I do feel like sometimes players have a sort of laid back, “we should just win without too much trouble” attitude. Sometimes this manifests as “we take a long rest after every fight”. And that’s a fine way to play, so long as everyone’s on board.

It can be kind of bad when half the group is kick-in-the-door-lol and the DM is expecting more tactical depth.

I think because D&D is many people’s first RPG, you’ll find a lot of bad habits there as new players rediscover them.

Well I just spoiled the ending but

I read a fictional book recently that was about some cartoonishly evil white people were doing murder and kidnapping to buy up property and stuff. To my surprise and delight the protagonists solution was to shoot all of them fucking dead. Like walk into their board meeting and shoot them with guns until they were dead.

Need to read more of that, I think.

AI is a mistake and we would be better off if the leadership of OpenAI was sealed in an underground tomb. Actually, that’s probably true of most big org’s leadership.

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

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.

I would prefer basic, subtle, black. I don’t want rainbows and lights. I’m very function over form.

I’d also rather play a game on medium settings where it runs flawlessly and doesn’t make the fans go hard, than at high settings with worse performance.

I knew someone whose family lived in a suburb/rural area north of Albany. The neighbors flew a Confederate flag.

Satire is dead. I can’t tell if the original is being ironic or sincere

I read an article a long while ago about a group of people who were sexually attracted to children, and didn’t want to be. It was really sad. But a key thing was they weren’t abusing anyone and didn’t want to. I don’t think those people deserve to be crucified. It’s better if they can reach out for help. I think right now if someone admitted what their involuntary response was, they’d be lumped in with the worst sorts of abusers.

Who would vote for musk? I thought conservatives hated him because he said mean things about trump. Most everyone else hates him for a variety of reasons (is a billionaire, is a nazi, whatever the fuck doge was). Does he still have fans? That vote? In the US?

I’ve been unemployed and realized too late the campaign was paying canvassers $30/hr (per the job posting). I would have done that!

Now I’m just refreshing his jobs page hoping for something new. I’m tired of tech work anyway.

I’ve been in the supermarket business for 54 years,” Catsimatidis said

Fucking retire already.

Is that a leather jacket with a hood, or a jacket on top of a thin hoodie?

Dislike:

• poor search engine results
• relatively small

I want it to get to a level where you find the good stuff reddit used to have. Like niche hobbies, detailed analysis, etc.

I’m doing my part, I guess

I think even in star trek they don’t just track people. All those episodes where someone sneaks off or gets kidnapped wouldn’t work if their badge was an always-on tracking device

Man, I’d love to play more WoD. One time I got a game going and it was a lot of fun. The other times I’ve tried, there was always at least one player who didn’t read the books or pay attention to the explanations, and dragged the game down with “wait, who are they? Why are they doing that? What do I roll?”

Not everyone needs to be an expert on all the minutia, but sometimes it’s just a mood killer to have to keep explaining the basics.

Not exclusively

Slight tangent but I feel like it is, or should be, illegal for trump to use truth social while president? Like, that’s his private entity that he’s personally profiting from by making announcements like this on it.

Unknown Armies is kind of like this. Most magic requires obsession, and you don’t get a lot of well adjusted, friendly, people who also, say, collects all many of coin and money (money is power) but won’t spend any (that’s giving away your power!)

There’s a bunch of schools of magic but they’re all built on an obsession and paradox. The book is really well written, too. (At least 2e is. I didn’t spend much time with 3e)