Ronald does tend to mix in his “flamebait” bit with actual pointed content, which isn’t always welcome, but there’s something to be said for actually spotlighting the kinds of things people say to content creators.

Sunlight and disinfectant and all that.

Oh fun. Who is Elon going to just haphazardly drop the ISS on top of?

They didn’t. What they did was take 81,000 images and then filter through, them taking the best images of each region of the Moon and then averaging and compositing those.

It isn’t 81k images stitched together. It’s 81k images taken in the hopes of getting enough with perfect clarity to create the composite.

I kind of suspect this was an attempt on the IA’s end to get parts of copyright struck down by court ruling. Laws can be clear and still found to not be in the public’s interest, or in violation of some other legal doctrine, and sometimes you’ll see groups come at them sideways.

Ownership laws are really tough ones to chip away at, and IP law in particular has been getting worse and more unassailable over time.

Sure, but if you install DR, then you have DR to do other things. Like chase that YouTuber dream, or field annoying calls from your great aunt who knows you can edit videos to digitize her parents super 8 family videos that are have rotten.

This way they can spend more time rearranging the store so nobody knows where anything is, in turn making us walk past a bunch of stuff we don’t need in an effort to try and induce an impulse purchase!

Efficiency!

Hey, that’s like every other work, and people still get paid for their shit output in other fields.

There’s no reason for any of us to compete to survive. Especially when the metric that determines whether one succeeds in competing is just how much money some rich fuck makes off of your efforts.

carve out Wizards as a community

I don’t know where the idea that WotC is worth saving keeps coming from. These are the MTG people. It’s a shock that monsters, NPCs, items, and feats aren’t purchased via booster pack.

D&D isn’t a game, nor is it a community. It’s just a brand. We can let it go.

Never seen an explosion on the surface of a stellar remnant*? This year, you’ll have your chance

Nothing pseudo about it. This is the natural progression of capitalism.

I’ll be honest: I have very little patience for “you can homebrew this game that does’t do what you want, so you should never play something else” folks; it is probably the thing I hate most about 5e stans. This is the equivalant of telling someone not to give up on a show they don’t like because “you can always write fan fiction!”

Why should I recreate the game when I just spent $150 on it? Isn’t that what I just paid for? For people who actually know game design to supply me with a game that meets my needs? Instead of someome who doesn’t know game design and also paid for the experience?

There are so many games out there that could do what people want, but everyone’s way too invested in WotC maintaining a monopoly on people’s tables.

The point of 5e is to sell as many books as possible with nothing in them while convincing the customer that they’re game designers.

“Roll acrobatics, I guess.”

“Natural 20!”

"Ok… You contort your body in ways that no humanoid creature should be able to, and successfully fit inside the jar.

"Can I get everyone else to make a Wisdom saving throw, please?

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

“Ok, everybody else now thinks you’re a djinni.”

This is saying good morning to everyone at midnight levels of pedantic. Astronomers need a common reference frame for discussing timing, and the reference frame they use is “when it’s observed at Earth”.

Because nothing else allows for coherent organization, discussion, or education.

A nuclear fusion event occurred in the accretion disk of a stellar remnant 2600 years ago or so. An astronomical event known as a nova will occur in the sky sometime this summer.

Ad soon as they go public, their product is their share price. And even before then, since most growing private companies seek out private investment long before going public.

Yeah, there’s plenty about how Mastodon frames itself and its features that are frustrating. That “easy mobility” requiring an 80 step process that involves downloading and re-uploading a bunch of files kind of anchors you for seeing how disconnected some developers are from the user expectations they set.

But does there?

This comes back to what federation and “the fediverse” is, and why trying to hide its nature is harming it.

No one expects their Facebook post history to follow them to Reddit, or to a forum, or to Lemmy, because they’re different websites. Just as no one expected their Twitter history to come with them to Mastodon.

But because it’s framed as “Mastodon” and not “social.website.com” the expectations are different.

Yaaaaas! This is what the Fediverse is all about! Niche websites that broadcast to the whole web, not big central hubs that don’t need to broadcast at all.

List the LAP communities in the sidebar we can easily find them from our home instances, if you could.

Federation isn’t a mess, it’s just… messier. And too many federated services do their damnedest to hide that they function differently, meaning people treat them like they’re perfect drop-in replacements.

It results in a lot of questions about “Why can’t I ____?” and answers of the “Because this doesn’t work that way” variety.

Like, look at Mastodon. It bends over backwards to hide the fact that it’s 10,000 different websites. The result is that people could not understand what the big deal was, nor why it wasn’t as easy to see everything from some other website as easily as they could from a single website that everyone was using.

This further led to centralization of the Mastodon ecosystem, which… I mean, at that point, you’re just abandoning the central concept.

“Just use this thing that you’ve already rejected for X, Y, and Z.”

“Have they fixed X, Y, and Z yet?”

" Fuck you for asking."