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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I like to imagine that there would be uprisings, like the kind with molotovs, if a national abortion ban was passed, but I think the not-right is too disorganized. It's all very handmaids tale.

And aside from infighting, there's a lot of people clinging to "we should follow the rules." Rules don't mean much if only one faction is following them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't think I understand what you're talking about. Perhaps some examples would help.

I do think some people hold themselves to too low of a standard, though. There's a song I like that has the line "I don't want you to romanticize falling the fuck apart ". I think some people are just like "well, I ghosted my friend and didn't do my tasks at work and didn't feed my cat but life is hard am I right? No other way I could be. Time to go drink alone and watch TV"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 days ago

I failed calc2 and am gainfully employed as a mid/upper level software engineer.

One guy at work really saved the day because he's good at math, and made a very slow process much faster because he knows .. uh.. vector math? He did magic with numpy

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago

My mom is also deeply paranoid and superstitious about the phone. I'll be like "why don't you delete this second weather app you don't like that's sending you all these notifications you ignore?" And she'll be like "NO YOU'LL BREAK SOMETHING IT HAS TO TO BE LIKE THIS"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Jira , mostly. It kind of sucks but it's what we use.

Sublime text for quick notes.

Some people like notion but I often find it redundant with jira, and it's often write-only memory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Politics are complicated.

People are fucking stupid and care more about in-group good-feels than reality or policy.

Many Trump supporters like feeling like they are part of a larger group. That's it. That's really, deeply, stupid. Like, dogs are smarter than that. But they see the symbols and the faces and feel good about themselves.

Some people are deeply racist or sexist and such, but a lot of people just want to feel like they're part of a group.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

It was okay.

Didn't really like the ending(s). I think one of the lead guys was like "cyberpunk can't have happy endings", so I guess they never read Neuromancer.

Gameplay was so-so, but I fixed some egregious problems with a mod. People who thought it was going to be life changing were living in a dream land.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Played the games. Not interested.

A new story in the setting could be good

Retelling the game sounds bad. Conveniently, the reasons why are nicely outlined in the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I think a lot of people are irrationally scared of "socialism" and "handouts". If a party was like "we're going to take some of the ultra wealthy's stuff and use it to build free housing, health care, transit, and public spaces" they'd be like "no that's communism I'd rather live in a box eating lead paint than get a government handout"

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Unless he's going to jail or similar, it doesn't matter. He got what he wanted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

My parents were strict in many ways, but the ones that bother me were the ones that didn't have a sound reason behind them.

Like, "You have to be in bed at this time so you can sleep enough to feel ok in the morning" was fine. So was "Do your homework first, then go play so you don't have to worry about it, and you don't get surprised by it taking longer and you run out of time".

But sometimes they'd be like "you can't play video games but you can watch TV ", and that felt weird. I think they were just more comfortable with tv because they knew it.

So I guess my questions are, do you explain your reasons and motivations?

Do you ever back down if your child makes a compelling argument?

 

Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are!

I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I'd give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it's harder than I expected.

But now the tournament is live! Who's playing?

https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/

I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win.

There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog'd my way the hell out there.

 

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

 

Currently, I'm polite to friendly with all of them. No outstanding conflicts. It's sometimes literal kitchen table poly with one, and the others I only see at like parties and such.

Some years ago I had two partners that absolutely did not get along with each other, and that was rough. Recently I was able to do a dinner with 3 partners and everyone had a good time.

I try not to make a big deal about folks meeting. I try to model after meeting your friend's friends.

 

For me there's a bit of a network effect where the polycule sprawls out into the distance. Partners have partners who have partners.

But for disconnected folks, it's mostly been tinder (yuck), and a local meetup.

(Also this might be the first post? That or nothing federated yet)

 

I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

 

Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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