A big chunk of that is capitalism. People who aren’t doing work make decisions and keep profits. A self directed team might blow their budget on famous voice actors, 8k graphics, and executive retreats, but probably not.

Misread as 71% of Americans want [Taylor] Swift to end Trump’s Iran war. I was like I didn’t know she was in politics, or had that power.

A member of the general public can’t issue a citation.

My lawyer tells me it’s a “crime” to smash the windows of an illegally parked car. Even if they’re double parked in the bike lane.

Awakening 2nd edition is pretty sweet, but it’s not exactly speedy. I do enjoy the mini game of figuring out exactly how many dice I feel comfortable giving up for my bonuses, though.

But yeah, my most recent game is a purely street level situation. Recent events include

• killing an AI music CEO because fuck that noise
• killing a nimby lady, a dirty lawyer, and dirty assemblyman as part of a favor exchange
• agreeing to help a spooky but friendly old lady try to get her church back from a grifter (this will probably involve murder)
• agreed to supply a “maybe a mad scientist?” guy that’s been working on animating the dead with bodies. (They provided two deceased dead cops)

There sure is a lot of murder in this game, though.

And the people who run this shit need to go to jail. I’m sure a lot of them would rat out their corrupt buddies for a reduced sentence.

Poster makes a meme about Mage, a decidedly non-dnd game. Replies are all DND anyway. The RPG hobby, everyone.

Anyway, my current game has a similar problem. Blowing up a data center with a car bomb, killing a dozen construction workers and cops: sleep.

Letting a video of the PCs shrugging off multiple close range gunshots go online: real shit

There’s that political cartoon that’s like two people on bikes through a beautiful downtown, and one says to the other “If anyone tried to add bike lanes like this back home, I’d murder them”

Good. I look forward to a future where people who fought transit have their lives improved by it, even if they’re too small minded and foolish to recognize it.

I went back to windows for a little bit a couple years ago because when I tried to install mint on the new desktop, Ethernet WiFi and HDMI didn’t work. I tried some fixes but it was a real shit show.

After a little while on windows, I went with pop!_os , which worked out of the box

They’re not smart or visionary. They’re just rich. They sell us a myth that they’re titans but it’s a lie.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and poor critical thinking, so they think everyone is basically like them. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except they’re also a bunch of toxic submissive types that will always yield to perceived authority.

They’re shit people. Failures to live up to human potential.

It would be cruel to make this a gif that every few seconds changes the text to clown goths only

I don’t think so. I think it looked like a normal rectangle flash drive, but with some buttons on one side.

Oh! It was the creative nomad muvo, the model without the screen. Looking online it was actually two pieces- the flash drive part slid onto the audio part? Man, it’s been a while.

Maybe around 2003? It was a weird little device that was also an MP3 player. It had a headphone jack, play/pause/next/prev, and that was it. Was like 128mb and played mp3s in order they were written to the device, I think.

I thought it was really cool, but maybe not my best purchase.

Nationally, 66% of young people ages 18-29 voted for a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 31% for a Republican candidate (NORC Civic Health & Elections Project).

There’s always this ~30% insane floor. Like, about a third of the population are just broken in their heads. I don’t know how you can run a society indefinitely like that.

I’ve been applying to jobs because this is the bad place, and one of them required applicants take this horrible “Rembrant Portrait Personality Test”. It was like a mix of this and Bladerunner “you look down and see a tortoise” questions.

They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.

I work at a multinational mega Corp, but not one you’ve probably heard of. I am very disengaged.

For one thing, I’m technically a “contractor”. I have to go to all the meetings, but I don’t technically work for them. They give me the legal minimum of paid time off, but only after I looked up what my rights are and fought them for it. They don’t pay for holidays. They say “have a nice Thanksgiving” and then dock me two days pay.

The pay is insulting. I’m making less than I made ten years ago.

There’s no technical leadership. These people are supposed to be doing python. They don’t know what unit tests are. They barely know how imports work. Trying to change everything is a months long battle and emotion massaging exercise. The people in charge don’t understand or care.

They do love AI though. Lots of AI generated code. They don’t understand it but it looks so slick. Vomit.

So fuck them. I used to go out of my way to fix problems and promote good practices. Not anymore. I hope the upper management and owners suffer.

They’re probably not even renewing contractors past the end of the year anyway.

I’m not sure what you mean about limiting party composition.

Oh I missed this earlier.

So one solution to the pain caused by the adventuring day is to let players rest more often. But some classes get way more powerful after a long rest than others, so that’s a problem. A party of {fighter monk wizard} that gets a long rest after every fight is going to have a superstar wizard. One solution to that is only let the party consist of classes on the same rest cadence. Wizard, cleric, paladin, ranger are all long rest based. Fighter, rogue, monk, warlock are short rest.

This causes tension even in a base line game. It’s very common for wizard players to whine about wanting a rest even when the rest of the party is good to go. You might say that’s their fault for not rationing their powers, but I’d say it’s their fault for playing a resource management game when they wanted to play a wizard game.

Removing the adventuring day and corresponding “you need to rest to recover resources” is really difficult in DND. But people want to remove it, even if not consciously, because it sucks unless you’re aiming for a narrow range of game modes.

Back in like 2016 I got a game of vampire going. I pitched it to two non-ttrpg friends as “what if you’re vampires but the head vampire in the city is basically Donald Trump…”. 100% player retention.

Game ran for like two years. Lots of blood. We still talk about how the highlights.