Yeah, there's some abilities that are just a lot of fun to have, but if your party doesn't have the right class, they wouldn't get the fun. An example would be druid shapeshifting (especially for non combat purposes). That's really great for story potential, thanks to being able to use it for spying and finding routes.
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Do you have a lore reason that explains it, or is it just a fourth wall breaker (for the greater good)?
I've recently switched to Weawow and it's great! Really high quality widgets and a really powerful notification area feature.
IMO ideally there'd be two separate options. I want to block stuff like foreign language instances or some niche instances so that I don't see communities hosted on them, but I don't want to block the users from those instances when they post in other communities.
I agree. Overall, the culture feels pretty similar to Reddit, except without the many small, niche communities that I loved about Reddit. The amount of bigotry I personally see feels pretty similar in terms of percent.
Plus, there's some problems here that Reddit didn't have. Hexbear users, for example, love to do rather annoying trolling even in threads outside of their instance, often spamming their comically large images (I know they're not supposed to be that big, but they spam them anyway). There's been no shortage of defederation drama over and over in different instances.
If anything, I find the various comments expressing how good Lemmy is to be... a bit forced? Like, do they really believe that, or are they trying to convince themselves? Frankly, I'm only here because I don't want to give Reddit (the company) any money unnecessarily (plus they need the competition). The tech is kinda cool, but I honestly don't care that much and it's got a whole load of problems to make up for that. I also do like that it's open source, (even though I don't personally have the motivation to code outside of work anymore).
I have to admit, I am surprised that still exists, and also a little surprised it's not considered at least a little bit of a sex game (I mean, every MMO has ERPers, but in my head, I pictured Second Life as a bit more common for that kinda thing).
It's honestly a good question. It's perfectly legal for you to memorize a copyrighted work. In some contexts, you can recite it, too (particularly the perilous fair use). And even if you don't recite a copyrighted work directly, you are most certainly allowed to learn to write from reading copyrighted books, then try to come up with your own writing based off what you've read. You'll probably try your best to avoid copying anyone, but you might still make mistakes, simply by forgetting that some idea isn't your own.
But can AI? If we want to view AI as basically an artificial brain, then shouldn't it be able to do what humans can do? Though at the same time, it's not actually a brain nor is it a human. Humans are pretty limited in what they can remember, whereas an AI could be virtually boundless.
If we're looking at intent, the AI companies certainly aren't trying to recreate copyrighted works. They've actively tried to stop it as we can see. And LLMs don't directly store the copyrighted works, either. They're basically just storing super hard to understand sets of weights, which are a challenge even for experienced researchers to explain. They're not denying that they read copyrighted works (like all of us do), but arguably they aren't trying to write copyrighted works.
Don't forget potentially underpay people. I don't believe that's happening for SpaceX specifically, but it does for many other competitors to government jobs. Government jobs aren't necessarily super high pay, but they usually have solid pay with excellent benefits, pension, and work/life balance.
So when jobs move from the public to private sector, it often comes at the cost of employees. And in some extreme cases, employees are paid so little that they have to rely on government benefits to get by, which is extremely dumb. That's subsidizing the private sector.
Honestly, I've wished that experience was possible for other times. I know it's dangerous and that's why it's not. But general anesthesia is just such a better experience than local. Eg, I had a dental filling the other day. That uses local anesthesia and it's quite stressful (especially as my first time undergoing that). I found myself wishing it was as convenient as how general anesthesia is just blink and it's done.
I also wish it were so easy to fall asleep. It sucks tossing and turning at night (especially when there's something big going on the next day, which only makes it harder to fall asleep), knowing how anesthesia can knock you out in seconds. My understanding is that anesthesia isn't sleep and won't give you the benefits of sleep, but the experience of drifting off so fast is still what I want from sleep.
Honestly, I worry most about what would happen if the GOP unites behind someone that isn't Trump in name (ie, with Trump completely out of the picture), but is effectively the same person. I think Trump doesn't have a chance of winning the general election. He's too despicable for anyone with even a little bit of morals. But a replacement could give right leaning people an excuse to vote for the GOP again, even if the replacement is basically just the same thing but less overt.
Yeah. GitHub makes sense because most users are writing code that can be executed by others. That makes GitHub accounts security critical.
But a Lemmy account? Naw, you lose almost nothing if that gets compromised. A little bit of history and subscriptions, mostly.
I'm in a discord that for some reason "requires" 2FA. Based on searching, I think they give everyone some kinda admin role or something? It doesn't actually require 2FA, but it shows a very annoying warning that covers up a bunch of the channel selection screen. But despite that, I don't really wanna deal with the hassle of 2FA on a chat app that's basically consequence free for me if it gets exploited.