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by pixodaros 5y ago
Thanks! I updated the link on the blog post and on my support page to point to my Canadian paypal account which is more accessible while I am overseas than my Austrian paypal account. I think the issues funding open-source are very similar
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No one company has owned D&D this century. Most of it is in the public domain (Open Game Content), with some fiddly details restricted. For a while Hasbro's latest D&D was selling less than Paizo's, although I think Hasb
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I think the author needed to DuckDuckGo "old-school renaissance" and "indy RPG." There is a vast cottage industry of hobbyists with their own RPGs, some based on the D&D engine (the Open Game License is definitely n
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by pixodaros 5y ago
IIRC, the FAA in the United States has a mandate to reduce accidents https://www.faa.gov/data_research/accident_incident/ They seem to be good at their job. So regulations which got in SpaceX's way would te
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by pixodaros 5y ago
Yes, you could use exactly the same rhetoric to justify Carnegie Steel or Stalin's Five Year Plans! "This is the future! We are building a new age for our glorious nation! Don't ask what it costs the workers or who is livin
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by pixodaros 5y ago
The obstacle to that method was that someone had to go over the top, cross several yards of ground, and then look down into the next straight section of trench. If there was someone waiting with a MG or a rifle, Mr. Brave got shot and then
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by pixodaros 5y ago
The accents (and word separations and upper case / lower case distinctions) were added after classical Greek had become a learned language like Shakespearean and KJV English is today. They helped people who spoke later forms of Greek
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A philologist I know who likes teaching ancient languages actively just prefers to practice saying the words with rising (acut) or falling or rising and following (circumflex) pitch Yes, that does not explain why they are where they are, b
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by pixodaros 5y ago
My favourite is how many sites want you to click on a link in a "verification email" to log in, especially if you take basic precautions like blocking scripts and trackers and deleting cookies periodically. All that work training
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I certainly found it simpler to hard-code my own website than make either Wordpress or Hugo do what I wanted it to do. My host provides metrics and all the technical things with DNS, and search engines and my own network deliver me visitor