ThirdConsul @ ThirdConsul @lemmy.ml

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Gets up to 700 degs

That's a furnace. Aluminium melts at 700 degrees. Gold at 1000.

I'm an IT guy, if my printer made a noise I don't recognise I'd shoot it.

Why do people who obviously prefer a rules light set of rules play something as rigid and overcomplicated as DnD.

Because the entry barrier is low, a lot of groups playing DnD/Pathfinder, tons of content, it's mainstream, celebrities play it so the rules are shallowly known to a lot of people.

At least that's my take.

Wouldn’t you find far more enjoyment in systems lile fate or savage worlds?

Fate is Fudge, and as I mentioned I prefer it over DnD

I see what you're saying, but... To me that's okay? I don't need to follow the book for all that shiet? You don't need to overspecialize on your character sheet.

In DnD/Pathfinder you grab the Lore/Knowledge/etc skill for a wide range of actions. The nobility will respect your cleric because it's a cleric, has a symbol of the order, ecclesiastic rank from the roleplaying, but if she can't persuade for shiet, she'll loose that initial respect quickly.

Have you ever played Shadowrun? I think I left that system the moment my DM decided to reference table for jumping out of a riding car by / brand / speed / manoeuvre / skill level to determine my damage.

The Dark Eye is that German thingy, right? I never liked it as a system, it felt constraining. On the other hand, my favourite system is Fudge, so we might just like different things.

During investigations the wizard rolls an investigation check, the cleric rolls an investigation check and the barbarian does nothing because they dumped wisdom

You might be playing it wrong.

During investigations Wizard checks the books in the library, references his own notes, chats up local researcher community. Creates and sends Arcane Eye, spreads his familiars, tries Clairvoyance.

Cleric visits a local church, talks to the priests and churchgoers, prays to the Divine, maybe convinces the town to join her in the crusade against the target and lits the town on fire, while villages attack the nobleman mansion looking for the culprit and plunder.

Barbarian goes to the local tavern to drink with the local guards. Helps local elder find his kitten. Maybe talks to a local hunter and they bond over a bear hunt they just finished, maybe about the beauty of wilderness... One thing leads to another, a secret touch, a hidden look, a moment of courage, a stolen kiss... What I was talking about?

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_2044

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_252

After the commission found that China has asymmetrical trade barriers for EU medical devices, it recommended some actions. For the past year EU was trying to negotiate China opening their medical market to the same level EUs market is open to China. It failed.

More symmetrical tarrifs incoming (from both sides).

As a person living next to Russia, I tend to follow it's situation. I know that the exports from Russia to India has been declining for years, following India moving (not all yet) production of weaponry home. Only oil remains strong.

Also India - I think - seems to be projecting more and more "Western" image. Not sure why. Maybe my perception is skewed here, because the CEOs of biggest corporations sound more and more indian every year. Maybe it's Modi skipping Shanghai Cooperation Agreement summit - and generally avoiding public places where Putin is - since Russian invasion of Ukraine.

So while Russia and India will remain trade partners and probable allies, I think they are currently trying to figure out how to increase their trade ties (and India might be wanting to be hush hush about it for Western publicity). There might be other challenges there - if I remember correctly, the current trade flow is that India buys significantly more from Russia than it sells there, so they might want to increase their exports - but this is totally my opinion.

I know there were plans for more ports and trade corridors before the Ukraine invasion, but I don't know their status now.

India Russia hate each other to the bone

I don't think so. Russia supported India during Cold War, didn't it? It also stood with India during India-Pakistani War. That counts for a lot, especially with older folks - and politicians tend to be older folks.

Please don't upvote this person, I think they're a bot. The libs use AWS SDK internally and claim 90% performance boost over AWS SDK, and the person explains it as "you can write less verbose code so development time is shorter"

The point is not a few less milliseconds, it’s many hours of reduced development for people implementing DynamoDB

So you're comparing claimed performance (execution) gains to development time? Yeah, that makes sense.

I think you're a bot.

I have a great idea.

Why don't you all move to Russia?

Definitely outside of Moscow and Pitersburg. Preferably newly "liberated" territories.

I'm not saying Ukraine is good, or USA, or whatever, but I honestly wonder why you have not moved yet.

Cutlet is the best bad name for a cat. The cat will know it's both your friend and a survival ration.

Thank you.

How did you check the performance though for the ORM? You claim it's faster that AWS SDK, which literally impossible, as you are using AWS SDK to power it.

Out of curiosity, what do they do and did you use agentic approach or prompt and then copy?

downplaying

Where am I doing that?

Sorry is China cutting people hand

This is literally whataboutism.

Was Leopold bloody years of terror vastly worse? Yes. Who is arguing with that? Is China benevolent and non exploitative? The African studies done by locals tend to say no.

the claim that the famine was intentional is extremely dubious at best.

I'm splitting this to a separate comment because it's a different topic.

Who said that it was intentionally made famine with the goal of killing people? And where?

Are you hung on the original commenter calling it "mass murder" and your point is that it wasn't premeditated?

The famine was the produce of a great number of different factors, inefficient and backward agricultural methods, bad weather, compound effects of WW2 + the Chinese civil war, mismanagement, trade embargoes, etc… But others could explain it better than I can.

Would the governing body of PRC in 1962 attributing the famine to government errors convince you otherwise? Would the Chinese government 20 years later confirming the same and reiterating it was the Mao policy that was faulty at the core convince you?

If not, can you imagine a fact that would convince you, that the responsibility for that famine is on the then Chinese government? What is it?

You're talking about narrative, spin a story about tribunal, and then spin a story that I'm defensive. I'm not.

Insisting that the event happened the way you say it did without providing any rational or cause-effect relationship

Literally what the first commenter gave - there was a widespread famine in China, it's caused by Mao agricultural policies.

What are you contesting here? There was no famine? Famine is the narrative? Or that it wasn't caused by policies but by... What? Weather? Weather was good.

I don't understand your point, please clarify it, in a way that isn't just calling your interlocutors stupid or defensive.

It's not paywalled. I think you didn't even bother to click "read full article" or whatever the button name is. They might ask you to register witb a free account.

If you want to use other people opinions as an argument, I'm going to ask you for what you asked for - studies. Preferably published in journals, not essays by socials celebrities like Caitlin Johnstone, nor articles in Chinese newspapers, nor Reddit. And that's because a deluge of weak sources is worthless - that's how US propaganda works and enforces itself.

Extra points if the studies are not from China or it's close Allies, just so that you have exactly the same requirements as the ones you asked for.

Can be paywalled.

Edit: I highly recommend you read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

some credible china-bad studies that aren’t sourced from British or US state media.

University of Limpopo, South Africa, on China neocolonising Africa - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27159668. Is that credible enough for you?

If not, is there a source that you would call credible - and if it exists, what is it?

Note: I hope I don't come as aggressive, I was trying to be succinct.

I'm sorry, but why would that matter? We tend to judge people by their actions, not their intent, when it comes to mass deaths.

Right?

Right?