Somehow they passed though, right?

I mean, he’s not wrong (historically), but that doesn’t mean we have to tolerate it either. We (as a species, a civilization, the royal we) can be better. He just doesn’t want us to be.

No one commenting on your playlist? You’re cathartic music experience is showing :)

That reminds me…

In circa 1995 I was running a dial upBBS service – as a teenager. So if course, it was full of bootlegged video games and such, and people would dial in, download a game, log off.

Someone uploaded Descent or something like that. But they had put "deltree /y C:" or similar into a batch file, used a BAT2COM converter program, then a COM2EXE program, then padded the file size to approximately the right size with random crap (probably just using APPEND)… And uploaded it. Well, fortunately for the rest of my users, I say the game and said: oh, that’s neat, I should try it and copied it to another computer over my internal network and launched it. It started deleting files right away and I hit CTRL-C to abort. I lost only a few dozen files.

Banned the user, deleted the package. Got lucky.

Your a wizard Harry

Wow, you’re the most entitled user of free software I’ve met in a while. Just buy a windows license next time.

Ask for a refund

Was the pulley created by Karsus? Then yes.

No, you cannot attach a drop to this castle and drag it across the countryside, even with a nat 20.

Yeah, side campaigns are probably the way to go.

It’s almost impossible to implement high level magic. Just the interactions between spells is insane. Basic interactions like Force Cage+any AoE (Sickening Radiance) to build the microwave of death… would be so hard to implement. They’d honestly have to veer off 5e and implement their own spells instead, tailored to the video game medium.

I do think the framework of the game would be a great place to start for additional campaigns. They could take this game and put a Candlekeep Mysteries style sequential dungeon crawl add-on and people would love it just to play multiplayer short campaigns.

Meow

Radical optimism. Hell yeah! Basically anti-doomerism.

I’m pretty sure we had this joke app in the mid 90s. I vaguely recall the joke would reference coke or similar.

Perhaps better phrased: BBS predate the web (http+html) and the modern internet. Gopher doesn’t count ;)

I just ban any of the content reposting bots.

Look ma, I’m a statistic!

Not that weird, from a historical or regional perspective. Most of the history of humankind did not feature bathroom privacy. Toilets in rural China are basically lines of rectangular holes cut in the floor.

A pride of kittehs

Connect isn’t open-source, afaik. (Using it to post this comment.)

Just as a word of caution: a computer model is just a model. If there are enough parameters you can tune, it’s fun to play with, seeing what can happen. But just because you get a result from a model doesn’t mean it’s guaranteed to happen. Models are written by people, they have software bugs, and more. Obviously they wouldn’t publish this unless they were confident, but the scientific method is a feedback loop, and we’ve only been through that loop once here so far.

What needs to happen now is other scientists need to recreate the model. If it turns out that multiple models point this way, then it’s time to panic.