paddirn 8h ago • 66%
The idea of a political candidate attending church to then get people to vote, either directly there at the church if it’s a polling place, or somewhere relatively close by. I just don’t know that I like the idea of politics in general being brought near Churches.
paddirn 9h ago • 100%
Be a sweet place to bring a date out to… because of the implication.
paddirn 10h ago • 100%
I support Harris, but that doesn’t really seem like it should be legal. Somehow I doubt anybody will do anything about it though.
paddirn 16h ago • 100%
Oh shit, were we supposed to be fucking our Xboxes this whole time? Is that how you get more games? <unziiiips>
paddirn 1d ago • 100%
Do they also publish non-horse comics?
paddirn 2d ago • 87%
I’ve warmed up to her and think she’ll make a good president, but I honestly haven’t liked Kamala for the past 4 or so years. I had actually hoped she would’ve disappeared off the face of the earth when she lost the democratic primaries, then Biden picked her up as VP and she’s been one of the most inconsequential VPs in modern US history. Considering how important/influential the VP has been since Dick Cheney seemingly redefined the role, Harris just hasn’t brought much, which is in keeping with how the role has been traditionally seen. I dreaded her stepping up for president, but she seems to have exceeded my expectations and I’ve come around to her.
As for Harris’ qualifications/positions, they seem like average middle of the road Democrat positions, nothing too exciting, but it would be nice to get a younger face in there who had some understanding of some modern technology.
paddirn 2d ago • 95%
No, we’re seeing the same thing on the inside too. The fact that Trump actually has another chance in hell, or that he likely would’ve beat Biden, is a sign of how far gone this country already is. Do people not remember the absolute shitshow that was Trump’s 1st term?
Weekly, sometimes daily, WTF moments where I was just wondering where any of the adults were. Constant, blatant corruption and incompetence on full display. And we had to hear everything he fucking said over and over because everybody had to repeat the same news over and over again.
It’s been relatively good during Biden’s tenure, I would hear/read about him about as much as a normal president. Like, the president is the president, but I don’t want to hear everything going on with the president unless it’s important. So for us to go from that absolute shit show to relative peace (as peaceful as all this can be considered), I don’t understand how anybody would want to go back.
paddirn 2d ago • 100%
I’m going to start saying that when asked about my birth year. “The late 1900s”
paddirn 2d ago • 100%
I think that third one down is actually how they’re teaching it at my kids’ schools now. It’s called “making a 10” I think, basically that same idea, add up to 10 first, then do the rest.
paddirn 2d ago • 88%
I just don’t dream… anything. I remember having dreams as a kid, and I remember what it felt like waking up, knowing I’d had a dream, but forgetting it. But anymore, I just don’t have any dreams anymore.
paddirn 2d ago • 100%
Candy Corn snake
The image actually does look like a corn snake sort of.
paddirn 2d ago • 100%
Join the club, that's about all the internet is anymore anyways. If they really wanted to do something groundbreaking they'd find a way to keep AI off the internet in the first place.
paddirn 2d ago • 100%
If she gets elected she’ll be the first female Vice President AND the first female President, from back to back terms.
paddirn 2d ago • 100%
GOOD! I grew up living in the north-east and we called it "Soda", then moved west and kept hearing people say "pop" and it was the most annoying thing, glad to see everyone else is coming around to the correct name.
paddirn 3d ago • 100%
It’s a giant brain.
paddirn 4d ago • 100%
For some reason I thought this was somehow based off of A Fisherman’s Tale, a cutesy PC-VR puzzle game, but does not seem like that at all.
paddirn 4d ago • 100%
I’m guessing it’s from the special effects people being overworked and having to churn out show after show after movie after show the way they’ve been having to do the past few years. The same thing has cropped up in a few other Marvel shows/movies as well, just laughably bad CGI.
paddirn 4d ago • 100%
Maybe there was an abortion involved?
paddirn 4d ago • 87%
IANAL. Not unless they’re in the public domain. It can depend on how litigious the company happens to be and/or how much attention you get, but eventually they’ll come around and the more successful you get, the more likely they are to come after you. Any company that has intellectual property has a sort of responsibility to protect it, else they run the risk of losing that protection when they may really need it. That’s why I think Nintendo especially is so protective of their IP, they DGAF and will go after anybody, whether it’s for a fan project made out of love or whatever, doesn’t matter, Cease & Desist.
A song title or work of art is probably ok, maybe even a band name (?), but a business name might be stretching it, it just depends on how much you’re leaning into the original work. If you make up a business called ‘Super Mario’s Pipe Cleaners’ and you basically rip off all the imagery from Super Mario games to establish your business, that’s probably not going to go well.
Using it in your own games? Maybe it’d depend on how it’s worked in. If it’s a cookiecutter copy of Princess Peach, then probably copyright infringement, but if it’s a parody or a loose homage to a character, that might stand a better chance. It really just depends on the context.
I noticed this Summer I started transitioning my morning walks to pre-sunrise hours to try to escape the heat (since even mornings in Ohio are getting to be hot). Since global warming (or climate change in general) is happening and there's apparently nothing to be done to fix it in our lifetimes, it made me wonder if our overall society might move towards more nocturnal working hours instead of the standard 9–5, just to escape overheating during the day? There's probably no incentive currently, since workers aren't dropping like flies yet, but I could see it coming into play as global warming gets worse over time and it causes legitimate production issues. Probably some jobs wouldn't have the option, but most I think would be able to benefit from it. Does this sound like something realistic, or are we cursed to have to endure extreme temperatures because we've always worked in the daytime and we can't/won't change now?
I'm wrapping up a project and I had an idea to mix matte with glossy elements. I've got a spray can of Testors Spray Dullcote and then was wanting to paint the glossy elements by hand with a different gloss coating/finish. How well would those interact with each other? I'd obviously let the matte finish dry first, but would the matte "cancel" out the glossy effect or does it have some other interactions that basically make it not worth pursuing?
Whether it's a sense of superiority or just to be funny or asinine or out of a genuine need to spread the truth, people online generally try to be contrarian as often as possible because it gives them some sort of personal gratification or a sense that they're correcting something wrong in the universe.
  
prompt: "generate an image of Patrick Bateman as Batman"
Copilot: "create a picture of Marvel's Fantastic Four in Leonardo's the Last Supper painting" alternates:   
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Streamer Perrikaryal uses an electroencephalogram (EEG) device to play games
I settled on using [Zotero](https://www.zotero.org/) (meant for academia, but whatever, it does what I need) for cataloguing/organizing my ttrpg pdf hoard and I'm trying to set up some top-level tags to make it a bit easier to sift through what I'm looking for. One set of tags will be genre tags (fantasy, sci-fi, horror, etc), with another level below that for sub-genre (cyberpunk, supernatural, low fantasy, post-apocalyptic, etc). Another set of top-level tags will focus on the actual types of books/products one might see for an RPG. These are just all the terms I've come across before, setup in a hierarchy that makes sense to me, though sometimes terms aren't used consistently across different RPG lines. Since some products can straddle multiple genres/categories, I'm hoping tags will help make it easier to sort through everything. Does this set of categories/sub-categories make sense? I'm still at the early stages of just importing everything into a library, so I'm sure there's categories I've not thought of or considered. - **Core Rulebook** (*books required to play*) - Player Handbook (*this might straddle the line between core and supplement*) - **Supplement** (*books that expand the rules/setting*) - Sourcebook - Bestiary - Splatbook - Adventure/Scenario/Module - Campaign - Setting - **Accessory** (*mostly non-book related items*) - Cards - Maps - Fiction - Music/Audio - Screens - Sheets - Character sheet - Rules/Cheat sheet - Misc sheet - **Resource** (*more for general books on RPGs, system-agnostic*) - GM aid - Player aid - Educational - Tables
I've been searching around for a way to organize my TTRPG collection of pdfs (numbering in the thousands to tens of thousands) and haven't really found a silver bullet for it yet. Everything I've looked at has some sort of weird thing that's off about it that doesn't seem to make it ideal. Is there something out there that others are using that works well? Here's what I've looked at so far: - **Folder system**: This is what I'm already using and it's serviceable (PC), but it really doesn't give me any tagging function and so it's hard to organize based on genre or come up with really any categories outside of just alphabetically naming folders based on the RPG name, then putting whatever subcategories I need as folders below that. It just feels so clunky going about it like this. Being able to organize/search via tags just seems like the way to go. - **Calibre**: This gets recommended everytime, but honestly I'm not interested in duplicating my library of +10,000 pdfs and following their organization system. The desktop app looks ugly (which is apparently fixed with Calibre-web but still requires the desktop app). - **Jellyfin**: Really not geared towards books in general, it's functional but not great for it. This may end up being what I fall back to if I can't get anything else working. - **Kavita**: Looks nice and works nice EXCEPT it has some weird ass naming convention with regards to numbers in the folder/file names. Only top-level stuff can contain numbers, everything below has to have roman numerals? Such a weird thing that just breaks it for me. - **Komga**: It looks nice and works nice, but is more geared towards comics, and thus doesn't work so hot with RPGs with multiple categories (Core rulebooks, Scenarios, Settings, etc), since I tend to break those out into different folders. It ends up treating sub-folders as a different series altogether, so it sort of demands that you just keep everything in the same folder. - **Ubooquity**: Tried it, it ran like ass on my machine and didn't seem to do as good a job. Making updates in the folders themselves took awhile to propagate and it just overall didn't seem to work well for how I wanted to use it. I just didn't particularly care for it. - **Zotero**: It's actually more meant for academic journals and such, but it could be used for organizing TTRPG pdfs, though not sure how well it scales up once you start throwing thousands of pdfs at it. Downside though is that it's not as flashy as some of the others, it doesn't display book covers and you have to create additional objects for each item. You also can't just add tags to the PDFs themselves, you have to create an additional 'Book' object and attach the pdf to that item, then add whatever tags/notes/metadata you want to add. I haven't figured out how to automate the process and the one item I tried where it automatically found it, it created a 'Journal Article' and renamed it based on the authors of the book (which it did correctly find), which is not ideal for going through thousands of items. I just want it to keep the file names in most cases as I've already gotten most file names where I want them.
That is, have you ever started getting into a game, only to discover that the community is much deeper than you initially ever suspected? My kids and I started playing **PlateUp!** for funsies, it's a 4-player co-op kitchen/cooking/restaurant simulator that has you doing fun things like cooking food, taking customers orders, and washing dishes. We kind of play it for laughs and barely make any headway in it, usually as a result of all the chaos that comes from multiple people trying to run a kitchen. I started looking deeper into it because apparently there's ways to automate your whole setup and have the whole kitchen run itself. The amount of diagrams and setups that people have created are just insane, way deeper than I ever even considered with this innocent-looking game and it's made me reconsider what I thought was just a quirky little party game.
   
I woke up well-rested after getting plenty of sleep. I’m taking my car in for service, then I’m gonna sit around all day drinking coffee and alcohol, while playing games and working on hobbies.
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Eugene Debs, a Socialist leader in the early 20th century, ran for President five times. His fifth and highest vote count came in the 1920 Presidential election, in which he was running while in Federal prison for sedition. He received about 3.4% of the vote at the time (which included women for the first time since the Nineteenth Amendment was passed in 1920 as well). Not naming names, but yes, it's possible to run for President while in prison, though results may vary.
I just got done with a chat with Sony Customer Service regarding fraudulent activity on my account, I figured I'd share my experience in case anyone else has the same issue come up (I assume it's a relatively common experience). Somebody apparently got access to my account a few days ago, changed the email address linked to the account (so that I couldn't reset the password) changed the password, activated 2-step verification, then started buying up a few games on it (as my Sony account had been linked to my paypal account). Of course I discovered all this on a Sunday, when their phone lines are closed, which left me having to go through their "online assistant" (ie chat bot). It took me about 30-40min to finally get transferred to a live chat rep, but because I had keyed in my "online ID" wrong in the chat form ( misremembered it), he was unable to help me, because that chat instance is restricted to whatever info I entered originally. So I then had to start a new chat instance with the correct info, which left me waiting for another 30-40min, which by that time put me into about 1.5 hours and I just closed out and resolved to get to it today. Fast-forward to today, the wait this time was only about 20 min. Everything seemed to go fairly well, I got access to my account and changed the password back out. I then went ahead and activated 2-Step Verification for myself, to improve security to hopefully prevent this kind of thing in the future. After verifying my email address, this action apparently flagged my account for suspicious activity and my account is now suspended. I'm now having to wait for another specialist to resolve that issue. And because of that issue, the refund on the two games that were fraudulently bought is on hold because the agent can't process it while the account is suspended. After all of that, I requested to know what the email address had been changed to during the time that my account was hacked, as I want to file a police report at least and give that information out if I can. However, I was told that they could not give that information out for security reasons. In my mind, that email address became part of my account record, did it not? Why wouldn't I have access to that info for my account? The agent literally just gave me back access to my account, I'm obviously the account owner. Overall, I appreciated the help that CS gave me, I've worked that kind of job before, so I understand some of what they go through, but Sony's process for resolving these issues was just kind of a lot of needless waste on my end and infuriating that I don't have access to my own account information. There was some other strange things about the whole experience that I won't go into here, so just be prepared if you ever have to contact Sony about this. Thank you for reading my long rant.