It’s not about identity as much as it’s a very poor way to try to convince someone.
Don’t base your line of argument on a statement you know the other person will likely disagree with.
For example “You should play Pathfinder because DnD sucks”, holds no weight to people who don’t think that DnD sucks. In fact if they happen to like DnD, it undermines your argument, because if you disagree about DnD, aren’t you also likely to disagree about Pathfinder?
If they play a system, they probably like that system and find its shortcomings acceptable. You can’t convince someone that a system isn’t enjoyable when they have first-hand evidence to the contrary.
Asking people to stop being comfortable doing something they like, so that they can be uncomfortable doing something you like, isn’t a good value proposition.
If you lead with “Thing you like is actually bad”, their immediate response will be to disagree with you and start defending the thing they like. And if you want someone to listen to your arguments, rather than just try to poke holes in them, you must avoid putting them on the defensive.
To get through to people, find common ground and build off that. “If you like FEATURE in GAME, you’ll probably love SIMILAR FEATURE in OTHER GAME because…” is something that’s actually going to get someone interested, rather than start a pointless argument :)
Well there are no crits on checks in 5e, so a nat 20 +0 is no different from a nat 6 +14. And someone with a +14 can’t fail a check with a DC of 15 or lower.
Having Degrees of Success built into the system in PF2 is really neat though. And seems like something DnD could easily incorporate if Wizards had any vision.
“if Republic of China want to become Republic of Taiwan, they probably should publish the declaration of independence”
They don’t have that choice. While independence is quite popular in Taiwan, the PRC has made it very clear that they see any movement toward Taiwanese independence as cause for war. Going so far as to fire literal warning shots over the island in 2022 and 1996.
Depending on where the burn is you can just put the burnt part in a container with cool water instead. It’s much more practical to walk around with your hand in a cup than to be standing next to the faucet.
But the PRC is not a direct continuation of the Qing.
The USA can’t lay claim to Great Britain just because they used to part of the same country before the revolution.
“shouldn’t be too hard”?!
A regular lich is CR 21.
For comparison, an adult red dragon is CR 17 and the most powerful demon, the balor, is CR 19.
There are almost no creatures more powerful than liches. Even ones that are not Vecna.
4K is an outrageously high resolution.
If I was conspiratorial I would say that 4K was normalized as the next step above 1440p in order to create a demand for many generations of new graphics cards. Because it was introduced long before there was hardware able to use it without serious compromises. (I don’t actually think it’s a conspiracy though.)
For comparison, 1440p has 78% more pixels than 1080p. That’s quite a jump in pixel density and required performance.
4K has 125% more pixels than 1440p (300% more than 1080p). The step up is massive, and the additional performance required is as well.
Now there is a resolution that we are missing in between them. 3200x1800 is the natural next step above 1440p*. At 56% more pixels it would be a nice improvement, without an outrageous jump in performance. But it doesn’t exist outside of a few laptops for some reason.
*All these resolutions are multiples of 640x360. 720p is 2x, 1080p is 3x, 1440p is 4x, and 4K is 6x. 1800p is the missing 5x.
Repeating what they heard is very different from automatically processing the chat to harvest personal information about the participants.
Just because some data is publicly available doesn’t mean all processing of that data is legal and moral.
You’re both getting side-tracked by this discussion of recording. The recording is likely legal in most places.
It’s the processing of that unstructured data to extract and store personal information that is problematic. At that point you go from simply recording a conversation of which you are a part, to processing and storing people’s personal data without their knowledge, consent, or expectation.
There are LED bars for mounting in your rear windows to display text to those behind you
Gay.
It’s the Gay Intersex Marxist Program. Obviously.
This is an outrage!
Coq was such an excellent name. Short, memorable, unique, related to its origins and logo, as well as funny.
I would think that giving people care doesn’t actually cost much, it’s having the capability that’s expensive. And the administrative work required to deal with the edge case of charging foreigners might not be worth the minor sums involved.
I think it’s such a general word that your association says something about what subjects are on the top of your mind.
My association was hand gestures, or more comically, flag signals :D
Aluminium smelting is so energy intensive that Iceland, a country with a population of less than 400 000, is the world’s 12th largest producer of it, even though the raw materials aren’t mined there. Iceland just has cheap geothermal and hydroelectric power.
In the real world there is no entirely reasonable code base. There’s always going to be some aspects of it that are kind of shit, because you intended to do X but then had to change to doing Y, and you have not had time or sufficient reason to properly rewrite everything to reflect that.
We tend to underestimate how long things will take, precisely because when we imagine someone doing them we think of the ideal case, where everything is reasonable and goes well. Which is pretty much guaranteed to not be the case whenever you do anything complex.
You cannot say no to legitimate interest. That’s a valid legal basis for processing the data that you only need to be informed about. Some times it appears like they are asking for your consent (which is a different legal basis for processing data) for legitimate interest, but that’s likely just a poorly designed interface.
There’re a lot of privacy enthusiasts who seem to view privacy as a binary. So because Mozilla isn’t perfect, it’s as bad as can be.
They also commonly have little understanding of the underlying technology, law, business, etc., which I guess is why they can’t do any threat modeling. They’re just really scared of a nebulous threat they do not understand. Which I can sympathize with.
But privacy then becomes more about “staying pure” in some abstract sense, rather than about avoiding concrete threats.
(As a tip to those who want to do better, any real security starts with threat modeling. There is no such thing as perfect security, it’s always a tradeoff. So you must do threat modeling to make sure you’re putting your resources where they will make a difference.)