Wandering Adventure Party

@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.

It’s wild how small the TTRPG world is, even with its large base. I think of Chaosium as a big player and they employ like … 20 people. Somehow no one makes money in this industry.

@brainlessbitch@brainless.social it’s because our dystopia’s brand of evil is boring and lame. They can’t think of anything to do with their unlimited power and influence but visit their lame friends for stupid parties on a pedo island, which is the super villain equivalent of being a loveless loser in living in grandma’s basement.

Absolutely no vision, no soul for chaos, no rizz, no moxxy. Even outside of their crimes, the richest and most powerful men in the world deserve to burn, because given actual absolute freedom and power, they choose to be the most banal motherfuckers in existence, and actively work to make the world just as boring as they are.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net goodnight.

@robustjumprope @sayonaraminasan@urusai.social Pop!_OS would be my recommendation. It's configured for laptops, and it walks back some of the annoying things about modern Ubuntu. The only downside is you are stuck on an ubuntu LTS for the base.

But I also think Fedora is cool. That's what I had on my work laptop before they changed policies.

@robustjumprope

They complain about dual-booting. Somehow Linux is always expected to make this perfect when sitting next to an OS (Windows) that is not expected to, and often, does terrible things in that realm. Linux did not delete my boot entries on some updates, for example. It also doesn't mount my linux drives. nor is it seemingly expected to. macOS ... just doesn't do dualbooting, period.

Nathan had his own bizarre problems where his CachyOS refused to acknowledge his mouse clicks. He was also hit with option paralysis, trying to choose between four bootloaders and thirteen desktop environments.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net It's not clear to me why universities continue to insist on making students use and learn MATLAB. I don't think there was any project I was given that couldn't have been done with scipy and matplotlib, and learning those tools before I did would have been far more useful to me. Also ... free, and not you know, literally $1000/year.

You might be able to ask your professor if they'll accept something else. It sometimes works.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net It'll probably suck hardcore, but you can try to at least get some of the skeleton done with GNU Octave (which tries to be matlab compatible).

That's a hard YMMV path though.

I ended up buying a pass at a local preserve and walking out where there was no coverage. It was wet and cold. But nice.

Debt is terrifying. Fo a normal person with all their needs met, you can’t outright pay them to do horrible shit. But if you get that same person in debt, suddenly they’ll do genocide for peanuts.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net good morning ​​

Everyone wants something from me today. It’s not a lot, But the number and outside forces are making me want to just shut off the phone, turn off the lights, and lock the door.

…so why do we share screen shots of articles and not the original link?

It’s more work.
It’s less accessible.
It removes information.
It often removes citation.

Why do we do this? Don’t boost this shit. Someone is doing it this way to mislead you or make you angry. Stop it.

@msh@coales.co @Taweret@timeloop.cafe another article I read said it was “a couple of days”

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe yep, exactly. The speaker has already stated that their goal isn’t to really listen, it’s to strengthen their personal faith. They’re not interested in being convinced.

The whole “I allow you to challenge me, plebs” attitude is also pretty arrogant and entitled. Also someone who seeks both objective truth and faith in the same action is at something of a cross purpose, I feel, and maybe being a little rude to a god who tells you “faith alone” or “faith that works” depending on your exact cant.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe there’s a lot of mention of faith in that post but it all smells of bad faith ​​

Anyone who says things “just work” on a Mac can kiss my ass. I’m having screen, audio, and software issues that I never had on my work Linux machine. Also, Tahoe sucks.

@ramsey@phpc.social @Xenograg@dice.camp no, not at all. But we’re currently working through them not being such … adults as characters.

By which I mean: they’re very much in the mould of “let the authorities handle it, let’s not risk it, etc”

I’ve been playing with them for a bit. They’re one of the most risk adverse groups I’ve ever met, even when I almost always reward them for being daring. It’s a source of much pain.

This kind of player passivity is antithetical to me as a GM and player ​​ as a GM, I like to drop players into a rich situation and see what happens.

As a player I have the opposite problem. I’m always doing something, whether running a scheme or making my own fun. I don’t play much because a couple of GMs have expressed that I’m Henderson force in their campaigns.

Well, Call of Cthulhu was fun, but Jesus Christ some players are bad at investigation games.

One player said “Those guys are definitely carrying out a conspiracy” and despite prodding, the party proceeded to ask nothing about what they were doing, what their background was, or anything of that nature. It took half a night of being spooked and hunted down one-by-one that convinced them maybe they should listen in on a conversation.

I think the most frustrating thing as a GM is the passivity of players; when they just sit back and wait for stuff to happen or to be told where to go. Com’on! Do things!