Honestly seems like a lot of major sites are imploding. Stackoverflow's mods are striking, Twitter is on a downward spiral and likely to go bankrupt this year, Reddit is axing itself, etc.

It'll be interesting to see what ends up happening to the internet after. I think a return to more niche forums or community-run things like lemmy is unlikely to be fully mainstream, but I think enough folks will shake off the major platforms onto these to get them really active.

I just picked up a copy of house of leaves. Saw it referenced a few times in some other media I liked and figured I may as well check out the book itself.

I think I'd be fine with Wish proper being a ritual, but the arcane wildcard spell being renamed. I like the niche of "whatever spell you want" as a max level spell, and would be sad to see it gone.

Fellow from Lansing, MI here. Joining as part of the reddit exodus, and because I like the concept of the fediverse.

If anything I think it'd be an improvement if the text just said "you can't raise an ability modifier over +4 until lv10, and over +5 until lv20." It'd free up an ability boost at levels 5 and 15 too, which would be nice for more MAD builds.

I'm just not really sure what those other ways to make money could be. Other than monetizing a service outright via a subscription or selling a product to the users, I don't really see a good way for online social media to be revenue neutral or positive.

This is a good summary of whats going on and why the mods are striking.

Obsidian is a personal favorite.

Interesting to hear all your thoughts on this! What're some of the more interesting/useful software packages that are available for this thing that you can't find elsewhere?

I remember using a TI calculator back in high school, but I never fully understood why they were the de facto standard with standardized testing and the like with how stale their calculators have been for a while now.

I was around 13 when I first got into pens. Basically watched an sbrebrown video, thought that'd be really fun to use for school, and asked my parents for one for Christmas. Fast forward a decade, and I still use my Lamy 2k on the regular for ttrpg campaign notes or doodles.

Yes! I splurged for the hardcover because I thought it would be a book I'd want to go back to a few times later on, and I'm really happy with how high quality it is.

Dudeee. I spent so much time as a kid just farting around replaying that demo just to see how much chaos I could get, or what insane shenanigans I could get up to. Somehow I've played way more of that demo than the actual game now that I own it.

I have to wonder if some of it comes from the idea that casual games are generally a different audience than "core" games. Like someone playing candy crush on their phone is counted as someone who plays games, but I wouldn't lump them in with the kinda person that at least casually follows the industry and picks up a few new games for their PS5 every year or the person that is super active in the indie scene.