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  • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.networktoGames@sh.itjust.works•Wizards of the Coast "now talking to lots of partners" about next Baldur's GateEnglish
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    7 months ago

    1. Old series that has a decent following of mostly niche dedicated fans is left to sit without a new installment for many years.

    2. New title is announced. It’s sells gang-busters and flips the community on its head.

    3. Corporate Executives prioritize short term profits and begin planning a quick and easy cash grab. !

    4. Second new installment comes out. It is a shell of the previous title with the soul sucked clean out.

    5. Fans are dissapointed and outside of a small niche following the game series falls into obscurity.

    6. Repeat.

    ! we are here right now

    Look… Maybe BG4 will be good. But after watching this exact cycle play out over and over again for the past decade I’m not sure how you can expect anything else.

  • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.networktoPeople Twitter@sh.itjust.works•Totally immersion breaking
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    7 months ago

    Can you though? Like the rules as presented in the books are just:

    Snitch caught > get 1000pts > game ends

    The only other way to get points is in intervals of what? 10? 25 maybe? Let’s assume it’s 25 because I can’t remember. That means you need to be up 40 fucking goals in order to tie if the other team gets the snitch. And that’s assuming your entire team doesn’t die from exhaustion seeing as the game doesn’t end until the snitch is caught lol

  • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.networktoTechnology@lemmy.world•Moderna’s mRNA cancer vaccine works even better than thoughtEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Okay but forcing someone to pay you $550k (averaging your values) to not die maybe is still incredibly fucking awful, so it’s really not hard to be better than that.

    I can respect that developing a personalized vaccine might take a lot of work but I’m not a chemist. I don’t know how much work it actually takes, nor do I know how many vaccines a person would realistically need to cure their cancer be it stage 1 up to stage 4?

    What I do know is that if this vaccine ends up being more effective than the traditional method then it is a wonderful discovery, but if it leads to life-long medical debt and subsequent financial ruin all the same your life is still fucked… I guess I’d rather be poor and alive, but I’d also rather not be destitute.

  • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.networktoTechnology@lemmy.world•‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block GoogleEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Ehhhh there’s pros and cons to that. r/all on any given day is just bots karma farming off eachother with maybe 1 or 2 good posts mixed in alongside the occasionally genuinely interesting news article, which obviously sucks.

    But on the other side there is a TON of threads from the past decade that I know I still read once in a while and I’m sure others do too. Hell just yesterday I was looking for some info on mettalurgy and found a reddit thread where some guy asked my exact question and got good answers like 5 years ago. Having those be more accessible would be great… Plus a lot of niche communities are unfortunately just too small on Lemmy to produce the level of content they do on Reddit

  • Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.networktoTechnology@lemmy.world•IRS will pilot free, direct tax filing in 2024English
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    1 year ago

    That guy is obviously exaggerating for effect and you are technically correct, but he’s not wrong.

    Companies like Inuit and H&R Block have been lobbying for ages to keep the free file forms ridiculously overcomplicated, difficult to navigate/complete, and dangerously generalized to the point where if you mis-interpret a line on one of your several non-intuitively named financial forms you will be committing tax fraud

    It is objectively easier, safer, and more convenient to file taxes through one of these private companies and the is by design.