Less access to goods and services made it generally unpleasant.
Less access? what? What places are you comparing?
I live in a city and have never felt like I have less access than when I was in the car centered suburbs.
I feel like advertisers and capitalism are so gross, they've poisoned the whole concept.
I don't think there's anything innately wrong or violent to put up a flyer that says like "I'm starting a frisbee club. We're meeting Saturdays at Noon in the park". That's an ad. But it's a whole other beast from ads that track you. Or ads that try to make you feel insecure or inadequate.
Yeah, I mostly play Fate or nWoD. But a lot of people are really emotionally invested in D&D, so sometimes I think of ways to try to trick them into playing something different while they think they're still playing D&D.
no different than taking a bunch of books you bought second-hand and throwing them into a blender.
They didn't buy the books. They took them without permission.
I bet some obsessive nerd has converted DND to point buy (like wod, gurps, etc) instead of class and level based.
You get XP for stuff, and you can spend that as you like on all the stuff you'd get from leveling. Follow the recommended route and get a standard looking fighter. Or go crazy and buy nothing but hit dice. Or make a glass cannon by buying all the sneak attack dice and second attack (in case you miss) and nothing else.
Or, per this meme, buy superiority dice and maneuvers, and then also buy extended crit from champion.
It would be a mess. I think part of why dnd is popular is its comparably small decision space. There's just not a lot of room to fuck up your character
This doesn't seem like a good idea.
One, releasing should be easy. At my last job, you clicked "new release" or whatever on GitHub. It then listed all the commits for you. If you "need" an Ai to summarize the commits, you fucked up earlier. Write better commit messages. Review the changes. Use your brain (something the AI can't do) to make sure you actually want all of this to go out. Click the button. GitHub runs checks and you're done.
Most of the time it took a couple minutes at most to do this process.
This is pretty good advice. I've sort of stumbled into it a few times.
Sometimes I'd be like "ok so here's the room. Blah blah blah details. What're you doing?"
Andy will be like "I'm gonna check out that detail"
I'll get like "cool. You all see Andy head over to that detail. Good?" And sort of pause there for a beat to see if anyone wants to interrupt or preempt.
I think the linked article is a generally better method as it's more complete, but I think mine is a little faster. Especially if you have a couple passive players.
I remember talking to a coworker maybe 15 years ago (I'm getting old) about family and money. He said his family struggled, too. I asked some follow up questions and he revealed that his two parents income was in the $500k range, and his sister had gotten a full ride scholarship because of military service. I was like how are you struggling with that much income? My parents combined income I'm told never broke six figures, nevermind half a million per year. I think about this a lot.
I think the richer people get the less they understand value.
Guy's doing fine last I heard. High ranking prosecutor somewhere.
I was making good tech money for a while, but didn't go crazy with the lifestyle inflation. i mentioned to a different coworker I thought I could get by on like $60k (higher than median, lower than average for this region) fine, and he was flabbergasted. "But you spend like $1000 a month in food alone", and I was like what. Rice isn't that expensive. You just don't go out to fancy places when you're on a budget.
Anyway I don't really have a point beyond some rich people are bad at money.
I made a rogue bird-guy (aarakroka?) that built for strength. I really wanted to pick someone up with grapple and fly them off a cliff, but i never pulled it off.
Oh I've seen this joke before, slightly better, but now I don't know which was the original.
It was like
Bard: I cast vicious mockery
Dm: cool. What do you say to him?
Bard: "You're none of your best friends' best friend"
Dm: ...
Other players: ...
Bard: So do I roll damage or...?
Dm: No... No, he's dead.
Oh yeah. Cars are bad on like every metric.
Socially they isolate people. You don't interact with anyone when you're driving except to get angry. The micro interactions you have on the train matter. Seeing people that aren't just like you, also annoyed that the train is delayed, or just having a nice time with their kids, matters. More than makes up for when other people are annoying.
Economically they hurt. It's much harder to just pop into an interesting looking shop when you're cruising along at 40mph. All the space dedicated to parking could be used for other stuff- housing, commerce, communal space, whatever.
They make spaces less safe. Other than the direct impact (no pun intended) of people getting hit by cars, or crashing into stuff, a space that has steady foot traffic is generally safer. If everyone was in their car instead, you'd probably be alone on foot with no one to help if something happened.
They're bad for the environment. Air pollution, micro plastics, whatever.
Drunk driving is way more dangerous than drunk "riding the train".
The more non-car options are built out, the better it will be for people who need to drive for whatever reason.
Cars culture is trash and if we ever escape from it, it's going to take years.
I read a post about different communication styles, and this is "builder vs maintainer". https://www.haileymagee.com/blog/three-communication-differences
A builder will try to add to the conversation by adding their own experiences. A maintainer will not add their own, but will focus on the other person's.
A builder talking about something may feel like a maintainer isn't that interested because they're not adding anything.
A maintainer talking to a builder may feel annoyed because the builder keeps talking about themselves.