Some day you'll realize that giving this much of a shit about what fictional characters are white is just weird
Lmao you fucking numbskull
Iirc, he's not even Papa Palpatine's real son - he's a separate three-eyed mutant who claimed to be Palpatine's son as a way to grab power post-Endor. The real Palpatine's son was also a three-eyed mutant, but his third eye was in the back of his head, and his name was Triclops.
I guess people aren't very subtle with what they name their kids in Star Wars.
Probably gonna pick up BG3 regardless, but I want to adjust my expectations - does the story have anything to do with BG 1-2 or the Bhaalspawn?
Back in the early pandemic days I played through all of BG 1 and 2 on the switch with a completely fresh character. I loved the scale of the games, how it gradually grew from personal coming of age quest up through a continent-ending plot to resurrect the dead god of murder.
Ever since it was announced I've wondered if BG 3 has anything to do with the previous games. Does the actual plot involve the Bhaalspawn? Or the events of the previous games in a major way, like the iron crisis, Jon Irenicus, the vampires in Amn, etc? No major spoilers, please, since I'm probably going to grab the game anyway, but I want to temper my expectations if it's not a true third installment that follows on the themes of the first two (divinity, the value of a soul, what it means to control your destiny, the danger in being friends with someone immensely powerful, etc).
Thanks!
Page refreshes a minute or two after launching, returning to top of page interrupting scrolling
Not entirely sure if this is a Liftoff issue or something else, but when browsing posts after opening the app, the app refreshes and scrolls back to the top of the page seemingly at random. It makes using the app difficult, since it does so without prompting in the middle of reading througu the posts.
? I think this is directed to the studios. It's not like the average person is typically represented by a gold-hoarding dragon.
I mean, reparations for Slavic folks sounds reasonable too? As does reparations for anyone who suffered slavery or genocide at the hands of another, currently-extent nation.
Thanks! It's based on what I experienced/freaked out over during a panic attack I had while intensely high.
When you die, you are presented with an unfathomably large number in the darkness, something over a googolplex.
You begin to scream as your newborn eyes open to the hospital room, your memory already fading as you repeat this life once again - you had been in that darkness so many times before, but you don't know which way the number is ticking.
When you die, you are presented with an unfathomably large number in the darkness, something over a googolplex.
You begin to scream as your newborn eyes open to the hospital room, your memory already fading as you repeat this life once again - you had been in that darkness so many times before, but you don't know which way the number is ticking.
Wouldn't spawn camping be if they were in the NICU or something? This is more like griefing.
Totally fair! I hope we get a nice board of that style regardless!
I always liked the idea of top-level comments being exclusively in-universe, and out-of-universe comments have to be replies to other comments!
Ask Science Fiction, Who Would Win, The Maw Installation, and similar discussion boards for in-universe questions about fiction.
For those who aren't familiar, Ask Science Fiction (more accurate parsed as Ask Science: Fiction) is a board for asking and answering questions about fiction from an in-universe perspective. Questions and answers don't necessarily have to be role-played, but they should assume the internal logic of the universe in reference. Answers from an out-of-universe perspective ("George Lucas didn't decide that Darth Vader and Anakin Skywalker were the same person until later") are against the rules, though there's some allowance for media that's super-meta and can't be answered otherwise.
Who Would Win is a board for posing hypothetical scenarios, often but not exclusively about fictional characters or factions. Think "Who would win in a fight between Superman and Batman?". Evidence in the form of references to specific canon media is encouraged.
The Maw Installation (and similar places like the Daystrom Institute for Star Trek) is essentially Ask Science Fiction, but specifically for the Star Wars franchise. I find that boards like this can encourage interesting world-building that makes the original text feel richer, as well as more in-depth critique of the text as media.
I'm sure some of these exist in some form in Lemmy, but I'm still looking for them!
Anyone have general guidelines/tips for when something would be a bug report/feature request for Lemmy vs Lemmy.World vs Liftoff?
Trying to get into Lemmy (and the Fediverse in general) now that the Enshittification of Reddit and Twitter are in full force. My home instance (for this account, anyway) is Lemmy.World, and I'm mostly using Liftoff (though I play around with others to help get a feel for different UIs).
I'm loving Liftoff, but I have one or two suggestions for future releases. The trick is that I'm not actually sure if what I have in mind is a request for Lemmy in general, the Lemmy.World instance, or the Liftoff app.
Does anyone have any general guidelines/pointers on what aspects of the overall experience are dictated by the platform, the instance, and the app?
I'd been a redditor for about 14 years, if not longer (I was a sophomore in high school, I believe, and I'm 30 now). I've been using 3rd party apps for about as long as they've been around. I tried the official app once a few years ago and really disliked it compared to the experience from things like Baconreader and AlienBlue.
The fact that the apps are dead is obviously shitty, but I decided to quit Reddit because of what the API changes represent - the inevitable descent of a capitalist enterprise into full-bore profit extraction. In my view, that's not going to work for Reddit, which seems like an inherently unprofitable enterprise. Any changes that will drive revenue will also substantially hurt the things that makes Reddit useful and fun in the first place.
More ads? That actively degrades the experience. More monetization of little digital badges? That's not going to be enough to generate the revenue they want, and it's incredibly stupid anyway. Paywalling subreddits? That will kill the entire site in a heartbeat.
Ultimately I just don't think Reddit even can be profitable to the degree that corporate overlords want it to be. Either it's going to die quickly, or it's going to gradually get even worse, dying slowly.