In the Gameboy one , you can kill the chicken with the fire wand thing and then the swam stops.

Every jury I’ve been on has been full of really disappointing people. But I’ve only been on two, so it’s a small sample size.

DND is a weird mix of too many rules and not enough rules.

I’m never going to buy a PlayStation outside of maybe a yard sale second hand situation. Nor will I ever pay a subscription fee. So if they don’t want my money, fuck 'em.

Optimizing for million different hardware possibilities

I’m pretty sure modern development has APIs that abstract a lot of that away from you. It’s not 1999 when you need to talk directly to the hardware anymore

I switched to Linux a year or two ago. Pretty much every game I’ve played has worked fine. (Elden ring, guild wars 2, nioh2, pillars of eternity…)

Even non-steam stuff was basically click and go with Heroic launcher

Why is it only for some people and not universal?

Many things are completely arbitrary and yet have weight. Laws. Language. Being arbitrary is not sufficient reason to discard the idea on its own.

It has basis in reality in that it reflects the experience and judgement of many people. It’s a common expression. Given this post seeks the judgment of people, that basis is insufficient to discard it.

Your reasoning is bad.

(46/2)+7 = 30. 30 is the floor. 25 is too young.

Posting this from the train. It’s pretty great.

Took the train to another part of the city. Walked around until I found a little bar with food. Saw a show. Now I’m taking the train back.

Probably because all the horrible shit trump does takes up all the space.

The soul of the USA is rotten. We don’t believe in collective things like mass transit.

I’m surprised there aren’t more cancer patients who decide fuck it and aggressively crash a board meeting.

Seriously, folks, how hard is it to just walk away?

I read recently that “will power” doesn’t meaningfully exist, but it’s rather the result of many other factors. That said, many people seem to be bankrupt of what one would call willpower. I don’t know why.

Maybe it’s the capitalist hell scape. Maybe it’s the plastic in our bodies. Maybe people are just largely social followers, and with a large enough contingent of idiots many people who would behave better follow down into the slop.

Most players are only half paying attention, and are badly trained by video games to assume every NPC is telling them the truth.

I had a player once I think of as the worst player I’ve ever had. Easily confused, impulsive, and very bad at sticking to a coherent character. They’d be all “I’m a soldier I follow orders!” in one scene, and “fuck what my commander said I’m going awol” the next.

I think a lot about one time I had an NPC lie to her PC’s face. The NPC was in faction mildly unfriendly towards the PC’s faction, and the PC was looking for one of theirs. The NPC told a mildly implausible lie about the guy’s whereabouts, and the player’s brain just ground to a halt when following up on it was a dead end.

“So no one here has heard of the guy?”

“Seems so.”

“But other-guy said he was here.”

“He did.”

“So where is he?”

“Not here, so far as you can tell.”

“But he said he would be.”

“He did.”

“And no one here has heard of him?”

“Seems so.”

The other players lost their patience and pointed out that maybe the NPC was lying, and it wasn’t the GM making a mistake or misunderstanding.

I don’t think it was especially worth it, but maybe lying would work better with a better player.

Anyway. You also don’t want to train your players to go “INSIGHT CHECK” during every interaction, and if you have someone lie once they’ll probably be paranoid for years. Same problem with traps, once. You burn them with a floor trap once, and then they’re all 10’ poles and chickens

Man, if only they had allegiance to a radical left base. It’s so irksome how republicans just say things without caring about truth or consistency.

Double jeopardy doesn’t typically align with the layperson’s understanding of it.

I affectionately call lemmy “the commie site”, but my current instance I think defederated with a lot of the spicier places.

They’re still there for, well, I can think of three reasons.

People vote for them. Organizing people to vote is hard for various reasons, but that mechanism is still present.

They’re not murdered. Always an option, but certainly an escalation that doesn’t scale well.

They’re not expelled. Wikipedia says "In the entire history of the United States Congress, 21 members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and six from the House of Representatives. Of these 21 members, 17 were expelled for supporting the Confederate States in 1861 and 1862. ", so that’s not a commonly used option.

Personally I worry that if non-violent options fail, more people will see violence as an acceptable option.

Match group should be broken up.