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@ BedbugCutlefish @lemmy.world

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  • Just hold it in

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  • Yeah. This kinda stuff might help sway some people but for the fascists drafting these bills, this is not a contradiction. The bathroom they want trans people to use is none. They want trans people to not exist.

  • I probably fucked up as a GM, but my first WFRP session was funny in hinsight

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  • Nah, you probably did it right. WFRP is a deadly system, which cuts both ways. PCs will win fights hard and fast, much of the time. Its just that, when the fight turns, when they get bad luck on rolls or are outnumbered/outmatched, they die hard and fast.

  • The Google Interview Question Everyone Gets Wrong [Veritasium}

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  • Yeah, glad they address the scaling thing. My initial thought with jumping is that, you can't have your cake and eat it too, in regards to physics.

    Either you scale down in a way that works with physics, and die instantly. Or you scale down 'magically', and imo you don't get to reap the benefits of stuff like 'extra' strength and other square-cube-law changes. (though, I guess if you are just saying 'it's magic', you can come up with any number of justifications for keeping that stuff)

  • Costco forced to recall 80,000 lbs of butter – because the label fails to mention it contains milk

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  • I have a lot of deadly food allergies, and I just, don't eat out anymore. Too many trips to the ER. Sucks, cause it makes travel difficult, to plan on cooking my own meals, and basically means I can't safely travel abroad anywhere I'm not 100% fluent in

  • Non-Americans who have been to the US.. What is the weirdest thing about America that Americans don't realize is weird?

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  • It's not that much slower. Our 20a outlets give 2,400w, while yours gove 3000w. And, it's still faster than a stovetop kettle. Its more that we don't make hot tea very regularly, while drip coffee was the dominant hot drink for so long.

  • 16 September 2024

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  • ?

    Is this a reference to elephants" supposed fear of mice, or just a 'big ear' joke?

  • Are the straights okay rule

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  • Same ways gay people get 'straight married'.

    Could be family pressure. Could be internalized hetreonormativity making them feel like they 'should' do this. Could be they haven't really realized, come to terms with, or accepted their own identity.

    I mean, think of a 'stereotypical' aromantic guy. He's interested in women, and sleeps around a lot, but despite not getting feelings, might 'settle down' with one partner because its 'normal, respectable', even if it's not something that makes him happy. Probably won't make the wife happy either, but that's it's own issue, why she might marry a guy that 'doesn't do romance'.

  • Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says "almost all games should cost more at a base level" because they cost so much to make

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  • Eh, apples to oranges.

    A 60$ game today is so unlike a 60$ two or three decades ago.

    No physical medium. Much larger market and (potential at least) sales volume.

    Proliferation of game engines; games don't need to 'reinvent the wheel' each time, or write machine code anymore.

    On top of that, there's many other revenue streams. Not that I think this model is 'fair and good', but look at the mobile market, where a sale cost of $0 is king.

    Something to be said about 'lower cost incentivizing bad practices' (as the article discusses), and yeah, some games could raise their price. But it's far fron 1-1, as 'sales volume' trumps 'sale price' in importance.

  • 5 signs you might rule

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  • I specifically called out not 'difficulty' in making friends, but 'desire' to make friends. As far as I'm aware, autistic people still desire friends usually.

  • 5 signs you might rule

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  • Huh, that first one feels more like Schizoid personality disorder. My impression is that, while autistic people can struggle to make and keep friends, they do generally still want to have the same amount of friends as an allistic person.

  • The left loves Tim Walz. Can he unite the Democrats?

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  • 538 no longer has Nate Silver or his model; Disney bought it and fired him like a year ago or so.

    Still, I agree; I don't like his politics, but his analysis of polls and numbers is probably the best out there.

  • Chicken wings advertised as 'boneless' can have bones, Ohio Supreme Court decides

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  • Decaf does actually still have caffeine, just normally like 97% less.

    Which, I guess is like the boneless wings having 97% less bones, now in convinient needle shaped shards

  • Elden Ring DLC launches to "Mixed" reviews as players bemoan difficulty, PC performance in Shadow of the Erdtree: "There's a big problem with balancing"

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  • I'm talking about the stuttering, caused primarily not recalculating shaders. Something I just dealt with the entirety of my first playthrough of ER. But the fact that it still isn't fixed really makes me not want to play, or to pay them money.

  • Elden Ring DLC launches to "Mixed" reviews as players bemoan difficulty, PC performance in Shadow of the Erdtree: "There's a big problem with balancing"

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  • Yeah, I'm holding off for a sale on this one. I liked Elden Ring well enough, but the performance issues are infuriating. Baffling that it still isn't fixed.

  • Tales From the Tables ep.40: Devil's Due, part 4.

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  • Short answer: read Jack Vance's 'tales of a dying earth'. It's the reason dnd magic is called 'vancian'.

    Longer answer: in that series, magic works by just remembering words, and then saying them. But these magic words are powerful things, weighty in the mind, hard to carry. And, when said, they tear themselves out of your mind, causing you to forget them.

    So, not 'spell slots' per se, but the idea is you're prepping spells almost as a 'potion', something you carry in your mind, and consume to cast out a spell.

  • Is petrol vegan?

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  • Its almost entirely made from plants

    And like, even if it was dinosaurs, Dirt is also (partially) made from decayed animals. And, oversimplifying, that dirt becomes plants.

    And that's all fine for vegans, because it doesn't involve exploitation of animals. Like, if you needed to raise and kill animals to use their corpses to grow plants, that'd be animal exploitation.