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Sure. Neoliberalism won. Anyone not a part of the privaate equity class lost.

As someone who isn’t part of the private equity class, I ain’t fucking celebrating.

NodeBB. It’s a fairly popular webforum, but ActivityPub support is fairly new. It’s really something else to see the Fediverse through a the lens of the old Internet.

Because there is zero trust that this won’t be a one-sided liberalization, in favour of the fascists.

Shit, Succubus crit succeeded their Recall Knowledge check

Voting like this is a bit of a dark pattern, though. Especially downvotes. They come from places where the platform owners want to download the responsibility of community management to the community itself. This has a nasty tendency to silence valid criticism while simultaniously supporting brigading behaviour.

At the very least, we should be having serious, design-focused discussions about eliminating or highly restricting downvotes.

Just downgrades the results a step, so it’s Oops, All Hits rather than Oops, All Crits.

I wonder if the upcoming release of SF2e opens the door a little more? Instead of “this is different, let’s try it” it can be framed more as “I’m excited about this new thing, want to indulge me?”

And then suddenly, Skittermanders everywhere!

The game isn’t balanced around multiclassing, either. If it were, everyone and there dog wouldn’t have difficult to explain backgrounds that involve blood magic, mysterious patrons, and devout faith in something.

No, the idea is that 4e basically imploded the brand, so they pushed some unfinished stuff out the door before the axe came down and suddenly and unexpectedly they discovered that the brand was printing money.

Rules aren’t restrictive, because every rule is optional. A lack of guidance is WotC asking you to do their work for them.

I bet door-to-door salespeople would make way more money if they could just break into your homes, leave their junk on your table, and steal your credit card, and yet we don’t let them do that.

DOOOOM!

And Doom 2.

Right. But when the bar is owned by a Nazi, your options for pushing them out of the bar becomes a lot more limited.

“Reviewers” need to understand that, unless they paid their own money, from a bog-standard store, on or after release day, they are not reviewers, they are hired spokespeople.

Retconing things to protect muh precious twists is not compelling, though, it’s just base metagaming. The unwavering plot is the GM equivalent of the 8 page main character syndrome PC backstory. If I found out my GM was doing that, they wouldn’t be my GM anymore.

Way to unlovk splash damage as the new Battleship meta

Because most people are not so anal retentive as to give a damn about Hasbros trademarks.

There is no reason to even suggest that AI ‘means well’. It doesn’t mean anything, let alone well.

Unpopular opinion, I know, but downvotes are an anti-feature, designed to excuse big, for-profit social media from actually moderating their platforms. They have no place in real social spaces.

There’s nothing secret about it. They told us up front.

It’s why I stopped using Windows.

It works the same on Lemmy, it’s just that on Lemmy you subscribe to groups, and on Mastodon you subscribe to users.

Groups just forward replies and other interactions it sees to subscribers.