this wouldn’t be much of a problem. Let the bots and spies talk to each other.

jjjalljs,

Stop voting for Republicans. Being a Republican is not okay.

jjjalljs,

Would like there to be less stigma around sex work.

As with all work, I want better work protection. Unions. All that.

Specifically, I’m really tired of the “step-” stuff that the major free sites seem to push a lot. I don’t know why it’s trending but I don’t like it.

I think in a couple years ai is going to be good enough to make video, and that’s going to be weird. Like today you can type “big tit redhead” and hope you get results that do it for you, but in the future it’ll probably be able to create results. That will open whole new fronts in ethical debates.

jjjalljs,

Meanwhile, games that do have huge teams and budgets like starfield and Diablo4 kind of suck. It’s not just about resources.

jjjalljs,

From the article:

Czech media reported that Kozak authored social media posts in which he indulged in fantasies of suicide and mass murders in the days before the attacks.

I don’t want to ruin internet privacy, but who has ideas on how to handle this better? I feel like if someone’s posting “I wanna do a mass shooting” something should happen. I don’t want the state or private enterprise to be able to abuse that, though.

jjjalljs,

I kind of assumed most people working on Google maps are car first people, and the transit stuff was a second class concern. This isn’t based on any facts, just a gut feeling.

The most annoying things for me are how it’s kind of hard when looking at the map to see what stops are where. Like, I have to fuck with the zoom to get it to show me DeKalb Ave is there, and then it doesn’t even tell me which trains stop there.

And forget about getting any useful bus info. I know generally where the b41 goes. Why isn’t it easy to see on the map?

jjjalljs,

I never wanted a cop for a mayor. I don’t know why he won the primary.

jjjalljs,

Yep. The combination of moving to New York City and reading “death and life of great American cities” really pushed me into being anti car culture. That and looking back at growing up in the suburbs where I couldn’t do anything without a car. Age like 10-17 sucked. I was so jealous of the kids that lived in the city and could go out and do things.

New report: One-third of states have an election denier overseeing elections (www.motherjones.com)

The 2022 midterm elections were in many ways a referendum on the future of American democracy, and in key states candidates who spread lies about the 2020 election and could have used their power to overturn future elections lost. In the six major battlegrounds where Donald Trump tried to reverse his defeat, election-denying...

jjjalljs,

Republicans are an existential threat to the United States.

We should treat them as such.

jjjalljs,

did a bot write this? what are you even trying to say?

Are you one of those people that thinks anything that’s not straight cis white is “identify politics”? That anything that isn’t your world view is “political”? If so, please go fuck yourself. If not, I have no idea what you’re on about.

jjjalljs,

5e has both too many rules and not enough rules.

It has very specific rules in some places. Item interactions, many spell specifics, grapple, holding your breath, etc.

It has very lackluster rules in other places. Social conflict, item and spell crafting, metagame stuff like making your own class or species.

I think a lot of people playing DND would be happier playing a different system. Just not the same system for everyone.

jjjalljs,

The other day a guy in my group straight faced said something like “The beauty of D&D is we can make up and try out some rules for, like, a chase scene. If we don’t like them we can be like ok that didn’t work let’s try something else.”

My dude that is not a unique property of D&D. That’s true of any pen and paper game. The fact that D&D provides lousy rules for things and we have to stumble around trying to come up with something that works is not a strength

Pride flag killing suspect appears to have a long history of anti-LGBTQ social posts (www.nbcnews.com)

The 27-year-old man who police say shot and killed a California business owner over a Pride flag draped in her store appears to have had a yearslong history of posting disturbing — and often violent — anti-LGBTQ messages on social media....

jjjalljs,

Seems like stochastic terrorism again.

Also a little surprised the police shot him instead of making nice. On the one hand I’m not sad the violent bigot is dead. On the other summary execution by the police is fucked up.

jjjalljs,

My main problem comes from people with charisma: 8 on their sheet trying to “just talk it out” and succeeding on the strength of their real life personality. I know you’re personable in real life Alex but you dumped charisma now sit down and let someone else have a go.

When playing a face I usually sound like “I flash my most disarming smile and, fully sincerely, tell him if he surrenders no harm will come to him.” Third person narration. I don’t usually want to go line by line.

jjjalljs,

Not everyone in Florida deserves this, but a lot of them do.

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