The hypocrisy, mostly. Conservatives go on about “waste”, and fire a bunch of people who were actually doing work. Meanwhile, this silver spoon’d asshole is making $800k for doing barely anything.
We shouldn’t put up with the rich anymore.
Sounds like it. But the people who suffered from under funded education will never have that injury remedied.
The people responsible for this problem (I’m assuming Republicans) should face some consequences.
If they weren’t punished they won’t learn much. Now if all the Republicans who tried this mini-coup were removed from office, that’d be a start.
Stop going to nazi bars.
A lot of their supporters seem to be “keep the government out of medicare” tier thinkers.
But somehow they’re not being treated as traitors and saboteurs!
Most of us are just sitting and watching in horror. A handful are clutching their pearls and going on about how violence is never even okay.
Red flag? Sounds communist. Better we die of measles like real americans. /s
The “you hate every party of capitalism but refuse to entertain any alternatives” thing going on here is really aggravating.
I see a lot of posts for typescript, but every job also says 100+ applicants. Job market is not looking good
Plus all these places want people to go into the office just-because
A real, courageous, patriot would stop Musk.
I saw “No Men” play a tiny show and it’s still one of my favorites. They put on a great show and also they were super friendly with everyone in the crowd. I saw them another time after at a bigger venue and they even remembered me and my friend.
How I feel about mana depends largely on how quickly it regenerates. It can be just a reskin of spells-per-day or spells-per-encounter, or it could be something more interesting.
DA:O had unlimited mana potions, which meant essentially you spend a small amount of time to refresh mid fight. Not very deep tactically, but more or less fine.
I don’t think resource management is really a thing most people actually enjoy. Most people don’t like timed missions, so you probably don’t want to use that to prevent people from resting a lot. You don’t want to soft-lock players by letting them blow their resources too soon, so they can’t win the fight but don’t have a way to restore. The dark souls style “you reset at the checkpoint but so do the monsters. Keep trying until you get it right” works for me, but a lot of people hate that.
There are so many ways you could do magic, and it’s a bummer that vancian magic takes up so much space.
DND just isn’t as good and universal as people think it is, but it’s hugely influential anyway.
Side note: DND is balanced around like 6 “medium” encounters per day. You’re supposed to slowly trickle down your resources. Turns out most groups do one encounter per day on average, and then the system doesn’t work very well at all. There’s lot of patches (eg: gritty realism) but the problem remains people don’t seem to want to do that kind of cadence.
I meant how in poe1 and 2 might (the stat) is 3% more damage per point, so it’s hard to feel the difference between might 10 and might 15. Does +15% of 10 damage make a meaningful difference? It’s probably the same as +12%, right, or is there decimal damage too? I guess when multiplied by power levels it’s a bigger deal, but that’s kind of opaque.
Also “like proficiency bonuses on crack” is deeply funny to me as someone who played DND 3e. Base attack bonus every level, skill ranks up every level, oh so many memories and not all of them good.
I really liked poe2 and would play a third one.
I really liked that they made powers per-encounter instead of per-rest. Per-rest really doesn’t work well despite DND trying really hard. It especially doesn’t work well without a human steering to prevent things like “you killed everyone in the castle, now go rest for 8 hours before opening the final door to the boss”. Or you can programmatically enforce that, but players don’t like that. Mostly because it sucks to do like an hour of stuff and realize you’re too low on resources to win, and have to reload.
I’d probably prefer the stats to be coarser or more meaningful. It’s hard to get a feel for “3% more damage”. Especially when the base damage is like 5-15.
This guy should be, at the very least, removed from office. I don’t care if it’s handcuffs or a body bag.
Fuck. I just want to thanos snap away all the republicans. The absolute worst people.
An advanced technique: ask your players to make shit up.
Like, the players decided to go to the wizard university the wizard PC graduated from. So I ask him, “what’s their entrance hall like?” and let him just riff on it for a while. Players feel more engaged with the world, and it’s a little less work for me.
Warlock is trying to commune with his patron. I ask, “what is your patron usually like?” and the player is delighted to describe “the great sculpin” in detail. This then inspires me further.
Note that some players are very much “just tell me a story” and don’t want any input, and won’t like this. Some players are also shy and don’t think well on their feet. And some players are just really bad at staying on theme. But if you know your players , this can be a powerful technique.
The damage will last for decades.
The republicans should be stopped.
Everyone saying “they can evacuate” clearly doesn’t remember how bad the covid response was.
There will be anti-space conspiracy theorists. The ownership class would demand people continue working until the last possible minute (and beyond). It would be politicized, because some people are unbelievably stupid, cruel, and selfish, and enough people are so stupid they’ll buy in.
Now, if we could make the meteor fall on a location occupied solely by the people who don’t believe in science…
I’m reminded of a post from elsewhere: “You hate all the parts of capitalism separately, without realizing they’re all the same thing”
The average person is a heady cocktail of stupid and ignorant. We all are, to one degree or another.
I feel like one of the problems is we’ve let “everyone is entitled to their opinion” mutate into “everyone is entitled to their own facts”. We just kind of let anti-vaxxers walk around like it’s no big deal. We let people wear maga hats and don’t treat it like a clear and present danger or the threat that it is. We’re too polite about this shit.
If someone walked up to you and was like “I’m gonna shoot you dead later” while holding a gun and a map to your house, you probably wouldn’t be like “Cool I respect your opinion.”
I mean, some people would. Some people are pacifists, and I guess they’d just get in a death camp politely.
It’s certainly not easy. But what saint Luigi allegedly did might become common if more people feel like their back is against the wall and there’s no peaceful way forward.