AnarchistArtificer @ AnarchistArtificer @slrpnk.net

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Depending on where the rubbing is worst, stockings can help with this (not hold-ups — ones that use a proper belt to keep them up. A good suspender belt should have at least 6 clips, and the clips should be metal). If you wear underwear over the top of the suspender belt, then it's easy to remove it if needed

I think kilts can be a good gateway drug towards skirts

I appreciate your helpfulness. It's only a small thing, but it speaks to your character that you have found it necessary to save this, to streamline being helpful.

Bouncing onto a different topic, I first learned of using backslash as an escape character in the context of the shrug ( ¯_ (ツ)/¯ ) kaomoji. If you type it as it's shown there, its left arm gets lost, like this ¯ (ツ)/¯

I find it funny that if I wanted this comment to show what I typed to get that first correct one to show properly, I'd need to do ¯_ (ツ)_/¯ . That has four backslashes. It can get very silly.

I don't think duplicate link protection is what I mean, unless I'm misunderstanding how that feature works. I.e. if I had bookmarks "example.com/a" , "example.com/b", these are duplicates even though they're at the same site. But if I visit the page "example.com/c" and I went to go bookmark it, I would like to be able to see a thing that says '"from this site, you have also bookmarked: "example.com/a" , "example.com/b".

I don't imagine this is possible. I was probably going to make something to give me that functionality at some point, because I haven't seen anyone having the same problem as me.

I have a question which may turn out to be a feature request

The question: How easy would it be to use Linkwarden to check whether I have already bookmarked something from the site I'm currently on? To clarify why I'm asking this, I have been generally trying to be more mindful in what media I consume, which means the things I enjoy reading are fragmented pieces that I may stumble upon through word of mouth.

For example, I read post 'a' on blog 'A' and I enjoy it so much that I bookmark it ('Aa') so I can find it for later sharing. Many months later, I am linked to post 'b' on site 'A', but I don't remember whether I have been to this site before, and knowing that I had previously enjoyed post Aa may prompt me to actually read post Ab (or properly set aside for later)

Native Firefox bookmarks don't do this, I know that much. It's something I've been meaning to figure out how to solve, because one of the delightful, if somewhat overwhelming parts about floating on the 'small web', is the trust that builds up gradually after seeing sometime put out consistently good coverage

Probably smart, because I'm already pretty smart and the prospect of giving up what I already have seems scary.

Plus, I've lived most of my life thinking I was repulsively ugly; part of overcoming that anxiety involved understanding that "you can be the juiciest, ripest peach in the world, but some people just don't like peaches". If there's anything I've learned from that, it's understanding that attractiveness is even harder to "objectively" quantify than intelligence

My understanding is that it's not necessarily porn addiction that causes this, but a particular style of masturbation that some people refer to as "death grip". Source: a friend of mine who used to masturbate every night before bed to sleep better, but this began causing issues with his partner due to ED. He eventually solved it by using a different grip while masturbating.

In short, if you feel like you've come away from this conversation with things to reflect on, then that's great and I'm glad about that. However, "porn addiction", as a term, describes a whole bundle of stuff that is still pretty poorly understood, because it can be hard to discern between symptoms and causes

What's something that you're excited or hopeful to get to do in 2025?

"Fight me if you want, I'm sick in bed and have time."

I'm also sick and in bed, and this is such an appealing offer of a sparring match, but alas, I've never used Gnome

You're all ridiculous nerds, and I love it

Your explanation is good and thorough.

I always struggle to know when to use the square brackets. The straightforward answer is to just quote directly where possible. But especially in interviews, someone's answer may be jumbly, so the most honourable thing to do may be to use square brackets to make it easier for the reader to understand the speaker's point, but you're not being misleading.

For example, maybe this interviewee said something like "in the future, it — we might come to see that game development, and games overall, will end up turning out to be player-driven", which could be straightforwardly shortened to what we see in the screenshot: "in the future, it [will be] player driven". Square brackets, in the hands of a skilled journalist, can be used to manipulate a narrative through selectively quoting people, but they can also represent a speaker's point far more authentically and cogently than the literal words.

"in the future, it will be player-driven

That's super cute, thanks for drawing my attention to it. The style reminds me of the elves in the TV show "Hilda"

"DnD characters naturally build a portfolio of exploits that any NPC character would think insane to accomplish."

I appreciate how well your comics highlight this, leveraging the absurdity into humour.

"Konsi thinks it's good etiquette to make your sacrifice something the deity would approve of."

I love roleplaying like this. This is a wee bit of a tangent, so bear with me, but a phrase that is coming to mind is "ludonarrative dissonance", which describes when the "gamey" or mechanical aspects of a game (the ludic bits) conflict with the storytelling or roleplaying aspects of a game. I learned this term in a discussion around video games, but it sticks with me because of how it makes me think of games in terms of ludic and narrative components. (The "dissonance" part isn't relevant right now, that's just context for the term, and I never hear people talk about ludonarrative synergy(?) because when the ludic and narrative bits work well together, that's just good game design.

Anyway, with background context done: your Divination example makes me think about how some players/groups parse the spell requirements in a strictly ludic manner — they hone in on the 25gp cost and other requirements, caring little for the flavour text.

On the flip side, some players (especially ones who are new to roleplaying) may lean too hard on the spell descriptions for narrative support. This isn't a bad thing to do, but I think your wee story is a great example of the kind of ludonarrative synergy that TTRPGs have so much great potential for, if players are able to use the rules as a launch pad to make something with far more flavour than the rules are able to do by themselves.

Edit: formatting

I don't think your evening is pathetic. I've been in similar circumstances, and we do what we must to get by. I respect your pragmatic resilience, and your wisdom in your priorities; forcing yourself to be around drunken strangers because of feeling an obligation to celebrate with everyone else would be far more pathetic than your actual plans

That being said, it sounds like you're not particularly happy with your life circumstances right now — it sounds like you're surviving more than you're living. On that note, I sincerely wish you the best for the coming year. Maybe you'll never find this an occasion worth celebrating, but I hope you have splashes of happiness across the year, where you can enjoy the things you care about.

That same blind hope I expressed towards you is how I'm surviving tonight; it has been a pretty terrible year for me, and I'm trying not to reflect too hard on it all, nor think too hard about planning the future. I'm just grasping onto a desperate hope that maybe this time, next year, I'll have more things to reflect on fondly.

Good luck in the year ahead, to anyone who is reading this. It never feels like it, but simply surviving is a hell of an achievement, and I'm cheering for you from the distance, because you deserve good things.

What's this from? It feels familiar but I can't remember where I know that phrase from

That's exactly my point, it's a ridiculous question to ask. Like, there are so many bad outcomes to asking it.

That was my hope, but also the joke was basically "hey, you know that thing that annoys you? Well I'm pretending to do it", and whether that's an assholish thing to do depends on whether the joke lands.

Oh yeah, I'm pretty worried about that from what I've seen in biochemistry undergraduate students. I was already concerned about how little structured support in writing science students receive, and I'm seeing a lot of over reliance on chatGPT.

With emails and the like, I find that I struggle with the pressure of a blank page/screen, so rewriting a mediocre draft is immensely helpful, but that strategy is only viable if you're prepared to go in and do some heavy editing. If it were a case of people honing their editing skills, then that might not be so bad, but I have been seeing lots of output that has the unmistakable chatGPT tone.

In short, I think it is definitely "grumpy old man" thinking, but that doesn't mean it's not valid (I say this as someone who is probably too young to be a grumpy old crone yet)

Yeah, maintenance is undervalued.

Things are going well

"What are we paying you for?"

Things are breaking

"What are we paying you for?

I love and hate in equal measure the hubris with which one regards a "simple" problem that turns out to be very difficult. I love it because it usually ends up being productive eventually. I hate it because it's hard to emerge from the rabbit hole once you've committed to it.