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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 1d

Enduring is now level 18. The Fracture must be Mended. Argynvost must rest.

Strahd must die.

#dnd #dnd5e #tiefling #art #digital-art

A tiefling woman with a gigantic pink/purple sword, a fullplate armor, a golden cannon and rose petals flying absolutely everywhere. Her armor has skull regalia once more, proudly displaying the decor of a hycanean knight once again.

Enduring's Stats:

Jaeger Level 18 (Heretic Subclass)
Tiefling (Zariel) - FOCUS 7, MOMENTUM 12
STR: 22
DEX: 20
CON: 20
INT: 24
WIS: 13
CHA: 9
HP: 242
Initiative: +5

WELL OF DARKNESS: 9
SPELLS DC: 21
SPELL BONUS: +13

FEATS: Gun Parry, Rally, Great Weapon Master, Mobile, Charger

And an extensive spell list with too many spells to list.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 1d

Enduring is now level 18. The Fracture must be Mended. Argynvost must rest.

Strahd must die.

#dnd #dnd5e #tiefling #art #digital-art

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 1d

Anyone who is rooting for age verification is a rube at best and actively evil at worst.

404 Media @404media.co · 1d

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

ill keep saying it and theyll keep doing it: podcaster occupied government

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 1d

Justice Department lawyers reposted President Trump’s statements and may have inadvertently endangered their prosecution of Luigi Mangione, violating the judge’s explicit orders that DOJ employees refrain from public comment about the case. trib.al/b9U7CY1

DOJ in Trouble After Lawyers Reposted Trump Rants on Luigi Mangione

The Justice Department’s case against Luigi Mangione just hit a major obstacle.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 1d

oh man the choreography in this one page alone is fantastic.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

Because I usually give up on gachas and slots before they can sink their teeth in because I will just go "Nope!" and walk away.

But this was low-investment enough to really get me to think about how our awful understanding of probability can be EASILY twisted.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

Oh on a related note I did also just spend $2 as opposed to several hundred to realize "Oh this is how slots and gachas can fucking wreck you".

moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

So I was playing Unfair Flips, and it did truly have me thinking about several things. For one, it's probability and our relationship with it. Namely how terrible human beings are at it. Even when I knew the game was absolutely truthful at odds, I kept ascribing a kind of sentience to it.

A screenshot from the game Unfair Flips, showing text.

"Humans have a strange relationship to Probability. Even when presented with completely truthful odds (as you can see in the top left of the screen) people still want to believe in some trick. Some way of cheating the odds, flat as they are."

A second screenshot of Unfair FLips.

"THERE IS NO WAY TO BEAT THESE ODDS."

"THERE IS ONLY TIME."

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

I personally lost patience after getting all of the upgrades.

But that's not really the game's doing. Winning was not a matter of upgrades. Upgrades are just a modifier.

It is a matter of time.

It has always been a matter of time.

Probability is not under my control. It never has been.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

If you think the game (or any art, really) is playing a trick on you specifically then it's a sign of arrogance and short-sightedness. You have terminated the thought in exchange for raw animal rage.

There is no conversation being had here. You just killed it. Go do something else.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

You cannot make authoritative declarations on art. You have to interface with it. Truly engage with it and examine why it makes you feel a certain way. If you can critique it do so on its level. Examine what it is aiming for.

Look inside and ask if this reaction is intentional.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

Maybe it's a product of a capitalist society that regards anything as commodity or the nature of a medium that demands massive amounts of multidisciplinary labor to exist at all.

It's one of those things I kind of hate about most online writing. Authoritative declarations on art.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

Are games just doomed to this kind of writing? I mean obviously not, but it's the kind of thing that I keep thinking on. Games are never regarded as art, they're regarded as a kind of product.

Yes, even by those who love to claim that games are art.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

The game had gotten to one particularly poor writer so badly that he had written a frankly horrible review that fails to interface with the game as art at all. Instead of investigating why he had gotten angry at it, he instead was mad that it had been made at all.

Pure reaction. No introspection.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

Of course I was interested to see if anyone else had thought about it, because I am both impatient and extremely introspective with a habit of getting lost in my own head.

What I found instead (and I will not be linking it because it's pretty poorly written and cruel) was someone angry at it.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

But the odds? No, of course not.

I literally fell into the mental trap of thinking, or rather, HOPING there was a trick. But there was none. There is no trick. Why on earth would there be?

It's just an unfair coin toss. That is the point. The point is that it is just probability and time.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

You COULD cheat the game. But it's not malevolent. It's just lines of code and sprites and sounds arranged in a way to deliver a certain experience. Why do that?

Odds are flat. And there is no thought behind the process itself. Why would there be?

There is obvious intent behind the game sure.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

The text is lamenting you. You see "Tails..." as though to make the pain worse. You got close but you didn't quite get it!

It's a psychological trick and a particularly mean one. And it had me thinking of cheating. Messing with the game's code.

But that's part of the exercise, isn't it?

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

A rising tone escalates. You get closer and closer, the sound gets higher, more angelic. You can see the number of exclamation marks increase.

And then, as a friend of mine pointed out, you lose with an anticlimactic *tink* as your coin flops again. You did not hit 10 in a row.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

As though the thing itself is alive, and worse, hostile. This is of course nonsense; it is a series of calculations and odds weighed against me. It is also a very deliberate piece of art; the game has one particularly nasty trick it plays when you keep getting decent flips.

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 2d

So I was playing Unfair Flips, and it did truly have me thinking about several things. For one, it's probability and our relationship with it. Namely how terrible human beings are at it. Even when I knew the game was absolutely truthful at odds, I kept ascribing a kind of sentience to it.

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The Nerdskull @nerdskull.bsky.social · 3d

Any libs still trying to push Gavin Newsom are wreckers. It’s really that simple.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 3d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Nico Mara-McKay 🦇 (they/iel) @nicomaramckay.com · 4d

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where users could feel safer, but inconsistent moderation quickly eroded trust.

When systemically marginalized users pushed back, Bluesky’s leadership minimized concerns and began to target them for bans.

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users

tl;dr: Bluesky began with genuine promise: a new social media platform where systemically marginalized users could feel safer, but…

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 3d

YOU WILL NOT BE PAID, GI

YOU WILL BE SENT TO STAND AROUND CHICAGO OR PORTLAND AIMLESSLY WHILE YOUR GIRL BACK HOME IN YOUR RED STATE GETS DICKED DOWN

YOU WILL STAND AROUND FOR WEEKS, GI, HATED BY EVERYONE, YOU WILL BE CUCKED, AND YOU WILL NOT BE PAID FOR IT

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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moiderah's myriad character flaws @moiddoesart.com · 5d

Yes. Next question.

Shawn McCullough @shawnmcc.bsky.social · 6d

So I guess the US was also a fascist country when FDR was putting Japanese Americans in internment camps, right?

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