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  • "Level Is More Than Just a Number." (Art by Sebastian Leverette)

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  • Yep. Feel like we just had some posts about this. People who write that kind of backstory should just write a book. It's especially bad in games like D&D where you're starting out as a level 1 nobody. Some games, even some games of D&D, start at higher power levels, so the story is at least mechanically plausible.

  • Surviving an American suburb without a car

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  • For some systems. The NYC subway and buses you pay once to get on and you can go as far as you want. NJ Transit right over the river you buy a ticket specific for your start and end, and it costs more if you go farther.

    (I didn't watch the video because I'm supposed to be working and I don't like video as a format, but hopefully this is what you meant)

  • [DS] The Anor Londo experience

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  • What an experience.

    Now that I've played it a couple times I can pretty reliably run up to them , parry the one on the right, and get to the bonfire. It was not an easy task the first few times.

    Also fun was hidden body and then blasting him with soul spear from up close.

  • What's the craziest thing you've seen on public transportation?

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  • One of the first times I took the path train (it's a light rail in NJ/NYC. Basically another subway line). I sit down, and an older guy in a suit sits down next to me. He's got like a box in a plastic bag in his lap. No big deal.

    This was in like 2002. He didn't have a cell phone or earphones. Just sitting quietly, waiting for the train to leave.

    He started to giggle. Little chuckles. And then escalated to full laughs. It rises and rises until he's like cackling. And then he calms down, reverses all the way through giggles and back to silence. Never said a word.

    I don't know what was in the box. I didn't ask. I assume he just got away with a killer heist.

  • Zohran Mamdani hires car-hating activist Ben Furnas for NYC transportation team: ‘War on drivers’

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  • Good. Fuck car culture. Fuck the nypost too.

  • A chud wrote the worst university essay ever and their trans teacher failed them, but then she went to cry at TPUSA about wokeness and the teacher got put on administrated leave (cw: transphobia)

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  • Sorry, I meant, what is the article the student read and responded to. The one the student said is thought provoking in their 650 word response.

  • A chud wrote the worst university essay ever and their trans teacher failed them, but then she went to cry at TPUSA about wokeness and the teacher got put on administrated leave (cw: transphobia)

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  • What was the essay the student was supposed to be responding to?

  • Time to admit the truth: Brexit has been an unmitigated economic failure

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  • Will anyone learn from this? Will any of the people who were wrong lose credibility? Doubtful.

  • Relatable

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  • I've been pushing to add some basic checks on PR, and people are reluctant. There's one repo that I'm code owner on so I spent the like 15 minutes to apply a code formatter and add a GitHub action to check. But on the main repo people are dragging their heels. I'm like just pick ruff or black and do it. It's going to take like 10 minutes. I'm not asking for us to go crazy and add automated tests right now, but can we at least get something to verify the python code is syntactically correct?

    The other day something went through code review until I looked at it and saw there was an extra (, and that shit wouldn't even run. I'm like please please add an automated check. I'll do it. Please.

    I think a lot of people just aren't familiar with how other places do software. This is the same place that was ssh'ing into prod and making changes right on the machine until like this month.

  • What is your dating peeves?

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  • What is your dating peeves?

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  • Mostly specific to online dating, but: People who dead end a conversation. Like, their profile says they love the author NK Jemisen. I write, "oh, I love her books! Did you read The City We Became? It's a total love letter to the city".

    They response with, "no".

    Friend, that's not an effective way to play this game.

    If you are not interested in dating, just unmatch. Maybe you swiped by accident or when drunk. I don't care. I'm not going to remember.

    If you are interested in dating, you should put some effort in. If you don't throw the ball back, you look like you're either uninterested or incapable. I don't want to date someone who's not interested, nor someone who can't carry a conversation.

    You might be thinking, "Well they asked a yes/no question and I answered as such". Technically true, but not productive. What do you expect them to do? Ask another first-message-tier question? This isn't supposed to be a one sided interview like you're applying for a job. You're supposed to be a full participant. Ask a question (preferably related to the topic). Or, if you're not interested anymore, unmatch.

    You might also be thinking, "well I don't have time for a whole conversation right now". Ok. Do you ever have time? If not, delete the app because you don't have time to date. If you do, answer when you have time. These things are asynchronous. If you're afraid you're going to forget, I don't know man write yourself a note. That's a life management problem outside the scope of dating advice.

    This whole thing peeves me because it feels like people want "banter" and witty conversation, but they don't want to do their half of it. They want to be passively entertained, but this isn't some podcast you can listen to when dozing. These are (hopefully) real people looking for connection.

    My therapist told me that people have different styles of communication and that's okay. Maybe some people would be happy where their conversations are no deeper than "Did you hear the new slothrust album?" "No". Doesn't seem like an effective way to get to know someone to me.

  • What Did Y'all Buy on Black Friday?

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  • A drink and food at a local spot. Wasn't a black Friday sale or anything, but we stopped in.

    Didn't chase any sales or buy anything of note. Don't need much.

  • New to Linux which OS to use?

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  • Mint is fine. I went with pop!_os because at the time mint didn't play well with my hardware.

    Make sure you test things from the install live disk before you commit. Internet access, displays, audio should all work.

  • Relatable

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  • I'm kind of bummed no one at my job really does code reviews seriously. I don't really get any feedback, so it's hard to improve.

    That's also probably why the older code is an idiosyncratic mess of mutations and "oh yeah you need this config file that's not in source control " and "oh sorry I guess I hard coded that file path, huh?"

  • Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking

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  • Saint Luigi preserve us.

  • How much do you care about music?

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  • I care about music. I look for new stuff I enjoy. I listen to albums. I think about the lyrics. I see bands live when they tour. Sometimes I make mixes with a theme.

    I used to ask people sometimes if they made mixes, and if so where they fell on the spectrum of "these are some songs I like" and "each songs inclusion and ordering has been carefully considered".

    I don't just hit shuffle or let an algorithm wander through music. Songs are like spells and different tunes evoke different feelings.

    I don't relate to people when they say they like "all kinds of music" or "I listen to a dozen new songs every day". That's just not enough time spent with those new songs to form any sort of bond, for me.

    I only have a couple friends who have what I call an interoperable relationship with music. It's not that we like the same music, but that the music we each like, we like in a mutually comprehensible way. Like I can say to my friend, "oh this song could go right next to that song because xyz ", and they'll be like "oh that's good. abc fits in with them, too".

    My other friends, talking about music, at most I get a "cool song, bro".

  • Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out. A great way to make sure more people use Chinese models I guess.

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  • Despite enshittification being widely talked about, I expect maybe wide eyed idiots will be completely surprised by this.

  • is it possible to commit enough time theft to get all your surplus value back

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  • My plan for if a job forced "return to office" on me was to start drinking a lot of milk, and turn it into a "I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me.". My friends said this is a terrible idea. I concede the coworkers mostly don't deserve to suffer the catastrophic ass gas, but management and the bootlickers I say can suffer it.

  • NY City Council considers $100K annual pay hike for Mamdani

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  • He could maybe take it and donate the money, but people are so low information they wouldn't find out.