absentbird

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[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

To each their own. Personally I can't stand MS Office, I think Google Docs is easier for most nontechnical people these days anyway. For the rare cases when Office is needed, the web version works fine on Linux.

LibreOffice works great, and WPS Office is proprietary but at least it's free.

Personally I write my documents in markdown and use pandoc to convert them into PDF or docx or whatever. It's like writing the source code and then compiling, I like it.

I'm sure you've looked into all that, but for anyone else who is interested in alternatives those are my recommendations.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Pfft, proprietary propaganda. How hard is it to let go of every app you're familiar with, learn half a dozen scripting languages, and memorize a hundred different commands in vim?

What you say is true, though I've become so jaded with Microsoft that I don't think there's any software or situation I'd use Windows for; I'd sooner switch to Mac.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What do you have against Linux?

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A 3.5" cartridge slot with a hard drive reader in it sounds kinda awesome, not gonna lie.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

'we let' women have rights? Women fought tooth and nail for years to get those rights, and assholes are still trying to claw them away; fuck, there's places in the US right now where women are dying because their access to healthcare has been sabotaged by a supreme court that reinterpreted the constitution to remove their rights.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I was making a joke about directions; under, over, transverse; entirely unserious.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Eh, back in 2e Polymorph worked a lot like True Polymorph does in 5e, in 3e it was called Polymorph Any Object. I think a lot of players just call it Polymorph, even though there's a level four spell with the same name, especially if the context of the situation makes it clear which spell is being used. At least that's how it goes at my table, but every group is different.

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Only if it's the 4th level version, which is impermanent anyway. 9th level polymorph has rules for objects: https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/True%20Polymorph#content

[–] absentbird@lemm.ee 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

True Polymorph can turn people into objects.

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