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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6hr ago
I’ve been holding on to a desire to run an Ars Magica campaign, but I’ve avoided it on account of my own lack of experience. How did you get started DMing at all?? There’s just so much to do even before the players get involved.
My current plan is to shelve that dream and try OSR instead. Less mechanical baggage, less asked of the players. On the other hand, they’re more experienced with Pathfinder and 5e, so maybe there’s a different sort of baggage.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6hr ago
What’s wrong with EDH?
It’s hard for me to tell what a more accessible, casual format does to the other formats.
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21hr ago
I was gonna say that getting GPT to polish your affirm your intuitions wasn’t good evidence, but I read the sample question and now I smell burnt toast.
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3d ago
More effort than this, please.
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4d ago
It has lots of staying power ‘cause it’s an efficient motte and bailey.
Motte: the stereotypical email-shuffler. Office Space. Sinecures for the trust-fund kid. Wal-mart greeters.
Bailey: anything I don’t like or respect. Fundraising? Bullshit. Compliance? Nobody cares about that stuff. Management? Fuck those guys in particular.
Apply the usual incentives of group psychology, and bam, everyone’s getting Gell-Mann Amnesia.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Okay, that’s definitely more widely distributed than I was expecting. I know a lot of those counties already went heavily red but the New England stuff is really surprising.
I guess I really do put a lot of it down to Trump.
The GOP isn’t really acting like a party which is competitive everywhere. It made gains in coal country, Alaska, and Montana while doubling down on blaming Coastal Elites. Very Trump. I don’t see how that converts into lasting popularity elsewhere.
Trump can’t carry turnout forever.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
5d ago
Yeah, you’re coming in too hot here.
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5d ago
“Look, it’s been over 30 years since the show ended. Let it go.”
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6d ago
"Well, officer, I saw he had multiple stab wounds, so I broke a couple fingers. Helps to counter the bleeding."
I don't think this would accomplish what you seem to expect.
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6d ago
To play devil's advocate: neither administration has expressed much concern with PR up to this point.
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6d ago
Sounds like a good response to the guy asking for pulp recommendations.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
Aubrey/Maturin? Strong men with strong convictions about king and country, honorable conduct, etc. Not that it keeps them from engaging in all manner of vice and self-sabotaging romanticism.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
6d ago
My own build started from https://www.logicalincrements.com/. The idea is that each row of the table consists of parts which are roughly aligned in performance. Everything within the row is cross-compatible, so if you find a sale you can swap it in. I’d look at the $1500 or $1700 tier; it should manage your use cases just fine.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
8d ago
Entirely possible, and also not at all what I was replying to.
The parent suggested that “SpaceTM”, which I read as everyone involved in space that isn’t actively supportive of Trump, does not care about exploration. Why? Because academics have been known to spend money on environmentalism and critical race theory. Charitably, this suggests some confusion over how many academics are out there, and their level of specialization.
NASA might well be the poster child for government inefficiency, but that’s not the same thing as sandbagging. It’s not going to suddenly start “caring” about its projects once mecha-Biden is back in office.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
8d ago
This is an almost charmingly reductive model of any job.
My industry also exists to chase tax dollars via hobby-horses. At some level, those hobby-horses are informed by serious professionals asking “is this a reliable product,” “does it align with our doctrine,” or “you’re asking us to pay how much?” Their concerns creep uphill until they meet the goals and political postures rolling downhill. Eventually the two forces reconcile in the form of a budget.
Apply this same model to “ScienceTM.” Some academics have spent decades caring an awful lot about extraterrestrial discovery and exploration. Does that all go away when the top layer of paint changes colors? Not at all. You have to purge a lot more thoroughly to see institutions of this size abandon their missions.
Perhaps another tack. What do you think NASA has been doing since the shuttle was discontinued? I promise you, it wasn’t feminist glaciology.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
8d ago
The Apollo missions have provided us with weird shit for ages. Consider the opening sample in this song.
If the government had bombshell evidence of extraterrestrials, it managed to keep quiet through decades of competing administrations, including Trump I. Why would that change now?
On the other hand, if there’s nothing new to report…why not now?
Trump is, as usual, signaling his cool outsider status. He wants you to know he’s not afraid of the swamp creatures who have totally been keeping this from you. It’s the same old playbook; I’m not expecting much.
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8d ago
We’re discussing it.
For now, carry on :)
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
8d ago
You should avoid it, IMO.
Twitter delenda est.
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8d ago
Approving this instance.
Not sure if we need another repeating thread…was there something wrong with (Financial) Wellness Wednesday?
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9d ago
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10d ago
I didn’t recognize the name, so I looked it up. Ah, it’s the robot daughter one. I’ve seen a couple people playing it.
I didn’t know there was controversy, either. Google doesn’t make it obvious; none of the search results include your links, nor do the related searches suggest any drama. The Forbes review is mildly critical but not controversial. Slant’s is unambiguously positive. How confident are you that this extends beyond the Extremely Online?
It’s definitely not at the level of GamerGate, which in turn was less important than the average games journalist suggests. I prescribe less time on Twitter.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
10d ago
Absolutely incomprehensible take.
I know I’m worthy of my wife. Seeing her in control is still inherently validating and sexy, for the same reasons as most any show of enthusiasm. Being desirable is good! I’m not talking about extreme BDSM here, just mild to moderate femdom.
personally believe a big part of the large numbers of female submissives has to do with women genuinely desiring hot sex, but feeling ashamed of this,
No shit. You don’t need a maximally-cynical model predicting abuse and assault to think “hey, I’m supposed to play hard to get, but what if I could still get railed in the process?”
Now apply this reasoning to men, who have the same post-Victorian, post-Puritan culture in the back of our minds. The tradeoff between desirability and availability applied to rakes and bachelors, too. Consider whether we might also derive some benefit from playing with that dynamic, from allowing our partners to express the desire and longing which we know they feel.
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The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
11d ago
Governments and institutions have a general tendency to suppress dissent.
A state fundamentally sells security. You get courts and a capable army; they get your taxes. Supply, demand, solve for the equilibrium. Don’t push too hard, though, because failing to come to an agreement is a lose-lose proposition. Suppressing dissent lets states push that much harder before the revolts start.
It was true for the panem et circenses and for medieval fiefdoms. It’s true for us, too. We Westerners have the advantage of liberalism to take the edge off, but that’s all; we are not immune. When the going gets tough, you’ve seen Americans line up to sacrifice those principles. Just this once. Just for the really bad actors, right?
I went through a similar arc. Ended up just reading this LP.
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