Ronald does tend to mix in his “flamebait” bit with actual pointed content, which isn’t always welcome, but there’s something to be said for actually spotlighting the kinds of things people say to content creators.

Sunlight and disinfectant and all that.

Oh fun. Who is Elon going to just haphazardly drop the ISS on top of?

I kind of suspect this was an attempt on the IA’s end to get parts of copyright struck down by court ruling. Laws can be clear and still found to not be in the public’s interest, or in violation of some other legal doctrine, and sometimes you’ll see groups come at them sideways.

Ownership laws are really tough ones to chip away at, and IP law in particular has been getting worse and more unassailable over time.

Sure, but if you install DR, then you have DR to do other things. Like chase that YouTuber dream, or field annoying calls from your great aunt who knows you can edit videos to digitize her parents super 8 family videos that are have rotten.

This way they can spend more time rearranging the store so nobody knows where anything is, in turn making us walk past a bunch of stuff we don’t need in an effort to try and induce an impulse purchase!

Efficiency!

Hey, that’s like every other work, and people still get paid for their shit output in other fields.

There’s no reason for any of us to compete to survive. Especially when the metric that determines whether one succeeds in competing is just how much money some rich fuck makes off of your efforts.

Nothing pseudo about it. This is the natural progression of capitalism.

“Roll acrobatics, I guess.”

“Natural 20!”

"Ok… You contort your body in ways that no humanoid creature should be able to, and successfully fit inside the jar.

"Can I get everyone else to make a Wisdom saving throw, please?

"Uh huh. Uh huh. Uh huh.

“Ok, everybody else now thinks you’re a djinni.”

Ad soon as they go public, their product is their share price. And even before then, since most growing private companies seek out private investment long before going public.

Yeah, there’s plenty about how Mastodon frames itself and its features that are frustrating. That “easy mobility” requiring an 80 step process that involves downloading and re-uploading a bunch of files kind of anchors you for seeing how disconnected some developers are from the user expectations they set.

But does there?

This comes back to what federation and “the fediverse” is, and why trying to hide its nature is harming it.

No one expects their Facebook post history to follow them to Reddit, or to a forum, or to Lemmy, because they’re different websites. Just as no one expected their Twitter history to come with them to Mastodon.

But because it’s framed as “Mastodon” and not “social.website.com” the expectations are different.

Federation isn’t a mess, it’s just… messier. And too many federated services do their damnedest to hide that they function differently, meaning people treat them like they’re perfect drop-in replacements.

It results in a lot of questions about “Why can’t I ____?” and answers of the “Because this doesn’t work that way” variety.

Like, look at Mastodon. It bends over backwards to hide the fact that it’s 10,000 different websites. The result is that people could not understand what the big deal was, nor why it wasn’t as easy to see everything from some other website as easily as they could from a single website that everyone was using.

This further led to centralization of the Mastodon ecosystem, which… I mean, at that point, you’re just abandoning the central concept.

“Just use this thing that you’ve already rejected for X, Y, and Z.”

“Have they fixed X, Y, and Z yet?”

" Fuck you for asking."

Yeah, it’s so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.

“Futurologist” is a self-appointed honorific that people who fancy themselves “deep thinkers” while thinking of nothing more deeply than how deep they are. It’s like declaring oneself an “intellectual”.

How often does “a bunch of non-devs flock to a half-baked community FOSS project and suddenly gain a bunch of devs” actually play out?

The one reasonable possibility is that they might pick up a designer or two, but how many community FOSS projects seriously consider non-code or non-art contributions? Because based on the FOSS software I’ve used, it’s a vanishingly small number.

Coders over-value code, and under-value everything else.

I think much of it comes from “futurologists” spending too much time smelling each others’ farts. These AI guys think so very much of themselves.

There are good tools for limiting your view to only what spells are relevant, too. I like the spellbook over at pf2easy.com for this.

If your party needs a heal bot, they need better tactics (which isn’t a slight – tactics are hard), and a non-magical healer to use battle medicine.

But no, Cleric’s whole gimmick is extra dedicated heal slots so they can use their regular spell slots to do other fun things. They can be very flexible, and we’re hoping for a significant expansion of the Divine spell list in the fall with War of the Immortals coming out.

Look into a battle cleric in particular. They’re very versatile.

The most beginner friendly support classes are the Bard and the Cleric. The Cleric is a very powerful healer, with their Healing Font feature granting them a number of free extra heal spells per day, and it comes in 2 flavours: The Cloistered Cleric, that wears robes and casts spells, and stays at the back of the party, and the Battle Cleric, that wears armor, uses a shield, and works as a front line class.

Both can do a fair bit of buffing and debuffing with their non-font spell slots.

The Bard is the gold standard support caster in the game, with less focus on healing, and a wider variety of support options.

Clerics have access to the Divine spell list, and are Prepared Casters, while Bards use the Occult spell list, and are Spontaneous Casters. Take a look at those lists, and what those casting types mean, at the Archives of Nethys