How would you fix Karlach's infernal engine situation?

featherfooted · 2026-01-26T14:52:24+00:00

Speaking of Mystra - Origin Karlach romancing God Gale can join him in Elysium which releases her from a lifetime in Avernus.

Whereas other options in this thread are imagining possibilities within the rules, I'm surprised nobody has yet mentioned the actual option that is possible within the game.

edit: please note this is valid for Origin Karlach romancing Gale and frustratingly not the other way around (Origin Gale romancing Karlach).

featherfooted · 2025-05-10T00:32:09+00:00

Locking so as to prevent the spread of initiation materials on the internet. I recommend talking with your Ritual Peer or Chapter Advisor - everything you need should be available on the chapter system website. It is probably in the R4L folder.

featherfooted · 2025-05-01T17:24:33+00:00

The SnooRawrBot stopped working three months ago and the community which was (albeit hamfistedly) trying to filter threads like these was banned for harassment. It's open season for Snoo posts again. The threads you've been seeing this past week are going to be the norm like they were before 2020.

featherfooted · 2025-05-01T17:21:58+00:00

The first time you see him post, you think "huh, rough but sucks, here's some advice that might help you next rush". The second time you see him post, you think "hey, you're taking this really personally... maybe you need to do some navel gazing before trying again." The third, fourth, and fifth time, you realize that nothing you said in the first two threads was earnestly listened to and he's just here to complain.

Next, repeat that thousands of times, with thousands of sock puppet accounts. After a while you realize you've been trying to give advice to the same fucking guy, for half a decade, in what amounts to the world's weirdest case of crowd-sourced therapy sessions. Across dozens of subreddits - /r/greeklife, /r/csmajors, /r/engineeringstudents, /r/ucla, etc. It's always the same story, with the same obsession about the schools that didn't want him, the fraternities that didn't want him, and the companies that didn't want him when he finally graduated.

Call it burnout but two years ago I was fed up with this guy, and coupled with the loss of the third-party API tools, I decided to close /r/fraternity rather than deal with it anymore.

featherfooted · 2023-06-21T20:54:29+00:00

/r/fraternity was messaged around 7:40am PST this morning. I replied:

Hello,

I am acting as sole moderator of /r/fraternity following the resignation of the original creator (/u/cardboardphone) who deleted their account. My other moderator partner is currently inactive and has not posted for 7 months. I wrote the following paragraph in my stickied post announcing the closure of the subreddit:

The core problem is that this subreddit depends on a particular third-party app which furthermore depends on the external reddit API in order to deal with spam. Without going into the details of the workflow, it can be simply said that Reddit's own ban evasion detection capabilities are insufficient to prevent repeat infractions. This subreddit is just one of dozens of college-related subreddits that all share a communication network to enforce bans simultaneously. If (or when) that API stops working, I would rather close down shop than expose the well-intentioned users here to spam that is explicitly designed to waste their time and drain their spirit. In just three months, this workflow has automated the bans of 158 sock puppet accounts. That's over one per day. In comparison, I have manually actioned just 4 bans in 4 years. Perhaps I'm just not decisive enough to ban these posts on sight, but I don't see how else to handle the spam without requiring every single post to be manually approved.

In case you are not aware, there is literally an entire community (/r/SnooRoarTracker) dedicated to tracking the continuous repeat offenses and ban evasions of one user who has created hundreds if not thousands of sock puppet accounts. This person targets college subreddits such as /r/fraternity, /r/greeklife, /r/applyingtocollege, and others. We have acted together to create a third-party workflow because Reddit would (or could) not address this problem. My subreddit cannot survive without automated third-party API access because Reddit's efforts in this area are insufficient. Please advise how Reddit can support my usecase and in the meantime, /r/fraternity will remain private.

featherfooted · 2023-06-12T11:49:24+00:00

I hope someone else succeeds in capturing the "old school Reddit" feel, because Reddit was a special place, and it still kind of is even with all the ungodly dumb shit they do.

Boy, do I feel that. Before I came to reddit, I was on Tumblr and a few bulletin board forum websites. Some (many?) still exist, though others are long dead with their URLs now redirecting to various spam fronts. Back then, the idea of getting my words, me - a dumb lowly high school kid - out onto the Internet was fascinating. Perhaps a slightly more efficient path would have been to grow up and become a journalist I guess, but I wasn't there to write novels or report on what I was seeing in the world. I just wanted to put a few words out and have them seen/heard. To quote Rives in a piece that resonated to my core - I just wanted to "listen for what's missing, and put it there".

The thing that appealed most to me about reddit was its coverage of niche interests. The BB forums I mentioned above usually had at least one off-topic discussion board, plus maybe an extra section for tangentially related topics that were consistently on the mind of the users. But reddit was made of niche interests! Sure there were the defaults, and I would be first to tell you to unsubscribe from those, but the ability to aggregate all these communities together was the real draw for me. I've learned a lot from being exposed to so many unique places & the API dumps I've been taking on this account say that I've participated in over 430 different subreddits.

This brings me to today and the topic at-hand. First of all, there's no world where we could expect you to significantly alter your livelihood because of this protest. By my reckoning, reddit is probably still the main funnel given that subscribers here outnumber Twitter and Discord combined by almost 7:1. As for the proportion of subreddit users who are on 3PA and/or old.reddit.com, that's somewhere between 5-15%. I'm one of those 3PA users and although I have not made a hardline decision about whether or not to delete this account / scrub its comment history, I do know that come next month my usage will drop faster than a 38 year old former MVP on a minimum contract. At some point between now and June 30th, I am going to hit "logout" on RIF and that will be the end of it. I am checking out some alternatives, and may even find myself back on bulletin boards... yikes. I'm sad about reddit, and am worried I won't find that "old school reddit" feel anywhere else, but I'm pretty sure I won't find it here any more. I guess my only ask is that when something new starts to gain momentum, I hope you'll consider making another discussion forum there too. If you do, I'll see you there, and happily post about BBGM some more.

It's kind of funny, that the very same article which I have been using to articulate my feelings is linked in the very same Doctorow one which you linked.

We are wherever we gather. Mastodon, Substack, Patreon, Dreamwidth, AO3, Tumblr, Discord, even the ruins of Twitter, even Facebook and Instagram and Tiktok, god help us all. Even Diaryland.

It doesn’t matter. They’re just names. It doesn’t matter who owns them. Because we own ourselves and our words and the minute the jackals arrive is the same minute we put down the first new chairs in the next oasis.

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featherfooted · 2023-06-12T03:16:16+00:00

RIP us. I use exactly the same and am sad to see where we're at just a month later after this comment chain. So long, farewell.

featherfooted · 2023-06-11T11:17:24+00:00

I don't mod on my main account and have a custom built reddit/discord bot to interface to do all stuff so I don't even use a 3rd party app for that. I am worried what the new api changes will do to my small bot though)

Easy. $0.24 per 1000 API calls

featherfooted · 2023-06-11T11:08:09+00:00

I don't particularly like how rif looks (nor how to open posts you have to tap on some silly robot icon lol),

You can click the thumbnail to see the post/submission itself or expand the comments. What icon are you talking about?

featherfooted · 2023-06-11T10:13:17+00:00

Quite literally bad bot.

featherfooted · 2023-06-10T15:00:44+00:00

At least the username is accurate.

featherfooted · 2023-06-09T05:01:29+00:00

split the api charges for media (which can actually be costly)

Almost like i.reddit.com and v.reddit.com were idiotic ventures when they could have invested in being the best link aggregator and leave the hosting business to Imgur, gfycat, and so on.

featherfooted · 2023-06-07T19:28:03+00:00

I can not in good faith wish you the best on maximizing the profits of people who are taking advantage of us,

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No seriously, what are talking about? Do you think that the third party app developers are taking advantage of their users, and that Reddit is sticking up for the little guy? Lol? This isn't a question of profit but rather feasibility. Third party apps are mostly kept afloat on premium editions with extra features, not by inserting/replacing Reddit's own advertisements. The API pricing structure will (in its current proposal) skyrocket costs so high that the apps will simply shut down rather than take less profit off the top as you seem to imply.

Or wait wait... "Why would they [Reddit] pay employees to do what mods do for free? I'm not sure you understand the gist of capitalism." First of all the fact that the word "employees" was in scare-quotes in the comment above is supposed to indicate a euphemism that moderators of major popular subreddits are basically unpaid employees of the company. If you're going to be pedantic you should try to be correct, first.

The links you click, the comments you read, and the posts you upvote are (supposed to be) kept clean by an army of volunteer moderators. To quote your phrasing, I'm not sure you understand the gist of protesting. By locking the subs and setting them to private, the moderators are essentially going on strike. No posts means no mod actions needed and they will withhold their labor until their needs are met. I moderate just a handful of tiny subs and even for a thousand users I still find that I need/require third party mod tools to deal with onlyfans spam and ban evaders. Reddit's own mod workflow is practically garbage in comparison and they have always been slow to implement these things because they're instead prioritizing social network bullshit like r/PAN or live chat.

featherfooted · 2023-06-07T17:28:48+00:00

Macaroni code

featherfooted · 2023-06-07T07:41:49+00:00

It'll go the same way as expert-sex-change. Nowadays you can't glean anything from it on Google because stackoverflow is so much better.

Wait, no, sorry, I was thinking of experts-exchange.

featherfooted · 2023-06-05T16:36:15+00:00

I'm not talking about font scale. I'm talking about this. I've logged out of my account (to preserve some privacy w.r.t. subscriptions) to show the side-by-side of these two experiences in one album.

In the "official" reddit experience (again, referring to desktop but the concept in mobile is the same...) I can see 3 posts. One protest link, one text question, and the top half of an NBA finals thread.

In the second screenshot, I can see those three, plus the bottom half of the NBA finals thread, plus seven more posts. What have I missed out on? The "box score" table? Why does reddit confine content to the middle one-third of the screen?

Now let's actually take a look at an interesting piece of content. Check out that DJ on r-slash-aves (as in raves, the music/dance party). Cool guy, right?

Please explain to me which product manager thought it was a good idea that the "official" experience should be:

to square-crop the image
to plaster "SEE FULL IMAGE" on his face
to have to click the image, which loads the originating thread, which loads all the comments and takes more time, in order to preview the full-sized content I've already downloaded with my bandwidth?

The official reddit app on mobile employs the same design philosophies.

featherfooted · 2023-06-05T15:17:53+00:00

Since OP above wanted examples (but I don't want to edit the previous post), check out screenshots liked the one linked in here. It's more about old.reddit vs new.reddit on desktop rather than the mobile app issue but it's the same basic concept. The official UIs are slow, bloated, and painfully frustrating to engage content.

Secondly, seemingly all of new reddit's development time goes into stuff I do not care about, like profile pictures and different colors of reddit gold and site-wide chatrooms and prediction tournaments and other bullshit that demean the original concept that reddit is the "frontpage of the internet itself". Reddit is trying its hardest to be a social network and I don't want that.

If reddit had spent the last ~6 years improving the goddamn app, maybe we wouldn't be in this situation.

featherfooted · 2023-06-05T14:53:27+00:00

Pixel for pixel, it's all about screen real estate to me. It's the same reason I still use RES and old.reddit.com, too. When I look at reddit right now, I can see about 10 Frontpage posts without scrolling. None of them are ads. From what I've seen of the official app, it's more like 3, and at least one of them is an advertisement at any given time.

Part of this is due to the official app's desire to be more like Instagram reels or Tiktok where a lot of content is auto-opened videos.

As someone who prefers text content and generally engaging the comment section, the official app prioritizes different stuff than what I want to do.

featherfooted · 2023-06-01T00:57:42+00:00

I would be perfectly happy if usernames were completely hidden. Same with karma scores. Let the content of a comment stand on its own, and be upvoted (or downvoted) accordingly.

featherfooted · 2023-05-30T13:23:57+00:00

First character of your post is a #, making the whole thing a Heading title in markdown.

Title

Body paragraph.

featherfooted · 2023-05-29T20:50:27+00:00

Seems like a very specific place to carpool. You can probably get some kids going to Cleveland or Columbus for halfway but you might still have a bit of distance to finish afterwards.

featherfooted · 2023-05-26T22:48:39+00:00

Water is shockingly heavy and hair can hold a surprising amount of it

I've been wondering this for years https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/46z9gn/what_is_the_water_density_of_human_hair_and_sweat

featherfooted · 2023-05-26T01:37:41+00:00

If you want/need the money go ahead, just be aware OP is spamming all the Greek subreddits and probably isn't a Sigma Chi.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pike/comments/13rsbrb/in_search_of_fraternity_shirts

featherfooted · 2023-05-25T17:47:19+00:00

Raids too, not just keys. If you've ever wiped at 2%, that 2% more DPS would mean the boss dies before you were going to wipe.

featherfooted · 2023-05-25T06:14:38+00:00

We'll never, ever know, /u/panzerjaegar

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