I really like where D&D’s at, since it has multiple classes at every point along the “at will” to “once per day” spectrum, so players can pick what they like. D&D 4e tried homogenizing everyone into having mostly “at will” powers and players (myself included) hated it.
Agreed about not liking that D&D sucks all the air out of the room, though.
Pictured: Me, getting excited for DC20, even though I know I’ll never get to play it 
This sounds like something that happened in CKIII
Talk of advertisements in the Windows app menu was the last straw for me. I don’t use any programs that require Windows so I don’t have dual boot or anything - although I do have a KDE theme that mimics Windows 95/8 because that was what I grew up with and I’m super nostalgic for it.
That said, I’ve always been attracted to “third options”. My favorite phone was a Windows Phone, my motorcycle is from a small manufacturer, etc.
There’s this constant tension with D&D where it wants to be medieval and it wants to have easily-reproducible magic. Follow the magic through to its logical conclusion and you get essentially modern technology with a mystical/medieval aesthetic, ignore it and you get big blatant plot holes.
I haven’t used many, but after fucking with Ubuntu, Pop OS and Mint I switched to base Debian 12 and it’s the cleanest my desktop PC experience has ever been. My computer doesn’t do anything I’m not expecting it to, it doesn’t have any bloatware, every program I’ve installed has worked clean out of the box exactly as advertised (except for the occasional Proton/Wine wrangling which is universal).
There’s a little detail in Tie Fighter media that I like, where the Tie Fighter pilots love the fact that they don’t have shields or any fancy fly-by-wire stuff in their fighters because it makes them “real pilots”, compared to rebel pilots who have astromechs, shields, and hyperdrives. Extrapolated out a bit, and you could interpret the Empire as constantly sabotaging its own military effectiveness because of a toxic bravado that has been allowed to infect its military at all levels, which is pretty compatible with the Empire’s implied fascist ideology (that the movies don’t go too much into detail about).
So storm troopers could have Heinlein-esque power suits, but they all think that having something like that is for wimps, all the way up to the top of the chain of command.
The blasters used in the movie era are… Basically unstoppable? They’re the pinnacle of weapon tech as far as mass arming is concerned.
AFAIK no source goes into this, but I’ve always interpreted the Star Wars universe as having basically invented every single thing that it’s possible to invent in their universe. Technology gets better or worse generation to generation based on how unified society is and the proximity of the manufacturer to certain hyper-rare resources, ie the Empire was able to build the Death Star not because they invented a really big laser, but because they centralized enough military manufacturing in one place to actually be able to build it.
Anyway that’s the only way I can think of to square the universe’s technology being basically indistinguishable between the three trilogies and stuff like KOTOR.
IIRC the cloning tech all got destroyed during the Clone Wars, so the Empire switched to conscription.
Yooo is that a trackball? I made the switch to a trackball because I’m a giant hipster a few months ago, but mine is an index finger one, not a thumb one. Setup looks good - an XPS is definitely on my radar for whenever the Surface I’ve been using for the past seven-ish years dies, it looks so clean.