I like winter apart from the parking restrictions.

Neat!

Ceramic non-stick is pretty great. I’ve used cast-iron and it’s fine, but it’s kind of fussy when it comes to cleanup.

Assuming you’re an adult, there are a few Conan Exiles D&D roleplay servers and also some Neverwinter Nights 2 servers if you’re looking to get into D&D but don’t have anyone to play with. It’s also a good place to meet people to play actual D&D on like roll20 or Tabletop Simulator or whatever.

But also, it seems like there are some people here who would probably play a game with you. You might have to run it though. It’s much easier to find players than DMs.

It’s definitely exposing a lot of creeps on Lemmy.

I think the point is just finger pointing, one-upmanship, and division. It’s Schrodinger’s outrage fuel.

Unless they’re getting paid directly, like through something like Nebula or their own service like a Dropout or Viva sort of thing, why wouldn’t they want their views to be somewhere that drives more meaningful numbers? Peertube isn’t going to bring them new users, and from what I’ve seen a lot of what’s on peertube seems to just be unauthorized reposts that pull away views.

Like, if I enjoy a creator who’s on YouTube, I’m not going to watch their stuff somewhere that doesn’t give them any meaningful recognition. Something like Patreon is great, but driving up their numbers on Peertube isn’t going to bring them to a wider audience the way driving up their engagement on YouTube would, and those numbers bring more people to their Patreon.

Is there an actual incentive for any for-profit channel to have a peertube channel? It seems like it would just reduce engagement that they actually get paid for.

I would honestly love to see a Fallout with the sort of gameplay in 4 with a story more in the style of New Vegas. The dialogue tree in 4 left a lot to be desired, the plot didn’t leave as much room for player choice as it might have, and there were lore elements that weren’t consistent with previous games, but the combat was great. And honestly, it was much more open-world than 3 in a way that felt more like the other installments. Fallout 3 was a lot of being hedged in by limited options in the ruins of DC and a lot of very samey subway tunnels. The environments of 4 had a lot more variety and let the player roam more.

It’s not that it has nudity. It’s that it had a child riding around on a fully naked adult in a horse mask.

Do you talk to people like that in person?

If you switch to the piefed you can block their entire instance.

Lemmy is absolutely inundated with bad faith actors who seem suspiciously intent on sewing as much division as possible, getting the left to be as politically ineffectual as possible, and never offering anything as a viable solution. There’s no meaningful barrier for entry so it’s pretty trivial to make a bunch of accounts and push an agenda.

That’s by no means limited to Lemmy, but Lemmy is absolutely littered with them. It’s been like this for quite a while.

I mean personally, it’s not something I expect to be reminded of in the top of the feed for what is otherwise a pretty light webcomic community.

It’s nice to have a few hooks and characters and things that a DM can use if the player wants them, but player interest is the key part. A character’s background is there to allow for opportunities to tie the character into the world and vice versa, but you can also achieve the same thing by just giving weight to interactions and having them reverberate through the campaign.

Like, in the campaign I’m running now my players came across an ancient shrine to an axolotl-folk storm deity that was built as a sensory stone playing a ritual, with a hallowed ground spell creating a tongues area of effect. Some spiders had made a nest around it and were communing with it, but rather than talking to the spiders, they immediately shot them and lit the forest on fire. So I added a spider-folk cleric of said deity, gave them some ettercap followers, and had the surviving spiders that ran from the fight go fetch them to get their revenge. Now they’ve got someone extremely formidable that they have to deal with who is only there because they burned the forest around the shrine.

They weren’t initially intended to be in the campaign at all, and even the shrine was initially mostly a throw-away set piece to make a bit of forest more interesting. But because there was a significant interaction there that ought to have consequences, it made sense to add more context around that location.

Letting the players determine which bits get fleshed out on the basis of which bits they show interest in or interact with gives weight and substance whether they go in with a backstory or not. Some players are going to want to load up on backstory and give the DM plenty to work with straight from the beginning, some won’t. As long as you’re responsive to what your players do show you they’re interested in, it’ll benefit your campaign when you lean into it.

I lost two people to cancer this year. Sucks.

I’m not sure this comic is the heartwarming post you think it is.

Is this fun for you?

For some people, possessing any empathy at all qualifies as “virtue signaling”.

Personally, I left Reddit a long time before because of control freaks with no lives who feel the need to dictate their personal preferences to others as though it were a dire moral emergency.

Totally reasonable to avoid uploading to imgur if you’re worried about third party advertisers collecting your metadata, but that’s hardly unique to them. I block ads and also don’t have any illusions about countless websites sharing metadata with advertisers. I’m not really aware of a reliable image host that doesn’t do this.

Imgur blocking the UK over OSA is a pretty reasonable move, though. Demanding that companies collect ID verification data from users is to me a much bigger liability than their advertisers seeing my IP or browser or whatever. Personally, I fully support companies deciding not to participate in the hoarding of personal information that could be compromised by entirely too common data breaches.