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ThirdConsul @ ThirdConsul @lemmy.ml
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  • Caught

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  • I can't be the only person creeped out by the girlfriend overcontroling her hunk?

    Da fuq girl, take a long hot shower.

  • A lesson so many need to learn

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  • Why do people who obviously prefer a rules light set of rules play something as rigid and overcomplicated as DnD.

    Because the entry barrier is low, a lot of groups playing DnD/Pathfinder, tons of content, it's mainstream, celebrities play it so the rules are shallowly known to a lot of people.

    At least that's my take.

    Wouldn’t you find far more enjoyment in systems lile fate or savage worlds?

    Fate is Fudge, and as I mentioned I prefer it over DnD

  • A lesson so many need to learn

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  • I see what you're saying, but... To me that's okay? I don't need to follow the book for all that shiet? You don't need to overspecialize on your character sheet.

    In DnD/Pathfinder you grab the Lore/Knowledge/etc skill for a wide range of actions. The nobility will respect your cleric because it's a cleric, has a symbol of the order, ecclesiastic rank from the roleplaying, but if she can't persuade for shiet, she'll loose that initial respect quickly.

    Have you ever played Shadowrun? I think I left that system the moment my DM decided to reference table for jumping out of a riding car by / brand / speed / manoeuvre / skill level to determine my damage.

    The Dark Eye is that German thingy, right? I never liked it as a system, it felt constraining. On the other hand, my favourite system is Fudge, so we might just like different things.

  • A lesson so many need to learn

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  • During investigations the wizard rolls an investigation check, the cleric rolls an investigation check and the barbarian does nothing because they dumped wisdom

    You might be playing it wrong.

    During investigations Wizard checks the books in the library, references his own notes, chats up local researcher community. Creates and sends Arcane Eye, spreads his familiars, tries Clairvoyance.

    Cleric visits a local church, talks to the priests and churchgoers, prays to the Divine, maybe convinces the town to join her in the crusade against the target and lits the town on fire, while villages attack the nobleman mansion looking for the culprit and plunder.

    Barbarian goes to the local tavern to drink with the local guards. Helps local elder find his kitten. Maybe talks to a local hunter and they bond over a bear hunt they just finished, maybe about the beauty of wilderness... One thing leads to another, a secret touch, a hidden look, a moment of courage, a stolen kiss... What I was talking about?

  • It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!

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  • downplaying

    Where am I doing that?

    Sorry is China cutting people hand

    This is literally whataboutism.

    Was Leopold bloody years of terror vastly worse? Yes. Who is arguing with that? Is China benevolent and non exploitative? The African studies done by locals tend to say no.

  • It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!

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  • the claim that the famine was intentional is extremely dubious at best.

    I'm splitting this to a separate comment because it's a different topic.

    Who said that it was intentionally made famine with the goal of killing people? And where?

    Are you hung on the original commenter calling it "mass murder" and your point is that it wasn't premeditated?

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  • The famine was the produce of a great number of different factors, inefficient and backward agricultural methods, bad weather, compound effects of WW2 + the Chinese civil war, mismanagement, trade embargoes, etc… But others could explain it better than I can.

    Would the governing body of PRC in 1962 attributing the famine to government errors convince you otherwise? Would the Chinese government 20 years later confirming the same and reiterating it was the Mao policy that was faulty at the core convince you?

    If not, can you imagine a fact that would convince you, that the responsibility for that famine is on the then Chinese government? What is it?

  • It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!

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  • You're talking about narrative, spin a story about tribunal, and then spin a story that I'm defensive. I'm not.

    Insisting that the event happened the way you say it did without providing any rational or cause-effect relationship

    Literally what the first commenter gave - there was a widespread famine in China, it's caused by Mao agricultural policies.

    What are you contesting here? There was no famine? Famine is the narrative? Or that it wasn't caused by policies but by... What? Weather? Weather was good.

    I don't understand your point, please clarify it, in a way that isn't just calling your interlocutors stupid or defensive.

  • It's even infecting the wider lemmy network!

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  • It's not paywalled. I think you didn't even bother to click "read full article" or whatever the button name is. They might ask you to register witb a free account.

    If you want to use other people opinions as an argument, I'm going to ask you for what you asked for - studies. Preferably published in journals, not essays by socials celebrities like Caitlin Johnstone, nor articles in Chinese newspapers, nor Reddit. And that's because a deluge of weak sources is worthless - that's how US propaganda works and enforces itself.

    Extra points if the studies are not from China or it's close Allies, just so that you have exactly the same requirements as the ones you asked for.

    Can be paywalled.

    Edit: I highly recommend you read https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

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  • some credible china-bad studies that aren’t sourced from British or US state media.

    University of Limpopo, South Africa, on China neocolonising Africa - https://www.jstor.org/stable/27159668. Is that credible enough for you?

    If not, is there a source that you would call credible - and if it exists, what is it?

    Note: I hope I don't come as aggressive, I was trying to be succinct.

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  • I'm sorry, but why would that matter? We tend to judge people by their actions, not their intent, when it comes to mass deaths.

    Right?

    Right?

  • Damn like pick up a book some time

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  • But... That's just an argument that you don't know the situation in NK. Not that the situation is anything, good or bad?

    If I lie to you where the fire is, it does not mean the fire is cold.

  • Sony faces another class-action lawsuit over PlayStation Store prices and monopolistic practices

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  • Agreed but you can play only offline without missing on much

    That's such a bad take. Game companies are not allowed to have multiplayer that bypasses psn network.

    The Sony and Nintendo have dominant positions in the game market for their consoles. The wallet garden must be breached for the consumer - why do you cate about company profits🙃

  • Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny

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  • https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_differences_in_crime

    This wikipedia article lists all different studies why. The short answer is patriarchy - men have more occasion to commit crimes and it's more acceptable from gender role point of view for men to do so.

    It also list studies of crimes and offenses where women are found to be more often perpetrators than men, including a very comprehensive guide to domestic violence studies.

    To sum it up - you're both correct, men do more bullshit, women have similar capacity for it, we are expected to express the bullshit differently.

  • Nintendo Is Already Punishing Switch 2 Users Over Piracy ‘Suspicions’

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  • And that should be illegal, since there's no other online services provider for those devices.

    You can't even setup one yourself.

    God I hope EU will slap them like they slapped Apple forcing it to provide alternative app stores.

  • Video-based AI memory library. Store millions of text chunks in MP4 files with lightning-fast semantic search.

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  • TBH this looks like a scam (false claims) made for clout. Especially given how advertised the repo is on all social medias.

    Edit: author of it is an uni student, so nevermind, I guess he's just inexperienced not malevolent.

  • Video-based AI memory library. Store millions of text chunks in MP4 files with lightning-fast semantic search.

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  • Thank you for that, but I still don't understand where the benefits come from.

    Realistically what you wrote sounds like hogwash.

    This dude is trying perf checking the solution https://github.com/Olow304/memvid/issues/51 , findings he has (so far) are interesting, like data getting malformed during processing (byte size comparison). Or that 16KB of text is 640KB of video.

    Oh, and right now people are calling out the bullshit of the repo

    https://github.com/janekm/retrieval_comparison/blob/main/memvid_critique.md

    https://github.com/Olow304/memvid/issues/52

    https://github.com/Olow304/memvid/issues/49

  • Convince my brother to watch Attack On Titan

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  • Why? If he does not like it respect his tastes maybe?

  • Video-based AI memory library. Store millions of text chunks in MP4 files with lightning-fast semantic search.

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  • So like indexed text files? I don't understand what's the benefit of encoding text into videos.