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  • I don’t want to throw the word enshitiffication around, especially when I’m not sure if I can spell it, but the platforms that people jump ship to when that happens are probably especially vulnerable to people jumping ship again.

    I can’t imagine Mozilla effectively marketing Firefox as anything but the bullshit free browser, and when they lose that, people will just move to the next actual bullshit free option.



  • I totally agree with what you say about the gods reflectiing us, however I just meant to mention that Aphrodite didn’t just have plenty of affairs, she was in love with Ares. Also despite being beautiful, she did everything in her power to avoid Hephaestus and had no children by him.

    It’s that above all, her favourite lover was war (a high ranking general) and she showed distaste to her husband, a master craftsman.

    If it was just about Aphrodite being promiscuous because she was beautiful, she’d have also slept with Hephaestus, what we learn from her distaste for him is that the storytellers who popularised these myths believed that being a great general garnered love while being a great craftsman did not. But also Aphrodite and Hephaestus being married shows the pretense of love between passion and craft, that is really false in the eyes of the storyteller as it’s a loveless marriage.

    I believe I got this interpretation from Mythos by Steven Fry but honestly I may have picked it up from some random corner of the internet with no credibility.


  • I don’t agree with the social commentary the Greeks attached to Aphrodite, Hephaestus and Ares but I do think it’s interesting and goes against this headcannon.

    Aphrodite was forcednto be in married to Hephaestus, but does not show him and love, instead she’s in a long term affair with Ares / is cuckolding Hephaestus.

    Looking at Aphrodite, not as ‘a woman’s love’ but love and passion itself, what this relationship is telling us is that we pretend that love is for our crafts, or our creative passions, but really our true love is for conquest and victory. We can’t deny out competitive nature, no matter how much we pretend our nature is to create.

    Again I don’t agree with that belief but it’s a great insight into ancient Greek culture and morality.




  • Khrux@ttrpg.networktocats@lemmy.worldCats understand 'naughty'
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    I’d say dogs kmow when they’re intending to be bad, such as stealing food, going in places they’re not allowed whilete think their owner isn’t home or when they generally think they’re yet to be caught being bad, they act mischievously. I’d also say that it’s the intention to be bad that is naughty, and dogs are very capable of that.

    I think the difference is that dogs can think “hoohoo I’m gonna be bad >:)” which is a naughty thought, and means they understand it, but they can’t go to that next point where cats are which is “I’m gonna do something naughty and I don’t even care about the bad bit at all”.



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    I bought sync for Reddit at probably about £5. I can’t bring myself to buy it for lemmy at £100 or whatever so I’m having to get by with just blocking ads.

    The only other two paid apps I have is a driving theory test app and the pro version of a cocktail guide app which I’ve probably had for a decade now.




  • They’re generally useful in promoting temporary content such as festivals. In places such as Instagram they’re found their use in being used for casual posts that aren’t of the quality of the users more cultivated actual posts. For example promoting a friend’s page or casual holiday pictures. Particularly if the account has a brand such as hand made goods, it’s a place for the owner to post personal content too.

    I don’t actually know what PixelFed is really but I currently only use web content where I don’t really follow people as much as ideas and content, I couldn’t name a single lemmy or Reddit user, I only follow hashtags on Masterdon and I don’t really have much loyalty to who I watch on YouTube, so this content doesn’t appeal to me because I don’t often care about their stories. If PixelFed is a content site where you do follow personal content, then it’s probably right for them.


  • I have a piece of counter advice that allows you to on occasion plan a plot point. Generally your PCs are most invested in their beloved NPCs, either from backstory or the plot you’ve developed. If you have a cool idea, these NPCs can often be inserted into it and offer exactly what the players enjoy.