Most people I know meet up for coffee.

I don’t think its uncommon to have a beer at a restaurant or as a drink or dinner. Meeting up at a bar for drinks as a first date feels funky, at least in my region.

If that’s not your jam then probably don’t push into it. A date should be a comfy experience for everyone involved, if possible.

Up until recently ish, for 3D art I would export UV maps, do my editing, then reimport them to view the changes on my model.

I did this up until it got brought up in a meeting, and a senior guy from a publisher basically called me out saying “Why in the world do you still do that? We moved on from that like 15 years ago!”

So I quietly had to reevaluate my process and learn something new.

In my defense I am not an artist, and despise giving Adobe money.

We say to ‘nuke it’.

So it’ll be like oh I got to nuke this pizza for a minute.

Some people put a lot of weight into their dreams. Like a chain of thoughts that leads to a deeper realization about something that finally puts it in perspective. This can feel important and it feels like you want to do something with this new perspective.

Some people don’t as they feel dreams are just chaotic nonsense, and trying to read into them is a fruitless endeavor.

I see there are some homebrew modules out there that add spellcrafting but they’re more or less point buy systems.

I could kind of see it as I think you’re describing, in that you make a spell with a bunch of spell symbols/glyphs that modify it, but each one of those cost components.

Hmm this is worth scheming on.

Looks great, I’ll check it out, thanks!

A video game, but I do like the idea of spellcrafting in D&D.

I think there are some official rules for it but I’ve never played a game where it happened.

They would no longer have to pay taxes.

I unironically would love to make a game where you make advanced spells like this.

Just without Arcane Overflow and their overzealous wizards.

Opened their fridge and took a sip of ketchup straight from the bottle.

I’m pretty sure she still writes books.

Though she’s been writing some Netflix animated series lately.

Your concerns are valid - Every time an instance goes under you’ll always have some people that will just leave entirely. Though you would have to have a lot of instances burned to see Lemmy as a whole basically stop happening.

As for long term, that’s difficult to predict, but you can say that about any site.

I think this will be the nature of the fediverse, with instances coming and going. I don’t think you can rely on volunteer labor and donations to keep things running indefinitely.

I also don’t think this is inherently a bad thing, just a quirk of the design.

I got about a dozen YouTubers and streamers that fit in this box.

It seems to be inevitable. They either stop posting or streaming, or they reveal themselves to be kind of messed up.

That is partially what inspired me to post this. A lot of business advice I have gotten has been staggeringly bad.

I realize most people have worked at a business and should know a thing or two about how it works, but I don’t think many consider the huge differences between their workplace and how a small business operates.

Here’s a weird one:

Don’t offer advice unless its something you have some experience with.

Googling someone’s issues and giving them a boilerplate answer from the first thing you find isn’t helpful and can actually be a hinderance more than anything.

Yeah, probably.

Because of many factors, we’re seeing an erosion of the ‘third place’ which has been somewhat replaced or supplemented by the internet.

But now the internet is turning into a watchdog which desperately wants to monetize you, or direct you towards something that it can monetize.

Its hard to say while we’re in the middle of it, but I’m going to assume fifty years from now people will say we took privacy for granted and didn’t realize how influential algorithms really were.

I don’t know if it would ruin the entire movie per se but if you’ve heard Darth Vader (David Prowse’s voice) pre James Earl Jones dub, its definitely a character ruiner.

I can’t think of many movies where voice work is detrimental to everything except documentaries, but I know some games have annoying protagonists and it absolutely harms the whole experience.

You’re at +1 now for me.