Yeah! So, the games can transition between each other pretty seamlessly. You can mix and match rules to your liking. The best way to describe it would be like imagining the barrier of entry from Pathfinder to D&D5E, but taken to a higher extreme.

In Captain’s Log, there’s no equipment. No skills. The closest you get to anything like that is your character stats, which modify rolls accordingly. Your ship also has stats that can modify rolls. As for any conflict, the game uses a simple hit/fail system. Three strikes, you’re out type of thing. Ships are slightly more in depth, with their hit points being relates to their size, and systems getting damaged.

This is very episodic. I could be running a game for months, have a random friend swing by and hop in for a while without missing a beat, and then go home without it mucking anything up. Each mission is divided into scenes, just like an episode of the TV shows.

It’s much more focused on the drama of character development, building and challenging your values, and growing as a person.

Appreciate the heads up. I just bought it as an early birthday present for myself! The PDF comes immediately upon purchase. The book will be on its way shortly.

Reading through it now. It feels very promising.

The only two things formatting makdown consistently, for now, are Jerboa and the web interfaces.

I’ve been posting a lot of poetry using some markdown witchery to format, only to realize that some interfaces show all of the markdown even inside the post itself. Jerboa will show it in the summary tile before you click in, but it does format.

I’m not familiar with Dickman. At least, I don’t recognize the name. I’ll have to look him up!

I posted a poet spotlight about Marianne Moore, a contemporary of HD’s, not too long ago. Also, HD was one of the first poets I posted here: https://lemmy.world/post/58034

I wouldn’t say that work in particular is representative of her whole style, but she was very eclectic in her subject matter. If you dig into it, you’ll find work of hers that speaks to you!

I think this is pretty good as a concept. I love modernist takes on classic poetry, but, that said, there could be some improvement here.

Part of what is appealing about “adjusting” classic poetry is shoehorning in a new meaning between the lines of the old. I notice some … let’s call them “distractions” … away from the iambic pentameter of the classic work. I fully realize that it may be on purpose, but given the work you’re referencing, it does more of a disservice than a service. It starts with your second stanza and, while it isn’t every line, really makes itself known from there forwards.

While overall enjoyable, I think focusing more on fitting the form of what you’re satirizing would make the whole thing more effective as a whole.

What an interesting question! I think it depends a lot on how we define “favorite,” so I’m going to be roundabout.

My formative poets:

• W. B. Yeats
• Edgar Allan Poe
• T. S. Eliot
• Robert Frost

My favorite reads:

• e.e. Cummings
• T. S. Eliot
• Charles Bukowski
• Longfellow

I won’t endeavor to create a comprehensive list for those that I enjoy—it would be inexhaustible—but if anyone is interested, I can provide recommendations. Lol.

Thanks for the question! It’s interesting to think about.

That might be a solid solution. I think I was a bit intimidated by the (relative) complexity of DosBox compared to vDos, but it seems like a reasonable way to go about it. Thanks for the link! That makes it much easier.

Man, if I smarter or dumber I’d really want a pet skunk. Unfortunately I’m just the right level of educated to know that I know nothing about anything abnormal pet related.

Internet is a finicky thing. What you should be getting depends a lot on what you pay for, what device you have, and the equipment you’re using, not to mention the infrastructure you don’t control. Without more detailed information, it’s hard to say. But, that said, your download and upload speeds are more than enough to do practically anything you should want without much of an issue.

As with all things Trek, SNW has its detractors and its promoters, but I find it highly enjoyable. It isn’t quite classic Trek—and it isn’t perfect—but it’s just so much fun. It’s the first live action show where the love for the universe shines through the bleak empty promotional garbage.

I’ve loved the character development. There have been episodes that changed my mind about certain people, gave me real horror vibes that could rival Alien itself, and some heartbreaking moments. Just don’t expect Kirk to feel like Kirk yet. He’s still developing, and so is the actor, but it shows promise.

This gave me a good chuckle. Lol. But I’m part of the problem. The only “new Trek” that I look forward to and enjoy anymore is LD and SNW, but I still think it’s absurd to pull Prodigy from Paramount+ when they have all other Trek.

I wasn’t especially a fan of Prodigy, but I know people who were. And, let’s be honest, it’s still better than Disco or Picard.

I’m not supposing to have any answers either, but from a personal standpoint it seems rather selfish to even entertain the idea of making an instance owner do that. It’s not like these people are getting paid for a service (aside from donations, in some cases); they’re hosting in the spirit of the fediverse. Why would I pawn legal work off to them?

You know, this is honestly terrible. Probably one of the worst I’ve seen in a while.

I love it!

Yeah, I’m not buying Reddit’s statistics. 90%+ of mod actions on desktop web and official app? I can see plenty of use for old Reddit, but they have locked quite a few mod actions behind the new interface recently. Likewise the more and more spez feels the need to mention that there was no real consequence from the blackout makes me question the validity of that statement. We’re all aware what a lying jackass he is.

I’m sure that the majority of people will continue to use Reddit regardless. I’m just not sure that the majority is as major as they are presenting it to be.

I didn’t notice it until recently, but I whole-heartedly believe that Reddit was bad for my health.

That is an interesting opinion contrary to my own.

Perhaps my earlier comment on this post was a bit harsh. I guess it would be more accurate to say that the move by Beehaw doesn’t jive with my idea of federation. To call it out as not in the spirit of the fediverse is wrong.

That said, I still stand by the sentiment that their response to the recent surge is a bit haphazard. I’m still over being proselytized to by internet ideologues (which stinks of more of the community top-down control I’m trying to avoid via my r/efugee status), so I won’t be joining them, but I did enjoy most of their content that stumbled it’s way into my feed, and the general userbase has been phenomenal to interact with. Perhaps it is federation working as intended, after all.

Thanks for sharing that post! I doubt I would have thought of it that way otherwise.

The admins of Beehaw have been on one since its inception. Not that I mean to shit-talk them at all—I have a great degree of respect for what they are trying to accomplish, and the community springing up around them seems to be largely positive. But, that said, one of the reasons I chose not to register there were the constant tirades. This is just another one of those. They’re attempting very hardly to curate something that doesn’t, in my opinion, really jive with the idea of federation.

As an extension, it seems like Beehaw would be much better suited to becoming its own web forum rather than a part of Lemmy. Now, again, that’s not to say they can’t exist successfully on Lemmy, but whether it is one instance or another, it will be a game of whack-a-mole with bad actors, even if they end up pursuing a white-list approach. That’s just the nature of something like this. You have to have the core community, yes, but you need enough instance mods and admins to handle it, too.

Hopefully they’ll get it all figured out and swing back around. But, as with anything, we shall see.

Hey, thanks a ton! I’m pretty sure he has all of those tools. I’ll have to pass along your process and give him some inspiration!

Wow. This is a gorgeous piece! Color me impressed. I personally don’t do any woodworking, but my father dabbles. Would you mind sharing what tools you used?