As I noted in my patch message and in the previous post, behavior gets a li'l weird when someone leaves mml-enable-flowed on (the default!) but forgets to turn on use-hard-newlines (not the default! And since it's buffer local, it needs to be turned on every single time, for example with a hook).
So with these two settings kept at their defaults, separate paragraphs will get flowed together with my patch! So I sent a new version of the patch to the same #71017 thread that'll auto-harden according to markdown semantics as a dwimmy fallback.
Emacs RFC 2646 email flowing
Heck it Emacs!
A few months ago I fixed a bug in RFC 2646 handling where the last paragraph wouldn't get reflowed unless I remembered to add a hard newline (that is, a newline with the 'hard text property) after it, at EOT. I needed to hit one extra RET at the end. All other paragraphs would be wrapped, not just the last one.
(I even bugged @jas@fosstodon.org about it.)
But it still didn't always work and today I tried to get to the bottom of why, spending the entire day debugging it, finally realizing that... It's not even being called when there's only one paragraph in the email. I wasted so much time before realizing that! And then getting to the bottom of why that wasn't happening was the opposite of easy but it turnes out that Gnus by design doesn't call the fill-flowed-encode function when there aren't any hard newlines in the buffer. Which there aren't gonna be if it's a single-paragraph letter 🤦🏻♀️
Use-hard-newlines is beyond useless since that's always buffer-local and the text-reflowing is being done in a temp buffer. Instead since 2010 we're supposed to set mml-enable-flowed to true. But don't worry, fans of the messages-are-flowing package, I'm gonna send patches there to reflect that. I have a bunch of other changes to that package too since I've been using that a lot this summer.
This is all in bug#71017 (cursed palindrome!) for people who wanna dig in 👩🏻🏫
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There's also cook's utensil rules in XGE.
@dogsoahC@lemm.ee @dnd@lemmy.world
I'm looking for monster lists for Journeys through the Radiant Citadel.
Like, for each of the planes in there, here's a list of appropriate monsters. It's OK if they're fan made. It's not always clear to me exactly which real-world–culture is the basis of which plane (maybe that's in the book or maybe it's supposed to be vague), but that's fine, I think these settings look awesome, but one of the main thing missing to easily expand them are encounter tables, which I could throw together if I knew like "OK, on such-and-such plane there are owlbears and stirges" or something like that.
@dndnext@ttrpg.network
I like settings where the players can play parties from all kinds of factions. I've seen 'em roll up members of the same cult their last party faught against etc. This isn't a complete answer but just one more li'l contribution to the thought palette around this.
Democracy Now are being lauded in the video in case you missed that 🤷🏻♀️
I like Chris Hayes' take as clipped in this video 43 minutes in:
The way that so many prominent voices have focused so exclusively on colleges feels honestly a bit decadent to me. Like we're doing a paper doll version of conflict because the actual reality of what's happening in Gaza is so horrific, unceasing, and high-stakes, it's more enjoyable to argue about what college kids are doing than to confront the human misery and destruction that's happening in the actual conflict that is, of course, the source of these protests. What seems to be most worth debating isn't campus speech but whether the US government should contine to fund and support an Israeli war in Gaza that has pushed more than a million people to the brink of famine. A war that has damaged half of the buildings in Gaza. A war that has failed to bring home most of the hostages held by Hamas, that has in fact lead to the death of some those hostages.
This is a good video, thanks.
I'm not all onboard with the conclusions: "YouTube & TikTok good" (I believe they're overall bad. Fund Peertube.) and "Socialist sentiment is growing" (I believe the overton window has been slipping & skipping to the right for decades now.)
SmplTrek note off timing?
Is there a way to set the default note off timing? (What some other sequencers call Gate Length.) Either as a device-wide setting, or for a project, for a track, for a scene or just for a clip. As it is I can only do it note-by-note.
All notes are half the length I'd want, and I have to go into them manually and crank up each one separately from 50% to 99%. I would love the sequencer if it weren't for this.
I have a workaround which is to import SMF's from any other seqencer (such as abc2midi on Linux or Atom 2 on iPad) and that works fine, using the SmplTrek more as an arranger/player than a sequencer, but since the SmplTrek step sequencer is so nice it'd be great to be able to use it directly instead.
(And another workaround is to get good and turn off quantization, that also works.)
Don't worry, I'm definitively keeping mine (as a drum machine, looper, and global tracks recorder, and as an audio interface) but I'm just a li'l frustrated with this one issue.
I know that I can make notes longer by pressing right arrow or turning the value know; I can make two eight notes followed by a quarter note for example.
But those notes will all be "staccato" since they've got a 50% gate length.
That's not always what I want especially for a midi or organ type track.
Here is an example. One track playing three notes twice, same instrument. Two fourth notes followed by a halfnote (and the halfnote sequenced by using the right arrow while holding the pad).
The first three notes are played staccato (e.g. "Note off timing" 50%, a.k.a. gate length as some other synths call it). The last three notes are played more fully, with note off timing manually set to 99% for each of the three notes.
Here is how the track sounds, first the staccato notes followed by the normal notes.
Many other sequencers, to get that staccato sound you'd set grid length to 1/4 but note length to 1/8. But on SmplTrek, it's one setting, called note length, and setting that to 1/4 as I did here results in notes with a shortened, only 50% duration.
Messing with the envelope release is no good for MIDI tracks.
So far my best workaround is to import SMF files that I've made with some other sequencer app and that's a shame since I'm so much faster and more creative with the SmplTrek's sequencer, but I just don't always want that staccato sound.
I don't wanna make a Facebook account just to post in the SmplTrek group on there. 😰
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CY_Borg by @chrull is great. Feels more polished and playable than Mörk Borg.
A commenter on the YouTube page said
Meanwhile the Free and Open Source community have holy wars over text editors.
😭
Is that still going on? I thought Emacs ruled supreme. Every monarchy a conquered sovereignity.
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It's so weird that they didn't do this when they introduced the Primaris. Perfect in-universe opportunity.
But the Stormcast Eternals fixed it so 🤷🏻♀️
Sweden has these. But I can't speak to how good or bad they are because I've never lived in one for more than a week or so at a time. I grew up out in the boonies.
As for the video, I like that it (unlike way too many of these video essays) doesn't bury the lede; he's up front about his perspective and then spend the rest of the video elaborating and explaining why. That's an oasis in the desert of "mysterious, let me hold you in suspense for the lede" style videos we see too many of. I get really distracted by his music, though. I can't fully listen to what he has to say since I get so into the heartbreakingly depressive synth pads.
What I did was use tokens for inspiration and saying "you can have as many as you want and then cash in all of them to get advantage". That worked well.
They've also removed Talks Machina.
Kudos to CR for listening to the backlash on this illconsidered project. They must've taken quite a hit 💸 but this was not a good idea. I mean, they have their fair share of bad sponsors like NordVPN or D&D Beyond but this was a li'l too much 🤷🏻♀️
I think this is spot on and I overall dislike the game. One thing that I am a li'l bit interested in is the hitpoints system which seems like a good mix of Fate stressboxes with D&D damage.
The amount of incoming damage can go to certain thresholds and that has different consequences (both symbol-layer mechanical and diegetic). I think that's neat and I'm glad to see that experiment carried further.
How much gold is in that hoard?
Wow, I had missed that. That's not good. I mean, CR gets criticized for their "shopping episodes" (even though my own group is even more extreme in that regard) so maybe that's to address that? Diaspora, for example, just has a "recourses" roll instead of detailed accounting of space credits, and it seems to work well in the context of that game.
How far does that bandit run?
I don't think that's a fair characterization; range bands is trued and tested tech. Cartesian spatialization is overkill for most game groups.
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Yeah, I have a PPC laptop that this happened to a few years back, which felt way too soon. It's in perfect working condition except for the battery.
Elves are of a culture that's long familiar with magic yet respects magic and its ways.
The problem with this is that it makes going left the same as going right, meaning that any decisions by the players where their characters should go become meaningless. I use a ton of random generators but it's in conjunction with more prepared stuff.
https://idiomdrottning.org/blorb-principles https://idiomdrottning.org/the_quest_queue
There's a lot of extreme content on the Fediverse (such as harassment).
Not sure. There's a lot of kinda creepy stuff on here 😰
Weird order of switch-to-buffer with packages that augment completing-read?
I'm using vertico, consult, consult embark, and orderless and it's OK but for switch-to-buffer specifically it kind of bugs me that the order isn't connected to the last-used-order (the order that list-all-buffers uses). I'm like "I just used that buffer three seconds ago and now I need to search for it?!"
Help please? 🙏🏻 ♥ @emacs@lemmy.ml
The wrong thing was that "It doesn't matter what the US does" when the US is exceptionally culpable on the demand side, the drill side, and the policy side.
Why does replace-regexp backwards work so differently?
C-u - M-x replace-regexp \w+
The - prefix arg replaces backwards but it hits one char at a time, as if the plus sign weren't there. The same replacement forwards (without the prefix arg) does hit one word at a time. What's going on, @emacs@lemmy.ml?
Thinking of packing light and only bringing a Dalmuti deck!
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3137192/looking-more-games-pairs-or-dalmuti-decks
Huh? Is there an @emacs setting to get format=flowed?
Here are the emotes I wished existed on Arena:
• Hello • Dang it, I made a misplay, but that's OK • I like your style • Noooo! • Good game
I don't wanna say "Oops". That just sounds sarcastic.
It would've been great if the free peoples of Middle-Earth had been Rakdos-colored and the tyranny of Sauron and Saruman had been based on white mana.
The Lidless Eye is working towards homogeny and stagnation. Kind of a missed opportunity to break from the "black magic is evil" trope 🤷🏻♀️ @mtg
I used to say "I sleeved up Flash Wolves" (or w/e deck name) to mean that I've put together and started using a new deck, whether a brew or a netdeck. But I need to find a new phrase now that I am increasingly playing formats where I don't sleeve.
One D&D issue that @reverse brought to my attention—it was nine years ago that we had this convo—is when a module's room description has something happening just as a party is about to enter a room.
Arden Vul has a mix of room types:
• there's a tiered roll-table system for who is there and what they're doing / what they want • there is a schedule of hours (sometimes combined with probabilities) • there is just a probability • and a few that are just "the prisoner is dying and will die within three rounds of the party entering".
I think this is a fine mix but that last type can undermine the other types. It's instantly noticable by the players as feeling "fake", and it can make other things feel similarly fake. They've been sneaking around in a prison lately and at one location there was people being there just twice per day, and the party happened to leave there the exact same time as those NPCs were arriving (at our ten-minute-turn granularity). That sort of awesome timing accidents really happening for real is to me a lot more memorable and awesome than any "scripted" room has ever been.
Sandra @idiomdrottning.org Idiomdrottning demonstrates a new and often cleaner way to solve most systems problems. The system as a whole is likely to feel tantalizingly familiar to culture users but at the same time quite foreign.