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You probably made the right choice. I led a semi hardcore raiding guild during classic wow and felt relieved when the end of that content gave us a good enough reason to quit. Good times we're good, but man it's a thankless thing to get 40ish people to act right.

Dokuwiki user here. Your cons are true, but compared to the cons of other ones, they are all solvable. The concern with a plug-in being required to do something is silly. It's open source and the plugin system is limitless. If it's ugly, make a theme. I've never had a problem with article titles being mutilated, but then again, I treat the file name (e.g. the url of the page) separate from the root header as you're supposed to.

Considering your comment about search being awful in another wiki, it's pretty good in Dokuwiki.

Considering how much you care about plain text, you should probably discount the con about file names as I'm pretty sure that's part of why Dokuwiki does what it does. It's an actual text file sitting in a directory that matches the path.

For what it's worth, I admire Obsidian. If it's a personal project with no intent to share, that's what I'd use. For business or public hosting, I'd use (and do use, at my company) Dokuwiki.

Another fun thing from this show is the magic system, which limits the caster's ability based on what they can imagine. Programming feels exactly like that to me. I mean, a lot of human ability is limited by that, but most stuff is also limited by physical constraints long before imagination. With programming, we more often hit the limit of our imagination, or time feasibility, before any other constraint.

Working with non programmers, it's always wild to field their unimaginative solutions, and refreshing when someone actually had a good idea.

Working with less experienced programmers, it's fun to help them through problems. So often they hit a wall they can't imagine walking through, take some concession and build around the wall. You can appreciate the work, and then show them the simple solution to walk through the wall. If they have talent, they grow quick.

Working with a much more experienced programmer, or in a domain you don't have much experience with, helps keep you humble because there's no way you're going to learn everything.

Anyway, back to writing my spells.

You're right, I knew that and still mixed it up. And the real tragedy is the guy was a super stand-up guy that doesn't at all deserve the sort of mockery his death prompts.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/cautionary-tales/the-hero-who-rode-his-segway-off-a-cliff

These share a lot of similarities with Segway, and the inventor of that was a pretty smart, stand-up guy. Still, he died tragically riding his Segway off a cliff.

Every time I see one of these, my brain goes between that story, and https://southpark.wiki.gg/wiki/IT

Join us, happy to do a voice call and you can stick around for as long as you want

https://matrix.to/#/#Autism-Place:chat.blahaj.zone

I'm all for the theory of the 2A being there to dissuade tyranny. But I was middle school aged when I realized that stopped making sense sometime between 1910 and 1945.

This government will bomb citizens, given the chance (it wouldn't even be the 1st or 2nd time they've done it). A shotgun won't help with that in self defense. Nor would it help with the tanks, the jets, the drones, the special ops, the automatic guns, the chemical agents, or any number of classified weapons that would roll over the next most powerful militaries if that's what they wanted to do.

I'm not saying don't get a shotgun. I'm saying, if you really want to prepare to have to exercise your 2A rights, you probably need to be getting something that actually poses a threat to those in power. It probably won't even be gun shaped, but it will be arms in conflict.

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

I'm putting this down and probably not picking it back up.

Music is great. Environments great. Love Samus the character.

UX is terrible. I could write an essay about it, there is no redeeming element. There is no chance anyone with a good taste for UX and influence over the direction of the game actually touched this at any point during development.

Game formula is dated and anti-fun, I was ok with this major progression tied behind upgrades playing Super Metroid, but useless power-ups dangling behind obvious missing upgrades in your face multiple times during every linear mission is not it in 2026. Combat is boring, IDK who they are trying to appeal to here other than super fans of the Prime series. Maybe the harder difficulty would improve that but I doubt it, and I'll never find out because you can't play the harder difficulty before beating the game. Maybe they are appealing to super casuals, it definitely isn't appealing to kids despite that being the difficulty level of the various gameplay and combat elements.

The "open world" sand zone is unredeemable. The bike is unredeemable. The fact that we have to suffer through both for so much back tracking is one of the most depressing experiences I've had in gaming in 30 years.

The extra characters only detract from the game, especially the technician guy. If you are intending to play this game despite what you've read so far, I suggest you immediately turn the sound level down for voices.

Ugh

You need one existential crisis step further. With very rare exception (some life we've found living near thermal vents in the deep sea) all calories are derived from the sun through photosynthesis. I suppose you can muddy the waters with man made light sources powered by non-solar energy, but with the rare exception of nuclear power (or tidal, since that's moon's gravity, or geothermal, and a few other niche sources, but even out together these make up such small percentages), most man made energy is just harvesting the sun's energy with more steps. Oil, that's just ancient plant matter. Wind, that's just air currents which only exist due to heat energy from the sun. Solar, lol. Not that grow lights even make up enough to matter, but it's a fun part of the existential equation.

We eat the sun.

Valid reason is you want the online features because messages from other players is content. Counterpoint is, pvp is also content. Counterpoint is, people can want one and not the other, and it's not that complicated to just give people a toggle. Elden Ring is not worse because of its improvement over the DS invasion system.

I've seen one interpretation of our fire code result in each enclosed stall requiring their own flashing light and siren. So the expense to build really does add up. Every contractor knows how to do it the cheap way, anything else they charge a much higher rate to make it worth the trouble. Maybe some shit related to sex or drug use in bathrooms as well, I'd imagine the more secure it feels the more likely someone might see that as a safe thing to try, not saying that's a real thing but shit gets talked about on the news enough for it to be something the decision maker has in their head to be influenced one way.

Going to try to convert two 2-post racks into a 4-post rack today. Dreading the mess though.