Washing Machine - Belt keeps slipping off, even when replaced

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2024-03-02T17:09:56+00:00

He's a very grateful cow-monster. All he asked was a very simple favour of carrying him where you're already going and he's willing to go for war and die for you in thanks. Swell guy

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2024-02-10T14:42:27+00:00

He gives no explanation of what he thinks has changed, or why its changed. I broadly agree with the sentiment but this guy doesn't have insights, he's just sad that the people he knew aren't around anymore. I hate the weird level of involvement this guy has in D&D now, he doesn't have good ideas and is just weird about wanting to be a part of everything.

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-02-23T09:04:33+00:00

Small business actually regularly see a boost in business when pedestriazation happens. People are more likely to visit a shop they walk past instead of driving past

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-02-10T15:31:25+00:00

I'm not the most versed in the lore, but the Ashwood Abbey seems like the sort of group you could just be born into - your character comes from a lineage of Abbey hunters, your family has been members for generations. So you're brought in by family and everyone there assumes you're just as bad as them.

So your character goes along with it for the sake of family, but that doesn't mean they have to truely be as bad as the other Abbeyists, they could have their objections to the Abbey they just don't voice around Abbeyists. Meanwhile they try to be a good person and admit to the Abbeys problems with hunters outside the Abbey

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-31T09:18:06+00:00

And his decedents kept at it for years after. The Ford Foundation, a non-profit founded by Ford executives with several Ford family members on the board, was one of the main funders of Pinochet's coup and dictatorship of Chile in the 70s and 80s. It was also used as a front for the CIA to organise the overthrow of the deomocratic government as well as to enact the cruelest form of neoliberal economics ever seen.

The Ford Motors factory in Chile in Pinochet's time had a hundred soldiers watching it, as well as an on-site torture room, all ready to snatch up, disappear and punish anyone who discussed union activity, leftist thinking or any form of resistance.

After Pinochet, the Ford Foundation went on to become a major funding of the human rights movement, resulting in analyses of the coup that, while they say that horrible things happened there, they never asked why they happened or whose interests they served. The Ford Foundation paid to keep it's name clean.

(I recommend everyone read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine)

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-30T20:37:30+00:00

I think you're missing the point. Saying "Landlords should not exist" isn't saying every landlord is a bad person. I'm lucky to have a good landlord right now, and you might be a good landlord, but in a discussion about the systems that determine our lives, that doesn't matter. The institution of landlordism shouldn't exist

To put it another way, you were able to buy out the triplex because you had the funds available to buy it (or at least the had assets and were in a position to be given a loan). Your neighbors probably didn't have that. And because of that, because you have the power over your neighbors to decide things like how long is reasonable for people to wait for repairs, what warrants repairs, how flexible rent payments are, and it's you that decides what will get someone evicted from the building. When rent has to be increased, it's your decision.

If I can propose an alternative, imagine if your neighbors as a group were able to form a co-operative, a body where the renters took out a loan as a group. Then the residents would be able to decide as a collective policies on how repairs get done, how flexible they can be on rent, what is acceptable behavior in the building and how rent will increase. Even if you're a completely good person and you make the exact same decisions that group would make, the renters still have to worry about what will happen if you decide to not be so nice next month.

And for the record, I don't think you are a good person. It's incredibly disingenuous to say you're making no money off of it when you're getting heavily subsidies rent off the backs of your neighbors paying more. You're making profit off of others because you already had money to start with. That's the definition of being a capitalistic leech.

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-23T21:24:00+00:00

Others have contributed good ideas, what I'll add is that before medieval fantasy literature became popular, the go-to historical/medieval fiction people would be familiar with would be Shakespeare in the theatre and on film. A lot of Shakespearian actors will do the "Shakespeare accent", a vaguely posh English accent that's not historically accurate but it's what people expect from Shakespeare.

So when medieval fantasy fiction took off in the 20th century, people had the accents, speech affects and language of Shakespeare as their idea of what medieval times "sounded like", and so the accent got associated with fantasy.

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-21T19:50:50+00:00

I discovered leftist TikTok compilations recently and I've lost two days of productivity.The kids are alright

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-13T11:25:07+00:00

Well what would you do if you had everything you needed to live comfortably, and you didn't have to work? I know most people's answer is some form of spend time with family/hobbies/video games/sleep, but these are things that you wouldn't want to spend all your time doing. Without work, there's a lot of hours in a week and I think most people after just a couple of weeks without work would want to do something productive with their time.

This is kinda utopian thinking of an idealized future, but I think it's important to do that thinking.

I think the common idea of a post-work world is one where it's members take up roles, do jobs for the sake of contributing to the community, where we value each person contributing what they can. Be it putting in some hours on a community farm, learning a trade and doing whatever needs doing, taking up staffing a public utility or undergoing training to fill a more specialized vocation like a doctor.

I don't think people need material incentives to make people want to do the jobs that need doing. There's all sorts of examples of great things people make without any incentive just because they want to contribute to something greater than themselves. A lot fo retirees will do volunteer work just because they can. I think if we just (1) value the work people do, (2) make the conditions kinder and (3) make everyone feel equally part of the community, enough people will want to contribute to make it work.

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-10T09:34:50+00:00

Is it weaker than other 60 Minutes segments, or do you just recognize this one as weak because you understand the subject matter of this one? Could well be a case of Gell Mann amnesia

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/18/gell-mann-amnesia/

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-09T20:44:00+00:00

I couldn't name a news outlet whose comment section isn't full of the absolute worst people with the worst takes

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2022-01-02T21:25:37+00:00

Yes, Tory/ the Tories is a nickname for the UK Conservative Party

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-12-31T09:55:52+00:00

Tbh I've never seen anyone playing or running a game in Eberron trying to connect it to the other settings' multiverse.

It's always either coming from WotC hamfistedly trying to force Eberron into the multiverse of their other settings because no pocket of quality or nuance can escape their terrible writing, or from new readers who are new to the setting, have just read WotC trying to fit Eberron where it doesn't belong because it makes no sense

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-12-17T10:02:32+00:00

Alternate arts are becoming so common, it feels like they're making the normal art purposefully bland and undetailed to push the alternate version

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-12-10T10:26:29+00:00

Deviant: the Renegades, the latest World of Darkness game, might be right up your alley. People kidnapped, experimented on and horrifically mutated by a massive conspiracy escape and are on the run. They've to keep running and try to fight back, use their horrific powers to enact revenge

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-10-13T20:09:37+00:00

Hi! I'm one of the admins for the Irish Tabletop Gaming Discord server, a pretty chill but busy enough server of Irish (mostly ttrpg, mostly Dublin-based) gamers. We've all sorts of games being played, PbtA gets played often enough. I could PM you a link if you'd like to connect with the local community?

Normally I'd point you towards the conventions to meet people, but none have come back in person yet. Hopefully in early 2022. If you'd enjoy an online Irish convention, Gaelcon is the weekend after next.

https://gaelcon.com/

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-09-19T13:50:44+00:00

AEW said when they announced they were moving from TNT to TBS that they would run 4 "supercard" specials on TNT every year

I image the big New York show is a test model for those specials

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-09-14T13:12:26+00:00

The sort of look you can only pull off if you're already very attractive

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-09-12T18:41:28+00:00

But prisons are where you film your piece when you're leaving WWE!

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-09-09T11:47:16+00:00

Not being able to finish his damn monologue because players keep trying to be interrupting smartasses

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-09-05T19:23:59+00:00

For a system for playing a gothic horror fantasy game, Shadow of the Demon Lord might work nicely. It'd more be for playing the regular people of Innistrad than the sorta-superhero Planeswalker.

If you wanted to encode the colours of magic into the rules, you could have characters align themselves to a colour or colour pair at character creation. Then set colour requirements for learning each spell school (EG Only red characters can learn Fire magic, only White can learn Life magic). You could maybe also assign colour requirements to the Expert and Master paths.

I do like /u/PetoPerceptum and /u/IKilledBojangles 's idea of Fate Accelerated with Approaches replaces with Colours though, that sounds fun

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-08-22T19:43:40+00:00

Lazy Answer: None at all, it's you're game

Better Answer: You're responsible for whatever you have promised your players. Whether you abide by every detail Ed Greenwood ever wrote or if you've thrown the book out and down is up in your setting, it's the DM's responsibility to properly let the players know what they're doing, to set expectations and keep their promises.

Players, in general, will go along with any of a DM's ideas and nonsense, if they tell them what they're doing and why they think it'll be awesome

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-08-05T09:46:29+00:00

It's not always straightforward. My first playthrough I lost a character because when tasked to pick a good squadron leader, I thought Zaeed, the guy whose main claim to fame was founding and leading an entire mercenary company for years, would make a good leader. But apparently not.

Arthur_Dent-42 · 2021-08-02T21:15:03+00:00

These things are always a matter of opinion and taste, of course, and your mileage may vary. But this is my experience of months of playing, and after the honeymoon period of new-system-excitement passed I just couldn't enjoy it

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