Oh my gosh, this is incredible. I’ve got far too many projects on the go at the moment, and I’m only a novice knitter, so I probably won’t get to this any time soon, but I am saving this post for future reference; I have a friend who would adore this as a gift.

What pattern did you use for the gloves? I’ve been debating doing a simple pair of hand warmers for myself, and that seems like it would be good practice.

What? That’s so silly.

Rulings like this annoy me. Like, if he had said “the spell is poorly written, because our intention is that a wall of force can be targeted by disintegrate, but you’re right that that’s not what the spell descriptions say”, then I’d be able to respect that a lot more than what you describe him saying.

Words are a slippery beast, and there will always be a gap between Rules as Intended and Rules as Written. Good game design can reduce that gap, but not if the designers aren’t willing to acknowledge the chasm they have created

This is a supremely silly thread and I am enjoying it greatly. Thanks for catalysing these cool discussions OP.

I don’t get it. Can you explain?

Edit (literally 10 seconds after submitting my comment): is the problem that a literal reading of this would suggest that even if more than one creature is caught in the cone, only one takes the damage?

On a tangenty note, this is one of the reasons I find board games and TTRPGs super fun: DnD 5e has a lot of these kinds of problems (which is why there’s so many sage advice clarifications), but even in more precisely written games, the interplay between Rules as Written (RAW) and Rules as Intended (RAI) is super interesting, because we have no direct way of accessing RAI. Even when the games designers chip in with clarifications, as with Sage Advice, all that does is give us more RAW to interpret. All we can do is guess at the RAI, which sometimes means actively ignoring the RAW.

It’s also cool to see how that tension manifests from the game design angle. I have a couple of friends who have either made board games, or written TTRPG books. Whether you’re the reader or the writer, the one constant is that words are slippery and unreliable, so there will always be a gap between RAW and RAI

Looks awesome, great work!

I’m curious about the straps — do they connect at the back similar to how it looks from the front? How do you don/doff the spaulders — is there a latch or other adjustment stuff we can’t see? How comfortable are the straps?

I ask because I have been considering making something similar, and I’m undecided at how to arrange things (it depends on what I decide to do for other armour pieces). I apologise if it seems like I’m interrogating you, I’m just an enthusiastic nerd

What is your favourite autumn soup?

Mass surveillance was definitely okay with them though, as long as they could hide behind flimsy plausible deniability; I remember one of the early 972mag pieces about this that called bullshit on their claim that they have no knowledge that they are supporting mass surveillance — if military/intelligence services come to you and say “hey, we need servers to store terabytes of audio files”, then it’s bloody obvious what the point

That sounds like an awesome gift. I bet they have loads of people saying “awesome t-shirt, where did you get it?”, and then they get to say “thanks! My friend made it for me.” That’s the best feeling

“i don’t know trees.”

That’s a shame. Trees are cool. However, I bet this means you know some cool stuff about things I don’t know about, so it’s swings and roundabouts.

Yes.

I feel this. I’ve found that a good response in those circumstances is to say “sorry, can we put a pin in this? I feel like I don’t have the capacity to properly process what you’re telling me right now, so I’d rather we resume this conversation at a later point. Thanks for helping me figure out [bool question] though.”

It’s a useful response if one genuinely is interested to learn, but not at that moment.

Sometimes, (amongst friends who accept how thoroughly weird I am) I will actually say “XOR” when I want to make my intentions clear. It means that when they give the silly OR answer, I can jokingly chastise them for poor listening. The downside is that they relish the opportunity to give OR answers when I am not sufficiently specific in my question. I reap what I sow ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If it does kill you, it’ll often be a slow, drawn out death that takes days, if not weeks to kill you. And if it doesn’t kill you, it’ll give you permanent liver damage. I’m honestly shocked that it’s available over the counter, with how close the toxic dose is to the therapeutic dose. Scary stuff

I agree with your assessment of Reddit. I’ve been on Lemmy since the Reddit API debacle, and part of why I’ve stuck around is that I find that it scratches the same itch that Reddit used to. Glad to have you here.

“That said, people can put it in “recipe” format - a set of steps to be blindly followed without understanding - but even there you have some minimal foundational knowlegde required”

Something that’s quite interesting is that apparently one of the core components of how Latin and Greek used to be taught in fancy public schools (especially in like, Isaac Newton’s era) was that students would be made to copy out sections from classical literature (such as the Odyssey). Obviously this would be happening alongside lessons involving basic grammar, but I’ve seen some scholars suggest that this kind of blind repetition was a key component to the language learning, and that it may even be useful for learning languages in a modern context.

One of the reasons why a solarpunk way of thinking is so appealing to me is that it challenges me to think about what we could do to subvert a dystopian scenario and build something better. After all, climate change is going to cause tremendous upheaval, even if the world collectively stopped making things worse. It’s a more humble way of thinking about a problem, because it isn’t built on the idea that we can be masters of the world, but instead need to learn how to understand ourselves as intra-acting within ecosystems

Those tortillas look so weird. I love it

I was already interested based on your first comment but this:

“The UBA is a masterpiece, and I’m not being sarcastic.”

has thoroughly piqued my interest. Thank you for being an opinionated nerd on the internet.

Sure, it’s possible, but I’m not sure there’s data to support the idea of increasing rates of autism. The increase in diagnosis rates is way too strong of a confounder