Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space

Experienced Discourse forum admins: is there a way to completely remove the "like" system from Discourse? I'm trying to de-emphasize groupthink.

Also want to buy: favicon and mobile app icon (32x32 and 144x144, respectively) suggesting dragons arguing amicably. Will need to be simplified/stylized to be identifiable at that scale.

Want to buy a set of generic dragon silhouettes as default avatars for a web forum; need short turnaround (under a week). Any artist folks interested? Bids requested

Looking for recommendations for a forum hosting service, engine, etc. I am a lazy sysadmin and want to do exactly zero of the server maintenance myself.

I miss when dragon forums were more argumentative. I feels like there's pressure now to agree with everyone or you are a terribly evil monster, and there was less of that culture in the early '00s. I'm looking at it through rose-tinted glasses but I miss substantial parts of that; modern social media requires keeping up with exactly what is or isn't acceptable and has low tolerance for error.

Anyway, I'm figuring out what to do with grumpydragons.social now that I own it. Announcement later.

Are semi-focused midrange decks in #Hearthstone typically better than super-focused synergistic decks? “Stuff I threw together with one good idea and a bunch of backup plans for doing damage” keeps winning against pro-level netdecks - and I keep winning with them and losing with the netdecks even though I’m not really any better with the card play of my own decks

My messy Spectral Dagger / Mistwraith / burgle deck is working absurdly better than netdecked Odd Paladin. What am I missing about Odd Paladin? Does it just not work at rank 19 because of the higher number of taunts in decks created by less experienced players (making them better against Odd Paladin)? Am I just getting Odd Paladin totally wrong? #hearthstone

More #Hearthstone #Witchwood theorycrafting: I modified a Miracle Rogue deck to try to exploit Mistwraith instead and it's doing much better than I can really account for. I'm still trying to refine it - I honestly don't know what to take out to put in a second copy of Deadly Poison (rarely a premium card, I know) or Elven Minstrel (which has typically done much less than it feels like it needs to, so maybe that's what goes *out* instead).

Feedback? https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1088788-do-crimes

I made the Shudderwock combo work

I’m sorry

What to do about it now that it is not 15 years ago, I am not the me of 15 years ago, and work is not college, is less clear.

I wonder how different my life and emotional issues would be if I joined mainstream gay culture in college 15 years ago. I am realizing now that even with my gender issues I could be approximately content as a flamingly gay man because being perceived as something not conformant with performative heterosexuality is most of what I need.

Not all of it; my gender still isn’t something binary. But if I’m going to perform something consistent day-to-day, I think there are worse choices.

@Soreth I am lucky that tea is wildly effective on me for this

@Soreth black tea, the knowledge there’s a hot water dispenser downstairs that can make tea almost immediately if I can get out of bed, a CBD tincture and the similar knowledge that it exists, sometimes I just take an hour to get out of bed and sometimes I puke anyway

@lizardsquid open source development finds a quality bar where it is easier to deal with the program than it is to rewrite it, and does not improve further without corporate sponsorship unless it’s still someone’s passion project

In which I calculate my taxes in terms of the United States military budget and conclude “three seconds”

I have spent the last four business days determining that I need to write maybe thirty lines of code for the feature I’m trying to add

On the flip side, four days ago I thought it would involve several hundred, so I guess I have been successfully writing negative one hundred lines of theoretical code per day for the last few days

@KawaSeadrake Not worth it IMO. I have never been able to recover a computer that developed grinding slowness and evidence of hardware failure (the flash drive thing) for longer than 6 months before the CPU cooler goes kaput - the thermal interface between the CPU and the heat spreader seems to be the weak point.