“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.

Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn’t die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.

Oh I’m sure they don’t. I just don’t know how they imagine the next few years looking. Are they all just assuming they’ll be out of the line of sight when things come to a head?

Using art to break sections up is probably its only practical purpose, and I agree it does help with that, but IDK if it’s as core as the author of the article seems to take for granted.

Are RPGs expected to contain lots of art? I’d like to examine that starting point. I admit I only skimmed the article but I didn’t see any analysis of if less art means less sales. I wonder if people are trying to adhere to the standard set in games like D&D and PF, but those have art because they can, not necessarily because they must.

Blades in the Dark is extremely highly regarded and has some art, but certainly not tons of it. Microscope and Kingdom haven’t got any, as far as I can recall.

I’m in quite a high income bracket and by sheer luck bought my house right before the most recent price explosion. My small, poorly built, seventy year old home in a lower middle class neighbourhood is now worth four or five times what I paid. If I was renting, there’s no way I could buy it even though I’m making much more than I did when I got it. I can’t realistically look into upgrading, because the jump in cost to anything nicer is just absurd.

I have no idea how all this is sustainable and even less idea how our politicians think they can keep ignoring it. I know why they’re ignoring it, but they must be aware how this is going to end if they continue to shrug and look the other way.

That’s never been my experience in the slightest.

No idea, maybe people don’t know the sub and assume it’s Mra? Menslib was an excellent subreddit and I really want to see it back.

Tempted to plug in, you mean?

Timecube, eh? Haven’t seen that in a hot minute. Or maybe four corner rotations of a hot minute.

It’s exhausting seeing all these cringy “we’re going to win with shitposts” things when all we really need is for people to post actual content.

In my opinion we’re already more or less at the “functional” stage. I can browse the place and shitpost and stay entertained for quite a while, with new content coming in while I do it, so that if I’m so inclined I can spend a full day pissing away my time on lemmy. It’s nowhere near Reddit yet, where I could pick any given topic and read almost infinitely on it, but that’s a function both of time and size, and not a reasonable expectation for a brand new platform. As long as the numbers we have now are sustainable they’ll become self-improving in that direction.

It’s a lot more challenging to have that happen with federation, I think. Doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be actively vigilant of course, but there are a lot more centers they’d have to seize control of individually.

4 is already fixed in the alpha of jerboa, and the functionality is there but got accidentally hidden in the current version. You have to hold-click in your inbox to see context. These kind of hiccups are normal in a very new foss browser.

It seems to me that the ability to have more than one ring bearer is a mistake, I like the idea of making it swappable. Basically if the ring tempts player 2 and they get a new ring bearer, player 1 loses theirs.

Somewhat sideways to this - and I haven’t looked at these decks at all so idk if this is already in them - I think the errata-free solution would be to have a bunch of potent, cheap effects that target ringbearers. Then the “temptation” is to make your ring bearer powerful, but also make them extremely vulnerable.

Sounds like some of the changes are similar to what we already have as house rules, interesting. Thanks!

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Seymour’s your frieeeeend!

I didn’t realize cubes could be mini. I’ll have to check that out

Generally speaking the folks here are right, you should be able to maintain veganism unless things go really sideways. I’d recommend getting in touch with a dietician though if you’re really worried (not a nutritionist, different beast) and having them go over your plans. Iron deficiency is a particular risk, one that can be easily surmounted as long as you’re aware of it… Way harder to keep iron up when pregnant even than usual, and it’s already tough as we all know.