jjjalljs

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 hour ago

Self-driving cars were never a good investment. It's a really hard problem that doesn't really get us to a better world. All that money could have been spent on public transit, which has a whole lot of benefits.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

I think one of my friends is a member there, and said it's been pretty wild. Some very long emails were sent around.

I don't know how anyone can still support Israel but here we are.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

In the US, we don't have healthy institutions that can do that. They're all corrupted by racism, lack of funding, lack of accountability, and insane religious people.

Maybe the post wasn't in the US, but also other places may have similar problems.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 hours ago

Unfortunately, most of the maga hats are idiots. They'd rather lose all their money if it meant they could be more racist

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 hours ago

I'm reminded of "a libertarian walks into a bear". Right wing folks have a poor model of the world

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 11 hours ago

Capitalism is giving bad outcomes. Labor is divorced from the results of their work, and people who contribute little to nothing (or less than nothing) grow wealthy.

We don't need to go all the way to full communism in one shot, but I'd like to think most of us can agree the current system is unacceptable

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 12 hours ago

Right? This keeps happening when people try to sell me on LLMs. We already had better solutions for some of this stuff.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 34 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

I think it's a sharp contrast with the cops that let a school shooting happen while they were outside, for example

Yes, we should expect people to do their jobs. In an ideal world, that is. This world is far from ideal where we have ICE, trump, shit cops, etc.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You don't understand small talk if you think it has no functional purpose. Small talk has several purposes.

One, it sends a bunch of signals. I see you. You see me. Neither of us are threats. We have a shared language.

Two, it's how you find deeper topics to talk about. "What did you get up to this weekend?" "Oh, hung out with my friend. We saw a band I like - All Dogs - do a surprise anniversary show. You do anything big?"

Three, it lets people choose their level of engagement. "Cool, sounds fun. I stayed in, watched some TV" signals minimal interest vs "All dogs? Never heard of them but I love live music. What's their genre?" signals interest, and now you can a little deeper on music.

If you just plunge directly into deep stuff that's like skipping foreplay and lube. It's probably going to make people uncomfortable.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 40 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

I feel like just walking up to the base and shooting at fascists wasn't a well thought out plan, but points for effort.

Maybe someone will use a bomb or find out where they sleep next time.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 19 hours ago

Sure, it wouldn't be an easy live starting with $500k, but I think with strict budgeting and low costs you could stay in the black and grow your principle. And if you get any job at all on top of it, it's even easier.

Anyway, yeah, was just spit balling how much a difference the money could make.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 20 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

A lot of bosses think developers’ entire job is just churning out code when it’s actually like 50% coding and 50% listening to stakeholders, planning, collaborating with designers, etc.

A lot of leadership is incompetent. In a reasonable, just, world they would not be in these decision making positions.

Verbose blogger Ed Zitron wrote about this. He called them "Business Idiots": https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-the-business-idiot/

 

Not sure if this community is dead, but here we are!

I kind of stopped playing new versions around .28 because I really disliked the opportunity attacks mechanism, but I thought I'd give .32 a try. The new shapeshifter things look cool, but in fussing with it a bit it's harder than I expected.

But now the tournament is live! Who's playing?

https://crawl.develz.org/tournament/0.32/

I currently have one win with ye olde MiBe. Got lucky with good armor early on, and then cruised to a 3 rune (shoals + snake + vaults) win.

There was one dicey moment in the lungs where I went around the corner to reveal 4 orbs of fire, some draconians, and a lightning golem all waiting for me. Hasted + Fog'd my way the hell out there.

 

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

 

Currently, I'm polite to friendly with all of them. No outstanding conflicts. It's sometimes literal kitchen table poly with one, and the others I only see at like parties and such.

Some years ago I had two partners that absolutely did not get along with each other, and that was rough. Recently I was able to do a dinner with 3 partners and everyone had a good time.

I try not to make a big deal about folks meeting. I try to model after meeting your friend's friends.

 

For me there's a bit of a network effect where the polycule sprawls out into the distance. Partners have partners who have partners.

But for disconnected folks, it's mostly been tinder (yuck), and a local meetup.

(Also this might be the first post? That or nothing federated yet)

 

I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

 

Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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