Her name is Boudicca and she knows exactly how cute she is. She did not say to stop petting her belly.

Alt Text: A mottled brown dog lying on a colorful bedspread and gazing at the camera.

So I haven't played on non-emulator for a long time, and part of the reason is that my SoulSilver is full of amazing mons from LG and Emerald, including a few shinies, my original Rayquaza, and an event Jirachi. It's the culmination of years of play over the 3 games. I was hoping to get into some newer games and keep them, but it seems like Home won't be around much longer. It sounds like if I want to keep them and move them to newer games, I would need a couple of 3ds units (own a switch) and a physical version of a game from each mainline generation. Am I boned if I can't do that in the next few months?

Ok hear me out before smacking the downvote. I know, fuck reddit, fuck spez, burn it down, I'm right there with you. When the Library of Alexandria (allegedly) burned down, a ton of information was irreversibly lost. Scholars have been debating for centuries just how much human knowledge was lost there. If, for whatever reason, reddit were to get shut down and wiped, would we lose a comparable amount of knowledge?

One of the reasons reddit is popular as a search term is because you can get answers or opinions from real people. Not (at least, a few years ago) corporate- or government-backed sites that will spew whatever they're paid to, not shills pushing their own shitty product claiming it's a wonder solution to [insert problem here]. Real people who have some kind of knowledge base and/or experience in the topic at hand. Yeah, some of it's shit, but a lot of it at least makes a solid starting point.

If all that user-generated knowledge, all those discussions, all of that, was wiped from existence, how much poorer would we be as a species when it comes to knowledge or access to information?

All this got on my brain because I was reminded that I never mass-deleted my own posts. I was debating it, but I keep thinking about that one person who really needs an answer to their question at 3am, they do a search, find a promising thread, and the answer they need is replaced by "Glitter frog assume capricorn pincer rockets hip This post has been mass deleted by Redact." They go to the next search results, a New York Times spread on the "Top 5 HACKS to fix [problem] and, idk, it feels like not deleting is the lesser of two evils.

Obviously the true solution is probably the whole decentralizing reason we're all here. But between somewhat decent information on a shit zionist site and the complete loss of accessibility to information in favor of even more blatant corporate content, I would kind of rather keep the information there for now, instead of deleting it for a satisfying but ultimately insignificant middle finger to the other site.

There's a lot to be said on both sides, but my unpopular opinion is that the overnight disappearance of the other site would be a detriment, not a benefit,. At least for the time being.

Alright, im ready to be cleansed by the flames of the fediverse

Could someone who has served or something please enlighten me?Just scratching my head wondering what about that process is keeping people from actually doing it. Beyond just saying "No," is there grievance paperwork? A petition? Witness statements? Is it as simple as having the balls to tell your CO no to their face and being open to consequences?

It seems like at very least there's a culture of "the people above me probably know better" and/or "don't be the squeaky wheel" but it doesn't seem to me that that should be enough for the level of inaction we seem to be seeing here. What gives?

Trying something a little more urban for this one. Need to do some at a smaller scale though. Was hoping to draw some buildings, but the scale only suited 2 of them, castle and church/temple (the lower left circle is a fountain in my head). Still a fun exercise for imagining city street layout.

More coastlines = more fun. Experimenting with labels

Been doodling but not posting. A couple of small generic maps for practice

It's more a vacation home than a permanent residence these days, anyways

From a video game, if anyone can guess. Not exactly a ttrpg, but still

This time with text. Work is slow if you can't tell.

On a standard-sized sticky note