TwistedFox

joined 1 year ago
[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

I'm looking forward to running a Shadow of the Weird Wizard game at some point.
Also working on a campaign of "no thank you evil" for my kids.

 

How do you guys normally start your campaigns? Classic tavern, or something unique each time?

I've been thinking of starting my next one with a surprise DMPC.
He'll be mid-high level and over the top, inducting the players into his party because despite his power, the contract he has specifies it must be accepted by a party. He'll want them to do nothing but stay out of his way. I'm thinking the contract will either be a bounty or goblin clearing task. The target either way will be in a small fort with only a rope bridge for access. He'll tell them to stay with the horses, go off on his own and promptly have the bridge cut out from under him, dieing to the fall.
If the party want the payout, they'll have to both get the contract from his corpse and then complete it on their own.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

While I have no doubt that the EU has corrupt politicians, It's no where as visibly bad as it is in the US. Most of the people who could bring this forward get something out of what he is doing or contributing to them, and they would rather turn a blind eye than risk losing whatever he is giving them.
For some it's helping out their base, for others its something more monetary.
There are mechanisms there, but they only work when the people watching them are invested in helping the citizens.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's definitely a part of it. All of the MS web platforms rely heavily on first and third party cookies. You can't even log in properly to Teams if your browser is in incognito/private mode.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Aside from the standard dark patterns and extraneous, feature-forcing bloat, I really dislike that flat-design trend. Not just does it look kinda bad, but everything is so physically bloated to try to separate it from everything else that you get notably less usable screen space resulting in annoyingly little information density.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that is his point, the microblogging on kbin was not a draw to make him choose it over lemmy.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

While I do use a USB-C phone, the thing I miss most about the audio jack is a wired audio connection that doesn't remove charging or require a separately purchased dongle.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago

not just sent through, but indefinitely stored on the cloud server, despite advertising that it was not cloud-connected. It also generated facial-recognition based IDs for people which was also stored, and every single device could be connected to through an non-authorized connection request from VLC player.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Those are Rookie numbers. Got 67 tabs on mobile, and 6ish windows with 30-50 on my laptop. Not sure how many are on my desktop, but it's spread across 3 browsers.