jaaake

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[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

This has already been fixed. The top AI result is now this article.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My over the top positive lil guy was a halfling bard who was a baker. All his instruments were pots and pans he would bang on. His vicious mockery was telling you ways that you let down people in your life and genuinely wanting to help you do better. His bags were full of homebrewed muffins that were infused with calm emotions which he would use to pacify and bribe NPCs. Whimble Buttercrust became the de facto party leader and turned our resident murder hobo into a struggling pacifist who would snap if anyone put Whimble in danger.

The other halfling in our party was a horny rogue, so I played Whimble asexual. The DM was also horny so they found it amusing to watch Whimble struggling to graciously excuse himself while remaining oblivious (until it was no longer possible and then becoming flustered).

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The other day I heard someone say "fuck around and find out" to mean "experiment to discover the correct path" and was really amused by that concept.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

That last bit reminds me of a prank that my friends and I used to play in high school in the 90s. We would make a Beigebox, which is just a normal landline phone with alligator clips on the cord instead of the normal connector. You could use the alligator clips to attach the beigebox to someone's phone line from the exterior of their house, at the phone junction box. We would do this, take the phone off the hook and hide it. Their phone would be tied up until they found and disconnected it. Sometimes it would take them days (or contacting the phone company from another line) to find the issue. If we were feeling particularly malicious, we would dial internationally or a 900 number instead of just leaving it off the hook.

Reading this back now, I feel like to Gen Z this prank reads like "In the previous century, I would play a naughty trick by filling the chamber pot of mine enemy with adobe so that it cannot be cleaned."

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20120201081506/https://www.washingtonpost.com/gene-weingarten-defines-shanda-for-the-goyim/2011/05/17/AFaOBn5G_story.html

To be a shanda for the goyim is to confirm the most hurtful stereotypes,thereby doing damage twice: a Jew who dishonors Jews by not only doing something bad, but doing something that confirms the worst fears of others about Jews in general.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy how predictive this 1990 B-Movie was about our graduating class: https://youtu.be/3w-ph46XYWQ

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

I grew up in the 80s in a Southern California suburb. All the neighborhood kids used the transformer box as a meeting place. My first kiss was absolutely at one that looked really similar to this. I haven't thought about Becky C. in decades.

Another transformer box story:

Before helicopter parenting was standard, folks used to let their kids wander around the neighborhood pretty much as soon as they could talk. All the kids watched each other. 12 year olds hanging out with 4 year olds. When I was part of the older kids group, we had convinced the younger kids (the ones that couldn't yet read) that the transformer box was actually a trap that housed an electrical monster, thanks to this Mr. Ouch sticker:

I'm pretty sure the recent release of Ghostbusters had influenced this story and the acceptance of it.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The German words on the sign in the background support your observation

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Completely agree. In fact, if he dies before then, it's likely to have the opposite effect.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It also gives them a free tax write off that's specifically designed for you to not be able to claim.

[–] jaaake@lemmy.world 57 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Genuinely think this format is a great way to write character backstory. Not any of the content beneath the headers, that's for the DM and player to flesh out during sessions. The Nickelodeon Board of Directors are the big bad for one campaign, the guy who framed you for arson is just chillin in the pub you walked into, etc. Work out the details like it's an improv scene.

 

Nobody likes voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Casting a vote in favor of someone who is diametrically opposed to your viewpoint(s) absolutely sucks. The shitty reality is that we aren’t going to change the electoral process in the next two months.

If you don’t see either major candidate as a champion that you can support, it seems more beneficial to see it as selecting your enemy for the next four years. I would rather fight against someone that I have a chance of changing. At minimum I would rather protest against someone that I think has a lower chance of authorizing lethal force against a march that I attend.

Voting for a 3rd presidential candidate (or not voting at all), is letting someone else make that decision for you.

That said, we have got to get out of this constant cycle of only having two options. There’s too much money at a national level to start there. We’ve got to start local and get third party candidates into offices at a city level, then state, then national. It’s going to take a long time and it should have happened so very long ago. We can’t change the past, we can only change the future. The only time to start changing the future is in the present.

 

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