sabazius

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[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Well, he was a billionaire because he sold his successful business to Hewlett-Packard, who then wrecked it and strong-armed a case through the DoJ to claim he'd somehow misconstrued the value of his company, and then he spent 13 months in prison awaiting trial and was acquitted because the judge said HP just fucked it, so if we're making up theories about who's the villain in this story about an unexplained sinking... Maybe it's more complex than a cursory reading of a single news article?

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 47 points 6 months ago

It's also incredibly cheap to produce, requiring no unusual props or location shooting, and generally tolerable to those who aren't interested in the kink, so it's a relatively safe bet economically

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Not only is the word fag used by a lot of people, because there are a lot of hateful bigots out there, but even when you don't mean the nasty implications, it still reminds gay people around you how much the world hates them and leads hateful bigots who overhear you to believe that their views are more widely held and acceptable to share in public. Shocking though it may seem, South Park is not a moral authority on these matters.

Aside from that, if you know a word is commonly used a slur against a disprivileged group, someone advises you to stop using it, and your response is that you'd rather say it, hurt someone and apologise if they complain about it than just stop using that word, what does that say about your priorities?

 

It's probably not your fault. Year-long campaigns are just a very niche sell. Maybe you need to run a few oneshots instead?

Signed, someone just like you

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, a light meal taken at 11am, usually including a hot beverage and a bakery product

 
[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That post was so compelling until I got to the part where they were cheerily explaining how the future was AI assistants that you could bias towards your own political leanings. Can anyone just not try and cram LLMs into every single goddamn thing? I want search that takes me to websites made by people, not a summary by a piece of software pretending to be my friend which has been instructed to give sarcastic responses to make it feel more #relatable

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

Fuck Andrew Tate and his shitty redpill memes

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whether you're talking UI or code structure, functional and elegant minimalism requires planning. Before you start laying down markup or css, sit down and write out what elements your site needs to be functional, where they will sit on a page and how you're going to achieve that layout in plain English. Minimalism in coding falls apart once you have to start adding a bunch of dependencies and exceptions to account for something you didn't anticipate - so make a conscious effort to anticipate!

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It'll just be one fewer junctions. 2^n is always one more than the sum of 2^1+...2^(n-1)

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey! it's lovely and green, right next to the Peak District

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

This is true, but at the same time, most of the incap effects are on spells with saving throws, which so rarely result in crit fails that it just feels mean to nullify it when it happens

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I am a GM. I have fun telling a fun story, not swatting down players when they would otherwise succeed

[–] sabazius@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I understand why the Incapacitation trait exists, but oh my God is it unfun. It's already difficult to get a higher level enemy to fail a save. It's basically the Legendary Resistance tax from 5e except you can't even pay it off

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