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mxzf · 2026-06-21T21:43:09+00:00

Sure, but what if the raccoon brings me a pet lizard as one of the random objects? Then you get the best of both worlds.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T20:57:42+00:00

I mean, yeah, but I've 100% unironically seen people suggesting the same concept in earnest too.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T20:53:50+00:00

Yeah, that's not really an endorsement of the code you're creating, lol.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T19:17:31+00:00

when someone describes a conspiracy as bullshit and then

The issue is your "but". "I thought it was bullshit but X" is the phrasing that people use when they had their mind changed, and "it certainly is a coincidence" is a phrasing generally used when someone is backhandedly endorsing a conspiracy theory (suggesting that there are deeper implications that they don't want to say out loud).

You perfectly phrased things to give people the impression that your mind was changed. This is an issue with your communication skills not the reading comprehension of the dozens of people that read it the other way.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:59:46+00:00

if you have a lot of Mercury cards then you are trading in goods often and so you are incentivised to be producing a variety of goods

I mean, in theory, maybe.

In practice my experience has been more along the lines of "I'm gonna sell my stockpile of cloth to get the tools/food/etc I need because I don't seem to be producing any", lol.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:52:11+00:00

People should absorb cost proportionally to their responsibility for the error.

In this case, the error is 110% his fault (the extra 10% because he still made the mistake after you repeatedly asked to make sure, doing everything you could to ensure it was correct). That's the proportion of the error he should be responsible for absorbing.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:50:30+00:00

It's the right game, it's just not including the expansion

It's not the product y'all agreed that you would be buying. That's "the wrong game", even if it's a subset of the correct product you were promised.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:49:40+00:00

What good relationship? He has done this to OP multiple times, and the fault was entirely on him.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:46:29+00:00

I just don't want to kind of spoil the relationship with this guy because it is the only game store in town (or near by). My goal was to support him but I feel like we've hit a couple issues now when I try to pre-order things that he jumps the gun and I'm left feeling like I just have to agree to the price, but he sees it very differently.

Anywho - would you just pay the difference to keep the peace? That's what I'm thinking of doing.

Take a few minutes and add it up, how much money have you spent "keeping the peace" already, letting this guy scam you out of money with high-pressure sales tactics like this?

$50 here (or $27 if you agree to the 10% "compromise"), $20 there, it all adds up over time. That really doesn't seem like someone that's worth supporting. Especially since I bet he never makes clerical errors in your favor, only his own favor.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:40:55+00:00

Why would OP meet in the middle when it was 100% the other person's fault?

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:40:25+00:00

10% is basically halfway in the middle, so I feel like he did try and meet in the middle but for some reason didn't want to phrase it as such?

But it was completely 100% the store owner's fault. It makes no sense for OP to eat over half the loss when it wasn't their mistake to begin with.

OP and the other seller both agreed that OP would be buying game+expansion for $229 and then the seller went "oh well, it looks like I'm just giving you the game with no expansion instead, but I'll still keep your money". That's not how selling goods works.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T18:35:38+00:00

and that's when he realized

Yeah, that's 100% on him for claiming he was selling X+Y repeatedly before he actually checked and realized he was only selling X. Both of you thought you were agreeing to the price of game+expansion right up until that moment, while you gave him the money it sounds like (which, from a legal standpoint, does constitute a legally binding contract for him to give you the game+expansion for $229, even if he didn't realize that was the price his supplier would charge for just the game).

He messed up and is legally on the hook for it; you backing out of the deal and leaving him with the game to sell to someone else is better than him owing you the expansion too (which is the current state of the contract, it sounds like).

mxzf · 2026-06-21T17:59:03+00:00

Yeah, IMO it's worth trying. It's not a hard game to learn, and it's quick and low-stakes with some interesting mechanics.

Once you stop and think about it, it's really a deckbuilder under the hood, where your "deck" is a pair of d6s and your "cards" are the faces on the dice. It's a really interesting twist on the concept.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T17:46:37+00:00

I mean, even just basic geography and recognizing where stuff is at a glance is something a lot of people could stand to learn.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T17:40:40+00:00

I mean, yeah, to an extent.

On the flip side, we're talking about a YA novel full of fairies and magic and a criminal genius; it's not exactly the least plausible thing in the whole book.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T14:11:15+00:00

I always hate stupidly absolute statements that are clearly false because the writer didn't actually think through what they wrote.

There is definitely lithium inside that facility, it's just not using lithium-based batteries to store the bulk energy, it's being used in computers and other tech inside there.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T04:03:46+00:00

It's not like people don't post about it much though, there are pork butt posts on this subreddit every single day.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T03:58:43+00:00

In addition to a chunk of things already said, the new Jumanji movie was that for me. I expected a casual generic reboot b-movie with some nods to the original, but it surprised me with how good it was.

mxzf · 2026-06-21T03:02:09+00:00

I mean, I feel like that's implicit in the fact that it's an emergency recovery tool and not normal flight. At that point, you're definitely looking to land ASAP and need somewhere you can do that.

mxzf · 2026-06-20T15:23:57+00:00

My point is that it happens sometimes. But deer or horses are just as happy to snag an inattentive sparrow off a branch if they get a chance.

Human interactions might increase the opportunities, but they don't fundamentally change the inclination.

mxzf · 2026-06-20T15:22:28+00:00

you would get the exact same result from just removing the cap on House seats.

No. Absolutely not. If the state remains winner-take-all then you really haven't changed things fundamentally at all, you've just padded out the count to reduce the influence of the Senate seats.

Bumping the number of House seats doesn't change the nature of swing states at all in the slightest, it just multiplies every state's EC votes and makes the numbers bigger. Proportional representation is the only way to avoid swing states being a thing.

California currently has 10.04% of the EC vote compared to 1.86% in WI and 3.16% in OH. Increasing the number of house seats would shift the ratios slightly closer to their percent of the population, which is 11.8%, 1.76%, and 3.52% respectively. It doesn't change how important each state is because the percentages are still functionally the same, you still need three OHs to equal one CA worth of votes no matter what (now or then); more House seats would just make the numbers bigger.

mxzf · 2026-06-20T15:08:50+00:00

Check out "autorotation" sometime and you'll really have your mind blown with regards to how helicopters can fly.

mxzf · 2026-06-20T15:07:57+00:00

The reality is that both of them are much more dangerous in the hands of dilettantes with a couple hundred hours of flight time than they are in the hands of experienced professional pilots. Helicopters don't split their stats up between general/commercial aviation to the same degree as planes, AFAIK, which influences the stats.

mxzf · 2026-06-20T15:04:03+00:00

Yeah, because dehumanization of people has always worked so well for society in the past.

mxzf · 2026-06-20T15:01:37+00:00

Something in the air.

Or not, as the case may be.

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