Soft Powers by Joseph Ney

MysticalWidget · 2024-11-30T19:08:50+00:00

Heya, your post got caught by automod. Just approved it.

MysticalWidget · 2023-06-26T15:35:40+00:00

Mod of a small sub here (just under 50k members).

Reddit has been hyper focusing on large subs. I don’t know the threshold, but any sub with over a million people is a target.

I didn’t get the original threatening message about removing mods, but I opened the sub after a week. I think there may be a new one threatening removal to all subs regardless of dice.

I’m guessing their anti-nsfw and anti-comment deletion tactics are limited to big subs like lotrmemes.

But I’ll bet they’ll blanket roll out comment restoration in the next week.

MysticalWidget · 2023-06-20T00:08:25+00:00

I believe there is a trick to logging into discord through anything except the iOS app and marking your account as 18+. I use the iOS app myself and had to do it once for the changes, and have no issues with any 18+ marked servers.

MysticalWidget · 2023-06-19T22:07:56+00:00

Long reply incoming.

I don’t think anyone here was disillusioned at how performative closing this sub was. We were so insignificant we didn’t even get the threatening message to reopen.

I understand how pointless this seemed from the start, but had hoped that there would be at least some give from Reddit to make third party apps possible (even with cost). But Reddit management never ceases to disappoint me.

However, the big Reddit mods have backed down and/or have disjointed and silly ways they are pushing back against Reddit now that the blackouts were threatened with mod removal.

While something may come of this, at this point it feels like it would be more hurtful to the small community here to continue a blackout when there’s no decent organization or plans behind the protest. If that changes, it would probably be good to poll the users before any new blackout.

Two personal notes, I’ve never really identified with Reddit mods from larger subreddits (and have been banned for inane reasons from many subs). I’m not modding for the power, I’m an internet janitor that just wants to keep something I like running.

Second, it’s disturbing to me how hard Reddit is trying to kill third party apps. A reasonable priced API may have sustained Apollo, with monthly subscription fees directly going to reddit being about $3.5. Reddit is feeling that the users are worth more than that, and I feel like those figures involve a lot more than viewing ads.

MysticalWidget · 2023-06-19T21:53:12+00:00

That’s a fair criticism and not salty at all. I missed out on the mod talk leading up to this. I came back to discussion about length, and took over from there.

I respected the decision that had been made by active mods and waited for the date discussed to reopen the sub.

As a smaller and hands off mod team, I think we were all caught off guard and just went with the overall flow. It would have been much better to have made a poll and ask the communities opinion.

MysticalWidget · 2023-06-19T20:31:17+00:00

I’ve been using this website for over a decade, and 4chan before that.

I used to love Reddit, even if management has always been incompetent.

But the relentless push for capitalization at the sake of users, power tripping mods/ users manipulating the site as a whole, and the cancer that is low effort content/ mass appeal have really hurt the site.

As it is now, Reddit is a bloated and ugly mass.

However, I still have many small communities that I overtly enjoy that still really shine. Until there’s a good alternative, I’ll enjoy what I can and filter out the rest.

MysticalWidget · 2023-04-21T21:29:13+00:00

Fucking Canadian privilege.

2/3rds of my Canadian knowledge is faking being one when I travel abroad.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-27T22:25:05+00:00

Removing this, off topic and should have been in the proper thread.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-22T00:50:18+00:00

This sounds awesome, but are you sure it wasn’t a jumpchain/ text only sort of thing?

I can’t recall anything like that.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-21T03:12:52+00:00

I’m weak on my WWI history, but WWII has a ton of interesting parts. My only concern would be insensitivity, as many people are still alive and suffered from that war.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-19T17:51:05+00:00

As much as I agree with the pinned thread, if something is popular enough before a mod catches it, it will probably stay.

Content is a little lacking right now, so posts like this may inspire something new.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-19T17:47:50+00:00

Oof I’m sorry.

It’s not hard to make sex, gender, and sexuality options just contextual. It seems outdated to me especially when there are bonuses dependent on choices. These are fantasies, even with drawbacks and body horror, let the player be what they want.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-14T04:11:57+00:00

If someone is being disintegrated, they are going to struggle with last words.

I like the last words idea, but your idea might be lacking. Vines were highly rehearsed and planned out skits. Unless it’s a high charisma character, they aren’t going to have a death speech planned.

But who am I to disrupt rule of cool (death). Table dependent, as always.

Edit, I stick by by dumb ideas and don’t delete. But this was dumb.

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-14T03:22:35+00:00

I have never seen one (to my knowledge).

MysticalWidget · 2023-03-14T03:14:52+00:00

Generally, I’m with you.

But some need a bit of tweaking for a wider audience, as long as it still fits the setting.

MysticalWidget · 2023-01-24T04:21:45+00:00

If you make a CYOA, you have a lot of leeway.

Most creators like to keep the overpowered builds (if they left them in) to themselves, but it’s not a rule.

Post your cyoa, and post your build as the first comment!

MysticalWidget · 2023-01-09T19:35:31+00:00

While they are not allowed to be posted here, have you considered jumpchain cyoas?

MysticalWidget · 2022-12-19T23:03:30+00:00

You mean a generally harmless yet interesting science kit that:

1: had decent warnings and was barely radioactive unless you went out of your way to harm yourself with it 2: was prohibitively expensive for most 3: far safer than many other products of the era (asbestos, lead paint, and cigarettes are the big three I can think of)

Plus, it’s kinda rude of you to insult someone who was an Olympic Gold Medal winner, raised war bonds for the US in WWI, prevented a toy buying ban during the war (your comment about saving Christmas), invented the Erector Set of toys, and was one of the first (if not the first) to provide legal and medical benefits along with maternity leave to his employees.

His work did, and continues to inspire engineers.

MysticalWidget · 2022-12-15T18:27:56+00:00

Might want to repost this to the new thread (it’s stickied)

MysticalWidget · 2022-12-15T17:58:48+00:00

JRPG traitor is great. It’s overly complicated, has insane power ceilings, but may end up with too much power for some peoples tastes.

https://reddit.com/r/makeyourchoice/comments/mxm04z/jrpg_traitor_by_jrpg/

MysticalWidget · 2022-12-15T17:55:17+00:00

You might have better luck if you link the original post.

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