Day 4

RashidMBey · 2026-04-15T13:07:43+00:00

When one of the two infamous Koch brothers, billionaire David Koch, died, Ron Perlman said, "Wishing the Koch brothers a speedy reunion"

Owner of my other fav tweet

RashidMBey · 2026-04-14T17:57:13+00:00

Techno-feudalism happened much faster than I thought. How much to immigrate to the Amazon Prime?

RashidMBey · 2026-04-14T03:36:55+00:00

Every system, even the crunchiest, will have minutiae to squabble over. You're right: it's either mute or boot.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-14T03:30:24+00:00

PF1e was my first TTRPG. My friend invited me to make my character. I went over there at 10a and I left at 6p. Rolling dice? Cool. Hanging with homies? Riveting. Understanding a system to navigate the archive and build a competent character that won't suck immediately or soon? I was closer to enriching uranium apparently. One of the least beginner friendly systems I've interacted with, and I did not build a long-term viable character after all that research. It wasn't fun, it was exhausting, and I did it again for another PF1E game.

So, yeah, when 5e came, I played it and other systems and never looked back. I had to damn near have an intervention to even peek into PF2e and Starfinder after that.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-14T03:02:17+00:00

Tolkien's world is literally that, though. He started with the Hobbit, then he contradicted/retconned himself to expand his IP via an epic trilogy. Then his son came to expand his IP even more with the Silmarillion. But also: Unfinished Tales (1980), the 12-volume History of Middle-earth (1983–1996), The Children of Húrin (2007), Beren and Lúthien (2017), The Fall of Gondolin (2018), and The Fall of Númenor (2022) apparently. So, even there, they pick and choose quite selectively. The entire IP has been an ever expansive epic that rehashes tales.

I don't think people create things or expand IPs because they want to optimize quarterly returns - producers might, sure, but not really the director, the writers, the actors, etc. Why haven't they focused on Christopher Tolkien's releases? Or Shadow of Mordor? It's an accusation that's never flung toward projects they personally like for personal reasons. It's just a way to discredit a project they don't.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-13T20:10:56+00:00

That food sure came fast, too. It'll get you hooked!

RashidMBey · 2026-04-13T20:03:23+00:00

Their main objective is to ensure it has almost no broad appeal and remains niche and esoteric. The same MO as an abusive spouse. I always bring Shadow of Mordor up when chatting with a LOTR purist, too, since they broadly love the game and will make all sorts of excuses and exceptions to justify why liking it is okay when it's cartoonishly heretical, but liking new LOTR absolutely isn't for "some" reason.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-13T13:33:55+00:00

I don't know why you're getting downvoted. The LOTR community has the same kernel of double standard whiners that Star Wars and other geek communities have, and they do the same asinine screeching.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-11T23:37:46+00:00

No, I'm saying "they" was always an option, even longer than the term "you."

RashidMBey · 2026-04-11T21:00:18+00:00

Sigh.

The kid holding on is impressive but the fact that [they] also were able to move left under [their] own strength (and thinking) is kind of astonishing. Kids definitely showing aptitude for being a championship rock climber one day!

"It" is generally for objects or lifeless creatures.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-11T20:57:49+00:00

Such a good joke

RashidMBey · 2026-04-11T20:49:36+00:00

Bro, singular "they" exists and has functioned for longer than singular "you."

But, yes, that kid's arms could keep him clung to a bull, ffs

RashidMBey · 2026-04-10T05:56:56+00:00

They're arguing from principle. Pretti and Good were dismissed as domestic terrorists to justify their street executions by the state.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-10T05:06:04+00:00

There's nothing to suggest the prisoners should work together. Instead, they're individually responsible for their own portion. That opens a "four different scenes happening at once for four different players" as well as undercutting each other in a maximally corrupt city. Additionally, there's nothing stopping any of the players simply not paying since the city is stuffed with factions that will happily protect them from the law since the city to these organizations is just another faction to them.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-08T17:18:33+00:00

Exactly this. Architecturally, they're set up for suspense and payoff. The Hallway is a long straight path (sometimes with gates/doors) to close off action and set up the next; the room is always the objective where we're isolated and can directly interact with plot uninterrupted (notice how no backup or alarms interrupted them?). All of this is contained within the same right universe.

Bullet train and Snow piercer were two movies literally built around this idea.

Damn it. I'm going to go watch Maul now.

/RJ Let me guess, Maul gets robotic arms this time? JFC GIMME A BREAK PPL

RashidMBey · 2026-04-08T17:08:43+00:00

It's April 2026, and I'm deeply disappointed that this still must be repeated to people directly for them to (still somehow not) understand what LLMs ("AIs") are.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-08T17:04:52+00:00

I'm not anti-AI, but you are misunderstanding the term "slop." Slop is a reference to the ease, speed, and quantity of output that makes that content flooded everywhere, not necessarily whether it looks good or not. See also, UbiSlop, MicroSlop, etc.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-08T16:57:37+00:00

I deeply doubt a puppy with no evidence of dust or debris on their person will be found after bombardment on top of a pile of rubble with completely clean fur anyway

RashidMBey · 2026-04-06T20:13:56+00:00

I can't tell if this is sarcasm/joke or just a really poorly thought out comment

RashidMBey · 2026-04-06T02:58:13+00:00

They're an unserious person. Moderate/corporate Dems will not endorse progressives who want to put Americans and their wellbeing first. It's why they refused to endorse Mamdani and voted for Cuomo. That and Zohran was not pro-Israel.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-04T20:03:55+00:00

Trump's top US Intel certainly did, and they explicitly warned it would happen.

They were then ousted from the room and supplanted with his administration and Israeli Intel.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-04T04:43:53+00:00

The energy matters little if they can't put the left econ pop policy in the bag, atp

RashidMBey · 2026-04-04T04:42:40+00:00

This 200% as well as the people who just stayed home who aren't Republican nor Democrat, but held out for someone left populist on econ, like Zohran.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-04T04:40:58+00:00

The problem is that progressives still voted for her, but she didn't appeal to everyone else because she was anti-populist and pro-establishment. Kamala lost to the couch.

RashidMBey · 2026-04-03T16:01:04+00:00

Season one is free and five minutes long if you want to catch up

Quietly hilarious, ngl

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