[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

If lying, restructuring my entire identity by throwing all my values overboard, or undermining the foundations of democracy in order to gain more power is wrong, I don't wanna be right.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

You may be surprised to hear that the situation is a bit more nuanced than that because freedom of speech is not, in fact, an unlimited freedom. Wherever different rights and freedoms overlap and endanger each other, every society must weigh them against each other and sometimes give preference to one freedom by limiting another. That means that certain ways of using free speech are not protected. One layman's example that one keeps hearing would be shouting "fire" in a crowded theater. Certain calls for violence can be criminally prosecuted because they would endanger other people's right to live, for example.

The reason behind these limitations to freedom of speech is the so-called "paradox of tolerance". In essence, it says that a democratic society that tolerates even attempts to overthrow its core tenets will be upended by destructive ideologies unless active steps are taken to prevent that. While the absolutely tolerant society is basically a buffet to slaughter and usurp for authoritarian ideologies, a democratic society that wants to survive needs to be a defensive democracy that limits attacks on its core values. And there's an excellent case to be made that the nazi ideology is in its very core not compatible with a democratic society, so much so that in multiple countries like for example germany, it is illegal to shout "heil hitler" or use one's freedom of expression to further the nazi ideology. And they are speaking from experience.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

everyone should have the right of their opinion an no one should be silenced or eliminated

You are contradicting yourself. Tolerating nazis literally means allowing a group that sports the core dictum that they are justified in silencing and eliminating whomever they deem fair game. The topic has been discussed and the result is settled since 1945. We had a whole war about it. The group of people who think they should get to kill everybody they say is inferior to them does not get to participate.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

Representatives for the party claiming to be the family values party?

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

every effort to control access to guns (even those the majority of Republicans want

The only people relevant in this discussion are the lobbyists who buy the politicians who ensure that the NRA's bottom line only ever goes up.

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Your delivery will arrive on a day between a point in time and a different point in time. You better be there when the driver pretends to check if someone's at home and leaves without ringing anyway - not like you have anything better to do you lazy fuck."

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 72 points 4 weeks ago

The absolutely unthinkable: financial losses for the people who have been making money by covering up the fact that they are destroying the planet for their own profit.

Add in one of the best-financed propaganda/obfuscation campaigns maintained for seven decades and public opinion mirrors what it gets fed from big-oil-owned media outlets.

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 273 points 6 months ago

Yeah, nope, checks out. If eating pussy estrogenises the male body,... nope, we can't have that. The logical solution is to instead suck as much dick as possible to testosteronise the body as much as possible in order to strengthen your hetero biochemistry.

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[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 85 points 10 months ago

Now that streaming services have invented cable again, games reinvent arcades.

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104 Gig Patch? (lemmy.world)

That's like Theseus bringing in his ship for maintenance and when he returns to get it, the ship mechanic saying "so I have good news and bad news..."..

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Seems like it should and the result should be one. Does mathematics agree with me on that?

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 137 points 11 months ago

Don't trust unions - they can't guarantee you benefits. Trust us, we guarantee the most exploitative conditions as long as you don't organise!

[-] beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 89 points 11 months ago

BREAKING: group of people whose only chance of getting elected is relying on the Electoral College not thrilled about the idea of abandoning the Electoral College

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by beebarfbadger@lemmy.world to c/baldurs_gate_3@lemmy.world

I just played a session and noticed that saving didn't work properly anymore - I would enter a save name and hit save, but afterwards, the save would not appear in the list. When I tried to reload the last appearing save in the list, the game told me it detected save corruption and could not load it. After the initial wailing and gnashing of teeth, I noticed that the last save in the list, the corrupted one was right after some milestone. I reloaded the last working save, played up to the part where that corrupted save would have been and noticed that it was right after some cutscene where the game would have been autosaving WHILE I initiated the quicksave. It seems that you can royally screw yourself if you cause overlapping save procedures, so for the foreseeable future, I will make sure that the only one initiating saves is me, no more autosaves here.

tl;dr: If you save while an autosave is being made, your save will risk being corrupted. Generally don't overlap saves in progress.

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While there is no at-will cantrip that directly heals, the unlockable illithid power Transfuse Health lets one heal another character at the cost of half one's current hp. Now you'll be thinking, "that's not infinite", and you'd be mostly right - except warlocks can create 7 temp hp at will with the eldritch invocation Fiendish Vigor. The neat thing about transfuse health is that it does not transfer the healing character's hp to the healed one - no, it subtracts the amount of half the character's current hp and then heals the other character for that, BUT, it starts subtracting from temporary hp! This means that as long as you have 15 hp and 7 points of fiendish vigourous temp hp up, the seven hp that make up half your current actual hp will be subtracted from your temp hp and not touch your real hp, leaving you with 15 perfectly fine and untouched hp. Reapply fiendish vigour and repeat as often as necessary.

It may not be the fastest way of healing, but it is repeatable ad infinitum on other group members and only leaves the healer at 15 hp + 7 temp hp.

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Save corruption? (lemmy.world)

When will the patches be stable enough that one would -with a reasonable degree of certainty- no longer expect save corruption anymore in the process? Because I will not, can not, do the first couple hours yet again at this point. I may roll another character when things have settled down and any further twiddling will be mostly cosmetic, but right now, no. BG3 is on hold for me now.

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