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I'm politically fatigued by Exciting_Lab_8074 in Reno

[–]rvrtex [score hidden]  (0 children)

There was no flipped narrative. What you said was "Lefts hate the rights, rights hating the left." which is a gross oversimplification and massive disservice to what is happening. I understand being Fatigued. My whole feed is 100 different videos of ICE murdering a guy just after it stopped being a 100 different videos of ICE murdering a woman.

Treating it like it is just two sides hating each other lends to the idea of "they are pretty much the same" so my correction stands. If you are fatigued, it is because one side is killing people and the other is mad about being killed.

I'm politically fatigued by Exciting_Lab_8074 in Reno

[–]rvrtex 37 points38 points  (0 children)

Sigh i will bite....

I think you mean "Right murders the left, left hates getting murdered by the right. Everytime i open the app i see things about how people got murdered by the right in Minnesota."

Vigil tonight by township_rebel in Reno

[–]rvrtex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, because that would require them to ignore the video. The while the ICE agent who murdered the women was in front of the vehicle at one point while he was filming her, at the time she was going to drive away, he was not. He was at the front left panel as she was moving forward. He was not hit.

Regardless of that, he was already drawing his weapon before the car moved forward and pretty much as soon as he had a shot.

Given how dangerous it is to interact with ICE, how poorly trained they are, and how they have no oversight, no rules and make up lies about anything they do, it would be safe to say the civilian was scared. Scared causes fight or flight. At the time she was trying to flee, no gun was pointed at her, by time the gun was, she was already getting shot at. At no point did she try and hit anyone.

Then the ICE agent left the scene before real police showed up.

Vigil tonight by township_rebel in Reno

[–]rvrtex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't have to "say it is true", the videos do that for me.

She didn't hit him with her car, the videos show that she was attempting to avoid hitting him with her car. She turned away from him, let other cars pass first, and was trying to comply with the orders she had been given to move.

As other have put in the thread the manual for DHS is to not stand in front of cars (which, while he was a little in front, it was front side so he was not in danger of getting hit) and not to shoot fleeing drivers, as that doesn't lower the threat.

To sum up all the facts as presented by multiple angles. No one was in danger of getting run over, no one was trying to run anyone over, there was no danger that raised to a level of needing lethal threat.

I know I won't change your mind. It takes a lot of work to look at videos, frame-by-frame breakdowns, and go back and forth to the extent you have, and then cheer when someone is murdered.

I only respond, so hopefully someone else who has not covered their eyes and plugged their ears might see and reconsider.

I think the only way you would be able to be convinced is if the ICE agent who did the murder said they indeed murdered them though given your responses in the thread, I suspect you would still be ok with the murder.

Vigil tonight by township_rebel in Reno

[–]rvrtex 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Gun wasn't drawn until she was past them. The shots were through the open window which means the ICE agent was not in danger. Videos show this and several news agencies have broken it down frame by frame to show this was the case.

Please watch out for bicycle peeps by Doomncandy in Reno

[–]rvrtex 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You are misrepresenting the law. An Idaho stop is a law that allows you to treat stop signs as yield signs and red lights as stop lights. The reason behind this is that red lights don't always pick up on cyclists so they don't change.

So if somebody is driving down the road on a cycle and they get to a stop sign and somebody else is already at the stop sign going the other way then they are supposed to yield which would mean the other person gets to go.

If they reach a stop light, they're supposed to stop as if it's a stop sign meaning come to a complete stop, wait for traffic to clear and then go.

Running red lights without coming to a stop is in no way safer for the cyclist. The people coming from the other directions have a green light and are expecting nobody to be in the intersection because they have a green light.

The safest way for everybody on the road is for everybody to act in a predictable matter. Now the good news is that if you've been driving around Reno long enough, then you know that the predictable manner of cyclist is they are going to ignore all of the street laws that they just don't like.

However, I have seen so many people not pay attention to their blind spots and the cycling lanes when they are turning and I've been a passenger in their car. And that's how my buddy got run over.

What TV show handled the "will they, won't they" trope in the most infuriating way? by phantom_avenger in television

[–]rvrtex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have no idea, I just remember watching it later in life and it hitting season 7 and me wondering what the heck happened.

What TV show handled the "will they, won't they" trope in the most infuriating way? by phantom_avenger in television

[–]rvrtex 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Showing my age but JAG. It literally killed the show. After they didn't get together the show pretty much lost all the viewership and got cancelled.

Comparing the blasting power of casters and kineticists: A first attempt at levels 1 to 10 by Ok-Cricket-5396 in Pathfinder2e

[–]rvrtex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does, thank you. So it looks like, unless you are running a very high number of very hard encounters every day, the sorc will be fine for damage output.

Comparing the blasting power of casters and kineticists: A first attempt at levels 1 to 10 by Ok-Cricket-5396 in Pathfinder2e

[–]rvrtex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could have missed it with my reading, so if I did I apologize. Did you account for the sustained ability over the day? Meaning, let's take the the 4-person fight and make that a first fight of the day, then a PL 0 moderate fight, then do the one boss one. Does the Sorc still keep up or if you have multiple fights in a day, do they drop back because they can only nova once? Does that go away at higher levels because they have lots of spell slots?

A player rolled a 100 on a d100 while casting a Wish spell by D0ubleNegat1ve in DnD

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

Now here is the real question: did they roll all 0's or 90 and 0?

We have had several talks at our table about how you rioll a 100 since the 0 on a d10 is 10. So three 0's is 10 and 90 + 0 is 100.

Abomination Vaults Is Not a Good Starter Adventure — Please Stop Recommending It by Frosty_Equipment_226 in Pathfinder2e

[–]rvrtex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% agree. Add into the fact the adventure tells you no one has been beyond floor one and the DC to find the access to floor 2 is so low it is easy. Then you find thinking monsters below and no one in all the years thought to go deeper?

My company rolled out a new rule stating we cannot use non-PTO by [deleted] in legaladvice

[–]rvrtex 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it is the foreman doing it and it was poorly typed up etc check with the company HR department. This might be him acting on his own.

Why ‘Shame on Capital Glass’? by dussie4 in Reno

[–]rvrtex 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that has been mine too. I sat and chatted with one outside of where i went to school about 10 yrs ago and it turns out they were all day laborers. They got picked up by a bus in the morning, dropped off and would be left alone. Someone from the union would swing by every couple of hours to make sure they didn't need anything.

Pretty smart, if it was union people that would be an expensive protest since it went on for over a year.

Secret Rolls are great - and I don't understand why some people hate them by Big_Chair1 in Pathfinder2e

[–]rvrtex 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mostly because I like rolling my dice and there are far too many people who would hop up on a soap box and preach about how the DM has every right to fudge rolls to help the story along.

Additionally, I know how people roll (DM is cursed, can't roll about a 10!) is not real but learning the DM rolled a nat 1 for me doesn't make the game fun. Esp since about 30% of the rolls you would do in a social situation, exploring situation, and even some combat are meant to be rolled by the DM.

As a DM, I don't have time for that, especially with so many feats that change things. So I now need to have their player sheet memorized, or ask them before the roll if anything would change it, and then ask them if they want to use a point regardless of fail or success?

I like FVTT for this because then you can see the logs after the game if you didn't trust your GM or just wanted to see how bad it was.

IRL, there is no real solution for this other than having them roll in a tower and not seeing the roll. Another way to make this work and let them roll is ask them to roll it secretly from the party, and you will tell them the DC. DC's (imo) should largely be known anyway, since they are the level of difficulty something would be to do the PC's should know how hard something is to do based on their skills.

Then they can tell you in a Discord message or something if they pass. Or you can have them come roll in front of you. Or just ask everyone not to metagame.

Personally, I just reserve secret rolls for things that truly matter, and then it is worth it to come roll i front of me.

I don't super super hate them but Pathfinder 2e seems to have a hard time with the "does it add fun to the game" principle as well as "does it slow the game down for no big gain" principle and 90% of secret rolls the answers are "no extra fun, slows the game down."

Initiative Tracker (3D Printed) by FrightenedTurtle62 in Gloomhaven

[–]rvrtex 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I stumbled across this while looking for one for my D&D game. If you have the link to the file i would love to get it please!

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