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  • I got permabanned from /r/askhistorians for posting a link to reveddit, a site where you could view deleted posts. I did that to inform people that they could use that site to see all the posts that the mods remove (in that subreddit they remove any post that does not provide references).

    I thought that the worst case would be that my post would get deleted and I would get a warning. No, they just permabanned me.

    I was mad so I appealed telling them that it’s wrong to permaban people for reasons like this. I understand permaban for offensive content. But I still don’t understand their action.

    Discussing with them proved that while one of them one reasonable and understanding, the other was completely mad about my action and wanted me to be almost on my knees pleading to remove the permaban. Eventually they “did a vote” and I stayed permabanned. I tried again one year later to no avail - I figured, maybe one year later they would get over it. Nope.

    I just stopped checking and recommending /r/askhistorians ever since.




  • potterman28wxcv@lemmy.worldOPtoDiablo@lemmy.worldDiablo 4 vs Diablo 1
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    1 year ago

    Good question, I think both games are masterpieces each in their own way.

    I personally prefer D1 because it’s more focused on tactical gameplay than D2. If you play it right you can tackle the whole game without drinking a lot of potions. D1 rewards both the “skill” of the player aka how good they are at the game, and also the character progression in itself. However D1 lacks a good endgame (although some fellas did engage in PvP fights and PvP tournaments). But there are mods out there that expand the challenge in interesting ways.

    D2 is more focused around build and playstyle variety, character progression and trading. It does have a bit of tactical gameplay but it’s mostly common sense.

    I think D1 is more single-player oriented where D2 is more multi-player oriented. I enjoyed a lot D2:R when it came out so I do like D2 too! I only place it below D1 because of personal taste.



  • At least you are going to the dentist. My uncle was not brushing his teeth. And never to the dentist. Eventually they had to remove all of his teeth because it was all infected and it was too unbearable for him.

    I had a depression period of my life where I was doing the worst possible treatment to my teeth - was eating a lot of sugar and would skip brushing here and there; also I was not brushing effectively. My teeth are not in very good condition right now. I wish I had kept a good mouth hygiene even when I was depressed.


  • potterman28wxcv@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlHotel > AirBNB
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    1 year ago

    Maybe in your country. Here in France AirBnB are both cheaper and the rooms are nicer than hotel. Some of them could be landlords and profit… but some others rent something that would not be fitting as a location (like a vacation flat or a subpart of a house) but is OK for staying just a couple of days.

    So I disagree heavily with your generalisation






  • D1 has a couple of tragic moments (the Butcher encounter as witnessed by the townsfolks, the end of the story itself) but overall it’s more a story in a dark universe than a dark story where everyone loses people they care about.

    D2 also has a couple of tragic places (I am mostly thinking of the Act 3 Zakarum Temple filled with blood; or the massacre in the Act 2 Palace) but you arrive after it happened. You don’t see the deed happening. So it’s more of a power story in a dark universe rather than a sad and dark one.

    D3, well, is D3. Characters have as much power as gods, villains keep rambling endlessly about how they will shatter your world until you kill them, rinse and repeat… It’s power fantasy

    But D4 is really a dark story. You don’t just arrive after the fact like in D2, you really see massacres, dismemberment, sadism, blood sacrifices etc… happening all over. And it’s not just in a couple of places in the story. It’s really everywhere. It’s like the D4 writers passed the message “Each quest should have a grim ending”. Or rather, they saw how people wanted Diablo to get darker after the D3 fiasco, so they listened (a bit too much) and cranked the button all the way to “grim” and “sad”.

    In general I have very mixed opinion about D4 story. It has just too much grimness. It’s like every other person in Sanctuary is on a frenzy rampage to kill, eat or chop parts of their neighbors. And, on the opposite side of the spectrum, we have a certain prime evil reduced to bargaining with humans where they should be the very essence of terror/hatred/destruction… It does not make any sense




  • potterman28wxcv@lemmy.worldtoMemes@lemmy.mlwhat if?
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    1 year ago

    People will volunteer to do the job because it is something they (and everyone) needs done

    I did volunteer work in several associations. From personal experience I can tell you that “someone will do it, a volunteer will rise” should not be relied upon. I have seen many instances of tasks that everyone was aware of, and yet no one wanted to do; even though they were important. At the end of the day, guess who completed them? The president of the association, because that’s their responsibility ultimately; until they got sick of always doing these tasks so they did not want to be president again the next year.

    In the case of a society where no one is responsible for given tasks, I can only guess that vital tasks would be left undone and the whole society would be collapsing. Imagine getting your electricity cut each day of “insert your most favorite celebration here” because no one felt like working during celebration day. Imagine fire becoming widespread and burning every building because at that particular day, there were not enough people with fireman skills around to extinguish the initial fire

    We need to have assigned roles and responsibilities based on our skills. How do we do that in a world where you can say “Na, I know I’m the only expert on this available right now, but I don’t feel like doing it today” and get away with it?