The entire spirit of bickering about everything on the internet as if making some point or dunking on someone actually has some meaningful social value is exhausting regardless of the particular viewpoint being espoused. Like, yeah, if it’s dirt stupid and inherently destructive it’s worse, but I see the same sort of behavior from all sorts of different perspectives and none of it is good.
It’s less the choice paralysis than the insufferable superiority complex. Options are great. Wading through a sea of people who think they’re better than everyone is not.
Things that make people not want to use Linux.
In D&D sorcerers started in Dragonlance after the Chaos War left Krynn without magic. Palin Majere became the first sorcerer, having already been a wizard, when an aspect of Takhisis taught it to him. It wasn’t innate, but it was spontaneous rather than vancian. There were also mystics, which were similar but divine rather than arcane, but when the sorcerer class was picked up for 3e they weren’t included.
The main takeaway from sorcerers though isn’t that they’re somehow “special”, it’s that they don’t have to memorize spells. Their magic is innate because they’re related to a creature type that gets spell-like abilities. Same as plenty of other types of characters who have SLAs, like drow or furbolgs or numerous other creatures.
If anything, the association with wild magic probably works to their detriment socially. Wizards have arcane magic, but at least they know how it works. I’m not really sure where you’re drawing a connection between the social stigma of unpredictable magic and being treated as “better” than anyone. I haven’t seen lore that supports the idea.
You make some really weird assumptions.
Honey, you do not know me.
So what you’re saying is no more football and no more driving?
Honestly I think it’s reasonable for parents to discourage their kids from doing drugs to protect them from harm, which is their job. But that same logic extended to adults doesn’t track.
A discord alternative with functional voice chat and video streaming would be nice, but it’s sort of an AIM in the 90s situation. If the people you want to talk to are using the platform as their primary means of communication, it’s still kind of necessary. An alternative wouldn’t just have to be close to discord, it would have to actually be better so people use it.
If telling himself he was going to be productive made him happy, that’s quite possibly better than actually being productive.
My actions? I’m literally not having children.
You’re so busy trying to say anything you can to get at anyone around you that you’re not even paying attention.
I get it. The world is a bit of a mess and it’s disheartening. But making everyone your enemy doesn’t make you part of the solution.
Interesting. I’m not sure “clearer than ever” is a good descriptor for one of the regions with the worst air quality in the world. It gets much worse in the summer. It’s certainly better at the moment than some other cities in China.
What you’re doing doesn’t affect any of that, honey.
Being a jerk for fun and patting yourself on the back about it isn’t activism. It doesn’t help.
You literally are just enjoying being toxic.
Where’s the “play weird football” or “make friends with a satellite” option? 🛰️
There’s a huge difference between talking about antinatalism and attacking people for fun on the internet. What you’re doing isn’t intellectual or altruistic, it’s just another flavor of narcissism and bile.
I’m not planning on having kids, but personally it seems like being a human under bad conditions is still better than being nearly any other animal on the planet under normal conditions. I do get the argument for not reproducing to avoid your kids having to go through a worsening environment, but it’s kind of silly to try to push that perspective on others as some kind of moral issue.
Like, what good does it do to just spew venom about people wanting children? Save that for the ultra rich who already used their entire year’s allotment of sustainable carbon footprint 10 days in. Save it for the literal fascists who are actively working to prevent anyone from doing anything to slow it down.
Ultimately this planet will eventually be consumed by the sun no matter what we do. There’s no need to be a jerk about it to people who have no control over how long it all lasts in the mean time.
By “emergency” they mean a drug war arrest. Protestors did not actually get in the way of helping anyone, in case you were wondering.
Is Grafo an asshole now?
That’s the wrong galaxy.
There are definitely way too many Drake memes on Lemmy.
Yeah, but I’m not sure “debate” in the sense the internet uses it has any relevance anyway. Debates in the formal sense are basically an academic sport, but what people on the internet do is basically just aggressively dribbling at people who have no interest in playing basketball.
Like, generally people on the internet just start trying to debate bystanders making casual comments or sharing their opinions who aren’t in it to prove anything. It’s kind of weird. Debating shouldn’t be assumed to be the default form of conversation, or even the default form of disagreement.