But we’re in the bad timeline, so a congressional logjam means that he takes lots of executive actions, the bought SCOTUS lets him and Congress can’t pass anything to stop him.

I mean, I wouldn’t say it is the dumbest thing, but it sure is up there.

First, this is a great explanation and example. That being said, tarrifs can be good for the country implementing them in a very narrow set of circumstances.

Let’s say you are in a not very industrialized nation, maybe one recovering from colonialism or war. In that case almost everything is cheaper to import, and so it’s really difficult to get any economy going past subsistence farming. Targeted tariffs can help in that case to encourage local investment in the basic commodities needed to get the economy started.

Similarly, if you have one specific part of your economy that you really care about but it needs some help getting going, tarrifs can help to grow that sector.

In both cases, the tarrifs need to be narrowly targeted and be regularly monitored for when they should be phased out.

But in all cases, a large economy raising broad tarrifs is stupid.

That’s why you reroll on already taken numbers. Or drop down a die size every two arrows.

I’d absolutely allow something like that at my table. Something like this isn’t going to have explicit rules, so even in a serious RAW (Rules As Written) game, the GM is going to have to come up with something. It’s just that we all have dice and may not have the right setup for tokens, etc.

Really, the simple way to do it is have arrows #1-5 be the cursed ones. The player then rolls a D10 to see which ones are pulled, rerolling on repeat “arrows”.

I really, really want to like KCD, but after a bad experience early on I’ve never been able to get back into it. There is a mission fairly early on where you need to sneak from one end of a large map to the other. There was a lot to do and explore on it, so it probably took me 60-90 minutes. Then right at the end I got jumped by 4-5 soldiers and died. And because of KCDs aggressivly-anti save system, I would have had to repeat the entire thing. I get that KCD is supposed to be super hard core, but I’m a busy dad of two small kids. Finding an uninterrupted pocket of 90 minutes to enjoy a game is a rare luxury, so having it ended like that completely soured the game for me.

More games need a “busy parent” easy mode.

Ooh! Time to give it another look.

It’s alway weird to me that even though Ubuntu has the largest Linux desktop market share, no one admits to using it.

Anyway, I use Ubuntu because I was doing a lot of ROS development when I last built a machine, and getting ROS running properly on other distros can be a pain.

To claim a subdomain in the DNS system you have to have the domain first.

I… yeah that’s pretty much us.

My motorcycle dealer has a similar sign about being sad and ugly.

Looking back… that was right, hmm, 7 out of 8 times. The miss was a very chill place that gave out Dells, but I lost my job because the funding round didn’t come in.

Most of the people in this thread:

If I was a much better writer, I could have written this. Which is to say, I too regret voting for Nader in that election and will never make that mistake again. My only redeeming thought is that while my state was close, it did go for Gore.

I guarantee there were enough voters in Florida with the same regrets to easily have put Gore in office if they could redo it. Do you think there are any who wish they could have voted Green instead?

“That that” can and probably should be replaced with “that which” in almost every instance it is used.

Edit: or “when that”

I’ve left two jobs because they were toxic. I always had something else lined up beforehand though.

I remember having a few of these for WordPerfect, MS Word for DOS and Lotus 1-2-3.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/03/03/the-forbidden-fruit#

Right?!? There was this whole “real men don’t eat quiche” thing that I remember from the 90s. What is unmanly about putting an omelette in a pie crust? It makes it easier to eat on the go and keeps better in the fridge.

Pull through parking. You know, where there are two spaces so you drive through one into the next so you can pull out of the one you park in without having to back up? I got told that was for “girls and gays”.