Wandering Adventure Party

@mikoto@urusai.social I don’t know how it is in the Mastodon-glitch world, but for others: on Sharkey (and maybe misskey?) one can set their reaction acceptance to “Likes only”.

I agree the ability to remove individual reactions would be nice. There’s a lot I’d like from reactions. I wish that reactions allowed the same kind of alt text as images. It’d help just to be able to copy a description of the text and throw it in a machine translator. I’d also like them to collapse into one, instead of being per-instance. It’d be nice if I could +1 another instance’s reaction. The whole implementation seems somewhat half-baked…

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club I am resisting opening a fire hose as I am a home brewer (I make my own beer!). I am happy to answer any questions you have ​​

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club Both Modelo and Bud are classified as “American Adjunct lagers”, so they are stylistically similar.

I am kinda assuming you are in the US market given you mentioned modelo and Bud.

You will find beers that taste wildly different however. There are MANY beer styles out there. Something common like say, Elysian Spacedust (An IPA, or imperial pale ale) is going to be far more floral and bitter, while something like Guinness extra stout is going to be sweeter and roasty.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe nah that is definitely a matrix of free-roaming cold weather scrotum creatures.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club really depends on the market. There are a couple of micros here which are “reliable” for this region.

For national beers … that’s kinda tough. Blue moon is alright. I have a special attachment to Heineken special dark, but it’s a bastard to find.

Sopporo or Pacifico are imports I’ll drink sometimes too.

Really if you’re at a decent bar ask who’s on the rotating tap.

One of the fun threads of last weeks game was that the adventurers saw a shady temple they were barred from entering. They got into planning their break and were on the verge of executing when I asked them “…So what’s the goal?”

They entirely stopped. They hadn’t asked themselves once. Like cats scratching at the door, they were just offended that the door was closed.

@chjara@akko.tuxcrafting.xyz it’s almost like energy autonomy is a national-defense concern, that thing right wingers are obsessed about.

I’ve been banging this drum for years: eco friendly policies can easily be justified framed in the concerns of the blue-collar conservative, let alone left or liberal groups.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @MiaWinter@tech.lgbt similar boat. Never got to learn my parents native language. Regret it. Though the speakers of that language are (ime) usually massive dick heads about non-native speakers so I get discouraged every time I go back to it.

I enjoyed picking up some Esperanto and it’s far easier to learn. I also keep meaning to pick up Toki Pona (another con-lang)

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net Occasionally the gaze of those beyond the uncaring stars sweep across us on their way to other planes and epochs. A bit of shuddering is in order whenever this occurs.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe Happy birthday in advance, if I don’t have a chance to say it later!

@velvet@zoner.work @robustjumprope yeah, they run themselves like a cousin who uses their parents money to continuously chase get-rich schemes instead of focusing on anything important.

Mobile OS, web-companies, privacy tools, and now LLMs. What’s funny is that maybe some of these could have been something, but they could never commit when it didn’t pay out immediately. They fad-chase, which is why the LLM features are so frustrating. It’s just another iteration in the same path of foolishness.

Meanwhile, Firefox languishes. It’s dumb.

Advice: Most people receive a reply-comment better if you just let them know you agree with them first.

The first of my seedlings are coming up ​​

The Zinnias and Marigolds I planted are the first to come up with gusto. But some herbs and and vegetables are peaking through

Watching seedlings come up is probably my favorite part of the growing season. ​​

@robustjumprope That’s rough. Time skips are one of my most hated devices in manga. It’s almost always a “I’ve written myself into a corner and need to hand wave things since I lack the skill to make the needed developments compelling”

The next most hated in media in general is a forceful return to status quo. Combining these two would probably make me rage quit any series outright. Good luck.

I had a lovely exchange at the bookstore today. I was checking because it’s been 2 weeks since I placed my order without communication and I wasn’t sure they had my number right.

Her: “It should be here in 3 business days”
Me: “alright, so see you after Wednesday thereabouts?”
Her: “No it should be here Monday or Tuesday”
I wanted to say “You know what, sure. you can’t math and that’s ok. ”

Chat today.

Agrees that social housing would be great a great start on the unhoused problem.
agrees that Medicare for all would be good.
agrees that the fed should do more and better food support
Thinks Iran conflict is bad.
is a rabid MAGA supporter.

@yon@sakurajima.moe it’s only gotten more important to me. I care a lot about other people’s time and the commitments I make. I’m somewhat conservative in what I calendar or agree to, entirely out of the fact that I want to ensure I can complete it. I notice many people will schedule two things with overlap and just sorta ‘hope’ it all works out. I can’t stand that, even if I have to make some hard choices.

Showing up late tends to gut me personally for that reason. I hate wasting other people’s time, because I know how hard it is for other adults. It’s like you said though; it’s entirely about respecting other people. No one gets to tell you how valuable your personal time is.

@yon@sakurajima.moe the Germans / Scandinavians are totally right about this. Words mean things. If I was meeting with +/- 15 minutes, I would say so.

And anyone I’ve held to the fire has never contested I was wrong, just acted with a sort petulance for being caught in an inconvenient truth.

@ann3nova@corteximplant.com no kidding. I view it as disrespectful. I just hate that this shit is so endemic.