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Thinking about the pedocon theory post again : https://www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/

Google is complicit

At a customer service job I'd read whole books in the browser. Just keep the window small and it looks pretty inconspicuous.

Now I work from home so I look at Lemmy and such on my phone.

I have a hard rule of never playing video games on the clock because that's a slippery slope.

My favorite encore might be one time I saw Sincere Engineer. Someone in the audience shouted "play corn dog sonnet!. That's one of their "hits" as far as small bands go.

But the band had already played it earlier in the set, and said so. The audience person shouted back "I was late! I missed it!"

The singer went, "well, I guess we could play it again if everyone wants to hear it again"

The crowd cheered , so they played it again.

Pop!_os worked fine for me out of the box. The UI is a little mac-like (dock on bottom, spotlight like search when you hit the super key) by default.

Steam just works. Heroic launcher just works. It's simple.

I've also used mint, but had slightly less luck with its install working out of the box. All issues fixed eventually but there was some head scratching.

Linux nerds tend to have opinions and it's easy to lose sight of what it's like as a beginner.

But ultimately it's pretty easy to switch distributions. They're all free.

is it doesn’t address the issue of youth access to porn. I think any semi-intelligent person knows this is a parenting issue

There sure are a lot of stupid fucking people then, huh?

Unfortunately this is becoming enough of “A Thing” that the left is going to have to, once again, be seen doing “something”

Personally I think the left should hammer in on "The right are too lazy and incompetent to raise their kids. They want the government to do it for them. No one who's too unwilling or unable to spend time with their kids should be in government" or something like that. Just rub their noses in how stupid, lazy, and incompetent, the right is. Because they are. They are the worst people.

given democracy doesn’t work when people vote based on vibes or propaganda feels.

Unfortunately, it seems like a lot of people are primarily vibes driven. Everyone is, in some cases or other. For example, a lot of otherwise reasonable people will flip their shit if you suggest eating less meat for environmental or animal welfare reasons. You just get excuses and variations of "but i like it" and "but i'm a good person".

I agree the privatisation was a big mistake, also in healthcare, energy etc.

Privatizing is always a mistake. Profit is waste and theft. Making public services for-profit is inevitably going to turn to shit.

I would not be surprised if my old coworker-friends started a separate group chat without me after the nth, "Maybe you should come to one of these protests" and "Please at least read the wikipedia summary on this historical topic before you start going off about it" message from me.

They're fine people but they're also kind of very... apolitical.

I don't need to know their exact stats, but I like (for example) having a system where you know a human's health ranges from 6 to 10, and a gun does at least 3 damage, so you can be pretty sure if you shoot him four times he's down. None of this, "Well, he's a 12th level accountant so he has 78 hp".

Maybe I mostly just dislike how vague HP is in D&D.

But it was probably mostly a GM issue.

I’m here to roleplay, not be told immediately whether or not I can take the dude.

I find it hard to roleplay when I don't know what is in the world. Things that are very different (high level stuff, low level stuff) getting basically the same description is distracting. In real life, you get a lot of information looking at someone.

Maybe I'm still just annoyed at that game where we were all 10th level and so were the basic ass soldiers.

Just one dish and one fork, typically. Sometimes the rice cooker.

One of the things I realized I don't like about DND (and close relatives) is it's kind of hard to reason about the rules and risks. The narrative and numbers are too disjointed.

You might say the knight is hulking and looming ominously, but does that mean 20 AC, 50 HP, one attack at +6 for 1d8+4... Or does that mean 24 AC, 500 HP, three attacks at 1d8+8 (slashing) +1d4 (negative energy)? Could be either! The range of possibilities is largely unbound and arbitrary.

Compare with another system that like, constrains the numbers. Strength is rated 1-5. Melee is rated 1-5. This guy is pretty buff looking so he's probably got a total of six. That guy's a demigod and probably throws ten. Cool I can reason from that who I can take in a fight.