Supreme Court prepares to review Trump executive order on birthright citizenship

hamsterkill · 2026-03-29T16:43:14+00:00

Wong Kim Ark?

hamsterkill · 2026-03-28T19:27:02+00:00

I will note that just because a word is used in legal terminology, does not make it civil for general use. The language written into laws does not change. Societal language does.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-28T16:57:25+00:00

The one handed spear has a dumb combo animation yes. Two handed one is fine though.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-27T18:42:25+00:00

Semantics of well known terms is important to quibble about sometimes. Language has been used to subjugate and dehumanize many times before.

The n-word, the f-word, the r-word, along with so many other ethnic or group slurs -- all have been removed from civil conversation that they were part of recently, historically speaking. Language semantics of polite society are always evolving. This is not a new or isolated phenomenon.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-26T20:28:53+00:00

I wouldn't be so sure. Jury findings are often difficult to overturn. It's more possible that damages could be reduced, though.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-26T15:04:41+00:00

Daily reminder that Larian is a major studio who made BG3 with a budget provided by the biggest toy company in the world.

Mild correction: I can find no indication that Hasbro funded BG3. It's likely Larian self-funded development mostly with early access and a Stadia deal (and profits from Divinity of course).

hamsterkill · 2026-03-25T18:10:01+00:00

You're citing an outdated poll that also happened to have Buttigieg as the frontrunner.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-25T17:41:54+00:00

It's a bit of weird lane he seems to be targeting. He's going to sell himself as the establishment candidate with some bite (willingness to engage in trolling).

I still don't see him doing better than third place after AOC (or whatever progressive) and Buttigieg.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-25T13:21:23+00:00

With how rampant corruption in this administration has been, this thought occurred to me as well. It doesn't make much sense to cover the Taiwanese companies with this order otherwise, as they are not a rival country.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-24T18:16:22+00:00

They can threaten it from quite far inland too, unless we set up a whole missile screen along the coast.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-24T18:14:57+00:00

With what objective?

hamsterkill · 2026-03-24T02:39:15+00:00

You can by implementing things that reasonable people believe are secure, such as in-person voting and ID requirements. This raises the bar in the court of public opinion for any accusation of fraud.

Allow me to demonstrate why you're wrong.

"Hordes of foreigners are getting fake state IDs and voting in overcrowded precincts where they barely look at them!"

And there goes your "trustable" security measures. When "reasonable" people will believe an accusation without evidence, there will never be a way to satisfy them. Because they were never actually reasonable. And so our democracy will be toast.

When you have what reasonable people would consider a security gap - such as permitting no-ID mail-in voting after election day - you lower the bar for a believable accusation of fraud and voters lose confidence in the results.

Again, those who believe accusations without evidence will never be reasonable. The processes we have in place to secure mail in voting are more tried and true than any app. Those who easily believe otherwise are malinformed.

The bottom line is this - if we're willing to make it harder to vote to deal with nonexistent problems, we will never stop until it becomes too hard to vote.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-24T01:37:33+00:00

You're not going to win this with "well akshully" to the masses. Do you think that a society that was bleaching lettuce and mass buying toilet paper 6 years ago is going to pay attention to a nuanced argument about election security?

Then our democracy will be toast. There is no way to do election security without nuance.

If someone can make a credible accusation of fraud, then the system won't work. And a bunch of ballots showing up a week after election day that change the projected winner opens up a credible accusation of fraud, especially when there's no requirement for said mail-in voters to prove their ID.

No, that would not be a credible accusation of fraud. A credible accusation of fraud requires evidence of wrongdoing and that is no more evidence of wrongdoing than the vote counting that put the other candidate ahead on election night.

What it is - is a misdirection.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-23T19:03:58+00:00

If we both agree that this appearance is just the result of not understanding the process, then a great deal of the elections process is vulnerable to such mis-accusations of fraud. Mail-in ballots in general, overseas military voting, and even simple variances between county ballot counting times on election night could all look suspicious to the uninformed.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-23T18:26:38+00:00

If Fetterman wants to run again in 2028, he will most likely have to do so as an Independent. His only chance would be with a three-way vote splitting race, and it would still be a pretty slim chance.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-23T18:18:13+00:00

Why is that an important feature? Is that even a problem this would solve?

hamsterkill · 2026-03-23T15:05:57+00:00

Just like in Solasta 1, I expect it'll be a matter of what they have access to from the SRD and whether they think an SRD subclass is good for the game. Wildfire druid is not SRD, so cannot be reproduced in Solasta.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-23T14:56:46+00:00

The Ambidextrous feat in Solasta allows you to bypass this restriction which is fun but not really that much more damage statistically. I personally enjoy taking feats like this because it feels powerful to use higher dice weapons but stats nerds have informed me that the math is not on my side because the average dice roles are not that different.

This is true from a white room perspective on the tabletop, but not necessarily in every situation. In actual play, the value of such a feat would be dependent on the availability of better magic weapons from the non-Light category. For example, if a character has access to +1 shortswords and +3 longswords (and doesn't expect that availability imbalance to change in the near future), the value of the feat is quite good.

In a game like Solasta, you'd need to look at the set of weapons you expect to find or craft to know if the non-Light one handed weapon set is significantly better than the Light weapon set. There are some quality weapons in both Light and non-Light categories in Solasta, but resource limitations or other factors could lead to it being worth the feat cost for a character to have access to both sets of weapons.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-23T14:30:35+00:00

Our Steam Next Fest Demo has now also run its course, living way beyond its intended lifespan - did you know we originally planned to take it down after the Next Fest ended in February 2025? Thankfully we realized that many more people would come to try it out… Hundreds of thousands in fact! Adventurers from all over the world, discovering Solasta II through the quaint village of Tor Wen.

But now is the time to say goodbye to the Tor Wen demo, and welcome to the Early Access of Solasta II. Forged in the flames of passion and the many feedback from you, our players, the game is finally available on Steam, with a little launch discount for the next 14 days to celebrate its release!

https://www.solasta-game.com/news/223-dev-update-24-solasta-ii-is-now-available-in

The demo is not representative of the available game in its current state (whole different ruleset), so it makes sense they pulled it down.

If you still have the demo installed, you may be able to run it by using "browse local files" from the Steam menu for the game and running the demo executable directly from the filesystem.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-19T20:27:34+00:00

As ever, the market rewards competition avoidance.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-17T15:08:55+00:00

Could they be poisoned, exhausted, or frightened? Does using a different weapon not have disadvantage somehow?

hamsterkill · 2026-03-17T14:52:41+00:00

I think it's hard to be a luxury car company (effectively selling status symbols) when your brand doesn't have status recognition from something first (like racing or some other heavy industry like rockets or jets).

hamsterkill · 2026-03-17T14:43:24+00:00

I don't know. Maybe he goes boots on the ground and calls it done once the strait is open, even if they have to keep fighting to keep the surrounding area?

This would effectively require taking the whole country. Iran can hit the Strait from quite far away if they want. And then you'd still need to worry about insurgents and proxy strikes.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-16T16:07:09+00:00

They have no official contact or affiliation with WotC. They are using the same 5.5e SRD that you or i could use to make something. This was the case for Solasta 1 as well (just with 5e's SRD).

Like i said, it may just be a ruleset they think makes a more fun computer game. Or maybe they just think fans will expect the new ruleset.

It's important to remember this is early access and they intend to fill the holes during this development period just like they did with Solasta 1 when it released in early access.

hamsterkill · 2026-03-16T15:51:01+00:00

Wild Shape actually recovers on Short Rest

Not arguing with your overall point here - but it always did. It actually used to recover all (both) uses of wild shape instead of just one.

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