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Oh, double post but I also remembered there was a band in the mid 2010s called Jawbreaker Reunion. I imagine a lot of fans of Jawbreaker did a double take when they saw signs for like "Jawbreaker Reunion tonight!"

Cheaper if you ignore the externalized costs.

And yet the right wing is whining about moon laser climate control instead of this kind of thing.

I'm told the band No Men were originally going to call themselves Aerosmith 2, but decided against it

Isn't that what social security was supposed to be?

I don't think I've ever played fortnight, and the crass, advertisement, nature of it is extremely off-putting.

I also don't think I've ever paid money for a skin in a video game

D&D, especially 5e, is just missing broad sections of game stuff so it can "leave it up to the DM". Other stuff is really underbaked. Degree of success, succeed at a cost, non-violent conflict, ending combat other than totally wiping the other factions...

That can be fine if everyone's on the same page, but since D&D is the mega popular game you're likely to be playing with new players, or just randos, and that can lead to tension.

We used to talk about how to cure Vampires in Mage (awakening, 2e).

The easiest is probably time magic. With Time4, rules as written you can rewrite their history so they never became a vampire. It persists until the spell elapses, but you could make that last a year without too much trouble (assuming time4, gnosis3, a rote skill of 4).

With Time5, the "fuck you" level of Mage, you can use the Unmaking practice and prevent them from being embraced, though that's big hubris and risks butterfly effects at the GM's discretion.

Other approaches I'm less sure about. You could probably do something with Life5 (make a new body), 5 or so points of Death or Spirit to get a new soul (fun fact: in awakening, souls are fungible), and Mind5 to put their mind in the new body. Kind of a ship of Theseus situation.

My current game infatuation is Fate. It's a general purpose game so you can use it for any setting. It's not very crunchy, so you can delegate a lot of stuff to Aspects.

Can the elf talk to the trees? Well, his "Elf Prince of the Eldest Forest" aspect makes that plausible. The dwarf with his "Royal Gemcutter of Moria" not so much.

Of course, this is a very different mode of play than the "I took 3 levels of ranger and took 'Speak With Plants' as my 4th level special power" or whatever you'd find in a crunchier system.

This is the finest example of poe's law I've seen all week

I think the only case where renting might make sense is if your rent is stupid low, and you can invest the money you'd be spending in something making stupid gains. But that's very unlikely to happen.

There are so many problems and so many people who refuse to see them as problems, I don't even know where to start.

“There are government programs that I’d like to see discontinued or cut back, especially those that don’t affect me,” said the retired Scottsbluff firefighter. “But the ones like the Postal Service, yes, we count on them.”

What a piece of shit. I'm so tired of selfish idiots ruining everything.

What is "brining" for cars? Is this a joke?

Half of US adults can't read at a 6th grade level. I think speed and accuracy of reading is also pretty low (I read like 80 wpm and 80% accuracy somewhere, but i couldn't immediately find a good source for that).

If you're on a text forum like this you're probably well above the average person, and your experiences are not universal.

That said, I don't have any data on hand about readability so you could be right. I'm sure people have studied it.

Great. Most AI is a net negative for people and crypto sucks.

I think it's partly because many people are only semi literate, and breaking the text up helps people read it. A larger block of text is "intimidating'

I've worked with a few people who are just incomprehensible. One refuses to write commit messages of any detail. Just "work in progress". Cast him into the pit.

There was another guy that refused to name his tests. His code was like

    
describe(''. () => {
  it('', () => {
     expect(someFunc()).toEqual(0);
  }
 it('', () => {
    expect(someFunc(1)).toEqual(0);
  }
 it('', () => {
   expect(someFunc("").toEqual(1);
 }
}


  

He was like, "Test names are like comments and they turn into lies! So I'm not going to do it."

I was like, a. what the fuck. b. do you also not name your files? projects? children?

He was working at a very big company last I heard.

edit: If you're unfamiliar, the convention is to put a human readable description where those empty strings are. This is used in the test output. If one fails, it'll typically tell include the name in the output.

Meta should be split up and its leadership ruined

The funniest part is, the poorest people i know have a hatred for the poor.

I think people often hate things that remind them of things they don't like about themselves