Oh that’s absolutely why. If they dumped everything at once people would play what they wanted to play and drop the subscription. By doing this people come back.

If Nintendo doesn’t keep NSO as-is for their “Switch 2” people will be EXTREMELY pissed, but it’s Nintendo, they’re fine with that.

Sounds to me like you just don’t want to think that hard, which is fine, I usually don’t either. Half of the time I just play Doom .wads

BG3 specifically: It’s D&D 5e, so… yeah It’s gonna be complex.

Complex systems more generally:

The best way to learn about any complex system is to bite tiny chunks out of it and ignore the rest, even if you know stuff is interconnected. You’ll never learn everything at once, so don’t try. Eventually you get bored with the little bubble you’ve carved out for yourself so you move over and learn about some other bit. You don’t even need to care about whether you’ll understand everything eventually.

Thanks for keeping the Thanksgiving tradition alive.

I know he’s said a lot of idiotic shit lately but… seriously? He actually said this? Jesus Christ. He truly has reverted into a lonely 4Chan teen.

The thing about fencing is that it basically evolved from the general idea of swords as a form of self-defense, not swords as a tool of war, and pure effectiveness wasn’t the only thought there.

In fact the term fencing as we use it today specifically referred to rapiers from the start, and rapiers were fashion as much as they were tools. They were designed to go well with fancy outfits and weren’t even necessarily designed to kill people so much as to win duels, which it was great at due to it’s light weight (plus, taking a big ol’ killin’ sword would probably be looked down upon, even though someone totally might die either way).

If I were making a character with a background in fencing who planned on going on adventures, I’d have them grab an estoc as it’s essentially a specialized longsword. You want something that can make a big enough wound to drop someone quickly, sturdy enough to pierce armor, and an estoc fits those requirements. Another option would be a backsword as George Silver preferred it as a general self-defense weapon, if you’re not expecting to fight armored opponents much or at all.

Considering Lemmy’s apparent deep-rooted technical issues, I’d be perfectly fine with Beehaw searching for something else. Leaving Lemmy doesn’t mean leaving the Fediverse, which a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding. It’s sort of a hard requirement for anything Fediverse-related to be about as advanced in terms of mod tools as Mastodon at least, and otherwise, what’s the point? People are focusing way too hard on perceived ideas about “what the community is like” or whatever, look guys, it’s the internet, it’s always like that. Maybe stay away from places as general and wide-ranging as Technology (honestly I’d say that’s the flaw of a good chunk of Lemmy instances and people need to start looking for / creating more specific stuff. It’s out there, please god just look.)

Ultimately the purpose of Lemmy is to be something like a traditional forum system, but networked in a way that makes those forums highly discoverable. Lemmy achieves that, but if there’s actually technical barriers to content moderation, yeah, that sucks.

Uh… the whole article is discussing how “the western left’s” sympathy for Palestine and criticism of Israel is being criticized?

Well, for a practical example, my Ryzen 5 5600x and Radeon 6600xt combo is juuust out of the running for games coming out right now, I’d say. The VRAM limitations at 8GB are becoming apparent and there’s been a few instances where the 5600x struggles in games that hit CPUs hard. But I’d say that’s because there’s been an oddly big jump in system requirements, recently.

…I mean, it’s more like the web browser makes it easy to use the Tor network. The network is the slow part. Your requests are getting ping-ponged all over the world intentionally taking the long way around.

I mean, I’ve used it. It works. But I don’t get why you would bother most of the time. It’s slow as hell and while I’m generally fairly concerned about my privacy there is a point where I can’t be bothered.

I’m this person and god do I wish I wasn’t, sometimes. So many games have been way less interesting than they could’ve been for me because for me, fun is learning to play the game well. I’m not sure what frustrates me more, the way people who don’t have that attitude say “I play games to have fun” as if I don’t, or me looking at the recent LoZ games as failures design-wise because they’re too easy to cheese.

I remember a video some dude put out where he discussed how he’s pretty sure he discovered that those hats were just some other article of clothing rolled up which is why they’re a little silly… I’d need to look for the video again. He’d made something, I forget what, and realized that it folded up into that hat exactly.

Counterpoint, sleeves.

A viable alternative to YouTube is impossible unless it was managed by a state, pretty much. The infrastructure required is immense.

FOSS software is developed in such a way that you can build it yourself freely (In other words, you can download the source code and compile the actual application yourself, free of charge). Obsidian doesn’t really work that way. Even if most of the code is available, the full app is only available as prepackaged binaries which might introduce god knows what (and make forking the application impossible).

The Ally is what you’d want. Laptops aren’t really all that portable if portability is the goal. The Deck would be better from a “pick up and play” perspective but if you use Game Pass it’d be worth it to pick up the Ally instead, obviously.

Stupid question in this case. Some shit quite literally needs to get done.

The thing that comes up at the bottom has two buttons: Accept and customize. If you click customize you can choose what to accept and what to reject, and it defaults to rejecting everything.

Allowing you to reject it all is bad site design?!?

As if I actually get a chance to play RPGs :`)