Do you have a reference, or an essay that provides an overview of that? I’ve heard it before (and am willing to believe that it’s true) but it’s kind of a hard thing to look up on google scholar.

The voters. The voters forced this.

I know this is a joke. I know that. But I keep thinking of switching to Mint, and now there’s going to be a part of my brain saying: “wait, there was some reason not to do that… I don’t remember what, but it sounded pretty bad…”

Vassal - an open-source (LGPL-2.1) boardgame engine. basically, people build different modules for each game they want to play, then they can play that game over the internet or solo. Mostly focused on “chit-and-hex” style wargames.

• https://vassalengine.org/
• https://github.com/vassalengine/vassal

I’m constantly torn between “I should make more of an effort to keep this cyberpunk community alive” and “I should give up on this whole Lemmy thing”

I hear ya, fam. One thing I decided Lemmywise was: only to do things that I find fun, not make it too much of a chore. It can be tough to decide exactly what that level is, tho…

if you want to make posts that regularly get over 50 and sometimes over 100 upvotes, start posting to [email protected]. Look here to find new comics to post: https://lemmy.world/post/17836648/12653544

Yeah, it’s frustrating to be in that position. Some communities I can post to, but some I only have comments to contribute.

“None shall pats!”

tracing the pictures and modifying them

some activists made an entirely new issue of Tintin that way…

This person evil genies!

Yeah, I wouldn’t have minded if we’d all washed the dishes together. iirc I never cooked for them again; I brought take-out once for a special occasion, but I told them to eat out of the containers bc I wasn’t doing their dishes.

One consideration is: is there an “evil genie / monkey’s paw” caveat to this? Like, maybe someone’s death is postponed, but they are in terrible agony every second until then. Or maybe they die on Mars, but a dictator destroys Earth in the process of getting us there.

That might make a half-decent sci-fi story. Like: someone gains this capability, but they have a notion that there’s an evil-genie caveat to it. So they try to advance science, but just a little bit at a time; basically they are experimenting to make sure there’s no such caveat (and to get around it, if there is.) However, they are leaving a trail of the dead. And at the end, it turns that while no individual death/accomplishment had a monkeys-paw-like side-effect, all of the deaths combined resulted in a terrible downside.

Same. I’d save it for myself in case I was being tortured by terrorists or received a terminal diagnosis or something.

I eventually learned that. tbh I think I just associate cast iron pans with that annoying former roommate.

“I swallowed like a million blood capsulettes, cuz I was gonna cough like, you know, a handful of blood, to make it real, and now I’m thinkin’ like you’re not supposed to eat them or something, cuz they’re making me really sick.”

Afer work, I once made dinner for my housemates. After the meal, one of the housemates was like: “if you cooked, you gotta wash the dishes!” ok, so I washed the dishes. After the dishes, the housemate was like: “If you used the cast-iron pan, you have to ‘season’ it with oil!” and I was like: wtf I worked all day, I cooked, I did the dishes, now I have to cook again just to make the pan happy?!? So I never used a cast-iron pan again.

I used to have a favorite Zen koan, but I no longer feel an attachment to it. (/jk)

it’s a trap! They throw you in the bus and weld the door shut! #theGulagIsTheBus

I was thinking more like: if the advertising is that bad but they can still sell their produce, it must be good.