@mindbleach@Thisfox but didn’t he also train the rats to do his bidding while in his own dungeon, and then reveal at the end of the book that he actually had a secret escape tunnel built into those dungeons when he made them (meaning he simply stayed in his dungeon because he chose to)
See this is the problem with Lemmy. I want to tag this or even crosspost this to a Pratchett place (“unexpectedpratchett” or similar) but a) I haven’t found a populated one, and b) I can’t just type in its name if I have one or guess its name like you can in other media, and c) even if I did, the link won’t work for everyone, and those it will work for are often (like me) sent out-of-app to a browser if they successfully click on the damn thing. Frustration.
a) should resolve itself overtime with both features and people
b) is something devs should be working on, or at least I heard that they are working on better cross-instance community search
c) this is currently my gripe too, on Android jerboa does offer opening any https:// links in the app but it rarely works or you have to do it twice for whatever reason.
The “critical mass” argument only makes sense if there’s a critical mass in the future. There might never be one. People might give up threaded-discussion platforms before this ever makes it.
You can very easily write cross instance links if you weren’t aware, e.g. !memes@lemmy.world – this works on desktop (opens the community on your instance instead of the instance the community is on, so you stay logged in) and on every mobile client I’ve seen
There’s a reason chaotic lawful exists in fiction, but rarely in real life. It’s because I’m fiction we’re aware of the unspoken rules the character adheres to. In real life we can’t see those and therefore the character appears chaotic to any observer.
I think quite a lot of neurotypical people who appear chaotic to many people have a very clear ruleset. Take Sheldon from the big bang theory, many of the jokes are around people unknowingly trespassing on his unspoken ruleset.
This reminded me of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld. So many characters are like this.
Indeed.
“With a good fake nose, no one remembered anything but the nose, afterwards.”
Or, for that matter, The Patrition. Best portrayal of intelligent lawful neutral ever.
Patrician
but yes
Yes, sorry, quie right.
“One man. One vote.”
Vetenari spends one entire book locked in his own dungeons and does not give a dang. He knows the city will come crawling back.
@mindbleach @Thisfox but didn’t he also train the rats to do his bidding while in his own dungeon, and then reveal at the end of the book that he actually had a secret escape tunnel built into those dungeons when he made them (meaning he simply stayed in his dungeon because he chose to)
Sounds about right. He was never possessed of an idle personality.
See this is the problem with Lemmy. I want to tag this or even crosspost this to a Pratchett place (“unexpectedpratchett” or similar) but a) I haven’t found a populated one, and b) I can’t just type in its name if I have one or guess its name like you can in other media, and c) even if I did, the link won’t work for everyone, and those it will work for are often (like me) sent out-of-app to a browser if they successfully click on the damn thing. Frustration.
a) should resolve itself overtime with both features and people
b) is something devs should be working on, or at least I heard that they are working on better cross-instance community search
c) this is currently my gripe too, on Android jerboa does offer opening any https:// links in the app but it rarely works or you have to do it twice for whatever reason.
Though I get the frustration.
The “critical mass” argument only makes sense if there’s a critical mass in the future. There might never be one. People might give up threaded-discussion platforms before this ever makes it.
I vote we go back to phpBB.
Nah, let’s go back to newsgroups
newsgroups are still around. we just don’t use then for discussion much anymore.
You can very easily write cross instance links if you weren’t aware, e.g. !memes@lemmy.world – this works on desktop (opens the community on your instance instead of the instance the community is on, so you stay logged in) and on every mobile client I’ve seen
Sam Vimes was the first thing I thought of when I read this post.
There’s a reason chaotic lawful exists in fiction, but rarely in real life. It’s because I’m fiction we’re aware of the unspoken rules the character adheres to. In real life we can’t see those and therefore the character appears chaotic to any observer.
I think quite a lot of neurotypical people who appear chaotic to many people have a very clear ruleset. Take Sheldon from the big bang theory, many of the jokes are around people unknowingly trespassing on his unspoken ruleset.