It's really wild to get a group of players that expect (consciously or not) that everything in the game world is there for them to defeat. So when the level 1 party is like "fuck it let's attack the dragon" and gets roasted they're like "wtf??". The DM is like "it's a gods damned dragon and you're two farmers and a guy with a lute. What did you expect?'
Hopefully the style and such gets sorted out before the game starts.
I think insisting that difficulty options must exist at the meta game level in a menu is a very narrow vision of how challenge and difficulty can be.
Sometimes I get where people are coming from in these topics. But also sometimes it really feels like someone saying "Finnegans Wake is too complicated. They should rewrite it for me"
Guild wars 2 has achievements for defeating company employees in PVP. Fun little easter egg
Consensus sounds difficult when you have absolute morons who believe that farming isn't real or boiling water erases it's memory.
chaque nuit, je vais au lit et mon chat va s'asseyer sur mon clavier. le clavier fait du bruit (parce que tous les clés sont pressées). je me lève et je dis "fais-tu quoi ??". le chat me dit "mreow?". je prends le chat et retourne au lit, et maintenant le chat veut dormir sur le lit. pourquoi le chat doit fais ça ? je ne sais pas. pendant la journée il dort sur le lit. c'est pas que je dois le prendre.
(désolé, je ne parle pas français, mais je veux le pratiquer)
This is true. The book "why does he do that" is a fascinating look into how abusive people (mostly but not always men) operate.
I make decent pay, but it took me over a decade climbing the pay ladder to reach this point
What do you consider decent pay?
My last job had two former teachers. Good people. They switched from teaching to like entry level software testing (not "full stack". QA engineer) and like doubled their pay.
This was in the NYC area.
If you leave your house regularly this has a number of disadvantages. I can fit my phone in my pocket but most laptops are too large. I can operate a phone with one hand (eg: on the subway). 911 services I think work better with an actual phone. Gps stuff may also work better.
That's just stuff off the top of my head.
I think it's mostly tribalism and fear.
For everyone, to some extent, belief is social. You tend to believe what your in-group believes. If your in-group is big on science and admitting fault and such, it's not so bad. But if your beliefs are... I'm too tired to be nice... Right wing dog shit ahistorical afactual nonsense.. then you're in a worse place as far as having beliefs that match reality goes.
Secondly, fear. Admitting climate change and pollution exist means admitting uncomfortable truths. It means admitting things need to change, that the future may be from, and you have some culpability in the current state. The way things are now is familiar and comforting. Most people are, frankly, cowards, and will go to great lengths to avoid this kind of fear. Especially if it involves them not being a completely faultless person.
The longer you go being a denialist, I imagine the harder it is to change. Admitting fault isn't something most people do well. Again, because they are on some fundamental level cowards. Many people are deeply uncomfortable with admitting they were wrong about anything. Admitting you were fooled by climate denialism is a blow to the ego. Can't have that. Better stick to the current stance. And if it happens that the in-group also believes that, great, that's comforting.
We should probably come up with a way to make right wingers (the most scared people of all) think that addressing climate change plays into their in-group. Convince them solar is AMERICAN INGENUITY and that coal is a Chinese plot to poison the white race, and maybe you'd make some surprising (and awful) allies.
That or, like, completely destroy the Republican party, spend fifty years hard deploying green technology, and wait for conservatives to defend it because that's what they know, now.
I've never had a complaint about logging stuff in python. It generally does what I expect.
"Create a copy of your object and print that" is what I ended up doing, but I don't think most people would say that's intuitive. I expect if i print something at a particular time, I get what it is at that point in time.
But they did implement it in another way: spirit ashes, NPC summons, player summons, getting a big ass shield, etc.
Many people hit a wall in elden ring and go "fuck it, I'm using the mimic tear.". That's essentially turning the difficulty down, except in-game and not through a menu.