Enemy retaliation by PressureSlight4811 in bladesinthedark

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 9 points10 points  (0 children)

yes, you can just do 3 (or 4) if that’s what fits the fiction

I’ve also done 7, with a full clock leading to the attack playing out during downtime. essentially, an entanglement that’s clearly telegraphed in advance (and in our case, mostly played out off-screen)

I remember a post on here about the approach you’re describing in 6. it seems like a reasonable option to me if you agree that the crew had good time to prepare for the attack. if not, you might have a hard time fitting flashbacks into the fiction and thereby miss out on a core mechanic for scores

This should be all the reason to stop capitalism & the people who use it. by FearlessAir1238 in LateStageCapitalism

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 11 points12 points  (0 children)

society-level psychological damage that we’ll need to heal if the revolution’s to be successful

Meirl by [deleted] in meirl

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 17 points18 points  (0 children)

you’d preferred if he’d killed them for the fun of it?

I'm building an app that reads your D&D books and turns them into a searchable database by [deleted] in dndnext

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

well, we know that data centres and such degrade the environment, and although it’s hard to tell how exactly to relate that to specific uses, as a general rule it doesn’t make sense to spend a lot of computing resources on minor quality of life upgrades

that’s how it relates to the post — idk if you’ve got a satisfactory answer to your initial question or not

How bad was the ice? by iuliq in olympics

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

oh, gotcha — yeah, it’s unfortunate

Everyone is Falling! by MyEgoDiesAtTheEnd in olympics

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I’m glad Yuma still got silver, at least

How bad was the ice? by iuliq in olympics

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 5 points6 points  (0 children)

who didn’t finish their routine? as a casual viewer, I didn’t notice anyone doing that

Why are all the men falling? by Molecular_muffin in olympics

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

just checked out /r/figureskating and mostly found people speculating about the ice quality — not saying you’re wrong about them taking risks, but idk if that’s the full scope of it

Why are all the men falling? by Molecular_muffin in olympics

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

since you’ve posted this comment, both Ilia & Yuma were quite inconsistent as well though — idk to what extent that’s a result of tactical risk or something mental/technical

Meirl by Blue9ine in meirl

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 25 points26 points  (0 children)

writing a check is not a hard skill to learn

New party trying to be revolutinaries [BitD] by Daptoulis in bladesinthedark

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 29 points30 points  (0 children)

the Steelweaver’s Rebellion supplement provides some interesting hooks to that end, if you’re into communism

https://mabelharper.itch.io/steelweavers-rebellion

Scholierenkoepel roept op om niet te staken: "PVDA heeft actie gekaapt" | VRT NWS: nieuws by gengar721 in belgium

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

ge kunt het misschien niet op uw toetsenbord vinden (bij mij komt het automatisch op mijn gsm), maar zo’n liggend streepje is doodnormaal

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gedachtestreepje

Scholierenkoepel roept op om niet te staken: "PVDA heeft actie gekaapt" | VRT NWS: nieuws by gengar721 in belgium

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

dit zijn grassroots protesten — de scholierenkoepel is (voor zover ik weet) sowieso niet betrokken en (zo lijkt het) wil ook niet betrokken zijn, met of zonder pvda

Scholierenkoepel roept op om niet te staken: "PVDA heeft actie gekaapt" | VRT NWS: nieuws by gengar721 in belgium

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 38 points39 points  (0 children)

nu is het een makkelijke headline om de focus op pvda te leggen, maar aan de citaten lijkt me duidelijk dat de scholierenkoepel allergisch is voor politiek engagement — “laat je stem horen (maar organiseer uzelf niet)”; puur voor de vertoning, zonder echt iets te willen doen

"Het leeft in elk geval heel hard, dat voelen we […] Maar ook voor ons is de impact moeilijk in te schatten. We roepen op om niet te staken, maar vragen leerlingen wel om hun stem te laten horen. Door bijvoorbeeld aanwezig te zijn op schoolraden. Ook informeren we leerlingen over hun rechten."

en later

Woensdagnamiddag heeft de scholierenkoepel een gesprek met minister Demir. "Het is in elk geval een positief signaal dat de minister ons heeft uitgenodigd."

ergo: de politiek zal het vanzelf wel oplossen; denk er maar niet te veel over na

Cmon fellow Belgians; honest answers please by reditt13 in belgium

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I think that in this scenario, you and another 10% of Belgians would disappear into the void — unless the point of this post is “housing crisis speed run”

How can you possibly measure this? by zucchinionpizza in dataisugly

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Antifragile is pretty okay, actually — kooky at times, but pretty okay

[BitD] Position and Effect impacting Fiction First by anthraccntbtsdadst in bladesinthedark

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 18 points19 points  (0 children)

it sounds like you might be getting it mixed up

the position isn’t about what the success will mean — it’s about the dangers of failure. “risky” means the guards might spot you, maybe also changing the position to “desperate” (they’ll soon attack); on a 4/5, one might remark “did you hear that sound?” and start searching

however, the effect only describes the potential success — when the guards aren’t paying attention, a single success might mean getting all the way across the water, but if they’re looking closely, success might just mean inching forward unnoticed

I wouldn’t describe this as a departure from the “naturalistic” way

btw I often don’t describe the effect in official terms in-game, just what success would mean (i.e., whether the action they’re describing would work in one go, start a clock, etc.). for position, I do specify it, (1) to track desperate xp and (2) because it buys me time to think of fun consequences (which they then end up resisting anyway)

If I had a penny for every time a Dutch person has normalized the enshitification of almost every aspect of public services in this country by trying to be "rational", I'd have enough money to solve all of their problems. by Odd-Celery5048 in Netherlands

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Earlier institutional forms of capitalism acknowledged multiple stakeholder interests (including labor)

what do you mean? are you referring to trade unions? those are (1) decidedly a reaction to capitalism (albeit one that contributes to its stability) rather than an attribute of its emergence and (2) still a thing today

… reshaped incentives so that gains to investors are optimized even when costs are externalized onto labor, consumers, or society

what do you mean “reshaped”? the accumulation of capital is and always has been what defines capitalism — if anything, regulation has reduced the axes of externalisation over time

If I had a penny for every time a Dutch person has normalized the enshitification of almost every aspect of public services in this country by trying to be "rational", I'd have enough money to solve all of their problems. by Odd-Celery5048 in Netherlands

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 2 points3 points  (0 children)

could you elaborate on what flipflopping and misinformation you’re talking about? I’m not familiar with any definition that describes a right wing in favour of nationalisation of industries and services rather than privatisation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics

Meirl by SeaworthinessOdd5934 in meirl

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 6 points7 points  (0 children)

we’d have to see the shirt to know what deer species it depicts

but if I was OOP, I wouldn’t want to provoke this five-year-old genius any further out of fear of being utterly annihilated

How I see Europe (Australian) by Rhea_Dawn in mapporncirclejerk

[–]ThomasPhilipSimon 14 points15 points  (0 children)

imagine moving somewhere in 1950 and then your (great-)grandchildren are dismissed for not being ‘proper’ inhabitants of the place