I like the “toolbox”, limited-resources mode of play from DnD but only if you’re actually playing one-shot adventures, where every get-together is one day, you can’t rest mid-session, and if you don’t get through the dungeon you aren’t allowed to continue next time without encounters restocking.

My DnD 3.5e group is trying out GURPS and it’s pretty fun so far.

I was asked to leave for a multitude of reasons, that I could sum up as incompetence and lack of discipline. I’m drunk enough tonight that I don’t really care about opsec so I guess this will be my official spilling-of-the-beans.

Since it was more of an “asking for my resignation” that I consented to than a procedural removal I was never given, like, an official, in-stone reason. But there were a bunch of things in the month or so leading up to my removal that I suspect were part of the reason.

(1). I was generally kind of incompetent. Missed meetings, late for stuff, not completing tasks timely

(2). Loose talk. I post a lot. I spoke openly about things I shouldn’t have, including exact numbers of volunteers/PSL membership.

(3). Passing out drunk downtown in my PSL shirt

(4). Too friendly with the libs. I took on a position as regional coordinator in 50501 at the recommendation of some leadership members of PSL. But later on I think my position there was seen as a conflict of interest as I developed better working relationships with some Liberal groups like our local Indivisible orgs.

(5). There was a small argument in my last unit meeting where we were planning on doing petitioning for a local measure. I recommended canvassing downtown on St. Paddy’s Day and some members of the unit were acting as if being downtown on a drinking holiday was as dangerous as entering an active warzone. I was dismissive (I still am) and some members of the unit leadership didn’t like that.

(6). I was lazy with pronouns. I defaulted to They/Them a lot when I just couldn’t be bothered

(7). I’m mostly a straight guy but I was starting to get into queer dating (trans women, trans men, enbies) and talking about it with members I was close to and some other members thought it was problematic.

The title of your post is literally “Any Ex-PSL members out there?”

I’m an ex-PSL member. I still support the party and quite like Eugene Puryear

I have no standards or self esteem, it would be a red flag but I’d put up with it anyways

More good than bad, not perfect - I think the USSR’s system had some serious fundamental flaws that were left to fester, especially during the Revisionist era starting with Kruschev.

But even Kruschev was not evil. He was a somewhat misguided Communist who was doing his best to manage a Socialist state the way he knew how and thought best, just as every other leader of the USSR (including both Stalin and Gorbachev) was.

You realize that’s literally just the Nuremburg defense, right?

This isn’t strictly true, police were invented in different areas at different times for different reasons.

In the South they were slave catchers, but in the North they originated as union busters and private security for the wealthy.

I would hardly call CoC “super-niche”

Solid lead isn’t really that dangerous. Like with a lot of other toxins, it’s mostly only dangerous when ingested or inhaled. Licking a block or sheet of lead would cause a negligible amount of lead consumption.

While I’m not saying it was a great idea or anything, they used to make children’s toys out of cast lead, and as long as little Timmy didn’t bite his toy soldier’s head off and swallow it they’re perfectly safe, even if he was sucking on it sometimes. Hell, even if he did swallow it, he’d probably pass it with no issues.

Lead is dangerous when aerosolized, like with leaded gasoline, or in powder form, like with lead paint chips, because in these forms it is more easily absorbed by the body. Depending on the location, people can have lead bullets literally inside their bodies for decades without ever suffering from heavy metal poisoning (and when heavy metal poisoning does occur, it can take years to accumulate to dangerous levels).

Same goes for lots of other stuff - plaster, fiberglass, asbestos.

If it was a block of calcium, it would sizzle and burn a little but form a protective layer afterwards.

If you licked a pile of calcium powder, it would probably burn your tongue, stick to it, and then burn the inside of your mouth.

Right, he simply should have voted for a new CEO

And just like colonialists in Africa, they aren’t building a railroad to help people get around their country or make their lives any easier, they’re building a railroad from the mines to the port. Investment in infrastructure is not fungible; building new power plants and lines to service data centers does little (not nothing) to help the average person and if anything resources that would have been put into maintaining and expanding civilian service are being reallocated.

This is a bit of a misconception.

Nietzche opposed a specific political group in Germany at the time called “The Anti-Semites”. So he has a lot of quotes where he complains about The Anti-Semites, but he isn’t really critiquing what we would consider antisemitism, but just this specific group and their ideology.

And this was probably not because he opposed them, but because they were problematic allies. His sister would marry an Anti-Semite, become one herself, and his books would be published by The Anti-Semites after his death.

I don’t have any of them handy at the moment, but Nietzche had many things to say about the Jews that would get him branded an antisemite by modern standards.

A lot of people will speculate and exaggerate and blow little things out of proportion. I don’t like Lemmy.world because they are Anticommunist as a policy. That’s about it.

They’re (albeit Liberal) Zionists, they prosecute stuff like “Uyghur genocide denial” that is like 5-year-old propaganda that should be able to be dismissed with the benefit of hindsight.

Leftist instances have the forthrightness to just say “If you’re a reactionary we’ll ban you”, but Liberals - like the Lemmy.world admins and moderators - have to hide behind a smokescreen of Socialists breaking technical rules - when, say, a Zionist denying the Palestinian genocide wouldn’t get the same reaction.

The colors here made it look like a greentext at first

Reminds me of the Elon Musk quote where he wants to be a brain in a jar with his penis attached to it

I really liked a lot of the mechanics of Starfield. I think some people can get a bit overly-critical and “throw the baby out with the bathwater”, even if the baby is a little ugly too and has 13 toes in this analogy.

Ultimately I think it was a game killed mostly by poor writing and, consequently, a failure to tie that writing into interesting enemy variation.

The different types of human enemies all felt the same, there wasn’t enough variation when it came to robots or aliens, and these were used in uninspired ways pretty much uniform. The randomly generated locations etc. definitely added onto this.

I had a lot of fun with the ship and weapon customization, the core gameplay felt good to me. It is a game primed for a very fun and interesting New Vegas to its FO3, if they chose to go that route (which I doubt they will, alas).

One of my biggest issues is that it feels like a game written entirely by Libertarian Atheist Redditors from 2013. It is so completely out of touch with the current culture and political landscape that I can only assume the issue is that Bethesda, or at least the people responsible for this messat Bethesda, are Libertarian Reddit Atheists who haven’t matured in their understanding of culture and politics for 15 years, like you took Hank Green, Niel deGrasse Tyson, and pre-2020 Elon Musk, threw them in a blender, and asked the resulting mush to write a sci-fi setting.

The joinable factions are obviously supposed to be exaggerated stereotypes of Democrat and Republican politics as conceived by someone with a very shallow view of politics, but the thing about the Democrat and Republican parties is that 90% of the country fucking hates both of them. What’s your other option? Get a job? The pirates could have been fun but I’m not even going to get into how they were butchered. And the snake-worshipping religious zealots are the only major faction you can’t join, despite being the only mildly interesting one.

I remember reading an article about a month ago about how Kenyan writers were getting mad about being mistaken for AI because that’s just how they write, and the Faith emails are all from Kenya.

I’m not saying it’s not AI but that might be the reason why they sound that way.