At one of my old jobs, some of the software engineers would work nights and weekends without being paid extra. I said we shouldn’t do that. Management gave me a talking to about how I was demoralizing the team and it doesn’t hurt me if they want to work extra. It didn’t seem the appropriate time to argue that them devaluing the same labor I do does hurt me.

Classic RPG strategy of “just basic attack and heal afterwards” works too often, even when playing the game in fast forward

I started buying music in 2015 (mostly Bandcamp) and I have no regrets. I have a big library now of drm free music. Some months I spend nothing and still enjoy music, without ads.

Republicans don’t believe in government as a concept. They should not be allowed to be anywhere near power.

People are emotional creatures. Many feel a thing and then make up anything to justify their feelings. Anything to protect their ego.

“They never warned us” is easier on the ego than “I didn’t listen”.

I don’t know how to fix that behavior

I just assume big businesses are run by idiots.

If Microsoft had their shit together, they could’ve made something like Steam. That’s just printing money.

I saw Castle Rat in Brooklyn the other day (great show) and it was like $25 + $10 of bs “fees”.

I don’t see many bigger bands anymore because the tickets are more than double that.

I enjoyed playing Baldur’s gate 3 as a rogue, playing it like a assassin’s creed game. Nothing but stealth attacks and running away. Never get into a full combat if possible.

Discord was never secure and a private for profit org was never going to stay good.

I forget exactly the route now but you can get to the four kings without fighting anything. There’s a ledge you drop off near the start, and then you’re right above the entrance to the bosses.

to meet the man she’d spent the last three weeks opening up to.

First off, don’t chat for three weeks before a date. That’s a terrible idea. You’re going to build up a faulty model of who they are and then be jolted when you meet them in real life. Which is exactly what happened here.

Second, to all the people using chat gpt, I don’t know how to say this nicely but fucking git gud. What a bunch of sad sacks that can’t have a conversation, can’t read a wikipedia article, can’t even try their honest best.

a workaround for what he sees as the coded jargon of modern dating. “Like, what do you mean ‘What’s my attachment style?’” he balks. “Every girl on the apps has this thing about ‘love languages’ – it’s just gibberish

Is it though? Take five minutes to read about it if it’s so ubiquitous. What a sack of shit.

I’m a pretty average guy and I was getting 1d4-1 dates per week just by matching with people and asking them out. You really don’t need to do more than be genuine, present, and interested in them.

Deadfire was great. Good characters, good gameplay systems.

Loved my chanter with the heaviest armor and shield that popped out summons and sang until the enemies died. Or my cipher that would disintegrate enemies.

That’s DND 5e for you.

The designers originally wanted people to do like 5 fights per rest, but players rightfully said that kind of sucks, and they want to use their cool powers. DND designers keep trying to make this work. It’s especially bad in video games where players hate timed quests.

If they had done something like dark souls “get from here to there on one rest” it might have worked better, but that’s a much harder game.

I tried to play it with someone I was dating. She spent like an hour in the character creation menu. Had a lot of fun making her ranger look interesting. But as soon as we got to the actual gameplay, she checked out. I think we got to the druids and she was done.

Turn based I think is kind of double edged. There’s a lot of waiting, that’s bad. But you also don’t get overwhelmed when you’re trying to figure out how to move the camera or whatever.

DND 5e is a shallow system that you have to go out of your way to make a weak character. That helps. But it also makes it kind of boring for people looking for more depth.

Whenever I meet someone and mention I like video games, and they go “…like call of duty?” I have to respond “nooo no no, not that slop”

I mean, I play a lot of mainstream stuff too (eg: fromsoft, larian) but this kind of shooter just rubs me the wrong way, and makes me kind of sad that’s the placeholder people have for games in general.

You want a coal plant cool, BUT if it is spewing crap into the air that we breath, it violates NAP and not allowed to operate.

Most of the libertarians I’ve met don’t seem to believe that sort of thing. They might accept that punching someone is bad, but something complex like pollution they don’t accept.

“I should be free to dump my garbage on my property! It’s mine!”

“Yeah, but then you pollute the river and everyone down stream suffers”

“…it’s my property!”

None of the guys at my old job liked lae’zel. I think because she’s kind of mean. I’m like that’s what I’m here for. I don’t want some pushover passive aggression like shadow heart, and karlach is fine I guess, but lae’zel making people lick her boots is the shit. I’m not even into being dominated but I do like women with agency.

Grand juries only hear the prosecution. There’s no defense. They only need a simple majority to indict. And if the prosecutor doesn’t get an indictment, they can just try again. There’s no double jeopardy protection at this stage.

Noteworthy, all those times when prosecutor’s “couldn’t get an indictment” for the police killing someone, it’s because they didn’t want to.

They don’t care about hypocrisy because their only value is in-group supremacy. But some of them still hold onto the illusion that they are good people and hypocrisy is bad, so maybe they’ll make mouth noises. But in their souls they don’t care.

Any idea will turn to shit if you let republicans and other conservatives near it. They’re the worst people.