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Huh. I asked it to make me a level 5 Wizard for PF2e, and it spit out… python code to generate one myself???

The new Starter Kit is out and about now. I grabbed one a few weeks ago for my step-son. Are you able to find that in stock? It seemed pretty good from my quick scan.

I’m not looking for a d6 fantasy game right now, but I’m super interested in their momentum based resource management system. I also appreciate that they actually pay their writers, and am curious as to what kind of modules they’ll be releasing in support of the game.

Yeah. The Bidens are safe. The assailant is under arrest. Nobody’s dog got shot.

It’s obvious why this is a confusing outcome.

They 100% think of it as a lever that makes expenses disappear. They’re often just a little bit surprised when it results in labour disappearing along side the expenses, though.

Importantly, though, this kind of dehumanizing language is purposeful, and it’s extremely harmful. It makes it easier for management to treat people’s livelihoods and lives as disposable.

Keep in mind that “human resources” (sometimes called “human capital” at some especially icky places) is also one of these dehumanizing terms. Treating people as resources that are available to use or process is really gross, and that’s literally the name of the department.

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Land of the Free, folks

Just add degrees to any ol’ unit. It’s fine. Unit multiplication isn’t implied, I promise!

I just biked 25 degrees kilometre!

It’s the word of the day every day they be doing war crimes.

Not only is it impossible to evacuate that many people in that short a time, but they’re basically declaring that they’re going to use their military to targer and kill civilians.

Which is a war crime.

“Hamas did it first” doesn’t give them a pass here. If it’s not ok for Hamas, it’s not ok for the Israeli state. And inverting that, if it is ok for the Israeli state…

People spending more time with fewer games is not a reason, in publishers’ minds, to reverse course. It’s the intended outcome.

Having the same number of people (or near the same number) playing fewer games, and filling those games with monetization features is cheaper and easier to maintain than having a broad and growing library of titles.

Remember, the ideal for publishers is to have one game that everyone plays that has no content outside of a “spend money” button that players hit over and over again. That’s the cheapest product they can put out, and it gives them all the money. They’re all seeking everything-for-nothing relationships with customers.

Worth nothing that Augustus used the title “princeps”, which was also an existing title in the Republic. And his power came from holding existing offices. He was careful to make himself the ruler of Rome using the existing governing framework.

He just negotiated that he would hold these positions for life.

This is the same thing Julius Caesar did, except the existing title he held - dictator - carried too much political baggage.

I think it was before that, but after publishing lists of U of T faculty he wanted his incel army to harass and threaten.

I thought he did this 5 years ago, and then never heard anything of it again. Was that a fever dream, or did he fail to find his blackjack and hookers?

Have they remembered to ask Boebert to abstain from making pork porn during Biden’s impeachment carnival, too?

Gender identity is a advanced topic that children don’t have the ability to rationalize.

If you believe that children cannot comprehend “boy” and “girl”, then I don’t know what to tell you.

Other than we know what all of this is really about. None of y’all are at all subtle about it, nor are you even a quarter as smart as you think you are.

theatrical appearance of competence and authority

No, no, no. It’s maintaining the visage of wealth (which is also authority). It has nothing to do with looking impressive or competent, and everything to do with signalling what economic class you’re supposed to come from to belong there.

Apparently they just think that their own disengagement with their kids’ education is a conspiracy against them personally.

“I believe other people’s human rights should be violated because I don’t like them” is a great position to have right up until you’re the disliked party.

I imagine you picture yourself as always the top dog. Protected, even, by the belief that even if you find yourself face down in the mud, the people you gleefully abuse will not step on your head to let you drown in the muck.

And you’re probably right that they wouldn’t. Because they’re probably better people than you are, having had to learn empathy in a world that doesn’t think much of them.

But I kind of hope you choke on dirt.

Yes, Biden hitting the rail workers with a back-to-work order was a blow to labour, but I think it’s important to understand how much of what politicians does is symbolic, and, importantly, reactive.

The symbolism of Biden not just showing support for striking auto workers, but also working the picket line, is a MASSIVE. And it reflects the growing and persistent public support for striking workers in the US. He’s not sticking his neck out here, he’s trying to catch a wave in public sentiment, and his engagement has the potential to grow that wave even further.

That’s huge, and it speaks to some truly significant shifts in the labour movement.

Indeed. An easy and straightforward method of regulatory capture is to convince politicians that the regulations just don’t need to be enforced. “The rules are fair! We totally agree to them! Now, just let us police ourself, which you know we’ll do a good job of because we agreed with your rules!”

Yes, this is ultimately what it means, which means serious effort needs to be made to not let this die down.

Serious effort that I don’t believe will happen, as efforts would need to be constantly escalating to remain in the news cycle.