wizjenkins

I'm GMing Quest for the Frozen Flame currently. It's a super fun AP so far. We're in the last third of the first book.

"Relax, you're just making pasta."

I used to be a person with massive anxiety for perfectionism. I never wanted to make a mistake, no matter how small. Thanks mom!

I went with my now-wife to Italy several years ago and we did a cooking class. I was learning to make pasta and trying to make the egg well as perfectly round as possible, and the chef teaching us told me that. Weirdly it struck me as super obvious, and it helped me frame my anxiety in a better light. It helped me figure out my anxiety wasn't realistic, and eventually lead to therapy and medications to help.

Now, I use this phrase at work all the time to remind my teams of software engineers at work that it's alright if something isn't working. We don't work with medical systems or nuclear plants. Bugs won't cause the end of the world, so it's not worth panicking over. We're just making pasta.

Hmm that is odd. I wonder is that is some slowness in lemmy.ml since they are overloaded causing the federation to slow down. The server can be set to have a limit of federation workers, so if all of those are busy getting updates from servers it might not show up.

That's a guess though since I haven't dug into the codebase and there aren't really any architecture diagrams of how Lemmy is constructed.

I think this idea is great but the discovery of instances for a new user is "what is the Lemmy site showing me" which is almost all larger instances.

Jerboa also doesn't do push notifications like the desktop does. So for moderation or messaging it's not super useful since I don't know if I have new applications or messages I should respond to.

That might be a limitation of Lemmy or the app (I'm not sure if it supports push notifications at all)

You can post my URL into your Lemmy instance search box and it will add it to the list of communities on your server. Super unintuitive since it doesn't show you that it did that, but I discovered that doing that or getting a post on a community and posting that in the search would let you subscribe to the community.

Honestly community discovery is a super pain point right now. If I hadn't set up my own instance I don't know if I would have easily figured it out.

I mainly don't like the darkness mechanic. The game is beautiful, but there is nothing more frustrating that needing to run around and unlock the ability to see, or stocking up on arrows and seeds et al to go down and shoot randomly around me so I can see where I am. And sometimes I shoot into a wall right next to me I didn't see. :(

That's not even including trying to just parachute blindly and hoping I don't land in gloom or an enemy camp.

There are also areas around water sources which are totally unpassable and you have to run around. It is not clear that that's the case so I've wasted a ton of time trying to map this huge area to try to find a way around.

Sign me up for the VTT. My ADHD is too bad for PbP lol

Heya I made a community for that just today! https://lemmy.wizjenkins.com/c/pathfinder1e

Lancer is on my list to try. I read the rulebook and I appreciate how they pull from a lot of different Mecha sources so it can feel however you like mech stuff best.

I love Battle tech video games but have never gotten to play the TTRPG. I've also wanted to try Lancer which is also mecha-themed but haven't found a group.

Oh yeah a Helm chart for Lemmy would be sick! Some of the more popular instances are in definite need of it from what I've seen.