Never been to Germany, but this makes me want to go, not going to lie.

This would unironically be awesome at the end of a cosmic horror themed campaign. Some elder god the PCs have antagonized turns to the players and addresses them directly - not their characters, but the players - in a fourth-wall-breaking moment, acknowledging their existence and directly threatening them. Then the DM breaks out health and sanity bars for everyone at the table, and starts ticking off damage on them.

Haha… Yeeaaah, I suspect this instance might have a somewhat higher concentration of those folks than the average.

I don’t know… I know quite a few folks whom I’m sure would be into that.

I mean, also the way he imagines, really, if I’m interpreting his poorly worded statement correctly. ‘The Government’ (that is to say, Trump) should be held accountable for instigating J6… but so should everyone who participated.

These companies want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want it to be legal for them to use AI to jack prices up to the absolute limit we’re willing to pay, but don’t want to let us use it to find a better deal. Fuck 'em. Especially fuck Amazon. It’d be funny if the result of this was that Perplexity specifically omitted Amazon from that search, so their users were always directed to competitors, instead of sometimes.

Why not both?

I have a bucket, but not a cow. Pretty sure someone with a cow but no bucket is closer to being ready to milk a cow than I am.

Cheers, mate. New wording is great, IMO.

If you didn’t watch the above-linked video, that’s basically the conclusion he comes to. He went into it planning to do an experiment and see if he could turn a profit off of 3 storage unit auctions, but by the end he just ended up feeling icky about the whole thing, once he realized what you pointed out. He ended up tracking down the prior owners of one of the units and returning their stuff after finding a lot of deeply personal items there, and he got their story, too, of how the unit fell into arrears. He came out of it with a much different view of it than he went in with.

I suppose that’s what I’m afraid of. We’ve done just fine without having an (enforced) rule governing it up until now, and the community hasn’t devolved into anything. I think we’ve all experienced cases in the past where a new mod has come into an existing community, started to enforce the rules in different ways, and it’s caused the dynamic of the community to change. We have a good thing here, right now; it’s (IMO) the best of the ‘Comic’ related communities on Lemmy; I just don’t want to see that change because of some overzealous censorship.

If you look back through the past few months, upvotes/downvotes are a pretty good indicator of what’s good content and what’s not. Beep’s posts that specifically omit attribution get downvoted; there’s sexist boomer humor comics that got downvoted; the few NSFW comics that got posted were upvoted. Body shaming, negativity… all downvoted. Can we perhaps just use community sentiment as the benchmark, except in cases where something is clearly an off-the-rails violation?

Woah, look at Satan over here trying to corrupt the youth with his raunchy comics. Glad we had someone on deck to remove that before anyone saw it.

Graphic content of any kind will not be tolerated. This includes gore, pornography, or violence.

This still edges out Oglaf, as well as some of the other things that have been posted even within the last few weeks. “Violence” is also extremely open-ended. Is someone slapping someone else violence? Is Lucy pulling the football out before Charlie Brown kicks it violence? Is Snoopy pretending to be the Red Baron violence? Even on a very generous interpretation, ‘violence’ edges out a lot of comics that both have historically been allowed and would by any reasonable metric be fine for anyone old enough to use Lemmy to view.

Edit: Maybe it would help if you pointed out some things that have been posted in the last month or two that you would consider to be in violation of this rule? If there are none, then we probably don’t even need to be having this discussion.

As a point of interest, it’s been a very long time since there was an active moderator here; anyone could have posted anything and it would have stayed up, and yet… it hasn’t happened. The sub has been fairly clean and organized, with only the occasional, I’d argue tasteful, adult-oriented comic. None of us want it to devolve into a cesspit of low-effort NSFW content; we just want the status quo that has been passively established to be maintained.

They do. My party has won local elections and state elections and hold office.

Great! So the next step, then, would be to push those candidates into senate / house seats, while protecting the presidency from the candidates who are interested in a fascist takeover of the country and its voting process, because that isn’t going to help your candidates get elected anywhere.

I just quickly scanned for NSFW tags, so I’m sure I missed some that’re not pornographic but would be disallowed under the strictest interpretation of this rule.

I agree, though, that things that have been getting posted should be allowed to continue, while extreme pornography (or an excessive devolution towards being a strictly NSFW community) should not be allowed.

Sure, but the original rule was not being enforced. Presumably given that we have an active mod, now, you’re planning to enforce the rules. Basically all I’m saying is, I’d prefer that the content that has been getting posted be allowed to continue to be posted. Nobody’s looking for hardcore pornography, but the occasional risque comic should (IMO) not cause problems, as they haven’t been for quite some time.

Why would I vote “strategically”?

Because our (deeply flawed) voting system necessitates it to get good outcomes.

What you should be doing is pushing hard for your 3rd party of preference to run (and win) elections on the local and state level, not the presidency. You’d see far more actual, tangible change if you started getting those folks elected in smaller elections than just losing the presidential election with 2% of the votes every 4 years. Look at Zohran Mamdami - he’s doing a great job in NYC and actually doing a lot of positive things. If he’d run for president, do you think he’d have won? Not a chance in hell.

However, once candidates like that start doing good things at the local level, then they become more palatable candidates to elect to the House / Senate. And once we start getting Senators / House Reps from those parties, they become more palatable candidates on the national level.

Let me put it another way, using your logic: Should I blame you for my candidates loss, since you voted for Harris instead of my candidate? Should I say that Trump only won because of people like you not voting for my candidate?

There were exactly 2 candidates who had a chance of winning that election. You know that. Pretending otherwise is disingenuous. See the above for how to change that.

👶 Keep it at PG/PEGI 7

Can we add an ‘unless tagged NSFW’ addendum to this? There’s plenty of quality NSFW things that get posted here (e.g. Oglaf comics) and I for one would be sad to see them go (or to have to create a new community for those things).

Edit: To add to this, looking back at post history, it looks like we get about 1 NSFW post per week here, give or take. Have those really been problematic enough to warrant a ban (when appropriately tagged?)

The Democratic party lost to Trump, twice. Twice. That’s on you all, not me. Maybe the party should come up with a better candidate this time around.

See, this right here is what I take issue with. You’re grouping me in with the group that “lost to trump”, but you’re not acknowledging that you contributed to that loss by not voting strategically. You’re putting blame on people who voted for Harris despite her not being our ideal candidate, but not accepting any yourself. Your shit stinks, too, just like everyone else’s.

To put it another way, your candidate, or “you all”, to use your terms, also lost to Trump, and in fact performed even worse.

they are both equally bad.

Well, I think this is a delusional take, but you’re welcome to your opinion.