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  • I was joining a group of people who I didn’t know all that well. I was keen to try the D&D experience, and somewhat follow the implied path by the DM. The others were more into the “sandbox” experience. So we ended up doing little more than burn down a tavern after 4 hours of playing. Probably helps if the DM goes through and figures out people’s expectations. We were just kids tho. This was 20 years ago.


  • okamiueru@lemmy.worldtoxkcd@lemmy.worldxkcd #3015: D&D Combinatorics
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    1 month ago

    I have never played R&D D&D (or, I did once, but had a bad experience), so bear with me.

    Is it ever allowed to simply do the thing, instead of rolling dice? For example in this case, to place 5+5 tokens upside down, and pick two of them? Or fold pieces of paper, etc?

    Edit: I meant D&D of course. Don’t know where the R came from.


  • I had mixed feelings about the whole Ondsel thing. And, please correct me if I’m wrong.

    Most of the significant features in 1.0, that supposedly came from Ondsel, are things that I’ve been using for perhaps 3 years now, with a fairly well known branch of FreeCAD called Linkstage3 by a user that goes by RealThunder.

    I don’t know how much he was involved in Ondsel, or the merging of those features into FreeCAD, but it sure looked like a whole lot of great work wasn’t credited to mind boggling amount of work by one person.

    I still use the Linkstage3 branch, because it has a lot more features still, than what was present in the 1.0 pre-release i tried some months ago. Maybe things have changed since then.












  • ADHD meds get rid of that original issue, that executive dysfunction.

    Is this an exaggeration? I ask because I don’t know if I might have the wrong medication or dosage. Perhaps with late diagnoses, you not only need to combat the underlying causes that ADHD medication helps with, but also thought patterns and defensive coping mechanisms that are challenging to get rid of, as they are a result of undiagnosed ADHD?



  • Don’t confuse “I’m used to X” with “X is simpler”

    Windows: Search the Web for some software. Visit webpage. Download executable. Run it. Go through a install wizard. (One month later) Update? Some do it themselves, some just let you know there is a newer version, and a lot of bigger players have a program dedicated to just updating some other program.

    Compared to (for example): paru -S <something>

    That’s it. Updating aaaalll the software in your whole system, including the OS, and you don’t have to restart, or even close any of the programs you are updating? paru





  • There are two common types of laser printers. Those that have special paper that react to heat, such as receipt printers, would fit the description.

    The other laser printers… Hm, I don’t think your description is accurate either. It’s more that the laser electrically charges ink particles so that they jump on to a separate roller that gets rolled on to the paper.

    I’m no expert though.