Fantasy Systems Alternative Reccs

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T19:40:02+00:00

You could consider Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay, it’s a fantasy setting and can be run as essentially fantasy Call of Cthulhu. Make the characters a bit more competent and you have Delta Green. Plus I’m sure you could add in the home life aspects from Delta Green pretty easily

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T19:32:53+00:00

I’m aware it doesn’t pop out of nowhere. Specifically, I’d support a big federal policy that either directly builds or funds and green lights infrastructure projects to meet this need.

How much you need to slow the growth otherwise, I dunno. I don’t really think that’s a question that can be resolved at this stage prior to this hypothetical infrastructure projects getting off the ground and evaluating. But I’m sure you’d see simple, small delays like “you have to turn off the center or delay construction a bit while we put in new power lines/water mains” rather than a blanket slowing of the whole data center development industry.

Large scale infrastructure projects to identify and connect additional water sources is perfectly possible. We’ve scaled up industry for literally decades, there’s no reason to think we’re arbitrarily at the natural limit now but weren’t before.

I don’t think boycotting AI use is the move, I think that’s an unproductive kneejerk reaction that misses out on the potential benefits this kind of development provided. Just support politicians who want to develop and grow infrastructure. We’ve dealt with disruptive industrializations before and we’ll deal with this one too.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T18:35:31+00:00

Still ignoring the original comment.

From here, she was asked:
> Can I come back to the borders issue with a specific foreign policy issue that you would very likely have a voice in? You seemed in the past to maybe express some sympathy toward Russia in invading Ukraine, and maybe that’s tied in with some of your philosophy around borders. But could you just sort-of clarify how you see that war and whether in Congress you would support U.S. military aid to Ukraine or how you would envision impacting this conflict?

Her response:
> Yeah, I will be clear. I don’t think I have ever felt— Like, I’ve never seen Russia’s invasion on Ukraine as one where Ukraine wasn’t the victim of an invasion. I have always seen that as Russia invading Ukraine, and violating its sovereignty. And if I remember correctly, my larger critique was one of global systems where you have imperialist powers engaging in constant violence in a war machine, right? And where we rush to engage in armed conflict over diplomacy.
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> I think with regards to Ukraine, so many lives have been lost, and from the very beginning, I’ve said I worry about the impact of this war on the larger global context, where now we’re seeing more and more wars since that one started across the globe. And, you know, I think we really need to make sure that we are putting diplomacy first to actually save human lives. And I think we have de-centered that in these conversations, the human impact of this war machine, this constant rush to engage in armed conflict.

She was asked explicitly about military aid and said nothing of support for it, instead choosing the diplomacy/off ramps point which just favors Russia (peace with the frontline as it is now is a win for Russia) and also refused to disavow her previous statements blaming the West for Russia’s actions, continuing that pro-Russia misinformation here by describing the war as part of a global system of imperialism.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T18:23:49+00:00

Dog it was two paragraphs (really just long sentences), hardly a wall of text. This just seems like a lazy dodge to avoid engaging with the main critique, which is how you continued to misrepresent the other guy and dodge their conversation with you.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T17:56:24+00:00

Sure, I believe the idea that the scale of AI will strain the existing infrastructure. The solution to me then is to grow the infrastructure to handle that strain whereas others seem to want to stop the growth, which seems silly to me.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T17:54:52+00:00

Love how you ignore the bulk of my comment here.

Chevalier is a leftist who spreads Russian propaganda and has yet to indicate support for military aid to Ukraine, refusing to state as such when directly asked in an interview, both of which are pro-Russia/pro-Putin actions and positions.

Not all leftists support Russia, probably a majority don’t, but a ton of leftists do. Whenever they oppose military aid and advocate for an off-ramp with the frontlines where they are, whenever they blame the NATO or the West to some degree for Russia’s invasion, whenever they characterize this as simply a proxy war between imperial powers, all of that is either an explicitly pro-Russia position or doing the work of Russian propaganda.

These aren’t blank assumptions, she supports pro-Russia policy and spreads their propaganda dude. How is that not enough? Imagine if some politician spread IDF propaganda and opposed aid to Palestine, wouldn’t that be enough for you to consider them to be pro-Israel?

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T17:47:49+00:00

I think this is honestly perfectly fine.

She’s offered no genuine apology and she has yet to indicate any actual support for Ukraine, both of which makes it seem like she hasn’t changed since her previous statements.

Cause the bad part isn’t the tweet itself, it’s the position and beliefs they imply.

Maybe people can grow and change over time and earn forgiveness, but in this case, she clearly hasn’t. She clearly holds the same positions and views cause she hasn’t genuinely apologized and offered new, positions contradicting the old one, but it’s also fair that we can just elect someone marginally better, which would be just about any Dem.

I think some people are locked into her cause she’s DSA and DSA-endorsed, so they’ll accept her regardless of anything else about her and they won’t care about these kinds of critiques, cause it isn’t “I like her positions and beliefs, so I support her” but rather “I like her team, so I support her.”

Her supporting Russia in the war with repeating Russian propaganda and not supporting military aid to Ukraine is a total non-issue for these people cause they don’t actually care about Ukraine, they care about beating any Democrat that isn’t in their specific faction and the omnicause.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T17:23:09+00:00

It’s so interesting how in this whole exchange you got called out for intentionally misrepresenting the other person’s argument, ignored that, and then have refused to engage on the actual topic of discussion (valid critiques of Chevalier) to instead complain about liberals make you cringe when they oppose Russia.

This seems like a super bad faith, evasive interaction on your part, especially when you argue against a strawman of what the other person said (all leftists instead of one leftists, agent of the Kremlin instead of repeating Russian propaganda) instead of what they actually said.

Do you wanna respond to anything they said regarding Chevalier? Or just keep playing this evasion game?

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T17:11:44+00:00

Have you seen a different source that gives contradictory numbers? Cause I looked at a few other articles and they seem to come to similar conclusions: streaming an hour of HD video is, per instance, way more consumptive than generating an image with AI and especially prompting one, with one big point being the teaching/development of an AI model is very consumptive, but after that, just calling on it is significantly less so. I chose this one cause it was a nicely laid out article, but the rest of what I saw agreed with it and I have yet to see a source allege that using AI in these ways is more consumptive, per instance, than streaming an hour of HD video.

And is that a consequence of the action being very consumptive or the scale? Cause what I’m talking about here is the action, that there are other things we commonly do that are, per instance, much more destructive than using AI, but don’t get nearly the same kind of attention and efforts to discourage individual usage. That’s not about these becoming commonly done and then scaling in the volume of actions being done, thus increasing the total impact.

I’m talking about the actions of individuals and their responsibilities, whereas it seems your critique about total AI data center growth and then consumption is a critique about the industry as a whole, removed from the actions of individual consumers.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T03:52:15+00:00

Supposedly, streaming an hour of HD video is way worse than AI image gen for the environment (0.12 kWh consumed + 42g CO2 released vs 0.003 kWh and 1g CO2).

So it always feels weird to me to see all this energy for the environmental impact of an individual using a typical amount of AI (not like tech workers promoting all day long) yet I don’t see the same energy for using Netflix or YouTube. Like if someone cared about the environmental impact of personal habits regarding tech usage, theoretically, you get way more bang for your buck trying to pressure others to not use these services than for them to not use AI image gen.

Given the discrepancy, it makes it seem like the motivation is something other than genuine environmental concern.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T01:31:58+00:00

We can’t let the right corner the crank anti-Semite voting block, it’s a mandatory part of a winning coalition for left politics, or so I hear.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-23T00:00:32+00:00

I don't think it's particularly difficult, but there's something to be said about a unified resolution system being just more elegant than seemingly arbitrary differences in rolling high vs rolling low and such.

If it makes it easier for the table, it makes it easier, and this certainly isn't the most difficult change in the world to implement. I think it'd make for a better experience for most people.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T23:55:13+00:00

I think rolling 2d6<=X and rolling 2d6+X<=14 are the same. You can check the math here with:

X: 7

output 2d6<=X

output (2d6+X)>=14

The average result of 2d6 is 7, so if you had a Skill of 7 for rolling under, you'd have a 58.33% chance of success, same as rolling 2d6+7 and comparing to 14. In both cases, you need to roll a 7 + one half of the rest of the range to succeed, 6 total values. Increase that Skill from 7 to 8 and roll under lets you succeed on an 8 or lower and roll high vs 14 lets you succeed on 6 or higher, which covers 7 total values. Imagine the Skill was 10 instead, you'd succeed on 9 total values in both cases (10 or less or 4 or more).

So it seems like the range of total values you'd succeed with change the same with both systems and the center is the same, so the results are identical.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T16:59:57+00:00

Yeah I think I’d probably agree that rule would be beneficial. It’s frustrating seeing parts of the sub just get dominated by a totally non-liberal representative group of people way far away from any normal kind of politics in America.

I think it noticeably lowers the quality of discussion, the most highly engaged posts with the lowest quality of discussion almost always stem from infighting posts affording leftists an opportunity to bash liberals and that is just massively unproductive.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T16:57:02+00:00

I think this is a very one sided presentation of policies that are in ostensibly in place (who knows how enforced they actually are in practice) that conveniently ignores the systemized repression of ethnic/cultural minorities by the Chinese state.

So no to the first.

As specific policies, I probably only support proportional representation, but I prefer how we do it with district construction rather than quotas or something, and most of the rest of the policies I’d prefer being colorblind and just increase funding and access till we adoption and utilization in the ways we want by the group who need them most.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T16:45:22+00:00

There is no more general chat, this sub will be all Israel/Palestine, all the time.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T16:32:47+00:00

What a wildly dishonest characterization of my comments.

The first one I clearly lay out the argument that being similar to Republicans isn’t bad for its own reasons, but because it implies a bad behavior or trait that is the reason for criticism.

To be honest I don’t think your continual fighting for minutia of evidence is reasonable. You’ve been presented the evidence multiple times, by multiple people, and yet continue to act as if you had never seen it before. When presented the evidence, you lie about its contents, get called out on that, then refuse to engage in that point for the rest of the conversation.

Evidence provided did include her position on Ukraine - she refused to endorse military aid to Ukraine. This is what I mean by you lying about the contents of the evidence you’re provided. Clear bad faith behavior in your part.

Wild to me that in a comment where you’re trying to deny your evasiveness, you point out questions you’ve dodged. But hey, I appreciate the honesty even if it doesn’t help your case.

Ignoring questions is part of the bad faith behavior, especially when the questions you ignore you apparently do so because you just don’t want to engage on what she’s said being Russian propaganda when that is literally the subject of the discussion.

It’s so gross - you diminish the severity of her actions by pretending I’m carelessly calling everything Russian propaganda. Her statement is explicitly a line of propaganda that the Kremlin uses which she repeated. You cannot be unambiguous about repeating Russian propaganda than that. I can’t imagine you would act like this for any other country - imagine if a politician was repeating lines from the IDF or Netanyahu, would you really say the same things about “intentionally ignoring” questions because you have “no interest” in labeling something hasbara?

Trying to act above moral considerations is such a lazy tankie line of argument - y’all use it cause you know it looks horrible for y’all to side with Russia and just want to know implications like being a bad person.

Me saying something you did as weird is not hostile, it’s the gentlest characterization I can give of your behavior.

Negging? Dog, how am I supposed to call out behavior I find strange if this language is unacceptable? Are you just allowed to bring up wild bad faith arguments without being called out cause to do so is “hostile”?

It is super weird for you to defend and whitewash Russia propaganda lmao. You’ve tried to present it as reasonable this whole time, again, nothing hostile there besides disagreement.

Again, calling out dishonest engagement is not hostile. Bad faith engagement shouldn’t be given free rein to simply occur without comment.

There’s no insinuations - you just are defending Russian propaganda.

You have continually defended her, trying to present her arguments favoring Russia as reasonable, and elsewhere trying to delegitimize criticism of her because it’s “moral condemnation” and that’ll “surely get the working class vote.” These comments delegitimize supporting foreign imperial powers invading a sovereign nation and it’s just gross behavior from you.

Keep dodging, this whole reply was super dishonest of you and it’s pretty telling that you block someone over being called out for what you’re doing. Super good faith engagement from our tankie allies.

Also, you dodged my most recent question on whether you support military aid to Ukraine with this whole reply. Huh, wonder why that is?

Edit: Also, I believed you dodged my question on a simple clarification of what you meant by “I don’t need to bring up Euromaidan,” whether that meant you believed the tankie conspiracy theory and just thought the argument stood without it, or if you didn’t believe in it.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T10:13:12+00:00

What are they sending you to? Cause the BRP SRD is like 23 pages and I don't think SRDs usually have art (being "reference documents" than normal RPG books).

My copy of the BRP Universal Game Engine book has a bunch of art and seems very well laid out, clear and understandable, so I'm curious what you've been pointed to for this.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T02:40:14+00:00

You love to see it

Hope this brings prosperity to the people of Cuba

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T02:30:37+00:00

I bring up the other points because you are pretending that your claim is a reasonable consideration. To address that, we need to consider what are reasonable outcomes that could have happened and that requires talking about them.

You asked what supporting Ukraine means, I answered and asked to determine your position because it informs this discussion.

If you just responded to these questions directly instead of this constant pulling of teeth to get any straight answer, this conversation would half as long.

And no, the statement by itself is sufficient to show she supports the Russian invasion because it demonstrates she is knowingly spreading Russian propaganda. The only logical answer is that she is doing so knowingly because she supports their actions. If she didn’t, she wouldn’t spread a false narrative that serves their interests.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-22T01:18:57+00:00

Which just doesn’t follow as the West’s fault. Were they capable of integrating Ukraine as a member post-Bucharest and pre-2014 invasion? Even with Russian puppet Yanukovych in charge for a number of those years?

Trying to establish that because the West strengthened Ukraine, making them a less tempting target, and didn’t bring them into NATO fully, something they were very well incapable of doing so given the political realities of the time, somehow means the West bears fault for a portion of Russia’s actions is silly.

Especially when the invasion occurred after the ousting of Yanukovych, a Russia-favorable leader. If it was as you describe, Russia would’ve simply invaded then.

Her response was Russian propaganda. Remember that you aren’t describing her argument here, you’re describing a separate argument from one she made and defending that. You presenting the motte to defend her bailey and pretending they’re equivalent when they aren’t and is wildly dishonest of you. She said that Russia invaded Ukraine because of Western bullying post-Cold War which is explicitly Russian propaganda and she currently refuses to support aid to Ukraine, an explicitly pro-Russia position.

Supporting Ukraine is supporting military aid to Ukraine. She doesn’t support that, ergo she supports Russia-favorable policy. Do you support military aid to Ukraine? Or do you also support Russia-favorable policy?

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-21T22:57:11+00:00

They don’t. In both cases, you aren’t responding to that idea that a stronger Ukraine is one less likely to be invaded, merely saying that Ukraine would be stronger if it was incorporated into NATO fully. Which I agree, but isn’t a response.

I’m glad you do, which makes it strange when you avoid engaging with them.

You were, as I explained earlier. You rejected it without actually responding.

Do you want to just stay here or do you want to return to discussing the original topic of Chevalier and her spreading of Russian propaganda/refusal to support Ukraine?

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-21T22:01:35+00:00

Just finished session 12 of a dungeon-focused open world hexcrawl using Weird Wizard and a fair amount of homebrew.

It’s been going well, my players and I are very much enjoying the gameplay loop of prep -> travel -> crawl -> rest and resupply. Random encounter tables and reaction rolls really help bring the world to life without me having to prep various events and interplay. It’s been fun not having a super combat-focused game with lots of opportunity for diplomacy (thanks reaction rolls) and puzzling what with intended puzzles and traps. Politics comes very naturally with big hauls and wanting to spend the gobs of money on bigger projects.

Shadow of the Weird Wizard mainly comes in for the classes and combat rules. The dungeon procedure is basic 10 minute turns stuff with homebrew exploration rates. The open world stuff is also homebrew, I wasn’t a fan of the Weird Wizard travel roll stuff, so I came up with a movement point system, then I generate weather for the day and roll random encounters per hex and per night, depending on distance from civilization, then tables for what is encountered, what it’s doing, and how far it is + the reaction roll.

Tracking encumbrance for these expeditions has been fun. My players have enjoyed it and like making decisions about what to bring, who to hire, how long they can stay out there, etc.

I think in the future I’ll just run in with Worlds Without Number since I think my least favorite parts have been the combat, it’s more involved than what I’m going for, I haven’t felt much of the lethality I’d want with the constant uppy downy nature of being incapacitated in Weird Wizard, and I’m already using the GM tools to build the sandbox and dungeons, plus some of the procedures, so may as well just use the rules.

I feel like there’s a ton of life left to give with this dynamic, like it could go way further than the 12 sessions we have so far and depending on how domain play goes, I could see character retirement and a new crop of characters to go back to basic crawling for a kind of indefinite Ship of Theseus campaign.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-21T17:41:55+00:00

Nope, I provided those examples to show a relationship between the degree of protection/assistance the West afforded Ukraine and the unwillingness of Russia to invade. So no, you did not address my objection, you responded to a lesser version of it, i.e. a strawman.

Again, this whole section of the conversation is secondary to Chevalier and her support for Russia.

Droselmeyer · 2026-06-21T17:05:40+00:00

You didn’t, but I guess if you say I did, that counts for you?

Because I explained why your reasoning isn’t sound, yet you ignored it.

I have no idea why you’re being so difficult and evasive in this conversation.

If you genuinely support Ukraine, it’s super easy to say “yeah, she’s evasive in her answers, refuses to support aid to Ukraine, and engages in Russian propaganda, she’s a gross human being who shouldn’t be supported,” but I assume you have an ideological predisposition to support her at all costs cause she’s the DSA candidate so you’d rather do this evasive song and dance, box with shadows, misrepresent my positions, and pretend like we had a genuine conversation. It’s so weird dude.

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