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Cake day: March 12th, 2025

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  • I feel like it shouldn’t be very difficult to get along on Lemmy - assuming you’re not simping for fascism, for example.

    Some very active niche communities never really took off on Reddit though. For example, the DECA game “Realm of the Mad God” - the subreddit didn’t particularly add to the community, you’d find more engagement on the game’s Discord. So maybe there’s a different platform more tuned to your niche interest.




  • Meal planning is overwhelming to me, so I made a habit of rotating a selection of staple meals with fewer, more stable ingredients. PB or eggs scrambled with cheese on toast for a breakfast. A salad of chickpeas, carrot, broccoli and avocado with a whole-wheat roll, or a lentil/rice bowl, for lunch. Precook larger batches of freezer-friendly staples like chickpeas, lentils, rice, turkey burgers, meatloaf, tomato gravy - reserve 2-3 days’ supply and freeze portioned batches of the rest. Allow yourself less experimental ingredient buys per grocery run - so if it turns out they don’t synergize with your staples, you’re not accumuating a lot of dead-end ingredients.




  • It’s not always easy or free to access published material - a lot but not all Adventurers League stuff is on Scribd, and there’s a lot of third-party content on DMsGuild that’s just a little too obscure for liberators to bother de-fingerprinting. If you can’t find a free copy of a title within the first couple pages of web search results then at least you’ve set the bar for spoilers at having to pay for them.

    As someone who has played through adventures after having read or even DM’ed them… It’s not hard to take a back seat to other players who don’t know the surprises and twists of an adventure. Encourage your players to make a choice, if they must read ahead then at least don’t trivialize the adventure for the players who don’t.











  • The snake-oil part is solved by prohibiting scientifically unproven claims. Laudanum was sold as a cure-all; obviously as a society we don’t want to allow opiates to be marketed for everything from allopecia to zika.

    Mexico’s pharma industry works like this to some extent. You can walk into a .mx pharmacy and get yourself antibiotics, boner pills, a CPAP machine, hormonal birth control, and much much more without a doctor’s note. Purity doesn’t seem to be a big problem; you generally don’t have to worry that it might be 10% opium or whatever. International travelers can bring up to 3 months’ personal supply back to the U.S., which would be tricky if border officials’ drug-sniffing dogs routinely flagged contaminant drugs of concern in medication inspections.