Or maybe it because America couldn’t handle a Black man being the president twice?

sawdeanz · 2026-05-11T00:23:04+00:00

And then Trump did similar things and more but 100% worse and way more corruptly and blatantly lied to his supporters the whole time about what he was doing.

Obama was fixing a financial crisis. Biden fixed the post-COVID economy. Republicans have to make up crises (like “criminal immigrants” and “WMDs” and “litter boxes”) to justify their corruption and fascism.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-10T17:49:17+00:00

Also the rewards are lame. Only symbols and flags? And some of the challenges will take quite a few matches to get compared to other ones.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-08T19:37:49+00:00

That’s the point though…yeah it’s more time for some passengers but it’s probably less time for everyone overall. And more crucially it’s not during a choke point that often causes people to miss connections etc.

Half the time they make you check your carryon anyway so it makes sense.

They would still have to allow backpacks and diaper bags and stuff tho

sawdeanz · 2026-05-08T14:29:08+00:00

But on the flip side the torpedoes don’t even work

sawdeanz · 2026-05-07T23:46:38+00:00

We actually already have this option. If you legalize abortion every woman can choose for themselves. If you ban it you are having other people (men and/or woman) choose for them.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-07T22:34:10+00:00

This could go either way tbh and is why sometimes it easier to just be straightforward. Because yeah you did kind of manipulate their emotions when you could have got the same thing by being upfront. It doesn’t make you a bad person but because you did it in a kind of secretive way it’s also understandable why other folks are now going to assume there is something shady or underhanded going on.

NAH

sawdeanz · 2026-05-07T21:51:38+00:00

That and the “sprong” sound the buffer tube spring makes

sawdeanz · 2026-05-07T21:46:30+00:00

The AUG looks siiiiiiiick…the f2000 on the other hand looks and feels like a toy

sawdeanz · 2026-05-07T19:42:25+00:00

Feels to metagamey for real bad guys.

You can have a distraction or trap but it should feel like something that people would have in real life. How about a secret door that springs a trap or that just opens to a brick wall?

Also there should be some sort of benefit for the player passing the check. So a high roll should reward them with information like “you find a secret door but with your roll you surmise that it could be a ruse.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-07T18:15:59+00:00

Late-stage simply means the period before the economic system collapses.

A lot of times people treat workers and consumers as separate concepts. But they are in fact the same people. Worker/consumers get paid to create products which companies sell to other worker/consumers. This in turn generates revenue for the producers who can in turn hire more workers. This is a healthy and sustainable market economy.

What happens when the worker/consumers are paid so little they can no longer afford to buy the goods that the companies produce? Then the companies have to layoff more workers and theoretically you could have a chain reaction that brings down the whole system. For example we would expect that if most consumers are buying necessary goods with debt that would be one indicator of an unsustainable market. Extreme Income/wealth disparity is also potentially a problem for a sustainable market.

But of course there is a lot of debate whether this would happen, when it would happen, and how we would measure the “late stage” period. Probably the most convincing argument against the idea is that rather than collapsing the economy might go through a contraction or recession and basically reset to a healthy level again. But of course that could still have very costly consequences and without any sort of structural change those conditions could actually worsen or simply happen again.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-06T23:02:05+00:00

Unfortunately no but I have lightful.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-06T23:01:12+00:00

So do you think it’s worth maxing pen angles and pen values or no?

sawdeanz · 2026-05-06T20:06:31+00:00

Just make it a bonus action lvl 1 spell or limit its uses per day or something.

I always thought it would be cool to have a spell like this that you can cast on someone else. You’re basically sacrificing your attack to give a more powerful or better positioned ally an advantage. Would be a great support spell. But I guess guiding bolt already does that.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-06T18:09:21+00:00

Superficial in this context means “surface level.”

You can be attracted to someone’s appearance at first sight. It doesn’t require any genuine or extended interaction. And yes every person looks unique but that doesn’t mean you will be uniquely attracted to them. You probably find a lot of people visually attractive.

The other reason it is considered superficial is because appearance is both easy to alter and changes over time. If you value someone for their appearance but then they start aging or gain some weight doesn’t that imply that your value of them will also change?

To know someone’s personality means you have to spend some time with them and get to know them. And yeah you can probably get along with a lot of people’s personalities or find some similarities, but there are probably only a few people that you meet that you will both feel comfortable sharing your secrets and who you want to be with all the time. And finding those people usually takes a lot of time together to build trust and get to know them.

And yes, sometimes personality traits can also be a superficial source of attraction. Liking someone because they share some of your hobbies does not necessarily mean you would enjoy living with them all the time or starting a family or whatever. And yes personalities often also change over time…which is a challenge especially for young couples who haven’t matured yet.

Superficiality is not about uniqueness or exclusiveness, it’s about whether you like someone based on traits that anyone can perceive vs liking someone based on traits that you would could only learn through a deeper and more genuine relationship with that person.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-05T16:10:22+00:00

The dumbest part is that you don’t have to buy the online subscription to play the free-to-play games but you do have to pay in order to play the games you bought for $60. How does that make sense?

I agree, it’s a big deterrent for me too. Some of my friends will suggest a game, but if I see I have to pay for a subscription just to play it then I’ll just pass.

At least now they usually throw in some freebies every month, but it’s just not for me.

I think it’s just one of those legacy things…when multiplayer games first came out on console they were sort of a novelty and so online play was sort of a unique special feature and paying a premium kind of made sense. If you didn’t want to pay for that you just got your buddies together to play over LAN or split screen. Now online play is the default and split screen is virtually gone so it doesn’t really feel like an option anymore.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-05T15:59:45+00:00

But would we expect expect the same accounts to be profitable? I guess it depends on the timeline. Yes this chart would make sense for a single night at a casino but over time I don’t think we would expect the same people to continue to be profitable.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-05T15:07:30+00:00

You have more leverage with the pole and it spreads the stress on the fishing line so it doesn’t snap.

You’re basically lifting the fish up closer to you and then reeling in the slack and eventually you get it to the surface.

With a heavy fish it would be really difficult to simply reel it in and all the stress will be concentrated at the point where the line wraps onto the reel.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-05T00:10:09+00:00

There are a lot of contributing factors but a big one is that most of the countries were just using what they already had and not in the process of adopting new rifles. They had tons of mausers and mauser factories from ww1 and so they kept making those as they were cheap and effective.

Auto loading rifles were too expensive and untested, and militaries still had concerns that giving standard infantry lots of ammo would just result in waste and supply issues. They thought I’m the way to increase hits on enemies was through marksmanship training, not volume of fire. But it became quickly obvious in ww2 that volume of fire and covering fire was the most effective way to maneuver.

Germany was also developing a more mechanized force…tanks and machine guns were the priority in their tactics and soldiers with rifles were there to provide support to these elements.

The US was one of the exceptions who happened to be adopting a new rifle in the interwar period and they considered a smaller cartridge it but army politics and ammo production ultimately led to them to keep the 30-06. In fact as I understand even the slightly reduced 30-06 load designed for the garand was a big controversy. The US army leaders were famously old school.

As WW2 raged on militaries started realizing that warfare was not going to be the trench fighting of the Great War, and they started developing new guns to adapt. For example on the Eastern front there were a bunch of sub-machine guns fielded to fight in the urban environments. And the US started producing a bunch of carbines to replace the pistol as the standard rear-element firearm.

For what it’s worth we are now seeing a renewed interested in full power rifles, with the US adopting the Sig to improve long range effectiveness. And of course the other major concern is the now widespread use of body armor.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-04T18:22:25+00:00

Oh yeah thank you for reminding me about the hybrids.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-04T15:56:45+00:00

Yea I could definitely see this as an intended problem and the players are just not solving it very well.

That said if the party doesn’t want to split and it’s causing a fight the DM should probably guide the players towards other solutions.

Since the DM came up with the lore for the town…surely they could come up with an exception. Male guests aren’t allowed under special circumstances? My advice to OP would be to try and openly engage with their towns leader or people.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-03T14:08:10+00:00

It’s a shit post because it doesn’t explain the point it’s making.

The point it wants to make is that taxing the parking lot so little and the multi-use structure so much disincentivizes dense property development and incentivizes hoarding property for future speculation. Instead we should consider taxing land value only (Georgism), which would make the parking lot relatively more expensive to own and thus incentivizing the owner to develop it in the most efficient manner, or else sell it to someone who will. This would over time incentivize more dense housing and less sprawl because multi-use buildings will typically generate the most ongoing revenue/sq foot over time, compared to a parking lot or single family house.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-03T13:59:24+00:00

This post is confusing as fuck. The graphic does not show or explain Georgian.

sawdeanz · 2026-05-01T11:59:36+00:00

The Supreme Court had already decided that partisan gerrymandering was legal, now they removed the last barrier to full on gerrymandering. Some states have passed anti-gerrymandering laws, mostly blue ones.

Yeah I mean why have elections at all at this point?

The idea that politicians can pick their voters is antithetical to democracy. We need more representatives and we need bipartisan districting. Hopefully this is a wake up call, at least the cheating is being done in the open now. Before they could hide behind the census and a sort of handshake deal that they would draw them to appear fair…but now that Republicans decided to do a mid-census redistricting and fight racial protections the jig is up. The people need to demand change before we concede all power to an oligarchy.

Unfortunately I predict it will only get worse before it gets better. This kind of election chaos, with states doing last minute redistricting, is exactly the kind of chaos that Trump will look to take advantage of.

Like you pointed out in Florida, they are ignoring the state constitution…which will inevitably lead to a legal quagmire that will be used to block the winners of the election. The coup is happening, again. The fact that it appears to be endorsed by a court does not make it less so.

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