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News@lemmy.world•Bomb threat at home of Pope Leo’s brother: Police
16·10 days agoIsn’t that his other brother? That’s Louis Prevost who lives in Florida. The brother who lives in Illinois must be John.
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Nintendo@lemmy.world•People are licking Nintendo Switch game cartridges again after Japanese user compares taste to sakura budsEnglish
5·17 days agoI licked several of the Switch 1 carts and I can’t taste whatever they’re using on them at all. I feel like I’m missing out!
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•If you could become a character and enter any universe and that becomes your permanent life what universe would you pick?
15·21 days agoThe Culture seems like the obvious choice. You can be whoever you want, do whatever you want (or not do much of anything, if you prefer), live as long (or as short) as you want… There are no downsides, really, unless you object to living in a society where the Minds are so vastly more intelligent than humans that you’re functionally their pet. I can see how some people might find that unsettling.
Maybe. It’s because “weapon attack” is the verbiage they settled on for hitting somebody with something that isn’t a spell (spells make “spell attacks”). They could call them “weapon or unarmed attacks” but that seems unnecessarily verbose when 95% of them are going to be made with a weapon. You might think that for hand-to-hand combat you could simply refer to “melee attacks,” but “melee” is a specifier that can be applied to spell attacks too, so it’s out.
So the current situation is this: a rule can simply refer to all “attacks,” or it can refer to “melee” or “ranged” attacks, or it can refer to “weapon” or “spell” attacks, or it can use both specifiers (as in “ranged weapon attack”).
So if you want to fix it, you need a word to replace “weapon” that could include unarmed combat but excludes all spells. “Physical” might be good, but has some edge case problems: if I have a psychic “blade” that attacks your mind, it makes “physical attacks” despite being a non-physical object. If I have a spell that physically throws a boulder at you, it’s pretty easy for me to remember that I should make a spell attack roll, but if you have a feature that defends against “physical attacks” you might think it should apply against the boulder when it doesn’t. “Martial attack” might be getting at the right thing, but it sounds strange, and for new players who might be new to RPGs “martial” and “melee” are both uncommon words that kind of sound similar, and that might cause confusion. (Also “martial melee attack” sounds more natural than “melee martial attack,” but then it has the opposite word order from “melee spell attack” and that’s weird.)
There may be a perfect word out there, but in the end they decided “weapon” was the least confusing, despite requiring the caveat that attacking unarmed is a “weapon attack.” And so everywhere that the rules say “attack with a weapon” instead, it is to specifically exclude unarmed attacks, although I admit that it’s not always obvious why they want to do that.
The ones that say “when you hit a creature with an attack using a weapon”? Your DM is following the intended rules. In 5e, your empty hand can make “melee weapon attacks,” but that attack is not an “attack with a melee weapon” or an “attack using a weapon.” Unless that changed in the recent update, I haven’t read the 5.5 books.
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Technology@lemmy.world•ONLYOFFICE accuses "Euro-Office" maker Nextcloud and IONOS of License ViolationEnglish
3·25 days agothe obligation to retain the original product logo (Section 7(b));
the denial of any rights to use the copyright holder’s trademarks (Section 7(e)).
Uhhh is it just me or is it impossible to follow the first requirement without violating the second one? The logo requirement seems engineered to make sure that you can’t actually fork the project: if you include the original logo, they can hit you for trademark violation, and if you don’t include the logo they can say you violated their license terms.
I wash graphic tees and other printed clothing inside out because I was told it does less damage to the image. No idea if it actually helps.
Low function day. I am supposed to be finishing cleaning my room, but by the time I did laundry and went shopping and made lunch I ran out of energy and had to lie down, and that was the end of that plan.
This is bad because my roommate is very unhappy about the state of my room, which is abysmal (the mice that live in my walls shit on everything and it stinks), and I would like to fix it so that he feels better about it. I tried to hire a maid service to come clean the apartment, but the one I contacted said they wouldn’t come out if we had mouse droppings, I guess because of the risk of sickness. So the plan is to get things clean enough that I can tell them the mouse droppings are cleaned up so that they can come out, but obviously I struggle to clean which is why I needed help in the first place… I wanted to get it done over the weekend but the weekend has now ended, so we’ll have to see if I can get it done tomorrow.

Pokémon Infinite Fusion is really great! It’s Pokémon but you can fuse two monsters together to make a new one. A lot of the fusions have custom art! (The other ones are like that old Pokémon fusion creator that pastes one monster’s face over the other one, lol.)
Look for their Discord if you want to download it. All websites that profess to have download links are unofficial and may be malicious.