ksymph

> I have a ginger tomboy

I don't think that's what you meant to say. Or maybe it is.

A single shot is unlikely to kill, and in these areas a snake can very quickly disappear into water or foliage. I doubt drones or night vision would help much for similar reasons - the issue lies as much in being able to reach the snakes as it does in being able to locate them. The Everglades are incredibly thick, a snake will easily outpace and hide from a human outside of roads. It does seem like there should be a better way than wrestling them but it's hard to say what that might be.

How does one contribute? In the article you linked:

> there is no information on how users can get involved in the decentralized version of Archive.org and who the peers are that are distributing the content.

The other link doesn't mention how people could help host data either. If there is a way, then it seems like more of a marketing issue if those willing are unaware or unable to figure out how. I can't find any actionable steps on how to contribute.

edit - it seems the dweb version was a frontend for archive.org testing serving IA content over alternative protocols. It was never finished or expanded on unfortunately. Links to it are dead but here's the github repo https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive

This doesn't make it clear what the difference is - if anything they seem even more interchangeable than I would have expected? The only real difference between the descriptions is that the tikka masala mentions using butter while butter chicken does not. Which seems odd.

Personally speaking, myself and my friend group used our phones mostly for reading in high school in the mid-2010s. It's the exception but certainly not unheard of. Those interested in writing are likely to do a lot of reading, and there are many amateur writing communities online that are populated mostly by teenagers.

I asked my friend who is in the cave search and rescue squad their thoughts, to paraphrase:

It's cool, but they don't see what problem it solves.

Yes, this is exactly what I meant. TTRPGs typically have more time spent not doing anything compared to computer games (and board and card games too, to a lesser extent) simply by involving a group of people and being largely 'single-threaded'.

As for what I mean by narrative, much of the appeal of D&D seems to lie in crafting the story and adventure, being a part of the plot. If the setting and narrative were completely removed, and the game was reduced down to the most basic mechanical actions - go to location x,y and do foo to bar, etc., it would be a very different game.

Not to say the mechanical aspects don't make up part of the appeal of D&D and other TTRPGs too, but they're not a focus as much as in, say, a computer strategy game, or even something like an action platformer, where that is the game, and story/characters/etc. make up little (if any) of the gameplay.

I'm autistic, but I've never found the appeal of D&D. All the challenges and social pitfalls are still there in interacting with other players, but on top of that there's an additional set of unfamiliar rules and expectations for how to play my character and the game. Outside of the social aspect, I don't enjoy it as a game much either, with its slow pace and focus on narrative.

Though, both groups I've played it with consisted of close seasoned players, none of whom I was particularly comfortable with, which isn't the best introduction. I'm curious how much the particular setup in the study affected the outcome, with the social reference sheets and presumably other unique factors - with how much D&D can vary based on the DM and players, it'd be interesting to see this study done with a variety of DMs guiding things in different ways.

I received the same result, and similarly have strong spatial skills (among other divergences from the archetype). Taking a look through the others, none of them describe me particularly well. The author of the article touches on this when they mention how low-energy and emotionally moderated people find the personality test less interesting, but I would expand this to say that the results overrepresent 'type-A' and adjacent personality types, while the characterizations of those less goal-oriented, introverts, and so on are rather lacking.