Endymion_Mallorn

Windows 7 Embedded.

Mostly satirical.

It depends on what you’re using it for.

Why not just ReactOS atop FreeDOS?

I’m sorry, I only feel like typing it once, please look up-thread, or here:

https://kbin.melroy.org/m/games@lemmy.world/t/995294/-/comment/7944352

The commodification and the desire for mass appeal are the top-level issues I have. I feel uncomfortable when I see the modern D&D branding on stuff in “normal” stores. It takes away the community and puts Hasbro in the central role, rather than the network of GMs who should be the majority influence. If I wanted a hobby with a company in charge, I would play Warhammer.

Now, on the community side, my biggest issue is with things I see as derived from CR. The lack of respect for simple theatre of the mind is a direct issue with the way I’ve always run and played since I left D&D. The tolerance and even acceptance of paid DMing also pisses me off in ways that make it very hard for me to remain civil.

Those are the big ones. There’s also the fact that D&D doesn’t seem to have the offramps it had since AD&D1 (and which admittedly went downhill when the Forge went out of the spotlight).

Yep. It’s terrifying when you really put together the story with that being part of what Marche does - but he escaped being made into a zombie (which is such a great piece of foreshadowing).

Joining the future zombies in abusing Mewt is the fastest way to get past the tutorial.

You know, I’m not surprised about that, and not in a good way. CR is part of RPG culture I’m not good with, and I’m totally unsurprised that people who were part of 5e are joining them.

All I can hope is that seeing Hasbro lose people will draw attention to other systems - or for Hasbro to make a marketing push on the Essence20 system in addition to (or instead of) d20.

Anything run on a Crusoe is just amazing. Even when it didn’t live up to the hype, what it did was amazing.

It doesn’t look like this is even past concept stage, and it’s already mostly obsolete. Is there something close to this that’s a modern commercial product I can buy?

Ah, I see. Let’s just say that we’ll have to agree to disagree. I dislike nearly all 3D games with free movement - I’ve never been able to tolerate TES, for instance. Give me tile-based movement any day.

Marche and the general lesson of FFTA are great, to me. I love the strategic map mechanics. And honestly, I think the Laws (except in the cases where they’re intended to be screwy) are neat additions that make you have to think.

If I’m honest, Enroth is inferior to Xeen.

My experience on Mbin says that the search is pretty good. It might be skewed because I mostly search for magazines, though.

That’s good advice as well, but really only important if you’re a long-term PoI. If you’re just arrested for rioting/protesting, it’s probably not essential.

I did say that. But yes. Use cash whenever possible.

In those cases where it’s not free software, I care more about free as in lunch than as in speech. Just let me run arbitrary .exe files in whatever folder I want them in.

Basically, I want to emphasize the Personal in PC. I don’t want to think about a user account. I don’t want features built for “network security” in my OS. TBH, I just don’t want a server OS - and all UNIX derivatives (including NT Windows) are. My ideal OS would be a dual-boot of FreeDOS & an updated Win Me that runs current hardware.

Buy a feature phone in cash at a Dollar General as far away from home as you can feasibly get. Do not interact with any other business in the area. Just buy the phone and leave. Activate it at a public library. Add no contacts. Tell no one that it exists.

See, as a native Windows user, I mostly feel the opposite. I use Linux Mint because it’s almost like Windows, but it’s incredibly frustrating when it’s not. I’m not even much of a gamer (most of my games are FOSS, or run in RetroArch, Vice, or DOSBox-X). I just like being able to instantly find the software I’m looking for. It shouldn’t take an hour to find a Notepad. There needs to be something like Dspeech. I shouldn’t need to search and poke and hope that the software is either in apt or flatpak. So every time I go back to Windows, even the hellscape that is 11, I can get everything done faster than Linux.