wizardbeard

The issue is that Linux shouldn't be making any attempts to handle this at all.

If the various governments are going to try and require this, they can make and maintain their own forks and accept all the responsibility and risk that entails. Or the businesses beholden to the laws can. We have no obligation to make this easier on them, and every reason to make it harder.

If various Linux (and Linux software/component) maintainers would hold the line, we'd be fine.

The godawful mess of what would come from all of these different groups scrambling to implement their own solutions would be the fucking point. The most effective way to manage upwards at people who don't understand or want to listen is to make them feel pain for their shitty decisions.

I think it's likely an API limitation. I've seen this in the Jerboa app (developed by lemmy's devs) and I believe also in the web ui.

Cruella expicitly tells her cronies to kill the puppies and skin them.

I mean, that's not even entirely wrong. That's why his companies keep focusing on the "cool" stuff: making rockets.

This design is used in Metal Gear Solid V, where you fight Soviets in Afganistan in the first chunk of the game.

And much like irl, you can use it as both a stand alone weapon or an underbarrel attachment on certain guns.

It stood out to me as it was my weapon of choice for early game destroy armored vehicle unit side missions. So satisfying to lead your shot and get the arc just right.

I love that, and I consider it the kind of thing that should be a trope but doesn't seem to be.

If you're in a setting where player power can get as big as it does in high level campaigns, then the NPCs should have access to a lot of that as well. Not nearly everyone, but far more than seem to in most campaigns and settings. At the very least people running shops selling high end gear or magical artifacts aren't going to stay in business for long if they can't deal with every hotshot murderhobo or sticky fingered arcane trickster that walks in the door.

Doesn't even have to be a beat down. Maybe the items are cursed to burn whoever's holding it if they leave the store and the owner just lifts the curse when someone purchases. You can get creative with it.

I think too many players think of settings like it's Oblivion or Skyrim, where a few days of magic training can allow you to set a whole guardhouse on fire. And survive. They know it's not quite that way in D&D, but since that's the reference point they have, even adjusted they still tend to assume main character privileges override versimilitude of the setting.

Your cleric is a powerhouse of skull crushing and healing? Congrats, so was old man Bartholomew who runs the local temple. He's not quite as spry as he once was, but those skills are like riding a bike and his magic has only improved as his physical prowess has aged.

The players should still get to be special, but they shouldn't go into every situation expecting to just "win" if they're going to play stupid games.

My experience is that they're still around in lesser numbers. You just need to know where to look. Personally it seems to me like most have moved into videogames and game lore spaces. Pretty sure a lot of kids call them alternate reality games now. Half a dozen new ones come out from the slowly dying garry's mod map community every year. Also other games have used these sorts of puzzles too, like noita, elite dangerous, and risk of rain 2 that had its most recent dlc page on steam initially drop with no fanfare and entirely ciphered. Really cool stuff. Due to the connection with games it also crosses over with cheap jumpscare horror stuff like slenderman and five nights at freddys, so a lot of people consider it juvenile now, like the incredibly obvious hidden text in this comment.

Could you share that "logo"? I thinl there's a lot of ripe ground in Stand Alone Complex for the invesitgation of the laughing beanis case.

"I hate how gentle I have to be with you. The slightest shock and you just fall to pieces on me."

Holy shit Kojima's done it again! 10/10 storytelling. Layers upon layers of meaning.

What is this image from and what gives you the right to introduce me to new fetishes this casually?

Where do I invest?