Some of the people who didn’t vote had their right to vote suppressed (typically by right wing actions)
My lawyer tells me it would have been illegal to go around red neighborhoods and put up flyers saying like “To protect election integrity, Republican voters are to vote on Wednesday”.
We probably shouldn’t have let Fox News fester and metastasize all these years.
I think “what’s good for me right now” is fundamental to the right wing viewset. Hypocrisy isn’t a factor because that doesn’t typically intersect with “is this good for me right now?”
You can point out they said X and now they say Not-X, but that’s going to be as effective as someone telling you that your math is wrong because yesterday you were wearing green and today you’re wearing brown. it’s just a non-sequitur to them.
The idea that players all make their characters in isolation and just show up on session 0 with them sounds like such a recipe for disaster. I know it can work sometimes, much like “just grab four things from the fridge and throw them into the soup” can work sometimes. But sometimes you get like gummy bear pizza bites with shrimp and mayo topping.
I think a lot of games that came after D&D figured out solutions to common problems, but D&D insists on staying kind of archaic.
The didn’t listen when the GM talked about Theme and mood and end up with a character who doesn’t fit with the party/canpaign
Hah, for a second I thought this was my own post because I wrote something very similar here. But yes, this is one that bugs me.
Reminds me of my first big success at work. There was a weekly report that people wanted generated - it showed how much like each operator had done, how much each warehouse had shipped, how many orders we lost from stock issues, etc. it was a low tech company, so they had someone going through the limited UI, looking up each thing one at a time, copying it into excel, and making the report that way. It took hours, and was error prone from stuff like mis-pasting or accidentally skipping a user.
Took a look at it and was like you could definitely automate this. Used some very primitive scripting to pull all the info out of the system’s UI and dump it into a TSV. Took like a couple minutes to run it, import into excel, and add the colors. But it was super janky because it was manipulating the UI like a user instead of, like, directly querying whatever underlying data store it was running on.
Still, management was impressed. I later learned no one actually looked at the report most weeks, so that took some of the wind out of my sails.
This is an ancient joke but they replaced the original pigeon with a blue thing instead. :confused:
Having a minor crisis realizing that 9th grade was far more than seven years ago for me. This is fine.
You know, I replayed it recently (with OpenMW) and for 2002 yes, but by more modern standards not really, not for me. The leveling system is really bad. The combat system is an awful mix of dice rolls and action, where neither is satisfying. Movement is glacial and it takes a long time to either level speed or get mark/recall. NPC interaction is minimal.
It certainly has a lot of cool stuff in it. Spellcrafting is cool (if janky). Enchanting was like spellcrafting, but better. Alchemy can get bonkers. The world is huge, and because it was less level-scaling and procedural-generation you sometimes could find really interesting things. Like breaking into a room in the fighter’s guild and finding a full set of glass armor. Super cool. Of course, the illusion of a believable world immediately shatters when you walk right out wearing the stolen armor and no one reacts.
So, yes and no. Amazing, for 2002. But also kind of limited, and sometimes kind of bad, and they haven’t really reached new heights in the past 23+ years. All of their games handle stealth badly. They all handle damage badly. There’s just not two decades of improvement by them.
I knew someone who refused to look up what words meant. If she didn’t know one , she’d guess or infer from context, but never just look it up. I think she had some unaddressed trauma from school or childhood or something
The more I play Bethesda games the more I realize they’re not actually good. Fun sometimes, but also kind of bad.
A tangent, but I do wonder about all the people that played Final Fantasy 7 and just didn’t get any of the pro-environment message. The protagonists are literally eco terrorists who blow shit up to stop the antagonist corporation from bleeding the planet dry.
It’s like people who listen to rage against the machine and don’t take any politics away.
Opportunity costs still exist
Conservatism explained as “there must be out-groups to bind and in-groups to protect” is pretty good, but someone recently said it’s just “what’s good for me and mine right now?”. Similar idea, different angle. I think this explains much.
Conservatives don’t care about hypocrisy because it doesn’t enter into “what’s good for me and mine right now?” Pointing out that they’re being a hypocrite matters as much as someone saying to you “Your sentence wasn’t alphabetical”. It’s just not a thing they care about, just like you typically don’t think about the ordering of your words.
I think there’s also a pair:
I’m old and tired and generally am super tired of “wacky” ideas like the second one there. I feel like I’ve come full circle. As a youth, I thought like “let’s play vampires and struggle with humanity!” was cool . Then there was a bit where i wanted to flip it- “let’s play vampires but like go to theme parks and don’t do anything sad or deep!”. Now I’m back around to wanting to just play the theme as intended.
This is especially true if it comes up after session 0. Like, if you want to do a D&D game about running a BBQ shop, fine. Let’s do it. Let’s kill, cook, and sell some weird monster parts. But please don’t derail the whole game on session 3 when you insist on going back to town to cook the monster meat when it was clearly a random encounter and everyone else wants to continue the dungeon dive pitched in session 0.
One of the reasons I despair D&D is the most popular RPG. It’s almost all combat, and not even great combat at that.
saying he’s treated like a nazi so might as well say he’s a nazi.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/8/8/1786532/-Cartoon-You-made-me-become-a-Nazi is kind of timeless
Where is “here” out of curiosity?
I mean, if someone came to me and was like “Hey I wrote that paper for you. But I got my idiot little brother to do most of the work, and then I fixed it up,” I would also look askance at them.
I forget where I read it originally, but I think a lot about “You hate every piece of capitalism but don’t connect the dots to see the big picture”