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  • It might seem a bit complicated if you're only used to 5e, because core mechanics like conditions work rather differently in Pathfinder, but it's honestly much more flexible than 5e's system. Rather than having an abstract number of passes and fails, you have a single number that fluctuates up and down. Less things to keep track of.

    You do have the wounded condition on top of that, but it helps counter the thing you see in 5e where people pop up and down repeatedly with no consequences for repeatedly being beaten unconscious.

  • When you'd rather be playing Pathfinder

  • Unlike Tor, which is built around accessing the clearnet anonymously, I2P is primarily designed around keeping traffic in the darknet. When you join I2P, you route traffic for other nodes but only within the I2P network, it will never leave through your clearnet address.

    The equivalent of Tor's exit nodes are called "outproxies", but they aren't often used, there aren't very many of them, and you have to specifically set them up manually as it isn't the default behavior like it is for Tor.

  • It's a meme animation of Hakeev from STO

  • Connecting to a switch/router doesn't change anything, that's just how the Internet works. The fiber from the street is almost certainly connected to switches before it gets to your house as well.

    If anything would break the "fiber to the desktop" meme, it's the fact that most residential ISP ONTs I'm aware of do not support SFP, which means that you'd have to get copper out of the ONT, then convert it back into fiber. You'd have to get lucky with an ISP that has compatible options.

  • I've heard of people doing fiber to the desktop in their homelabs. Seems a little overkill, but it's the cool factor that counts!

  • It looks like the registrar changed the nameserver, which is a harder thing to recover from. Still, didn't keep them down for long. Looks like they figured something out

  • Ah, but there is an evil equivalent, Blasphemy. It affects non-evil creatures instead of non-good creatures, and as such has no self-balancing properties. There are even equivalents for Law and Chaos, which are... worryingly abstract.

  • This is a weird one because despite being a "good" spell, it entails the mass murder of innocent neutrals. It really doesn't seem like a good action to me.

    It seems like anyone who was okay with this would fall to neutral or evil simply by virtue of being okay with mass murder, and in turn fall victim to the Great Neutral Purge.

  • What Google/Facebook did, while a little silly, at least makes some sense because they're segregating the product from the megacorp that owns the product. They maintain the benefits of having consistent branding while also separating out their corporate interests under a new name. In Google's case, Google still exists as a subsidiary of Alphabet, while in Facebook's case Facebook is not a separate company anymore but it still exists as just one of the platforms that Meta operates.

    With X, the product itself was renamed, and in so doing the branding was destroyed. There's no good reason to do this as far as I can tell.

  • I don't get why they call hosting a mail server being your own ISP. It's a very very loose definition of the term "ISP" there. ISPs may provide mail services on the side, but that's not what makes them an ISP imo—its providing internet access that makes them an ISP.

    On looking it up, apparently some people consider email providers ISPs in their own right though? Seems like confusing terminology.

  • True enough; it's a very different framing, but there's still love there, still passion.

    I think a big difference is that Starfleet folks tend to be more intrinsically driven. Space isn't something that needs to be "made bearable" (unless you're McCoy I guess)—space is cool in its own right, tons of things to see and people to meet. But on top of that, the Federation has such a high tech level and quality of life that living on a starship is pretty luxurious.

  • No. It fits Captain Angel's perspective as an edgy pirate pining after their lover, but Starfleet is full of hopeful, enthusiastic scientists who are in space because they want to be. They love exploration for exploration's sake, and are on a ship full of people who likely have similar interests.

    Angel's perspective is warped by their passion; I mean, they're literally in the middle of hijacking a Starfleet ship to get their lover back. They think their dependency on love is universal, when in reality most people are more emotionally stable than them. Although it probably helps when you're in Starfleet and have an incredibly supportive working environment and not, you know, a pirate crew.

  • This project uses mDNS, which is specific to the .local TLD. The whole reason that people are against the use of .local is because it would break mDNS. So you can set a custom TLD, but it doesn't matter because this is actually the correct context for .local to be used, and changing the TLD will actually break things for a lot of clients.

  • Paradox games require you to turn on Ironman mode to get achievements, which is why all of them have really low achievement percentages. That combined with vanilla just seems like not a whole lot of fun to me.

  • They linked directly to the post on the Lemmy side, so I'm guessing it's an issue with how Mastodon handles Lemmy posts. I'm on a different Lemmy instance and I can see the direct link just fine.

  • The term is real, it's even used in scientific literature. The term possibly even predates 4chan, or maybe it's just a success on 4chan's part, successfully laundering a term into scientific discourse? It's hard to find too much solid evidence on the origin of the term. 4chan did seriously signal boost it with the whole "MAP Pride" thing though.

  • I think you may be using a different definition of terms. Pro-contact MAPs think that having sex with minors is fine, and that it isn't abuse. Here's a link to the MAP wiki on the subject: https://map-wiki.com/index.php/Pro-contact

    If you go to the instance being discussed, you'll see people openly saying that sex with kids is okay and that they don't think there's a problem with it.