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- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 weeks ago:
Absolutely agree. An aspirational goal to an open standard is not an open standard.
- Comment on What's Mastodon precious? 5 weeks ago:
Bluesky Social has pledged to transfer the protocol’s development to a standards body such as the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the near future.[11]
- Comment on Should you trust that doctor? 2 months ago:
How are Oz and Phil so high on this spectrum?
- Comment on Consume 2 months ago:
Steel might be difficult to digest, but it is very caloric dense.
- Comment on Mark Cuban: "The Mainstream Media Truly Leans Right" 2 months ago:
What a brilliant take by this blogger. Mainstream media must be left wing because individual journalists (who don’t control the media) donate to Democrats. Truly infallible logic.
- Comment on rabioli 2 months ago:
Those poor raccoons. I don’t know what an autistic raccoon looks like, but these scientists should be ashamed of their… hmmm. I actually have no idea what the conspiracy behind animal vaccinations would be. Big science profiting just doesn’t fit right.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 3 months ago:
Yep, they’re trying to create their own virtual tabletop, which will fit perfectly with that.
At some point start introducing power creep so players want to purchase access to new classes and feats.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 3 months ago:
DnD Beyond is laying all the ground work for full enshitification as they do a soft push away from 5e to whatever the fuck live service subscription and micro transaction model they’ll be pursuing.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 3 months ago:
Both are great games, with 1 being a little rough around the edges but still very playable. The gameplay is different enough that it’s worth playing them both imo. Story might be better if you play 1 first, but I played through 2 first, then went back later to play 1 and was pleasantly surprised how good it was.
I probably vehemently disagree with some recommendations to play BG 1 and 2 btw, your mileage may vary. It requires very specific builds and knowledge of DnD, or lots of trial and error. You can easily build a well rounded group and find yourself unable to progress because of lacking one very specific thing. If that doesn’t sound to annoying, it might be worth a shot. If nothing else, rolling characters is fun.
- Comment on Can anyone suggest some good co-op games for two people? 3 months ago:
I didn’t see these in the list:
Wyldermyth - indie fairly unique story building campaign with turn based tactical combat.
Wastelands 3 - post apocalyptic RPG with good story, choices, and characters. Great tactical turn based combat. Other than the other Larian games this is closest to filling the BG 3 shaped hole.
Halo Master Chief Collection; 1 - 3, Reach, and ODST are amazing co-op. We’ve played through all of them multiple times. 4 is… disappointing.
- Comment on U.S. sues TikTok for collecting kids’ data without parents’ permission: Justice Department calls TikTok’s age-gating methods ‘deficient in multiple ways' 4 months ago:
Maybe just protect everyone’s right to privacy?
Their enforcement mechanism ensure the opposite.
- Comment on Halo on Paramount+ has been canceled after only two seasons 5 months ago:
Wow, that’s one more season that I knew about, assumed it’d never go beyond the first.
- Comment on Awnings: a simple cooling tech we apparently forgot about 5 months ago:
I don’t think the look good.
And literally never thought about it more than that.
So people may not really know what they’re for, just that they’re “old-fashioned”. Not sure how to make them trendy but that seems to be a deciding factor in how people invest in their homes. Maybe sell them with “live laugh love” printed on the front with wine bottles dangling from the corners?
- Comment on New Cybertruck Styled AI Robot Just Dropped 6 months ago:
I get the attitude that when mocking shitbags anything is fair game, but this sort of thing lumps in Innocent people with the shitbag.
- Comment on Lmao this one hurts 6 months ago:
Silly academics and the limits to their tolerance for debt servitude.
- Comment on Bluesky Adds Direct Messages 6 months ago:
Private messaging? No, just ‘direct’?
- Comment on Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? 8 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Cory Doctorow: What Kind of Bubble is AI? 8 months ago:
Can’t read the post past the giant subscribe things banner :/
- Comment on Does The NBA Really Think We’re This Stupid? 8 months ago:
Click bait title to a YouTube video might be part of the cause for down votes.
- Comment on Total War: Warhammer 3’s upcoming Thrones of Decay expansion gets huge pricing change 8 months ago:
This title and article are basically press copy from CA. The relevant bits with a side of sales bullshit:
if you don’t fancy shelling out the full £19.10 for all three factions, you can grab new bits for either Nurgle, the Empire, or the Dwarfs for £7.49. If you do buy just one to start off with - say, to get a feel for the quality of Thrones of Decay as a package - you’ll get a 15% discount on the remaining two packs in the future.
The move is the latest from developer Creative Assembly in a bid to regain trust with its community after a disappointing DLC release in Shadows of Change and a series of PR blunders.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 4 Isn't Next For Larian; Something Bigger Is Coming | Spot On | Gamespot 8 months ago:
Yep, that was a good game too. Different focus, and a fairly linear story. Part of what made Baldur’s Gate 3 so good was of course the amazing characters and character development. Solasta is missing that, but still a very solid and complete DnD game.
- Comment on Hasbro exec says Baldur's Gate 3 "proved for us that people really wanted great D&D games," supports Larian's plan to "take the time we need" 8 months ago:
I really hope you’re right
Also be fine if Larian just goes with Pathfinder or their own IP next time. Hasbro can fuck right off.