[–] 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Not that this makes any of the other answers wrong, but the actual answer is that it was probably a 30-day temporary instance ban.

When a remote account is instance banned, it's automatically banned from any communities on the instance it has interacted with and uses the same expiration date and reason as the instance ban. Lemmy does that automatically in the backend.

If you're viewing the modlog from another instance, however, you don't see the instance ban (only the community bans federate) so it makes it appear the mod is having a hissy fit.

Again, and given the instance involved, this does not mean any of the other answers are wrong, lol, just incomplete.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    You didnt ask for a brand name? Thats the least inoffensive thing you can di assumjng asking to smell like them isnt perceived as an insult per se

    Just ask

    What is your fragrance or what product do you use recommend?

    Even if its different from their own secret brand, Be and look sincere in asking. I doubt they'll be too offended by asking their advice

    Everyone fancies themself a curator of taste or that which is desirable

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    …that was more the intent of my last sentence.

    I’m Asian from the US South. You learn real quick that pressing a black person for information isn’t always great for race relations. Where I grew up if you pressed MeMaw (our daycare teacher) for an answer, all you were getting back was extreme sarcasm or anger. I grew up knowing when not to “press it”. Go too far and MeMaw would slap the shit out of you and you knew you deserved it. With my friends, there’s just some aspects of black culture that aren’t for us, and that’s ok.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    I know shea butter skin care products are part of it, but outside of that, every time I ask they either laugh it off or accept my question as a compliment and say “awww stop, you’re too kind”. It almost feels like a form of “bless your heart” or “I ain’t seen shit”, but I never get a straight answer.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    The rope grappling hook weapon from Just Cause 2. You can move with it. You can attach things to enemies with it. Just play the game if you haven't - so good!

    Later games made you able to make more connections etc so you could haul bigger stuff. So it got even better in a way. But JC2 was the best game of them

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    My opinion is kind of invalid, since this is pretty much the only game I play that has items, but well, the Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup devs decided to add guns, uh sorry, hand cannons to the game, a few versions ago.

    It's a game with swords and magic, and they did make the guns rare to find, but when you do find one, it's always a blast (pun intended).

    The guns are really powerful, but also noisy which means they attract enemies. And they spit out clouds of smoke, which can obstruct your vision when you shoot too much, allowing enemies to draw close. So, it's just a really fun risk-reward loop.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    I'll pick one not listed yet, I think all of Quake's weapons rank pretty high for me, but the Quad Nailgun had this satisfying punchy sound that was always fun.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    There is always this shitty "attack +1" knife you start out with in an RPG. It's kind of symbolic, I like it, it's like the door to all other weapons and stories and quests and so on.

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