I used GIMP to make a mock-up of a sign for a restaurant just yesterday. Is it going to be the tool I use for the final product? No, because that'll be in vector, but it's a lot easier to slap something together in than Inkscape or Krita.
'Killer apps' are meaningless in comparison to useful apps. I'm an artist who needs usable tools for her work. GIMP qualifies. Personally, I find it way easier and more intuitive to navigate than Krita, Inkscape, or any of Adobe's suite. It may not be for you, that's cool.
But what isn't cool is to pretend you know about other people's lives and what they need. Speak for yourself, you are perfectly capable of doing that. If you don't like GIMP's UI, that's great. If you think GIMP's UI is absolutely horrible for every user and nobody would ever use it for professional work.. you're literally just completely wrong.
This is a repost. Also, like, do we need to keep spamming Beehaw's tech section with headlines that reference rape as like, a casual way to say that a company did something dishonest? Cause I'm not really into it.
Like, seriously, is there a creepier version of this headline?
It would be nice if companies like this came out with a budget model so more people could participate in supporting their products. Lotta poor folks into FOSS.
It really seems like humanity's feelings about who constitutes 'us' has been expanding significantly in the past century or so. It makes sense. Global communication went from being non-existent to a few bits of broadcast media and specialist communication to a massive information network spanning the entire planet, capable of instant communication with negligible latency inside of, what, three generations?
When I was born none of this stuff existed. You had like, dial-up networks like Genie and Prodigy and that was about it until I was like 8 or 9 or something. I think the first time I got on the Internet i was like 10 or 11. By the time I graduated high school, literally everyone was online. By the time I was 30, most people had a device in their pocket connected to the Internet with a speed and power (if not versatility) that beat out anything we had in high school. Now pretty much everyone has it. It's literally easier to get an Internet connection than it is to have somewhere to live.
That has a lot of implications. It's hard to hide injustice and bullshit when everyone has a video camera in their pocket and can connect to the Internet instantly. We know what factory farming looks like, we know that exploitation looks like, and we know the scale of our destruction of the environment in a way we didn't before.
Probably most importantly, we're learning, gradually, that what divides our interest is less and less national borders, physical appearance, or our different ways of living, but the hoarding of wealth and power. There's some push back, to be sure, but the Overton window has shifted substantially from where it was at the beginning of this global communication phenomenon and it's continuing to move that way a little at a time.
When we learn compassion for ourselves and the people around us, especially the people we were once taught were so different, it makes sense that we'd begin to generally become more practiced at compassion, empathy, and careful observation that is less and less rooted in our starting biases.
It makes sense that as that happens, the people controlling the purse strings and authorizing studies that might show that 'us' can extend further than we imagined might also gain more insight and be less defensive.
Yeah, that's the bit that gave me the bro-y vibe, honestly. That and Brave. Also like, not that it's necessarily a bad thing that I can see his muscle veins through his shirt, but that's often a component of that particular corner of Joe Rogan-NFT-Bitcoin-Tesla.
But yeah, that makes sense. It definitely feels very sudden and artificial, which makes me wary.
There isn't one best tabletop RPG system, or one best edition of tabletop RPG system. There's nothing inherently better about using one system over another. The only real difference is your own preference.
Like, Pathfinder, the first one, is a really interesting and robust system. It's great if you know it, but if you don't know it there are a lot of pitfalls and trap feats built in, and it can be hard to make a character that keeps up with the curve if you don't know what you're doing. Kind of reminds me of Magic: the Gathering in that; lots of options that seem good out of context, but aren't really. That's fine for some groups, for others it's a lot of extra headache.
Does D&D 5e treat your characters as being more robust and capable than, say, AD&D 2e? Yes, absolutely. But like, even that is just the default behavior of the system. That factors in, but a competent DM can run a ruthless game in 5e too, it's just a matter of shifting the numbers.
If your partner feels like 5e is too much of a power fantasy for his tastes, I'd recommend trying Dungeon Crawler Classics. You generate a handful of random level 0 characters and take like 4 per player into a dungeon that's an absolute meat grinder for them. They progress, you add new level 0s if you need to, and you keep going. It's a lot of fun watching your shitty little level 0 farmer grow into a fighter or a wizard or something. DCC is an absolutely ruthless system though, so be prepared to lean into it.
On the other hand, there is still plenty of AD&D 2e material out there. Maybe more than 5e, I'm not really sure. It was pretty robust, though, and less forgiving than 5e without being quite as bad as DCC, but your little level 1 wizard with 4 health can still get one-shotted by pretty much anything.
Of course, you can always just tune these systems to do what you want. Want to play 2e but don't feel like figuring out how THAC0 works or ever bothering to calculate it? Great! Don't. Just slot modern AC and hit rolls in. Start AC at 10 and when 2e says to go down, go up instead. Whenever something would make your THAC0 go down, treat that thing as an attack bonus instead. Hey, check it out, we've just stumbled into 3e's Base Attack Bonus system.
Tabletop rule sets aren't a god for you to worship, they're a tool for you to make as flexible as you need it to be. Take the pieces you want, toss the pieces you don't, add your own stuff. That's how any of this stuff got made to begin with, and it's how it progresses.
Want to make 5e more ruthless? Design an injury system and implement it.
But don't just get sad that some people have some milquetoast criticism about the one edition you happen to have stumbled across first. Who cares? Check out some other systems and develop your own opinions and contexts.
Why are y'all spamming this Rossman guy suddenly? I had never heard of him before two days ago, and now I've seen posts about him every single day.
Seems like a bro-y tech dude. He promotes Brave and references sexual assault when talking about the behavior of software vendors with their customers. Honestly he gives me kind of a shady vibe on top of that.
So like, why is Lemmy suddenly full of his fans? What's going on?
No, because they mixed up "parties'" and "party's" and didn't catch it, along with a couple of other weird writing quirks and clunky usages. Also it's a pretty messy headline. There's also a lot more descriptive and poetic language than is actually helpful for getting their point across. Like to the point that it's wandering into New York Times levels of fluffing the length with flowery language. The writer could have used a couple of notes that they clearly didn't get.
I agree with the writer's position on the DNC's failure to find their compassion and humanity on immigration. It's the editing that needs work.
It's more that their knowing what an hour is would be impressive. Our selection of the hour as a measure of time is arbitrary outside of its specific context. It's just 1/24th of our planet's rotational period. We could just as easily split the day up into 10ths or 15ths or 7ths or whatever.
To broadcast a signal that's exactly an hour long to a planet that uses the hour as a measure of time might potentially imply someone trying to reference our way of measuring time. A signal that repeats every 53.8 minutes is on a timer that isn't specifically relevant to Earth in the same way an hour exactly would be.
Honestly, I don't need the tools I use to change to become more mass-market focused. Nobody wants to eat a soup designed by consensus. I'd rather use something that suits me and have it continue to suit me than need everything to be the biggest most popular thing. Popularity seems to kind of ruin things.
You have literally no idea who I am or what I do.
I used GIMP to make a mock-up of a sign for a restaurant just yesterday. Is it going to be the tool I use for the final product? No, because that'll be in vector, but it's a lot easier to slap something together in than Inkscape or Krita.
'Killer apps' are meaningless in comparison to useful apps. I'm an artist who needs usable tools for her work. GIMP qualifies. Personally, I find it way easier and more intuitive to navigate than Krita, Inkscape, or any of Adobe's suite. It may not be for you, that's cool.
But what isn't cool is to pretend you know about other people's lives and what they need. Speak for yourself, you are perfectly capable of doing that. If you don't like GIMP's UI, that's great. If you think GIMP's UI is absolutely horrible for every user and nobody would ever use it for professional work.. you're literally just completely wrong.