here’s a pretty cool video for anyone who likes #NewVegas : this guy travels to a lot of the locations in the game IRL

Traveling The Path of The Courier: A Fallout New Vegas Adventure

apparently someone in Goodsprings calls himself Easy Pete and claims to be the guy that the character was based on, but nobody’s sure if he’s playing a role for tourists or if that’s actually true

Somehow it's #PortfolioDay again. Let's do this.

I'm Paul, and I draw illustrations of devils and demigoddesses, elves and other fantasy characters, as my whims take me.

Almost everything I draw is in my post history, or my gallery hosted at https://baffledwizard.blogspot.com/.

I'm generally open to interesting collaborations—especially #Illustration, #Gaming or #TTRPG stuff. DM me or email ravanon[at]outlook[dot]com.

#MastoArt #FediArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Fantasy #CommissionsOpen

explaining why you shouldn't bodyshame even bad people feels like man-ray with patrick's wallet

"you're insulting this person for an unrelated trait"
"yes"
"so you think having that trait is something they should be ashamed of"
"yes"
"so you think that trait itself is shameful"
"no im only making fun of the bad person"

never forget that on the internet you are at risk of being quoted in wiktionary at all times https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pakige

Personally I think alt-text is valuable for everyone, not for just people with visual impairments. I read alt-text all the time. I'm curious if my theory that a wide swath of people read alt-text is true.
#AltTxt #AltText

Now you can play Dwarf Fortress in your MtG games... wut...?

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/card-games/dwarf-fortress-is-coming-to-magic-the-gathering-and-im-beginning-to-suspect-wizards-of-the-coast-is-targeting-me-specifically/

#gaming #magicthegathering #dwarffortress

@kit this is so so similar to how I feel about any kind of PvP game tbh. I definitely agree completely with your point about the competitive culture of online games. it is such a problem, and I think it’s made worse by how the internet disproportionately shows us the most highly-skilled optimization-minded players (speedrunners, esports players, people doing extremely technical challenge runs) which creates this cultural expectation that the “best” (or even the “only correct”) way to play a game is very very sweatily. and then of course games are designed to cater to that sweaty culture and they all start to become endless skill-grinds, designed to only be fun if your sole motivation is to become as skilled as possible

although I have more mixed thoughts on matchmaking. I think that for my personality type - where I only enjoy PvP games when I win, and feel pretty bad when I lose - I just shouldn’t play PvP games at all. I think that probably a majority of people who play PvP games feel this way, which sucks because that essentially makes it a zero-sum game: someone’s happiness always has to come at the cost of someone else’s pain. which is probably a big part of where PvP toxicity comes from

losing will happen at least half of the time no matter what, so I think that PvP games should only be played by people who enjoy the game whether they win or lose - and people like that do exist! I have a hard time wrapping my head around that concept but there are people out there who just enjoy playing a PvP game at all, and don’t care if they win or lose. and I think PvP games should only be played by them tbh. and that’s why I only play Deadlock against bots lol

@kit ugh - yeah I’ve had very similar experiences to your Forza example

I’m not sure if that’s a cultural problem, or if that’s just what naturally happens when a playerbase has been playing the same game for hundreds of hours. but it sucks because like 9 times out of 10 when I play a new multiplayer game the matchmaker is physically incapable of finding opponents for me who are on my skill level lol. it makes me feel so so bad at video games but the weird thing is I’m actually not?

maybe I’m just bad at multiplayer PvP games in particular - idk. but I can at least confidently say that I always feel like it lol

@kasdeya I’ve liked that quote for a long time because it always made perfect sense to me. but in recent years, I’ve been realizing that the only reason it made sense was because everybody around me was doing it all the time, and I wasn’t looking past that

there have been plenty of times that I’ve “optimized the fun out” myself, which made it even harder to think differently, but at some point I just suddenly realized that every time I did it myself, it was because I wasn’t having fun in the first place. I hunt down and abuse the optimal strategy when I’m playing a game that I do not enjoy, but feel like I still have to play anyway for whatever reason. that’s pretty different from all the people around me who abuse optimal strategies in everything all the time forever and complain about “balance”, even in single player games

it’s almost like for games to be fun, not only is fun design necessary, but the players also have to be willing to have fun

I am reminded of forza games, where I wanted to have fun and drive the cars I liked at the speeds I liked in the performance classes I liked, but doing races online became impossible because everyone was always driving The Meta Cars™ as if every casual race was always a competition for the #1 ranked spot

@celestia @hsza to be honest I’d love if even just the syntax (and not the semantics) of HTML was changed out to something a little more readable. like consider the difference between this:

<body>
    <div class="foo" some-attr="bar">
        text goes here
        <div class="empty-tag-example"></div>
    </div>
</body>

and these:

body:
    div.foo(some-attr="bar"):
        text goes here
        div.empty-tag-example:

(body (div.foo {some-attr "bar"}
        "text goes here"
        (div.empty-tag-example)))

IMO the bottom two are a lot easier to read because there’s less syntactic noise

xml is a bad format because it’s tedious for people to write and being text-based it’s inefficent for computers too. worst of both worlds

that extends to html. with how much of a pain writing html by hand is - it is possible to make a website in notepad, but it’s a soulcrushing chore! - i can see where the popularity of web frameworks comes from

so the web platform is overall kind of a disaster and it might be a wheel worth reinventing

Good day folks!

This is probably an odd request, but as the owner and operator of TubeFree.org I want the platform to be as open as possible. But only speaking English I'm VERY limited in reviewing videos.

Does anyone know a translator that could help with persian? Or a tool?

All of the tools I'm finding don't support it and I have someone that uploaded some videos in Persian.

It appears to be a debate or discussion about Iran. I'm absolutely compelled the to leave the video up, but I would love to know the discussion.

ANY help is appreciated. Including if you think you know a friend of a friend or a tool that might work.

Thank you so much!