Wandering Adventure Party

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net my bad. I didn’t notice you mentioning them below.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net More than one. Konqueror was the default file manager AND browser for a time. I think most people prefer Falkon (formly QupZilla) for KDE web now.

There's also Angelfish for mobile.

Character is low-class chump
By fortune, character gets power.
Character by in large, is just mad that he was stepped on, not that he was stuck in a shitty, arbitrary hierarchy, and implicitly goes on to support it.

I sorta judge authors a bit when this is how their characters react to power.

@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe I don’t think it ends up being cancelled though. SteamOS and machines have never necessarily about profit in their own right, but as an existential hedge.

And the hedge is looking more important, not less. On one hand, Microsoft is furthering their enterprise + subscription models. They’re seeking rents, not growth in the PC market. They’re not a reliable partner.

And if a company like valve is struggling for parts, the situation is far worse for PC gamers. I think we’ll see more shops drop out of the consumer parts market. I don’t think Valve will sell them as a loss leader, but they do have a massive incentive to try to both ensure that some kind of PC hardware is easily available, and keep said PC as affordable as possible.

I agree that it’s going to be more than people think though. People are delusional for thinking that Valve would sell it at a loss.

@chikorita157@sakurajima.moe it’s strange that this is a problem for them. The supply contracts for this should have been locked up by the time they made the announcement. You don’t just go into a product launch for something like this by grabbing what ever is on the shelf; you contract for years of parts. I could understand if this was about factory delays, but parts?

Someone at Valve screwed up and left the company holding the bag.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems Denny's is the only place that would sell me a beer at 6AM. I have to reframe from judgement in this relationship.

I love it when my over-engineered code winds up being engineered exactly right. We merged a large change and nothing on my end changed because my code already handled the assumption change correctly.

@yon@sakurajima.moe has happened to me before too.

I call it out whenever it happens now.

I wonder if there is some kind of ancestral conspiracy among HR workers where they are oath bound to not tell you what the random meeting they schedule is about.

Because you have to have zero empathy or clue to not understand why that kind of meeting might cause anxiety.

(It was just a quarterly ‘how’s it going? We’re checking in with every employee’)

In order to get an insane NPC to spill his secrets, the party members had to imbibe one the concoctions on his belt that was sacred to his order. Imbibe isn’t really the story though. Essentially this was glowing purple liquid with floating electric orbs in it. He’d drink it, vomit it up (where it’d form a floating orb), and then bottle it up, Where the next party member would imbibe it. They’d learned that it was perfectly safe because he’d done this with this bottle “hundreds of times”. They were not reassured. They have no idea what the purpose of this magical drink is.

Neither do I. I just wanted to fuck with them and the NPC is totally insane.

#TTRPG

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net
‘The last word’ in an argument is the quarry of children. The number of people who have not gotten this memo is astounding.

Player after refreshing on last week’s events

ah yes. Now I remember this trauma you inflicted on us…

Mostly: While I had a pretty bad incident in the past, most people have pretty solid hardware experiences with Apple computers. Even if it doesn't have the same iron, I think a lot of people will sacrifice memory for a device they know is otherwise 'good' or well constructed. Especially since the windows market has always felt ... dodgy.

I'm not particularly fond of Macs myself, but the Neo is something Apple has been missing for a long time: A true entry-level Mac laptop. It's nice to see an entry that is more aimed at normal non-luxury user.

If it's performance ends up being able to handle basic tasks it could be a pretty solid hit. Wish they'd 16GB of RAM into it like similarly priced windows machines. But so it goes with Apple.

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club @rosey@catgirl.sex It's really annoying when they're cold on the outside but somehow boiling hot in the inside, too...

@sludgecatheter@outerheaven.club They really are a pain to move. Last time I moved I hired a couple of guys to help me move boxes.

...They bitched about nothing but the book boxes the whole time.

I do prefer physical over digital books. But I totally understand people who prefer the portability of a digital collection. I dedicate a lot of my space towards my books.

A lot of people know that a female fox is a vixen. Almost no one knows that a male fox is a 'dog'.

@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems I am sorry that happened to you. ​​ people suck sometimes.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net yeah, most of mine were from the same.

When I like …13-16 and working dish pit duty, one of the other cooks liked to sneak things from the broiler into the pit without alerting me just to fuck with me. So ended up grabbing things fresh out of the oven a lot if I was careless. My hands were fucked up for a bit there.

That and all the other ways you can get burned in a kitchen that I am sure you’re aware of.

@ielenia@ck.catwithaclari.net if it’s any comfort, a lot of the ones I have had faded to almost unnoticeable these days. I hope you’re alright.