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He/Him Jack of all trades, master of none

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Whole-ass human name. Samantha Taylor [your last name] or something like that

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Totally unrelated video about normal robot dogs without guns on them

https://youtube.com/shorts/HZ69XsHyXzQ

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So proton will only give users' information to governments if the government calls the user a terrorist. Good thing governments don't just throw that word around willy-nilly!

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“Joe Biden’s dog has attacked 24 Secret Service people,” and that's what I call praxis

Commander said ACAB

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He then said, “Playing a game without scoring — even if you suck at something — is so anti-human. It’s like scoring is part of your DNA."

Gutfeld is so stupid man I can't believe I used to like him

Yeah a game without a scoring system is anti-human, that's why we famously never play such games with our children. What's your ELO in peek-a-boo, Greg? You absolute dweeb? Man I can't wait to get back to my ranked play jigsaw puzzle at home. Can't wait to beat my brother at D&D this week.

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Kinda arrogant to tell people that the way they enjoy a game is stupid. It's a good thing the new Scrabble boards offer this scoreless variant as a variant, while the opposite side of the board remains the same scrabble you've grown accustomed to.

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It's not stupid to provide a proper board and a structured system for a variant of the game that people enjoy

You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

I've got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them....

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FTL: Faster Than Light would run on a computer that old, yeah? Probably bring that and a couple animes to watch while I play it.

Oh shit, if it's XP then I'd be good just playing pinball for the full 12 hours

Can banner we get banner ads adjusted? ( lemmy.world )

With the ad adjustment came these banner ads on the top of comment sections and they are atrocious so much so I don't bother reading comments anymore. They all have the obnoxious white backgrounds and they flicker since they move. It feels light no matter my phones britness they are blinding and since content doesnt get loads of...

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Jerboa user here. It's functional, though I still open sync whenever I want to search the platform for something. I haven't been a fan of most updates (dev likes to change how votes are displayed without giving users the option to revert) but overall I like it

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This is Youtube Music. Of course they have staff. Who else would implement TikTok shorts in a glorified mp3 player interface?

Hey, does anyone know what the fuckn point of "samples" are? Like, I'm on the app to listen to music, not watch 1 minute clips of vertical strips of music videos. I'm gonna cut off this rant and say actually, I'm glad the youtube music staff got laid off

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Irony that you could drape over yourself and go to sleep with

‘It’s That Simple’: Mark Meckler Says The Only Way To Secure The Border Is By Invading Mexico ( www.rightwingwatch.org )

Mark Meckler is the president of the Convention of States Foundation and a leading proponent of the right-wing movement to get state legislatures to call for a dangerous Article V convention that will consider constitutional amendments to radically alter American government and society by making much of what the federal...

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Yup, and how great would it be if people who were addicted to them were able to get the help they need without fear of going to prison?

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If he picked Lightning Bolt he could hit everyone in that entire line with minimal collateral damage

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Plenty of legal uses. For example, it was legitimately faster for me to install deluge and torrent Ubuntu than it was to just download Ubuntu.

There's so many other legitimate uses, but that's the main one I used it for

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Extrapolating from this, a 3840x2160 image must be in the hundreds of megabytes!

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I wonder if Tencent would have hired the Pinkertons to steal cards from someone

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But ironically that isn't the same as streaming

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John Brown started out on the left, but after he died he followed the confederates to Hell and became the one on the right

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You're right, he made that switch May 23rd, 1856. Started killing demons long before he died.

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It's really easy if you rtfa

Tom Tyler, the interim town attorney, claimed at one point that if the the Pride flag was allowed to be flown, “ISIS could come in and want to display one, the IRA…basically anybody. You’d have to be content neutral and let everybody."

I don't agree with him in the slightest, but it's not like he's saying that being gay makes you a terrorist or something

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100% agreed. I'm just saying, it's just flawed logic. Well, really it's homophobia, but the claim that allowing one flag means you have to allow all flags is just flawed logic, not mental gymnastics.

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I mean, how many really really good things did you watch last year?

We talking movies and TV shows in general, or only ones that came out in 2023? If the latter, then Dungeons and Dragons was the only good thing I watched last year

Most of the good shows I watched last year were animes that came out around the turn of the century

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One of the biggest ratios I've seen on this platform lmao, the people here love their Linux

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Hope you're ready for a wall of text!

Early 2000's anime has definitely aged. In my opinion the aesthetic of it has aged extremely well, but I understand that the relatively poor animation and picture quality are enough to turn some people off to it. If you like the aesthetic as much as I do, then I have a whole list. I'm not much of a shonen guy, so a lot of these are calmer, less action-packed shows.

My personal favorite anime is Haibane Renmei, from 2002. The story seems like a mystery at first, but the show never answers most of the questions it raises–it's not about finding answers, it's about the characters, and how they act and react both towards each other and towards the world they live in. The setting is what really pulled me in–it has the same timeless, liminal feel that Ico, Shadow of the Colossus, and The Last Guardian have.

Cowboy Bebop and Trigun are staples. Both 1998 shows. It's hard to believe that Cowboy Bebop was made in the 20th century. Both shows have good plotlines, lovable characters, well-made action sequences. It's hard to write anything about them that hasn't been written before. Watch em!

Witch Hunter Robin from 2002 was pretty good, imo. It's a mystery series about a team of witch hunters. It starts out as a sort of monster (or witch, as it were) of the week show before pivoting into a longer story arc about the characters discovering a conspiracy. The show looks drab and gloomy at first, but really it's absolutely dripping with character, and Amon is the only person in the show that never really seems happy. The action sequences are largely made up of characters just sort of standing and staring at each other, but the camera work and visual effects make it look really good in my opinion.

Fullmetal Alchemist '03 was the first FMA I watched when I was a kid, but never got around to finishing until last year. It's really good. Brotherhood and '03 are largely similar (with minor differences) up until the 5th Laboratory, where they diverge severely. Personally I felt like '03 had a more concise, well-told story. Having fewer characters worked in its favor, because it gave the characters that it does have more time to develop. It also takes itself a lot more seriously than Brotherhood–it feels more like a seinen than a shonen.

Planetes (also from 2003) is the hardest sci-fi that I think I've ever seen. It's about team of orbital debris haulers in the 2070s. At first it's a slice of life show about their day to day activities, and partway through it becomes something of a political drama/action show. It's cool. The main character is a little bit annoyingly idealistic in the first few episodes, but after that it's a solid 10/10 from me.

Last Exile (also 2003) is one of my favorite shows. It's very confusing at first, it feels like there's a couple of episodes worth of exposition missing in the middle, but all in all I absolutely adored it. It never gives you any more information than you need to know, and it never wastes time explaining how its universe works. How do vanships fly? Because of claudia. What is claudia? It's the fuel that makes vanships fly. You never even find out what Exile means until like 23 episodes in. The show is extremely aware of its own aesthetic, in a way that the sequel series from 2011 kind of wasn't. Still worth watching both series IMO, because the sequel finds its own footing in time.

Mushishi (2005) is another calm one. Probably the calmest one. Watching it is like meditating. It follows a sort of travelling doctor who tries to help people when their interactions with the ethereal mushi (they are explicitly living things, but for the sake of storytelling, you can think of them as spirits) turn harmful. Every episode is a new place, a new mushi, a new story. It's masterfully crafted, and the slow pace ensures that not a single frame goes to waste. The early 2000's aesthetic works heavily in its favor, making it fit right in with Studio Ghibli's works, even though it was an Artland joint.

Baccano was 2007, so a bit late to call it "turn of the century," but it has the same sort of aesthetic and vibe that most of these shows have. The story has a wide variety of characters, each with their own fully fleshed out stories, all intertwining like a spider's web as they meet and influence each other. It's really good. Watch the dub!

Right now I'm nearing the end of Noir (2002). I couldn't tell you if it's worth watching until I finish it (just in case it ends badly), but so far I'm liking it. It's about a pair of assassins, one of whom has amnesia and only knows that she's somehow connected to the other, and the other who is trying to find out who killed her family and why. If I have one gripe with the series, it's that they don't ever show any blood on screen. They aren't afraid of showing people die on screen, a lot of people die in every episode, but aside from holes appearing in people's clothing, there doesn't appear to be any actual violence.

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Took me a few months to get back to you, but it totally was! My car's been blaring Stray more than any other song for the last couple months

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It was awesome! It gave me strong Last Exile vibes, despite the two series being nothing alike. Out of the anime I listed in that comment, it's the one I'd recommend the most based on Wolf's Rain

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I've literally never used the word "literally" unironically in my life

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Just to complete the fun fact, the way to kill a golem is to erase the א leaving מת, which translates to “dead”

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What if I use a pulley?

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When you fail the history check, and recall your teacher mentioning something about Karsus’s Pulley in the year -339 DR. “Can’t for the life of me remember how he managed to kill magic with the thing…”

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Drow are Australian, on account of the land they come from

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Germans are quite high on the cultural sensitivity list. Don’t want them declaring war on the entire world again, after all

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Saying “Bill pisses me off because he’s white.” is an entirely different conversation.

It’s super fucking not, friend. If you define racism as something that doesn’t apply to white people specifically, then you have a point, but “racism is when one is prejudiced against someone because of their race” is a much more usable definition than anything that involves socioeconomics, and I struggle to think of a better word to describe hating Bill for his race.

Prejudice + power describes institutional racism very well, but interpersonal racism doesn’t necessarily involve power dynamics.

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I wanted to burn this thing the moment I saw it, and it took me a few seconds to figure out why

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Yeah, the existence of disabilities “fixable” by magic is easily explained when you realize that people who do magic are incredibly rare. Like, I’d like to say that if magic were real, I’d be a wizard, but I don’t even make an effort to learn real stuff in real life. Do I really think my 10 int ass is gonna read three textbooks about how to make a Magic Missile? Am I arrogant enough to think God likes me enough to let me channel His magic? Maybe one in ten churches has a cleric, and they’re busy treating the frequent cholera and dysentery that plagued the world prior to modern water treatment. They don’t have the spell slots to spare for someone who’s in a wheelchair and lives relatively normally with it

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Obvious bait is obvious

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It makes sense if you consider that magic is rare. Finding a level 1 wizard would be like finding a rocket scientist. It takes the brightest of the brightest. A 1st level spell is an entire textbook that they gotta memorize. How many real life people are afraid of trigonometry? If 10 intelligence is average, and it takes 13 int to multiclass to wizard, then being a wizard requires an IQ of like 130 just to be an amateur.

And not everyone who believes in a god gets to be a cleric. You gotta be specially hand picked by God to channel his power. Maybe one in ten churches has a 1st level priest healing people. To be a paladin you gotta be a zealot. It takes John Brown level dedication to your cause. Magic is rare.

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Lesser restoration isn’t free, it costs a 2nd level spell slot. Between you with the blindness that you’ve lived with your whole life, or this guy with dysentery who’s about to die horribly and spread the disease to everyone nearby, I’m spending that spell slot on him

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RaHoWa: [removed]

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Did you read the part where she found out because multiple women had the exact same experience at the exact same restaurant?

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Sounds remarkably similar to my group, but in our latest session it was a kpop video, not a dog

I long for a normal Dungeons and Dragons campaign with a nerdy elf wizard and a sneaky halfling rogue and a chivalrous human knight and a devout dwarven cleric being an adventuring party instead of a loose collection of ideas and concepts with no depth or cohesion. I want to be able to ask someone why they’re with the party and get an in-character answer instead of the player saying they need to be for the story to happen. I want the possibility of a TPK because the DM understands the characters and give us appropriate challenges, I don’t want any semblance of a challenge disappearing because the DM feels bad about dealing damage to his girlfriend’s character

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I can’t wait to use that song in my campaign

Even more so, that other song

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I see. Your power has grown sufficient to outstrip my own. Hear this now, you will soon come to regret it. I will leave you with this warning: When the land overflows with a million apes, the moon will become Hell’s messenger, and completely destroy the world of the Spiral.

Honestly with Toril’s moon being a spelljammer port, this could be a good way to foreshadow an illithid invasion, although Toril has sentient life numbering in the tens of millions

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Old-School Runescape as a TTRPG sounds interesting

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“Not that merciful. Guards, off with his head!”

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Going with the cost of living equivalent, it’s only about $15,000, which I think still does the job of pricing out the poor

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Congratulations on being one of today’s lucky 10,000! Blocking ads is like getting a bad tooth pulled. You never realize how awful it is until you find out what it’s like to be rid of it!

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Adguard DNS is my best friend

Sorry Laurence

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