Absolutely. People really sleep on just how much traffic a simple low end server running a PHP framework can handle. I’ve ran systems with a million users (combined across multiple domains and clients but still) and it was just fine with a single database server and a few web servers. They would have needed to hit the tens of millions of users before serious refactoring or rewriting would have ever been necessary to consider.
I’m sure ‘serverless’ has a good time and place to be used, but in my experience it has just always been the worse choice.
“But we need to be able to scale!”
Sure, but we’re not in a place where we’re getting anywhere near early mySpace / Facebook / Google style growth. Just get a regular ass cheap VPS and stick your service on it; if you need to expand upgrade the VPS. If it’s starts getting serious then let’s look at compartmentalizing and distributing it if we need to.
If you’re playing Pathfinder then Foundry is hands down the best option in my opinion.
If you’re running D&D 5e then Foundry with an addon named plutonium followed by the word that may or may not be import is the best option (you may have to dive into Discord to get it downloaded, but I promise it’s the best VTT for D&D 5e… yarrr).
After those, Roll20 is okay. It works, it’s alright.
“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism”
There’s a certain level of childish contrarianism going on. “I was going to do this, but now I have learned you want me to do it and so I’m going to refuse”
My brother and I tried to convince our father to install solar panels when he was considering replacing our parents’ entire roof due to age. The house was perfect for it: it wasn’t shaded by trees, the roof was a 35 degree angle facing mostly to the south, the whole roof needed to be replaced, and there where still some really good tax advantages at the time.
We ran all the numbers for him, showed how it would pay for itself in something like 5 years and actually generate money for him after that, how the tax breaks would save so much money, how a large home battery could be used to power the home when the electricity is out due to Indiana’s frequent tornadoes and storms…
Nope. Saving tens of thousands of dollars wasn’t enough to overcome the dangers of Critical Race Theory powered panels generating a woke communist DEI field that is going to transgender the tan suit wearing raccoons of the Southern Indiana AntiFa Brigade.
I’m glad he died before COVID hit. He would absolutely have been the sort to say that wearing a mask is something only blue haired lesbian socialists do and gotten our mother killed.
Omg thank you! I was just starting to look for alternatives
Unfortunately OpenKeyChain is now no longer being developed. It still works… for now.
Yea yea there’s some schismatics out there that claim to be the “actual” pope but there hasn’t really been an anti-pope since 1449.
“Pastor” is the term for the person that leads a church / church congregation. The general ranking of the hierarchy is:
J.D. Vance is Catholic, and referred to the Pope as a ‘pastor’. This would be like somebody saying “(insert American President) was a good mayor”.
The Nazis started with the disabled, trans, gays, and autistic. The Jews came after the political dissidents.
I believe it came out during his divorce hearings.
Nederlandse heeft een sterke geschiedenis in Amerika. Er was zelfs een president die geen engels spreekt, want Nederlands was zijn moedertaal.
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My rule as DM is that players can freely expend their normally limited resources if it’s done for role playing or fun and doesn’t affect the story, combat, etc.
Druid wants to spend all evening as an owl in the rafters of the barn? Cool. Wizard wants to create a pocket dimension in which he can then use Wish to create the universe’s best ganja and smoke it in peace? Awesome.
Artificer wants to … wait, he wants to do WHAT with his pants? Okay fine, but we’re cutting to black for the evening. And there may be assassins in the morning now.
I have to disagree here. We all have a moral responsibility to not be evil, murderous dickheads. I’d even go so far as to say that we all have a moral obligation to at least attempt to help our fellow people when we can.
Just because nobody stopped him from doing evil doesn’t mean that it’s not his fault for doing evil shit. Others may be complicit, but he sure as fuck was guilty the evil he committed.
Fuck off, nazi
I’m running a PF2 campaign where the party are outlaws running around Alkenstar, robbing banks and seeking vengeance.
Every day begins with some newspaper headlines. One will be about them if they did something substantial or noticeable, but I have a ton of fluff ready to insert. Some is story related foreshadowing, some is just stuff like “Prices of apples are up 2% after news of heavy rain in Geb’s south has washed away too many skeleton fruit pickers”