Anything you do on USPS also goes to Google.

Opening a PO Box in person should avoid this issue.

Post Office Boxes are the solution.

“fu, I have money”

is waaaay in the rearview mirror for these folks, though.

There is PeerTube. But to your point, full time creators need money, and monetization isn’t solved on PeerTube,

There’s also DropOut.tv, which has many comedians from the former College Humor comedy group.

DropOut.tv doesn’t really do educational content, but their funny stuff is unrivaled and very varied. Their game show, Game Changer is the best thing happening to streaming, right now.

There’s even a (fan) DropOut bot here on Lemmy that creates dedicated threads for the dozen or so of us DropOut fans to discuss episodes when they drop.

And both DropOut and Nebula now have deep back catalogs. I few years ago I felt like I could run out of things to watch. Now I only ever rewatch favorite episodes. Most Game Changer episodes are good enough to watch twice, and then watch the “making of” video afterwards.

It’s still not YouTube where it’s impossible to watch anything. DropOut has a new high quality episode of a flagship show most week days.

Nebula is more like YouTube, where between all the different creators, there’s usually more new content available in a given day than I could consume, if I wanted to.

Curiousity Stream is also an alternative to YouTube. The video quality feels lower across the board than Nebula or DropOut, but it also has some fun stuff, and any competition to YouTube is probably a good thing.

Nebula is a fantastic alternative to YouTube.

It seems like they pay their creators much better, which is enough reason alone, for some of us.

Nearly every video on Nebula has a nice little extra for Nebula viewers. Most are just a quick thank-you, but some are much more substantial.

Legal Eagle sometimes fully drops lawyer mode in post-video bits for Nebula subscribers. This amuses me because I wasn’t sure he could before I joined Nebula. Haha.

Extra History and Extra Credits often have full extra videos on vaguely related topics, I think.

And Nebula is amazingly good for travel videos. Anyone who loves trains should at least try Nebula.

DropOut is my goto for humor, but Abolish Everything on Nebula also regularly provides a solid laugh. Also, DropOut and Nebula folks cameo across companies a bit. No non-compete agrrents there, I suspect.

Obviously, Nebula has much smaller set of content creators, than YouTube.

I appreciate that too though. Average video quality is way higher.

Yes. And perhaps, given time, accessing the wrong version of certain sensitive historic events could even be tracked that way.

politicians like political donations.

Really meta can’t figure out are we humans or not with this massive of data they collect?

That part really pisses me off. Asking for any kind of identity verification is just them gas lighting their users.

But is it anything like Earth? That’s what I want to know. (Edit: Yes it is!)

Edit: I’m told it is Earth-like. I’ve added that here in case the article was too ambiguous about any similarities it might have with Earth.

It’s also fun to pass a “nothing interesting” note privately to the rogue (especially if they’re playing some variety of an untrustworthy scoundrel).

The party jumping at shadows tend to make the rogue’s player grin smugly, which sometimes makes the party jump even harder at shadows.

Lawful Gaston Tank opens the chatlog of the raid plan…

"How can you read this? There’s no pictures!

I hope we can see Freeze given a movie he doesn’t have to share with another rogue and they do it justice.

While I agree, and I feel the same way about movie Bane…

I also kind of want to just throw all my hopes to the wind and watch a new movie where Freeze-in-ator goes toe to toe with swallowed-a-squeeky-toy Bane.

Edit: Ooh, and we could have Jim Carrey’s riddler ham it up without a plan, while Freeze-in-ator briefly one-shot kills sideshow-Doomsday in an after-credits scene.

DC has done some classic villains wrong on the big screen, and I want to see them all unapologetically revisited during the same film. Maybe the hero could be Ambush Bug.

Yeah. I just mention it because I’ve generally just used VNC myself; and wondered what the fuss with fancier tools was about.

But then I realized home Internet has getting worse for some folks, and so folks might be using a service to get VPN-ed together, or whatever.

I’m also a big VNC fan, but I imagine RustDesk is solving for CGNAT better? I’m not aware of anything in VNC that solves CGNAT being a PITA.

Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.

Do you need a specific game mechanic for that?

Not really, I suppose. But having it explicit can help players realize they have the option.

“Concede” is also handy for situations where a player feels that their character winning this particular battle would be out of character.

It’s a particularly helpful rule for cases where the player wants their character to do something particularly foolish, maybe to reach a specific story outcome, but still wants some influence on the final outcome.

It can go along the lines of:

Player: My character doesn’t have the brains to not start this fight, but even if we roll lucky and win this, it would feel broken. Can I roll an attack and then immediately concede?

GM: Sure. What would that look like?

Player: What if my character is disarmed somehow?

Etc.

I’ve seen where a few outcomes get discussed, and if the group doesn’t have a strong favorite, we just ranked them in order of luck, and then determined the full encounter with a quick single roll.

Good points. I feel like Fate does a better job staying in the interesting in-between for longer, and also supports “epic” stories a bit better (than other systems I have played).

But I haven’t tried to force Fate to support the newbie to epic growth, because the rulebook calls out that the Fate rules intentionally ignore supporting the ability to play as a helpless nobody.

Hence the number one rule: cool stuff should be done in the game, not your backstory.

I prefer Fate, where the rules practically require having cool stuff in each character’s back story.