Switching to Linux requires a certain level of technical skill and patience that the majority of people don’t have.

It does. However, it was a technical news website so I assumed the audience had a higher than average technical affinity. This seems to have been a bad assumption

That said, installing Linux is easier than people imagine. Most of the time you download the image and follow some short instructions.

Admittedly, the minority of the time you might have to troubleshoot.

Shit’s expensive and salaries aren’t great. And the ownership class wants to fire even more people to replace with AI

Sometimes the word “Interesting” causes my brain to recall the character generation in Morrowind. The guy says something like ““Interesting. Now before I stamp these papers, make sure this information is correct.””

Conservatism, mostly.

Give him the ability to divest his wealth first.

Briefly imagined a world where conservative Christians are hard-line on giving to the poor and hospitality.

“Jesus said give your wealth to the poor and follow him. I don’t see a need to change that!”

Just remove all violent people first

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinction_without_a_difference

A distinction without a difference is a type of logical fallacy where an author or speaker attempts to describe a distinction between two things where no discernible difference exists.[1] It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid.

For example, a person might say “I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit.”[2]

Some other tech website did an article recently about how to unfuck windows as much as possible. Like four pages of tricks, registry edits, third party tools.

People in the comments were like “you know, Linux is free and is getting very user friendly.”

People were mad. People really want to stick to windows.

No idea why. I’m running basic pop!_os and have no real complaints.

In my best game, the players basically adopted Windy the Goblin from the first session. Windy played the flute, and was found rummaging through a raided wagon. I’d considered that players might talk to the goblin instead of just murdering, but wasn’t sure.

On the other hand, I had pre-planned a villain named Pretty Paul (modeled on Handsome Jack from borderlands) and how in his first scene they’d find him aggressively hitting on an NPC named Anri. The players basically ignored everything else in the scene to go bail Anri out. The rest of the game they maintained a deep hatred of Pretty Paul, who was admittedly a dangerous scumbag. They also sort of adopted Anri, and helped them get to wizard university later.

I have a spreadsheet.

Each month I check the balances of all my accounts (eg: savings, checking, vanguard). If anything looks unusual, I go investigate and make a note of what happened. (Eg: bought expensive boots here, moved money from this account to that account). If I was doing that a lot, I’d probably change something about my routine.

I used to export all the transactions from the bank websites and import them, but I found I wasn’t really using that data.

It helps that I’m naturally very frugal, and don’t have a lot of expenses.

I don’t accept the premise that everyone needs to work to live. We’re no longer farmers struggling to live through winter. The rich (anyone with more than like $5 million investable) don’t need to work, but no one calls them welfare queens.

It bugs me when people refuse to acknowledge they’re being a selfish prick. At least have the strength of character to look someone in the eye and say “Yes, I’d rather you die than me”. Fucking cowards.

Imagine you roll 3d6. There’s exactly one way to roll a 3. You need all three of those dice to come up 1. But there are many ways to roll a ten. [{1,3,6}, {1,4,5}, {2,2,6} …etc]. You’re more likely to get totals in the middle of the range. If you rolled 3d6 many times and charted the outcomes, it would look like a bell curve. Most of the results are in the middle, with fewer results of the outliers like 3 and 18.

If you roll 1d20 many times and chart the results, it’s a flat line. You’re just as likely to get one number as any other.

Go play around with https://anydice.com/program/e6 if you like.

I personally find the flat probability of 1d20 unsatisfying. I prefer when the average, most expected result comes up more often.

Like imagine you’re throwing darts at a dart board. You probably don’t have an equal number of darts on the floor as in the bullseye, and also an equal amount in between. They’re probably mostly clustered, with some outliers.

There are state sanctioned kidnappings in the middle of the day. It’s not safe here.

Plus, something like 20-40% of people are proudly pro trump. That’s a lot of idiots and selfish turds. They’re not all concentrated in Texas and Florida, either. I see a trump flag on one of my regular walks in Brooklyn

One of the reasons I don’t really like 1d20+stuff. Just as likely to get the best possible outcome as the worst.

Is there a name for this trope of cramming really wacky, difficult, high spotlight, stuff into a game like DND that doesn’t especially support it?

I usually feel bad because I want to encourage creativity, but I also don’t want this guy to have 80% of the table attention while Bob the Fighter and Joy the Rogue are playing by the numbers.

Gop is like a clock where only the minute hand is stopped and the hour hand is flapping all over. Sometimes it’s kind of correct, but not for the bigger picture.

Reminds me of the “Last Call Cats” art set that I really like.

Not finding the original but here they are in coaster form https://arnamiller.com/products/drunk-cat-coasters

People believe in capitalism. They believe that the capitalist hiring the cheapest labor, cutting every corner, and keeping every penny is playing by the rules. They are blameless.

The immigrant, however, less so. If they are “illegal”, then they didn’t follow the rules and need to be corrected! But even if they are “legal”, they’re still “supposed” to be second in line.

If the rules are just, who made them, and how they are maintained? Not under question.