Zezzy

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[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 4 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Blades in the Dark is a cool heist and organized crime drama ttrpg that uses d6 dice pools (usually not too many, 1 to 5 total)

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 9 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Learn your local spiders. Moved into a house with a ton of spiders, but after learning to recognize them it turned out only Black Widows were dangerous, and they stick to themselves in sheds and don't bother us

Now as long as they don't touch me I'm good with spiders. Love this one's color!

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 6 points 8 months ago

Rust is very complex, in part due to the obsession with zero cost abstraction that leads to caring about lots of edge cases like NonZero types. But at least when I've worked with it, a lot of that you can just ignore and write straight forward code, and it'll still likely be very performant. Although the Rust sort of philosophy vibes with me better, so not all might find that so forgiving.

I did quit using Rust due to its compile times though. Even using dependencies that would advertise fast building like Bevy quickly started taking more than a minute to build (not from scratch, just making one line changes). And during that minute I'd get bored and do something else, and my productivity plummeted.

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

angery every pathfinder 1e character being a Reactionary because some writer making that mistake on one of the most useful traits

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 35 points 10 months ago (3 children)

SMT negotiations are by far my favorite monster-collecting methods. Just equal parts philosophy, flirtation, and gibberish as they vibe check you.

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if it was from a mod, but when I played with a friend there was a modifier to disable failing out of songs, so we'd enable it on those songs and just swing along wildly as best we could, and still finish them. Also helped us get a lot better at the game. Maybe that would work?

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

To pick a nit – last I heard, no scholar believes that runes can be read, pronounced, or that we have access to any ancient tradition of meaning. Modern runic divination is based on intuitive interpretation – well and good, but a flimsy basis for reconstructing lost languages and cultures.

Am I just not understanding the authors point or is this like, completely wrong? Linguistics is a real field, and there has been a lot of study into runes and the Germanic language family (probably too much study, considering the issue with Eurocentrism throughout linguistics). Wikipedia is pretty detailed about the different eras and how the runes were pronounced and changed.

The point about modern Runic Divination being vibes based looks to be true, but it seems wrong to bring it up unprompted and conflate the two.

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 24 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Haven't seen the video myself and definitely not gonna now, but people under that post were saying that was plagiarized too from a Vanity Fair article.

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like going back to old English, strawberries were still berries. The botanical meaning was only added in the 1700s.

So blackberries, raspberries, tomatoes, pineapples, strawberries, and eggplants are all berries

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Looks nice, but it fucks up the ligatures in a lot of functional languages other than pipes |>. Poor <$>, >>=, *>, >>>, and all their friends

[–] Zezzy@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That sucks. Where I live this is pretty much the only way since we ran out of injectable estrogen for a long time, and the pharmacies here won't tell us if they can re-order it so I don't know if the drought is over.

Edit: this prompted me to call around and see if one would answer. Walgreens is claiming they can, but they did that last shortage too.

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