Weirdly enough, most companies collecting your data are actually really bad at doing so. Business people don't prioritize data at all, and data collection is a total afterthought, often treated as a major inconvenience. It costs money, and they can't charge for it.
The reason why there was no fallback is because that would have cost money to implement, and they can't imagine someone wanting to use their product that way.
This is really important to remember. The diagnosis is that your life is sufficiently disordered to need meaningful accommodations or support due to your autistic traits, not whether you have autistic traits. And whether you need accommodations or support is entirely a judgement call, being made from someone not living your life.
Yes. Believe it or not, the coke and pepsi being made in Canada makes people feel significantly less pressure to boycott them. Believe it or not, this makes sense when you think about how most people make decisions and the factors involved in those decisions.
"Balance" gets abused a lot, as a term. It means multiple things, and it results in people talking past each other.
Intra-party balance -- that is, everyone in the party being approximately equally capable -- is important for most tables because most people resent getting clowned on by their so-called allies.
Creature/encounter balance is not about forcing the fights players get into to be fair, but about having a reliable way of telling how hard the fight will be. That knowledge is not an obligation to make the fights fair.
They're visible on other fedi platforms, making it trivially easy for assholes to go looking for who downvoted them anyway. The illusion of safety is a dereliction of duty to users.
Also, downvotes exist to allow large social sites to give the illusion of moderation and user agency while ignoring their duty to actually manage their spaces. They're not needed here, and their existence promotes excessively large and unmanageable communities where people shout into voids and engage with hostility rather than discuss topics with people. Their use and inclusion should be seriously reconsidered.
Trolls are only common if they're made common, though. Like, they're common in the Forgotten Realms, or Golarion, or whatever, but commonality is out the window in a homebrew setting.
Look to something like wordpress.org or writefreely.org if you want to self host. If you want a free hosting platform, weirdly enough, blogger still exists, or you can use wordpress.com.
In Narrarive Declaration's Kingmaker 2e actual play campaign, their necromancer invites people to sign contracts to be brought back as thralls after they die, because informed concent is leagues better than doing it without concent.
Is this something communities could opt out of? Not everyone wants their community flooded with comments from people replying to people who aren't even community members.
Because the Israeli government has very effectively weaponized the holocaust against critics, and politicians are very sensitive to that kind of thing.
It's the slow but inevitable achievement of end-state of a system designed to re-frame and re-centralize power in the hands of the elite following the liberalization of political power.
Weirdly enough, most companies collecting your data are actually really bad at doing so. Business people don't prioritize data at all, and data collection is a total afterthought, often treated as a major inconvenience. It costs money, and they can't charge for it.
The reason why there was no fallback is because that would have cost money to implement, and they can't imagine someone wanting to use their product that way.