Hamartiogonic @ Hamartiogonic @sopuli.xyz

Who reads this anyway? Nobody, that’s…. Oh wait. Some people do. I guess I

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Maybe not a one in a million rare, but I get the feeling that most people disagree with my approach. Is it 51%, 90%, something else? Who knows.

Too good to be true. Looks awesome, but the perfection of it looks really suspicious. Still could be true anyway. We see all sorts of funny patterns in clouds all the time, so why not in aurora as well.

If you install Gnome, the UI becomes more touch friendly. Firefox is still lagging behind in this regard, but Gnome Web usually gets the job done.

“Fungal zombie spiders“ check almost all the boxes. Just add some demonic black magic, and you’re all set.

Yeah, that's a good addition. Manjaro used to be popular many years ago. Tried it back then as a part of the usual distrohopping rite, and moved on. Many years after that people started pointing out all sorts of interesting things about it, but I wasn't running Manjaro at the time, so my personal experiences are very outdated at the moment.

Are you already an experienced distrohopper? If not, this is a great opportunity to try some of the classics you haven’t tried yet. How about, Debian, Mint, Manjaro etc? Try a new DE/WM too. Something like Cinnamnon, KDE, LXQt, i3, awesome etc.

That’s explains the downvotes, LOL.

It's unpopular, for sure. Is it really an opinion though?

OP didn't actually say much about cigarette smell, other than their personal preference about it. If you say that something is good, bad or in between, that would be an opinion. If you say you like or dislike something, that's a personal preference.

Sounds like in this case you need to switch a magnetic field on and off. That could be the bottle neck.

You can mitigate that issue to some extent by making the videos short. As long as the user count remains relatively small, the storage and bandwidth costs aren’t going to spiral out of control. Eventually you’ll have so many millions of active users that you’ll also need to figure out a way to get a steady source of revenue. I wonder how Loops will tackle that issues. Some mastodon instances already have a small yearly fee, so I guess video instances could do that as well.

Well, bullets are pretty small, but that’s not going to help when they travel so fast. Same applies to flying rocks too.

Most meteors that reach all the way to the surface are really small. Bigger impacts are rare, buy not impossible.

Sounds like a fun (and terrifying) idea for homebrew rules. I asked Mistral to write suitable rules, and here's what what I ended up with.

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When a character contracts COVID-19, they must make a Constitution saving throw (DC 15). On a failed save, the character develops Long COVID. The effects of Long COVID are varied and can include fatigue, shortness of breath, and other physical ailments. However, the most feared complication is brain injury.

Brain Injury

Brain injury from Long COVID reduces a character's Intelligence score. To determine the extent of the damage, the character must make a roll based on their current Intelligence score:

Roll a d20: The result of this roll will determine the severity of the brain injury. Modify the Roll: Subtract the character's Intelligence modifier from the roll. For example, if the character has an Intelligence score of 14 (modifier +2), subtract 2 from the d20 roll. Determine Intelligence Loss:

• 1-5: Minor brain injury. The character loses 1 point of Intelligence.
• 6-10: Moderate brain injury. The character loses 2 points of Intelligence.
• 11-15: Severe brain injury. The character loses 3 points of Intelligence.
• 16-20: Critical brain injury. The character loses 4 points of Intelligence.

New Hard Maximum

Once the Intelligence loss is determined, the character's new Intelligence score becomes their hard maximum for the rest of the game. This means that even with magical healing, potions, or other means of restoring Intelligence, the character cannot exceed this new maximum.

Oh, wait. That means that if you do drop to zero, you'll be in permanent coma for the rest of the game without any hope of recovery. I guess I should add some exception, that allows to you recover back to 1 point, but no higher than that.

Indeed! Too bad facts don’t work when talking to conspiracy theorists. Regardless, that’s an interesting observation to the rest of us.

I guess I should have been more specific. People who actively choose not to get vaccinated, and get terribly ill as a direct result of their delusional thinking, can blame themselves.

If you took all the sensible precautions, like getting vaccinated, but ended up with long covid regardless, that’s not your fault. You did what you could, but some times even that isn’t enough.

Even lower intelligence score? As far as D&D rules are concerned, you would get knocked unconscious if your intelligence drops to zero.

Oh, that makes sense.

Many instances allow much longer messages, but it depends on the admin and how they see it. Could even be thousands of characters in some cases.

Anyway, mastodon integration is nice, but there are some serious issues too.

Better not get vaccinated, because the vaccine kills you and covid is just another harmless flu anyway… oh wait.

Seriously though, antivaxxers already have some sort of psychological issues going on, so adding a literal brain injury to the list might not even make a big difference at that point.

I have so many questions. Like, was there supposed to be a link to an article? This picture alone doesn’t really answer any questions.

"Why can’t you leave the church alone?”

Here's an opportunity to strike a deal. If mormons leave people alone, people will leave them alone. That's how it already works with most religious groups.