Paradachshund @ Paradachshund @lemmy.today

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Yes! Great example of it done right.

Making a second comment to answer your actual question:

For me it's when technology is very uniformly high tech. So for example in the real world technology advances but it doesn't advance everywhere at the same speed. There might be high tech versions of things in cities while you still find old or ancient equivalents out in the countryside (or just both types existing alongside each other all over). I really like it when SciFi can capture this nonlinear pace of technological advancement.

If you read books, check out Embassytown by China Mieville. As far as I could tell the point of that book was to envision a truly alien species and how diplomacy would work with them. Super interesting book and unlike anything else I've read in scifi

I enjoyed reading through that, thanks!

I think I more or less agree with where you're coming from. Part of the fun of roleplaying is getting to explore darkness in a safe way. Not everyone is looking for that and that's fine, but I definitely find it weird to have the core setting lean into a more "disney-fied" setting. Seems like it should offer options.

It's probably a symptom of DND becoming so much more mainstream. You can't please everyone, so the best they can do is minimally bother everyone which can end up pretty... OK. Not great, not terrible, and mostly uninspiring.

Those are my thoughts based just on what you said. I haven't heard about any of this before now so those are just off the cuff.

Alright I'll bite. What did they do to it?

The biggest responses I've ever gotten by far have all been asking for alternatives to popular tech. 😏

Racecar is racecar backwards.

Ah OK. I saw cirrostratus and cirrocumulus and thought it was the same pattern as the altos

This is a big moment for them. Can they redeem quarterly updates, or will we have another Nayos on our hands?

This one grinds my gears too because it doesn't even make sense.

"No one said nothing" is a double negative. Shouldn't it be

Everyone:

So does the "alto" and "cirrus" refer to the altitude?

I really liked this game, but I used all my unlock points on the wrong squads and couldn't progress any further to get new ones. I wish they hadn't bound the unlock currency to getting achievements with each squad. It made it so if I bought one I ended up hating there was no shot of getting any money back. Otherwise it's a great game though.

Organic maps is pretty good, though it doesn't have up to date enough info if you want to use it to find restaurants and businesses. I find it's actually more accurate for things like paths, benches, other outdoor features basically.

Wow, 40 trees! You must have a big property.

I live in the Pacific northwest, so no tropical fruit for me 😭 we've got good berries and stone fruit here, though.

I'm jealous you can grow soursop, those things are delicious!

I don't like this definition of echo chamber as any group with similar opinions. If those opinions are based on facts and expert advice I don't think it applies anymore. To me an echo chamber in the dangerous sense is when people have a dangerous or uninformed consensus because they don't let facts or advice from outside reach them. That's very different than people with similar opinions finding each other. The latter is just how humans are.

I thought I already responded to this, but thank you!

I'm glad they have options, but if you don't know you're supposed to do that then it doesn't help you after something goes wrong. Most people don't know to prep for that.

Until you lose the device with the 2fa app and can't ever get into those accounts again. I've heard that horror story before and I avoid those apps because of it.

No. I'm not in a bad spot but definitely not as comfortable as I grew up.