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It's definitely possible. South Africa managed it. All the black people didn't kill all the white as soon as they got democracy, and in fact, white people kept a lot of the power, land, and money after lol. You just require a strong Constitution, international support and diplomats at the table, and a peace and reconciliation commission to push peace and moving forward over revenge. Create strong protections in the Constitution and some UN oversight for a bit and you should be fine. Have the new government, now a coalition of the former Israeli government and the Palestinian Authority government, work together with the international community to remove Hamas. Have all that international aid build up the run-down Palestinian parts of the country, like in Gaza, so they stop having power problems, have drinkable water,and not bombed buildings. (The PA fought a civil war against Hamas before, and Hamas has less than majority support in Gaza, so plenty of Palestinians would fight them to keep peace if the quality of life without their interference was better.)

The only problem that I agree with is that Israel wouldn't accept it. It would need to be a secular government, accepting of Jews, Muslims, and Christians. But the whole idea of their state is based on Jewish power and being in that place specifically for religious reasons. Sharing power and land with the people who originally lived there basically goes against the idea of its founding. You'd need a US that's focused on peace in the region over power projection and who knows if that will ever happen. We'd need someone like Bernie to get elected, and a Congress with the balls to threaten to withold aid to them.

I hope this becomes a trend!

I will forever be mad about that. I was defending Man of Steel, while others shit talked it. I thought it was a great beginning for a Superman franchise. Sure he killed Zod, but imagine how this will change Superman to never want to kill again? But they never went back to do a solo Superman movie. Poor Caville was shafted hard by WB suits who wanted their own Marvel franchise.

Someone do one for FATE

I agree. I don't think she's worse than any other liberal politician, and I think notably better than all but the most progressive ones (like better than Biden probably) . Her biggest sin (imo) is that she's not very charismatic. Like the opposite of Michelle Obama - who's very likeable and charismatic but has no political ambitions.

I don't mind them being pinned and cluttering up the top for a week or two, but that's just me.

Oh that's awesome! I've also got a Kbin account so that's good to know.

Yup! He had a video where he described some basic mechanics it will have, including one where classes will gain their resources over time as the battle continues - making players ramp up as the battle goes on. It seems to me like a clever way of letting them nova on big bosses and stuff, while theoretically the smaller encounters wouldn't go long enough to do so, saving the drama for more appropriate battles.

Haha ya, I actually do it properly and I've had players think my style nerfed spellcasters too much by spacing out long rests between encounters. No, I'm just playing it as designed and giving chances for everyone to shine, the fights where spellcasters can nova and the fights where martial classes or warlocks can pull their weight, too.

It sounds like the MCDM RPG will have abilities that charge up over the course of a battle, which kind of reminds me of your idea. It might be a good one, can't wait to see how the playtests go.

4th edition had a lot of that, but it doesn't really fit for the dungeon crawler gameplay, which they were trying to make more possible again with 5th edition. Part of that story archetype is seeing resources whittled down as you get deeper and deeper into the dungeon, always wondering if you should go back up or if you should push deeper to get that big score. That's where the tension comes from for that style of play. Same thing for wilderness travel expedition-type games.

Those types of games aren't for everyone, but DnD 5th edition has always been about trying to be everything for everyone. "Everyone's 2nd favorite edition." indeed lol.

They have so much of our oil, though. Maybe we'd be okay with Alaska and renewable investment...

I hate that all the TCL TVs this year changed from Roku and Google this year to just Google. Give me some variety and competition. Also, I like their simpler out-of-the-box interface better with less ads and such, even though the Google TV interface is more customizable.

Damm I've been wanting to start a new tactical high fantasy campaign, too, but this won't be out for a long while. Will probably go with Pathfinder 2E or finally satiate my curiosity about DnD 4th edition, and will be looking at this again in a year or two.

Still, I've been enjoying their latest releases, and I'm always tempted to fund a Matt Coville Kickstarter just so he keeps making videos lol.

If anyone on the fediverse playtests this, let me know how it looks!

New regulations over one's likeness with AI would be nice, but it would require a Democratic majority Congress with no blue dogs and we know how rare that is.

It's a strange thing for a person to love that much, but it'd also very sweet.

I was just about to post a question asking for suggestions for something I could use like this for my world, and of course I find this question from a week ago lol.

I might post it anyway just to revive the conversation in other, similar communities. It's a useful MacGuffin.

Judging by all the threads I've seen recently about the decreasing active user base of Lemmy, there are lots of people who want more, too. I don't think any project is going to make Lemmy as big as Twitter or Reddit immediately, so that seems like an unfounded fear. There's a vast mid area between current Lemmy and peak Twitter, so it doesn't hurt to at least raise the number of normies here so we can get threads about things other than tech and news. I want to see biologists giving their opinion on a discovered animal, or people who worked on a random movie chiming in with fun facts, the earthquake guy, or the astronomy person, etc.

The variety of people made Reddit fun.

That's still useful. I found myself lurking a ton of subreddits recently looking for buildapcsales or laptopdeals. Then once I bought them I started lurking threads for people who had similar problems as me setting it up. I still find myself adding Reddit to the front of my Google searches when I want responses or reviews from real people about stuff. I even had to reinstall the Reddit app at some point to look at something, which was annoying, but I wanted the info. I wish I could do that with Lemmy instead.

Even if people aren't helping op with their issue specifically (and it sounds like the fediverser person is working on fixing that), answering these questions is still helping everyone else who reads the question on this FOSS end of the internet.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/02/israels-apartheid-against-palestinians-a-cruel-system-of-domination-and-a-crime-against-humanity/