They do not. They are stupid.

No one would go if they weren’t getting paid.

I don’t know I’ve met some boot lickers that would work for free.

My old desktop couldnt update to 11. But for my newer computer, Windows recall was a deciding factor. Fuck that shit. Also fuck their “ai” nonsense.

It’s nice that it’s free and doing little to nothing contrary to my interests.

I really do not like video as a medium for things that could be written. I don’t really care for “wow look at this wacky thing that happened”. I really dislike videos that are just someone talking at the camera. (Standup comedy gets a pass, but that’s also not something I watch much)

So I’m probably not watching most videos.

I don’t have a lot of shopping in my games, but I don’t see why I couldn’t handle this with a shared spreadsheet or other document.

I think sometimes in an informal context it’s worthwhile to realize the other person is not a credible source arguing in good faith. The amount of effort it takes to discern and counter bullshit is way more than the effort to just make shit up. Sometimes you don’t want to spend an hour researching to refute someone’s lies.

In that case, “You’re a dishonest person arguing in bad faith” is appealing, reasonable even, despite attacking the person instead of their statements.

I only buy drm free music and then back it up somewhere myself. Bandcamp at least is drm free, but who knows if they’ll turn to shit after being bought and sold.

Click bait title.

That won’t work if the check is server side, and they don’t send the article content to you at all without paying. That seems to be the case here.

What’s the saying? Some people are more concerned with order than justice?

I’d see that a lot with my old coworkers. They’d rather just not talk about something than be mildly uncomfortable.

Buying music on Bandcamp and similar has been good for me. When I got laid off I kept all the music I owned and didn’t have to pay anymore. All these subscription services suck.

There’s some spots in the big nyc parks where you’re surrounded by trees and can pretend you’re not in a big city. That’s all I’ve got.

Outside the city it gets surprisingly conservative sometimes. I knew someone who had family north of Albany, and their neighbor flew a confederate flag. Probably a maga flag now.

Since when did zitron paywall his posts?? I usually read them and I understand giving content away for free is largely unsustainable, but I’m too unemployed to want to pay $7/mo

I keep forgetting borderlands 4 even came out. I guess I block most ads, but none of my friends have even talked about it.

I think it’s a riff on an old meme I don’t quite remember. But the idea is like,

• people are doing an innocuous thing
• something declares that they thus must hate dubiously related thing

Like, someone playing checkers. Someone says “oh you’re playing checkers because you hate chess!?”. You can kind of see how they made that leap through several errors (view chess and checkers as mutually exclusive opposites)

So the person in the quote thinks banning whoever is a non sequitur, I guess.

There are less obvious costs to living outside a city, especially if the city has transit. All the car costs, for one relevant example. The health loss from walking less. The isolation takes a toll. The shallower social pool. Fewer cultural options.

Also it’s not like apartments are dirt cheap in the suburbs outside NYC. I could pay $2000/mo for a nice apartment in Plainsfield, NJ… or I could pay a similar amount, not have a car, and live someplace where stuff happens.

Personally, I generally dislike puzzles in RPGs. My character has 20 intelligence. In real life I’m rocking at best 12. I am not going to make the intuitive leaps to solve this cipher like my character would. You’re not asking the fighter to demonstrate a shield bash or the rogue to pick a lock.

Riddles and puzzles aren’t nearly as interesting as explained choices, anyway. Do you take the Sword of Rivers from the tomb, fighting the guardian and potentially causing drought and famine in the region? You’ve been told it’s the only thing that can stop the Fire Elemental Incursion back home. Much more interesting than trying to figure out what a poem means or a sliding block puzzle, to me.

If you don’t want the players to know the cliché weakness so badly, why don’t you make up another monster instead of troll? Just sidestep the whole problem. It’s not Troll Canyon. It’s Grall Canyon. What the fuck are Gralls? No idea but they sound nasty.

Because clearly, some players are going to balk at “you want us to forget this well known fantasy cliché?”. And it doesn’t matter if you think their playstyle is stupid. It’s a game. People are trying to have fun.

You can turn that one on desktop off, btw

If only separated bike lanes were more common. I’m really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.