Pretty good work with the design on the original spec species, the idea of adapting it into something like Normal/Poison feels sound.

Any particular reason why you used the G2 Pokédex style (and limitations)?

“Hoooman, I’m not gonna help you with that 23 kg limit”

I’d probably say mundane ergonomics (eg.: how do your species use chairs, or if doors have knobs or bars) and general interpersonal processes: how does one find a mate, or raise a child in the setting, how are liars and cheaters treated, etc.

Not the spells, but how and why magic works in the first place.

Emphasis mine; interested here. What about working on the “why” do you like the best? Is it the work of placing in “inherent” limitations, or the lore that you can work behind it, etc?

What are those benefits? The only potential one I have direct experience with (besides speed) is that the connector is reversible, but even that’s small-time and a flat out objective downgrade compared to the circular connectors of the 90s, which could be plugged in regardless of orientation.

Sure, if you want; as long as whoever does that retrofits all my USB-A devices.

Wow hadn’t seen that image in a good while!

It changed my economy game.

Now I have to buy an USB-C to USB-A adaptor to plug USB-C stuff into my already standing devices. Honestly, no idea why didn’t they make it connector-compatible. Wasn’t that the entire point of the “U” in “USB”?

Reddit is going to transition to a right wing platform right before our eyes.

is going to

At least we’ll always have the ironic laugh at how the US, a country with guns for everyone, didn’t even get a tin medal in shooting the Olympics, and how the US, a country with the 2nd Amendment, can’t even kill a tyrant right.

Which means 15m people don’t mind being fascists, which functionally is the same as they actively want to be fascists.

But hey at least they don’t want to be Canada… I guess?

effectively forcing their own personal feed preferences on everyone who uses Lemmy

But… that’s how voting literally works. Hence one of the smartest ideas I saw once for Lemmy (and for the Fediverse in general) was to substitute upvoting/downvoting for “voting on tags”, such as being able to tag a post as “fake news”, “inspiring” or “AI generated” and have people vote on those instead of on the psot / comment proper. Alas, I don’t know what ever happened to that proposal, and could never find it again to track it down.

But, see, that’s the thing and that’s why there’s an important difference between blocking and downvoting:

If I block something bad, like say fake news or fascism or AI, I block it only for me, it’s only protecting myself; but if I downvote it, I also help protect my peers. If we want to make community, that’s very important. And like any measure, it can be gamed, but so long as it’s the one option we have, we gotta use like that. I expect AI slop to be batch-downvoted; if I didn’t, I’d be back at Reddit.

…What, being like Canada? 👀

punishing people for downvoting AI slop

Now that would be quite the turn… Downvoting AI slop is the basic human decency I’d expect from Lemmy.

Well, then kick him out. Or maybe guillotine him out, so that he doesn’t return.

Like, if people were actually that irked that he won, they’d be doing something. But no, from what I hear El Trumpo actually won the popular vote: the US wants to be fascist. Maybe Canada too. (No, not as in the US wants to be Canada… although that’d be an improvement…)

So basically they balked, went for a “more of the same”, then balked off that and went back? Can’t imagine why.

Then again XMPP / Jabber is so much easier to host, you can do it in the cheapest Linode VPS, yet communities don’t use it either.

isolate your identity! avoid leaks! avoid payments! don’t use tracking! avoid analytics!

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…something… does not compute.

They didn’t even hand me a uniform or a qt cap, and they work with Node.js despite several warnings; I ain’t representing shit.

Congrats on keeping your cat active and engaged for 11 years!

Why don’t you speak what you truly believe instead of copy-pasting the same gaslighting everywhere? We already made you, anyway.