I’ve followed this probably closer than the average gamer, but I still wouldn’t say I’ve followed it very closely.

The sense I get is that once TCR took it over, they moved the game in a direction that allows less personalisation in terms of roleplay. You’re no longer playing some newly-embraced nobody, you’re playing a hundred-year-old character with a very specific backstory. But it’s honestly still not completely clear. I’ll be interested to see feedback from people after its release.

Did you share the answers?

My experience is that on Reddit it replaces the comment with [unavailable], similar to [removed] when a mod removes it, or [deleted] when they delete it themselves.

And that on Lemmy, it depends on client. On lemmy-ui (the default web client), it sometimes shows up as that “1 more reply” option, but when you click it, it never loads in. On Jerboa, it says something along the lines of “unable to retrieve this comment”.

Both of those are what happens when you come across a comment from a person who blocked you in the wild. It may or may not be different when it’s in your inbox.

I’ve been blocked by at least one person on Lemmy, for reasons that I honestly have no idea, and have come across this in the wild a couple of times, including opening something I originally found on my computer in Jerboa to double-check, as well as opening up incognito where I’m logged out and therefore not blocked.

Also replying to @MagicShel@lemmy.zip, @wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

If you block someone, you don’t see their replies

On both Reddit and Lemmy, blocking someone prevents them from replying. It prevents them from even seeing your final word*

* sort of. Depending on exactly where and how they look.

It’s probably tuberculosis. Seaside trips were a classic part of the doctor’s recommendation for consumption.

There’s even some evidence that vitamin D (which is produced when your body is exposed to sunlight) may help slow TB infection.

Not really. Hollywood has propagated a lot of myths about corsets, partly because of incorrect application of them on Hollywood sets.

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Poor bulbasaur never gets any love.

I think that was their point. If not, it’s a good one. The argument could be made that the devs think that their experience, though lesser than BG3 in scale is equal to it in overall value, when you add in quality of writing, worldbuilding, game mechanics, etc.

I think that’s unlikely to actually play out in practice, but it’s perfectly consistent with what they’re saying here.

By analogy, I could buy a setting book like Paizo’s Lost Omens: Shining Kingdoms. Or I could buy an adventure like Claws of the Tyrant, and there’s no particular reason to expect the former must cost more than the latter.

They’re partly trying to put a good spin on it, but I really appreciate that most of this article is trying to be transparent and open about the fact that their game just isn’t the same scale as BG3.

that goes onto a separate device only for those purposes

Or in a VM if you don’t have any spare devices available. VM escapes exist, but they’re a pretty rare and severe type of vulnerability that’s unlikely to be casually utilised by proctoring software.

I’ve found out people have no problem logging into their Google or Microsoft account on public PCs. I brought the PDF on a CD

With 2FA I probably wouldn’t have too much of a problem with doing this. Especially if I then change password afterwards.

Another option would be to host it somewhere that you can remember the URL. If you don’t care for the privacy of the document itself, just using a URL shortener and Google Drive’s public sharing would work fine, or hosting at your own domain.

Personally though, I’m glad that on the rare occasion I need to get something printed (I have my own black and white laser printer at home for 99% of my needs), my local company for that sort of thing lets you upload it from home and pick up.

Would they do that? No idea. But could they? Yes, without a doubt. I don’t know that browser in particular, but if you’ve installed some software on your machine, that software can do anything any other software could do.

edit: this page (which seems like it might be from the developers of that browser) indicates it can monitor your screen and restrict your Internet access.

Did they require you to install any desktop software or browser extensions? Did they request permissions like camera access or screen recording? If the answer to all those questions is No, then I can’t think of any way they could possibly know what you were doing.

you brought up top month and I don’t see how you’d want that to work

The truth is I don’t want “top month”. What I really want is “best result, filtered by this month”. But unfortunately that doesn’t exist, and in the absence of that, I use “top month”.

I mean, based on the source, they’re still even on Twitter which is a lot more overtly fascist than WhatsApp. So…yeah…

It’s often cited as an example of parallel creation, but in reality there’s a good chance Katzenberg started production of Antz deliberately as an attack on Disney/Pixar.

Dreamworks tried to use the threat of releasing Antz at the same time as A Bug’s Life as leverage to get Disney to give The Prince of Egypt a clear release window, but Pixar’s John Lasseter and Steve Jobs wouldn’t budge.

Yeah Modern Revised Romanisation transcribes ㅐ as “ae”, which works a lot better.

Though it introduces its own problems. For example, it transcribes ㅓ as “eo”, which causes English speakers to pronounce it as “ee-oh”. Take Jecheon (제천). Most English speakers would pronounce that as “jeh-chee-on”. A better pronunciation would be jae-chun (with “u” being the vowel in “gut”, or maybe jae-chon" (the vowel in “chop”).

Yeah “hun day” isn’t too bad. I’m not Korean myself, but I think I prefer that pronunciation to “hi-oon-day” which is what I usually hear.

“Hun day” kind reminds me of “win” as a pronunciation of Vietnamese “Nguyen”. It’s obviously wrong, but it works pretty well as a pronunciation that uses phonemes and phonotactics common to English.

It’s definitely not unique to Americans.

And tbh I don’t really blame them too much. It’s spelt with an older form of romanisation which is, in my opinion, really, really awful. I don’t really love more modern romanisation schemes, but at least “dae” would be unlikely to be pronounced as “die” in the way “dai” is.

I did have to go and check but yeah, that’s it.