It’s nice not having to ever worry about car stuff. I just have to worry about this high horse instead.

Watters is a piece of shit and he doesn’t deserve his wealth and peace.

“divisive” is such a weird complaint. It ignores the value of whatever people disagree on. As if being divided on “pizza or burritos” is just as bad as “should women be allowed outside”.

Conservatives say stuff for effect, not because they believe in truth or consistency. They are dishonest, broken, people. They should not be trusted.

Is he showing any of his work, or is he just making stuff up? Seems like he’s just making stuff up.

Also, everyone should look at the “wealth to scale” webpage: https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ . Humans are not good at scale, and this helps visualize it.

We should condemn ICE. Is Maga on board with that? I don’t think so.

I’m pretty sure loads of other classes have alignment restrictions - notably clerics and paladins

I remember my D&D 3.x DM insisting we follow RAW, so if I wanted to take levels in assassin (who else remembers prestige classes?) then I had to be evil. 3 players went along, and the druid betrayed us to the “good” guys. Had a massive brawl where we (team evil) won, thanks in part to a hail mary “I run around the corner and hide. That’s… a natural 20 for 37” the betraying druid player couldn’t beat.

The class fantasy never appealed to me. They can be powerful, but I don’t have any real interest in being a dirt wizard or turning into animals.

More of a rogue guy, or arcane caster if I can get over spells-per-day being my anathema.

If I ever play D&D again, I think I’m going to spend a lot of time in session 0 getting on the same page about if we’re playing D&D as a resource management game, or as a wacky hijinks game. So many people want to play the latter, but expect a long rest to be as easy as it is in video games.

“I’m out of spells! Can we long rest?”

“You’re out of spells after casting nearly every single round of combat in the past 3 fights, and you want to chill out for 8 to 16 hours here, in the court of the evil duke’s castle, while he’s working on a ritual to summon a demon lord in a few hours?”

I mean, I kind of get it. The game is set up so you have all these cool toys. Of course you want to use them. That conflict is why I dislike per-day resources.

No shit! All these CEOs that bent the knee to trump should suffer some actual consequences.

I’m so tired of idiot CEOs being glamorized. They are not smart. They’re wealthy. Tremendous wealth makes you stupid.

I feel like alignment hasn’t really been a thing in DND for more than a decade, but there’s a steady supply of people who only “know” DND from memes keeping the idea alive.

I mean, have fun with it, but it’s very “how do you do fellow kids” sometimes.

Conservatives often say things not because they believe them to be true, but because of what they believe the effect will be. They seek power for themselves, and to subjugate others.

They might say “Free speech is paramount” today, but that’s only because they want to say stuff without consequences. When you want to say something, they’ll say it’s dangerous and unpatriotic. The consistent theme is “I can do what I want. You do what I tell you”. In-groups to protect, and out-groups to bind.

They are horrible people in some fundamental way.

Some of them might not even realize they’re doing it. They’re just riding the waves of their emotions.

Well, it doesn’t help that a big faction of one of the two major parties, the republicans, fundamentally doesn’t believe in government or democracy. They do not want a government that provides services to the public.

I typically avoid videos because I vastly prefer reading, but I make an exception for those. I just watch them at double speed.

Ok, but why are you talking about people that live in a village in west africa? The post’s original subtext, to me, is pretty clearly about people selling their labor for less than its true value to survive, while the ownership class tremendously profits. Farmers working their own land aren’t being exploited (not counting interactions with the outside world that might affect them if they try to sell crops).

Or maybe you tell me more about the value of their labor and how somewhere far far in the distance someone is keeping them poor against their will and best efforts.

I’m not an expert but I imagine colonialism and such might have an impact.

It’s always been about “in-groups to protect and out-groups to bind”, and “You do what I tell you. No one tells me what to do.” They have never argued in good faith.

That was the subtext I picked up.

Not sure what this has to do with arguing against capitalist exploitation of labor. The person tilling the soil to grow food has more aligned interests with the office worker than the owners.

Conservatives only consistent value is basically “no one can tell me what to do. I can tell you what to do”. In-groups to protect, out-groups to bind

What is half the value of “a leather jerkin, soaked and blood and gut-juice, with two arrow sized holes and one axe sized hole”? Zero? Or perhaps a negative value because having it makes the owner look guilty of murder?

I think I had a dm once say like “the armor didn’t work for the last bloke, why would I want it?”