jjjalljs @ jjjalljs @ttrpg.network Posts 3Comments 3,614Joined 2 yr. ago
A year or so ago I was cutting through the park after dark and I heard strange flutes and music coming from deeper inside. Was probably just buskers or whatever, but I wonder if it was the fay and I should've gone to check it out.
You all see that article that said there's a study saying at least a third of Americans are okay with musk being murdered? Shit like this is going to goose those numbers.
I think I'd need to see more examples to understand this better.
If I'm a thoughtful (d6) wizard and I want to carefully open this portal, what do I roll? What if I'm trying to do so but the building is on fire?
It really does seem a lot like Fate Accelerated. You've both got four actions (though they theirs are more general purpose. create an advantage, overcome, attack. defend). Their approaches are (by default) careful, clever, flashy, forceful, quick, sneaky.
Fuck her. Sheepshead Bay has pretty good subway access, too. You don't really need a car there, I don't think.
It sounds a lot like Fate Accelerated, except more complicated.
I'm not sure I understand the dice sizes. Looks like some types just are weaker?
That's a good post. No disagreements, really.
I want a succinct word to encapsulate this behavior. It's like a child that eats a whole tub of ice cream against your advice, and then gets mad at you that they feel sick. "Stupid" is a word that would come to mind, but I think better can be done. Something with "Solipsism" maybe?
It's also frustrating when you catch them red-handed adopting a position they recently held the opposite stance on. I'm just like, why don't you care about the hypocrisy?
Right?? I'm like, didn't you learn anything in high school history? But then I know that conservatives have been attacking education for decades, and a lot of people just kind of slept through school.
I would argue that this behavior you are describing is a kind of stupid. It is self destructive in the long term, and certainly not intellectually rigorous.
Republicans have long done things that are contrary to their stated goals. They want nuclear families with a stay at home mom, but they don't want to pay people enough to do that.
They don't want abortions but they don't want to have education and contraception.
Conservatives are stupid or lying
I think a lot of people are legitimately too stupid to understand harm reduction and multi step processes. It's like that SpongeBob meme with Patrick's wallet, except it ends in incalculable sorrow.
Another reason "I'm a rugged individual don't tell me what to do" people are absolute fools.
Benefitting from untold quantities of rules and regulations, thinking it's all their personal merit, wanting to swing an axe at the branch they're sitting on.
I've had people tell me that "the market" would solve the problem is people were selling tainted food. idiots.
Part of why I moved to the city was wanting to escape the car based nightmare of the suburbs. Couldn't do much of anything without a car or an extremely risky walk.
I could have walked a mile to the train station with no sidewalks , and then paid $20 for a ticket into the city on a train that stops at like 10pm, but all of that sucks. I stayed inside and played a lot of video games.
Maybe saint Luigi will visit us.
I don't think we're going to see any lasting improvements unless the Republicans are forcibly removed from power.
Can also get an emulator and enjoy all the classics of yore. Chronotrigger holds up, for example
I had to explain progressive taxation to a coworker a while ago. Admittedly he was in his mid 20s and was a self described bad student. To his credit he actually understood. He also went back to school some time later and got an undergraduate degree.
Sometimes there's hope for people.
It's about in-group membership. In-group loyalty to trump is supreme, followed by Republican party, with American a distant third.
It's not about values or internal consistency. It's about belonging.
Sidebar defaults are bad. There's no home directory. How do you get to your home directory? Cmd+shift+H, but can you get there without that special shortcut? You can't see the file system's structure in Finder. The GUI doesn't have a way to go "up" in the directory structure. I don't think you can do it in the GUI alone.
It won't let you see stuff in like \tmp\ without a fight, too. I don't know how to open stuff in places like that without cd'ing to the location in the terminal, and doing open . in the desired directory.
The list view is the least bad, but it gets unwieldy if your directories are deeply nested. It's also bad if you started in the middle of the tree and want to go up. Gallery and column view are really bad for anything non trivial.
I often want to see the entire file path, and it really doesn't want to cooperate. If I do find the file I'm looking for, and want the full path, it doesn't want to give it. I don't even know if there is a way to get it. Other than like cmd+clicking -> "new iterm2 tab here" -> pwd, which is not really that helpful of Finder.
Contrast with windows' default explorer. It's not perfect and I think windows11 made it worse, but still. Open it up, there's the "my pc", click through to my user directory, music, some album, then i can click the top thing and get the path. I can also see the whole tree on the left.
Whatever I was using in Mint was similar to windows' Explorer. Had no complaints about it.
People are kind of stupid and lazy, and if there's no immediate benefit for doing something or punishment for skipping it, they'll do whatever's easiest. We're all like this to some degree, in some contexts or other.
It is a little funny to me that some people just don't have professional standards. I would make a good faith effort to respond completely to a work email because that's the job. But I don't think that's it for a lot of people.
There's a lot of ADHD and friends in the world, and a lot of it is untreated. They're not skipping questions out of malice. They're probably trying their best. Still failing, but trying. That counts for something.
A lot of people also don't read well. They won't likely show up on a texty medium like this, but they're out there. It may be uncomfortable and embarrassing for them to try to read your email, especially if the level of diction is high and the vocabulary extensive. Most people are emotionally kind of fragile, and won't put up with that shame for very long. I think that's why a lot of people want to hop on a call or have a meeting when it could've just been an email. They can talk fine, but communicating in written words is harder.
Are you familiar with automated testing? From the subject line I thought this was going to be about that, but the body of the post is something else.
I thought you were exaggerating that he's 91. Our government has too many ancient farts, maybe.