Zagorath

Zagorath OP , 3 months ago

I see this happen all the time with my players. I might be describing the environment they're in just to set the scene and they'll focus in on something specific. I'll set what I think is a fairly straightforward goal only for them to come up with an insane hairbrained scheme to accomplish it.

But the greatest one, I think, probably came when I was GMing the Lost Mine of Phandelver for a group of people completely new to roleplaying. We got to a section where they rescued a character they were after from a dungeon he had been trapped in by a doppelganger. I had the doppelganger transform into the trapped character, right in front of their eyes, and make a last-minute plea that he was actually the real prisoner and the other was fake. Claimed he had been transformed by a magical potion that had just conveniently expired at the right time.

I figured this was a last-minute hail mary on the part of the doppelganger, with zero chance of working. They'd immediately reject it and execute or capture the doppelganger and free the real prisoner. Instead, they spent easily half an hour debating which was real, casting spells like zone of truth and painfully agonising over every detail. They got it right in the end, but it was just hilarious to watch them completely overcomplicate what was meant to be a very simple bit of flavour text.

Zagorath OP , 3 months ago

I forget, it was a while ago now.

It may have simply passed the save. Or I may have had it give some evasive answer—I'm a big fan of that, since creatures like devils and vampires are some of my favourite, and giving evasive answers while strictly avoiding lying is kinda their schtick.

Zagorath , 3 months ago

I find warnings like this rather amusing, because unless you compiled it yourself, even an open source application could secretly have malicious data-harvesting code added to it.

Zagorath , 3 months ago

I installed Sync just to test this. To me, that's displaying with "not" superscript but not "working". On web, it just doesn't work at all (this is due to the markdown library lemmy-ui uses not allowing spaces).

Suspect subscript will also not work. Curious about struck-out text.

Zagorath , 3 months ago

Okay subscript didn't work on lemmy-ui or Sync. Struck out is fine.

How about single-word subscript? edit: yup, works in lemmy-ui, not in Sync.

Zagorath , 3 months ago

sharing it to someone without sync

The bang syntax will work much better for anyone on Lemmy itself, regardless of which instance they're on or which client they use, while the URL syntax is better when users want to share a link to a community off-platform.

Zagorath , 4 months ago

looking like a combination of Lain and Misato

This is an extremely unhelpful alt text. I have no idea who either of these people are, and the text provides absolutely no indication.

Zagorath , 4 months ago

Exactly. It should describe what you're looking at. For example, her short dark spiky hair or the fact that she's wearing fishnet gloves and stockings.

Zagorath , 4 months ago

Alt text should describe what you’re communicating, not necessarily every detail.

Eh, maybe? Most of the transcriptions I've seen, particularly the ones from the explicitly accessibility-focused now-defunct Transcribers of Reddit (the founder of which I was in close communication with, as a co-mod of an unrelated subreddit) try to simply describe what you're seeing. In enough detail that those in the know might be able to make the same conclusions as a sighted person, but without providing details that aren't self-evident from the original source. So like, if it was a picture of a known character, it might say that, but if it just vaguely looks like an amalgamation of a couple of fictional characters, you'd be unlikely to see that specified, especially if they're relatively obscure and less likely to be familiar to most of the audience.

Zagorath , 4 months ago

It's because I value accessibility and I'm hoping it can be done better in the future. A mediocre transcription is certainly much better than none at all, but why not strive to do it better?

Zagorath OP , 4 months ago

They say that a developed country is not a place where the poor have cars, it's where the rich use public transport.

And in Australia, when it comes to sporting events at least, that's the case. Not the uber wealthy perhaps. I'm guessing @ryven is correct on that front. But those making 6 or low 7 figures are very likely to take public transport to the sporting ground. It's kind of just the done thing.

The irony being—and maybe Melbourne doesn't do this, but my city of Brisbane does—public transport to these events is free. Just wave your ticket and get on any bus or train for a few hours before or after the event.

Zagorath OP , 4 months ago

Acknowledgements of Country are pretty standard these days. Even quite conservative institutions do them regularly.

Zagorath , 5 months ago

old people like me

The person who sends me far more TikTok videos than anyone else is my boomer dad.

Zagorath , 6 months ago

I just want to draw an important distinction between the Russian government, military leadership, & voluntary/willing soldiery and the average Russian citizen. It would be wrong to call the latter "the bad guys", but not the former.

Zagorath , 10 months ago

Nebula is amazing and I would highly encourage any urbanist to sign up for it. It's only like $30 per year.

Zagorath , 10 months ago

I can't say I disagree with you. The thumbnails and titles are sometimes a bit clickbaity. But they don't let anyone join the site as a creator unless they have faith in the actual content of the videos. They're creators who sometimes use clickbaity thumbnails because that's just essential to surviving the YouTube algorithm, and the Nebula version usually just takes the same title and thumbnail from YouTube. But it's never the sort of clickbait where a clickbaity thumbnail was used to trick you into watching actual garbage content—the content is always high quality.

I wish they'd tone it down for the Nebula version, but that's an extra amount of work for honestly very little extra value, so I understand why they don't.