I have a somewhat bad memory of playing DND as like a 13 year old. We were a mess. There was a cliff, a waterfall, and rope. Someone tied rope around himself and wanted to go down. There was a lot of cross talk and the guy with the rope around said he was going down.

The DM was like “no one is holding the other end of the rope”

“What?”

One by one they went through what everyone else had said they were doing. Searching the cave rocks for secrets. Keeping watch at entrance. Fighting over who got the magic stick. Etc.

Player went over the cliff.

It was decided that the character would wash up downstream with 0 HP and would live, so long as we could get to him in a reasonable time. Lessons were learned, sort of.

I had an NPC in a RPG that was kind of like this. A werewolf was going berserk in a church. The players were like “Reg! Get out of there!”. Reg sees the werewolf rip a corporate stooge in half and come running at him. He goes, “Bro. Fucking metal.”

Rolls really high on his social check. Werewolf high fives him and just runs by to go murder more corporate leadership.

You could do a lot of good with that money. Like, build a ton of housing. Replace some lead pipes or other hazardous infrastructure. Pay some medical debt.

Instead he does this.

I won’t be mad if Musk meets a sudden end. I just hope it’s a really embarrassing one.

Remember that jury nullification is a tool in your toolbox.

Hypothetically, if you’re selected for jury duty in a case like 'Someone murdered Nick Fuentes", you can just say not guilty regardless of evidence or truth. The court can’t make you show your work and they cannot tell you that your verdict is wrong This is an inherent property of jury trials. It gets used to shield cops and other in-group members from consequences.

I remain irritated we’re spending so much money on self driving cars instead of buses, trains, and improving our living spaces to support them.

Like you could spend billions to try to get self driving cars to work, and get part way there. And you’d still have a car-first dystopia.

Or you could spend billions to deploy buses and make walkable neighborhoods. Well understood, many good side effects.

All those people who refused to take COVID seriously have a lot of blood on their hands.

Asked why Trump was still on stage, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told CNN, “He’s here for the people. Not like loser Kamala Harris.”

How are we in such a shitty timeline that childish name calling is just unremarkable? Every trump supporter should be ashamed of themselves.

Funny but snopes says merely a legend https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/field-of-seeds/

Hmmm disagree. If someone’s politics are violence, and they have a serious path to enacting them, it’s self defense. Self defense is generally acceptable.

I don’t want to politely walk into a concentration camp because a bunch of people in states I don’t even live in voted to exterminate the queers and their friends.

Also anyone who’s going to say “Gay marriage is violence against society” is an asshole and wrong. Anyone who says abortion is murder but isn’t doing jack fuck to help living humans is not worth listening to. Just to preempt the “well they think the same about you!” nonsense.

Republicans have a lot of blood on their hands and we should stop treating them as reasonable adults.