I suppose this scenario is actually somewhat reassuring, because the guy who killed 12 people deserves whatever misfortune falls upon him. You wouldn’t have to feel bad stealing his knowledge and memories, and could also go to the local guards to turn him in with the knowledge you’ve obtained.

Though good luck sleeping at night with the knowledge of what it felt like to murder 12 people with your own hands and see the life fade from their eyes.

Seldarine/surface-dwelling Drow are the Kiwis.

Could this be a dog?

They let in Australia as well. It’s basically “if your population is white enough and not in the Americas, you can join.”

May as well, if it means rejoining the EU following the disaster that was Brexit.

FWIW several of the hostages taken by Hamas were Americans.

Well I’m glad it wasn’t the KMT who won, but the margin was a lot slimmer this time around. The DPP has a lot of ground to cover to maintain momentum, and this time they also have a lot more opposition along with mounting tensions with the mainland that are causing further problems.

台灣 No. 1!

And yet US news is the only category which is singled out in this community, so the US gets to be the defining factor in terms of what this community is about.

I get why that is, because for some reason US news tends to dominate the conversation wherever it is, hence why the “news” community on Lemmy.world is mostly filled by US news. Despite that community having no stipulation on country of origin, despite this not being an American-hosted site, and despite Americans not even being the majority of users here.

I just think it’s just regrettable that the idea of “world news” is defined chiefly by whether or not it takes place in America, and not by a measure of global significance. For example, the post right next to this one in this community is about a bar shooting in Ireland, yet the “not world news” crowd is completely absent in the comments.

It doesn’t seem to be how it works in practice, though, since the largest news communities by far on Lemmy.world are worldnews (34k subscribers) for any non-US news and news (18k subscribers) for any news, US or otherwise.

The next highest news community dedicated to a specific country on Lemmy.world that isn’t the US is canada_news at 151 subscribers. There are several other larger news/worldnews/US news communities hosted on or federated with Lemmy.world in between.

The separation into specific country communities for a given topic is a bit of an odd categorization to make as well, given that we don’t really have separate communities for, like, Norway Dogs or Panama Gaming or China Technology or Brazil Music. And if there were, one would assume it would be targeted to locals of those countries and feature content in the native language, rather than appeal to an international audience.

TIL the US isn’t in the world.

I do get the core of what you mean, but at the same time isn’t it a bit silly that we set the categories of news between “the US” and “literally everyone else”?

Personally, I don’t think the US deserves to have its own privileged classification of news that keeps it separate from the rest of the world. Otherwise we’re just letting the US be the center that “world news” revolves around.

From my experience: if you are DMing a game, don’t be afraid to accelerate the pacing faster than what you think the system recommends. Part of what kills interest in a game is if the players feel like they aren’t making progress and nothing is happening week to week.

Do milestone levels, give a level after each “chapter” of your game, and have a chapter take 2, 3 sessions max.