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Windrose but I'm hitting the "this got repetitive fast" stage and am starting to return to my classic RPGs. I've fired up an oldie but a goodie from the glory days of Bioware - Dragon Age: Origins. Dark high fantasy RPG. Absolutely loved it when it came out and I'm revisiting it. Its a little wonky compared to similar contemporary games like BG3 but oh so much fun.

"Enchantment? Enchantment!"

That is an excellent breakdown. I'm glad I'm not the only one noticing these posts. Poor data analysis being published or claims taken at face value.

I interacted with the Guardian editorial team once in the UK. I had a dataset on academic censoring and we were focusing on sharing the qualitative responses. All seemed on the up and up but we never moved forward for a variety of reasons with the story. Editors and the journalist were great. Tough questions, good insight, etc. Seemed like a good outlet. But that was earlier 2025 and in less than a year, I read that trash we are discussing.

This paper is of the same caliber as all of those cigarettes are safe papers from the 70s. Funded propganada with a PR firm plying it to a willing news source.

As an aside, is the Guardian becoming a shit rag? Lately (last year or two) I've noticed a huge dip in their quality.

Yeah. When I moved to Europe, everyone used WhatsApp. Its impossible to get around without it. I'm leaving now and it will be deleted faster than you can say fascism.

I read through all the comments and responses. @harfang@slrpnk.net you need to make slides quick and easy using drag and drop and font layouts. That's why you use Canva from what I can tell. So getting hardcore image manipulation is not necessary, nor collaborative style programs.

You can, with minimal effort, use Libreoffice Impress. Its PowerPoint without the Microslop. What this requires is you find a good source for properly licensed fonts and images, places like Pixabay and such.

You can use GIMP if you want to, but it reads like you just need to learn to use the tools in Impress. Again, GIMP is basically a Photoshop replacement. I'm not sure you need that.

Here is my work flow I used to make pretty slides and lecture decks that rely on prompts and imagery for students, not death by text:

-Outline in Libreoffice Writer. -Search for images on Pixabay, Unsplash, or Wikimedia Commons. -Search for, or use incorporated, fonts. Two to three font faces. -Build a draft presentstion in Libreoffice Impress -Set it down, walk away for a bit. -Return and edit as needed.