This is broadly true, but given the low level of rules mastery I’ve seen I say “shared understanding of the rules” is a generous description.
Still, like a national fast food chain sometimes you just want something familiar even if it’s not as good as other options. You know it’s not likely to be worse than your expectations
Everything is an option according to them but it’s ultimately isn’t.
It really is a more restrictive system than people think. If you have a concept that’s like “psychic batman” you can’t really make that concept go in DND. Trivial to make in the other games I play the most (fate, CofD).
D&D is not as good as it is popular. It’s a very idiosyncratic game that’s mostly focused on a particular kind of play, but people treat it like it’s a general purpose tool.
Clearly people can have fun with it, and that’s what really matters. I’m still convinced many of them would have more, easier, cheaper, fun if they picked up a different game.
I briefly toyed with some of the early image generation stuff. It was a fun toy for making NPCs for RPGs.
But now it’s everywhere and being used as an excuse to squeeze labor harder and deliver dubious value. If it just stayed as a toy I wouldn’t mind it much. I get annoyed at the aggressive “do you want me to rewrite that for you??” shit that pops up now.
Probably max out all skills by spending time in appropriate settings. If I can learn magic as per, say, mage the awakening, then I’m doing that as well.
Then I’m coming back here and fixing the world with extensive application of five point Mind and Fate magics.
I think it would be pretty funny if jesus did return and cast all these rich assholes into the lake of fire. Because they fucking deserve it.
I’m pretty sure Reagan’s administration decided to just stop enforcing anti monopoly stuff
Sometimes I feel like everyone who would care already knows , and everyone who doesn’t care won’t care no matter what the facts say.
You could prove definitively that LLMs summon demons that eat live babies, and they’d shrug and dismiss it.
It’s hard to say. I think too much can lead to the kid not appreciating how much things cost, or how hard it is for other people.
My parents paid for most of my education, and that made a big difference. I entered adulthood without massive debt. (Low five figures seems low compared to many of my peers, anyway. USA! USA!)
Generational wealth is powerful. Many of today’s richest people became super wealthy because their parents paid for stuff when they were getting started.
I think the most important question is if your kid is going to be a kind and decent person, or a scumbag who says “I earned all of this! no one gave me a handout” whild voting to gut aid programs.
I’m pretty sure the browser has more sandboxing than a desktop app running as me. The desktop app could do anything. Firefox tries to prevent webpages from doing nefarious stuff.
When I have to use discord, I use it in the browser. I don’t trust the app not to get up to no good.
At a customer service job I’d read whole books in the browser. Just keep the window small and it looks pretty inconspicuous.
Now I work from home so I look at Lemmy and such on my phone.
I have a hard rule of never playing video games on the clock because that’s a slippery slope.
Pop!_os worked fine for me out of the box. The UI is a little mac-like (dock on bottom, spotlight like search when you hit the super key) by default.
Steam just works. Heroic launcher just works. It’s simple.
I’ve also used mint, but had slightly less luck with its install working out of the box. All issues fixed eventually but there was some head scratching.
Linux nerds tend to have opinions and it’s easy to lose sight of what it’s like as a beginner.
But ultimately it’s pretty easy to switch distributions. They’re all free.
Product owners say, "We want to change the site so users see a list of all the other users on their team with access to this project "
Okay. Do some thinking. Going to need the backend to return that information to the front end. Decide what URL that should be under (api/v1/projects/users, maybe?).
Now we make the backend actually do that. Create a new file for this endpoint. Update the routes file so that url points to this file. Write the handler class.
Does this endpoint take any particular input? We know who the caller is for free from the framework. We only want to return info about one project or all projects? Make that decision. Update URL if needed.
Write the code to get the other users on the projects in question. Maybe that’s SQL, but might also be ORM (code from a framework that generates SQL based on objects). Decide what information we actually need. Package that up and send it back. The specifics depend on language and framework.
Write automated tests for this. Make sure it works for
Realize this needs to paginate. Go back and change the handler code to do that.
Realize due to some quirk of how permissions work, someone can be on the project twice. Talk with the team about if we should just decide that here, or try to fix the root problem. Probably the former.
Add deduplication code, then, and test cases.
Open this up for code review.
Start the front end work.
Make a dummy page first and update your API calling code to know about this new route, assuming you don’t have that auto magically set up somehow. Make sure it calls it and gets a response.
Realize that staff users technically have access to every project in the system. Ask product if that’s how they want that to behave. If no, figure out what you all want that to do instead.
Do a bunch of react work to make the page pretty, put the response in the right UI elements with links to the right place. Realize the response you’re sending back makes building the links annoying because you didn’t send some part of it, so you’d need to make another request to the backend for every link. That sucks. Update the backend to include the user’s team-id that is for some stupid reason still in the URL. Comment on code review.
And now I’m tired of writing.
Edit: I hit submit before I was done. Finished now. Edit: fix typo
I used to use the beginning of clutch’s psychic warfare. The first track is some low murdering, and then it comes in hard with X-ray visions. Always woke me right up.
I also used slothrust’s “like a child hiding behind your tombstone” for a while. That also starts a little quiet and then ramps up. Never hated the song, somehow. https://slothrust.bandcamp.com/track/like-a-child-hiding-behind-your-tombstone
Now I just have one of the default alarms and I kind of hate it.
A nightmare. I’ve never had anything quite that bad, but I’ve had plenty of work experience where management is making bad decisions and has no accountability.
My current role is hourly, so I’m happy to shut the laptop exactly 8 hours into the day. Pays a lot less, sadly.
Do not buy any of these garbage products. Avoid like the plague!!
We all know most of these fools did not in fact avoid the plague.
If it was only idiots who died from this kind of thing, it would be funny. Many innocent people will suffer and die, too. But somehow we’re supposed to treat republicans like a legitimate political party and their members like reasonable people.
If right wing people were smart they wouldn’t be right wing. Of course they’re going to believe and share AI slop video. They’re emotional driven fools.
I could accept it matters more than 0, but it is pretty far down the list of issues given the state of the world.
I occasionally become insufferable and recommend people play other games, but people don’t really care. It’s like getting people off twitter.