Kichae

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Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger

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Kichae,

Me, noticing Riker: "I don't get it. Why is Abraham Lincoln here?"

Me, finally noticing Picard: "KILL IT WITH FIRE!"

Kichae,

Holy shit, someone that actually likes that aural abomination?

Are you the reason it won't fucking die?

Kichae,

I just came across this video, which, while still focused on GMs, I think has some very good seeds for players. It's all about dramatic combat, and there's a lot that players can do to initiate dramatic scenes in game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeGjsBcR3rE

Kichae,

In PF2e, the specific gods and factions of the default setting are actually integral to the game’s mechanics, which makes it a lot harder to play the system in a homebrew setting

Ehhh. You can ignore a lot of the setting specific stuff, especially with the remaster. I just let clerics choose their own edicts and anathema, and favoured weapon, for instance. It's not like the actual lore of the gods matters to the game mechanics. You can build gods or sects piecemeal.

Or don't. My family's game has both a cleric and a champion, neither of which has a specific god. They're just "good". It works just fine.

Kichae,

their value comes from them being relevant

The news's value should be to society, though, not shareholders?

Kichae,

Just another episode of Pog & Dar: Cop Landlords

Kichae, (edited )
  • Player rolls a 1

GM: "You experience bij."

Edit: You'd think I'd know to check what autocorrect does to what I type by now.

Kichae, (edited )

Yeah, I'm wounded by the commission omission of Cape Breton. But I think it's just that there's nothing dubious about our islands.

Edit: Sausage fingers and rogue autocorrect.

Kichae,

Funny, I thought the Red River drained into Fargo.

Kichae,

Being able to identify the characters might help some, but otherwise no. It's a two part capsule episode

Kichae,

He was "forced" to buy because he, uh, signed a contract saying he would. I'm sorry, but "voluntarily signed a purchase agreement" is only "forcing" if you believe people above a certain wealth level can do whatever the fuck they want with impunity.

He could have backed out and paid the fine he agreed to pay in the case he backed out, but he didn't want to do that, either.

He's not being investigated by someone else.

He can't win because he's a fucking idiot.

Kichae,

Essay Tea, eh!

Kichae,

People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers' minds, to reverse course. It's the intended outcome.

Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.

Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a "spend money" button that players hit over and over again. That's the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They're all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.

Kichae,

It's not "deal with" so much as "stop causing them".

Kichae,

Are you trying to erase Odo?

Kichae,

Nope nope nope nope nope

Kichae,

The system required personally ambitious people to the right thing for everyone instead of the thing that would get them further ahead as an individual. In the face of the wealth and power of the oil industry, corruption was almost inevitable, sadly.

Kichae, (edited )

It’s litigation around what a machine can freely use in its learning model.

No, its not that, either. It's litigation around what resources a person can exploit to develop a product without paying for that right.

The machine is doing nothing wrong. It's not feeding itself.

Kichae,

You're asking two questions here. One is about some kind of purity test, which... You gotta let that one go. The crowd isn't here to pass judgement on you, and asking it to do so is a kind of psychological self harm.

The other is about whether using a particular Reddit front end supports Reddit. The answer to that is an unqualified "yes".

The two together point to you wanting to use Reddit, but not wanting to be judged poorly for doing so, and that's an anxiety state you don't deserve to live in. You either believe strongly enough about not supporting Reddit for your own reasons to not use it, or you don't. And that's ok, because they're your beliefs. You're not some soldier in some holy war.

Kichae, (edited )

No idea, but the realGulDukat Twitter account is active on Mastodon: @realGulDukat

An admin deleted all my uploads and I have no clue why (lemmy.world)

I have been uploading comic art images by Moebius for several weeks almost daily to the !eurographicnovels community, where I´m a moderator myself. All those images have disappeared. Modlog says the images have been deleted by “admin”. Modlog gives no reason for this but says the images were later restored by “admin”...

Kichae,

if abusive admins on a power trip will just arbitralily wipe my stuff “accidentially” whenever they feel like.

You've jumped to a lot of conclusions here.

You're using a website that's operated by volunteers, that's seen a ton of abuse from spammers and bots, that's run on software that's pre-version-1 and that lacks advanced mod tools, and that likely has an admin team that's using some hacked together third party scripts or tools to try and identify bad actors. It's not only possible, but entirely reasonable, that one of those tools may have falsely identified you as a spam account, and someone either just ran a script that banned a bunch of people, or got into a flow state and just hit the wrong button out of habit.

Pointing fingers and accusing others of bad behaviour out of pure speculation while you're both stomping your feet and having a fit because you feel hurt while simultaneously telling others that the lens they're using is "pure speculation" is... Not productive, to put it mildly.

Kichae,

"I believe other people's human rights should be violated because I don't like them" is a great position to have right up until you're the disliked party.

I imagine you picture yourself as always the top dog. Protected, even, by the belief that even if you find yourself face down in the mud, the people you gleefully abuse will not step on your head to let you drown in the muck.

And you're probably right that they wouldn't. Because they're probably better people than you are, having had to learn empathy in a world that doesn't think much of them.

But I kind of hope you choke on dirt.

Kichae,

Apparently they just think that their own disengagement with their kids' education is a conspiracy against them personally.

Kichae,

Gender identity is a advanced topic that children don’t have the ability to rationalize.

If you believe that children cannot comprehend "boy" and "girl", then I don't know what to tell you.

Other than we know what all of this is really about. None of y'all are at all subtle about it, nor are you even a quarter as smart as you think you are.

Kichae,

That doesn't really answer the question, though. Most violence is done by people who are habitually violent, and most violence is not completely random and committed against strangers.

Dude is broken, but someone being traumatized and repeating a cycle of aggression and trauma doesn't actually explain any particular incident they have.

Kichae,

Are they still playing apologetics for the cops? Because if so, no thanks.

Kichae,

Here's a google prompt for you: "raspberry pi police"

Kichae,

Indeed. An easy and straightforward method of regulatory capture is to convince politicians that the regulations just don't need to be enforced. "The rules are fair! We totally agree to them! Now, just let us police ourself, which you know we'll do a good job of because we agreed with your rules!"

Kichae,

Everything I need to know about the new Raspberry Pi: https://www.theregister.com/2022/12/09/rpi_maker_in_residence_police/

Kichae,

I have so many questions. Like, for instance, do you think being in debt to a money lender means you're not poor or something?

the threat of poverty from nature itself

The threat of poverty comes from society. Or are you under the impression that fucking bears are the ones who will be beating your ass for failing to make rent, or for camping in a city park.

Kichae,

Now do 1985.

Never mind, I'll do it myself: NES games were $50, which today is about $185.

Kichae,

People are taking your bait on the 3rd party bullshit, but this cannot be overlooked:

Conservatives fund the NDP

Don't choke on your tinfoil or anything. Especially not in the name of supporting a right wing party LARPing as something progressive.

Kichae,

Or, we could acknowledge that a populace educated in enriching educational topics is a huge net benefit to society, and we don't do that.

Let people pay for business school, or other bullshit that only benefits private interests.

Kichae,

I don't know, seemed obvious from context.

Kichae,

The credentialism is overwhelmingly about classism, so if you make university free, that part becomes a totally different beast. That BSc is no longer a sign that you come from wealth (or are willing to indenture yourself to employers to LARP it), so it becomes less of an issue.

It also addresses the "one or two classes" issue.

The scheduling thing can be fixed by restructuring work. There's no good reason work needs to take up a contiguous block of time each day nor why it needs to take up 1/2 of the waking day.

Kichae,

Yes, this is ultimately what it means, which means serious effort needs to be made to not let this die down.

Serious effort that I don't believe will happen, as efforts would need to be constantly escalating to remain in the news cycle.

Kichae,

Chips (or crisps) don’t seem to exist anywhere but grocery/convenience stores.

That... that's normal, right? That's where chips are supposed to come from.

Like, I have been to a restaurant or two that had "chips" on the menu, usually as "fish and chips" or some other battered and fried stick of meat "and chips" where, to my supreme bewilderment, the side was a pile of Lays, but, like, those restaurants were universally run by geriatrics in the middle of nowhere, served food on paper plates, and where wrong.

Kichae,

This is Elon Musk erasure.

Kichae, (edited )

I also think it’s stupid to hold people accountable for atrocities done centuries ago before electricity.

At the same time, many families got rich off of slave labour, and have passed that ill gained wealth down from generation to generation.

Just because you gave the car you stole away as a gift doesn't mean it ain't fucking stolen. It should be repossessed.

Kichae, (edited )

It would, absolutely, but it still means a whole lot.

It's a recognition by a slick, seasoned, career politician in the highest office in his country that the winds are shifting with respect to the labour movement.

Don't think of this as Biden expressing any deeply held belief. Don't think of anything he does in those terms. The Democrats in general, and Biden especially, are a mirror that reflects something meaningful about the socio-political environment. Just as Trump and the Republicans are.

He and his team believe that something in that environment has shifted, and that labour is poised to be ok the winning side of that shift.

Kichae,

Farmers should have known it was a scam when the board wasn't broken up, just privatized. "Oh yes, you can now sell to anyone! But the market is now dominated by this private quasi-monopoly..."

I mean, they also should have known that competition wasn't going to meaningfully increase the prices they were getting, since grain buyers are middle-men, but people in general have a hard time learning from outside contexts.

Kichae,

That's a shame. As an end user, it's a really nice experience, but running my own private instance I kept running into issues that just made it really difficult to keep it online, especially once life started to put a lot of pressure on my time and mental health.

One thing I've noticed about a lot of small FOSS projects is that they do very little to actually educate potential users on how to use their stuff. The underlying motivator is often to provide alternatives to existing products, but they fall down entirely when it comes to actually making those alternatives usable for the users of the things they're trying to provide alternatives for.

The big ones get big by creating their audience. The small ones look for the small intersection of people who use the mainstream product, care about open source, and also are fluent enough in that world that they already know what to do to make things work, and that pool of users often doesn't reach any kind of critical mass.

Kichae, (edited )

A lot of new Fediverse projects, too, misidentify who their audience is. Calckey has a really good UX (most of the time), and I had zero issues as just an account user on Calc's server, but the support for would-be admins is... A chat room, and documentation that is half so far out of date that some of it is in Japanese.

That's not going to grow the presence. That doesn't get new instances online. That doesn't get an ecosystem with good moderators and admins. That doesn't get the infrastructure in place - technical and social - to truly take off.

Kichae,

Yeah, 4/12 in my astro classes was definitely a significantly better ratio than the same 4 out of 80 in my general physics classes.

Kichae,

“Laid off” has always been a euphemism for “fired.”

Not in communities where seasonal labour is a significant part of the local economy. There, 'laid off' often comes with the implicit "temporary" modifier, while 'fired' does not. And while tech work is not usually seasonal employment, if you grew up in an area where seasonal employment is common, the distinction kind of stick with you.

we shouldn't promote individual responsibility *instead* of corporate accountability. we should promote individual responsibility *because it leads to* corporate accountability (slrpnk.net)

Not my OC but what I’ve believed for years: there’s no conflict between reducing your own environmental impact and holding corporations responsible. We hold corps responsible for the environment by creating a societal ethos of environmental responsibility that forces corporations to serve the people’s needs or go bankrupt...

Kichae,

Yup.

The flip side of this, is, of course, that voting with your wallet means that people with bigger wallets get more votes, and that results in the rich always getting their way.

Kichae,

Time to go watch Junkball videos all morning.

We need a new Explore-Feed (similar to Mastodon), which consolidates the All- and Local-Feed (lemmy.world)

The All-Feed is very important to increase the content-quality of the threadiverse and therefore, ensure its existense. However, for smaller instances, there is only limited reason to put the All-Feed prominent in their UI, because their posts will never be present there. However, if they push people toward their the Local-Feed...

Kichae,

Honestly, the problem with discovery is not that there are not enough posts in a single timeline. Merging local and global feeds makes discoverability worse on Lemmy and kbin, not better, because the timelines display posts, while the space is organized by communities. This means that smaller or niche communities just drown seas of posts from large or highly active ones.

If you want a real "exploration" timeline, you need one that limits the number of posts from any given community. And that still seems like it's well served by local/global splits, because the website you join should be meaningful.

We do not need, nor should we want, a network of "dumb terminal" Fediverse sites. We should be aiming for the local stream to be the big selling point for any given instance, with the ability to interact with remote communities being a value-add. A merged timeline kills local identity, and tells users that their hosting website is a 2nd class citizen in the Fediverse.

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