Same here, pop us a post when you find out if you have the time

Chekhov’s Compulsion

Sounds like you did a great job

What surprised you most about how it all played out?

I am that person.

I’m here out of sheer bloody mindedness, it felt like both Lemmy and Mastodon actively resisted me using them at. every. step. from discovery of service to accessing service to finding content

I’m trying but damn

For the curious, this is from the dropout.tv show SmartyPants where comedians present lectures and it’s amazing

No she didn’t

She’s said she’s voting for Kamala but that this is not the same as an endorsement by Chappell Roan ®™©

But people heard the words “problems on both sides” and deliberately took it completely out of context and have been bullying her about it for weeks

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGd15qY45/

If they come for Karina “Drawfee” Farek they come for me

[Immediately searches “downfall recap” to parse what I just finished watching]

I simply can’t give them any money for at least 3 months while the community decides it’s actual worth, or if it’s just a cash grab built upon the shoddy foundations of backwards compatibility

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My “why has the world gone to shit” was the 2007/8 banking crisis when everyone realised that you could pull off any swindle you wanted and no one would stop you. So everyone did/everyone stopped trying to hide it.

So presumably people older than me would point to the start of Trickle Down Economics, and so on

Everyone has their own “None of this works and it’s intentional!” moment

“separate creator from the art” only works when the creator has passed and no longer benefits from celebrating the art. Arguably not even then.

Great. Now I have to look up “Mike Mearls Controversy” to relearn what that whole thing was about

The flashback, my lord

[countless smoke alarms across the globe scream in concert as every introvert melts their phones in unison]

I see it going that way too, which means you’re incentivised to use them to scout by design and disincentivised to use them to scout by practice.

It’s not bad design, per se, it just feels…a bit flat, a bit clunky, a bit meh

There’s something fundamentally fun about the fact that even in tier4 with god like arcane powers, most of the time the wizard Has To Go To The Place To Do The Thing. Maybe that’s why Simulacrum inspires the same feeling, that it’s powerful but is it fun?

Team Aphantasia!

I love that, good on you both for finding something that works for your table