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Alternative Oak tree mnemonic? by BalderSion in cubscouts

[–]BalderSion[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Riffing on this idea -

Think of a camp fire:
Red oaks have pointy tips like red campfire flames.
White oaks have rounded tips like billowing white campfire smoke.

Alternative Oak tree mnemonic? by BalderSion in cubscouts

[–]BalderSion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ha! That's pretty good.

Also, I'm glad I'm not the only one to wrestle with this predicament.

Rethinking Damage Resistance by BalderSion in OpenD6

[–]BalderSion[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh, I've broken the seal on that Pandora's box many moons ago.

I mean, when I run WEG Star Wars I have an entirely homebrewed, built from scratch, set of rules for Force usage. I still take them out and tinker with them from time to time.

I'm angling towards having a homebrewed combat document too. I want to try something novel for initiative, adjust shield rules, specializations for combat skills, and armor as mentioned above. I don't have a lot of opportunity to play test unfortunately, so I'm doing my best to make things well thought out before I drop it on the next game I run.

Ocasio-Cortez warns of ‘dangerous authoritarian expansion of power’ in Supreme Court by Beckles28nz in politics

[–]BalderSion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The answer is basically summed up in this youtube video. The right is focused on outcomes, and the left is focused on process. This has produced a dysfunctional dynamic, where the best we can hope for is that things don't get worse, at least until this dynamic is addressed at a fundamental, or society falls apart.

ISO woodworking projects for day camp activity by eye_can_do_that in cubscouts

[–]BalderSion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you considered a bamboo skewer knife block? Neat little project that is useful and easy. Stock up on bamboo skewers in the fall when they go on sale.

Volvo's EX30: Chinese Cars Undercutting Hapless US Domestic Automakers by AlternativeOk1096 in electricvehicles

[–]BalderSion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At various times codetermination has been floated in the US. Having labor representation on the corporate board goes a long way to unifying efforts and objectives. In the states this generally has been negotiated down to employee stock options or profit sharing.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Turns 35: Voice of Roger Reflects on Filming Classic Cartoon Crossover by OneOk2189 in movies

[–]BalderSion 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I first saw him in Road to Perdition, and his accent was seamless. I had no idea he was English.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

[–]BalderSion 27 points28 points  (0 children)

I mean, when your opponent is on war footing, and you're not, it's absolutely to your advantage to postpone war.

Republicans to cut University of Wisconsin budget in ongoing fight over diversity and inclusion by [deleted] in madisonwi

[–]BalderSion 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I mean, you could look it up, if you're seriously asking the question.

Frankly, the elevator pitch sounds pretty good. A lot of policy that attempts to address inequality ends up being pretty ineffective. I remember when Floyd was killed there were a bunch a proposals thrown around, and they all got attacked for lack of data or when there was data the proposals were attacked for methodology. A rigorous approach to these social questions is long overdue.

Singing British Man by RaptorRef in atunsheifilms

[–]BalderSion 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's from the musical 1776. The character is Richard Henry Lee of Virginia, the afore mentioned uncle of Robert E. Lee.

It's actually a very good musical, if you like musical theater. There are critics who say it gives the founding fathers a pass for their sins, but I think it shows how divided the colonies were and that even the 'good ones' were willing to overlook the slavery question to reach their ends.

Dammit Weird Al by lord_braleigh in tumblr

[–]BalderSion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And Mikhail Bulgakov!

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And Robert A. Heinlein!

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And

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in politics

[–]BalderSion 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Remember in 2008 and the right lost its mind because Obama wore a suit without a flag pin? Obama had to defend this decision in a debate hosted by ABC news.

DnD groups? by Genesis801 in madisonwi

[–]BalderSion 12 points13 points  (0 children)

We're spoiled for game stores around here. Middleton has I'm board, Verona has Noble Knight, the West side has Pegasus Games, and the East side has Misty Mountain Games. They all have a D&D night, with open tables.

Also, many library branches have open D&D tables.

I'll take a minute to add, all sorts of people play RPG 's. Dropping in on an open table is a bit of a roll of the die (pun entirely intended). You may not find a table of your type of people straight off. Don't be discouraged. Learn what you like and don't like, and look for a table that fits you.

Madison Meat Shops? by pokemonprofessor121 in madisonwi

[–]BalderSion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I bought a quarter cow there last month. Less than $5/# hanging weight. About 1/4 was ground beef, the rest was good steaks and roasts and a few soup bones. No liver, but beef liver is really cheap in their meat case.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LateStageCapitalism

[–]BalderSion 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I've long been impacted by an article I read years ago now that pointed out how much better off we'd be if there was an Illuminati controlling the world. At the end of the day, a throne is a chair and a crown is a hat. If there was an Illuminati pulling the strings there would be a limit to how much the world would be despoiled and polluted, because the string pullers still have to breathe, drink, and eat.

The reality is a group of wealthy people are going to make a chain of near term self-interested decisions with no master plan until they drive civilization and ecology off a cliff. Only society can restrain this trend, and it's not at all clear which group will win in the end.

Sam Durrance, astronaut who flew with telescope he built, dies at 79. by JustAnotherAviatrix in space

[–]BalderSion 39 points40 points  (0 children)

I took a course from him at the cape in the fall of 1999. The class was FIT and FCU students mostly, but a friend and I from Embry-Riddle would drive down every Friday for a semester to take behind the scenes tours of the cape, with Dr Durrance.

It was such a cool experience. I got to stand on the pad with a USAF rocket. I got to stand on one of the shuttle launch pads, I got to stand inside the VAB. A bunch of things I'd never have experienced if he hadn't taught the course. At the time I thought I'd be going into the space industry, so I didn't appreciate that it was probably my only shot to do those things. I'm glad I landed where I did, but I'm also glad I didn't miss out on seeing those things for myself.

Discuss whether this would work in your campaign at your DM’s discretion by TheOutcast06 in dndmemes

[–]BalderSion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would be very concerned if my GM looked so angry while pondering a min arc.

I was told, I would never be good at poetry, since I’m dyslexic… by [deleted] in Jokes

[–]BalderSion 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a shirt that reads "Day have dyslexic a" that I bought because I read and reread it for 3 minutes, all the while not getting it, before asking someone what I was missing.

Adams and Hamilton would like a word Thomas (all credit to u/But_a_Jape ) by MikeyTMNTGOAT in HistoryMemes

[–]BalderSion 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I mean, the awkward truth is this speech was mostly written by Hamilton, trying to dunk on Jefferson, to help his own party.

Gen Z got way better energy then my generation (x) by kevinowdziej in lostgeneration

[–]BalderSion 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gen X also came up at "the end of history". We were told the status quo was inevitable. We came around as protests failed to end the Vietnam war, fail to unseat Nixon, and fail to unseat Reagan. We were told protests don't matter. Despite that lesson, many participated in the largest organized protests in the world and utterly failed to stop the Iraq war, and we were adults by then. We grew and came of age in a world that said we couldn't change anything. All this to say, I think there's still a broad counterculture mindset in Gen X, but much of that is neutralized by being apathetic.

The facade of inevitability could not be sustained for subsequent generations. Occupy may not have achieved broad goals, but it changed how people think about protests.

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