TootSweet

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[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

What are the chances of two separate gender reveal parties happening simultaneously using the same exact means of displaying blue/pink in the same apartment building exactly one apartment directly above the other?

Also, it bothers me way more than it should that on the middle one, the arrow goes from the movie frame to the window and the other two are the other way around.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Yeah, I'm pretty sure my family was only the second owners of my house as well. All I know about the builder of my house is:

  • The same guy was responsible for building basically all the houses on my street.
  • He didn't survey very carefully. All the property lines are off by like two feet. Lol. It's caused me some heartache with the neighbors to my south with property disputes. (Well, to be fair, the neighbors to my south would have caused the property dispute had the property lines not been off.)
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

Oh, I think I know what's going on. It's interpreting the number with a period on the end as a numbered/ordered list. Putting a space before the dot should fix it.

  1. This is an ordered list.

And fixed:

321 . And this is not.

Still weird that the number's sticking off to the side and getting cut off. Probably depends what client you're using. In Lemmy-UI, it's not cut off, but the number is further left than it would otherwise be. Jerboa looks fine, but it's clearer on Jerboa that it's interpreting it as an ordered list.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (2 children)
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 6 points 18 hours ago

Anyone else read the post title in Contrapoints' voice?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 18 hours ago

Trump, referring to Musk: "Gimme another billionaire. I'm tired of this one."

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Someone finally found that hard drive in the back of the fridge where they put it while sleepwalking, huh?

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Just what AI would say.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago
  1. Don't.
  2. Don't.
  3. Just don't.
[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

One could make a community named "Anon Posting" or something, lock it so only a mod can post, and then make the sole mod a bot that would post anything it got via DM (probably after automoding, rate limiting, etc) to said community.

I do think it's a good idea for the bot to keep a log in case it gets abused for sufficiently evil purposes. One could add some extra functionality to the bot that would give identifying information about the poster to instance admins on demand (via DM), but I think instance admins would have pretty easy access to all DMs made to the bot, along with identifying information anyway. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on that.)

Also, the bot could totally delete its logs and with them the identities of all posters after a while. Maybe a month?

And, of course, this wouldn't be ironclad anonymity. But it would keep identities secret from anyone but the bot maintainer and instance admins.

Yeah, sounds like a pretty cool concept. Not volunteering to write such a bot (at least any time soon) or anything, but I support it.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Roughly in order of how much I enjoy them from most to least. (Not that the later ones are bad. Just that they're more low-key.)

Mindustry is amazing, but as I mentioned above, really really addictive. (The commercial game it's most often compared to is Factorio.)

Then there's Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Amazing dungeon crawler.

Endless Sky is a great space mercantile sim.

Luanti is a Minecraft clone.

Unciv is a turn-based civilization development game.

And if you're wanting to do emulation, there's Lemuroid. Also, EasyRPG, an engine for playing RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki. Oh, FreeDoom is a great implementation of Doom for Android.

Those are the ones that'll keep your attention for a good long time. There are tons of much simpler games that are still fun like Frozen Bubble and Hyper Rogue. And plenty of games that I haven't really gotten into very much but that people really seem to like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.

Man. There are a lot now that I'm listing them out. Lol.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Jesus. People get big mad about this stuff.

The problem isn't mobile games, and it's not console games, and it's not PC games. It's the profit motive and corporations and enshittification. And there's plenty of that going on in games for mobile, console, and PC. (And, for that matter, TTRPGs. And it's not like the 300 different collectors editions of Monopoly released every year aren't enshittification at play.)

Addictive gotcha mechanics are shitty when they're tied to microtransactions. Even when not tied to microtransactions, I think they can still be shitty depending on the specific circumstances, and it's definitely wise to responsibly manage your (and/or your children's) engagement to not cause other problems in your(/their) life. But is addictiveness in a video game inherently a bad thing? I don't think so. All games cause dopamine squirts whether it's Pong or a slot machine. That's kinda the point of games. There are plenty of Open Source games out there that cause big addictive dopamine squirts. (Mindustry, anyone?) And such games aren't made to milk whales. They're made because someone wanted to create and play such a game.

Don't be talking too much smack about shovelware! Low-quality games create their own vibes. Some are accidental masterpieces. Both of my favorite two YouTube gaming content creators do a lot of their content on really low-quality games. This series got me to buy Radiation Island and I had a great time playing it. And here is a great video on all the shitty official games based on the movie Avatar.

"Gaming is as much about socializing as playing" is an awesome outlook to have on gaming! Addictiveness in games can be... concerning. But sometimes particular games are the key by which your kid can be involved in peer group. I'm not saying that automatically trumps any downsides and you should let your kid spend $∞ on Fortnight skins or whatever. But I think probably in most cases a balancing act is superior to a hard "yes" or "no".

I should probably specify that I'm admittedly an old fart who doesn't know shit about mobile gaming. (The only mobile games I play are Open Source ones on F-Droid.) And the only modern console I have is a Switch, and I don't have any plans to get one soon. I've played a lot of Breath of the Wild, though. And a fair amount of Tears of the Kingdom.

Some final thoughts:

  • Open Source gaming is awesome.
  • The way they're doing anti-cheat on PC is fucked-up.
  • But so is the way they lock down consoles and phones.
  • Hack your games. Hack your consoles. (If you don't hack it, you don't own it.) Get your kids interested in hacking stuff.
  • ...responsibly, of course.
  • Play games with your kids! (And not just the ones you want to play.)
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I've GM'd D&D 5e and Pathfinder 1e. My last campaign was in D&D 5e, but I... hope folks here know why I'm reticent to continue patronizing Hasbro. Anyway!

I wanted to get some of the core-est of the PF2e rulebooks. But... I'm confused. Looking for the PF2e "core, prime, base, main, starting" rulebook (the nearest equivalent of the PF1e "Core Rulebook" or the D&D 5e "Player's Handbook"), I've got at least the following options:

I think I don't want the "Core Rulebook". It sounds like it's just an older, more poorly-organized version of largely the same content that's in... one of the other options. It sounds like the "Player Core 2" in fact is not a newer edition of the "Player Core", but more of an "expansion" for whatever the core rules are (a bit like the PF1e "Advanced Player's Guide" maybe?) so I probably don't want that if I'm really just looking to get familiar with the core rules first.

So assuming the previous paragraph is mostly correct that leaves the "Player Core Remastered" and the "Player Core Pocket Edition". I... think the "Player Core Remastered" is hardback and... maybe only sold as part of a bundle like this one? The "Player Core Pocket Edition" appears to be only in paperback. Is the "Pocket Edition" not as "Remastered" as the "Remastered" version? (Does "Remastered" just mean it's a newer edition than the "Core Rulebook"?) Does the "Pocket Edition" have all the same content as "Remastered" or does "Pocket Edition" mean it's missing some of the content?

All of the above isn't even to mention digital vs dead-tree versions. But I'm specifically looking for physical copies for purposes of this post.

 

Just a 3D-printable reproduction of a video game asset that I made myself and am unreasonably proud of. (Yes, AntiMS is me, I promise.)

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