Senior Chief Petty Officer. Starfleet is in my blood, and I’ve spent my entire adult life in service to boldly going.
Keiko and Molly are my favorite humans, but Transporter Room 3 will always be my favorite.
Just don’t ask who what’s in the pattern buffer.
Shhhhhhhhhhh
If I don’t know my master plan, then THEY certainly don’t either!
Also I do intentionally leave some things a bit more vague, with ideas of what I want to do, but I’m hoping the players will start theorizing amongst themselves so I can incorporate their stuff into the game.
It gives them a nice sense of accomplishment to have “predicted” something, and I think they feel more engaged in the campaign.
Or maybe I’m just a bad DM…
But that isn’t the criteria they’re working with in any news report or court case, is it?
If I draw up some plans on a napkin with crayon, make my thing based on that, and “QC” says all the parts are to spec, and it fails and looks like shit in the process… I would say that is FAR more improvised than the guy making a pipe bomb out of hardware store supplies that’s set off by a complex electronic custom timer/signal receiver.
I do get your point, I’m just being slightly ridiculous for humor’s sake.
It’s all entirely “did someone make this in a factory with government approval or not”
Y’know… In this hypothetical news story/court case…
They had an app store?
Yeah, but to be fair, those were smallish nukes, and we only saw those go up against large bugs.
Not a net or trident in sight.
Not a fair comparison.
Every extreme sport is insane if you dissect it with rational thought about human frailty.
It’s great!
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go strip to thin breathable cloth so I can tear along the countryside at speeds humans weren’t designed to travel at, while dodging trees, bushes, occasional wildlife, roots and rocks, hoping my air filled donut bladders don’t rupture and none of the welds on my metal stick give out. Once I’m done I’ll cool off with a nice downhill roll, rivaling the cheetah on speed.
Mountain biking.
That said… Caves are one of those places I’d love to go to one someday but it won’t be relaxing for me. They can be scary as FUCK. Don’t even get me started on cave diving. Those people are insane and in need of therapy.
My first though in reading the title was “well when your alternatives are shit like fox or CNN, you might as well just get it from social media.”
There’s about the same amount of integrity from it, and it’s way easier to think “man, this one guy I’m watching might not know what he’s talking about” than it is to think “this whole team of people are wrong” but then you have to take into account the parasocial relationship many viewers have with their content providers. It’s easier to trust “Paul” because he’s wearing the same clothes I am, speaking to me the way I talk, giving me things I like to hear.
Content creators (I stubbornly refuse to call them ‘influencers’) will push brands and sponsors all day every day, but news outlets will fabricate your entire reality at the behest of whatever rich fuck is in charge. News outlets happily run state propaganda, knowing they are lies.
I was still a child during Iraqi freedumb and even then I knew something was fucky because friends in other countries were saying our politicians were lying to us to go to war, but my parents and teachers all believed the media coverage of wmds
Conclusion: all media sucks. Sensory deprivation chambers are the future of mankind if we are to survive. And I’m only partially joking, I think.
Man, imagine if your neighbor was getting shot at by his neighbor on the other side, and while you’re telling your neighbor “you got this Bro, I believe in you and here are some bullets” you go ahead to the other side and continue buying things from the shitbox taking potshots.
Buying stuff from Russia makes you a piece of shit. Pure and simple. You’re funding genocide.
And please do bring up the US and Israel, as if I won’t agree the US is a piece of shit for funding Israel’s genocide of Palestine and you’re engaging in whataboutisms I see people harping on every time China gets brought up.
And for the same production value and some brightly colored spandex, so can you!
Never underestimate how many ways you can dress up a rock quarry. Just ask the members of SG-1
Depends on what I’m playing.
I can comfortably play some games down to 12fps ±3ish, if it isn’t something that’s fast paced.
I have yet to play anything where I’m skilled enough for higher than 30fps to matter response-wise, and while I can notice the difference between 60fps and 240fps on my monitor, I gotta say it doesn’t do much for me.
Maybe I just don’t know what to look for, what I’m missing, or how to set up my laptop right, but who knows. My eyes could be stuck on 720p for all I know.
The problem is not the price.
The problem is Ai “art” is inherently stealing the work of other people, and not in a way that a painter can say they were influenced by some other painter.
But the business analysts are the most profitable group, anywhere! If you don’t believe me just hire a business analyst to analyze things and they’ll prove it to you!
I haven’t logged into Facebook in over a decade, can’t even remember the login email. Can’t be arsed to jump through hoops to ask for it to be deleted.
Can’t imagine why anyone would willingly make a fb page today.
"They came first for the distros. But I didn’t speak up, because it was only Facebook and only Linux. "
Hey I’ll have you know I live within walking distance of TWO tracks.
Just don’t ask me how close the nearest passenger rail is…
You mean the convicted felon Rapist manchild known for acting like a child is… Acting like a child?
I’m so glad 25% of the population got to destroy the country because they can’t handle LGBT people and immigrants existing.
No hard feelings if you want to build a wall around the US, Republicans here seem to think those are foolproof.
Circadian? Is that like a clown circus act?
My wife works nights and is mostly alone all night, so I try to stay up late so she has someone to talk to. Unfortunately I also have a shifting schedule that changes every week, so I can’t ever get into a sleeping pattern.
Without fail and regardless of what time I went to sleep, every day between 630-7am I wake up. And if I’ve had more than 4 hours of total sleep, there’s 0 chance of me going back to sleep no matter how tired I feel.
My body is a MACHINE. It’s BREAKING DOWN and things FALL OUT of it sometimes.
In one work report, I recorded the date as “1/13/25”, “13/1/25” and “13JAN2025”
I have my preference, but please for the love of all that is fluffy in the universe, just stick to one format…
Funny, because I know plenty of people in Ohio who have gone to Canada specifically for better and more affordable medical treatment.
They stated they didn’t break piracy laws because they downloaded a shitload of books for their LLM and didn’t seed any.
Torrents are downloaded by “leeches” and put out for download by “seeders”
A proper ratio of what you downloaded to what you allow others to download should be 1:1 if you’re not a dick. (1gb downloaded means you need to upload 1gb to other users for 1:1) but if you don’t seed at ALL or if you only seed bare minimum to keep downloading things, you’re called a Leech, and derogatorily. Because you didn’t seed.
So they’re stating “we didn’t break the law, we’re just leeches!”