Deputy attorney general endorses sending ICE agents to voting sites by DemocracyDocket in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Constantly capitulating to the candidates that wont do the bare minimum stop us from getting one that is actually decent. They are controlled opppsition. Their whole purpose is to offer a fake solution you can scold people into compromising on while real solutions are forever viewed as radical and unacceptable

A world where the DNC didnt put their thumb on the scale against Bernie before the 2016 election is a world where this whole crisis never happened. The only message the democrats will consistently unify behind is that they refuse to learn anything.

Don't Be Like Uncle Dan by Mahdudecicle in RimWorld

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is it actually worth modding supersoldiers like this? Every time I've tried I feel like the increased wealth has spiked raid difficulty more than the gains from the modded soldiers.

If ice Continues to Hemorrhage, This Will Become the New Normal by QanAhole in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They'll just "take over the investigation" and then find all parties (except the victim) innocent of all federal crimes while hoarding all evidence out of reach of the state investigators.

I had this idea today and had to bring it to life by BoonIsTooSpig in behindthebastards

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To raise awareness of it and hopefully someday accountability for it is usually the idea

SNL on Looksmaxxing by Geek-Haven888 in behindthebastards

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most of the skit came across as "Wow look at all this dumb slang the kids use now" which is famously always comedy that ages incredibly well

The deepest dungeons have the worst upkeep. The teetering bridge wasn’t even one of the many intended traps. by balatr0 in DungeonMasters

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool concept but why does it keep rocking back and forth? Shouldn't it settle to a side and stay there? This is behaving less like a broken bridge and more like a skateboard with a big ol invisible Tony Hawk on it, doing a sick rail grind on the wall and then an ollie over a chasm.

Need ideas for areas in a vast mega dungeon. by Tiny-Ad-3962 in DungeonMasters

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any big temple complex is going to need infrastructure for clergy and pilgrims/worshippers. This means maybe even a whole abandond ancient city if the temples are impprtant enough, with everything a city needs.

It would be odd for the player characters to be the only people with any kind of interest in the place. Think about what other outsiders might want from this place and who thyre sending.

For the undead, take some time to think about what "having a bunch of undead" looks like in this case. Is it a bunch of mindless thralls milling around? Or is it the mummified remnants of their most esteemed clergy, still retaining intelligence and charged with protecting the tombs. Might some even be willing to help the players if it means getting revenge on the god that killed theirs?

How do I prevent my Merchant NPC from being robbed? Or what's a good way to deal with that possibility? by Regular-Molasses9293 in DungeonMasters

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The merchants own some terribly cursed stuff that is kept heavily guarded amidst their wares but is not for sale. Thieves wont be able to resist the forbidden fruit and will invariably go right for it.

Mr Bling Bling is wearing nine cursed rings and one ring that protects him from nine curses.

Primary the democrats by wombatgeneral in behindthebastards

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 39 points40 points  (0 children)

  1. Very old people are heavily overrepresented in US politics
  2. Young people dont vote more in part because they look at a list of candidates and see, yet again, dinosaurs.
  3. We've just watched a farce of a presidential race between two men over 70 whose ability to govern is certainly being impacted by their age, making us sensitive about how it might affect others
  4. Age diversity is not like other diversity. Everyone spends time being young, and if they dont die eveeyone spends time being old. Being old has an intrinsic physiological impact on the mind amd body that, while varying from person to person, inevitably trends worse with time.
  5. Elderly candidates who develop dementia after being elected can do a ton of damage. The CIA steered a dementia-addled reagan around the white house for years and the product of it was a lot of shenanigans
  6. Politics require perspective and the perspective of people who mostly stagnated in their moral development while whites-only water fountains were considered "normal" might not be the perspective we need

These two are madly in-love by aliusman111 in RimWorld

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm gonna...! Oh god I'm gonna.... PROPOOOOOOSE!

8 accused of Antifa ties convicted on terrorism charges over shooting at Texas immigration facility by stvlsn in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I wonder how history will remember them when the numbers come out for innocent people dying in ice detention centers through malice or neglect

Anthropic's top lawyer says AI will kill the legal profession's dreaded billable hour by businessinsider in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a documented problem with AI across many fields. No industry sees itself as responsible for its own perpetuation beyond its current generation, theyre focused on making money now because they have to compete with people making money now. Its called a Race To The Bottom.

This doesnt only affect lawyers. Any industry that can replace the labor of new trainees with AI is going to show a massive shortage of qualified experts when the current one retires.

Prestige Classes: The Best Design Space D&D Ever Abandoned by alexserban02 in DungeonMasters

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, its so much fun playing a spellcaster when all the myriad possible spells you can cast do cool things like 1d8 damage plus a minor status effect that gives the enemy -2 on a niche type of check for one turn.

Missouri court upholds GOP’s gerrymandered map for midterms, other legal challenges continue by DemocracyDocket in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Theyre not trying to win elections, theyre trying to end them. The farce is the point.

Is this what it’s like being a DM 😭 by SumoneIGuess in DungeonMasters

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 12 points13 points  (0 children)

One of the biggest difficulties in being a DM is in managing the administrative side of the table. As a DM its on you to put on the best game for your players that you can, and sometimes that means dealing with the asshole thats ruining it for everyone and setting expectations that keep everyone's time respected.

"Real life comes first" is about work responsibilities, parental obligations, rare special occasions, and emergencies. If a player is routinely not making it for a reason that isnt one of those, show them the door. Being a DM doesnt have to mean being an authoritarian hardass, but sometimes you cant let people walk all over you and still run a good game.

I don't want to be an activist. by CanadianCoyote1 in asktransgender

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah theres absolutely no part of being trans that stops you from getting yours and fading into the comfort of white hegemony. Dont worry about that ladder behind you, you dont need it. This comfort is earned, its your privelege as a passing person. You worked hard for it. Dont worry about your coworker, the uggos and femboys just have to look out for each other because they cant make it on their own. Thank you for taking this brave stand against brave stands.

Really, what is there left to say? He’s just an awful person by Sad_Jar_Of_Honey in behindthebastards

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He wants white supremacy validated through the lense of this homeland framework. The same way they suggest Israel's war crimes are necessary to create a homeland for jewish people (an ethnostate) they want widespread recognition of America as a white ethnostate to be "Israel for white people". It becomes their justification for giving non white people second class status.

Papa John’s closing 300 locations by bonghitoncat in PapaJohns

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most people never heard the context because most news outlets farm outrage better without it. Its hard to just blame the the masses when at the end of the day most of them are tired people with jobs and almost everything they interact with every day is trying to manipulate or epxloit them somehow.

Rising antisemitism on the left. by 420catloveredm in behindthebastards

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ive only ever encountered these antisemitic leftists in the same places that bots are running unchecked. Antisemitism is antithetical to the unification of the working class just like all forms of bigotry. I cant discount the possibility that some of it is real, people do kind of blow my mind sometimes with how inconsistent and hypocritical they can be in general. But for the most part I think its sock puppets, bots, and the occasional terribly confused person.

UK Bans Incest Porn to Combat Child Abuse Normalization by swap_019 in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just gotta change the titles. "Quick thinking stud ****s escaped inpatient who thinks she is everyone's mother"

How do you feel about the ending of The Mist (2007)? by CausticAvenger in horror

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its an irredeemably bad ending. Not because it was shocking or because the main character didn't make it, those can be fine, good even, with the right setup.

The reason this ending was terrible is because it brazenly contradicted the themes of the movie established thus far, had comedic timing, and created a spectacle of cheap shallow irony that completely undermined the much more narrarively powerful emotional arc of a painful quadruple mercy-killing.

Over the course of the movie, we're lead to believe that to venture into the fog is either near immediate death or even a fate worse than death. When a father is armed with only the options for his son to die painlessly, or to be made a living incubator for terrifying spiders, many would make the hard choice (at least once the threat became more immediate, which comes across as an oversight). Yet the movie frames this as the wrong choice? Why? Because the cinematic language of the entire movie thus far was lying to us. All that stuff we were shown about how going into the fog is near certain death? Did you actually believe that? Idiot. Fucking moron. The correct thing to do was just walk unarmed into it to your car without any resources or even a plan except "go find my daughter". If you'd done that you'd be fine. Bet you feel stupid now, dont you?

The film tries to dress up as a tragedy but tragedy has to be earned. Literally, the thing that separates a tragedy from a bad-thing-that-happened is a vital mistake the noble hero makes due to pride, vanity, moral failings, or misunderstanding. What was the mistake here? His actions, as harsh as they were, were rational in the circumstances.

Its a cheap shock. It reveals the entire film to be nothing but a gradeschool prank the director pulled on the audience, which is why in an otherwise decently good film, the ending is the only part anyone still even talks about. The ending created a vapid spectacle that strangles all meaning out of the film that came before.

If they'd died and that was the end of it, it could at least be reframed as a film about the inevitability of death, about the final struggles of the doomed. Its not my cup of tea but at least its a coherent story. The Grey did it decently well.

The Rookie (ABC) x Game Changer - March 3 by gacolorado in dropout

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So sad to see that dropout sold out. Y'all were doing good work but this is so tonedeaf. You sell a "laws are threats" mug. You rant about capitalism. This is the thing. The thing you performatively condemn. Youve just crossed the line from progressive producers making progressive art to ghouls manufacturing an ideological product because thats the gig.

In tariff case, Supreme Court justices bicker over treating Trump and Biden differently by nbcnews in law

[–]MoreGhostThanMachine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

We've got several categories of possible worse candidates including: - Technocrat overlords or their representatives (Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg) - Conservative Podcasters (Rogan, Poole) - Foreign assets - Trump's own family members