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Any mental imagery in general? Like through mind's eye? Dreaming? I had a mind palace (like no joke) it took me years to build into something I could use, and I had a few seizures in relatively quick succession and I cannot imagine images with nearly the same clarity. My dreams are like trying to swim in molasses while wearing scuffed scratched glasses, and I haven't been able to access my mind palace in years. Any time I close my eyes I just see vague blurry shapes and colors, there's an environment there but I can't see it. Now, I can still see faces and remember them, but imagining in my head kissing my girlfriend is impossible. Her face warps and melts and my mental vision goes fuzzy.
Thank you for the advice! I've very much have been getting into the Ruy Lopez openings. It's been fun learning to counter the Morphy defense with the Columbus variation. I haven't encountered any Schlieman Variation players yet. I look forward to that! :)
I tend to prefer closed, positional style games. I like having my pieces back up other pieces and give a layer of protection in case they're captured. I very much value pawns and try my best to A: form a strong pawn structure to prevent attack, and B: Disrupt my opponent's pawn structure as well. If even a good o' sacrifice or three is necessary. I value mobility of pieces which allows me to outmaneuver my opponents which leads me to often undervalue my queen. I know, I can survive without my queen (most times) but can my opponent?
Sorry if this was long winded, I wanted to give you a good answers.
I've been off Lemmy for a long while and I'm glad to be back on the Fediverse! Hi, guys and gals!
Hello, do you have any recommended openings (W or B) for a 1300ish elo player?
I'm a little over 1300 elo, and I feel it's time to start really getting down and dirty and learning openings. I know a little bit about Scandinavian, very little about French and I've recently got interested in Ruy Lopez but I wanted to get the opinion of you guys to see where the next step in my chess journey should be?
Where do I start reading Iron Man?
I've been a comic reader on and off over the years but I wanted to really sink my teeth into it lately. I've read a few of the more popular stories. Most notably, Extremis, Hyper Velocity, and The End. What stories do you recommend to get into Iron Man more?
I just deleted my reddit account, and it's long overdue.
I should've deleted my account when I switched to lemm.ee to begin with. I'm glad it's over and I hope you're all enjoying this site more! I feel relief. Wanted to see how others are adapting to being on lemm.ee instead of reddit?
Looks like the assholes are coming out of the woodwork. That's gonna happen when a bunch of new users come. What a geekezoid amiright?
I would love to know what you said?
@barrierwithashes It says I can't comment on your post because [ERROR: Language Not Allowed]
How would those work as aspects or stunts?
Need help coming up with some hacker style stunts and aspects for my character. (Very new to Fate Core)
I'm about to be in a near future hacker campaign in a watchdogs style Fate Core setting. I'm playing Robert Conrad, or known by my handle as DirtyOlHobo. I'm the closest thing to a grifter we have in the Binary Syndicate.
My character looks like a disheviled hobo so he uses it to distract people. Like panhandling guards so my teammates can get past into a datafarm. But first and foremost, he's a hacker. It's kinda a requirement to be in the group. I'm not looking to flesh everything out just yet before I even play, but I wanted to get some ideas and inspiration for how my character might turn out.
His high concept is Disheveled Hacker with a Vengeance.
His Trouble is "Functional " Alcoholic.
His only aspects right now is Too Crazy to Say No To. And Former SecOps.
And I only just fleshed out a few skills, but I want room to expand. His Great (+4) is Hacking, his Good (+3)s are Deceive and Rapport.
And my GM and I fleshed out the stunt "Spare Some Change?" Grant +2 to Panhandling using Deceive when you pay a fate point.
I'm leaving his backstory mostly blank, all I know is he was a SecOp for a very prestigious cybersecurity company and he got tired of defending corpo's right to screw people over and left (around 2008) and ended up finding the Binary Syndicate and worked with them.
So what are some aspects or stunts that you think would be cool? Do you recommend any that are hacking related? I can't find any online. I've spent days search but all I get are basic boilerplate posts "wHaT aRe yoUr FaVoriTe fAtE hAcKs?" Because keywords sux and the internet is dead. Any help would be great!
What the fuck happened with Supernovae?! Is this trolling? How the hell can he not see that he's selling everyone down the damn river. Meta is not to be trusted! We all left cesspools like Facebook to escape the Zuck. Why in the mf is Supernovae even considering this much less actually doing it? Can someone please tell me he's just trolling, please?
What does FediAct do?
Thank you! I just looked it up in the mobile web version but I'll be sure to use that.
I'm glad you're having a good time! This place does feel different doesn't it? In a good way.
Yeah that's a valid concern. I was thinking of making a blades in the dark community but a lot of people pointed out that there already isn't much content on these rpg communities as it is. So splitting it up would be pointless.
That's a cool way to look at it! "Sssk this is the SS Lemm.ee hailing the SS Behaw over, over."
Yes the Metaverse started with Neal Stevenson's Snow Crash novel but I never said otherwise? Fahrenheit 451 was an example revolving around book burning which would be ironic because Bezos owns kindle. The idea is the a central dystopian theme being idolized by a tech mogul so unhinged they don't realize it's a warning.
What are some must have web extensions or TamperMonkey scripts for Fediverse social medias (like Mastodon, Lemmy, Kbin ect ect).
Right now I'm using the Lemmy Modern UI extension from the Firefox WebStore. What are some others I should get as well?
(Crosspost from /c/ttrpgs) I’m thinking of making a Blades in the Dark community. Would anybody be into to that?
I don’t really know where to begin with moderation and I have limited access to the internet with my current living situation. If anyone has any suggestions on if this is a good idea or if any of you would be interested in joining such a group I’d love to hear from you, thanks! :)
May I ask what you mean by the "food truck version of Reddit"?
Ooohh I didn't think of that!
Ooooh I didn't think of that!
Wow! That is a lot of history on the web to have actually lived through. I started on Facebook of all things, my parents lied about my age to get me an account where I mostly just played games. I was on and off for years, trying to connect with people, share opinions and ideas, and get chased off the site by the mobs of angry people would would harass me whenever I posted something.
I messed with Twitter, and Snapchat (both were as brain dead as Facebook) nothing really connected with me, until I found Reddit. I found the site in my early teens after watching channels like EmKay and I subscribed to all of babies first Reddit subs. I used the site for many years but it was frustrating. I would ask questions or share my opinion on something, and basically just get ignored, or attacked by deranged users who wouldn't even answer my question but insult me for being a n00b or just debase my character based on an opinion (stupid stuff like if you like Darth Vader you're a n@zi) or there were so many rules, SO many rules! There were certain subs I frequented that had over one hundred rules, and I would try to post over and over and over again but there would be some rule that I broke, like having the tags on the other side from the title, or misspelling tags, or not using the official mandatory start word like aita, or my favorite, referring to the group as the 'hivemind'. Whatever!
It just felt geeky and tyrannical more so than Facebook even. I got tired of getting downvoted into oblivion post posting basically anything so I left, only coming back a few days ago to find the crap show going on. I had heard people say that the Fediverse is a nicer place than Reddit so I went here and I'm not regretting it in the slightest.
I never experienced the internet during the old king of the hill days, with AOL and IRCs (though I wish I did) but this place has a nice, retro feel to it that is just delicious. My parents used to talk about their time on AOL and how everyone was nice in those days. They'd get random people wishing them a happy birthday, just because, imagine that! I missed those days even though I never lived them (try to figure that out) and I think this is my equivalent.
Calling all refugees! Reddugees? What has your experience been since migrating from Reddit to Lemmy?
I've had a great time here. The people on the various communities I've joined are very nice and actually constructive! I haven't encountered any rude or sarcastic responses or one word answers.
I've had really cool conversations and I haven't been told anything toxic or given any anatomically impossible suggestions at all! I really see a difference between here and Reddit.
What particularly amazed me is the lack of knock down dragouts on the Politics and News communities on Lemmy.
People bring up their points of view even if they have contrasting arguments siting historical precedents to support their side of the discussion.
I'm excited to see your experience as well?
I'm really glad to be a part of Lemm.ee and thank you very much /u/sunaurus for making this instance! :D
Is Bromite no longer supported?
The app hasn't been updated in six months according to F-Droid when I used the official Bromite repo. I mean no disrespect to the Dev I'm just concerned about security vulnerabilities in the browser. Bromite was considered one of the best in the privacy space and I'd hate to see it go. If anybody could shed some light on this that would be great.
What FOSS browsers, do you use on a daily basis on both your mobile and computer for privacy and security, and what measures have you taken to further harden your browser (if any).
Me, I have a low threat model so I mainly try to stay away from proprietary stuff when possible (Chrome, Edge ect) I use an eclectic mix of browsers.
I use Vivaldi (I know it's not entirely FOSS but I like the customizability of it), for my amnesiac browsers I use Firefox Focus on Android, and LibreWolf on PC, and for when I want as much anonymity as possible I use Tor with Orbot active routing traffic to Switzerland.
I used to use Brave Browser a lot because I like the user interface but I kinda got turned off by all the crypto stuff they've been peddling. And as far as I know, Bromite hasn't been updated in quite some time (please elighten me if I'm wrong about that I've been out of the loop for a while) , and I was weirded out by the developer's statement "I'll get around to it sometime."
Mull is great but very slow to search imo, when I search for something it takes a long time to load. Or it takes a long time to load a website. It could be internet speed but other browsers work just fine,and I've tested Mull on other WiFis.
I sometimes also use DuckDuckGo but the search results are so bad that I just find myself searching google to find what I want. No offensive if anyone uses those I personally just haven't found much use out if them.
So what browsers do you use for privacy and security?
Edit: Sorry for the long post and edited for clarity.
What do you recommend as a good FOSS private and secure chat app on Android that isn't Signal?
I have nothing against Signal. I just don't have access to a phone number right now. I fully intend to use the Signal when I get a number. I know there is no silver bullet, no absolutes in the privacy world but I'm looking for any messengers that are generally considered to be private and secure on Android that I can try to convince my friends and family to use. I have a mid - low threat model, it's just the thought of giving the Zuck anymore of my family's data makes my skin crawl.