Grail

joined 10 months ago
[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No, I definitely have friends who are allies and who care about accessibility for their friends.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That's really strange, this seems like the sort of Lemmy instance where people would care about accessibility the minute they heard about the issue

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Plurality is a lot more common than most people think. The existence of pluralkit exposed a LOT of people to the idea of plurality and got them realising they were already plural. Myself included.

It's kind of like how a lot of lesbians didn't understand their own identities until they heard Katy Perry sing "I kissed a girl".

Furthermore, imagine you're on a server with 500 active members, and there are 5 systems who use pluralkit. That server has probably had the "why are you a bot" "I'm using pluralkit" conversation dozens of times. All 500 people know how important pluralkit is. On Discord, there are dozens of allies for every one system.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

I don't know. Maybe one day I'll look into the Matrix API and see if it's possible. Theoretically it should be easy as long as webhooks are in place. The hard part is hosting. Pluralkit is huge compared to most discord bots. They used to have lots of downtime, but now they run it across a lot of shards.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 2 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I once knew a system with 400 members. That's not common, but it is a thing. Systems of around 10 people are very common. Discord only allows up to 5 accounts. And only up to 1 account on mobile. And besides, having to maintain separate email accounts, even for a small system, is a burden. What about walk-ins and dormancies? What about new members who are still figuring themselves out and might want a change of name later? Pluralkit makes it all simple.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago
[–] Grail@aussie.zone 1 points 8 months ago

It's diceless. All characters have access to all abilities, as long as they're willing to pay the cost. Being good at something just means it has less or no cost. If you take on enough cost and don't get it down the safe ways, your character permadies.

This is a reflection of the fact that the player characters are gods of world ending power who can do anything... but it's hard. Maybe your character can blow up the moon if they so choose. But that's a lot easier than remembering to eat breakfast every day. That's right, the gods of the void have (a disability that's an allegory for) autism and ADHD.

[–] Grail@aussie.zone 3 points 8 months ago

Player in My Glitch game used a monkey paw to wish for Half Life 3 to be released. Now the whole world knows he's the guy who made Half Life 3 suck

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