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Steam allowing curators to promote homophobia.
  • Can anyone make a curator account? Just literally copy and paste every comment, but recommend them all instead. From the couple of posts that people have made, you could probably ratio the original pretty quick.

  • There's rupees in there
  • Hit it with your sword. If it makes a different noise, then you can use a bomb.

  • What "unique" or single-game-genre games have you enjoyed?
  • I'll give an honorable mention to Terraria--largely because I had to explain it to someone recently and it was more difficult than I anticipated.

    Yeah, you can just say "2D Minecraft," but it's more than that. It's almost an RPG in terms of advancements and equipment development, and it's very combat oriented. But it's not really a sidescroller or a metroidvania type, because the digging and building plays a huge part.

    Less genre defining, and more living in the liminal space between a lot of other genres.

  • Saw these lizards before I woke up
  • Papparazzi are the worst. Sometimes famous lizards just want to live their lives without being accosted everywhere they go.

  • Blessed Pear
  • LOOK AT ME BROTHER

  • Caption This
  • Climate Change

  • TIL humans are the only animal with a chin. We aren't sure why.
  • The one thing that really sticks out is the chin.

    I see what you did there

  • Do blurry glasses exist that you can just randomly buy?
  • Do you... do you have eyelids?

    You should have eyelids.

  • Can anyone solve this?
  • Looks like a substitution cypher, shouldn't be too hard. I'm not at a desktop right now, but you can check this list and see if there's a match (looks kinda like some variant of Futhark).

    You can also "type out" the message by substituting a letter for each symbol, and paste that in a solver.

  • Photo share by default?

    This might sound antithetical to the privacy-by-default standard, but my wife and I currently share our photo rolls with each other (using Google Photos)--everything we take is automatically shared with the other.

    Is there anything in Proton Drive/Photos that would allow this? Even if it's only available within a family plan or something. I know that with Drive, we could share a directory and everything in that would be available to the other, but I don't see this as an option in the photos.

    Alternatively, I suppose we could both sign in to Proton Drive using a third account just for that purpose, but that's less ideal.

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    What DLC/extra chapters would you buy in a heartbeat?
  • Yeah, it would be fun to see some of the smaller folk represented in particular. Dwarven Paladin, or maybe a Halfling Bard.

  • BG3 player, is this relatable?
  • The fact that everyone has different characters that they love and/or hate suggests that the devs did a pretty good job.

    The writing isn't stellar, but there's a wide range of character types, and one person's favorite is another's leaat. For me, Lae'zel and Astarion are insufferable (Lae'zel a little less so, but still annoying). But those are favorites of other people, so they're presumably not objectively bad, it's just a matter of taste.

    My only wish is that there were one or two more, or at least that the others were introduced earlier in the game (hell no, I'm not changing my entire party dynamic in Act 3).

  • wizard posting
  • Power word: Flacid

  • Want to Get Smarter? Science Says All You Have to Do Is Take a Multivitamin
  • If you're American, the doctor visit might cost you more than $365 alone.

  • Biden’s debate performance spurs Democratic panic about his ability to lead party against Trump
  • Can you imagine what it would look like if they chose someone like Jon Stewart instead? How a debate like that would have gone? A guy can dream...

  • [email protected]: Why use catch-all email domains over email aliases?
  • Another consideration: changing email providers. Any email address using your custom domain can travel with you to other providers, where you can just set up another catch-all address. Aliases are specific to your email provider, so if you want to switch, you'd need to manually go to every site and update each login to a new alias.

    And you can always get two domains--one for your more sensitive stuff, and a cheap generic one for the rest. A lot of domains are dirt cheap if you don't care what the TLD is.

    Catch-alls are more easily traceable, yes, but depending on your privacy concerns vs convenience (and your fear of getting locked out of an account if your alias becomes unavailable, for example), it might be worth it for you.

  • World First: Scientists Make Live Rhino Horns Radioactive to Fight Poaching in South Africa
  • Peter Porker was gored by a radioactive rhinoceros, and now he is...

    Rhino Man

    Rhino Man, Rhino Man
    Does whatever a rhino can
    On his face there is a horn
    That's his thing, it's just the horn
    Look out, here comes rhino man

  • Rule
  • Not sure why he lost. He could have claimed to run it through an AI that was only trained on the one picture.

  • Lemmy is the best social media
  • I'm saying she's an academy award nominated character actor and producer

  • In the heart of the Rocky Mountains was a monastery.

    It was founded by a group of monks from the southern USA. Rather than building a chapel, they chose to live in a series of underground tunnels. The nearest town only saw the elusive monks once a year, when they would break their usual stoic diet and make traditional southern fried chicken for everyone in town.

    They were known as the deep friars.

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    Connect A Song @lemmy.world owenfromcanada @lemmy.world

    Trace Bundy - Elephant King

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    [Meta] What image generators are y'all using?

    I have a hard time finding ones that will accept longer blocks of text. What are y'all using?

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    An Idea to Steal Regarding Courts and Sentencing

    In one advanced culture, which has largely achieved pacifism through technological and cultural advancements, legal cases are heard by judges who have studied law and ethics extensively. Their maximum sentencing, though, is limited to temporary incarceration. For more severe sentences, such as permanent incarceration or death, the case is brought before the Matrial Seats.

    The Matrial Seats is a group of seven volunteers who have physically borne and lost children. Only those who have brought life into the world, and felt the terrible loss of it, have sufficient authority to pass the most severe sentences. Unlike the General Courts, the Matrial Seats are not specially educated, and contain members from various social standings.

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    [Solved] Posting and Commenting Not Working Since Lemmy.world Updated

    Update: at the recommendation of others, I logged out and back in again. Seems to be working!

    Loving Eternity, thanks devs for all your work!

    Lemmy.world updated today to 0.19.3, I think? Since then, I can load posts, but I can't vote, comment, or create new posts. When I attempt to do any of those, an empty toast bubble shows up, and that's it.

    Anyone else experiencing the same?

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    Haha (b/j)eans

    Imagine looking for quality content on c/shitpost

    This meme created by (b/j)eans gang.

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    A Very Accessible OP Lightning Build

    Forgive me if this is well known already, but I don't think I've seen it posted here yet.

    The lightning mage build is pretty well known, involving adding in two levels of Tempest Cleric for the channel divinity that maxes out lightning/thunder damage. And it's been noted that getting lightning vulnerability is easy with a bit of water. But what I haven't seen is trying to double things with a crit.

    So why not mix in a few levels of Rogue? Here's the final split:

    Assassin Rogue 3 / Tempest Cleric 2 / Blue Draconic Sorcerer 7

    Assassin gives us access to easy crits on a surprise round. Taking Cleric to 2 and Sorcerer to 7 gets us a 5th level spell slot.

    The crux of this setup is the Witch Bolt spell. The Assassin feature only works with an attack roll--most of your other lightning spells are saves. Witch Bolt also scales really well (1d12 per spell level).

    So here's the math, assuming you're able to get a surprise round and throw some water:

    • Base damage: 5d12 (using your 5th level slot)
    • Double dice on auto-crit: 10d12
    • Channel divinity: 120 (max damage)
    • Draconic Sorcerer 6th level damage rider: +4 (assuming 18 CHA)
    • Vulnerability: x2 for a total of 248 damage
    • Two targets? Twinned Spell because why not

    Note that my screenshot was using a 4th level slot and using a Wild Magic instead of Draconic Sorcerer. Mainly there to show that the math seems to work in game as I've proposed here.

    Mixing in the Assassin makes sense for the lightning combo build as well: you can initiate combat by throwing water, then you instantly get your actions back to sling spells. And the other Rogue bonus action skills are helpful to get into position and land other attack-roll spells (by hiding first).

    The build is viable at every level, too. Levels 1 to 3 are Rogue to Assassin, pretty straight forward. Next are two levels of Cleric, so now you're an Assassin with Sanctuary, Armor of Faith, and Bless. Then on level 6, you start adding in the lightning, and your nova builds from 100 damage (pretty respectable for level 6), going up by 48 every two levels after that.

    You've got lots of flexibility here too. Want access to 2nd level Cleric spells instead of 4th level Sorcerer? Go with Assassin 3 / Tempest 3 / Draconic 6. Want more feats? Sacrifice a bit of damage and go with Assassin 4 / Tempest 4 / Draconic 4 to get three feats. Want to get two (slightly lesser) novas per short rest? Go Assassin 3 / Cleric 6 / Draconic 3.

    Thoughts? Any other big nova builds that don't require an overly-specific setup?

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    [OC] [FB] Little Dreams

    They say to have big ambitions Reach for the sky, chase your dreams How bad can it be With so many stars to land among?

    But those goals are unwieldly My arms short, my legs worn The moon a bland dot behind And the stars still so far

    A small hand reaching A warm smile on a sticky face An invitation to share In some juvenile pursuit

    Let the cold stars sparkle And the moon have its space For me, these little dreams Are enough

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    Ten Against Tim

    Was our idea for a ska band name in the early 00's.

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    Bedtime - make your bedtime routine fun! For free!

    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/11775142

    > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owenfromcanada.bedtime > > For your toddler, or for you! Customize your routine from a list of options, and enjoy the cute icons, fun sounds, and general dopamine of accomplishment. > > I created this app for my daughter, who thrives on routine but was having a rough time getting to bed at night. It's not the most polished, but she loves it and maybe someone else will too!

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    Bedtime - make your bedtime routine fun! For free!

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owenfromcanada.bedtime

    For your toddler, or for you! Customize your routine from a list of options, and enjoy the cute icons, fun sounds, and general dopamine of accomplishment.

    I created this app for my daughter, who thrives on routine but was having a rough time getting to bed at night. It's not the most polished, but she loves it and maybe someone else will too!

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    What games did you make up as a kid?

    Here's one of mine:

    Jenga Fortress

    Split Jenga pieces equally and sit in a large circle (on the floor or at a big table). Everyone has one piece that is marked. Then everyone builds a fortress to protect their marked piece (the marked piece must be stood up on its small side).

    Everyone gets a projectile. We liked using those thick rubber bands that came on broccoli at the grocery store, but you could use Nerf guns, balled up paper, whatever--as long as it's not too light and not too heavy.

    Once everyone is ready, take turns firing at each other's fortresses, trying to knock down their marked pieces. Nobody can touch their fortress at this point.

    Last marked piece standing is the winner.

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    What's your favorite OP build?

    For my first run, I focused largely on engaging the roleplay elements and didn't worry too much about optimization.

    For my tactician run, I'm attempting to utilize about as much OP shenanigans in my party as possible, and I'm having a great time with it so far. What are your favorite OP builds to actually play?

    Bonus points if they're viable all the way through the game without respec-ing.

    My party:

    Smiter: Paladin 5 / Warlock 7

    Progression: P2 -> W5 -> P5 -> W7 Starting stats: 16, 10, 14, 8, 10, 16 Feats: PAM/GWM/Cha+2, Cha+2 Equipment: 2H weapon, best heavy armor, anything that grants advantage Notes: Smite with warlock slots. Subclasses don't matter much, but choose Pact of the Blade (extra attack stacks with Paladin's). Alternates: P5/W5/F2 for action surge.

    Thrower: Berserker 6 / Thief 3 / Champion 3

    Progression: B5 -> Ro3 -> F3 -> B6 Starting stats: 17, 14, 16, 8, 10, 8 Feats: Tavern Brawler (Str+1) Equipment: Sword-and-board, best medium armor, throwing bonuses Notes: Throw everything and everyone. Keep a few nice magic 2H weapons for bonus throws. Alternates: B6/R4/F2 or B8/R4 for additional feats.

    Sniper: Assassin 3 / Gloomstalker 5 / Champion 4

    Progression: Ro3 -> Ra5 -> F4 Starting stats: 14, 16, 16, 8, 12, 8 Feats: Sharpshooter, Dex+2 Equipment: Dual hand crossbows, best light armor (until later...), anything sneak- or surprise-related Notes: If surprising a group, drink a haste potion and end the encounter solo. Alternates: Any combination of A3/G5/F2 or A3/G3/F5 seems viable.

    Bear: Moon Druid 12

    Starting stats: 14, 10, 17, 8, 16, 8 Feats: Tavern Brawler (Con+1), Warcaster, Wis+2/Resilient (Con+1) Notes: Be a bear. Enough said. Alternates: D7/C5--cast Spirit Guardians before assuming bear form.

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