@Kichae@kbin.social @Kichae@tenforward.social @Kichae@kitchenparty.social

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  • At a time where D&D-tubers are floundering as YouTube’s recommendation system continues to pare down what it actually bothers to show people, I cannot see many of them risking whatever traction they have doing a collab with a Pathfinder creator. King Ooga Ton Ton would be the one to gain everything, with little in it for the D&D creator, if it turns out not to be a net negative for them.


  • EKOS is the only polling group showing momentum for the Liberals, and I’m really scratching my head over why that might be. They don’t traditionally have an overwhelming bias like this. They also are showing an exceptionally clear, almost linear rise in the polls from the point of Trudeau’s resignation, while no one else is showing any kind of pattern other than “dismal holding pattern”.

    I want to believe that EKOS knows something that nobody else does, but because of that I need to guard myself from getting excited.



  • My instance preemptively defederated from Threads, but I’m assuming those ads are going to be served to Threads users via API, right, and not federated out?

    Things don’t really federate out with ActivityPub, they federate in. To receive off-site content, you have to subscribe to it.

    Who is going to subscribe to a Threads ad bot?


  • I haven’t touched Mythic rules, but from what I’ve heard they’re more polished and balanced than 1e’s, and as a result a good number of people who were hyped for them were disappointed. They sound more geared towards doing the kinds of things that capital-H Heroes did in classical mythology.

    You know, shovelling horse shit, tricking mindless sea monsters, and showing aged narcissists their own reflection.









  • I did this a few months ago. I haven’t found replacements for everything, but I’ve found that it’s really come down to my not actually using those things very much in the first place, so I haven’t had to do the work.

    When I look, I find something that works. What are you still looking for?

    I find the array of installation options a little overwhelming or intimidating sometimes. If I can just do the equivalent of apt-get, that’s, of course, easy enough. But sometimes things are just realeased as tar balls, and I have to go and look up WTF I’m supposed to do each time. Nothing comes up often enough for me to internalize it.

    I do find myself chafing against just the fundamental differences of the *nix environment from the DOS-based heritage of Windows. And I find it difficult to get help with certain things sometimes because the installed user/developer base isn’t super interested in supporting different modes of interaction (“just use the terminal, it’s so much faster [for me]” is a common refrain that makes me want to get stabby). But 99% of the time, it’s been smooth sailing.

    At this stage, if you have drivers for everything, and there’s nothing mission critical that’s still tied to Windows, the best advice I can give you is to copy your important files over from your Windows partition, and then dump it. If you have a 2nd computer, leave that one running Windows for now. The duel booting can make it tempting to just reboot into Windows “just for this one thing”, and stay there until you next have to restart.


  • Kichae@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlIs Lemmy actually growing?
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    11 days ago

    What we really need is for people to put up topic focused sites and promote them as their own thing, not jusy “lemmy”. So many specific interests still have very active forums dedicated to them, populated by the kind of people who want to ask queations aboht and discuss the things they have interest or expertise in, but who aren’t into things like Reddit.

    The fediverse is perfect for places like that. Places where you can focus on your primary interest, but also look over the fence. But all anyone wants to do is put up general interest sites and whine about there being more than one “gaming” forum.






  • I’m not really interested in either of them. They’re both outside my niche. But if I were going to try one of them, it would probably be the Necromancer. I really don’t need dead bodies to move – I’ll just spawn a new one where I want it to be – and I think the idea of undead just crawling out of the ground to get in the way of things is a more interesting idea than “boatload of minions”. I know it’s not the fantasy that people may have, and maybe in practice it won’t be as interesting , but right now my curiosity is piqued, and my imagination can work with this.

    I also think it makes more sense from a ludonarrative point of view. PF2’s zombies still move pretty quickly, and can have a somewhat explosive action economy (shamble, shamble, multiple strikes, shamble, shamble). Thralls, instead, are moving and reacting more slowly than once every 6 seconds. It’s very easy to forget that a round is only 6 seconds when actually playing, but the “army of undead” that appears in the mind’s eye is often moving around at less than a foot per second, so they kind of fall beneath the threshold for… well, for play.


  • Kichae@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldAssassination is a Leaky Abstraction
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    2 months ago

    If the people putting money in deserve to be paid for that money, it can be treated as a fixed term loan, with an established interest rate. That makes it a business expense.

    Profit is what’s left over after everyone is paid for their work, and the costs of materials, housing, and maintenance - invluding the maintenance of debts - are covered. It’s either what you’ve over-charged your customers, or underpaid your employees.

    And that’s wrong.