Summer is here, which means that people are having Discourse about what weight women are allowed to reach before they should not be allowed to wear revealing clothing instead of just letting people wear clothes and shutting the hell up.
@evacide People have an alarming inability to shut the Hell up, don't they? I sometimes get the urge to write a lesson plan explaining that a) there is a category of thought that is best not expressed, and b) that this is most thoughts people have.
I get the urge to write that lesson plan. On the side of a brick. That I would then proceed to teach via the time-honoured tradition of smashing it in people's faces.
Apropos of nothing, it's still wild to me now Xitter has ruined social media, and people now use it as a personal broadcasting mechanism instead of, you know, being social.
@jens One of the reasons I dropped Farcebook and Xhitter (before the latter was "ruined" by Apartheid Manchild) is that it felt exactly like you described: personal broadcasting, not interaction.
@rbreich Which definition of "unemployment"? There are six in common usage, and politicians wanting to make their numbers look good always seem to cite the most useless one.
I had a pretty rough day and contemplated just giving up on @pixelfed because it seems like I can’t catch a break
But after calming down, I started to remember all the big milestones and the people who believe in our platform and in me
I’m not ready to give up, in fact this was the kick in the ass I needed to get my priorities straight and focus on shipping the app ASAP and also Groups
I’m a few months behind on my NLnet Groups milestone and need the money so that’s my focus after the app
I looked at the “DC20” KS. It claims to be an evolution for ttrpgs, but I don’t see anything new. It uses action points and mana points, which seems to be the main “new” things when compared to D&D. Those have been around a while.
It looks crunchier than 5e, which is already too much for my tastes. YMMV, but it’s a pass for me.
They are using the ORC license, so there may be stuff worth hacking out of it.
@deinol I think the term that used to be used for these is "fantasy heartbreaker".
The '90s was full of "the next step in the evolution of ..." games, and they were invariably (pre-3.0) D&D with minor rules "fixes". It was painfully clear that these "next step evolution" game designers hadn't cracked open a non-D&D game, like, ever. Nor read APAs like Alarums & Excursions.
I see posts calling for folks to write/email/call/smoke signal/wire/semaphore their representatives about the security fuckery of Windows Recall.
I'm more of an "act locally" guy. Email your place of employment's heads of legal and IT stating your concerns, and send them this article. Hell, throw in your local schoolboards and universities to boot.
If I was a university prof and a student's parent contacted me demanding that I change their grade I would get my mom to write back to them & tell them to leave me alone