Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

hi I'm here for like 3 minutes before I go to board games

Just want to say that you're all really great ♥

goodnight!

hopefully I can sleep at a reasonable time tonight

It's also pitched as a DayZ killer, and DayZ was.... not a good game, it was full of a lot of malice and selfishness and other such things.

So there's a new game called SCUM, it's an Open World game described as a "Prison riot survival game"

And at first I thought it looked kind of interesting – it's a "realistic" survival game with some very specific stats that actually matter.

But the more I've looked into it, the worse it seems. It looks both cynical and hesitant to say anything about prisons, and it has got this very "violent shenanigans" feel.

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That reminds me, I need to read Night Witches, so I can run that at some point soon

also I've heard lots of D&D DMs say something like "oh, but you can customise the rules and the DM can make it as story-telling as they want"

And.... that's not really true. If I invited you to D&D, and you came over and found out we were playing a diceless game where the story was based around budding romance in a countryside post office, you would be very confused and feel lied to.

That's a story you could tell! But it's not one you could tell with D&D.

transferring at an incredible speed of 50MiB an hour

I get super frustrated with people who think that D&D is some kind of grand story-telling game, and that all RPGs are like D&D.

Because it's not a storytelling game. It's a combat simulator, with some light storytelling elements.

...I wonder how many people have been pushed away from storytelling games by their first experience with them being a crunchy combat game...

a problem I always have with syncthing is that at some point during set up both of the devices that I'm trying to sync will say the other one is disconnected, and I have no idea how to make them connect again

I need to figure out how to backup my photos... they're on my phone, but the cable thing on my phone is breaking and I don't trust it for transferring files

of course this actually makes sense - it's a standard for writing only:

"The government does not regulate spoken Bokmål and recommends that normalised pronunciation should follow the phonology of the speaker's local dialect."

So Bokmål is "officially" pronounced the way you would pronounce it.(usually [ˈbuːkmɔːl] according to wikipedia)