Advertisers are starting to take notice, it seems. Gotta keep the blackout running longer to hit em in their pocketbooks - 2 days they can weather out, indefinite dark they cannot. It's what I've been saying from the beginning, a protest with a clearly defined end date has no teeth.
asukii
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Welp. Wish I could say I was surprised. Time for the handful of power mods still licking admin boots to get even more subs under their belt, I guess. No way that could possibly end badly...
Online shopping my beloved
Unless it's for clothing, cause then I need to feel the fabric texture first (unless the online store has a really good return policy and I can just ship most of it back)
196 is the server you're in right now, tankies is a slang term for the more authoritarian types of communists (like Stalinists and such)
Talk is cheap, I'm reserving any kind of judgement til they release results.
Omggg this is so relatable it hurts! Hi, I'm autistic af, and as of maybe a few months ago or so I can finally admit that hahaha
I mean, realistically I'll probably stay on both. There are tons of great reddit communities that just don't exist here, at least not yet, and I'm genuinely sad to be losing them. Reddit has been a part of my daily routine for well over a decade now, and that's not something I can just give up easily. I do really like the vibes here at Lemmy, but it's got a lot more growing to do before it can fully replace all the wonderful different niches that reddit was able to fill so well.
It's real uncomfortable, not gonna lie. I've been checking reddit daily for well over a decade now, and it's incredibly disorienting to have that suddenly not be an option anymore. I really, really hope they change their minds about pushing through these asinine API changes so I can go back to using RIF like before, but if not, I'd way rather get used to Lemmy than get used to the official Reddit app and reward them for their scummy business practices.
If reddit actually reverses course on the API stuff, then hell yeah I'm going back. But if the sub just reopens after the blackout without any substantive change, nah I'm staying here.
Well, there is some important prep, and it's to decide those key secrets up front for the purposes of continuity. Like for example I'd decide from the beginning that that NPC is from those same persecuted people as the PC, I just wouldn't have a clear pretedetermined path or set of clues in mind for how the players might figure that out. Those details can emerge organically through gameplay so long as the core foundations are laid in advance. I do run a bunch of one-shots the more open ended "generative" way you describe, but anything longer running needs the explicit advance prep to work out those key secrets up front in order to keep things stable and consistent.
You aren’t dictating how they will find out something, but you’re still dictating the order in which they will.
Nope, not in the slightest! I keep a list of maybe a dozen or so possible secrets relevant to the broader arc that they might discover that could be helpful, and maybe only two or three will actually come up in any given session. That makes it a lot easier to find useful tidbits to work in organically, without keeping a vise grip on the narrative the way you seem to have interpreted from my initial comment. If I only had a small number of "relevant secrets", or was too precious about the order they'd be revealed in, I can absolutely see the issues you mentioned - but that's not how I run things. That larger list gives me the chance to look for the one(s) that actually make the most narrative sense instead of feeling the need to shoehorn anything. Sometimes I don't even have a narrative in mind, really - just a series of interesting facts about this part of the world/the NPCs in it, and leave it to the players to chase those interesting scraps of knowledge and make of them what they will.
Could you share that tool? Seems useful