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  • Echoing the others to say that wearing an *N95 will provide some protection to you, as well as those around you. I wear one every time I'm indoors in public spaces or outside in large crowds.

  • Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
  • I think the apps originated in silicon valley, so they had tons of money behind them that was willing to make a marketing push. Ads for them were already present as early as 2015 IIRC, even when they were still technically illegal, but nobody got arrested that I know of.

  • Legalizing Sports Gambling Was a Huge Mistake
  • Supreme court struck down a law banning sports gambling in 2018 on the logic that "illegal gambling is already happening, might as well make it legal and cut out the criminals!". The now-legal betting companies started pushing a non-stop torrent of pro-gambling ads immediately.

    Australia is also pretty bad, see below:

  • Capitalist development vs Socialist development
  • Personally I think a gradual transition towards statelessness is necessary, because people are currently used to living in a state and are generally quite skeptical of sudden rapid change, even if it would be purely positive. Even if the capitalists were eliminated tomorrow and their propaganda networks shut down immediately, the general populace would still be infected by their brainworms for at least a generation.

  • Hall of Torment - the best Survivors-like game - just launched into 1.0
  • I'm also a fan of Vampire Survivors, but when I tried Halls I didn't enjoy it. From the brief bit I played before refunding, it seemed that it was mostly "dude with sword" and didn't scale anywhere near as crazily as VS (see attached hyperbolic screenshot below). Much worse, you had to aim with the other thumbstick. I also don't really have nostalgia for Diablo. Would you say I should give it another shot?

    My Survivors tierlist:

    1. Vampire Survivors (100% completion)
    2. Holocure (100% completion)
    3. Death Must Die (have beaten all two bosses and now just have a large grind to max every character)
    4. Soulstone Survivors (have finished all content except the grind to level up every class to max)
    5. Halls of Torment (based on like 1 hour)

  • Why do D&D books have to be so expensive?
  • Yeah, generally they're playing another D&D-style game, or more rarely a game that's an entirely different genre. Game like Pathfinder (2e is the big internet favorite atm) and OSR games are designed to be basically the same niche genre of "dungeon-crawling, combat-centric high fantasy" but with different rules. Other games like Dungeon World use the same setting concept but the rules are more narrative-focused with less emphasis on hours-long combats on a grid. Further afield are generic systems like FATE, GURPS, Savage Worlds, etc which are flexible and can be used to play whatever genre you want, so they can be D&D-fantasy or cyberpunk, superheroes, historical fantasy, "action movies", etc (though most of these tend to be best at one or a few things). Or you can just play something totally different like Lancer, a game set in the space communist future where you fight slavers and fascist remnants in giant mechs, or Thirsty Sword Lesbians, which I know very little about except that the name is funny and that it is very queer.

    Personally I use GURPS, because it does a lot of things I like and because it can be used to run different genres with minimal effort. Things like extreme customizability, crunchy combat that actually has multiple options worth choosing that aren't just 'spam attacks', no HP bloat, point-buy characters with no classes (unless you want them), I could go on.

  • Why do D&D books have to be so expensive?
  • To your points, D&D would be a terrible choice.

    • It's balanced around a party of 4-6
    • It has almost no advice of how to run it
    • It's incredibly combat-focused, with balance assuming you'll get into 6+ fights per in-game day

    Glad to hear you're going with something else, good luck!

  • The Games Behind Your Government's Next War

    Interesting video, sadly the presenter is a frustrating liberal who refuses, whether out of sincere belief or optics concerns, to condemn NATO. Also uses fun phrases like "when Hamas attacked Israel on Oct 7th".

    Edit: also the "call to action" at the end is laughable liberal claptrap. There is no stopping the military from doing something so long as the games industry exists under capitalism, because the military has INFINITE MONEY to tempt people into working for them.

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    Shadows of the Erdtree First Impressions Post

    Seems like there aren't a lot of typical Elden Ring dungeons, just overworld stuff and then bigger dungeons for the more important bosses. Performance is really bad so far.

    Died to the Parade Lion while it was at 1HP, Freja secured the kill just before I timed out, hell yeah, I'll take it.

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    I Finished Starfield

    and uninstalled immediately. Did all the faction quests + main storyline. None are worth playing. I almost regret pirating it at all. Thank you todd.

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    There Are 4 Joinable Factions in Starfield

    You can be a:

    • Cop
    • Cop
    • Undercover Cop
    • Corporate Dog

    Thank you todd

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    Death to Real Estate "Developers"

    Saw a new 20-story development is going up nearby and checked out prices. Mao should have killed more landlords.

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    Enshittification seems to be happening at record pace

    Youtube, twitter, and reddit have obviously been in the news a lot recently, but every day business applications also seem to just keep getting worse. Got new PCs at work which means version updates, and pretty much everything we use (autocad, adobe acrobat, and ms office, mainly) all seem to run much slower, despite the computers having substantially higher specs. Love that I can't use any old versions or alternatives because they refuse to grant me admin access.

    I love capitalist innovation! Why make things better when you could just make them worse and charge more?

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