JackbyDev

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Professional developer and amateur gardener located near Atlanta, GA in the USA.

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JackbyDev,

D&D isn’t meant to be an accurate simulator of reality. It’s meant to be fun. If you find 1 in 400 auto failures to be unfun then don’t use it.

JackbyDev,

It’s not the mandela effect, it’s a common house rule that people express their opinions on.

JackbyDev,

There are deaf people in the real world with treatable deafness that opt not to because they don’t view their deafness as a disability. In addition, not all neurodivergent folks view their conditions as disabilities and wouldn’t change even if there was a “cure” for it.

So, I don’t see how disabilities in a fantasy setting would be different. It’s not even necessarily about trusting the cure, many times it’s about how folks view the condition and themselves.

JackbyDev,

This looks to be a wizard being ambushed along a well paved path. I don’t think they needed an all terrain wheelchair. They were just going about their day.

JackbyDev,

Not everyone views their differences as disabilities.

Cochlear implants perpetuate the idea that deaf people need to be “fixed” — and a lot of deaf people take issue with that.

insider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-cochlear-im…

JackbyDev,

I mean, some people literally just don’t view their conditions as disabilities. We don’t even need to talk about ability to afford something.

JackbyDev,

But by assuming everyone with a difference in ability would auto automatically want to be “cured” you are shutting down your ability to think critically already. Apart from trusting cures, apart from access to cures, many people today don’t seek them because they don’t believe they’re necessary.

JackbyDev,

You’re so casually ableist and don’t even see it. They’re telling you not everyone wants to “fix” their “disability”, they’re not saying everyone refuses.

JackbyDev,

The amount of people in this thread who assume everyone with any type of disability or difference in ability would even want to have their condition corrected is shocking. Why is it impossible to imagine a blind person who doesn’t want their vision fixed for no other reason than they believe they’re fine as is? Why is that such a difficult thing to grasp? Just because free magical heal exists doesn’t mean everyone automatically wants it. You don’t need to turn to other explanations about why it might not be trusted or affordable when you can just say “this person is blind and doesn’t particularly care to be able to see.”

JackbyDev,

Yes, but not everyone would. There are deaf people in our world today who don’t want to be able to hear.

insider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-cochlear-im…

JackbyDev,

It doesn’t matter, there are still plenty of people who enjoy their deafness in and if itself and don’t see it as something to fix.

JackbyDev,

They’d force people to hear? That’s not fantasy, that’s authoritarian.

JackbyDev,

You’ve got a pretty weak imagination.

JackbyDev,

You’re moving the goal posts. Originally you said,

In a fantasy setting, deafness would be taken care of before it could influence people culturally

Now you’re saying they probably would while still taking a tone of me being wrong. You can’t agree with me that deaf people would exist while still acting like I’m wrong.

Also, what you described earlier is akin to eugenics. Forcefully fixing alleged disabilities without consent is absolutely authoritarian.

JackbyDev,

Later in this article:

insider.com/why-deaf-people-turn-down-cochlear-im…

JackbyDev,

That is not what you said. You’re still moving the goal posts. You said something extreme and are stepping your position back when confronted with the reality of it.

JackbyDev,

The term to look up is Monaco. That’s the secret sauce part of VS Code that made it faster but I don’t know enough about it to describe it well

JackbyDev,

Warlocks suffer again. This is why I think 4e’s style of giving each class the same number of resources that recharge on short/long rests is better. Making a short rest magic user just because isn’t necessarily good game design. I’ve literally never played in a campaign that does 6 encounters per adventuring day because combat takes so fucking long and we don’t want to stretch a single adventuring day over 6 real life weeks. (Gritty Realism does not solve this. Do not suggest it. It changes narrative pacing. Not getting resources back for a month and a half still sucks.)

JackbyDev,

This game is such trash and everyone puts it in a pedestal. Everyone acts like it is a perfect thing beyond criticism.

JackbyDev,

Wait where the hell is Elminster? In act 1?? Did I fucking permanently miss a companion because I failed a DC 10 strength check and despite scouring act 1 before going to act 2 I didn’t find Elminster?

JackbyDev,

To be clear, I was told that’s where to get Gale if you missed him in the portal. Fuck this game lmao.

JackbyDev,

I was told that’s where you get Gale if you miss him in the portal.

JackbyDev,

It has a mountain of bugs and annoyances and whole the dialogue and voice acting are great it doesn’t excuse anything.

JackbyDev,

Heaven forbid I layer my irony by using literally as hyperbole.

JackbyDev,

I forget the name but it was the same style at the LG FlipShot.

JackbyDev, (edited )

I’m trying not to spit my drink at this family gathering at this image

JackbyDev,

The “arch btw” with the thing taped over their tattoo is just comedy gold, thanks for sharing!

JackbyDev,

Oi guvnah, ow many stone chu weigh?

JackbyDev,

I think they mean doom scrolling as in algorithmic dopamine loops

JackbyDev,

The hell are you talking about, you are I are from different instances both talking to each other on a third instance lol.

JackbyDev,

Do you hear yourself? You sound like those people who say “blockchain” solves every problem. If you don’t like a community then “federation” is not some magical solution to it.

JackbyDev,

I know you agreed with me so don’t take it as arguing, but I don’t get this logic. If someone made “books” there’s nothing stopping people from making “readingbooks” with the exact same rules and content guidelines. The problem doesn’t go away.

JackbyDev,

So, thankfully I only lost taste for like a week or so when I got it in 2022, but the sinus thing? Yeah. That was the worst part. Everything else was minor in comparison. It felt like someone hooked an air compressor to my head.

JackbyDev,

This is my favorite character introduction in television. Everything before this moment you think he’s some eccentric asshole and going to just chew out the staff.

Proton Mail CEO Calls New Address Verification Feature 'Blockchain in a Very Pure Form' (tech.slashdot.org)

Proton Mail, the leading privacy-focused email service, is making its first foray into blockchain technology with Key Transparency, which will allow users to verify email addresses. From a report: In an interview with Fortune, CEO and founder Andy Yen made clear that although the new feature uses blockchain, the key technology...

JackbyDev,

How many people have verified how many people’s identity with PGP signatures? Also I’m willing to bet a horribly shocking amount of people would just accept a new key from someone (not necessarily sign it) and trust them regardless.

JackbyDev,

To be clear, I’m not saying this solution is better or worse than PGP, I just don’t believe PGP works well for creating a web of trust.

JackbyDev,

I don’t know, I don’t wanna sound dismissive of things, but it can probably help in some situations. OP probably knows the situation better and isn’t giving all the details (because it just isn’t relevant). It’s possible their partner actually didn’t know that though and it might help them cut back some.

JackbyDev,

Yeah, that’s what I’m trying to say. I don’t think I made it clear. A good example of the sort of thing I’m trying to talk about is setting up a camera to look at the stove if someone is obsessive about making sure it is turned off. I suggested this to someone before and it seemed like it helped them, or at least it was a novel idea they hadn’t considered. I know you can’t magically “logic” away problems like this.

Younger users of Lemmy: Did you ever love a game that you just really sucked at?

So I was watching a few youtubes and remembered how the vast majority (of like the ten) nes games me and my sister had were hard as all hell. I loved to play Little Nemo and Street Fighter 2010 but I am pretty sure I never made it past the third level of either. Let alone infamously hard games like The Lion King....

JackbyDev,

Smash Brothers is one of those games where you think you’re good casually but it has such high skill cielings that even other casual players can curb stomp you. It depends so heavily on what sort of games you played growing up. (Assuming you don’t out in effort to practice I mean.) I (used to) be able to reliably win against my wife because she never played anything growing up, but my friends that played a lot of fighting games growing up easily beat me.

JackbyDev,

Yeah, I think you need to go out of your way to try to use ftps. When people say ftp they generally mean SFTP.

JackbyDev,

For discussions probably. Not for repos.

JackbyDev,

I disagree that you should believe everything will be fixed given enough time. I don’t believe doomerism is the correct response either, but I fear that believing things will just work out makes it easy to ignore problems.

JackbyDev,

I agree with you on that but believing everything will magically work out is rejecting reality to me. Clearly had things happen. Just because they get fixed doesn’t mean they’re weren’t still bad. Wars and genocides kill so many people. Just because the “good guys” might win eventually doesn’t mean nothing bad happened. It doesn’t mean we should just relax about shit.

JackbyDev,

I think my top comment in this chain was pretty clear. I’m saying that the belief that everything will work itself out leads to personal inaction. I believe it leads to complacency and that leads to more bad things happening.

JackbyDev,

I’m not advocating for doomerism, sorry if that was unclear! I agree with you on that! Doomerism is awful as well, and like you said, much worse than optimism! All I’m saying is that it’s dangerous to believe things will work out without your involvement. I think it can be like a bystander effect on a global scale, you know?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bystander_effect

Has Windows startup repair or a troubleshooter ever fixed your issue even once?

Yeah, basically that. I’m back at work in Windows land on a Monday morning, and pondering what sadist at Microsoft included these features. It’s not hyperbole to say that the startup repair, and the troubleshooters in settings, have never fixed an issue I’ve encountered with Windows. Not even once. Is this typical?...

JackbyDev,

It fixed an issue for me once back on like Windows Vista I think.

JackbyDev,

Folks, Windows’s own system image couldn’t be restored from Windows. I had to go download some program called Macrium Reflect and use the underlying VHD files.

What broke? Oh, you don’t know? It was a bad Windows update that had a broken driver or something causing driver verification to fail.

JackbyDev,

Yeah, like it needs to be super long. That’s why you see it more in Ethernet cables and why they have better shielding. With HDMI it’s not as big of a deal because they’re so short.

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