[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 2 hours ago

a state he won with 64% of the vote in last year’s presidential election

64% of Arkansas voters deserve to absolutely, relentlessly, get fucked. Sucks for everyone else, though.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 11 hours ago

Her first shock came two months after the shooting when a grand jury returned a no bill in the case, meaning it chose not to indict Iversen for killing an unarmed man.

The fuck is wrong with the jury. Also the prosecutor. Failures and scumbags.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago

The first and last points are flawed, though.

Several people are telling you a story, and they’re all slightly different versions of supposedly the same story.

Sometimes the issues are like "We should ban books" vs "We shouldn't ban books". They're not slightly different so much as opposites. For something like "income tax should stop at 40% vs 80%" sure, but a lot of what's on the table now is not that nuanced.

Which leads me to

You don’t really know any of them personally, hence have no predisposition for trusting the story of one over that of the others or even know for sure that at least on of the stories is the true (i.e. they could all be lying to you).

This implies that information and truth is unknowable. That you can't open up wikipedia, click through to sources, read a book. You shouldn't have to go solely on "does their body language seem confident?". This is supposed to be the information age!

But I guess a lot of people cannot read well, and certainly don't know how to determine what's a good source and what's not. I've seen people just go by some youtube video some nobody made and... oh, I see the problem. If you assume everyone and everything is just as credible as anything else, even some pseudonymous youtube video, knowing anything becomes dubious. Maybe this is why you have "Four dozen studies from nineteen universities have shown human activity is contributing to climate change" -> "well, CoolDog420 on their youtube channel said it's just because the sun is having PMS, and I like his videos."

That assumption that all things are equally credible is really bad. In college I took an intro to journalism course as an elective, and one of our first assignments was to go through a list of sources and determine which ones were good and which were not. Some were partisan think tanks, some were actually satire, some were real. It was a good exercise. Some students got taken in by all of it, and I think benefited from the professor walking them through how to investigate.

This is probably all downstream from under-investing (or outright sabotaging) public education.

I don't know how to fix this.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 15 hours ago

I found a neat looking board game at the thrift store once. I looked it up on my phone to check reviews, and learned it would be cheaper to buy it new than what they were asking. Usually they have good deals but not that time.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 15 hours ago

I've adopted the policy of only buying a game if I plan to play it that day. Works well.

Also now that I'm unemployed I'm not buying anything. Reinstalled Morrowind (OpenMW) and realizing there's quests I never even knew were here when I played this as a youth. It's also super janky, but mods help.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 14 points 15 hours ago

Hasn't every republican been worse for the economy since like Nixon? Why do people think Republicans are so good?

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 16 hours ago

This makes a kind of sense. If you assume they're not listening to any of the words, but just the tone, then I guess that might explain things. But I don't want to think so many people are acting like literal dogs.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 day ago

True. It feels worse lately, but maybe that's just mythology. In my imagination, in the not so distant past, if you wanted to get funding for a business you'd have to show the investors it was a good idea, with like spreadsheets and stuff. Now it seems more like a bunch of bros just decide based on feelings. Zoom, I read, got funded even though the investors thought it was a solved problem and foolish to go against the big players, but they were friends with the CEO and decided to let him have his fun for like several hundred million dollars.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 36 points 1 day ago

The whole venture capitalist system is kind of bullshit. There's so much vibes-based investing. The end game is often "and then we'll be a monopoly and price gouge people". It sucks. It all sucks.

Labor should unionize. Kill the bosses if need be. And then maybe we can focus on building things that are useful and well liked, instead of another ad targeting platform.

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 43 points 1 day ago

The poll finds 35% of Americans approve of the way Musk is handling his job in the Trump administration

35% of people are liars or idiots

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 59 points 1 day ago

Yeah this is one of the reasons labor needs to organize.

There's one boss telling 500 workers that they all need to work themselves to death? Fuck that. We outnumber him. We could be productive without burnout and things could be fine.

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submitted 8 months ago by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/dcss@lemmy.world

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.

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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.

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submitted 9 months ago by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/Polyamory@kbin.run

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.

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submitted 9 months ago by jjjalljs@ttrpg.network to c/Polyamory@kbin.run

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)

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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.

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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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