I_Has_A_Hat
@I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
- Comment on Uncolored kobold :) 1 day ago:
Aww, I love this. I have a soft spot for Kobolds.
I made a series of one-shots that I DM for my group between main sessions that focus on an all Kobold party and their neverending quest to become real dragons, with each of them having a different plan on how to actually make that happen. They all have different dragon ancestry traits (tiny wings, breath attack, thicker hide, etc.) and they constantly bicker about which one is the “most dragon”.
All the sessions are more silly than serious and typically revolve around their own ignorance of the world at large. Like plotting to attack a “dragon” that was really just a large puppet used in a festival. Or planning an elaborate heist to steal a treasure hoard, but it’s just a bunch of coins from a fountain. Once they successfully hijacked and took over a fancy ship (because it had a dragon on the sails) only for them to quickly give up when they realized none of them knew how to swim, much less sail.
My players all really get into it and play them as horrible little monsters. I love them so much.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 day ago:
Then you open the bottle and find it’s filled with different types of pills of various sizes, colors, and markings.
“Umm… So which one of these do I take?”
And then you get 20 different answers.
- Comment on Is spreading. 1 day ago:
“Can anyone recommend a good distr-”
- Comment on i unapologetically love male pits 1 day ago:
- Comment on "Being vegan is unnatural" 3 days ago:
I’m sorry, are you under the impression that animal husbandry doesn’t occur in non-capitalist societies?
- Comment on Lemmings, please give us your info dump. 5 days ago:
For people who think they’re winning by fucking with scammers, unless you are tying up hours of their time, you are doing the opposite by engaging with them. And even if you tie up hours, they aren’t really losing.
Obviously, falling for the scam is their ideal outcome, but ANY engagement beyond silence, a generic VM, or a disconnected/fax line marks your number as ‘active’ which can then be sold to other scammers.
So they still get a profit, and your number winds up on more scamming lists.
We are also getting close to the point where it won’t even be an actual human you’re talking to, it’ll just be some AI, making engagement even more useless.
If you get a call from an unknown number and you don’t have call screening, answer and SAY NOTHING! Not hello, not “may I ask whose calling”, mute your phone so they don’t even get background noise. The only numbers they can’t get anything out of are the ones that are brick walls.
- Comment on Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial 1 week ago:
Yea, he better watch out or he’s gonna get a $6000 fine instead of $5000.
- Comment on Mewgenics becomes the most-played roguelite ever on Steam 1 week ago:
Gotta wonder where Binding of Isaac falls on the list since it’s been out so long and it’s players tend to be the ones that put hundreds, if not thousands, of hours into it.
- Comment on Am I a joke to you? 1 week ago:
Yea! What gives? People will eat a wonderfully cooked and prepared steak but turn their nose up at an unseasoned chunk of raw beef. They also prefer soft bread over raw flour. Gosh, it sure is a mystery why people have these preferences!
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 1 week ago:
Because it has ad blockers built in, has Tor built in, blocks trackers by default, and is very upfront and open about how they use your data if you choose to let them. A big part of what this article misses is that the feature is opt-in. It is turned off by default. Some people are weird and want personalized ads, in which case this feature is a hell of a lot more secure than other browsers who have to opt-out of tracking and don’t give a shit about your PII.
- Comment on Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales 1 week ago:
Fix. Your. Fries. Wendy has had the WORST fries of any fast food chain for decades. They serve them like a point of pride, but they are basically unsalted potatoes. They are flavorless and always disappointing.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 2 weeks ago:
Because, shockingly, Discords use base is not made up of people hyper focused on tech that care about decentralization. It’s mostly people who just want to play video games with their friends.
- Comment on "This is the best case scenario": Microsoft withdraw DMCA takedown notice on voxel sandbox Allumeria 2 weeks ago:
They should countersue for lost profits.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 2 weeks ago:
And if all your friends are hyper focused on tech and decentralization and open source software, they should have no problem switching!
If, on the other hand, you have friends who fall into the rest of the 99.9% of society, they will react like you suggest they replace all their meals with raw potatoes.
- Comment on Why Haven’t Quantum Computers Factored 21 Yet? 2 weeks ago:
Every time I see a picture of a quantum computer, it just looks like a bunch of Galileo thermometers bundled together. So maybe you’re on to something lol
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 2 weeks ago:
A goal to work toward. A hope that if we keep fighting, there will eventually be a future where people don’t have to fight. That there is a path toward humanity reaching it’s peak, rather than an endless sisyphian struggle until our extinction.
It’s not “things could be fine without struggle or setbacks”, Star Trek makes it VERY clear that it was not a smooth and easy path toward fully automated gay space communism. It’s history of humanity is riddled with wars and uprisings and cultural slides backwards. But there is the idea that there could be a better future someday. Where greed and inequality are almost foreign concepts in society. Where science and reason finally win out against superstition and ignorance.
It may be a fantasy, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to hold onto a belief that things will not always just continue to be shitty forever. Never forget the words that can make a happy man’s joy turn to ash, or a sad man’s misery into hope:
This too shall pass.
- Comment on Why do they turn Federation into a dystopia? 2 weeks ago:
It just feels wrong. It’s like having superman act like homelander. Even if the message is “things shouldn’t be this way”, you are tarnishing a symbol of hope and optimism. People like Star Trek, especially these days, because it gives them hope of a better future, beyond the struggles and corruption of modern society; where justice isn’t just an abstract concept that has to be fought for every day. Where competence and intelligence is rewarded, and corruption and prejudice is not tolerated.
To take that and twist it by going “actually the future is shitty and still full of fascism and it will always be an uphill battle” is just soul crushing.
- Comment on Genes be crazy 2 weeks ago:
There is a type of ant that smells like rotten coconut when squished. Is that what they’re talking about?
- Comment on Important Announcement 2 weeks ago:
I mean, except for you, the creator and poster of this misleading image that will only add fuel to the baseless accusations from Mossad. Even if you created this as an edgy joke, it won’t be used that way.
Let me ask you something: Why make shit up at all? Even as a joke? There are plenty of respectable people who have made anti-ICE statements. Hell, even Ms. Rachel as made actual statements. Why put words into someone’s mouth that they didn’t say? What good comes of that?
- Comment on I might actually be a respectable member of society 3 weeks ago:
The trip doesn’t fully end until you go to sleep.
- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 3 weeks ago:
Dude… Just no. They have not thrown the kitchen sink at us. Tear gas, unconstitutional arrests, even shooting people in isolated incidents is not even fucking close to how bad it could get. Short of sending an M1 Abrams? How about just unloading full auto rifles into a crowd? How about taking out targets with predator drones? FFS, they only just started deploying LRAD.
Things can, and very well may, get so, so, SO much worse even before tanks start rolling in the streets.
- Comment on 99% of the time when I get exposed to content that sucks, it's because of other people creating content about the content they also think sucks. 4 weeks ago:
“Everything I know about the Kardashians I have learned against my will”
- Comment on That'll be $300. 4 weeks ago:
If you rotate your tires, don’t forget to get your wheels rebalanced at the same time! So many places, usually quick oil change places, will offer a tire rotation service but WONT rebalance them and then you’ll drive off and wonder why your car is so shaky.
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 4 weeks ago:
AMD is also in Israel. As is Intel.
- Comment on how could this happen😔 4 weeks ago:
All of them are. You want a sex scene? Go watch porn. Has no business being in any other media except as a distraction. It’s practically never used to move the plot, it’s all just pandering to gooners who can’t seem to function or pay attention to anything without their hands on their dicks.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 5 weeks ago:
I like giving it impossible tasks, like spell OPERATION with only 4 letters, and arguing with it as it refuses to admit that I’m wrong and have requested something impossible, or when it tries to cut corners. “No, I don’t want an abbreviation, or a word that means the same thing, I want you to spell the full word OPERATION with only 4 letters. Why can’t you get this right?”
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Sure; if you’re too simple minded to do anything except follow the animalistic urge to fuck and shit out another unwilling life into this already overpopulated world. Logically, there is no reason to have kids right now. Those who believe it’s the only thing that matters in life are basically biological puppets, unable or unwilling to recognize they are being driven by base level instincts. Basically one step removed from monkeys fucking in trees and throwing poop at each other.
- Comment on Outstanding in her field: cow recorded using tool for first time 5 weeks ago:
So this brings up an interesting question, what qualifies as “tool use”? Google’s answer seems vague and too broad. Are hermit crabs tool users? What about those crabs that carry around sea anemones to use as weapons? What about lacewing larva, also known as trash bugs? They carry a lot of debris on their back to use as camouflage.
What about beavers? They build dams. What about birds? Yea, crows and parrots obviously, but almost all birds build nests.
- Comment on Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit 5 weeks ago:
I don’t care what identity the characters have, I just want them to be mentally sound. That was my biggest problem with Discovery. I loved all the representation, but holy shit could we have officers that actually act like officers instead of a bunch of high-schoolers in a cheap drama? Every fucking week it was some new identity crisis. How the hell did such a miserable collection of neurotic babies become a Star Trek crew?
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 1 month ago:
People got mad at me for pointing out this is the case when people die because they listen to an AI chatbot, but it’s true. AI 100% needs more regulation, but introduce any new tool to everyone all at once, and some idiots will use it to remove themselves from the gene pool. If you sent everyone in the world a thin, 2in rod of inert iron, there would be a handful of people who would figure out a way to kill themselves with it.
