[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 10 months ago

I expected you 6.2 stardates ago

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

The given answers, and so they can act like there wasn't that much of what happened.

No one can watch all that, so they'll claim that violence is cherry picked and it's the mostly peaceful protest they've been claiming the whole time.

It's still a lie but it's one they're giving "evidence" to their supporters for.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

I made a villain probably more than 15 years ago at this point that, to this day, any player who was in that campaign will promptly tell me "fuck you" if I mention him or do a little flourish with my finger.

Philip the Brigand! He was born of several suggestions for memorability. A title, not just a name. Personality flair (such as, but not limited to, the flourish), and a knack for escape being the three I remember. Not plot armor, for sure. A great eye for knowing when the battle wasn't going his way though, which was usually shortly after ruining the party's day. Like when he loosed a rust monster that destroyed the fighter's treasured sword and also broke the monk's arm.

Mostly they pictured an incredibly annoying version of Autolycus from Xena/Hercules. Not unfair.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

And readily available resources. No need to put effort into space saving tricks when space is so easy to come by

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

Yesterday the thing you love was the crappy new thing and lots of vocal assholes hated it.

Today you can choose to be the vocal asshole or just enjoy the thing you enjoy, no false praise needed.

Tomorrow the crappy new thing will be fondly remembered and the vocal assholes of today will seem foolish and, in part, pretend they never hated today's thing.

This is true across various properties. The fact that you think "we don't want to hear your constant whining" equates to "you have to praise the thing I like even if you don't like it" really says something.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

The girl's gig to give the gift of gifs

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Should they have removed them?

If we take the picture at its word it's not unreasonable they got a cup (or whatever) of water and took it over to the "pills". When they took a second picture because they didn't know what was going on (as is often the case with humans encountering an unexpected result) they still would have been in the background.

What about them being in the shot is unrealistic?

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I thought you meant something else

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm not surprised. That's quite a stride.

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

And if a home invader with commercially available arms so decided it's the end of your family. That's how scale works.

But you don't give in to a bully to avoid violence. That's how you get more people/countries bullied.

This is not intended as a threat of violence. This is an analogy to make a point that should be obvious

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

Not more powerful, just more willing to do whatever to get what they want.

If good people always lose then why do we still have good people? Why do good acts still occur?

[-] Doug@midwest.social 5 points 1 year ago

I've had an email in my inbox for over a decade. The subject is FYI. The sender is listed as Allen Large, but in all caps. And the body is as follows

--
Email Mr Allen now.

Realistically it's just bad spam but sometimes I get myself wondering what shady deal fell apart because they sent something urgent to the wrong person

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