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Personally, I find "5% of the time the outcome is astoundingly good, and 5% of the time it's shockingly bad" kind of unsatisfying. Jarring, even. Picture playing darts and every 20 throws, missed the dart board completely, no matter how good you are at darts. I haven't played pf2e but I think degree of success is a much more reasonable system. I also prefer games that aren't flat probability. When you only roll one die, every outcome (on the die) is equally likely. But I think a lot of people playing DND don't really care about rules, consistency, verisimilitude, or much anything beyond "lololol and then Kevin crit his stealth check so we said the goblin king didn't see him at all as he stole the throne the goblin was sitting on!!!". Which is fine, I guess.

We 80s kids called Robotech "japanimation", which I suppose sounds racist today. But we were enchanted! A science fiction cartoon soap opera? And it wasn't for little kids?!

Thank you for your candor. The little bits I've seen of it are almost putting an emphasis on the platformer part of the game. Very vertical, jump from one small platform to another small platform.... So what you've said tracks. I'm used to platformers being like... Super Mario world.

@gbargoud @vfrmedia Are they building a bunch of new schools there too? They have built five schools on my block and there were already two.

@Wyatt_H_Knott @llewelly @notoriousiptg @stuartyeates @Quantensalat Ants are out here already living with the reproductive tech of The Culture.

I expected it, tbh. The gamer crowd is especially prone to piling on to bandwagons they are clueless about. But you know, if it encourages just one of these people to look at the games they’re criticizing, it’s net positive

@bipolaron @ohmu ...You know I'm good. I don't want to know. (I haven't seen them for two years but they were active during COVID around my neighborhood.)

@troy_frizzell @TheGreatLlama Many jobs that are called "low skilled" aren't and you find it out if you've ever heard a rich person whine and complain and literally cry about how their new housekeeper isn't as good as the old one. Housekeeping is an absurdly complex job.

@dalias @SRLevine The brain shift I've been experiencing is that there are people who would sell out human lives just to save a few hundred bucks. Like I said, the anti vax mom makes more sense to me. Is more relatable ... even though that one was a doozy to understand as it was.

@futurebird @noplasticshower I feel very lucky that I have a friend who's into sustainable fashion, who made me think about the question, "What had to happen to get you that product at that price, or more to the point, whom did it have to happen to?" BEFORE the rise of Temu, so that I was preinoculated to see their whole approach as exploitive and offputting.

@michaelgemar @GottaLaff I meant that in the way they are being pretentious about it... like they are some kind of sophisticated enjoyers of things the common people can't understand. (I don't understand.)It reminds me of that book.

@PizzaDemon I just had the nightmare image of having all of these politicians in a kindergarten class where we'd learn things like taking turns, sharing, saying thank you, listening, stealing is wrong...

they're different games, so yes the setting assumptions are different and the systems aren't exactly the same. but if one wants to import story elements from WoD, they can. it is shaman-y, but i wouldn't say that overshadows the Werewolf in 2e. worth scoping out for yourself.

And lastly, I've said it before:The fediverse, right now, is where e-mail was 30 years ago. Federated, meaning, impossible to govern centrally. Node-to-node connections not run through a third party in between (1). Anyone can spin up a new node at will.And just like e-mail, we are experiencing the same issues: spam, harassment, unenforceable rules.Look at e-mail today. Virtually all moderation is automated. Entire IP blocks are being blocked based on algorithmic judgements. Self-hosting is nigh-impossible. Appeal is effectively impossible. There are no human decisions involved.Is that where we want to be headed? Or, on the other hand, do we want to head for chaotic free-for-all PvP?We have to make that choice now. When I started on the fediverse, back in '18 I believe, spam was a non-issue. But as the 'verse has grown in popularity, in numbers, in profile, it's become a target. We have hit a milestone, we are now relevant enough for spam and scam.We are at a crossroads.I would like more passive assistance. I don't want automatic moderation; we've all seen where that leads with Twitter. I want assistive systems that provide insights, that inform my decisions, rather than take them from me. Because at the current size of the network, purely manual moderation is simply not feasible any more.I would like a software that gives me all the info I would otherwise have had to go digging for right away, so I can focus on the decisionmaking part.I implore you, Eugen and the rest of the team, think about moderation while you still can, because at the rate spam etc. is ramping up at the moment, your human moderators are being outpaced rapidly.Look at e-mail and learn. Please.(1) internet infra notwithstanding, I mean no AP-specific facilitator is required between two instances (relays are optional)#MastoMod

@thomasroiloup @futurebird @stevegis_ssg @rlier23Yeah, keep on thinking like that. Instances are run by actual people who actually care about this sort of fuckerage and isolation is a bitch when it becomes your personal echo chamber. How do I know? I've seen the results of fedi-isolation on qoto. I've personally seen how well it works. Thanks for playing.

@ashmeshedup Thank you. This is very informative.

If you're GenX you probably remember Alan Dershowitz as a prominent defender of the idea "every defendant deserves a vigorous defense." He defended Claus von Bülow! O.J. Simpson!I 100% believed in that idea for the longest time, thanks in no small part to him.Now I look at the trail of wreckage behind him and I'm like, "If this is what a vigorous defense looks like, then nah."It was never about a "vigorous defense." It was Dershowitz's narcissism.

"I think many people are missing how significant the fallout of the ICE raid in Georgia will be. repbuddycarter's senate ambitions are certainly over before they began because this happened in his district."~ Rachel Vindman#Trump #StephenMiller #ICE #SouthKorea #Hyundai #Georgia #economy /8https://www.threads.com/@rachelvindman/post/DOV9k3VjfPv

@meeoo @platypus @phette23 But... why assign a number if it's not a primary key? why? why? why?

Best case they use the ai to satisfy their fucked up desires this leaving real children unharmed and ungroomed. As the cheap easy source of functionally infinite and free material is now at their beck and call. I'm reality. This will just make it easier for them to cause more harm to real children. This reality fucking sucks donkey nuts. Can we just blow it up and start over.