I’m trying to push a jump in userbase for the tabletop hobby centric communities on LW. I had modded the 40k community for a while, and just took on the tabletop minis community. I post content from blogs I subscribe to and as much of my original content as I can make, but I’d really like to see more growth as an alternative Reddit like space online that isn’t as totally captured by the Games Workshop financial ecosystem.

!warhammer40k@lemmy.world

!tabletopminis@lemmy.world

!battletech@lemmy.world

!wargaming@lemmy.world

The art share community has been growing which is great to see but still not as much traffic as it could have.

!artshare@lemmy.world

I took over the dead Star Wars community and have tried to shape it as much as possible towards a place online that actually talks about Star Wars rather than infighting and complaining about other peoples’ taste of Star Wars.

Other spaces here like the airsoft community are pretty dead, though I try as much as possible to post when I can.

!airsoft@lemmy.world

There is also the historical US Civil War community. I like history in general, and the U.S. Civil War has become a natural fit for me since in real life I often travel to places where I can go to related historical sites.

!americancivilwar@lemmy.world

The Fallout community has taken off more than most gaming communities but still is pretty niche

!fallout@lemmy.world

“Yippie kay yay, MR FALCON.” from Die Hard is pretty infamous.

Who is “they”?

Users clawing at each other over anything, and mods power tripping has been an Internet trope since the BBS forum days in the 1990s, at least. Lemmy, or at least LW seems to have a lower than median amount although imperfect. Lemmy as a platform has the advantage that anyone willing to undertake it can spin up their own instance, preventing a 100% stranglehold on mod/admin powers.

Scary numbers.

I do all my art with 5.

If meetings are happening so long and going in so frequently that nobody can make sense of them without an ai summary, might I suggest there are too many meetings?

I say this as someone who used to work at a place that had meetings about meetings to figure out why so much time was wasted in meetings.

For professional settings, I understand the theoretical appeal of ai writing. A lot of people don’t like writing emails, but they have to for work. Many of those same people fret about tone or presentation, because silly office politics reasons (real or one-sidedly imagined in their heads.)

The solution, really is workplaces just need to cut down on the useless drivel emails and people need to be ok with short, no frills emails.

Not fond of repeating myself, but:

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

told by HR that maybe after 6 months they would consider bringing me on FT.

Oh honey.

You should talk to the manager about it, but I suspect they will hem and haw, and say something vaguely about looking into it without providing you with any specifics.

Companies hire temps and dangle the “well maybe we’ll hire you some day” out there to string them along.

Sometimes temp to hire works out, but in my experience only if the temp period is short as a probation period or if there is writing that after “x” time as a temp they either let you go or bring you on full time. Preferably both things.

If I were you, I’d start tuning up your resume and sending it out now. If your current job comes through then nothing really lost, and if your job isn’t actually interested in making you an employee then you should spend this employed time to look for a job without the stress of no income.

Hyundai is doing some relevant things.

When somebody won’t just take the compliment. It’s like come on, just take the W.

But also I feel strange getting praise in a real time conversation.

Blood. I dunno, I got it from some guy.

This reminds me of a DM who did a setting with an extremely bureaucratic kingdom. We had to get an audience with the king, but the process required jumping through hoops with different paperpushers.

Eventually we were nearly at the hall to meet the king when the guards turned us away for wearing the wrong ties. I got us in by going through the Lionel Hutz “I’m not wearing a tie at all.” routine, which intimidated the guards (not what I was going for, but my table rendition apparently included crazy eyes) .

A character that has all the cringe edgelord hallmarks- black leather clothes, gravely Batman voice, “I work alone” attitude- except he’s a clumsy dwarf that’s more or less cosplaying as The Crow and is forced, despite his demeanor to be a team player. Some day Darkbeard Grimblade will get his chance.

The Wookiees are allies, but we do not grant them the aid of reinforcements at this time.

I actually recently bought it on CD after both the Steam and GOG versions gave me visual glitches. It’s really great even if the enemy AI has infinite resource cheats.

For me it was the Star Wars Rebellion main menu. I played that game tons back in the day on a PC that couldn’t handle much more. Starting it up locked me into just wanting to finish a game in one night.

Yeah but this is during a festival so I think it interacts weirdly with that dialog check.

Real men use jars.

I’ve found tons, this was just my gift item.