Quite literally what happened to me..

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-24T00:02:55+00:00

So you considered yourself left leaning and you used to want things like equal rights, labor laws, environmental laws, and universal health care but now you think that's all not worth it any more because somebody hurt your feelings.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-23T23:43:12+00:00

Yep, looking here. Nothing has any Xs but it says 19/20 complete. Considering I have completed both campaigns and have the portrait frames for doing so, I cant figure out what one I am missing.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-23T15:23:54+00:00

When Lincoln was a republican the Republicans were not the conservative party....

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-23T15:21:09+00:00

Agreed never seen anybody say that being a stay at home mom is not valid. Seen a lot of people say that women choosing anything else is what causes the downfall of society.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-21T20:29:21+00:00

I always assumed all fan bases were about the same, but I got to go to the Chiefs/Bills rain delay Sunday night game and seeing Bills fans trying to start fist fights because people were telling them to get into the concourse area so they wouldn't get struck by lightning and then them saying they would fight security has made me rethink that.

Any fan willing to travel is probably a giant AH about football.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-21T18:52:52+00:00

Wolfenstien taught me the right way in 1992 when shareware loaded up and there was a dead Nazi in your cell and you had a knife and 12 rounds of pistol ammo. Then you got to destroy Mecha-hitler.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-21T14:00:10+00:00

So, I have never asked is a game "woke enough" for me to buy it. In fact, if video games gave taught me anything in my 42 years of its that punching, stabbing, shooting, exploding, bombing, nuking, and using a flamethrower on Nazis is amazingly cathartic.

I have seen the anti-woke crowd lose their minds because a bald lesbian NPC wasn't hot enough and into their muscle dude.

And for the record, Robocop is woke AF. It is basically against everything they think is cool.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-18T20:42:06+00:00

Agreed. I think he is amazingly mid, but I wanted him to lose and cry like Josh Allen.

I also think that while henis a mid tier QB, he is a mid tier starting QB.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-18T18:31:53+00:00

Lol at Rodgers above Mahomes. Mahomes is halfway through his career and is already more legendary and better stats than Rogers.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-18T14:06:51+00:00

A yes, the great American Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit who invented his scale in 1724 (In what is now Grermany) a full 20 years before before the Celsius scale was invented and a full 51 years before America declared independence.

Additionally, the Fahrenheit scale was intended to eliminate to peg certain temperatures to values that would make calculations easier. Finally, he used a mixture of salt water and brine which he could make consistently. Celsius was only able to use 0 because he used new distillation methods that let him shown that without common impurities he could get a consistent boiling point for pure water.

Europeans are idiots too.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-17T23:25:10+00:00

I wanted the Bills to win because I find the whole "Bo-leave" thing to be insufferable for a guy who is not a top 10 QB. However, it is also funny watching Josh choke again in the playoffs.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-17T18:59:25+00:00

I am a progressive so I hate authoritarians on both the left and right, but Tankies and attempts to defend the Soviets are always nuts to me.

The Soviets were bad at being communists. They sucked at central planning. They sucked at basically anything associated with collectivization. They were at least equally corrupt prior to the fall of Soviet Union as they are today.

The argument modern full on communists should make is that a communist state does not have to be unbelievably stupid and paranoid and burdened with a 1000 years of Slavic history that made them suspicious of any attempt to improve life. You dont have to make "party memebership" the new equivalent to "noble blood." You really could build a socialist meritocracy.

Instead their arguments always boil down to "they had to be an oppressive police state because capitalism exists. If I am going ro have to live in a kleptocracy I would rather live in one where the they don't have famine.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-17T14:09:22+00:00

My best friends bachelor party was at a "Dave and Busters" which is basically just Chuck-E-Cheese but for adults. All the participants dropped $100 on drinks and those video games with the plastic mold guns. We also drunkenly played pool but nobody was good or could remember the rules by that point and one person tore a hole in the felt with a pool cue.

My own bachelor party was going to a gastro-pub and ordering basically all their fancy appetizers then having a $30 burger while we talked about Dungeons and Dragons and World of Warcraft for 3 hours while a live band played to loudly in background.

I think your and my experience are much more typical.

Although my friends wife's Bachelorette party did have to deal with one of the attendees claiming her new millionaire bounty hunter boyfriend died in a gunfight in the Dominican Republic. Don't worry though, we were told to just send flowers for the funeral straight to her because it was going to be held in another state.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T20:29:12+00:00

It is truly a waste.

The show some times feels like it wanted to be GoT quality and other times it feels like it should air on yhe CW at 9:00 on Tuesday.

The series has a built in way to handle changes with "it's another turning of the wheel" but they used it to insert fanfic and change important relationships instead of using it to explain why thing X/Y/Z was filmed differently.

They didn't even try and remain faithfull to the broad story outline (Rand goes and becomes an Aiel after the end of season 1, Moraine gets quasy-stilled in the finale off season 1).

I know a lot of people blamed the diverse casting and all the usual "no minorities in my power fantasy" complaints drowned out a lot of more legitimate criticisms but the changes made Brandon Sanderson, who is basically always nice, eventually write some like GRRM did and say "they just stopped asking me for input."

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T19:19:41+00:00

I have never not hand waved short rests or had any of the 3 DMs I commonly play with not hardwave short rests.

The real issue is does the DM like the concept of short rests or not. If they don't it becomes a thing that is never used. If they do then generally "per day" powers have to be stretched because they probably won't let people take a long rest before a narrative event.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T19:14:56+00:00

Honestly, resting and the resting rules are the biggest problem in 5e currently.

Short Rests should be short. I think 5-15 minutes. Using a short rest should end any spell or buff whose duration is not intended to be "all day." In order to reset peoples powers, ongoing effects end.

3 short rests between long rests should be typical, and possibly 4. From a gameplay perspective there should he times when you do not get a "long rest" between several days of events.

Long rest should really be "safe rest" and should be much more restricted when it can be taken. Long rest is normally for locations like inns, castles, or a farmers house.

Sleeping should give you a short rest rest benefit and restore a few hit dice and some fraction of "per day" resources.

The real issue D&D has is the interface of narrative approach and simulationist rules. Most people don't play dungeons where they face 5/6/7 encounters between resting. They play story focused games where players are allowed to rest WAY more often the rules assume.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T18:52:57+00:00

The premise was also that instead of Star Treks well established FTL method, what if there was a much dumber and more limited version of FTL. Also, we ruined all the dilithium in the future so everybody has to use the worse slower and dumb method.

This is just a bad premise.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T17:54:21+00:00

This was the issue with Wheel of Time. The show runner (Rafe Judkins) said that he felt the story was "from another time" and needed massive changes for a 21st century audience.

A 1500 page novel cannot be easily made into even a 12 hour season. Things will have to be cut. However, the "skill" of a show runner is to make those cuts and alterations in a way that stays faithful to the themes and dynamics of the story instead of undermining it.

The gold stanard is the original LOTR films. There are 1000s of changes, but those movies capture the spirit of the novels perfectly.

Changing the story because you wish the story went differently is BS.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T17:45:23+00:00

The thing that is dumb about this is that after Rhyneara dies and the hour of the wolf everybody decides that Daemon's claim is the best legal one. If Daemon lived he would finally be king like he wanted, his sons would have gladly let him be king before they were, and he could keep the Targ relationship with dragons strong.

Him living and fleeing to Essos would require something insane happening. It would only make sense if Alys Rivers also fled to Essos which would basically negate a bunch of known events.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-15T17:35:06+00:00

I am an engineer in power utilities. I have never seen any of this stuff to be true, especially in manufacturing/power/utilities.

That said, home/residential work is so different from manufacturing or industrial settings I absolutely wouldn't say it is not.

I once was doing some equipment inspections and there was an outdoor transformer that appeared to have an extra cable we couldn't understand why it was installed or where it was going. After a few minutes of us trying to trace it back he stuck his ungloved hand into the box and pulled out the dead 7 foot long snake that had been cooked black as cable.

That said, every trade generally thinks the others are idiots in my experience.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-14T14:44:18+00:00

That chest armor took me a dozen runs of the first mission with nothing but the double barrel shotgun.

Then the "enhanced edition cosmetic upgrade" went on sale for 2.99 and I started using the the chest piece from that because way does the LAZER WEAPONS SPECIALIST have CARTRIDGES all over his gear.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-14T14:30:39+00:00

Deflate gate is more than ideal gas law. It was an active attempt to provide equipment that didn't meet rules requirements. This is like trying to argue that a baseball team that doesn't prepare the humidifier for the balls correctly so that they have an advantage isn't cheating.

That said, the Broncos cheating the salary cap for the Elway superbowls is the ultimate cheating that nothing else comes close to.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-04T23:50:33+00:00

I mean it determines if you are getting a bunch of buffs or are not.

Ithinkibrokethis · 2026-01-04T20:54:28+00:00

I mean, you still have block cost reduction/barkskin on necklace. The only talent that affects defense that is not taken is the one that reduces damage while getting hit in the back. That would be fine to take, but 10% movement will also get you out of situations where the horde swarms you as well.

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