I mentioned Zohran to my aging mother (who lives in a suburb, and cannot vote in NYC elections). She was like, “You didn’t vote for him did you? He’s a communist”
We decided not to go into details right then, but it’s wild what a deep, emotional, response the idea of “communism” evokes. I don’t know what she even thinks it is.
He’s spiteful and stupid.
At family gatherings for holidays and birthdays inevitably someone would bop a balloon around, and this game would naturally emerge. Perhaps my family were secretly scientists.
If republicans were smart or had a working soul, they wouldn’t be republicans.
try to talk them out of the idea of “Leveling” they get scared and run back to the system they’re familiar with.
I still think about the time in college I tried to get a D&D friend to consider Mage. I was telling him about how you can just do magic, and the real limitation is paradox and hubris. Like, it’s often not about ‘can you?’ but rather “should you?”
He couldn’t get over “you can just cast whatever you want? Fireballs every turn?”
“Yes, but that’s probably going to make a lot of paradox, and probably isn’t the best way to solve your problem”
“Sounds broken,” he said, and lost interest.
I wish they continued to follow them in a different show
“Middle Decks” ?
I think it’s kind of a cold start, bootstrap, problem. I don’t want to pay for journalism when I don’t have faith it’ll be good, but since no one’s paying for it it’s not good
I started using recently. No complaints.
Does anyone know what you can put for the “suggestions API url” in Firefox? It’s optional so I left it blank.
Well, for one, they know they’re lying but they don’t care. It’s a tactical advantage for them to lie because a lot of people aren’t going to know.
If you’re pretty smart, imagine being drunk. All the time. Just moderately sloshed. That’s what I think it’s like for an average , kind of stupid , person. Poor memory, surges of emotions, incoherent thought. And they can’t ever sober up.
Everything Bethesda does is kind of bad. I’ll probably get them when they’re on sale, but I don’t expect anything good.
Get Larian to make a fallout game
Feels like we’re going backwards now with like anti-vax stuff. A lot of tech seems to be getting worse for users, too, like IoT gadgets that stop working for remote reasons
All of those fox news hosts should … what happened go Joseph Goebbels, again?
It’s just emotions. The words conservatives pick are just to satisfy their emotions. Facts don’t matter. They are like children. Failures of people. They shouldn’t be allowed to make decisions of import.
Ted Cruz is a piece of shit and there’s nothing we could do to him to make up for his malice and ineptitude. Though I’d be willing to see some attempts.
I’m partial to Fate.
It’s very open. You don’t have to worry about looking up the right class or feats. You just describe what you want to play, and if the group thinks it’s cool and a good fit for the story, you’re basically done.
Now, the downside is this requires a lot more creativity up front. A blank page can be intimidating.
I like that players have more control over the outcome. You can usually get what you want, even if you roll poorly, but it’s more of a question of what you’re willing to pay for it.
Every roll will be one of
It’s a lot more narrative power than some games give you. I don’t like being completely submissive to the DM, so I enjoy even as a player being able to pitch “ok I’m trying to hack open this terminal… how about as a minor cost I set off an alarm?” or “I’m trying to steal his keys and flubbed the roll… How about as a major cost I create a distraction, get the keys, but drop my backpack by accident. Now I’m disarmed, have no tools, and they can probably trace me with that stuff later. But I got the keys!”.
It’s more collaborative, like a writer’s room, so if someone proposes a dud solution the group can work on it.
The math probability also feels nice. You tend to roll your average, so there’s less swinginess like you’ll get in systems rolling one die.
Plus, I don’t know any other system that lets me pull my intestines out of my abdomen and use them like a lasso to climb a cliff when I forgot my rope at home.
Nitpick: more narrative systems like Fate let you do this, but then you typically don’t get a lot of crunch. Plus it can vary if your group isn’t on the same wavelength about what’s cool and appropriate for the story.
Self-driving cars were never a good investment. It’s a really hard problem that doesn’t really get us to a better world. All that money could have been spent on public transit, which has a whole lot of benefits.
I think one of my friends is a member there, and said it’s been pretty wild. Some very long emails were sent around.
I don’t know how anyone can still support Israel but here we are.
Unfortunately, most of the maga hats are idiots. They’d rather lose all their money if it meant they could be more racist
If they were smart, they would realize conservatism’s solutions (eg: hurt the queers, blacks, etc) won’t actually solve their problems.