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  1. Comment on Email, calendar, todo, chat ... How are you keeping it all straight? in ~life

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    Yeah personally I only have 1-2 (if that) things to rewrite each month which is what the designer intended -- I don't think you're supposed to have a list of 5-10 todo items you didn't get to each...

    Yeah personally I only have 1-2 (if that) things to rewrite each month which is what the designer intended -- I don't think you're supposed to have a list of 5-10 todo items you didn't get to each month

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  2. Comment on Just One's "land mine" cards in ~games.tabletop

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    Well, I think the difference between "grotto" and "Ramses" (or in your case Obi-wan) is that "Ramses" is a niche word, and "Grotto" is a hard word. Some people will see Ramses and clue,...

    Well, I think the difference between "grotto" and "Ramses" (or in your case Obi-wan) is that "Ramses" is a niche word, and "Grotto" is a hard word.

    Some people will see Ramses and clue, "Commandments", "Pharoah" and oh! oh yeah, Ramses. But nobody on the entire planet will see "Grotto" and clue "cave", "manmade" and oh! oh yeah, GROTTO!? No they'll be like... Sewer? Aqueduct? Bunker? Foxhole? Hollow? It's just supposed to be a hard word with a million definitions, and a miraculous accomplishment if you guess it.

    (Side note: My friend guessed the word "Grotto" successfully with HER family -- their favorite restaurant when they're in Greensburg is Tarantula's Pizza Grotto or something insane. So her clues were Tarantula's, Greensburg, Pizza and she was like... oh okay, grotto!!!)

    But yeah aaaaaanywaaaay -- To me skipping "niche words" is like okay, okay, we're not in that niche, Harold doesn't know Star Wars, let's keep the game fun. But skipping "hard words" is just -- the designer made one game, but you want to play a different game. I totally understand why you'd skip it (probably for the exact same reason!) but at that point, you're not playing the same game

  3. Comment on Self harm, short sleeves, and trigger warnings. What is fair? in ~talk

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    Some websites just have keyword blocklists (e.g blood) and you apply or attribute keywords to your own posts or to other people's posts. Instead of content warnings on a post, "Look at my cute new...

    Some websites just have keyword blocklists (e.g blood) and you apply or attribute keywords to your own posts or to other people's posts. Instead of content warnings on a post, "Look at my cute new rescue pup (blood)" you just see nothing, and maybe a little asterisk in the corner "3 posts were blocked because of your blocklists settings"

    This works great for me and I don't even really think about it

    2 votes

  4. Comment on Man unable to interact with any of his smart devices for a week after delivery driver accuses him of being racist in ~tech

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    It's even more dystopian than that -- his AI doesn't like something his AI's company says his AI company's delivery driver says his automatic doorbell said It's a long ass chain of...

    doesnt like something he said. Welcome to the past future.

    It's even more dystopian than that -- his AI doesn't like something his AI's company says his AI company's delivery driver says his automatic doorbell said

    It's a long ass chain of he-said-she-saids that all ends at a another robot

    3 votes

  5. Comment on Email, calendar, todo, chat ... How are you keeping it all straight? in ~life

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    I use a combination of Google Calendar for time-sensitive tasks (e.g visiting the dentist in June, watering the plants) and a Bullet Journal for a todo list (backing up my vacation photos,...

    I use a combination of Google Calendar for time-sensitive tasks (e.g visiting the dentist in June, watering the plants) and a Bullet Journal for a todo list (backing up my vacation photos, catching up on my Twitter messages)

    If it were up to me I'd use a Bullet Journal for everything, because I love the feel of pens and paper! But it is cumbersome to carry around everywhere, and it will not bark out reminders if I forget something.

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  6. Comment on Redditors of Tildes, which subreddits are you missing the most during the blackout? in ~tech

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    Well that's good to hear at least! Hopefully it's not too expensive. Best of luck with that

    Well that's good to hear at least! Hopefully it's not too expensive. Best of luck with that

    2 votes

  7. Comment on Redditors of Tildes, which subreddits are you missing the most during the blackout? in ~tech

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    Yeah -- niche gaming subs like r/bindingofisaac is what I miss the most. I don't care about the thoughtful discussions or dissection of game elements, but just memey content about "lol this enemy...

    Yeah -- niche gaming subs like r/bindingofisaac is what I miss the most. I don't care about the thoughtful discussions or dissection of game elements, but just memey content about "lol this enemy is such bullshit" or whatever, it's fun to bond over shared experiences like that

    2 votes

  8. Comment on Redditors of Tildes, which subreddits are you missing the most during the blackout? in ~tech

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    Sorry to hear that friend -- hope everything's going alright.

    Sorry to hear that friend -- hope everything's going alright.

    2 votes

  9. Comment on Redditors of Tildes, which subreddits are you missing the most during the blackout? in ~tech

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    Honestly, just a bunch of memey tv/video game related subreddits like /r/TheSimpsons, /r/SlayTheSpire and /r/DunderMifflin. I spend a lot of my personal time watching classic TV shows like...

    Honestly, just a bunch of memey tv/video game related subreddits like /r/TheSimpsons, /r/SlayTheSpire and /r/DunderMifflin.

    I spend a lot of my personal time watching classic TV shows like Seinfeld and in the absence of a social element, it just feels like time i'm throwing into a hole. I know it's not what tildes is for, and the posts were almost always just a screencap of an episode with 20-30 replies of people quoting the episode. But -- it's fun to bond with people over dumb shit. I'll miss those kinds of communities from Reddit.

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  10. Comment on Just One's "land mine" cards in ~games.tabletop

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    I guess there's sort of a weird metagame there where you veto terms that you don't like! I don't know if I really love that one and would prefer an "honest win" without any vetoes I've jokingly...

    I guess there's sort of a weird metagame there where you veto terms that you don't like! I don't know if I really love that one and would prefer an "honest win" without any vetoes

    I've jokingly suggested a "strategy" where we all pick the number "1" instead of randomly choosing numbers 1-5 -- that way we only have to memorize a fifth of the words 😀 of course i am not serious. I don't care about winning that much, but ONE perfect game would be nice wouldn't it?

    The "vocabulary" problem came up this past weekend when the word "Camembert" came up and two people didn't know what it was. One of them gave the clue "Ernie" (ernie and bert from sesame street?) and the other gave the clue "Sash" (...they were thinking of a cummerbund... close!!!)

  11. Comment on Just One's "land mine" cards in ~games.tabletop

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    I love playing it win or lose, it is always very fun and I love the conversation it starts! We got 12/13 this Saturday -- we were playing with new people and "Band" came up. I was certain everyone...

    I love playing it win or lose, it is always very fun and I love the conversation it starts!

    We got 12/13 this Saturday -- we were playing with new people and "Band" came up. I was certain everyone would be obvious and say "Beatles", "Nirvana", "Oasis", "Styx" -- so I tried to go a little more niche and went with "Kajagoogoo" since I was 100% sure 1) it was ONLY a band, as opposed to Nirvana or Styx which had secondary mythology meanings and 2) nobody else would name it

    Instead, our teammates had a different take on the game and our cluegiver was left with the clues "Head", "Rock" and "Kajagoogoo". She had no idea what Kajagoogoo was (i think she's in her early 30s, in hindsight it was a poor choice" and it cost us our win as the only thing she could think of was Easter Island statues and she chose to pass

    I will get my perfect game some day!!

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  12. Comment on Justice announce their return with plans for new album and tour in ~music

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    Holy crap that's amazing news, was just blasting Cross in my car this Monday and wondering if they'd ever tour again Justice - Helix (Domenico Torti's Headspin Remix) I also love a lot of the more...

    Holy crap that's amazing news, was just blasting Cross in my car this Monday and wondering if they'd ever tour again

    Justice - Helix (Domenico Torti's Headspin Remix)

    I also love a lot of the more melodic/poppy stuff Gaspard did for Uffie and a few of Mr Oizo's films like Rubber and Steak -- they're just such an incredibly talented and unmatched group!!

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  13. Comment on Art Fight is happening next month, are you participating? in ~creative

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    I heard mixed things -- some people thought it sounded interesting but ended up being way more restricting than it sounded, and others said it was a cool way to meet cool new artists I don't...

    I heard mixed things -- some people thought it sounded interesting but ended up being way more restricting than it sounded, and others said it was a cool way to meet cool new artists

    I don't personally have an interest in participating but i'm still curious about it!

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  14. Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Okay! Thanks for your guidance

    Okay! Thanks for your guidance

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  15. Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Interesting, maybe I'll post my next devlog here or something and see what people think!

    Interesting, maybe I'll post my next devlog here or something and see what people think!

    3 votes

  16. Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Okay! Thanks for your guidance, makes sense. Sounds like I'll need to find other more niche communities for that kind of stuff

    Okay! Thanks for your guidance, makes sense. Sounds like I'll need to find other more niche communities for that kind of stuff

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  17. Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Yeah, this exactly -- just niche content about "Hey I figured out a new use for this relic in Peglin" or "Wow the background character in these three Simpsons Season 1 episodes has such weird...

    Yeah, this exactly -- just niche content about "Hey I figured out a new use for this relic in Peglin" or "Wow the background character in these three Simpsons Season 1 episodes has such weird eyes" or whatever. It's not even that like the communities are underdeveloped, it's that I'm not convinced there's a place for them in tildes's architecture?

    Would I just post some weird-ass niche Peglin thing to ~games, or would there be a ~games.peglin eventually?

  18. Just One's "land mine" cards

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    My friends and I have been striving for the perfect score of 13 in Just One, and there's almost always one or two cards which make it seemingly impossible unless you're very lucky. Just One if...

    My friends and I have been striving for the perfect score of 13 in Just One, and there's almost always one or two cards which make it seemingly impossible unless you're very lucky.

    Just One if you're unfamiliar, is a game where your teammate wants to guess a word -- and you each independently give a one-word clue, "Donkey", "Dreamworks", "Ogre". If two or more players write the same word, all those clues get hidden -- so your clues can't be too obvious.

    The words vary absurdly in difficulty from words like "Wine" and "Snake" where you can basically break the game by listing wines and snakes -- to words like "Mexico" and "Strawberry" where you can come at them from a few directions. ...But about 10% of the words are things like "Grotto", "Couscous" and "Ramses" where honestly, you could possibly sit down with someone for 30 minutes describing them in excruciating detail, and they might still not come up with those particular words. Could you describe "Couscous" to your 10-year-old nephew who lives on Chick-fil-A and Mcdonalds? Could you disambiguate a "Grotto" from a cave, cavern, bunker or lair? Sometimes it's a vocabulary thing but more often, it's just words with a lot of synonyms.

    I call these "land mine" cards and I'm curious if anyone else has noticed this phenomenon. Have any of you gotten a perfect score in Just One? If so did you randomly dodge these land mines or did you overcome them with a really perfect clue?

    5 votes

  19. Comment on What types of content do you want to see on Tildes? in ~tildes

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    Are you serious about that? I'm a hobby gamedev and I'm just not convinced there's the same outlet for that kind of content here as there was on Reddit. On Reddit, people could just post some...

    Are you serious about that? I'm a hobby gamedev and I'm just not convinced there's the same outlet for that kind of content here as there was on Reddit.

    On Reddit, people could just post some little 5 second video of "Hey I added a new fire effect to my game what do you think" and if you didn't want to see it... why are you subscribed to /r/gamedev?? But here it feels like it's more about long form content and if you upload a video like that, people are like, wtf, i don't want to see that... Why would you post it?

    Sorry about the rant it just feels like most of the stuff I used to browse doesn't really have a home here. And that's OK, just trying to figure out the vibe

    3 votes

  20. Comment on ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ swings to best opening of summer YTD with $120m+ beating ‘Guardians’ in ~movies

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    I just saw the first Spiderverse movie last week and loved it -- and I've heard this one's even better which blows my mind! Can't wait to see it~

    I just saw the first Spiderverse movie last week and loved it -- and I've heard this one's even better which blows my mind! Can't wait to see it~

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