bss, super genius

@jack@xeno.glyphpress.com I love all of those pulls. I have been recently rewatching all of The X-Files, and they are two nearly perfect characters. cool posts.

@ngp@mastodon.sdf.org the cynic in me says they don't care, but yeah, maybe there's a tree I can bark up at

@ngp@mastodon.sdf.org yeah, exactly. I could POD FR5 The Savage Frontier on DMs Guild for $13 (with PDF) vs. getting it at Noble Knight for $13.50 (but missing the poster maps). roughly equivalent (because I doubt they'll POD a poster map for me), but I might as well get the PDF too, and maybe I could go to a print shop and get a poster map if I really wanted, so DMs Guild wins. I don't really need to own the original. however, I'd also be interested in having physical books of The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier, but they're not available for POD, and there's only one listing of the complete box on eBay at $225 (which makes me suspect it and its pieces have hit premium collectibles pricing range and it'll never be otherwise again). so I'm just kind of baffled why I can't POD Guide to the Savage Frontier. is it because the original product is a boxed set, despite them having digitized the books into PDF just fine? it's baffling.

@ngp@mastodon.sdf.org old 1e and 2e Forgotten Realms stuff. if I can get it at Noble Knight for a reasonable price, that's great, but some of the stuff I was looking for were only at crazy-level prices on eBay.

@drewscanlon@mastodon.gamedev.place good to see you, Drew, nice list! also, fellow weirdo checking in! seems like a rad site, always up for more old games love

@sogrady@mastodon.social @timbray@mastodon.cloud isn't the answer partially embedded in your question? those with opinions on CW policies will find their server in the network, and those who chose a server against their interests will migrate. from there they can choose who to associate with. unless, of course, these hypothetical people are expecting ideological purity, in which case that goes against the notion of federation, and they will suffer as much as they do in any other network failing their tests.

@sogrady@mastodon.social @timbray@mastodon.cloud sorry, I did not mean to imply that the people themselves didn't exist, just that I wasn't sure which kind of problem we were talking about. so, eliminating the purity test element for these users, I agree with you in that it's not just the new users who have some etiquette to learn. users shouldn't be chastised for a style choice beyond their instance's rules, but many are struggling to get their norms made part of the network, which I think is natural (but again, imperfect behavior). I am loathe to immediately jump to it, but I think those style choices need to be largely ignored (or their vocal adherents blocked, ugh) until the network finds an equilibrium again. maybe it's optimistic of me, but I believe that eventually people will retire to their sides on trivial arguments like how much is CWed. it's a particularly tumultuous time in the network, but I do think it will settle and there will be spaces for everyone. I hate the block/"thick skin" argument, but I think it's necessary at this particular moment, and hope that it will become less necessary in, say, a month from now.