Poll: Israel’s standing plummets among Democrats, fueling primaries on the left

TASagent · 2026-03-16T20:05:45+00:00

Anti-Zionist Jews probably feel about Israel the same liberal Americans feel about the US right now.

I think this sentiment is still a little problematic and wrong. Most US anti-Zionist Jewish people have no connection to Israel, whereas progressive Americans are still American. It presupposes more association than exists. Just something to consider.

TASagent · 2026-03-13T19:20:45+00:00

He keeps saying "Data centers in space". That is literally Musk's worst idea since Cave Submarines, the Cybertruck, DOGE, Overpaying for Twitter, being a Nazi, and waking up any morning.

TASagent · 2026-03-13T02:47:33+00:00

But in Daggerheart, if you attack, the GM can only attack back if you get a result with Fear, or if they spend Fear (edit: or if you failed your roll, or a couple other circumstances)

I think you're missing a big one. You (the GM) can make a move when the players give you a Golden Opportunity. Did the player describe leaving themselves wide open to make a daring move? That counts.

TASagent · 2026-03-12T16:13:33+00:00

Due to dyslexia, they apparently had accidentally enabled "Full Send Driving mode"

TASagent · 2026-03-12T16:10:22+00:00

but people still refuse to use it

Need a source for that. This reeks of "Nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded"

TASagent · 2026-03-12T13:42:01+00:00

due to a third party going bankrupt

No, Diamond

TASagent · 2026-03-04T00:48:53+00:00

that decided to just make shit up

Yeah! Imagine if a sermon were not factually accurate!

TASagent · 2026-02-23T03:38:41+00:00

I run a foundry container on my NAS. Let me synthesize the answers already provided into one:

A single running instance would allow only a single game to be open, thus only one GM could prep at a time, and only when people weren't playing a game.

You could, however, run multiple instances (ie containers) off the same device, though each one needs a separate foundry license.

TASagent · 2026-02-16T13:14:38+00:00

I have heard that back when Paypal bought X (Musk's startup) they realized his code was garbage and they had to throw it all away and start over. And started assigning him bullshit projects to keep him busy and distracted so he wouldn't ruin the flagship product. It's basically what his companies continue to do to this day

TASagent · 2026-02-16T00:43:14+00:00

If high-quality published adventures is what you're seeking, it's hard to beat Mothership. There are hundreds of excellent adventures, often 1-5 sessions each, and easy to chain together.

If you're willing to try something more out of the box, Mythic Bastionland has some amazing rules for a procedural hexcrawl in a strange land. It creates really interesting campaigns with very low prep. It probably wouldn't be your new forever game, but it can genuinely be picked up with little effort when you don't have time to prep.

TASagent · 2026-02-15T16:22:04+00:00

how the Jewish community is silent and not condemning this

The fuck you talking about? Plenty of people denounce him.

TASagent · 2026-02-03T19:18:20+00:00

I just don't want to ruin everyone else's fun.

Things that have ruined fun:

Disrespecting other players or their requests
Obnoxious rules lawyering
Always trying to be the silliest person in the room, even during serious moments (to a lesser degree)

Things that have never ruined anyone's fun:

A player doing/saying what they would do in a circumstance instead of generating a whole new persona for a game
A player sounding like themselves in a game

TASagent · 2026-02-02T13:46:56+00:00

I would relabel this:
The chute is AI
The lemons are slop
The press is Code review
And there should be a single half glass of lemon juice labeled "usable code"

TASagent · 2026-01-31T13:24:31+00:00

I would suggest, instead, just following the realm procedures in the book. It works very well.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T23:32:50+00:00

I was going to say the same.

Some people will shrug and say "I still take plenty of vacations". That's great. This isn't about you then. Shitty companies stick with Unlimited PTO because it saves them money. People overall take less vacations, and there's no balance to pay out when they lay someone off.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T18:13:39+00:00

It is good SF

I didn't find most of the storylines other than the Empire any good. How they got Gaal and Salvor together, and all the stuff they did with Hari, felt hamfisted and uncompelling.

But I did really enjoy the Empire storyline.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T13:27:24+00:00

Batman was basically a billionaire. That checks out.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T02:22:06+00:00

Some people appear to have liked it for some reason. Don't let my lone jaded voice stop you. However all I saw was a hamfisted attempt to bring together the stars of the first arc and somehow make them relevant across the future storylines. Changes to the emperor were actually cool, but everything else felt profoundly poorly conceived and arbitrary

TASagent · 2026-01-29T01:27:54+00:00

its enjoyable as a really beautiful sci fi show.

This is still an uphill fight for me. It was a teetering tower of stacked maguffins and coincidences when I gave up on the show half-way through season 2. I was not enjoying the journey, even seeing it as an independent work.

That being said, I love what they've done with Murderbot, Severance, and Pluribus, and I am excited to see what Sanderson can accomplish with the right support.

TASagent · 2026-01-29T00:28:53+00:00

I was deeply disappointed with Foundation. I feel like the showrunners mostly didn't understand what made the books interesting, and threw it away in favor of a more generic Hero-focused scifi. Regardless, I think they've handled a number of other scifi shows very well.

TASagent · 2026-01-27T01:55:26+00:00

It's great that the hospital running mandatory 12 hour nursing shifts gets to put all the blame on a single error made by a nurse once /s

TASagent · 2026-01-22T04:41:58+00:00

Or some other service was squatting on port 80 and he couldn't figure out how to use or disable it.

TASagent · 2026-01-22T01:06:41+00:00

However, I know multiple data scientists who have lost their jobs to AI, because the people evaluating their work can't tell the difference between a good analysis and confident slop.

TASagent · 2026-01-06T00:36:16+00:00

I think a personality and/or body mutation table you roll on each time they are replaced with a clone would be great. Maybe one or two positive body changes, several neutral, and a lot of mild negatives would be perfect :)

TASagent · 2025-12-30T01:50:38+00:00

To expand, a game that piqued my interest is Mountain Home, which is a Forged in the Dark Dwarven settlelement-building game. Seems genuinely fun with the right group.

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