'This reeks of desperation': Internet mocks 'Donald McDonald' for fast food campaign stunt
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    jjjalljs
    6h ago 100%

    Trump has repeatedly accused his Democratic opponent of lying about working at McDonald's, in large part because the job wasn't listed on her later resume for a legal job.

    This man doesn't know how resumes or jobs work.

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  • Former PlayStation boss says games are "seeing a collapse in creativity" as publishers spend more time asking "what's your monetization scheme?"
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    jjjalljs
    16h ago 100%

    At least you can improve inventory in-game (eg: do normal gameplay quest and crafting stuff to get bigger bags). Some monetization is cash or nothing.

    Still bad when they make something annoying and then charge to fix it.

    Guild wars 2 specifically has a surprising amount of quality of life stuff for free, but you can see places where "we can make money here" won out occasionally.

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  • How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/
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    16h ago 100%

    Lots of people never reach more advanced stages of moral reasoning. They don't do bad things to avoid being punished, or maybe because they have a simple understanding of "it's against the rules"

    The current justice and prison system is abhorrent, but something needs to happen if someone tries to murder someone else. Most people are alright but there are a lot of anti social people out there, too. And a lot of people who would be alright if they were in more stable circumstances

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    Make America Grift Again
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    jjjalljs
    16h ago 100%

    Eggs are also used in other ways than just scrambling and eating them directly, like baking.

    I'm not vegan but I don't love animal products so much I'd oppose it. When people are like "I need my lunch to be tasty I don't care about suffering, the environment, or disease" they sound really simple minded and selfish.

    I would eat nothing but rice and beans every day if it made a difference for climate change. I'm not emotionally invested in food and it's not part of my identity.

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  • Elder Scrolls 6 likely won’t revert to “fiddly character sheets” after Baldur’s Gate 3 success, explains Skyrim lead
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    16h ago 100%

    Baldur's gate 3 characters aren't even that complicated. You pick stats at the start from a limited range of options, and then make very few choices when you level up. Some levels you don't pick anything at all. This ain't path of exile.

    I got a mod for bg3 that gives you a feat every level and holy shit did that make it more interesting.

    To WotC's credit, making character choice really shallow is probably why the game succeeded so well. A lot of people don't really want a lot of choices, especially when some are traps.

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  • Elder Scrolls 6 likely won’t revert to “fiddly character sheets” after Baldur’s Gate 3 success, explains Skyrim lead
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    jjjalljs
    16h ago 75%

    The larian games have some interesting interactions beyond just oil. You can make people slip on ice.

    The old Magicka game also had some fun interactions that more games could learn from.

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  • Elder Scrolls 6 likely won’t revert to “fiddly character sheets” after Baldur’s Gate 3 success, explains Skyrim lead
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    16h ago 100%

    For a generous definition of "these days", check out the pillars of eternity games. They're very good and clearly a love letter to Baldur's gate. Unfortunately the team is now making a Skyrim-like for some reason, but I hope they come back and finish the main game story sometime.

    There's also that solasta game that's DND 5e but on a smaller budget from a few years ago.

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  • Elder Scrolls 6 likely won’t revert to “fiddly character sheets” after Baldur’s Gate 3 success, explains Skyrim lead
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    jjjalljs
    16h ago 100%

    "constantly be jumping while conjuring a skeleton" is pretty stupid and counter intuitive for an optimum thing to do, but it that's what you should do if you want to level those skills up.

    Morrowind also had some bizarre optimum behavior if you wanted to get the +5s on stats when you leveled.

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  • The decline of sex in films
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    jjjalljs
    16h ago 83%

    Sex scenes on the other hand, come out of nowhere, add nothing to the plot and only leave you in disgust

    These are not universal truths

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  • The decline of sex in films
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    1d ago 93%

    I remember a bunch of years ago talking about This Film Is Not Yet Rated, and how I thought it was absurd a scene where someone's brains get shot out and they die is ok, but a non-graphic cunnilingus shot was unacceptable. The two people I was talking to, a woman older than me and someone my age, were both like "No that makes total sense. I'd watch a violent movie with my kid but not one with sex in it"

    I was like, "You'd rather your kid run around fantasizing about murder than sex?" And they were like "yeah"

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  • Elon Musk’s fake sites and fake texts impersonating the Harris campaign
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    1d ago 100%

    Nationalize spacex.

    Our supreme court is already showing us that laws and precedent don't mean anything anymore. Might as well use the chaos for some good.

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  • Elon Musk’s fake sites and fake texts impersonating the Harris campaign
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    1d ago 100%

    This guy could eat a baby live on TV and too many folks would be like "Any talk of using force is inappropriate. We have to engage him in the marketplace of ideas. You can't just physically stop him from doing things. You can't just take his property. Inappropriate!"

    I really hope he meets an embarrassing end, and soon.

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  • Elon Must is offering voters $100 to sign his pro-Trump petition
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    1d ago 100%

    They don't care about truth, or consistency. They care about power. Specifically, the power of their in-group.

    Conservatism has been aptly summarized as "There must be in-groups for the law to protect but not bind, and out-groups for the law to bind but not protect." That's pretty much the whole thing. Conservatives are, in a kind of fundamental way, bad people. They value the in-group far too much.

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  • Tim Walz defiantly defends trans people from Republicans’ “demonizing” attacks
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    1d ago 100%

    Do you think swing voters might in fact be fucking morons? I'm so tired of the fate the world resting in the hands of low information people who seemingly command the memory and political acumen of the proverbial goldfish.

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  • The top 5% will get a tax cut while taxes raised on everyone else under Trump.
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    2d ago 100%

    The rich suck. They already have a lot of money. They could pay taxes, and still have a lot of money. And then maybe they'd have a functioning government they'd benefit from, too.

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  • Trump Is Speaking Like Hitler, Stalin, and Mussolini | The former president has brought dehumanizing language into American presidential politics.
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    2d ago 75%

    Ms. Jager has simply always thought of herself as a Republican, and she’s not prepared to stop thinking of herself that way

    They value group identity and membership more than they should. Honestly as far as I'm concerned that's a form of stupid and moral failing. I bet a lot of them are also the kind who would say "if your friends all jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?"

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  • US to probe Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system after pedestrian killed in low visibility conditions
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    2d ago 100%

    best solution could probably be good public transport in the city and self driving cars in the countryside.

    You don't even need self driving if it's mostly just the countryside. That's just not a lot of people and the resources required to get it working would be better spent on building mass transit and walkable areas in cities where people actually live (and thus where culture and economy actually happen)

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  • What would you do with the Borg?
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    2d ago 100%

    Something with an alien species that wants to join the borg. Maybe their home system is in a bad way, or they just believe in the Borg's ideals.

    Do you just let them throw themselves in and destroy their society? What about people who don't want to join? What if them joining the Borg is strategically bad for the federation?

    Maybe this was done and I forgot

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  • 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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    How are your metamor relationships?

    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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    How do you find other poly people?

    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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    LFG jjjalljs 9mo ago 100%
    [Online][Fate][UTC-5] Looking for a Thursday Evening Game

    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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