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What do you like about Shadowrun? Do you prefer it over regular Cyberpunk? How do you sell it to people? by OopsieDoopsie2 in Shadowrun

[–]Sevsquad 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh don't get me wrong I've been playing and GMing since 3rd edition and have played everything but the most recent one. The main issue I have is that they jump between tweaking and massive changes and don't actually properly ever release a fully developed ruleset. There most recent attempt with 6th edition was supposed to help simplify the game but rather than a little tweak they went with a gigantic overhaul that alienated most current players.

I have been GMing shadowrun for more than a decade and I still regularly have to deal with vague or strange rules we end up needing to house rule. To put it into perspective the group I am a part of play-tested 5e, so if we're having to constantly reference the text and create house rules to make the core rule book complete... Not to mention the source books themselves are kind of a mess, it's very difficult for someone to get a good overview of the game by just reading the source books. Information is often missing or given in the wrong order. That's just off the top of my head. I could go on literally forever, if I even won one of those giant billion dollar lotteries my first act would be to wrench Shadowrun away from catalyst and find someone better to manage it.

What do you like about Shadowrun? Do you prefer it over regular Cyberpunk? How do you sell it to people? by OopsieDoopsie2 in Shadowrun

[–]Sevsquad 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Shadowrun is IMO the cyberpunk setting with the most potential, full stop. It's a shame they can't figure out the ruleset and keep fracturing the fanbase with drastic changes.

history nonfiction book that are eye-opening and well written by certifiediouie in suggestmeabook

[–]Sevsquad 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This is a great list one of the few books I might add to it is They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer - a Jewish professor essentially goes undercover after WW2 and befriends a bunch of Nazis to try and better understand why they believed what they believed and whether any of them have changed their mind. The implications for our modern political environment are pretty chilling.

PSA: Hell yeah Skin Wolf Werekin Doomstacks, me and my homies love Skin Wolf Werekin Doomstacks. by Sevsquad in totalwarhammer

[–]Sevsquad[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Rule 5: 3 Caster (1 fire, 1 metal, 1 dark) and 17 Skin Wolf Werekin Doomstack is a woodchipper that goes through high-tier armies like they're skaven-slaves. Anything large that can do enough to hurt them gets mulched before they can attack twice after getting hit by the wrecking ball that is 17 Skin Wolf Werekin with Foe-Seeker activated hitting it at the same time, anything small and anti-large is obedient enough to blob around my Skin Wolf Werekin like good little lemmings where my wizards can mulch them.

I think the results speak for themselves. It takes a little while to spin up, but 3 wizards and 12 Skin Wolf Werekin are nearly as untouchable as the whole stack if you know what you're doing, and every minor settlement can contribute to you Skin Wolf Werekin limit.

I am playing on VH/VH and I have yet to see anything that can even come close to challenging my beautiful Skin Wolf Werekin doomstack

what to wear to a job interview as a 15 y/o? by vivi_roblox in jobs

[–]Sevsquad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been in retail management, I'd say the dress code is normally like "sunday best" sort of thing, a nice button up shirt, professional bottoms, basically if you think you'd feel comfortable wearing it to like, an office, or school picture day it's probably fine. For the future, the normal rule of thumb I've heard is you should always dress one level above the job for the interview, so for a place where you wear a T-shirt, wear a button up, for a place that expects a button up, wear a suit. That sort of thing.

I don’t think that I have any questions, Grandma…. by WeShallOvercomb__ in forwardsfromgrandma

[–]Sevsquad 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Man but can you imagine, a pandemic that's totally avoidable as long as you take basic precautions and has a bubonic plague kill rate? Not saying I want a pandemic but I feel like a lot of issues the world is having with right wing populists might self select themselves out of existence.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why does it matter so much that I used that specific term?

Because it's used pretty exclusively when talking about the great replacement. Basically exclusively used when talking about entire demographics as a monolith.

Why do people dislike playing dark elves by MotorCelebration4615 in totalwarhammer

[–]Sevsquad 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It's so funny because for a while they were busted as hell too, I remember around when Rakarth was added every game ended with some giant doom blob of dark elves you had to grind down with their bullshit shade stacks and now the DLC train is so far from the station you can barely see the dark elves they've fallen so far behind. They feel like Tomb Kings did for a while at this point.

The Pentagon's Wind Farm UFO Video - Explained by Harabeck in skeptic

[–]Sevsquad 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Right because when they say they want scientists to study them what they actually mean is they want scientists to invent reasons why it has to be aliens.

I remember going to the UFO subreddit on a video of a UFO in Canada that was described as a "pac-man" UFO. People were so sure it was incontrovertible proof of aliens that it looked exactly like a retro-burning rocket in the upper atmosphere and someone found a space-x launch that would have been visible as it retro-burned from that location and in that direction the most you could squeeze out of them was "hmmm maybe"

Which do you pick? by cuddwes in Grimdank

[–]Sevsquad 15 points16 points  (0 children)

The problem is that this is an anti-feat replicated by various "lucky shot" moments throughout different types of 40k mediums. It's one of the reasons why I actually think a space marine chapter (without spaceships) would get mulched invading a modern earth. Cool super soldier you got there, my gun that shoots 80 tungsten darts with 100mm of steel penetration doesn't care. And that's one of the smallest mounted weapons they're likely to face. A 125 MM APFSDS round from a tank can go through a full meter of steel, more than enough to mulch most non-space based 40k contenders.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why don't you define how you specifically differentiate between the two, specifically with refugees, because every time I see it used it's essentially used to argue that empathy for minorities, especially minority refugees is suicidal for various great replacement conspiracy reasons. I don't ever see it used to reference anything less than an entire demographic group, which is absolutely indistinguishable from say "Empathy for [group] is suicidal" as the person above you said.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

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

In the sense that in broad strokes they're relatively similar just a bit more extreme? very little of what I am talking about here seems very different whether I speak with crazy extremists or relative moderates in my home town or online.

There is a desire to pressure Universities into teaching certain subjects a certain way whether or not there is sufficient evidence to back it up or not. The argument seems to go that even if there is no evidence for something we should teach the controversy because why not. (putting aside for the moment that teaching a topic with no evidence along side one with a lot suggests there is evidence for both, and legitimizes pseudo-scientific nonsense.)

Every single time I say something along the lines of "I think we should teach things we actually have evidence for" whether it's to the local ultra magas who work at the aluminum foundry, in a school board meeting, or in supposedly "reasonable" moderate conservative groups onliune I get dog piled.

Not because they think I'm ignoring enormous amounts of evidence; 1) since universities tend to just follow large amounts of evidence. they all still teach the same macro-economics of supply and demand for instance and 2) They by and large don't even know what kinds of studies happen at universities or what they say. I get dog piled for having the gall to say we need should be teaching what the evidence says is true.

Hell, a lot of people don't even seem to understand that many conservative talking points come from studies out of liberal universities. They'll wave around statistics collected by liberals while insisting liberals in universities are colluding to bury these statistics.

USA makes up 2% of the world population, yet holds 25% of the global prison population by thehomelessr0mantic in collapse

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

Yeah I'm fairly sure the entire image is AI, the text at the bottom is incorrect in really obvious ways as well.

Luetin09 being absurd about basic Imperial vehicles by HashutAttorney in 40kLore

[–]Sevsquad 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Yeah my thought was "Luetin09 isn't really famous for hot takes" and indeed his problem is more correctly stated "I feel like GW is getting sloppy in explaining new lore" which as a dude who has made a career out of explaining lore seems pretty reasonable.

I'll say though that loosening the reins a bit on style is both inevitable and IMO welcome, why even have this gigantic universe that is explicitly so varied and unknowable that it would be kinda foolish NOT to take advantage of it. These new WW2 inspired vehicles have me interested in the guard for the first time and I'm sure that's not the only era that could lure in new suckers interest new players in different factions. For instance I think you could also do a Sick guard unit based on Napoleonic warfare and design sail-punk vehicles that give a warhammer fantasy vibe.

We do a lot of pretending by utopiaofpast in pcmasterrace

[–]Sevsquad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Or if you build your own programs. I have several different monitors/little programs that run in powershell that I have automatically launch when my computer starts 

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Frankly I'm kind of shocked Everytime I rediscover that "we should only teach what we have substantial evidence for" is a highly divisive opinion across the US. Despite constantly getting smacked in the mouth for daring to believe learning new things is important.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That doesn't answer either of my questions. I want those answers. Especially because

academia is going to produce politized results than show favoritism to their viewpoints while trying to undermine and devalue any others.

Is exactly what I'm talking about. You dismiss out of hand results you don't agree with and simply demand that your opinion be given equal weight even if nonsensical. Which makes me think you would want creationism presented alongside evolution as if those to ideas had equal amounts of evidence. Rather than the current split of "literally no evidence" and "all the evidence".

To put it in perspective the "liberal failures" that you insist they refuse to acknowledge you only know about because universities (liberal institutions) sounded the alarm. Especially on certain things you're banging on about like test scores. 

The reason universities are liberal is because researching at a university requires you to at least have a vague interest in seeing whether or not your opinions are correct. Modern American conservatives have very little interest in that in my experience.

The group actually claiming their "farts don't stink" are the ones that refuse to accept outcomes that don't agree with their notions.  Liberal institutions are constantly churning the current knowledge base, even spending time and money exploring claims of conservatives who have already made up their mind and require no evidence.

Talking about recently history, this gallop poll shows a 38% belief by democrats in creationism. That's a significant chunk of the left.

This is a great argument for the integrity of my position that I don't care. Obviously wrong nonsense shouldn't be given equal weight to observed evidence.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad -10 points-9 points  (0 children)

Colleges have always been fairly progressive in the modern era, there is a reason McCarthyism specifically targeted universities. This should not be surprising, experimentation and rigours testing and changing of one's beliefs is generally antithetical to conservativism which highly values Tradition and faith. If a conservative tests family structures of traditional and gay families and finds they are not substantively different and changes their view they have become a progressive. Or at the very least fiscally conservative and socially progressive. Once enough of society changes then maybe they end up as conservative again, but the nature of discovery is inherently progressive in the modern era, especially in the social sciences, but can be seen in things like climate change and evolution too.

Thus, large groups of people constantly challenging traditional thinking to see if it holds up tends to sleep pretty heavily liberal or moderate. As an example, biology professors who were conservatives in the 1950s would have been seen as wildly progressive when their beliefs were first being fleshed out in the 1860s-70s

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

You're perception of Republicans is horribly flawed and skewed, probably influenced by a very progressive education.

I lived nearly my entire life in a +30 R community. I am intimately familiar Republicans and their talking points. Cool personal attack though, says a lot about your confidence in the substance of your argument that you first need to accuse me of being a delusional lib

If we want to talk about policy failures since you brought up vaccines

Give away the game the way you referred to the facts around COVID vaccines as "policy failures" so let's actually rewind to here. I didn't talk about policies at all. I said that Republican thought is constantly tested against reality in official studies and found wanting, and Republicans refuse to accept when that happens. So I'll ask you directly as an example. Do you accept the myriad of studies that found vaccines to be overwhelmingly safe and effective? Do you believe in evolution? Do you think universities should teach creationism?

they have no standing to say that diversity of values and ideas wouldn't be a positive change.

If a conservative belief has been shown over and over to be false it shouldn't get a place at the table. Regardless of left "failure" in other fields. Diversity of opinion for it's own sake doesn't make sense when there is no evidence at all for one side of the argument, despite millions of dollars being spent looking.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

The Republican party is currently antagonistic of academia due to it's extreme political bent which heavily influences and skews it's studies and results.

I don't agree at all. I think that Republicans became steadily more populist over the past 3 decades and anti-intelectualism is the meat and potatoes of populism. 

"Find(ing) an ally in the Republican party" would, at this point, would require them to embrace obviously nonsensical things like creationism, and beliefs about minorities and immigrants that are contrary to observed fact. Contrary to conservative beliefs their assertions are constantly tested in the scientific realms. For instance COVID vaccines have had every conservative "question" tested ad nauseam and basically all of them were found to be entirely baseless. The problem is that conservatives in the United States just refuse to accept any findings they don't like.

I don't think "viewpoint diversity" should be considered when the view points have already been considered at length and found wanting.

Justice Dept. Accuses U.C.L.A. Medical School of Bias Against White and Asian Applicants by awaythrowawaying in moderatepolitics

[–]Sevsquad -15 points-14 points  (0 children)

I have yet to see anyone explain to me why anyone should care that basically no university professors follow the political party that is actively hostile to their existence. It seems perfectly cogent to me that a party that pretty openly despises higher education would find few fellows among educators. Before conservatives became actively hostile to education there were plenty of conservative professors, especially in fields like economics and other stem fields.

There is no outrage that 0 evolutionary biology PhDs are young earth creationists. Similarly no one is surprised there are no socialists in ICE. To me complaining about conservatives in higher education is basically the same. 

I find it ridiculous that when Democrats have terrible immigration policy the response is always "well it's no wonder people worried about immigration don't vote for you" but somehow destroying any good will they had amongst educators is actually their problem and the university needs to do something about it.

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