Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space
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Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.
Joined Jun 2017
@anthracite @xinjinmeng @Phorm Not really seeing a downside, there's a lot of threads out there asking for exactly this. XD
@anthracite @Phorm I mean, you've seen the boobfruit trees at the river's edge, right?
@anthracite I age like a fine wine. Or maybe a whine. In any case, awesome work. ;D
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semi-evergreen vent toot, long (~1750 chars), re: FOSS, 
FOSS is amazing and important. But the FOSS community as it currently stands is toxic to an insane degree.
News flash: Not everyone who uses FOSS programs is technical enough to make their own.
If someone complains about something they find inconvenient or inaccessible about a program they otherwise enjoy using, the correct answer is NOT to respond with "Why don't you just code it yourself?"
To only offer that response is to willingly ignore the fact that plenty of users (ourselves included) don't have the technical know-how to build something so complex, even if they fork your code. Whether intentional or not, you're implicitly gatekeeping so that the only people who can enjoy the same programs you do are the ones who can build their own.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's leaving out a HUGE portion of potential users.
If you really do care about FOSS becoming mainstream, then it's in your best interests to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, not just the people who think like you do.
The only way to dismantle Big Tech's de facto monopoly is to work together to find a better solution. And refusing to objectively improve your precious source code is not the way to do that.
And guess what? Thanks to the Steam Deck, soon there's gonna be a bunch of non-techie people trying out Linux. You can't keep gatekeeping forever. If FOSS is to survive, it must adapt. Not exclude.
If you disagree with any of the above, YOU are the problem with the FOSS community. YOU are the reason FOSS isn't mainstream yet.
The block button's right there. Save yourself some time and use it. Nobody wants or needs to hear your rebuttal. Goodbye.
@Kyresti They hold a competition - the one that grows the biggest gets to call herself Ungoliant and rampage through the city Oct 31st. Usually after that she's eaten by a bird.
re: Lizard Combos.
@anthracite @zebratron2084 If you hit 50, then every person you see turns into a lizard, and the special background music is activated. The song lasts four minutes and twenty-four seconds, but if you get to 100 new lizards it loops and doubles the requirement for another loop. In theory you can keep this chain going forever but in practice it's pretty hard.
@hystericempress I think my spiciest take is that Mike Long should be skinned and used to make booster packs.
@anthracite @mawr @Doephin It goes into the corn @..@;;;
@mawr Of course! Seasonally speaking we're still in Spiders, we're not to Grim yet. So yes, it's still the honeymoon phase. :)
@anthracite I know, right? There's something there, but I'm not sure exactly how to convey that it's the burrito that did the trick without needing to have text there explicitly saying it.
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DRAGONS HALLOWEEN PSA
BEWARE
Dragons!!! Sending your kobolds out for rocks-or-treats can be great fun for everyone, but be sure to check their pails!!
Uninformed parents or even malicious people may hand out nuclear fuel pellets! These are NOT ROCKS, they are made of highly enriched uranium that may make your kobold sick!!!
Check their pails when they get home!!
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Weird commission idea floating through my head - dragoness in her ritual room, tons of paraphernalia all around, stacks of tomes, searching for apotheosis. It's finally struck - she's resplendent, partially fused with infinity, Ascended - and she's staring down in disbelief at the thing that let her make the leap. Not a tome, not a ritual, but...
...a really really good burrito, still half-uneaten.
@Doephin Not to do that? But.... but....
@xinjinmeng I mean, same.
Weird commission idea floating through my head - dragoness in her ritual room, tons of paraphernalia all around, stacks of tomes, searching for apotheosis. It's finally struck - she's resplendent, partially fused with infinity, Ascended - and she's staring down in disbelief at the thing that let her make the leap. Not a tome, not a ritual, but...
...a really really good burrito, still half-uneaten.
re: A tale of local obscurity that was: The WOOZ
@Phorm The 90s was a heady era. @..@
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was published 42 years ago today.
re: A tale of local obscurity that was: The WOOZ
@Phorm I remember reading about this when I was looking into public space labyrinths, I'm a little sad I never got to see it!
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Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.
Joined Jun 2017
