Ok hear me out before smacking the downvote. I know, fuck reddit, fuck spez, burn it down, I'm right there with you. When the Library of Alexandria (allegedly) burned down, a ton of information was irreversibly lost. Scholars have been debating for centuries just how much human knowledge was lost there. If, for whatever reason, reddit were to get shut down and wiped, would we lose a comparable amount of knowledge?

One of the reasons reddit is popular as a search term is because you can get answers or opinions from real people. Not (at least, a few years ago) corporate- or government-backed sites that will spew whatever they're paid to, not shills pushing their own shitty product claiming it's a wonder solution to [insert problem here]. Real people who have some kind of knowledge base and/or experience in the topic at hand. Yeah, some of it's shit, but a lot of it at least makes a solid starting point.

If all that user-generated knowledge, all those discussions, all of that, was wiped from existence, how much poorer would we be as a species when it comes to knowledge or access to information?

All this got on my brain because I was reminded that I never mass-deleted my own posts. I was debating it, but I keep thinking about that one person who really needs an answer to their question at 3am, they do a search, find a promising thread, and the answer they need is replaced by "Glitter frog assume capricorn pincer rockets hip This post has been mass deleted by Redact." They go to the next search results, a New York Times spread on the "Top 5 HACKS to fix [problem] and, idk, it feels like not deleting is the lesser of two evils.

Obviously the true solution is probably the whole decentralizing reason we're all here. But between somewhat decent information on a shit zionist site and the complete loss of accessibility to information in favor of even more blatant corporate content, I would kind of rather keep the information there for now, instead of deleting it for a satisfying but ultimately insignificant middle finger to the other site.

There's a lot to be said on both sides, but my unpopular opinion is that the overnight disappearance of the other site would be a detriment, not a benefit,. At least for the time being.

Alright, im ready to be cleansed by the flames of the fediverse

Could someone who has served or something please enlighten me?Just scratching my head wondering what about that process is keeping people from actually doing it. Beyond just saying "No," is there grievance paperwork? A petition? Witness statements? Is it as simple as having the balls to tell your CO no to their face and being open to consequences?

It seems like at very least there's a culture of "the people above me probably know better" and/or "don't be the squeaky wheel" but it doesn't seem to me that that should be enough for the level of inaction we seem to be seeing here. What gives?

Trying something a little more urban for this one. Need to do some at a smaller scale though. Was hoping to draw some buildings, but the scale only suited 2 of them, castle and church/temple (the lower left circle is a fountain in my head). Still a fun exercise for imagining city street layout.

Ended up noisier than I would have liked. This scale is harder to balance detail vs useability

More coastlines = more fun. Experimenting with labels

Been doodling but not posting. A couple of small generic maps for practice

It's more a vacation home than a permanent residence these days, anyways

From a video game, if anyone can guess. Not exactly a ttrpg, but still

This time with text. Work is slow if you can't tell.

On a standard-sized sticky note

See, now when I do play it, I'll have the whole series just waiting for me. Smart, huh?

I recently started getting some CP2077 books (World of, Guide, comics collection) and discovered I really enjoy having nice, high-quality physical media that expand on my favorite worlds. I started poking around my favorite series and already have my eye on Hyrule Historia, the Dishonored art book, the Dark Horse MGS I-IV art book (Like $500 for that one, yikes. But also Yuji Shinkawa. Hm.), and the Last of Us I-II art books. Also really want the Wheeler, Rawson & Co. Catalog from RDR2.

Not as into books like retrospective yet, especially for something as general as an era of gaming. More focused on either one game or one setting, ideally from the creators. Official books, sources of canon, etc. I've heard good things about books like the Burch siblings' book on MGS, the Spelunky book from the same publisher, etc, they just dont grab me the way more official, visual ones do.

So do you have any books like this? Any standouts of ones to get? Ones not to get?

It just occurred to me (on the can, i might add) that with the various states of matter all being driven by pressure, it might have necessary characteristics to be classified as one.

On a side note, I wonder what pressure the intestinal tract is rated for. I have a certain potato-based experiment I'd be interested to know the outcome of.

Sync for mobile really doesn't like uploading my PC screenshots, so here is another Cyberpunk one until I can get that sorted. Will post from other games when I have easy access to my PC or solve my client issue

Shaking it up with some RDR2. Re-posting since first attempt didn't work.

Community is already taking off, awesome to see! Keeping the series going with another Cyberpunk shot, but will be shaking it up with other games soon.