@Paradox you ever think about how peppa pig always has two eyes no matter which side she’s facing so in reality if you looked her head on she’d have four eyes

wear a mask please <3

@EverBeyondReach holy shit it really is

Just realized "highbrow" and "lowbrow" is literally fossilized phrenology in english language

@oracle I genuinely can’t tell if dolls would find this insulting or affirming lol but I’m guessing affirming?

@Aurin_the_classtraitor Matrix is way too complicated, it’s pretty buggy, and there are way too many technical choices that you have to make. like, what server do you use? what app do you use to talk to the server? etc. and then the server might get shut down soon after you join, which happened to me

I’d recommend Signal instead. it’s centralized (it only has one server instead of lots of federated servers) but it respects privacy, it seems secure and spying-resistant to me, and it’s really easy to set up and use. you start by setting it up on your phone, and then you can set it up on your computer(s) by using your phone to scan a QR code

I don’t think it has any equivalent of Discord servers though. just ways to DM people or maybe make a group chat. but! you can voice call and even stream your screen (no audio though :/)

Tech people talk about tech too much.

I really really REALLY want to use all the awesome privacy friendly FOSS (and similar) stuff, but I am not a techie person! I don't know how to program, nor do I want to.

And every SINGLE time I try to find out even what thing (OS, program, app, service, etc) to use, let alone how, and I search for it... I get techie-focused answers.

It's complete gibberish to me! Absolutely useless. It makes me feel actively unwelcome even though I really care about using alternatives to Windows, Meta, X and other dystopic nonsense.

For example: I'm like "How do I start a non-enshittified group chat to talk about a thing?" and all the results are technobabble to me. I don't even know if the words they use are supposed to be normal english words or if they refer to orgs or groups or apps or some weird coding wizardry.

I am so lost, every single time.

I stick with it though. But like. I wonder if the tech people realise that this is happening???? Because they probably understand what they're talking about. And they seem to not realise that not everyone does.

I'm not trying to blame or shame anyone or even complaining as such (a little bit complaining, ngl), mostly just giving feedback. This is not an issue with a singe thing but with ALL of it as a whole! Including #GNU/#Linux the #Fediverse #Matrix and most #FOSS apps.

My sincere wish: Give non-techie people an EASY TO FIND and easy to read and easy to understand and easy to implement guide about how to use the things as an alternative to using big corporation services, ie, "I just want it to work" and not have to worry about the technical side of things. (examples in thread)

Dolls: counts as tool, has roughly the same durability as stone pickaxes.

Drones: stacks up to 64 in your inventory

Angels: stacks up to 108

Demons: Doesn't stack, consumes adjacent inventory items.

Moths: counts as a key item, can't be removed from the inventory bar once you have it there.

Witches: does not stack, but you can make a cube out of them at a crafting table.

@NovaSquirrel not to nerdsnipe you (absolutely to nerdsnipe you) but since I found out you can embed arbitrary data into .png's I've been obsessed with the idea of making, like, trading cards that have data that a game can read

So, maybe your game could spit out a .png trading card that looks like a screenshot of the location, and then folk could just drag-and-drop that pic onto the website and it could magic them straight to that location?

Like I think that'd be pretty neat

going to start writing troubleshooting checklists that start like

1. is it DNS?
2. no, really, is it DNS
3. are you sure?
4. i know it sounds silly, but you’d be surprised how likely this could be DNS

Gimme dat sweet sweet meat...

#Gaming #Minecraft #HardcoreMinecraft #SharedHardcore

@kasdeya @iris_meredith Dan Luu looked into this and found that the evidence is decidedly more mixed: https://danluu.com/keyboard-v-mouse/

@eclairwolf woahh reaching the latest expansion in 3 hours is fucking wild omg. but also I forgot all about chromie time! I only just recently switched from a Pandaria private server to a Legion one lol so I’m just enjoying having level scaling at all lol. but chromie time seems like such a good idea ngl

i was told that my views on parenting would change when i got older and had kids of my own.

i dont have kids but they did change – i hate parents and nuclear families even more now and still think kids should have full control over their lives

apparently it takes the average WoW player less than a week to reach max level? and that’s without looking at guides

I didn’t think that I was playing WoW in a way that was particularly slow or inefficient but this really puts my playstyle into perspective to be honest. I sometimes play for 2-3 weeks at a time before quitting for a while again, and at no point have I ever reached max level. in fact the furthest I’ve gotten on any character is WotLK, and this was on a 3x XP private server

the stranger danger panic of the 80s did irreparable harm to community trust and especially queer/minority communities in the us