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684I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible
I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post
I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time
I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead
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I can’t believe there’s a Star Trek MMO where the core loop is combat. that’s like making a Doctor Who game where the core loop is exploding cybermen with energy blasts from your sonic screwdriver
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kasdeyaugh I really need to upgrade my system. it doesn’t have a good enough CPU for STALKER 2 either :/ I’m hoping it can at least run Atomfall
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kasdeyame: I wonder if I’m actually autistic or if I’m just making it up
also me: I need to know if the large rooms in the Duke’s Archives in Dark Souls are lit by sunlight because I want to call them atriums but they don’t qualify unless they’re lit by sunlight
(by the way, yes, they are lit by sunlight)
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so I haven’t really understood the connection between roleplaying (pretending that you’re someone else and immersing yourself in a fictional scenario) and RPG elements (stat points, progression mechanics, and character optimization) but one of my partners sent me a video that might have helped me understand it a bit better
this was the video (the important part is here, at 3:23)
essentially at that point of the video, he says that different people will engage with different parts of Elden Ring’s systems based on what kind of character fantasy they want to have (two of the examples he gives are the fantasies of being a determined warrior or a clever mage) and he paints a fairly vivid picture of how you can roleplay as a mage during the combat of Elden Ring
and I found that fascinating because:
- it would never have occurred to me to roleplay in a FromSoft game
- it would never have occurred to me to create a character who I would want to roleplay as in a FromSoft game (I’m not sure if I could, but that’s another story)
- the way he described it, it almost sounded like the RPG systems were kinda helping with the roleplaying?
I’ve always seen RPG systems in games like Dark Souls as a complex series of arbitrary limitations that I have to navigate in order to get to the fun part of the game (the combat). If it were up to me, I’d want to be able to use every tool that you can get in the game (bows, swords, miracles, sorceries, pyromancies, etc.) without any of them being gated off or heavily nerfed based on my stat points
but I wonder if part of the point of RPG mechanics in FromSoft games is to let players look at their stat points and say “my character is a wizard” (because they have a high intelligence) or “my character is a knight” (because they have a high strength), and to have the game force them to play in a way that a knight or a wizard would play, because their stat points are allocated in such a way that they can’t play in any other way. like I wonder if those limitations actually add something to the roleplaying for those players
if so, that has a lot of implications for my understanding of other RPGs, and even why the acronym RPG stands for “roleplaying game”
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kasdeyaMinecraft modders be like “vanilla is so ugly” and then turn it into this
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kasdeyathe only fun part about cleaning a keyboard is the part at the end where you try to reassemble it from memory like a jigsaw puzzle and see which parts you have trouble with
(I always get the order of NM and UIOP mixed up, and I get confused about the order of /*- on the numpad as well)
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jess :3 
peachymist@labyrinth.zone
i don't need to do anything to be loved. i am intrinsically loveable. my worth does not reside on what i can do or what i have achieved. my worth resides in myself. anyone who thinks otherwise just doesn't know how to love.
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Foone🏳️⚧️
foone@digipres.clubReddit domain overlays on thumbnails don't understand two-level TLDs.
They apparently split the host name part of the url on the dots, then pick the second to last one.
This means "subdomain.example.egg" turns into just "example", but "bbc.co.uk" urls turn into "co"
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kasdeyaweb browsers are such a data black hole
just configured your favorite extension exactly how you want? that configuration is hidden in some binary blob deep in the browser that you can never read, back up, or directly modify
just created a beautiful userstyle? that userstyle is hidden in some binary blob deep in the browser that you can never read, back up, or directly modify
just wrote an amazing userscript? that userscript is hidden in some binary blob deep in the browser that you can never read, back up, or directly modify
like, fucking why? would it really be so hard to store some of this data as JSON files? it feels like browsers are getting more and more tamper-unfriendly and magic-box-y every day and that makes me uneasy. I don’t like that I have to experience the internet through tamper-resistant software
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kasdeyame: I wish I had the type of autism where I knew a whole lot about some obscure subject and could say a bunch of cool stuff about it from memory
also me: oh you want to un-word-wrap and then quote an entire markdown file in vim? that’s easy; it’s just :g/./norm vipJI>
also me: the ZM66 rifle in Hideous Destructor was definitely based on the real-life prototype H&K G11 which also used caseless ammo, also had an extremely fast three-round burst that was designed to fire all three rounds before the shooter felt recoil from the first, and was also prone to jamming and cook-off
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kasdeyame: *watches one video about how to clean a keyboard*
my youtube recommendations: what is up keyboard lover?? check out these top 10 🔥🔥fire🔥🔥 deals for the new cherry MX turboclack pro! or maybe check out these 5 😱😨😱cursed (!!!) keyboards from ali express!
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kas’s emotions ranked:
- positive social interaction
- excited by a hyperfixation
- unable to disengage from a hyperfixation and increasingly stressed about that
- hungry? tired? lonely? sad?
- ?????
- scary social interaction
- my emotions won’t stop hurting and I don’t know why or how to make them stop
- a dark confusing tangle that hangs over me for the entire day, demanding that I do something about it even though it’s the emotional equivalent of unreadable zalgo text
- oops I learned something about Current Events
- the constant low-level panic won’t let me collapse from exhaustion no matter how much I need to sleep
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kasdeyame trial-and-erroring every permutation of generics and type annotations trying to find the one that will make the typescript transpiler okay with my code
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*pulls out a gun in a job interview* hire me so that I can have rights in this country you smug piece of shit
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eli (ˈe̝ːli), vampire kitsune
rowanso the place I bought key caps from never sent them to me 
does anyone know a good place to buy them and possibly some silent frozen v2s at an okay price? (im in the US)
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kasdeyaI made a dark theme for my akkoma instance! I had to cheat with userstyles a little bit but like 95% of this was made with the in-browser style editor that akkoma provides
I’m not totally happy with this - I think there are some places that have too much contrast, and some places that have too little, and a lot of the colors look washed-out to me. but I’m happy to finally have a dark theme that I (kinda) like for my home instance lol
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jepyang@wandering.shopapparently there is a “rave collective” in toronto that has offered to be on-call for any reports of right-wing protests to bring a portable sound system and drown them out with 200bpm hardcore acid techno
i am so fucking here for this
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dfxluna@transfem.sociali miss when technology was more about showing me neat stuff people made like this youtube video from some random dude in japan with 1400 views. It’s been sitting it my favorites for 10 years.
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