It’s based on D&D (but doesn’t require any knowledge or lean on the game strongly at all), so it’s small party combat.

I just think it’s so visercal, so well-defined without being dry. At all times I felt like the picture of the fights was really being painted blow by blow, including deft movements and tactical thinking. It was never “they exchanged blows,” it was always “Drizzt turned in perfect time to evade the hammer’s swing, and maneuvered between the legs of the larger man to send the jagged edge of his blade through the man’s back,” only much much better because R.A. Salvatore is 100x better a writer than I am.

R.A. Salvatore’s Icewind Dale Trilogy.

I don’t know why this fell out of popular culture, but it’s excellent and I haven’t read a writer who writes better combat.

Tbh I think you can one time drop a very friendly but more direct: “hey have you guys thought about posting your stuff in a music community on Lemmy? It’s like reddit but smaller and with a very engaged audience. I think they’d dig you there!” Or something to that effect. Just don’t be a dick about it or spam them.

A lot of them don’t know about or don’t understand the fediverse. We need to be more proactive in asking this of the artists we love. I’ll try to be better about doing my part to mention the fediverse to artists in my sphere, an especially good fit given the DIY roots of the punk/hardcore lineage of much of it.

Absolutely, TT is scary and the take-over has been insanely obvious. Despite this people are still regularly making real content and connections on TT. Tiktok, the company and app themselves, are vile and disgusting, but Tiktok, the community, is still largely very decent, imo.

edit: misunderstood comment, thought it was replying to a later comment in the thread, sorry

Honestly Marketplace is the best argument for FB today. How it has usurped Craigslist I don’t understand, maybe because it’s easier to navigate, but you’re right that it is the defacto modern market.

I don’t use it so I forget about it, but this is a good counterpoint.

Tbh, I know this will be a hot take, but I do think Tiktok is a vastly better network. Tumblr too. These are still actual social media platforms.

Yes, they’re deeply algorithm-based, yes they’re for-profit, capitalist networks still, but I think they are miles better than FB/Insta or Twitter/X. Have you looked at somebody’s Facebook? 90%+ of posts are corporate, political, special interest. Almost nobody actually posts anything, they just reshare an endless stream of garbage content entirely divorced from the human experience.

At least Tiktok, despite its many legitimate problems and criticisms, is still largely a human-driven platform. It’s still a place where people are making, sharing, and consuming real human posts in the interest of connection.

Tiktok is still social media. I genuinely don’t think FB or X have been social media in many many years.

It remains insane to me that it’s so hard for so many to just, not use them. Truly, your life is not being enriched by twitter or Facebook. You can delete your account and I promise you won’t find yourself missing them.

So a chickenshit conservative

Ah yes, and the rest of all are all angry loners who hate friendship, very astute assessment

I didn’t suggest Republican, I suggested conservative. Having different opinions isn’t dangerous, but some opinions are dangerous, so maybe don’t believe hateful dehumanizing things or be comfortable with those who do and suddenly you’ll find people more accepting.

And I’m 400 years old and the King of Wales, professionally, since you seem to think either of those factors have some bearing on my opinion.

I’m sure that’s what will happen because that’s what always happens. The left makes a cool space and conservatives slime their way in and ruin it. I don’t give a fuck if you call me an extremist, I want you and yours to feel unwelcome.

How else to you reconcile being on the same side as all the bigots? You are clearly comfortable with them

They’re not all shitty and bigoted, but they are all comfortable with shittiness and bigotry, and that’s functionally the same thing

I said it before:

I do not want conservatives prohibited from joining Lemmy, but I do want conservatives to feel unwelcome joining Lemmy.

Not dominance through authority, but through culture.

An angry chihuahua

I search by name and follow a few “stars,” personally.

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I did not argue for karma, I argued that if karma exists, it should be public. I am at least equally happy with such score not existing for Piefed admins either.