So the exploding heads vote is well past a day old now. The vote is almost unanimous to defederate. It's been obvious since a few hours after it went up what the community wants. It's now taken well past two weeks to defederate from an obvious alt right troll and bot platform. Twelve days of silence from admins, then a day long debate thread, then an interminable vote. I requested word on when the vote could be called closed, but my question was acknowledged and ignored.
For my own self, I have at this point no faith in the administration of this instance anymore to be able to handle this. It's very clear that wanting to not offend the alt-right is far, far more important than hearing the wishes of the users, and always has been. However, this is the agora, so I'm open to hear a counterpoint explaining why it's actually very reasonable to spend weeks upon weeks in endless circling debate over whether or not it's fine to joke about murdering marginalized people.
Edit: since my thread was locked and I can't reply to accusations, I only joined beehaw because of this, about two days ago. I'm not "a beehaw user", I've barely got my account there active. On this site I have a community and four hundred posts, but I'll be closing that now.
I opened this thread after seeking comment and being ignored for a week. You can see it in my post history if you like. That's enough of that for me.
Bank of Canada trying desperately to convince everyone that nothing is actually up?
I was there, I saw the thread. @TheDude, did you? It was pretty strongly in favour. Do we really need to keep waiting around to see if an instance administrated by a guy who wants to declare "cis" a slur is going to turn out okay?
https://sh.itjust.works/post/216888 for context.
Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn't that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it's that we're clinging to it long beyond its best before date.
I'm puzzled what's surprising about this.
I'm not LGBT, or American, but seeing people online suddenly talk openly with a great deal more vitriol and hatred about my friends, and even my child, caused me a fair bit of stress.
Build trust by having AMAs of interesting non-celebrity people.
In japan they put the handwashing sink on the back of the toilet. It's smaller, smarter, and doesn't look weird and gross like this.
Then they brush their teeth in a different room so their toothbrush isn't two feet from their shit.
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/335733
> For a long time I've tried to get a good RPG setting going for BT. I know there's an already written RPG for the game but tbh I don't really like it. For a while, I thought about making a bare-bones RPG myself that used the same base mechanics scaled down, but I found it was just too crunchy and slow. Now, I'm thinking that since the game will get very crunchy and simulated once it steps into mech combat, it can probably be narrative and story-based for the out-of-mech sequences. Since my favourite RPG is hands-down Blades in the Dark, lately, I've been thinking of writing a Forged in the Dark system game for battletech. > > This is getting pretty niche so I'm not sure if I'll find enough people who play BT and know FitD well, but I'm curious if anyone in here knows of an existing FitD build, or other more narrative-focused RPG, that would be easier to adapt to BT.
For a long time I've tried to get a good RPG setting going for BT. I know there's an already written RPG for the game but tbh I don't really like it. For a while, I thought about making a bare-bones RPG myself that used the same base mechanics scaled down, but I found it was just too crunchy and slow. Now, I'm thinking that since the game will get very crunchy and simulated once it steps into mech combat, it can probably be narrative and story-based for the out-of-mech sequences. Since my favourite RPG is hands-down Blades in the Dark, lately, I've been thinking of writing a Forged in the Dark system game for battletech.
This is getting pretty niche so I'm not sure if I'll find enough people who play BT and know FitD well, but I'm curious if anyone in here knows of an existing FitD build, or other more narrative-focused RPG, that would be easier to adapt to BT.
I think the right way to go is fine a good local computer store with knowledgeable people and get their help parting out and assembling it. You get some repair coverage and benefits like that, they do the bulk of the work, and you can put your own options in on anything you're knowledgeable about. It's what I've done and it's well worth it for the small extra cost.
These are millenial shooters dangit, boomers were too old for doom. Gen X at most.
More seriously though I just replayed the OG doom and it still slaps, nice to see some folks are trying to recapture that. I should check these out.
My daughter has asked me to write a book targeting her age range, 7-10 years old. I've read a few chapter books with her and have an idea of the language level, but I'm finding it very challenging to keep an engaging story going with the constraints. Anyone know of any tips or guides out there worth looking at for helping set language goals in an early readers setting?
I don't understand why anyone is naïve enough to still preorder from companies like Bethesda.
Mostly I don't understand pre-ordering games at all (patient gamers represent) but from Bethesda? You're basically paying to get kicked in the shins. Surely we all know this by now.
I picked up both books of the Capellan Solution for my kid. Wondering if anyone has read these... They look like the usual "not groundbreaking literature but entertaining" kind of fare. Anything they should read before hand?
I'm also curious, I noticed there are a lot of books that sit in chronological order but don't seem to be part of series. I assume most of them can be read out of order? It's been a bit over twenty-five years since I read a BT book myself.
Okay fine I subscribed because I keep seeing this weird ass stuff in my feed and I'm curious.
What the heck am I looking at?
Generally speaking the folks here are right, you should be able to maintain veganism unless things go really sideways. I'd recommend getting in touch with a dietician though if you're really worried (not a nutritionist, different beast) and having them go over your plans. Iron deficiency is a particular risk, one that can be easily surmounted as long as you're aware of it... Way harder to keep iron up when pregnant even than usual, and it's already tough as we all know.
Haha oh shit I forgot about the tekwar game. The fact that it was build engine too, the most awkwardly timed engine ever.
I showed my kid this ancient video when they got into battle tech. It might look and sound like crap now, but I was so vindicated when they made me play it three more times.
"Ammunition level... Critical"
Aah. This was the point where I realized the joy of stompy metal feet.
I really want to check this out, but the linking to communities on other instances thing is driving me nuts on jerboa :(
This link should work but is crashing my browser..sigh.
Now imagine one of the front line reasons for continuing to press the attack instead of cutting losses is that the leader of the US feels his masculinity is being challenged.
I'm actually just doing this to learn how to post photos, the image itself is kinda garbage without my light box, but here you go: one of my glass-green and purple mercenaries!
I find all these metal plates and hard surfaces a lot tougher than organics.
I've had great recommendations on my niche hobbies and a few funny chains of pun posting, so we're almost fully operational now.
That sounds like one of those things where you forget about it, then years later realize how fucked up it was.
... now I just have to wait a friggin year or whatever for my quad mechs (and I guess some other stuff).
Whoever says millenials don't understand delayed gratification anymore does not know about being a miniature gamer in the kickstarter age.
My kid, who is a terrible degenerate clanner, runs hell's horses as their main. Thus, they have a neverending thirst for things with treads and wheels instead of good solid stompy legs like Kerensky intended. Ironwind metals are a little fragile for an eleven year old (paint chipping etc) so I've been looking for stands in for a while.
As long as you're willing to either proxy the hell out of things or make your own stats, reaper CAV vehicles are a good option. The system is 10mm scale, and the mechs themselves mostly (though not universally) look a bit huge, but the vehicles are generally pretty okay looking next to catalyst mechs. The heavy vehicles are a bit huge, but work well for the assault-size vehicles that we get in BT.
Thought I'd toss this out for folks, and as soon as I learn how, I'll send pictures.
There are still a lot more people on twitter.
This community needs some attention!
So, fellow mechwarriors, what are you doing to store your mechs safely? I recently backed the mercenaries kickstarter, and I anticipate having dozens of mechs to store nicely. Right now I have them jammed into a plano box, but it's going to get small fast. Has anyone found a better, erm, dropship?
After a year of absence, I'll give this instance another shot, things have gone better than I expected.