bearwithastick @ bearwithastick @feddit.ch

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In a group.. you mean a very limited setting where you can discuss directly with everyone and get direct feedback in real time from everyone?

How do you suggest that this might work on a large scale, with millions of people?

Edit: And if for example 10 million people somehow found consensus and then one guy is like "lmao no", everything gets canned?

Why don't you enlighten us on the other options then? I'd love to hear it.

Na, I don't agree here. I have played a lot of Free to Play games that rely on microtransactions for cosmetics and spent so many hours in these games and never, ever spent a dollar. Probably wouldn't have bought them if they were not F2P either. Only game I've ever bought a cosmetics pack was a Support pack for Deep Rock Galactic, because that game is so fucking good (yeah I know, not F2P).

If your game is Free to Play and you get money by microtransactions for cosmetics, I have no issues with that. Because I am someone who usually loses interest in games pretty fast or like to play many different games with my friends, so I personally am spending way, way less money this way.

If you like the movement, try Titanfall 2 if you haven't already. The Finals also has some fantastic fast paced gameplay and movement. Open Beta is currently running and I haven't had so much fun in an FPS for a very long time now.

I fucking hate these piece of shit cars. I will never not think that they all have to compensate for something.

I'll make sure to check with them! Looking through Feats right now to see if there is something to boost speed.

Good idea! I already have the "Aggressive" trait from being an Orc but this only allows movement towards an enemy. I'll look around for ways to improve speed.

I just found my next feat I think. "Fey Touched". I know it's only once per long rest but get this: You get Misty Step AND another 1st level spell from School of Divination or School of Enchantment. School of Enchantment has "Hex" as a first level spell. Imma hex them, choose either STR or DEX, depending on the description of the enemy from the DM. Since I can't cast two spells in one round, I'm gonna use Misty Step the next round and do a teleports behind you nothing personnel, kid - move, then use Action Surge to do the shove / grapple combo. Fuck, I already look forward to the next level up.

Yeah got that and now I also got the point of the joke with the 90%, my bad.

Not sure what to make of it but I really hope the point with "you're not an cis ally if not 90% of your friends are trans" is a joke. Otherwise it is such a bullshit take that shits on everyone who supports trans rights but does not have trans friends?

Edit: Now also got that part of the joke, my bad.

Hmmm for some reason I've not thought about picking it but will definitely check it again!

He only lets me do it when I have one hand free to technically 'grapple' and I have to topple/shove them to make them prone. But thanks for the reminder!

I try not to do 'unrealistic' grappling and try to use the tools I have to grapple. For example, use the pick to pierce their limbs and keep them in place or pin them down with the shield when prone. But always with a hand free to make the condition to grapple legit.

I dish out some damage with the warpick and usually throw it at an enemy or simply drop it in the middle of combat. Sometimes I throw away the shield too or use it to grapple, like topple an enemy and then use the shield to pin them down as a 'grapple'. I try to flavor it differently, depending on combat situation, as not to make it too boring for everyone while just going "Imma grapple them".

For me, it is not relevant for the argument if it is presented as a parody or not.

Believe me, I get the gist of your point and I understand that even if you look at it in good faith, problems arise with her writing of the house elves slavery.

However, I have a problem with the statement that just because an author implements something in their world building and does not immediately make it very obvious, in whatever way, that this is a bad bad thing, makes them a supporter of said thing. Of course we never know the true intentions of the author but just assuming they wrote it so they support it is a bit of a stretch.

From this argument you could derive that every author, who builds a world with anything negative in it which is not opposed by the inhabitors of said world, automatically supports this in real life. As a bit of a crude example, in Warhammer 40k, criminal humans are lobotomized and are used as "Servitors". Almost no other human in this fantasy universe bats an eye at this. Nobody is accusing the authors of supporting slavery?

I can see where people take issue with the topic and how Rowling chose to write about it. But to accuse her of being pro-slavery because of that..?

As someone who devoured the books as a kid, I've been very disappointed in finding out JK Rowlings is a a TERF. Your post sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole and I've read up on some of the issues that people pointed out in the books. To me, some are valid, some seem to be a bit far-fetched..? For example, I'm not sure why she is labeled pro-slavery? Just because she writes that people in her fantasy world don't seem to have a problem with it?

Not defending Rowling btw, just trying to understand some of the points better.

No, already tried that. Unfortunately doesn't work..

Wow, most of these points just sound like a responsible way to handle all the bullshit requests from employees. I'm not saying make it unnessecarily painful for employees to request changes. However, I currently work at a company that did the "just do it" approach for years, got big with it and now our department needs to clean up the bullshit of many years to get the company up to code with whatever regulations we are under and people still think we can continue working just like that.

Sounds stupid compared to other stuff here, but a Traxxas TRX-4M 1/18 RC Scale Crawler. I bought it on a whim and then got into modifying it. I've been putting in a bit of money, but it's super fun to play with it and it gets me out of the house to explore the neighbourhood for some good places to crawl it.

It's not about AI specifically. It's about the awareness that, as soon as you post it to social media, your personal information is not under your control anymore. There was and is still a good reason why you should not post personal info on the internet, even on seemingly "safe" spaces like social media pages.

But people in general don't care anyway and they won't care about this headline too.