Wandering Adventure Party

The average American response anything is owing to their individualist nature. When an event degrades millions, we often only feel the effect of on us or our nearest. That is who we are told to be responsible for, and It’s easy to ignore a dozen slights. There is just this lack of collective anger - no way could anyone ignore a million slights. The only anger comes about when that individualist nature is threatened, by “The Other” , or some such.

@yon@sakurajima.moe honestly if you have the technological ability and energy needed to upend causality and travel through the 4th dimension, a simultaneous move in the 3rd dimension is probably pretty trivial. File under “if your civilization can make a car, they can probably make a pretty good bike too”

What’s your favorite set of die?

I don’t have them with me, but for me it’s a pair of blue stone die. I don’t love them because they’re hefty and pretty (which they are); but because I am banned from using them.

The die are infamously hungry for players blood, and when using them critical hits seem to flow like water. After they were involved in a second TPK involving rank mooks stomping the party through intense rolls, they were banned.

Later, a new player joined us. In the middle of combat he noticed I had the set of die off to the side. He asked why, and so as I explained the story I picked them up and began rolling them. A hit and two criticals later, a more senior player snatched them up and angrilyput them back with a “THIS is why Null isn’t allowed to use them!”

Since then I’ve only brought them out to play in a rare hard boss fights where I think the players will struggle, and they were snatched as soon as things went south. They’ve become accustomed to seeing them and knowing that they’re about to get rocked.

Its fun to have dice that make the party pause and are a byword for evil.
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@Kingu@sakurajima.moe that’s interesting. Previously, it felt like YouTube would hyper fixate - if you watched one sermon, it would seemingly recommend sermons for the rest of history, regardless of other metrics. It seemed to sort you into content funnels that were difficult to escape.

I wonder if this is an attempt to mix that up. Presumably, while you’re being recommended Flat Earth, the flat earther is being recommended astrophysics.

I don’t think that’s necessarily a good thing even if it sounds benign; these kind of hueristics are a no-win game to me. I think it’ll just further strain people’s ability to sort reality.

@alexia@shrimp.starlightnet.work worse; they rarely review these things. Is it stable, is it secure, does it actually do what it say it does or is it really good at faking? They probably cannot answer this reasonable because they never review the output. Maybe it has tests; but worse problem. LLMs are even more terrible at writing tests than functionality.

@Elizafox@social.treehouse.systems there’s risk during volunteer work that you use charity to assert power over the people you are supposedly trying to help, thereby removing their agency. They're in that position, you’re smart enough to not be, and you “understand” the problem. Why shouldn’t you? /s

That really feels like what’s happening here. Referring to it as “suicide” to not be archived is especially galling. Some of us are happy to be forgotten, and concern ourselves only with people we touch in our moment. To imply that is self harm is insensitive to the term and arrogant.

Well, the vast majority of people in tech can’t seem to grasp consent.

@kichae@wanderingadventure.party That's usually what happens when I get in the mood. But I fear the financials are not sustainable for that many domains.

A minor reminder that all public timeline posts are not just direct communication, even in reply. There is always alway an implied ‘crowd’ one is also speaking to.

A lot of people are consciously or subconsciously modifying their language to do this. Do not immediately assume condescension just because someone in the public is explaining something outloud they may know you already know. It is probably for the audience.

@mikoto@urusai.social I’ll repeat again that the incident in question involved someone who assumed bad faith on your part and thus overreacted (imo). It’s not bad to reflect and muse on quotations, but don’t knock your head too hard on it.

On another note; I don’t have a lot of patience for the people on fedi who have little understanding about public audiences and differing communication styles, and treat everyone who writes a comment that isn’t full throated agreement or something they wanted to read as a personal offense. They lack emotional maturity.

You can’t blame people for being bad at democracy. Most people spend very little of their lives living in democratic forms.

Look where we are; even the fediverse is not a democratic space. Like most of the web, it’s an accidental feudal space, where the yeoman user lives under the Lord Administrator and their knight moderators, who generally act with “extra-legal” authority.

Yes this all driven by the capitalistic way the web is set up. The fact is that the deployments, domains, and hosting bills must be owned and paid for by someone, but that doesn’t change the fact that the organization of spaces we live in train us to our norms.

You could go from work (a feudal space), to home (a private space) to hanging out online (a feudal space) and spend pretty much zero time living in a democratic space.

@mikoto@urusai.social the two easy conceptual fixes:

* if it’s set to followers only, and the target is not a follower… they shouldn’t see the message.
* If the target isn’t a follower, you probably shouldn’t be allowed to make follower-only replies to them.

This is actually part of a long standing complaint about Mastodon: @-ing someone always brings them into the message. This causes people to accidentally include others in DMs for example. The whole mechanism has caused nothing but heartache.

The master’s philosophy serves the master’s interests. I suspect many of our deeply held beliefs are well crafted to keep certain people on their thrones.

I’m not going to argue that the fediverse is bad. It’s good to create a space that is not controlled by crypto-fascists and tech oligarchs.

But I think in a lot of ways I feel we’re settling. We’re often recreating their spaces and their organization. Except for smaller units, they are often indistinguishable. Some of this is mandatory (especially with legal liability), but I wonder if (and strongly suspect “yes”) we can do better.

It may not seem important, but the same system has a way of creating the same outcomes.