Theharpyeagle

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[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Yeah, if someone at the table wants certain attributes for their character, the DM should not allow others to mess with that without very good reason. This guy being a dick about it? He can find another table.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Oh man! Excited for this, never played the original but played a lot of Croc 2 growing up.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

I dunno if scaring people off of their instance's communities is a deliberate attempt at building an echo chamber or just genuine dumbassery.

Honestly thank god the Lemmy devs made a platform that makes it so easy to avoid them.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Wayback Machine shows it was missing at one point.

http://web.archive.org/web/20240829000336/https://discuss.python.org/t/should-we-consider-ranked-choice-voting-for-sc-elections/61880/

Hard to say why exactly it was hidden, but it's a bad look for sure.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 10 points 10 months ago

I think that's a little too simplistic. I definitely agree that "we can't show you the evidence of why we made this decision but trust us" isn't going to instill confidence in the community, but it's not like the steering council is some unrelated board of executives. They're all core developers, theoretically chosen for their dedication and contributions to Python as a whole, and it seems their granted power has made them anxious about showing favoritism among the most seasoned at the expense of upholding the community guidelines that keep the Python community a positive and welcoming place.

I think a flawed decision was made, or at least the way it was presented was flawed, and that should be considered for the next election. Maybe the council does need to be totally overhauled, that's a valid position. But this is their work, too, and imply they have no skin in the game is disingenuous.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

To be honest I still chalk it up to that.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

This comes up every so often on the RiffTrax twitch channel and, try as I might, I can't make it through more than 20 minutes of it. The guitar noodling, the nonexistent plot, that fucking voice, god it's too awful to even be funny.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

"Why don't you donate that money?"

"Why don't you?"

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

You know, when I read The Handmaid's Tale back in high school, I didn't think the ending made any sense. How do you have tourists just walking around taking pictures when there's horrible human rights violations happening in plain sight?

I think I get it now.

Honestly the accounts of the woman who visited almost bother me more than the men. Even as a tourist she wasn't allowed to do certain things, but she can just leave whenever she wants. Wonder how her friends among the locals feel about that.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Getting real uncanny valley vibes from those teeth...

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

I avoided it for a while because it felt so clunky, but it has really improved in the last decade.

[–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

To be fair, there's some stuff that was bred into the gene pool near the inception of the breed that can't be easily removed now. You can reduce the risk by avoiding incest and thorough genetic testing where possible, but there's some health issues that would plague purebreds for a long time even if every breeder in the world was responsible.

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