Average God Machine Chronicle game

like if you don’t want to do alt text then don’t, I’m not your boss. but calling for people to point blank stop supporting an aid for disabled folks is just fucking cruel.

The Starfield Snake Cult is honestly baffling and incomprehensible as a polity, and might have actually worked if it was a political tendency inside a polity that made sense instead.

I also am personally just not a big fan of RTS/Turn based strategy that has water units. They somehow feel like an also-ran, and can just not matter on certain maps or matter way too much on others.

Oh cool, Bluesky wants me to give my ID to Epic Games or turn off features now. Guess it's back to Mastodon forever.

It’s not because we oppose dignity in death. It’s not because we’re against bodily autonomy. It’s because we know we live in a deeply eugenicist society that doesn’t value the lives of disabled people. We’re seen as “useless eaters” and have to constantly fight for care

It’s interesting to think about how differently we’d process a lot of modern events if we hadn’t been warped by End of History brain

At a dance class I complimented a woman on her grippy-bottomed socks. “I love the psych ward socks,” I said. And she goes “I call them Pilates socks.” And those, my friends, are the two types of people.

Somebody in the comments was like "flame war sounds so corny though" YES THAT'S THE POINT, "discourse" gives what amounts to turbo-dorks arguing on the internet (I'm one of them I'm allowed to use that term) an unearned veneer of legitimacy.

Magic was my mom working her ass off

A system that does not account for a certain percentage of waste is not a system, it is a public relations presentation

When I was first awarded extra test time, I remember thinking "wow, this seems a bit much, do I really need this?" Then I had a four and a half hour math test where I did actually need the time and realised it was hell and I'd almost rather have failed.

this is a slippery slope in and of itself & people with disabilities are already means tested around being “disabled enough” if they need assistance in meeting their basic needs if a few people who don’t actually need the accommodation take advantage of it, big whoop, i don’t care

Oh I know this one. It’s because their understanding of ‘free speech’ is MANDATORY LISTENING To them Only Forever. They believe they have an inalienable right to an audience and a microphone, always.

i believe it is important to share this in honesty lest i be accused of faux positivity. i have lots of love in my heart but never forget that hating is an utmost expression of love.

I think there is also a lot to be said of some TTRPGs having a ton of choices, but limited -real- choices. 3.5 D&D had a ton of feat options for example, there were only so many viable options for certain classes, and your build basically decided your feat choices. There were 'wrong' choices.

Like if I buy French fries at Wendy’s they shouldn’t give a fuck about how much ketchup I use but every music service is “no dummy listen to this playlist” “we noticed you haven’t listened to this ad free podcast” “let me email you song suggestions” if Wendy’s emailed me about fries I’d become Amish

“I just have concerns about fairness in sport” - no, you don’t. There’s nothing fair about elite sports. You’re just looking for post hoc justification because we give you the ick

additionally we can look at which organization made it to the present and which one is defunct

My Chinese family grew up in Seattle because the Knights of Labor failed. Their politics were inhereted by Steven Miller, the IWW's politics were inhereted by a bunch of service workers organizing against ICE, I know which side I'm on Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

I can't wait for the next hit teething toy, "Mum's Pills."

If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime. If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder. It’s that simple.

College students who can’t handle their strictest instructors need to grow up, which is part of what they’re there for. TPUSA and OU are ironically doing the triggered snowflake participation trophy shtick and harming everyone’s ability to grow up in the process

This is a huge part of why so many people think we're in the middle of a widespread "anti-woke backlash": Small movements opposed to social progress are collected into trend stories by conservative media. Far larger movements that want more diversity are ignored or cast as threats.

i am not a christian but i have no idea why there isn't some big panic about a guy called "mr. beast" amassing tremendous amounts of fame and influence by literally getting people to do dangerous and degrading things

"Respecting and uplifting each other is what being an artist is all about!" No, that's what being a magical ELF is all about.

The head of our department at my old job encouraged us to use copilot. He said how helpful it was for him day to day. It was just proof that he didn’t do anything useful.

TTRPGs are a great example of self-limiting one-hop "piracy" imo; a lot of people will gladly send their players a copy of the game so that the group doesn't have to buy multiple, and will gladly receive those type of shares, but refuse to *chain* those things. i only *share* copies that *i bought.*

Not to be the 'it was always about power' guy, but...

The Deimos Event (3,000u) #Lancerrpg

They only really think "why should someone gets out of a crime because they had a good lawyer?", they don't realise for justice to function strong representation on both sides to fully interrogate what happened is necessary. Otherwise people would just get scammed into prison constantly.

vibe coders are scabs basically

As I'm going through unsubing from every email thing that is not essential, I'm making sure to state this is the reason for anything that asks. Remember that Google's whole business is advertising, pissing off the marketing guys is one of the few things that can get their attention.

Hey, I hope every marketing firm and estore out there knows that this has made all of the newsletters, coupons, and marketing emails I've stayed signed up to and occasionally checked over the years become an impossible annoyance, and I'm now slash and burning all of them.

Hmm, Snake vs LLM chatbots? I think I like the one that doesn't suibait teenagers better, chief.

See the thing is, the underlying tech can be used for this. But it can only be used for this in the sense that *a bespoke model trained on nothing except material directly relevant to what it's analysing* can do this. The "I ate the entire internet for plagiarism and wish-granting" machine *can't*

Because it IS getting worse. And this stuff WILL come for YOU. And the people that are supposed to protect you are not protecting you

And if more journalists + streamers + YouTubers keep ignoring this issue, what they are doing is throwing you — trans, gay, artist, smut customer — to the dogs

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Banks should not have the ability to unilaterally deny funding to people who have committed no crime. It is bizarre that this is even an issue.

Not to take away from the abject horror of reducing your memories of your Nan to a digital nightmare homunculus, but I how long until they drop oversight and people start making homonculi of their estranged exes, queer kids, and any number of other ended relationships they need to let go or fix?

Like, how much of this "I talk to chatgpt 5 hours a day and it is teaching me to to become a god" is the result of a normal person glimpsing the abyss that is *literally* a billionaire's every single social interaction, and it fucking destroying them.

3d6 vs 1d20? Loser shit. 2d8+1d4, look at that curve

I love how uselessly overtuned the bsky moderation is, when I see that Adult Content bumper I have no idea if I'm about to see like, scantily-clad cartoon snake lady, or a graphic drawing of anal penetration. It feels like I'd be safer surfing 4chan in public.

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Feeling this after my old pc may have just exploded on me