KombatWombat

joined 2 years ago
[–] KombatWombat -2 points 3 days ago

Personally, I would consider making a public post about something on social media as an open invitation to talk about it in comments. It doesn't excuse being rude or anything, but if it was about an issue in my life that I was comfortable sharing, I would expect others to appreciate giving and receiving perspective if they didn't specify otherwise.

Not sure who would be demanding anything in this scenario. People choose to comment or not, including the OP. Everyone is communicating only as much as they feel comfortable doing, unless there's context I'm missing.

[–] KombatWombat 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think you give him too much credit. He just says what comes to his mind.

[–] KombatWombat 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

But Ada says they had been talking about it in that comment. They let her know they were thinking about migrating, and Ada supported their decision. Then someone from the 196 mod team let her know when they were working out things with LW. 196 mods did drop the announcement without giving Ada a head's up, which is definitely bad, but by that point she knew the migration was being organized.

[–] KombatWombat 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This seems like a big overreaction to me, so I see it as a clear PTB. I dislike the idea of banning people based on history in other communities, other than to check if they are a bot or advertiser or something obviously malicious. Trolling could mean something as simple as being sarcastic, and glancing through OP's history they seem to be a real person who believes what they say, even if they can be quite rude about it.

But the upvote/downvote split suggests the community is more divided on this.

[–] KombatWombat 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Its hardware is yet to be announced, yet is somehow already obsolete.

[–] KombatWombat 2 points 2 weeks ago

The Bazaar is a similar game releasing soon. It's still primarily focused on developing synergies between items in your build, but there's more varied events between pvp fights and configuring your pack is simpler because it's on a line rather than a grid, if that makes sense. It will be releasing as free to play probably in February or March.

[–] KombatWombat 10 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for saying this. I'm a vegan and the only comment I've ever had removed on Lemmy is one pointing out that the official definition the vegan community uses is different than the one used by the historic coiners of the word, and by non-vegans, and probably by the majority of people that consider themselves vegan today.

For all the division the mod team creates with others on the platform, they make just as much within their own community. It's hard enough to convince people to give veganism a chance when you don't first have to distance yourself from those unwilling to engage with anyone below their moral high ground.

[–] KombatWombat 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Harry is someone that already exists and has relationships in the world, usually those sorts or RPGs don't let you customize much. It's like Geralt or Link. But you do get to develop your personality more through dialogue.

As for the tie skill check, the rest of the game is better about saving skill checks for more difficult tasks. It's just there at the start to reinforce how much of a mess your character is. You can come back later when the negative modifiers clear and it's easier.

[–] KombatWombat 1 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to defend wanton personal data sharing but a major difference is that giving money away deprives someone of that money while copying data deprives them of nothing, or at least the downstream effects are much less felt. This comes up a lot in the ethics of piracy.

[–] KombatWombat 4 points 4 weeks ago

Yes, people often overlook that evil (in the form of suffering) exists in our world without free will as a cause when trying to respond to the problem of evil like this. Why would our world be designed to require suffering? And even if we were willing to concede that the ideal world should have some suffering, surely it should have less than this one, right?

Also, this response takes for granted that free will exists when most people in my experience concede that we live in a deterministic world. So if some version of free will exists that people nonetheless act predictably, and have their nature pre-determined rather than chosen, why would an omnipotent, all-knowing, benevolent god not choose a nature for them that would avoid inflicting suffering in their expression of free will? I haven't found a good answer to these, if one is even possible.

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