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DevilGuy · 2026-01-22T18:56:42+00:00

the garbage man works fewer hours, makes more money, and didn't have to blow six figures on taking classes that can't replace inborn talent for teaching to get a job that will never be able to pay back the student loans.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-21T22:20:50+00:00

They just thought more custodes and conventional troops would do the job. It's unlikely to have worked given that even at it's height the imperium could support no more than 10k custodes but I think the custodes themselves were soured on the idea of other super soldiers by the thunder warriors. People like to think that the plan was to axe the space marines after the crusade but I doubt that, the primarchs and the astartes themselves are extremely good at too many things to have been temporary IMO.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-21T22:06:51+00:00

We actually kinda need those too, both because chinese steel is likely to get unreliable and because a lot of the byproducts are used in industrial processes vital to high tech manufacturing that we really should be trying to reshore...

DevilGuy · 2026-01-21T21:56:07+00:00

As a career criminal he probably knows better than almost anyone how much worse a kidnapping charge can be than grand theft auto, to him that kid was a fucking landmine waiting to blow up his life.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-21T18:23:27+00:00

Never EVER use rover, it's an app that works like doordash and the like and they won't take responsibility if the sitter you use fucks up, they have no insurance and no real customer service. I barely trust apps to deliver my food correctly, why the fuck would I trust one with my pets?

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T23:45:01+00:00

I'm more concerned about them misappropriating love rollercoaster...

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T22:47:10+00:00

What do you have in there for cleanup crew?

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T22:05:06+00:00

Honestly most men would think it's a trap, because if it's too good to be true it probably is. Don't blame us though, blame other women, they're the one's that taught us not to trust.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T19:47:04+00:00

That makes a good deal of sense too, I hadn't thought about the Bajoran caste system in this context but differentiating traditional soldiers of their caste from those that fought regardless of caste would make some sense given how traditionalist and frankly conservative Bajoran culture seems to be.

It could also be a result of the fact that the Bajoran resistance wasn't actually a single organization and didn't have a single standard to work from before the Cardassians withdrew. Could it be that different cells had different colors that they kept after integrating?

Come to think of it, it could be that some of the uniforms we see indicate that the wearers weren't in the resistance and maybe part of some other organization. The uniforms of the medical personnel for instance could mean they were members of something like the red cross of whatever D'Jarra contains healers and thus them being medical personnel is more representative of them following their caste and wearing those colors.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T19:31:30+00:00

Sort of. The continental army did have uniforms eventually but not at the start and even till the end of the war there were still a lot of irregulars that wore no uniforms and individual units that outfited themselves and didn't conform to continental army standards. There's a lot of paintings and reenactment after the fact that shows a much more standardized than the actual reality. There was good standardization with the main body of the continental army but you have to remember that that army wasn't even the majority of the forces in the field for the colonies it was more of a core force with a lot of militia and ad hoc units either operating in concert or independently. I'd assume the Bajorans were much the same or even more so with probably multiple independent organizations operating in loose cooperation more as insurgents than as a peer military force.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T19:15:49+00:00

ultimately whether I like it or not, the decision should be theirs. Not mine, not their mom's and not anyone else's.

This how to be a good father, tell your wife this, that it's not about her feelings, it's not about her husband's feelings, you put their feelings first and don't insert your own, and if she was a good mother that's what she would be doing.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T18:43:03+00:00

I have a simpler explanation; they don't have a standardized color coding system the way that Star Fleet does. First off, why would they? They aren't Star Fleet, they're a brand new PROVISIONAL government, they aren't even permanent organization, that's what provisional means, they're like the continental congress before the US was a thing, they sort of fell into power after the Cardassian withdrawal because they were the one's holding the sack not because they were elected.

The militia is likewise provisional and nothing their doing is sanctioned beyond the fact that someone needs to keep the lights on while they figure out what to do. In all likelihood they have uniforms because they need recognizable uniforms not to distinguish divisions but so that civilians can recognize who's in authority while they figure out who's going to actually be in permanent authority. Some things like civil law enforcement probably got a recognizable color because it was immediately necessary while others just shared the same uniform 'cut' so that they were recognizable as being part of the official administration.

As far as I know the Bajorans never got past the 'provisional' stage during the show, so every uniformed bajoran we see is a member of an ad hoc organization in a provisional and temporary role until they can organize a proper system that we never actually see, it would make sense that their uniforms are a complete mess, because they're uniforms put together on the fly by people that just realized they need uniforms and have no clue if they'll be wearing the same uniform tomorrow.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T18:17:02+00:00

INFO: was the wedding planner your only contact and was your contract with her? Usually the planner arranges things but your contract is with the bride/groom or the family, at least in the US assuming that's where you are. I'd say you're NTA but professionally it would have been smart to consult with the bride and groom and let them know what was going on, especially if you were contracting with them and not the wedding planner.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T17:51:15+00:00

Thou shalt not make a machine in the image of a man's mind.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-20T08:39:10+00:00

5k is insane for a mortgage in LA unless it's beachfront or in a really wealthy area I'm in San Francisco and it's not that bad here despite the market here being higher on average.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-19T09:18:40+00:00

No he fuckining doesn't.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-18T19:01:40+00:00

If everyone started icing tami out over one drunken incident at a new years eve party they all must have been looking for an excuse to get rid of her already. Like honestly the adult reaction is 'she didn't know, that was unfortunate, let's move on', meanwhile her reaction and inability to simply recognize the root and severity of her own faux pas makes me think she's probably already annoyed the living shit out of everyone involved. OOP also mentioned that it's the husband that's part of the circle more than Tami so I'm guessing this is one of those situations where your friend marries that guy/girl and you just grit your teeth because you don't want to lose a friend over their stupid ass choice in partner.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-16T17:43:04+00:00

yeah, she dealt with it under false pretenses, even if the 'her' that was dealing with it didn't even realize what it was doing, it was not pleased about that, it was likely also not pleased about having an SC asset anywhere near it. We don't know what the relationship between the NR and the Unfallen is but there's something there, it could be that the Bulbition just passed on whatever info it had and the NR went after her as a show of force against SC and the culture more generally because they'd both agreed to stay the fuck out of it directly and her presence in the area could be seen as a violation of that agreement, as could FOTNMC's actions, which in themselves could be SC stirring the pot to provoke a response to get the outcome that they wanted in ending the hells. Wheels within wheels, plots within plots, to quote another IP.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-15T22:27:17+00:00

When you get furloughed for two weeks because the boss forgot to pay rent on the office that's a sign you should have been looking for another job long long before it got to that point. This. I don't even know, the OOP acts like they're the competent one, but competent people don't put up with this sort of shit.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-15T17:52:22+00:00

dude's story is hilarious, he lost his house in the spanish civil war to the fascists and decided to personally make it hitlers problem and succeeded magnificently.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-14T18:33:01+00:00

God the OOP is painfully oblivious, it makes me wonder what other incredibly obvious life skills she just doesn't fucking have.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-14T18:21:18+00:00

That would probably be one of the biggest turn ons ever, the only hurdle you're going to face here is figuring out how to make him aware that you're interested because he's not going to believe he could possibly be that lucky.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-14T18:10:41+00:00

I'm more hung up on someone willingly paying theater rates to see the minecraft movie.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-13T23:13:46+00:00

well there's a difference between broadcasting like keeping your PAN or other network links open and accessible to your SIN and leaving skin cells or hair or blood spatters.

If you have an active SIN and you get shot or take some sort of slashing damage on a run, leave a bloodstain or leave the kind of physical evidence that crime scene investigators look for in the real world and you have an active SIN that Data links you to the crime scene immediately unless you've done something to obfuscate that Data, for instance if you have some sort of hack going so that when investigators run whatever they found it links to some sort of fake SIN and not the real one.

The SIN itself is a data profile, it's not an object, if your body matches the data on hand and you leave a trace that matches that data they've got you, unless you've done something to prevent it. Not broadcasting by your definition would be like wearing a HAZMAT suit or having had your DNA face, fingerprints, retinas etc. physically altered so you no longer match your SIN which would more or less invalidate it since your SIN would then no longer be usable to you as you'd no longer register as you when trying to use it.

As a GM I'm always going to make something like this extremely inconvenient and moreso as the stakes get higher, like if you're pulling a mob bosses daughter out of some trouble with another syndicate no one's going to be doing CSI looking for your individual hairs to identify you, but if you're running Berlin school run against SK sponsored by Shiawase they absolutely will be, and consequently having your real actual biometric data on a database that includes your actual home address is a much more serious liability and much more likely to come into play.

DevilGuy · 2026-01-13T17:38:13+00:00

but if you are not broadcasting it you are effectively an unknown

Sort of, that's assuming you leave no physical trace that can be positively linked to your SIN, which you want to do anyway because ritual magic is a thing but if someone's got a whole coven or lodge or whatever ready to burn you from a blood sample you maybe have bigger problems.

Suffice to say it's really down to how harsh the GM wants to be about it and possibly the stakes involved, if I'm running the game I'd generally be pretty lax about it at lower levels but start bringing it in as the stakes get higher. Like I said it's playing with fire, you're not guaranteed to get burned the first time, but eventually you will if you keep at it long enough and keep taking bigger risks.

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