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Cake day: August 29th, 2023

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  • Nah, this isn’t comparable to stealing something while the PCs are sleeping or sacking a stronghold offscreen. The OP’s example clearly has the player there so they had agency to do something here, but failed to save it. It’s never your stronghold until you’ve successfully defended it.


  • Without RSS I’d stop following the vast majority of online content. I’m not checking all these different websites individually, where their follow options have substantially less functionality.

    I currently have 121 feeds. Podcasts, youtube channels, TV show releases, some blogs, a surprising number of reddit searches, etc. I used to have substantially more feeds but I trimmed it heavily a couple of years ago - mostly I stopped follow the news so closely for my sanity.

    It might sound kind of overwhelming but I create pretty strict filters so I get maybe a dozen updates on a busy day.





  • I wish, my iPod gave up the ghost many years ago. When it died - at the time I was way too broke to replace it - my interest in music kind of went with it too. I still listen to music of course, but I’ve never been passionate about it since.

    Also, I still sometimes get the feeling like I forgot something when I leave the house because the weight distribution in my pockets isn’t ‘right’ anymore lmao




  • Watching the new season made me wonder if I Futurama was ever actually good. Are my fond memories of the old episodes just nostalgia?

    The joke that really illustrates how creatively bankrupt the new season was for me is the non-binary robot. It’s a joke I’d already heard before, complete with the same stand up framing. It was just someone seeing something funny online and just sticking it in their TV show completely wholesale. It got a laugh out of me just because I was surprised to see something so blatant.

    Every time it’d do a “topical” episode, it was just them going to beat a dead horse whose bones were already bleaching. Late to the party on Amazon, Crypto, and NFTs, showing up with only the shallowest, most well trodden observations.



  • Yeah, I usually like to have a physical copy of something I really enjoyed. I like the reminder as in the barrage of content these days even things dear to me can get memory holed. Also any time I’m traveling I like to take a physical book with me, so it’s always nice to have old favorites on hand when it comes up.


  • valtoGames@lemmy.worldStop using Fandom
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    52 years ago

    Another comment without watching so I might be repeating something in the video, but did they mention how poor bloated the site is? I was trying to use the Forgotten Realms wiki and after a few tabs it would grind my browser to a halt. For something that really just needs to be serving text and a few images it’s wild how badly the site performs.


  • valtoGames@lemmy.worldStop using Fandom
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    2 years ago

    They game SEO to flood search results with articles that are pure, useless placeholders which most of the time will never be written. Even when they’re more than a placeholder page, they’re often wrong outside of a few games because they’re just there to get clicks. Downvote bots were used against links to competing wikis, and while Fextralife denies it, they were conveniently spared.

    There is more shady behavior out there around Fextra, but the most important thing for a user is there is almost always a better wiki that’s being suppressed in the search results. If you blacklist the site you’re a lot more likely to find something useful.


  • I have a few chronic illnesses. Individually I think they’re at least easy to explain, if not something people already understand, but trying to communicate the combination is hard.

    None of them are usually that bad by themselves. Together the issues compound and make it extremely hard to attribute symptoms to something specific. Like, are the migraines a rare symptom from a condition, a result of them interacting, one of the medications I’m taking or a new issue? I don’t know.

    And when you’re vague (as in, don’t pull out your entire medical record and attribute each symptom to a specific condition) or the issues sound too severe for what people already understand, you get some pretty… negative reactions. “My uncle had X and he was fine, you’re milking it for sympathy!” but did he have Y and Z as well? Did he have the same variant of X? Was he actually fine, or did you never really talk to him about it? It’s rarely apples to apples comparing disabilities but that’s how people a primed to react.

    I’ve learned to deflect and fall back behind medically privacy in professional settings, but it can be stressful.



  • But the veteran actors and Emperor plotlines are great while the new actors and Foundation plotline are weak.

    This is still true, though I’d say sadly Empire isn’t quite as good as it was last time around. It honestly feels like watching two different shows most of the time. If someone ever releases a cut that is just Empire and whatever is needed for that plot line to make sense, then I could recommend it.