Wandering Adventure Party

It took them a long time to get to it, but at least they didn’t fight me on my looted package since I refused to take the delivery and it went into Return to Sender from their view.

I wasn’t sure if that was going to be the right move at the time. Now I just have to hope it makes it this time and someone in the post doesn’t steal it.

@Taweret@timeloop.cafe there is some speculation that persistence hunting might have arisen as early as Homo Erectus; so there is a good chance that we (H. sapiens) did not invent it, but some other earlier hominid. It’s true that our longer legs make us better at it than any previous hominid.

The real cheat code of H. Sapiens is probably our over developed chat features and thus the ability to transmit skill progression. This could have allowed us to beat out other classes like the now removed Neanderthal and Denisovan classes that were introduced around the same time.

I can’t really explain why, but Ace Combat is probably my favorite series, even though I acknowledge the stories are silly, it’s kinda niche, and the gameplay has been more incremental than innovative.

But anyways I am very excited tonight since Wings of Theve was announced. ​​

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe All suffering rewarded; Wings of Theve announced. It’s been a long 7 years. ​​

I’m reminded again that it’s probably better to not explain myself and to just to what I need to do. It removes much the ego of the thing if I don’t require someone else to understand or condone me.

it really makes you think.

That’s where you’re wrong. You don’t survive on the internet long if you do not acquire strong memetic and cognitohazard defenses. I can skip over your brainrot like it’s nothing.

Several key people were out this last week, and no contingency was in place. I just started handing out orders, running org, and inviting myself to leadership meetings, and everyone just … accepted it. Very little pushback.

I don’t suffer a lot from bystander effect (I worry about what that says about me sometimes), so it’s a bit wild to me just how much power you can have in a situation just by asserting you have it.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net Actually, I can answer that!

https://www.bts.gov/browse-statistical-products-and-data/state-transportation-statistics/amtrak-ridership

It looks like Wishram, Washington has the least boarding.

I almost got ran over by someone taking a right on red, but I dodged him. The guy behind him stopped and thanked me for paying attention. ​​ you’re welcome?

Well. Went to the post office. They presented me a package that had obviously been torn into. (Bad packaging my ass, the whole front of the box was ripped off) only the expensive items had been taken. They wouldn’t provide me documentation that it had been damaged, so I refused the delivery.

So… now I have to go fight for a refund or a resend.

Really annoyed. That explains why they fake “attempted” a delivery and didn’t even leave a slip.

@mcc@mastodon.social given what I know about CR’s technology: it’s not an impossibility.

I think my favorite moment was when they sold me a gift certificate that was already expired.

@Starcross@mk.absturztau.be I feel like for ages, a lot of webapps have just been complex front ends for complex spreadsheets (databases). It's probably the most common application out here.

@0x4d6165@wanderingwires.net man, Nix the the definition of sunk cost. The idea is generally pretty good; but the implementation is horribly flawed and the community is ruled by personalities and norms too intransigent to allow any real fix of it. Of any other technological idea, the thing would have been left for a hard fork or fresh start, but absolutely no one wants to go through the hell of rewriting all of the build files nor try to get another round of upstream patches needed to support whatever comes next.

So it's just ... stuck, stale like you said.

It would become performative if I explained it. Otherwise it will remain mysterious actions at a distance.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net @sterophonick@wetdry.world @pastthepixels@is.potatoe.ca agreed. I also sat in a business school class. Utter clown talk all day. The material and student bodies were both jokes.

Business departments are the modern day equivalent to Victorian etiquette schools.

Online arguing gets a lot easier when you limit yourself to one reply. Just say your peace, and if they don’t get it, let them have the last word and move on. A dozen more replies won’t change anyone’s mind.

…in fact it’s just feel free to ignore replies you don’t like. It’s a public forum, some annoying replies is the price of admission. Raging about it does no one any good.

I was also in the store last night and did not see ANY notice posted.

Putting out an email newsletter announcing an author live event at the bookstore exactly 1.5 hours before it is supposed to happen is … a strategy. A shit one.

If they’d put it out even a day earlier I would have been eager to go. Instead I read it too late and it’s over. WTF guys. ​​

@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone right? I think a lot of users are looking for a content stream or a consumer of their content, more than a 'social' experience. Sure, you can get content on a social experience but spreading and receiving it isn't the goal. The fediverse just isn't well suited for reliably getting all the newest memes, celebrity gossip, etc.

It's kinda like an addict who hates all the things the substance does to them, but they still really want that high. If they don't realize the two are inseparable on their own, there isn't much you can do.

@fujiwara@sakurajima.moe What the hell does a 4 year old need with an iPad? Jesus.