KoboldCoterie @ KoboldCoterie @pawb.social

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The biggest ones for me were the Marathon series, and a lot of old shareware RPGs (Realmz, Exile).

The 3rd title in the Marathon series came packaged with all of the tools they used to make the game, with which you could very easily make new maps and wild mods adding or changing weapons, enemies, mechanics, etc... I spent an absolutely unreasonable amount of time fucking around with that.

The maps were very rudimentary 3D (think Doom style), and they weren't really 3D spaces so much as just corridors and rooms connected to each other. You could have a corridor that turned 90 degrees 3 times with no elevation change, and passed "through" itself, without actually having the two intersecting corridors connect in any way, which let you make some really wild maps with some pretty unique features that would be challenging to pull off in modern games. (There was even a multiplayer map called 5D Space that really showcased this interaction.)

I don't care if he does. I don't care if he was holding an "I AM A GANG MEMBER" sign when he was picked up. I don't care if he shouted it from the rooftops. He was disappeared to a foreign prison with no due process. No matter who it is, or what they did, that should be alarming to everyone.

This is the kind of interaction that would haunt me years later when I'm trying to sleep.

Ohio being on the list is pretty funny (assuming this is in the US). Going to make geography and history classes awkward.

What grade is this, that Edging and Goon were common enough terms that they had to be included here?

"Animal noises" is very broad. Furry persecution. :(

The fact that they lose "LiveSchool points", whatever those are, presumably for saying these words, is almost worse than the fact that they have this list at all. I don't know what that system is or how it works, but I already hate it.

Hectoring is to act domineering, or to try to intimidate.

Get him to lay out exactly what you'll be doing, in writing, and what qualifies as 'complete' for each task. Don't leave it open-ended, or you're giving him leave to either keep adding new tasks, or to say "This wasn't done adequately!" and refuse to pay your share.

Find some simple recipes, and follow them to the letter. If it says to add something "to taste", just add a small amount of it and assume it's fine. As long as you aren't trying to invent your own dishes, or improvise somehow, you should be fine.

Really depends on the object. If it's a collectible item with a value that's open to interpretation, I sometimes do, especially if I'm considering buying multiple things. (For example, CCG cards priced at $20, I might offer $70 for a playset of 4.) Those things don't have firm market value (or that value fluctuates frequently) and there's usually an easy way to look up a price range quickly to get a sense for what's a fair or reasonable offer.

If it's something someone made and is selling, it feels rude to me to haggle. The item has no real market value because it's something they made; the price is what they're willing to sell it for. I'll either buy it for that price, or not buy it at all. I guess the exception would be if they've got a sign inviting haggling, which I've seen at convention spaces on rare occasion.

Price definitely seems high, but at least it's a decent meal for kids. Nice variety of things; most places around where I live just have a tiny portion of a single dish as the kids' options.

This is how I've always understood them. If after you've had some time to digest how the interview went (and evaluate, based on the questions you (should have) asked during the interview, whether you think the position is a good fit for you) you still want the job, you send a quick email basically saying "Hey, thanks for meeting with me - it was nice to meet you / your team. Based on our interaction, it looks like this position would be a great fit for me / I'd be a great fit for it - here's some things I took away from it (which also serves to show I was attentive / not just going through the motions) - looking forward to hearing from you to continue the process!" To your point, it's not an ass-kissing email, the 'thank you' portion is just a polite formality to open the conversation.

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

I'm in complete agreement with you there. If Luigi Mangione gets the death penalty, we should absolutely take to the streets and riot.

In 2023 a federal judge convicted him to 90 consecutive life sentences, after he pleaded guilty of hate crimes and firearms violation.

Holy shit.

This might be controversial, but I'm glad he didn't get the death penalty. Not because I don't think he deserves it, but because I don't think we should have the death penalty at all.

Is Beehaw doing something different from the rest of lemmy? You can log into any instance with any of the apps.

Sure is. You might check !lemmyapps@lemmy.world for some suggestions, but there's many.

(Refer to the pinned megathread.)

Especially if they'd help carry your bags and whatnot; that could be very helpful for someone who has mobility issues or just has a lot of things they need to bring. Well worth $7.50

In a hypothetical world where every service that wanted to be kid-friendly was willing to make two versions of their site, and where the obvious security concerns were solved, and where it could somehow be quarantined away from normal users, how would a kid even prove they were a kid?

The issue (in my eyes) is that this isn't limited to discord. Anywhere online where kids are allowed to be, predators can also be. Fuck, even Roblox apparently has a big predator problem. So if we make it the responsibility of platforms to police, we're setting ourselves up for a world where you have to have your ID ready to scan in to any website you visit or service you use that lets you interact with other people in any way, no matter how mundane, and there will be no internet services where anyone under 18 is allowed.

Or, we just accept that there's no reasonable way to keep adults and kids from intermingling, and we make it parents' sole responsibility.

They already have that policy, as the article notes. The problem is, how do you enforce it? As the comment you replied to notes, without requiring an ID verification, anyone can say they're any age.

At what point does it become the parents' responsibility to monitor what their kids are doing online?

Changing what policy, and to what?