Mummelpuffin

Yeah, this is a pretty good overview of the situation as it stands now.

BUT somehow I think I found a solution for myself in the hour since I posted it, AsciiDoc seems rad as hell. Very Markdown-like but geared more towards document writing and conversion to other "publishable" formats with features like automatic ToCs, citations, character conversion to more "literary" equivalents like emdash and more proper quotation marks, etc., just more complete in general where Markdown is for quick n' dirty comments and forum posts. I'm super glad that I found it. Apparently some O'Riley books were written in it.

The thing about fencing is that it basically evolved from the general idea of swords as a form of self-defense, not swords as a tool of war, and pure effectiveness wasn't the only thought there.

In fact the term fencing as we use it today specifically referred to rapiers from the start, and rapiers were fashion as much as they were tools. They were designed to go well with fancy outfits and weren't even necessarily designed to kill people so much as to win duels, which it was great at due to it's light weight (plus, taking a big ol' killin' sword would probably be looked down upon, even though someone totally might die either way).

If I were making a character with a background in fencing who planned on going on adventures, I'd have them grab an estoc as it's essentially a specialized longsword. You want something that can make a big enough wound to drop someone quickly, sturdy enough to pierce armor, and an estoc fits those requirements. Another option would be a backsword as George Silver preferred it as a general self-defense weapon, if you're not expecting to fight armored opponents much or at all.

Considering Lemmy's apparent deep-rooted technical issues, I'd be perfectly fine with Beehaw searching for something else. Leaving Lemmy doesn't mean leaving the Fediverse, which a lot of people seem to be misunderstanding. It's sort of a hard requirement for anything Fediverse-related to be about as advanced in terms of mod tools as Mastodon at least, and otherwise, what's the point? People are focusing way too hard on perceived ideas about "what the community is like" or whatever, look guys, it's the internet, it's always like that. Maybe stay away from places as general and wide-ranging as Technology (honestly I'd say that's the flaw of a good chunk of Lemmy instances and people need to start looking for / creating more specific stuff. It's out there, please god just look.)

Ultimately the purpose of Lemmy is to be something like a traditional forum system, but networked in a way that makes those forums highly discoverable. Lemmy achieves that, but if there's actually technical barriers to content moderation, yeah, that sucks.

Uh... the whole article is discussing how "the western left's" sympathy for Palestine and criticism of Israel is being criticized?

Good article, I've been wondering why people are calling it populism...

Is this not all kinda well-known information?

...Ah yes, the most grift-y place in the world, the Boston Museum of Science.

The guns didn't make them suicidal, but they provide a very easy way to be impulsive.

I'm vaguely suicidal a good chunk of the time. I don't want to be anywhere near a gun.

Oh no!! BallisticNG is a wonderful game, shame that Switch players won't be getting it.

Que people arguing about GNU's importance / self-inflated importance or whatever

God the religion vs. faith thing, I'm glad to see someone articulate it. It's bizarre to me how many people are seemingly super hardcore into their religion as a social club, but if you observe them closely they come across like "believing it" is just a game they play for the sake of staying in.

Well, for a practical example, my Ryzen 5 5600x and Radeon 6600xt combo is juuust out of the running for games coming out right now, I'd say. The VRAM limitations at 8GB are becoming apparent and there's been a few instances where the 5600x struggles in games that hit CPUs hard. But I'd say that's because there's been an oddly big jump in system requirements, recently.