You just havent seen much true multimedia, what the web was originally optimized for. You’ve just seen designer barf and marketing’s wet dreams, but not sites actually meant to convey information efficiency.

Text, videos, images, and interactive elements are all individually not that great. The magic is when you can have all of them on one page, each for the parts where they are the best option for part of a whole idea.

But that doesn’t jive well with medium that just wants everything to be text, or YouTube/TikTok that wants everything to be a video, etc.

Uhhh it definitely is. I literally have a Linux terminal running on my Android phone.

Weechat is the only other irc client I recommend

The US has not had uncontrolled gun distribution and nobody is asking for that. You can’t legally buy a gun without a background check and more, and it has been this way for decades.

The cost of complying with the dozens of legal hoops is often like 10-20x or more than the price of just a cheap pistol itself.

Larger financial barriers just mean if you’re rich you can do what you want and if you’re not, you’re fucked, which often leads to people breaking these dumb laws and the cycle getting worse.

No, you can’t. Hawaii is not a shall-issue state. It’s pretty much impossible to get a permit there. Also, criminals won’t be getting permits so why should we make law abiding citizens get them.

Make the bad thing illegal. Don’t make the tools or the intermediate steps illegal

Why is it a loose canon? It’s a problem with the photographer, not the camera. And at best you could argue that they might rattle or drop the camera, but that would just be a vibrating canon or insecure canon.

This pun does not work. Should be something like “what do you call a camera with no screws” or something

I think both sides are lacking nuance here. If you shit on people getting electric vehicles or just thinking of getting one because that’s not far enough: fuck you. But also, for people that just switched or are thinking of getting one but then see something like this and slam into reverse and say “I’m gonna support ICE cars till the day I die to spite those overly hostile woke liberals”: fuck you too.

People should be able to take the information in a more nuanced way, and should stop swinging from extreme to extreme which has led to the current fucked state of politics

I see you’ve never been to a bar with a CS major

(probably also because you can’t get them to go to bars)

I know not to do stupid things that could bork my bootloader. I still do stupid things that I know can bork my bootloader.

Disagree. If it’s well balanced then good players can make equal best of whatever comes their way. I think the issue may be more a lack of balance than the existence of luck.

Thats not how luck works. Sometimes even assuming perfect play, one player will have better options available due to luck

Maybe but I actually think it can be a good thing in a world where casual players don’t want to get entirely discouraged by having zero chance.

IMO thats on them. I mean, a beginner has 0 chance to beat an experienced player in chess, but that game has done pretty well…

Well I mean I like engine building, nice artwork, randomness, and birds. I also think there’s some “chill” je ne sais quoi about wingspan that I can’t define well… I don’t really need any recs (don’t have enough time to play gsmes as it is)… but I mean the other games I like a lot are Terraforming Mars, Catan, Pandemic…

All of those games are gateway games that are outclassed by better games.

Try Pax Pamir 2nd edition.

You still get the cards, get to build up an engine of actions with your tableau, has a good amount of randomness in the card market (but the randomness is public, not as specifically helping/hurting players but changing the course of the game as a whole), and is one of the most interactive games I’ve played. Definitely top tier and worth a play. Best at 4p.

That’s said, I think learning more strategies will give you more ability to do well with a wider variety of cards

This is a meaningless statement used to defend any game with a lot of luck. Of course if you are more adaptable you can work better in more situations. However, players of equal still will still be at a disadvantage vs the other depending on which gets luckier.

but it also means a beginner can luck their way into an easy win.

I 100% consider this a bad thing. I never expect to win a game as a beginner vs competent players.

Not sure there are thousands of better games though.

For sure. Which mechanics of wingspan do you like, Id be happy to offer suggestions.

No, wingspan is one of the most overrated games out there.

• It is so long for the amount of meaningful decisions you make
• There is such a low amount of interactivity it is practically solitaire where sometimes you just tweak your turn slightly
• So much of the game comes down to luck of what cards you draw, especially in your starting hand
• The theme is pasted on. Idgaf about theme personally, but really the mechanics could be for anything at all, they just pasted birds onto it. Why does having one kind of thing make another kind of bird worth more? If you’re trying to run a conservatory why are you letting the birds kill each other?

There are thousands of better games, why waste time on wingspan?

Trying to transitively get the world to defederate from everybody you don’t like is a terrible idea. That will just lead to over moderation and the community becoming bland. Everybody will want somebody else defederated from everybody else which will destroy the interconnectedness of the fediverse. Pushed to it’s extreme, citing the paradox of tolerance leada to Nazi or USSR levels of totalitarianism and fascism against any perceived thought crime.

They are defederated, that’s a reasonable measure to get rid of most of it. Now just ignore it.

I just want the mods to use their power to steer people to Lemmy

At this point it’s clear reddit isn’t going to budge, stop power tripping by making a fuss on reddit and instead do something actually useful. Keep a Lemmy post pinned while you run the nsfw label circus.

Ads, like Reddit does and reddit makes a ton of money. If they weren’t trying to make nft integrations or new TikTok and just had the staff it took to keep the lights on, it would be a stable successful business.

But the greedy execs want more money so they act like they have no choice but to squeeze the users for everything they can. This is their choice, not a necessity.