I feel like this is just illegal in states that require two party consent for recording, but I’m not a lawyer.

It’s also just generally a bad idea and everyone involved in making it should be barred from working in technology.

People are emotionally invested in eating meat and it’s stupid.

I feel like sometimes people refuse to “meta game” in a way that is also metagaming, except targeting bad outcomes instead of good.

Like your characters live in a world with trolls. They’re not a secret. Choosing to intentionally avoid fire because “that’s metagaming” is also metagaming. You’re using your out of character knowledge (fire is effective) and then avoiding it.

Usually cleared up with a "hey dm, what are common knowledge and myths about this stuff? or whatever.

As we see more examples of our institutions giving bad, cruel, and nonsensical outcomes, support for violent responses like Luigi will grow. I think a lot of the people involved in perpetuating injustice don’t even see themselves as bad people. Some corrupt prosecutor that knowingly sent innocent people to jail could be bleeding out on the sidewalk at the feet of their past victims, and they’d be like “what did i ever do to deserve this??”

It’s upsetting that people can be colossally stupid and factually incorrect and face no meaningful consequences. Like, who is the OP? Why are they just walking around without a warning sign that says like “This person is stupid”?

You don’t get to be CEO without weapons grade hubris, I guess.

That sounds terrible and I absolutely do not want that.

One of the many things that’s infuriating about this is that these people are so profoundly stupid, but they keep getting all the money and power. If there was any justice in the world, people like the decision makers in your stories would be living a very spartan life somewhere, reflecting on how they are so fucking senseless.

And yet people continue to worship these “job creators” and “visionaries”.

Why do we even have laws if they’re not going to protect people from abuse? Shit like this is why people cheer for Luigi. People are just trying to get the basics - health care, shelter, food - and the rich are taking too much.

It doesn’t feel like there’s any class solidarity in the US except between the very rich.

Find people that want to play, there’s more than you can think.

Something I learned a long time ago is it’s easier to find people who want to play D&D (or whatever game) and make friends with them than it is to make your friends play D&D.

There’s probably a nicer way to put this, but frankly most people are a fucking mess. And who can blame them? This is a capitalist hellscape. But that means if you’re semi randomly selecting people, you’re going to get a lot of people who are barely holding on, and won’t make fantasy elf time a priority… Some of them might sincerely want to play, and overestimate their energy levels. Other people are terrified of confrontation, and will say yes even when they absolutely do not want to do that.

But if you go the other way around, and find folks that seem friendly at a meetup or whatever for RPGs, they’re more likely to show up. They already put in effort and showed up somewhere.

I think two of the somewhat fancier grocery stores I go to have grinders there. The more basic one I usually go to I don’t think does. I don’t drink coffee myself, so I’m not 100% certain.

Good. Fuck Google and fuck the ai slop

32k/year seems hard unless you’re really pooling expenses or live in a cheap metro area

Napkin math, I guess it checks out if you can get rent for < ~$1000, have no debt, and no car

This doesn’t seem like something that benefits the majority of people.

If it was like “here’s free (or at least legitimately cheap) access to some virtual actors. Go make the movie of your dreams, kids!” maybe that would be cool. Maybe there are people out there with brilliant ideas that are blocked by not having real actors to act for them. Maybe.

But this just seems like another way for the rich to keep more wealth for themselves.

The fighter in my story is the rogue in your story? That makes sense.

On the one hand, fuck adams. On the other, I appreciated him splitting the idiot and asshole votes between him and cuomo.

That doesn’t seem like the same thing at all. Can you elaborate?

Hah, I should have. I do remember letting him search first once and being petty about it. “Oh, you got a 12? A whole twelve? Woowwwww. I’m going to take 10 and get a, let’s see- twenty-two. Would be a 27 if only I had some sort of magical equipment boost”

(For those of you who don’t remember, “take 10” was a 3e rule where you can opt to treat the roll as if you’d rolled a 10, so long as you’re not in immediate danger. https://www.d20srd.org/srd/skills/usingSkills.htm )

edit: fixed typo that reversed meaning

No. If they showed the work and I could repeat the steps myself and get the answer maybe, but I’d still be wary of some subtle wrong.