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Can you acquire a gun that shoots more guns?
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Yesss!!
Fantastic news. Now Whoopi Goldberg can play.
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en passant got me from 1000 rating -> 2800. buy my book.
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Agreed. It feels like a bunch of people broadcasting to the void with megaphones. Threaded forums are 100x better
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Fantastic! Thanks
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Battlestar Galactica (the reboot
Thanks for reminding me. I need to re-watch that sometime.
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Good. I remember it being shitty when I was forced to use it at a company a couple years ago
What holds up to re-watches?
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I’m just here for the thumbnail
www.theguardian.com
Industry figures said US orange production would reach its lowest level for more than a century.
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The priorities on this planet are bizarre. They’re spending 480,000 hours investigating people for trying to… protect what we have left? 🤦♂️
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That’s a paddlin’
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pleasure you dog
That's disgusting!
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24/7 cybergoth raves
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This isn't unique to video games*. It can happen with anything that you spend a ton of time on, and either burn out on or start to develop more refined taste in. I've had it happen with:
- novels
- board games
- movies
- people
You start to see patterns, tropes, or just plain get burnt out on something. It's a sign you either need to take a break, or that your tastes have simply become refined enough that you require a higher bar to find something interesting.
I'm in my 40s and definitely don't play games as much as I used to. But there are still times I get sucked in and have a great time. Most recent example: Cosmoteer, a spaceship building game with loads of freedom and creativity. I'm also looking forward to the Factorio DLC and the Dyson Sphere Program combat update.
Edit: case in point that I can still get excited about games: I finally tried Shadows of Doubt and, wow, what an interesting game. It's like a Deus Ex shadowy sneak-around world with detailed voxel simulation.
* though the enshittification phenomenon is a real thing, and why people should play more indie games
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I celebrated my 5th anniversary of being vegan yesterday. I didn’t originally start doing it for climate reasons, but I know the meat and dairy industries are huge sources of pollution so I’m glad I’m on it.
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Hopefully one of the DLCs adds land vehicles 🤞🏻
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I'm so glad this community exists
It seems like over the last year or so, Amazon has made the calculation that they can save 10 cents on not packing things properly, and only 0.1% of customers will be bothered enough to return the item\*. For many basic consumer goods, like a new spatula or something, it doesn't matter. But when I'm spending $40, $60, $70 on a nice hobby RPG book or a board game, it sucks to have it arrive with all the corners smashed in. So I finally ordered my most recent core rulebook from a random FLGS in another state. And... it arrived beautifully packed and without damage! This may not be an earth-shattering revelation for many people; however, it sure felt good to me to take a small stand. :-D Incidentally, I spent \~$7 more overall on the purchase. But for me it was totally worth it. \* made-up numbers; I don't know the actual ones
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I haven't played or run it; however, I've been watching videos on it and reading the free quickstart.
After more reflection, I probably won't be using it. It's very much in the OSR vein, and I am finding I'm getting tired of the medieval fantasy tropes. I'm mostly looking into Vampire: The Masquerade 5th edition right now.
It's a new system whose Kickstarter raised $1.3 million since February. I'm curious about it but would like to hear more people's thoughts. Some background material: Shadowdark Fixes Everything Wrong with D&D 5e [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyaEk0O3Yy0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyaEk0O3Yy0) Publisher's site, where you can download a free quickstart set of PDFs [https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark](https://www.thearcanelibrary.com/pages/shadowdark)
Opinion essay by the author who wrote The Uninhabitable Earth
Pros / cons / experiences as player and as GM?
Introverts: which ones have you enjoyed the most?
Edit: with Mintyytea's help, I figured out how to do it: 1. Go to [https://kbin.social/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world](https://kbin.social/m/newcommunities@lemmy.world) 2. Use the plus (+) button in the upper right of the kbin UI to add the article --- I believe one of the Lemmy instances has a "newcommunities" forum, but I'm not sure if kbin has something similar Thanks
Did you ever have that feeling on reddit of "I better word my post just right, otherwise AutoMod will take it down"? Some subs had such strict auto moderating that it was a crap shoot to post something. Not so here. I know there's value in moderation, and I'm sure Lemmy/kbin/etc. will add more of it with time. But, for now, it was just nice to not be nervous when I was submitting a post here.
The Sunday morning before the subs going dark: **88,881** Lemmy/kbin accounts The following Saturday morning/as I write this: **185,142** Lemmy/kbin accounts
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If so, which was the standout episode for you?
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