Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.
Less “we are a utility” and more “we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it’s used”
You might tell your DM to look up Sabir, where the term Lingua Franca came from, the “Frankish tongue” which wasn’t really from the Franks.
This is where the idea of a common language comes from. Sabir was a simplified pidgin mix of Mediterranean languages so traders could communicate. They still spoke fine but didn’t conjugate verbs, used Me/you a lot without different forms (myself, I, yourself, them, they, etc).
Sabir was a Mediterranean lingua franca, then Latin for 1500 years throughout Europe. Now it’s English. The idea of Common in D&D comes from Westron or “the Common tongue” in LotR which D&D was heavily inspired from, which was basically written by Tolkien so that his constructed languages had a reason to exist. He was a scholar of languages, and the idea of a common tongue comes from actual history. He wasn’t just making it up. Something like that would likely exist in a Fantasy world with lots of trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn’t unrealistic. They once used Sabir or “Frankish” where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.
As much as people think having “Common” as a language is weird, it literally has historical roots:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca
People have been using a Common language for millenia. Today, the global lingua franca is obviously English. For about 1500 years, the lingua franca of medieval Europe was Latin. And for a while in the Mediterranean it was Sabir, where Lingua Franca the term came from, which was a weird simplified Mediterranean mix of languages (no verb conjugation, etc).
Other areas with multiple languages have had their own Lingua Francas. It’s a common thing to happen if you have big areas with multiple languages and lots of trade.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas
So it’s really not weird to have a Common tongue in games. It came from LotR which came from history since Tolkien was a huge language nerd and wrote a world for his language to exist.
It’s the price you pay if you’re the kind of idiot who has to get the super techy luxury version of something that works amazingly well and functions perfectly fine at $1.
Literally one of the cheapest parts of tabletop games, and 100% functional at less than a buck or two. It’ll last your entire life too, if you’re careful. If you make a fancy electronic version you can charge whatever the fuck you want because the person already decided they’ll pay more than 100x what they need to for luxury they don’t need.
deleted by creator
I think it’s because he looks like a dead baby cybernetic yoda that’s in pain
Diapermogged
Yep, this comic did not age well. This technology literally targets artists. That’s pretty new.
Blaming capitalism is a cop out at this point. You can’t just ignore some very specific problems about a very specific technology then gesture wildly at the world and be like, “if only we didn’t have the entire system set up the way we do, if only we had a perfect economy”.
Good and bad things can still happen in capitalism. You can’t just throw up your hands and say “capitalism” when rat poison ends up in baby food. Regulation can still exist in capitalism and has a proven track record to work. You don’t have to replace the entirety of your economic system to prevent AI data centers from being built.
Kerbal Space Program
It’s really not more expensive unless you’re doing stuff like, quitting hot dogs then eating vegan special hot dogs, or buying vegan branded goods, or eating out at vegan branded restaurants, or tons of vegan ground beef and cheese. You would want to make more whole food recipes that use cheap ingredients.
In fact it’s way cheaper if you’re making beans and rice and veggies from scratch. It’s essentially the cheapest diet you can have if you do it that way. Poor diets are usually beans and rice, or lentils and stuff like that. And not canned beans, but make beans in a crock pot or something.
A little bit of meal prep goes a very long way at making it the cheapest diet you can eat while still having good nutrition and protein. I’ll cook up two pounds of dry black or pinto beans and eat it throughout the week. Doesn’t take much effort at all either, especially with an instant pot.
Every time it looks at me funny I run dd if=/dev/u random of=/dev/kmem bs=1 count=1 skip=$RANDOM
Let it know you ain’t no bitch
A user who doesn’t know sudo is like a man with a donkey dick that doesn’t get hard
The children and parents are of course expected to vape
deleted by creator
should be ungodly and near perfection
Counterpoint: garbage in, garbage out
Why is Newsome trying to be even less popular before the primaries?
All you have to say is the two magic words, “tax billionaires”. For fucks sake Newsome
I feel like training AI on GPL code violates the terms if you don’t open source and GPL the model, but I’m not an expert on licensing.
Super fucking annoying that they just steal all this data before people even knew this was the eventual risk. They should all get shut down for that behavior.
But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.