Zonetrooper @ Zonetrooper @lemmy.world

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I don't know if it's something about the genetic or just the coloring, but voids always look like they're super fit.

This is a big thing killing my interaction with Lemmy as well. I want to like it, but I drop into a discussion thread and the top-engaged/boosted comments are spicy and almost designed to promote maximum anger. And I feel like, "Do I really, really want to spend significant time writing out a deeper comment to engage with this community...?"

Definitely enjoyed the first one, didn't notice any problems with it myself. What was remarkable to me, is that he manages to make the three-dimensional combat easily follow-able, something I see a lot of authors struggle with.

Especially the politics on here. I've seen some wild takes going completely unquestioned.

I have no medical background, but...

"[Patient in room 4B] has a urinary tract infection with Methicillin-resistant Staph now, on top of the massive pulmonary embolism post"... surgery, I assume? Not sure about the AB. Second sentence I don't get, but third is "...time to talk with Next of Kin about Do Not Resucitate. Will be burying them if they don't start recovering soon."

That pretty close?

I feel like this is one of those rules that's only really necessary if you have a player who cheeses it like that. If a player discovers it and uses it in moderation, well, that's less likely to break things. If you have a player who builds their character to exploit it...

That is a good firm look of "Man, I want attention, but I am far too lazy to ask for it. So I'm just going to flop, because I know you're a big sucker for it, aren't you?"

Floofy kitty? Black kitty? Check. Rolly kitty? Check!

This is a good kitty.

Eh. That seems more like typical out-of-control jargon and labeling ideology than any admin malfeasance. It's unfortunately something I've seen a few times - I had several debates with people who likewise insisted that even using it in the sense of 'to slow something down' was improper, or that using potentially insulting words in any context caused "harm". It's a mindset that goes beyond any Reddit issues.

Back when I used to mod Reddit, starting maybe a year or so ago we'd occasionally get users who would be inexplicably targeted by the auto-filter.

The accounts weren't new, weren't shadowbanned, weren't using any filter-triggering words (that I could guess at), and an examination via Pushshift didn't reveal any kind of spammy behavior. Nonetheless, their posts would get silently removed by the site-wide filter, and frequently we wouldn't even know until they modmailed us.

Now I can't help but wonder if this was a result of a beta-test of something like this. Something they had done had invisibly lowered their "Reddit credit", leaving us as confused as them.

Hate to tell you this, but 'locking jaw' in any breed is a myth. There's no such thing; 'lockjaw' is a bacterial infection, but has no relationship to breed (and in any case, won't result in the jaw locking only after a bite).

Source: https://thesmartcanine.com/pitbull-lockjaw/

The Discord notification thing actually is actually a really cool idea. That's where it feels like it moves from hobby into daily practical use kind of stuff.

One question I have, if you don't mind - did the washer/dryer come with some smart functionality, or did you have to do somethin like opening them up and wiring into the electrical line for the beep speaker to sense voltage?

Tortoiseshell and calico? That's a lot of cattitude in one house, man.

One in which the population is well-educated, possesses good common sense, has an appreciable sense of empthaty, and is politically involved.

After that, it's pretty much just details.

Hah, I think I twitched a bit just reading that! Those stupid SEO answers drive me absolutely insane.

Stuff from locally-owned stores. Tools, supplies, car parts, food... if the markup isn't egregious, I'll always try and get from them before a big box or online. Not only does it help the owners, but they're frequently knowledgeable and can sometimes work stuff out for you.

They don’t understand how to use a search engine effectively anymore or how to rapidly filter through large amounts of information to find answers

This bit, at least, may be at least as much a fault of the environment - the increasing awfulness of search results these days. It used to be you could search a specific issue (e.g., "borked.exe high CPU usage" or "how to partition a drive") and your first results would be relatively well-written sites run by actual tech people. More recently, though, it feels like:

• The first 5-8 results are near-identical "help" sites that are 40% introduction, 40% basic troubleshooting steps, 15% "download our app!", and 5% actually useful tips.
• There are tech site results listed... but they're from 2016, a different software version, maybe even a different OS.
• "Okay, so, to fix this problem you first need... [SIGN IN TO CONTINUE READING]
• If you're very, very lucky, you'll find a Reddit (or now, Lemmy) thread on the issue.

I'd consider myself pretty technically savvy, and even I find it frustrating to search for IT info or fixes these days. The newest problem is AI-written answers cooked up for you on the spot, which are frequently completely unhelpful yet pushed to the top of the results.

I'm really struggling to remember any instance of this, although admittedly I'm not that much up on superhero comics.

But that said, I'd look at:

• Is the hero responding with an appropriate amount of force, given the capabilities and crimes of the antagonist?
• Is the villain also affected by some larger system or circumstance which makes their actions, when examined on a larger scale, sympathetic?
• Does the surviving villain understand that what they are doing is wrong?

Modnotes. Right now we don't have a good and simple way to track repeated offenders.

I am really, really glad that someone else had said this before I got here.

The opening of ANH is a really great demonstration of minimalist storytelling. Not a moment of design - starship, character, action, nothing - is wasted; every interaction conveys something be it emotion or plot points. And after forcing the audience to sit through the opening crawl, I think that deluge of information is needed - anything less would have lost the audience.