It’s been a whole for me too, but I think some mods are better applied before a starting the game. Even if you save just after character creation the game has initialised a bunch of things and that might cause problems.

I do think being able to save preset faces would be great. Sometimes when making a character, I make a model I kinda like, and I have to decide if it’s worth the risk of trying something different and not being able to remake my original if the new one doesn’t work out. Some games (mass effect?) represent each model with a code, which works pretty well. But I don’t think skyrim does.

If I saw someone wearing a helmet, with cap strapped on somewhere, I’d understand. It’s practical, and it’s pretty clear that your planning to wear it when you remove the helmet, you’re not trying to make some sort of statement. Go for it! (as long as your cap strap is reliable…)

Definitely closer to 6-7

I only really feel like an adult when I spend time with kids and young people. Even though the students I teach are at university, and thus technically adults… I’m always struck by how often they seem ‘immature’.

And to be clear, I don’t even really mean that as a criticism. Sure, at times they don’t pay attention and forget to do things and seem akward/nervous. But "adults’ do all those things too. The difference is the adults have generally accepted these flaws and come up with coping strategies (both good and bad) like avoiding those situations, or blaming other people.

So, what makes me feel like an adult is not that I’m on top of things, or that I’m no longer a mess. It’s that I know I’m a mess, and I no longer hope that one day I’ll get everything sorted, and tbh, that’s fine.

That’s on me, there’s a few typos in my reply. I was just saying I’ve never heard it, not that I think I will never hear it ever. And genuinely the only menfolk I’ve heard use it earnestly were akward teenage boys, and the older lads mocked them and told them they sounded lame.

This is in the UK (and ten years ago), so maybe it’s much more common in Australia or the US or something. But from the reaction it generally gets online, I get the feeling it’s generally looked down on (outside of humor, or sci-fi).

Unless I’m burned out, lying horizontal on my couch, using the smallest possible gesture to continue doomscrolling.

I don’t think people are bothered by “female coworker”, which is perfectly normal. It’s the reference to a “female-only” community, when the actual com is called WomensStuff and describes itself as “women only” and “a women’s community”.

I agree that the guy in the post is mildlyinfuriating at best, and much more likely a douche (never hear a woman use male as a noun like that, a very particular shibboleth). But I’m not sure I love. This community becoming half posts picking on specific users. Should we blur the usernames? Otherwise its an easy path to brigading and bullying.

If there’s really just one mod, then maybe they should pick a few other people to help manage the community. But if they’re not willing to do that, and people are genuinely annoyed about the lack of modding then we should start an alternate community.

It seems like a lot of posts on here are about frustration with modding (to be fair, it is only mildly irritating to me), so maybe there’s enough support for a new community. Or is there a way to contact the instance mods and get more mods assigned, if the existing mod team aren’t around?

When I lived alone I ended up airbnbing my spare room. It was sometimes stressful, but it meant my house was constantly tidy. As soon it was just me the entire house would sink in to madness.

Unless im sleep deprived or intoxicated, pretty instantly. But although I sleep pretty well, I generally wake up regularly through the night to turn over, flip my pillow etc. So, waking isn’t usually a shock. Maybe if I got woken by an alarm I’d be confused, but generally I wake up a few minutes before my alarm.

I think it’s very concerning, but not exactly surprising. It makes sense that there ends up being market leaders for digital services, because they can provide economies of scale much more than traditional services. As another commentor pointed out, they’re are alternatives, even just for back-up service providers, but most sites don’t pay for them.

What was more personally distressing was I realised how much I rely on lemmy when my instance, and backup instance, both went down. I’m not sure where I’d go for immediate news, especially about something niche like “why is lemmy down?”. I don’t use other social media and I found myself checking r/redditalternatives just to see if there was some info about the shutdown. Obviously, it was useless because reddit…

Was there a specific event that coincided with the blackout? I don’t know the details of current US events, just that they’re crazy and depressing.

This guy rocks! I don’t know if you are into rpgs / d&d bum I’m sure loads of of osr designers would love giving this monster some game stats.

Love it. There is something oddly appealing about Mouse Guard / Mausritter stuff. I guess little heroic mice are cute, but they also recontextualise the natural world, which draws us into the scene. But it’s really refreshing to see it with such a striking style and other modern touches (the little guy looks like he’s ready for a Revolutionary War).

Given that those videos are just AI scripts voiced by AI, couldn’t you just ask perplexity to compare the two products? It would still be a unreliable LLM answer, but at least you’re not jumping through hoops to get there.

I don’t drink them that often so I’m not sure I’d necessarily notice, but I strongly prefer Pepsi. And I have repeatedly been a bit meh about about a cola I’ve been served and discovered it was Coke.

Yeah, I think the “simulation hypothesis” is a super pointless take, partly because it is so profoundly unfalsifiable. It’s no more plausible or convincing to me than “the universe exists in God’s mind” or “we are figment within a dream of a dragon”.

Propenents try to argue things like “if we can create lifelike simulations, then we’d create loads of them, therefore we’re statistically likely to be inside one”. But that’s to draw conclusions about what the “outer” universe is like from features of the simulation. If our reality is within a greater one, I don’t find more evidence for it being a “computer simulation” than for it being inside Tommy Westphall’s snow globe.

I think you’re right. If someone genuinely likes a product I’m happy to hear a recommendation, or even if they’ve used it but don’t love it, just a description of what they think is good or bad.

But when someone is just reading a prepared ad it’s a turn off, and makes me trust the creator and the product less. I get that people need to pay the bills, so I’m willing to ignore it a little. But it makes me pretty suspicious of everything else the person is saying, now that I see how little integrity matters to them.

I don’t think I’d feel like I lost a part of me if I my account got banned. But I could imagine feeling pretty angry if it was unfair, and frustration at losing access to save post or conversations with that I still reference.

But I do think an account is a ‘face’, just like in real life. I talk differently at work than with my friend, I speak differently to my boss and my students, and even different friend groups have different ways of talking or humour they enjoy. In that sense my lemmy account talks about some stuff I wouldn’t bring up with certain people, and there’s some stuff I wouldnt post on here.