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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Carry slot limits annoy me more.

    Weight makes sense from a story perspective. Even a top-spec fighter can’t carry four zweihanders and 500 food rations.

    But even the 1-STR mage who might have a legitimate carry weight limit of 2kg, should not be told “you can only carry 3 different types of 10-gram herb.” Especially if he’s allowed to carry 200 units of any one of the types. Give me anything resembling a viable story-based reason for that.

    But selling a solution to that is a very popular monetization paradigm for MMOs, so it stays.










  • I’m surprised there isn’t more of a crowdsourced solution-- community maintained block/allow lists and pluggable tools.

    Part of the reason filters suck right now is that they’re sold to turboprudes and people pushing compliance solutions that will placate litigious turboprudes. So you get blocking all of Wikipedia and .edu/.gov because three pages have an anatomical diagram of a breast. The kids are frustrated, normal parents have to keep unblocking legit stuff, and nobody wins.

    If you could pick from easily managed lists sponsored by groups you personally trusted, with responsive appeals systems, people might be more willing to use them.

    The ad-blocker ecosystem has a lot of precedent for how to work this stuff.