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  • You've just described the entire language of Toki Pona. The same string of words can mean "bear" or "elephant", and I copied a phrase someone used to mean "tiger trap" and it was read as "bamboo arch".

  • Dear and @academicchatter folks:
  • gImageReader is a graphical front-end to the open-source OCR program Tesseract, so that might be just what you're looking for. The default settings don't add the OCR'd text to the PDF but you can do that.

  • What Do People Think of Daggerheart So Far?
  • Looking at the blog post Shyfer found, Pathfinder 2e and Daggerheart diverge from D&D 5e in opposite directions. PF2e puts a lot of emphasis on game balance, battlemat tactics, and specific named actions. Daggerheart looks to be quite loose with rules and trying to be cinematic rather than balanced.

    They could both be good games, but Final Fantasy Tactics isn't going to scratch that Dynasty Warriors itch or vice versa.

  • Akira Toriyama, the Creator of Dragon Ball, Dead at 68
  • Dragon Quest has lost both its composer and its designer within two and a half years. I assume Dragon Quest XII is far enough along to complete and release, but this might be the end of the series.

  • New Linux user here. Is this really how I'm supposed to install apps on Linux?
  • cURL is a very commonly used program to download individual files from the command line and worth installing to have it around in the future.

    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install curl

    The first command tells your package manager to update its list so you ask for the latest version. You can skip it if you've already updated today. The second command tells your package manager to install cURL.

    This will happen every now and then, especially when building a package from source. You won't have some common utility that the documentation writer assumed you had, and you will need to find what package provides it and install the package.

  • [Resolved] Why does the font on Lemmy.world look like an eyesore?
  • From your other responses, this is a system issue not a problem with the website.

    Lemmy.world's code has this font list for sans-serif: system-ui,-apple-system,"Segoe UI",Roboto,"Helvetica Neue","Noto Sans","Liberation Sans",Arial,sans-serif,"Apple Color Emoji","Segoe UI Emoji","Segoe UI Symbol","Noto Color Emoji"

    I'd use the dev tools to check which font is being rendered. I'm on Windows so I get Segoe UI, which I find entirely acceptable.

  • Why "Roll under" Ability checks really are the best of checks
  • I'd also like a good answer. I feel like the author would say "you don't even roll to vault a railing, you just do it". But that still leaves a complicated but rehearsed high-wire routine versus "I run on water". I wonder if the author would simply say no?

  • Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue
  • The US has lots of land that doesn't require irrigation, but also lots of land that can grow crops if irrigated. Some of that land in California is some of the best farmland in the whole country, growing things that prefer California's Mediterranean climate (similar to parts of Australia's southwest coast).

    We have the technology and have had it for a while. But we don't have the laws and habits of dry countries so US water laws are a wasteful mess.

  • Arizona's solar-over-canal project will tackle its major drought issue
  • An irrigation canal like this is a big ditch to move water from a river to near farm fields. Without the extra water taken from the river, there wouldn't be enough water in the soil for crops to grow in the area.

    Being a big ditch open to the sky, the hot sun and dry air make a bunch of the irrigation water evaporate before it even gets to the field. So we went to all the effort of taking water out of the river just to waste it humidifying the nearby air.

    Why did we do it in the first place? Because it's way easier and cheaper to dig a ditch than to lay a big pipe, and I don't know if the US had any other water-delivery tech at the right scale when these were built.

  • Washable inks?

    Are there any inks that wash out of clothing very quickly and easily? I'm especially interested in inks that wash out cleanly without stain treatment.

    Edit: Washing quickly and easily off the toddler is a bonus.

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    True Gaming @kbin.social Shihali @sh.itjust.works
    Why don't we have AAA Puzzle Games?

    This copies a post by grailly on Reddit.

    Most games have adopted popular RPG mechanics and it's widely accepted that "everything's an RPG now". RPGs are also some of the biggest and most popular games around.

    I'd argue that Puzzle Game mechanics (aka puzzles) are even more widespread than RPG mechanics throughout the media. However, Puzzle Games themselves are pretty niche and basically never get any big budget titles. This gets more surprising when realizing Puzzle Games are very popular; Tetris might just be the most recognizable video game, Portal (Portal 2 might be the only AAA puzzle game?!) is insanely beloved, wordle took the world by storm last year, sudoku and crosswords are still in the newspaper every day, Candy Crush...

    Why do you think Puzzle Games are relegated to being indie or AA?

    I thought about it a bit and came up with some unbaked responses which I hope you will add to:

    • People want to kill stuff in AAA games. To which I answer, can't we kill stuff in puzzle games?

    • There's little point to making Puzzle Games more expensive. Would having The Witness or Talos Principle pushed to AAA status make them any better?

    • "Puzzle" is a recessive genre. Add anything to a puzzle game and they aren't considered puzzle games anymore. So making a AAA Puzzle game will basically remove its Puzzle Game consideration. Puzzle + exploration = adventure. Puzzle + fighting = Action adventure. Puzzle + story = walking simulator, etc.

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    How do we report spam communities?

    Just today these are some communities created on this instance:

    https://sh.itjust.works/c/tutoiementunboaste https://sh.itjust.works/c/unrenewablesubpana https://sh.itjust.works/c/vegetarianprogramm https://sh.itjust.works/c/myelopetalplainnes https://sh.itjust.works/c/waylaidmegasses https://sh.itjust.works/c/expiateshottie https://sh.itjust.works/c/knackwurstsreearn https://sh.itjust.works/c/sculptedsixteenpen https://sh.itjust.works/c/anelesunimitablene https://sh.itjust.works/c/ebonistregenerativ https://sh.itjust.works/c/extensionlessvulca

    Is there any way to report this spamming? In particular is there any way to report this spamming that doesn't require creating a separate account on a separate system?

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