I'm not sure of the exact steps to reproduce this, but I put three points into the Light Reading talent, and then equipped Master Thieves' Armband replacing the tome. Then I tried to cast Sunray on an enemy and noticed it didn't autotarget them. I had to do it manually. And now no ranged weapons or spells will auto-target enemies.

Quitting to the main menu or force closing the game didn't help. The only thing that fixed auto-targeting was re-equipping the tome.

Anytime I equip Master Thieves' Armband by replacing the tome, I lose autotargeting. However, if I manually unequip the tome first, I don't lose autotargeting, not even when I equip the armband afterward.

If I inspect the chest on the left, it's a chest. If I inspect the chest on the right, it inspects the floor.

It just surprises me that it's like the mimic one isn't even there. (When I first tried to inspect it, I didn't know it was a mimic yet.)

I'm guessing this happens because you can't inspect an enemy you can't see, and showing the mimic when you don't have vision on it is something extra added by Mimic's Tooth to make it less distinguishable from ordinary chests. (Normally, mimics aren't shown unless you currently have vision on them.)

I'm playing Beta 3.1, but this has probably been this way forever.

The buff wouldn't do anything, of course, except visually indicate they are immune to being blinded from Sunray again. I imagine there must already be a hidden buff behind the scenes that never wears off.

Sometimes in big fights I lose track of which scorpion I blinded, for example, and trying to blind it again several turns later can be disastrous.

I would understand if you feel it's balanced the way it is.

This issue has bitten me several times. It was a problem in 0.6.0 and maybe earlier, and it is present in 0.6.1.

I'll make an edit to fix a couple of typos that I saw immediately after posting, and then I'll see something else or want to add some more context. So I'll edit the post again, but this edits the contents of the original post, therefore I put back in all my typos! (And lose anything else I added in my first edit.)

When it first happened, I thought I was going crazy and ended up going back and forth, fixing the same few typos over and over while adding more content! 😂

For a test, I'm going to edit this post to add the text, "first edit". Then I'm going to edit it again after 10 seconds to add the words "second edit".

Second edit.

Third edit:

Now that I manually refreshed, I can see "second edit", and when I edit the post, those words are there, but "first edit" is gone.

Here's a screenshot of my post immediately after adding the first edit:

You can see that it does not contain the words "first edit" at the bottom.

UPDATE: He deleted the community. Good.

I'm probably an asshole sometimes. When people act like bullies or Nazis, I tell them to fuck off. I'm no saint. I do try to be fair, and also brutally honest. Here's my personal modlog. I have nothing to hide.

Trying to be fair and brutally honest is why I got banned.

ITAP on Lemmy.world is modded exclusively by Stamets. He's a mod of several communities and heavy user of Lemmy. He's really active.

He created the community and named it "ITAP" after the subreddit of the same name. The point of that original subreddit is to post OC photos. It's right in the name. But his community rules specifically say that you can post non-OC. I find that a little weird, but it's okay. His community, his rules.

Here are the rules for his ITAP:

Wow, rule #7 is new, I swear, and I feel like it's specifically calling me out. That's funny! I didn't insult him. Well, maybe I did. You can read my original comment below. Rule #4 must be new, too because Stamets hasn't been following it, which is the whole point of this post.

Stamets posts a photo about every day and none of them are his and none are tagged "Not OC". Invariably, he gets comments like "Wow, gorgeous photo! How did you take that?". Or "Great shot! What’s the story of this boat?" He doesn't reply to any of them to eliminate their confusion. Not once. I checked.

That last one was an actual comment, and after seeing so many of these comments day after day, I finally decided to say something. ~~I wish I could copy my comment, but Lemmy doesn't let me see it because Stamets didn't technically remove it. I think banning me merely hides all of my comments, and I can't copy it from the modlog because it isn't there. I'll try to summarize. It was like 3 paragraphs.~~

I can see it now, so here it is. It appears he "unremoved" my comment, but removed all of my other ones. It's not even inflammatory. It's just "resigned".

I keep seeing comments like this with no reply, and it bugs me. Stamets doesn’t take any of the pictures he posts here, so he can’t answer these questions and just ignores them. ☹️

I guess itap has no meaning. At first I thought I’d start posting here to encourage more people to do the same, but I’ve changed my mind. I’m going to delete my one post and block this community.

Stamets’ posting of non-OC in a community called “I Took a Picture” is akin to ~~stolen valor.~~ [EDIT: It was dumb to say that, and I'm sorry. I just meant stealing praise.] It’s his community, so he can do whatever he wants, I guess. Just post in pics, @stamets@lemmy.world, and let itap be itap. Or don’t. I don’t really care. But by copying this community from reddit, and violating its core principal by making up your own rules, I feel like you’re tricking the Lemmy community in some way. It’s dumb.

Is that insulting? Really? I guess I did call his use of the name ITAP dumb. He banned me, saying I was creating "unnecessary drama". He changed the title to say "Not OC". It wasn't there originally. Here's the post: https://lemmy.world/post/25565845

[EDIT: To his credit, it's probably silly of me to complain about being banned from a community I said I was blocking. It is. But it's the principle of it. I actually forgot I had said that until I was able to see this comment today. I never ended up blocking the community. All I saw is that I was banned today. But now that I've seen his reaction to this criticism, I'm not taking this post down. I still think my criticisms are valid, and seeing him slander me in the comments with false narratives makes me even more upset about him and how he handles things.]

Turns out, he made just a sticky post about this: https://lemmy.world/post/25582946 trying to defend himself and his community's name. "I made /c/ITAP for myself and by myself." Well, that's a really weird reason to make a public internet community. 🤷

I don't really buy the whole "took" pun thing. Then again, it's kind of clever, even if really obscure. But it was never in the sidebar until today, that I remember seeing. As for not even acknowledging that he created this community's name as a direct copy of Reddit's community... That's an odd position to take.

Am I an asshole for telling him that posting non-OC in ITAP and not labeling it is like stolen valor? Am I really creating unnecessary drama? I'm definitely creating more by posting here! 😂

Update: It looks like he edited some of his submissions to say "Not OC" to follow his new Rule #4. Good! Now I feel like I've made a positive change and I don't feel like an asshole at all. I feel like I took one for the team for making that community slightly better. I had seen so many of those kinds of comments praising "his" photos. I don’t feel like I deserve a ban when he changed to rules to fix exactly what I was talking about. My comment clearly had merit.

I don't need or want any remedy. Although, if he gave up moderating ITAP and let it be a community in the spirit of the one he copied, the spirit that seemingly everyone thinks it has, that'd be great. It's never gonna happen, though. ~~He could apologize for taking criticism so badly, but I doubt he'd ever do that, either.~~ [EDIT: To be fair, I did call his community "dumb".] If you look at some of the comments he's made in defense of the Star Trek show he's named after, and comments he's removed for spurious reasons, I think you'd come to the same conclusion that he's just your average PTB.

The kind of comments Stamets lets stand without any response:

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/15094272

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/14791492

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/14647577

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/14626113

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/13422232 (The top comment is removed. I think someone asked about this photo, they were told it's not OC, and... well, you can see the reply. Again, it's not just me.)

https://a.lemmy.world/lemmy.world/comment/13424089

I guess that's all of them. I don't see any posts older than 3 months. I can't find any example of him actually answering questions like this, despite what he says in these comments. Those are just the ones asking questions. The one's containing only praise could be seen as general praise and not targeted at Stamets necessarily. I didn't link any of those, but he doesn't reply to those either. Yet any time he sees someone criticize the community's name he bans them. So he's clearly reading comments!

Do you see the pattern here? Stamets posts a photo. People comment on it and ask questions. Stamets ignores them. I have a really hard time believing he was too busy each and every time to reply and eliminate the commenter's confusion and admit it wasn't OC. So that's why I said what I said when I made my exit. I don't even care that I was banned. I was leaving anyway. It's just the principle of it. I never ended up blocking the community, though.

Stamets' reaction to this thread

Down below in this post's comments, Stamets keeps pushing this narrative that I was "jumping between multiple threads", "creating drama", and "stirring up shit" by making "numerous comments across numerous posts". This is such an exaggeration that it constitutes slander.

So I'm going back through my comments to see what I ever said in that community. There was no drama other than in Stamets' mind. All of my comments were upvoted. None were inflammatory. They are now all removed. Whenever I mentioned the non-OC thing, it was in reply to someone else bringing it up, and it was only two posts. (Besides my last comment up above.)

Stamets said:

you made numerous comments across numerous posts

you were jumping from thread to thread and creating unnecessary drama

They were removed for jumping between multiple threads and stirring shit up

a littany of repeated comments throughout multiple posts

I was tired of clicking on multiple posts and seeing them complain

none of them were being constructive in anyway whatsoever

And slandering me in general:

Going around randomly calling users assholes and saying fuck this community and just stirring shit up left right and center? [emphasis mine]

Childish and immature behavior that is openly display throughout the entire of their modlog and posting history.

And that... that really pisses me off. It's one thing to disagree with my assessment of this interaction, or to be petty and ban me, but to lie about my use of the ITAP community and to slander me in general, that crosses a line. I have half a mind to report this behavior to the lemmy.world admins. This is not how mods should behave.

Again, I challenge anyone to read my comment and post history and see if this narrative fits me, including my modlog which I linked to above (and tried to explain my actions in each case).

My other comments in the community

I'm putting them all in a spoiler because this is getting long. I just feel I had to defend myself against Stamets' slander.

That's it. Those are all of my comments, ever. All I did was reply to people expressing the same confusion as me. I wasn't particularly inflammatory. I was just saying I'd rather see OC then non-OC in "I Took a Picture". Until I saw yet another person thinking Stamets' photo was OC. Then I just wanted to quit. But I didn't get that choice, because Stamets immediately banned me.

Same with making a post. I accidentally cancel making a comment all the time while simply trying to select text.

Like this:

I select some text and them try to drag that little blue tear drop on the left to change the selection and invariably just close the comment editor. It's so frustrating.

I have all gestures disabled because all they do is fire by accident, but I can't see any way to disable this one.

Here is a screenshot of it in action. I turned on the developer option to show touches, and you can see how wide the activation area is for dragging from the left.

I just walked past a Prison Guard who was in deep sleep from a while ago. Out of the shadows came another Prison Guard, so I cast Sunray on him and then threw a spear by double-tapping the quickslot, assuming it would target the one I had just targeted with a spell, but I instead turned around and threw it at the sleeping one.

This is very counterintuitive. Casting a targetted spell at any enemy should make them my current target for other spells, wands, and throwables.

I have the same issue with Guiding Light.

A man can dream...

You can't miss, so you benefit from the heavy War Scythe damage with no drawback. And look at that range!

It's also excellent with Sunray's blind effect for two surprise attacks! Once when they are two spaces away and again when they are adjacent.

I found it as +2, used a stone, and got Projecting. I feel lucky. I'm actually a Wand of Living Earth build because I wanted to try all the ally buffs, but this War Scythe let's me safely do some serious melee damage.

And it's even better when my Golem is distracting an enemy. I can blind the enemy from 2 tiles away and get up to 6 surprise attacks. This is truly an excellent combination on a Paladin.

The run was going awesome! +2 Blazing Hand Axe on a statue, +1 Leather from the Ghost, and wand of Lightning just sitting on the floor (cursed but also a Scroll of Remove Curse) All on floor 2. Then I died a minute later...

I jumped into a well room and spawned the wraith. Rather than hit it with my Cleric spell, I stupidly zapped it with my Wand of Lightning at point blank range while at 3 HP. ☠️ Literally killed myself. Could have drank my water after jumping. Didn't. Could have passed a few turns to digest. Didn't.

The seed was such a good start that decided to copy the seed and try again. (DNK-CWK-VJR, btw)

And then I died a second time within 6 tiles of my first death! I was at 2 HP and starving put me at 1, so I ate food. Why use my water when I can heal from food, right? Well, I forgot how long it takes to eat food and the snake in the room reached me and killed me.

Time for a third try! It was such a great start. I want to see how the rest of the seed turns out.