If I take magic initiate warlock and then grab eldritch blast as my cantrip and hex as the level 1 spell, is that a good decision? It says you can only cast the level 1 spell once per long rest but if the concentration is maintained can I still recast it like I can with Wyll?...
I got a pouch on my spellcaster, it contains scrolls of every kind I’ve found. I also got a pouch on my main ranged, it contains a few of each arrow type. I add the pouch to the hotbar to have them easily open midcombat. And a third one for throwables. Whenever I switch party members, which I often do, i only have to drag over one pouch and re-hotbar it. That way I have always available every kind of elemental combination whenever I need. Which I promptly forget and end up fighting mostly with swords.
But its darn useful when I get a fight I cant win with swords. A cheap but fun one is create water over a big area, one ice arrow, and a rogue with anti-slip boots.
I did some searching, and apparently he's a Five-spotted Hawkmoth, aka my garden nemesis, the tomato hornworm! Never knew those hornworms grew into these adorable giant moths....
I'm in the process of getting ready for a cross country move and trying to make moving and packing the least stressful I can. What advice would you give?
The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches....
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speaking as a trans queer person, having seen the rhetoric conservatives use to speak about people like me in both media and politics, having seen how they treat disabled folk (many of my queer friends are disabled), having seen how they treat the poor and unhoused, many of my lgbtq friends being poor and unhoused, having to do sex work that terrifies me bc i can't afford rent on disability rates
yea you can't be conservative in 2023 and support queer rights or advancement. it's literally not possible. you can privately be accepting of queer people in your life. but if you're a conservative, you're grouping up with people who are trying to kill us.
edit: bc i'm dumb and white i didn't include this initially, but conservatives also organizationally support cops lynching Black folk and i'd like to add that, this is another reason i will literally never befriend or fuck or even tolerate a conservative, outside of contexts where my safety is at risk. fuck conservatives. every one of them.
This is a response. I guess it's something you can do. But it doesn't seem like it's going to help much - it will have so many false positives cause kids, but not really be accessible in an emergency.
A summary of ideas commonly proposed by Republican politicians in response to school shootings:
Harden schools against intruders by locking doors and installing bullet proof glass
Reduce the number of entrances and exits to further harden schools against external attackers
Install metal detectors to prevent students or visitors from bringing guns onto school property undetected
Eliminate backpacks/ require clear backpacks to prevent students from concealed carrying weapons
Arm teachers so they can kill school shooters
Hire more armed peace officers/school police to respond more quickly to school shooters
Require panic buttons to more quickly alert police to the presence of a school shooter
Notice that all of these ideas are reactive, and that none of these proposed solutions extend beyond the bounds of school property. It is assumed that there are people with guns who will try to kill schoolchildren, and they aren’t going to even try to solve that problem. They just take the existence of school shooters for granted, as a though it’s an innate part of society or a naturally occurring phenomenon like earthquakes.
That position would be a lot more defensible if the US wasn’t an outlier among developed nations for gun violence, and in particular school shootings.
They’re both built on ActivityPub and look very similar, but Kbin is talked about like an alternative to Lemmy instead of an instance of it. Is it a fork? Why is it better or worse?
I agree - I actually made a bit of a longer post originally, but I realized I was ranting a bit so I cut it down. But I suppose I can rant a little bit.
The thing is... actively denying a genocide is a bad look. Standing against so-called "imperialism" while simultaneously supporting Russia's imperialistic invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine is a bad look. Taking down posts critical of China for so-called "orientalism" is a bad look (and shows you don't really understand what orientalism means - I took a whole-ass class on orientalism in college, and the definition is definitely not "anything critical of China").
It's true that most people can overlook Tencent being part of the PRC. You'll see some grumbling, but nothing huge. People don't like it, but they also don't see Tencent or TikTok as actively doing the worst that the PRC can do. And you see that same grumbling with the bad actors of capitalism - Nestle gets a lot of hate (rightfully!).
But at the same time, Nestle isn't calling for a return of Nazi Germany the way Lemmygrad (and those affiliated, e.g. Lemmy's maintainers) calls for the return of the Soviet Union. Peter Thiel wants a fascist ethnostate, but Peter Thiel isn't the CEO of Reddit and his influence over Spez/Reddit's board is likely minimal.
Again, there is absolutely the point of "the maintainers of open source are not the project". I completely agree with that. I fact, I will even give an example:
You know Truth Social, right? Do you know what Truth Social is built on? Mastodon. Do you know what protocol it uses to communicate? ActivityPub. Truth Social is part of the Fediverse, same as Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin, etc.
Does that mean the people behind Mastodon agree with Truth Social? Absolutely not. They are completely independent of each other. Mastodon has no influence on Truth Social and vice versa.
Lemmy is the inverse of that. The "main" instance is distasteful politically, and there are child instances (like Beehaw) which are more neutral/progressive. Beehaw can fork if they wish and be fully independent of Lemmy; but they are of the same mind as me that good software is not political, and it is impossible to only use that which is morally righteous. Lemmy is a tool fit for their purpose, and while forking is always an option... they don't see the point in abandoning good software just because they disagree with the maintainers politically.
The issue... people get squicky when they find out the platform they use is associated with tankies. It's turned a lot of people off, because they see "Stalin did nothing wrong" or "China is the true beacon of democracy" and don't want to be affiliated with that group. Knowing that they're contributing their effort to making that platform better - and thus elevating the developers to a spot where they can more easily get donations and improve it - just doesn't sit right with some folks.
If Peter Thiel started his own open-source project and everyone started flocking to it, I'd reject it on principle. I don't care how open it is or how good everyone says it works; if he's actively running it and making day-to-day decisions there's zero chance I'd support that. Just like I don't support Truth Social.
I joined Lemmy back in 2020, when it was a little babby project. I watched the tankie community bud and fester. I'm left-leaning myself (but not that left-leaning), and originally I thought I had found a group of like-minded folks... until the masks started coming off. And then I realized that Lemmy was so small that there was no choice but to interact with them. I spun up my own instance for a hot second where tankies (and fascists) were banned... before just giving up and shutting it down because the only people on Lemmy were people I didn't want on my instance.
So I returned to Reddit. I didn't like Reddit much, either (hence why I tried Lemmy), but at least the worst parts were segmented into T_D and PCM and GenZedong etc., where I could pretend they didn't exist.
When the protest started, I was hesitant to come back to Lemmy. I knew at some point the userbase was going to discover that fact and have the same reaction I did when I realized how far down the rot went. I returned reluctantly, hoping that when the drama started people would at least go to another Lemmy instance instead of back to Reddit.
I'm glad I found Kbin, though. Kbin seems nice and friendly. The most drama is due to a tech issue (Cloudflare), which is totally solvable and something I can live with. It feels a lot more like Mastodon here than it does on Lemmy.ml. (Lemmy.world seems alright too, if people must use Lemmy.) And at the very least if the Lemmy guys pull something shady and people start leaving en masse there's https://fedia.io/ (another Kbin instance) to point them at.
If I may add some less well known (but still fun) cooperative games.
Insider (Oink Games) - 20 questions with a twist. The twist being that one player knows the secret word and wants people to guess it, without being found out.
Hey Yo (also Oink Games) - small and cute rhythm game where we try to place cards on the beat, scoring points for uninterrupted lines of the same color cards.
Rail Pass (Mercury Games) - play this with people who are turned off by overtly competitive train enthusiasts. You try to hand over trains filled with cargo without dropping it and getting the right cargo to the right player. But you have to make train sounds before handing it over to them. Great fun. Especially with adults.
Romeo & Juliet (Sylex) - a challenging two-player game of unspoken communication, where you try to get Romeo & Julia to fall in love with each other while still making it to the end alive.
Kreus (CMON) - similar to the above, but for up to 4 players. Create a planet by playing cards in the right order using only logical deduction and sparse information. A brainteaser that feels amazing when you pull it off, but need to pay close attention and think two turns ahead to do so.
Space Cadets (Stronghold Games) - an underrated Star Trek style game of wild, real-time cooperation. Players each have individual roles (and rules) to fulfill at their station. Only if everyone pulls their weight do you stand a chance. It's not a very elegant design, but once you make it past the learning curve it's a fantastic experience.
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Question about Bard feats at level 4.
If I take magic initiate warlock and then grab eldritch blast as my cantrip and hex as the level 1 spell, is that a good decision? It says you can only cast the level 1 spell once per long rest but if the concentration is maintained can I still recast it like I can with Wyll?...
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Saw this beauty this morning
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what are good spell or skill combinations you use in combat
So I’m familiar with DOS: EE and the element mechanics of combat, but I’m not sure if that applies to DnD 5e....
Don't you think kbin has really gone downhill since the good old days?
I don't actually think that, but wanted to be the first to complain about it.
This little fella hung out with me at work last night (beehaw.org)
I did some searching, and apparently he's a Five-spotted Hawkmoth, aka my garden nemesis, the tomato hornworm! Never knew those hornworms grew into these adorable giant moths....
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Shirt is supposed to say "Dope" but it looks like "Pedo" (i.imgur.com)
What are your best moving tips?
I'm in the process of getting ready for a cross country move and trying to make moving and packing the least stressful I can. What advice would you give?
Hey could we defederate with exploding-heads.com/
The instance seems to be mostly right wing trolls. I know defederating is unpopular but I don't think much is to be lost in this case and it can save the mods some headaches....
How do you deal with pre-interview anxiety?
I've got one coming up soon and am nervous as hell, as usual.
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What's the one thing about the fediverse that you like the most?
What's the one thing about the fediverse that makes you go, "oh yeah, this for me"...
Why is the mod of conservative also the mod for LGBTQ ?
@Hurts...
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This is a response. I guess it's something you can do. But it doesn't seem like it's going to help much - it will have so many false positives cause kids, but not really be accessible in an emergency.
What’s the difference between Kbin and Lemmy?
They’re both built on ActivityPub and look very similar, but Kbin is talked about like an alternative to Lemmy instead of an instance of it. Is it a fork? Why is it better or worse?
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McDonald's has just released a brand new Game Boy Color game that plays on actual hardware in 2023. Yes, you read that correctly.
OC Cooperative games that are newbie friendly
Hi, i like coop games because I like working together and don't enjoy competitive games....
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