A cool tip for generating more detailed continents with it is to generate several maps of smaller regions, stitch them together in your Photoshop clone of choice, then import the result back into azgaar's. You can get a much more detailed map that way than you could easily generate otherwise, and as a bonus you can have broad control over the shape of landmass!
Paradox put a lot of effort into making Ck3 more accessible, and I think largely succeeded. of course its still a massively complicated game, but strategy fans are generally willing to put up with that. its being obtuse and impenetrable and confusing that's the problem
honestly i think having been in on the ground floor makes things easier. its way easier to learn the changes to mechanics you already understand than it is to learn mechanics that were designed to be, in almost all cases for Stellaris, more complicated than the original, already complicated mechanics.
Some of them are. IMO the best are Way of Life, Holy Fury, Conclave, and Old Gods. If you want to play some who isn't a Christian King, such as a Christian merchant or pagan/hindu/muslim king, you'll need to get the expansion for that. Respectively, those are The Republic, The Old Gods or Holy Fury (either will unlock Pagans), Rajas of India, and Sword of Islam. That being said, if you like playing a Christian, Sons of Abraham is worth picking up. Finally, if you're the type of person who really likes optimizing these sort of games, then you'll probably want Legacy of Rome, which adds retinues, customizable standing armies that let a skilled player solve the combat system to punch way above their weight
Porn has always been a driving force of new technologies. While Kbin isn't a new technology per se I would say it's a indication that the community is here to stay.
It's a lot easier to have a blanket porn ban to deal with actually moderating porn. And nobody wants to host revenge porn and child porn on their server
On Reddit, communities could have their own wikis or knowledge base articles in a separate place from where the discussion happened. I don't see that kind of functionality in Kbin, so I'm wondering if there is a federated wiki type of thing somewhere out there.
Reddit wikis are more about having a static page for information associated with a community than being a wiki proper. For example, music subs that maintain a "hall of fame" in a wiki page, or subreddit rules, or FAQs, etc. Not at all the type of stuff that would go on a fan wiki or wikipedia. This use case is valuable, although there are other solutions to the problem, e.g., sticky posts.
I'm not sure that would need to be federated. Maybe just to lemmy and other platforms with a similar model. But also, that should be up to the other instances, not us. If Mastodon figures out how to show a kbin "wiki" to their users in a way that is useful and makes sense, then why not let them do it?
The thing with wikis (actual wikis, i mean) is that anyone can edit them (in principle, at least), and there's plethora of wiki sites out there, and its easy to host your own (well, as easy as hosting your own kbin instance). So federation feels much more purely an organizational change; the only change it offers to the user is the possibility of integration with other fediverse apps. And wikis aren't social media sites, so I'm not sure what the appeal of that is. Do i... see it in my feed when someone edits the "Del in cylindrical and spherical coordinates" page? Is browsing the wiki from within kbin actually more useful than opening it in a new tab?
Distributed ownership of a wiki is definitely a good idea, but i don't see the benefit of it being federated.
We recently got a switch and love it! I've been sent back to my childhood and get to enjoy playing with my kids now. We've been playing the following. Looking to see what else might be out there too....
I've still got a few puzzles left. There are a couple where I understand the solution conceptually but have no idea how to implement it. The abstract logical reasoning part is actually much easier for me than the spatial block pushing part.
To be fair though, you don't need to see all the gaming "subreddits". That's just the fomo talking. I mean even back on Reddit, I was on r/games but not r/gaming, and certainly not part of all the general gaming groups across all social media
I think inevitably we'll see a couple of servers become the most prominent ones in a given community, and that's what people will flock to because of network effects. Or, smaller communities may hold on by cultivating their own identity, the way forums did
It can be official, modified, or entirely homemade. What do you like about it? Is it super organized, simple and easy to use, or does it just look super cool?
Before I started playing on vtt, I made all my character sheets from scratch. It's a fun exercise to figure out what stuff you really need to reference and what resources you need to track, and how to display that well. But I managed a 1 page sheet for my 5e sorcerer and I didn't even need to look up my spells most of the time
Does anyone else have multiple accounts while looking for new reddit alts? So far I've got accounts on Lemmy, kbin, and Squabbles and I've been lurking on Raddle, Sqwok, and Tildes from the outside....
I mean, the term "State Capitalism" was originally invented by the USSR to describe their economy. So China isn't really doing anything that MLs are unfamiliar with. Plus, it's all part of the historical determinism that MLs vaguely ascribe to -- China/Russia has to first develop a capitalist economy in order to then become socialist.
Personally I think it's all a load of horseshit but you never know, maybe China will be fully socialist by 2050 or whatever
Look if people are getting mad because you're using "they" to refer to someone who has not disclosed their pronouns, then they're being unreasonable. But I've literally never seen that. What I have seen is people getting mad when someone uses "they" to refer to someone who has disclosed their pronouns. And often, this is something that is done by mildly transphobic people who aren't fully comfortable using, e.g., "she" to refer to someone who they feel looks insufficiently like a woman, but recognize that using "he" is wrong. Using "they" in this situation is just as wrong.
That being said, it doesn't help that there's no easy way to disclose your pronouns on this app. I'm a lot of discord servers I'm in, they use badges for pronouns so you can click on someone's username and see their pronouns. But no such option exists here
The problem is that the user is necessarily confronted with the technical design of the fediverse from the moment they create an account. "Do I join lemmy.ml or lemmy.world or mastodon.social or kbin.social" can only really be answered by explaining how the fediverse works, because the simple answer is "it doesn't really matter but it also sort of does", which is profoundly unhelpful
I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to post a reply... is their an option to move the comment box to the top? Or is that something that will be changed at some point?
I mean the same thing is happening at Twitter, but most users are staying there because there's nowhere to go. Bluesky is invite only and mastodon doesn't have whatever celebs and influencers they follow (and no shade on these folks, I originally joined Twitter for a single person's tweets).
This place is cool, but people will stay on Reddit as long as their communities do. And frankly I think most people are going to go to discord if Reddit does actually die, because most subreddits already have an associated discord channel
If you could repair your weapons, then it would become a chore you have to do, that the game would punish you for forgetting. What makes the Zelda weapon durability tolerable for me it's that it's the opposite of this. Weapons are just ephemeral. But you're always flush with weapons; the only time I ever ran out was when I ran straight for a stone talus right after leaving the plateau in botw.
Imo it works better in TOTK, because you need to fight enemies to get good fuse parts and good weapons to attach them to, whereas in BOTW the best weapons were in chests or the overworld.
I'll definitely admit to using my 96 attack silver lizalfos horn scimitar of the seven very sparingly to preserve durability, but I basically have an infinite supply of strength 40-60 weapons as long as I keep fighting monsters and collecting Poes and Zoanite. And that's like half the game right there
Annoyance about the fediverse that fedi proponents don’y seem to understand:
The federated model adds almost no value to me as a user. It only begins to add value when the decentralized model becomes integrated into the user experience.
From where I sit, there is absolutely no difference between me making an account for mastodon and another account for pixelfed than me making accounts for twitter and insta. None.
@emilygorcenski the fediverse has the same "problem" as open source -- it's just not relevant to most people, and it's never going to be enough to attract a large audience to federated social media
I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....
I think this needs to be on the user end. I get that the fediverse can be confusing for people used to centralized platforms, but what's even more confusing is trying to participate in it while the details of which community you're actually posting in are obscured. Cats@lemmy.ml is run by different people than cats@lemmy.world or cats@kbin.social and they may well have different rules and standards, and the user should be aware of this.
Now, if these different communities want to link up, or if cats@lemmy.ml wants to have an "official" group on some other fediverse platform, the way many subreddits have official discords, they should have a way to do that, the same way many users want to be ablr to link their different fediverse accounts
I just beat TOTK and while I'm still having fun exploring in that game I've also recently bought the Shadowrun Returns trilogy for super cheap and have been having a fun time with Dragonfall
yeah, i guess i can see that. personally i never really grokked goodreads but honestly I feel that way about most social media platforms so its definitely a me issue
OC A Collection of System-Agnostic GM/DM Resources (kbin.social)
Looking for some good, system-agnostic TTRPG resources to help you run your game? Here are some I use all the time:...
One of Steam’s best strategy games is free right now (www.pcgamesn.com)
Describe a game in 5 words or less, and see if anyone can guess it.
I'll go first. Deranged Spiderman with guns
Since we are seeing a lot more porn post I think it's clear Kbin is here to stay.
Porn has always been a driving force of new technologies. While Kbin isn't a new technology per se I would say it's a indication that the community is here to stay.
Federated wikis?
On Reddit, communities could have their own wikis or knowledge base articles in a separate place from where the discussion happened. I don't see that kind of functionality in Kbin, so I'm wondering if there is a federated wiki type of thing somewhere out there.
What are your favorite Nintendo Switch games?
We recently got a switch and love it! I've been sent back to my childhood and get to enjoy playing with my kids now. We've been playing the following. Looking to see what else might be out there too....
Working Together to Improve /Kbin's Ease of Use for New Users
Dear not-so-techy KBeans ;)...
What is your favorite character sheet?
It can be official, modified, or entirely homemade. What do you like about it? Is it super organized, simple and easy to use, or does it just look super cool?
Multiple reddit alternatives
Does anyone else have multiple accounts while looking for new reddit alts? So far I've got accounts on Lemmy, kbin, and Squabbles and I've been lurking on Raddle, Sqwok, and Tildes from the outside....
While trying to wrap my head around the concept of the Fediverse, I made this map. How did I do?
Comments at the top?
I have to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to post a reply... is their an option to move the comment box to the top? Or is that something that will be changed at some point?
I am making a reddit-like kbin theme :DD
(I wasn't sure if kbinMeta was the right place to post that, so I am posting it here instead)...
/r/videos announces that it will be entering it's blackout early - and indefinitely - given recent events
Think this case in particular is pretty interesting. Former default subreddit and one of the largest on the site (Top 20 at least)....
What are some of your LEAST favorite game mechanics?
The other thread about favorite mechanics is great, so let's also do the opposite: what are some of your most hated mechanics?
Is there a way to create Super Communities?
I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....
so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.
What has everyone been playing lately?
What's everyone on /m/gaming playing lately?...
Other use cases for the fediverse
I never got into mastodon because I couldn't connect multiple instances. I like this a lot about Lemmy so far (just here for a few minutes though)....