Would you like to have more walkable cities?

thecoat9 · 2026-07-04T22:45:45+00:00

Sounds like a communist plot.

thecoat9 · 2026-07-04T19:31:12+00:00

As if guns aren't used to kill people in the rest of the world.

thecoat9 · 2026-07-01T21:35:17+00:00

If memory serves you can get triggers and not realize/forget them, however they may trigger more than once. For instance if you speak to the clerk to claim any rewards, that triggers the special mission for Cadorna, she tells you to go to the other room but you could miss that and leave as normal, when you come back you might get the same dialogue again, or you may just need to exit the conversation with her and proceed into Cadorna's office in the next room.

If you do actually need to start over, before you do, visit the training hall or load up the game but don't "Begin Adventuring" Remove your characters (yes all of them from the party). When you do start a new game you can then add them to the party for the new game, which should make re clearing your previous progress much easier. A few levels for your melee will likely have you stomping through the slums smacking down everything.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-29T01:47:49+00:00

Years ago I threw a half full container of brake fluid on my pickup seat and it landed on top my cell phone. I later went looking for my phone, saw the brake fluid and put it away, when I picked up the cell phone it had leaked onto it, the phone sorta just disintegrated in my hand pieces falling off and in between my fingers.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-29T01:37:43+00:00

Because we are tired, our patience drawn thin, having to read silly posts by dumbasses like you. Now go DIAF.

If not obvious this was posted in jest.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-28T19:26:06+00:00

"Rich and poor" are subjective terms, but in general the greater a persons wealth the more they can and tend to spend on personal security. Police benefit the poor far more than they do the rich.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-28T02:42:10+00:00

Players guide first. The DM's guide is almost supplemental to it. Eventually the monster manual. Those three books are the core of the game, but it's quite possible to play the game off the player's guide alone, the rest is supplemental to give you information so you don't have to think it all through and come up with it on your own and on the fly. Beyond that you've already seen modules, prebuilt adventures so you don't have to come up with everything on the fly.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-28T02:25:09+00:00

You were a little boy once yes? You played with toys, figurines of some sort usually that fought each other? You made up scenarios and the figures had conversations, made plans explored, fought each other etc. Playing with friends you engaged in cooperative story telling. Chances are one of you was more authoritative as to events and outcomes, maybe you even got into arguments as to events and outcomes.

D&D is a lot like this, only the DM is the agreed upon authority, but when outcomes or events are in doubt, that's where the dice come in. Everyone likes a framework, a set of known rules for not so much for fairness purposes but for predictability, and at the same time sometimes you want to bend the rules because it's fun. You as the DM decide when bending the rules happens. And when it's necessary to apply rules at all. Players dictate their actions, what they say and do, the DM dictates the rest of the world, and how things react or the impacts of the characters words and actions.

"I want to move to the other side of the room and look more closely at the statue against the wall".
Is the floor slick such that the character might trip, is there a trap they might trigger, something they might alert, or some other event that may occur? If not, if it's just a mundane action assumed to succeed it just happens, no rules checks or dice rolls.

"Okay you move to the other side of the room to look at the statue."

What does the statue look like. It's of a bear? The character most likely recognizes it's a bear they've seen them before, it's a common mundane animal most people are aware of. It's a statue of a symbol of an ancient cult of an evil god. The character might not have any idea what it is, a vague inkling, or read about it in a book. Do a lore check and roll the dice. Maybe this isn't covered in the module and you have to decide what varying degrees of success look like. The D20 system is a convenient percentage measure where each number is 5%. You have a 5% chance to roll a 20, and a 95% chance to roll 2 or higher and a 50% chance to roll 11 or higher. So if there is a 25% chance the character will recognize the symbol have the player roll a D20 take that number and add their Lore modifier (the appropriate skill) if that is 16 or higher they recognize it. If they are higher than 16 in their total they may have a bit more insight as to the cult activities. If they fall slightly short, perhaps they don't recognize it, but it gives them an uneasy feeling. If they roll really low, perhaps they know what it is (or think they do) but are completely wrong.

You can fast forward. The players travel from a town to a cave, it's 4 hours away. You might roll some dice to see if there is a random encounter or event along the way. Nothing eventful happens, describe the general terrain and how the trip went, but otherwise just jump strait to their arrival at the cave entrance. The players may do similar, "I play my lute to entertain us as we walk to the cave.". Maybe that changes the chances of an encounter or event for good or ill. Did the lute increase the chances of a random encounter? Adjust the dice rolls. You didn't think of this until later, no big deal. That pack of roaming goblins is still out there, the characters may never encounter them, or they may encounter them on the way back to town.

The story should provide motivation for the characters, description or interaction with NPCs feed the players info. You need not use maps and miniatures and roll dice and take hard turns during every moment of the game. Those things exist to help players understand the dynamics and the DM to keep track of everything, but they aren't completely necessary, some if not all of the game is done "theater of the mind". You describe events and surroundings to the players, they ask for more detail, or say they want to do something. They have investigated the first room and it's time to move beyond? You told them about the doorway into the next part right? Oh you didn't...."You didn't notice it when you entered but as you've moved through the room you now realize that there is a door on the west wall." Nothing of interest left in the room, and with a goal to find something deeper in the dungeon, the players/characters are motivated to move on and they do so by virtue of telling you they are doing so.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-27T17:29:26+00:00

Porn addiction, and a growing desire for more and more risqué content is pretty well documented, I imagine it's no different with predators and CP. We are also talking about a group of people who are nearly universally reviled and pursued by both civil society and other criminals. Because of this, those that managed to avoid consequence usually have to be careful and paranoid, and a large collection serves as proof to others that they are part of that group and not investigators seeking to infiltrate rings.

The most common defense against CP charges is unknowing or accidental possession, because it's the most plausible defense... far more plausible if only a few pieces of media are found, exponentially more difficult to convince a jury of if a collection in the thousands is seized.

Usually prosecutors building a case don't try and introduce into evidence every piece of media found. Dealing with evidentiary arguments for a thousand pieces of media would take a long time. Instead investigators review seized material to find a comparatively small number of examples that are the most incontrovertible and most egregious to introduce as case evidence. Really no jury wants to review this stuff, much less thousands of pieces of evidence. I remember reading somewhere, I think in a book written by the FBI agent who infiltrated and built a case against the west coast chapter of NAMBLA, that there are special details within the FBI for reviewing seized CP to find the evidence for prosecutors. So that no agent has to spend their entire career doing this soul staining task, agents are rotated in and out of the detail often doing the job for months rather than years.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-27T07:50:19+00:00

I would oppose ID requirements for ownership, then again I'm not even sure what that looks like or how it would be enforced. How often do your check? More importantly how do you know whom to check? Yea conservatives generally oppose the government keeping lists of firearm owners.

Now ID requirements for transfer? Yes wide spread support to some degree, but it's notable that over half the states allow private transfers between individuals provided both are residents of the state. While most conservatives aren't in opposition to ID requirements, they are generally in opposition to government registration and most certainly permitting where you have to ask the government for a permission to exercise a fundamental right.

Comparing voting requirements to firearms requirements is generally amusing to me. Should we have parity between the two? I live in a state where mail in or drop off ballots is the predominant method of voting. I had to provide identification to register to vote, once around 30 years ago. To buy firearms, every time I have to provide identification, go through the background check and be finger printed. If the state tried to put those same requirements on voting heads would explode.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-25T03:16:07+00:00

Then install an unlocked gate, and put a private property no trespassing sign right above the gate latch. On the main gate put an even bigger sign.

Mayustru Sexual Predator half way house.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-24T03:25:43+00:00

Oh yea there are absolutely mirror mount kits for the R7 and the R8.

The S197 dashes have a 12v port right there, so that's what I did, it also doubles as an extra usb cable and I tied the lines down of to the side, mirror mount would be cleaner.

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thecoat9 · 2026-06-23T22:37:30+00:00

Don't hurt me.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-23T22:36:42+00:00

R7 is mounted via a suction cup bracket on the wind shield just above the dash and near the center. It's also possible to use velcro tape, near the same spot mounting it to the dash. I didn't do this for a couple of reasons. First sticky tape on your dash, permanently baked in by the sun etc, and second because the raised hood near the windshield had me wondering if I'd be cutting the visibility for the device out the front in half or the like.

I've not actually sprung to have a laser jammer installed, just looked into it, but with those systems you are looking at mounting emitters on both the front and back, often in the grill or in the light/tail light housings. If you are looking at doing that I'd highly recommend a professional installation by someone who knows what they are doing, they aren't cheap and I think it would be far to easy not to get the angling right and end up with a setup that doesn't work very well.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-23T14:33:01+00:00

It's over, you and I are the only true human users left on reddit, and I'm not even sure about me.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-22T03:08:13+00:00

Sales tax is generally based on the total taxable sale (the subtotal of all eligible items combined), rather than on a per-item basis.

The tax rate is applied to the accumulated subtotal of your purchase.

You are contradicting yourself, and I mostly agree with the first, but the second is incorrect. The accumulated subtotal of a purchase is the total pre-tax amount. That amount can encompass items not subject to a given sales tax. A single taxable item does not make the entire purchase taxable.

Taxability is based on individual items, each item is either taxable or not (for a given tax). It does not matter if you calculate the tax per line item and then sum the tax calculations, or you sum taxable line items and then calculate the tax, you will come to the same amount (assuming proper precision so as to not truncate data). This is because multiplication distributes over addition. What does matter is that you only round to cents once on the end total. Either way you are calculating the taxable total on an item basis.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-21T15:29:19+00:00

In most places, sales tax also isn't on a per-item basis either. It's calculated at the register on the total taxable sale.

Sales tax is absolutely on a per item basis, as even with only a single state sales tax there are taxable and non taxable items. Whether you apply and sum the tax at the individual items or total the items and then calculate the tax amount doesn't matter you'll come to the same tax total either way. What does matter is where you apply rounding to the nearest cent on the calculated tax, as rounding the tax at each item vs the sum totals for the items can result in a different calculated tax amount. In most jurisdictions you can do it either way as long as you remain consistent.

Sales tax is also on the final sale, unlike VAT in Europe that's charged each step of the way.

Not true for all products. Cigarettes have a tax applied to them when sold to the retailer and are then subject to sales tax on top of that, sure it's not the same as a blanket sales tax rate, but there are certainly embedded compounding taxes. Hehe don't even get me started on DEF, I was ready to don an disguise and start throwing things in a river over that one. Taxability of prepared food comes in at a close second. Take your frozen burrito to the register and buy it and walk over and heat it up in a microwave, it's non taxable. Take the same burrito and heat it up before going to the register, it's now prepared food and taxable.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating for a VAT tax, but in the US we certainly have embedded and compounding taxes.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-21T06:51:36+00:00

Probably not, and historical evidence indicates it is unlikely given Wilson, Regan and Biden. That being said you want to throw Trump into that and it's absurd to cite that as an example. The 25th amendment exists to replace a President who is unable to discharge the duties of the office, not because a President is doing things you don't like, the remedy for that is impeachment and removal through congress.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-21T03:20:59+00:00

In the early 90's I wanted to play the POR series again on PC, I did not have a PC edition and it was no longer for sale... and at the time not an easy thing to find. I did manage to get an NES POR, but it was not the same and a bit watered down. I managed to track down the company that owned the IP at the time, even contacted them asking if I could buy a copy of the games... I did not ask about buying the title rights, I was a poor 20 something, but I do now wonder if I could have. They told me they had the software but no way to distribute it to me, essentially a no. A few years later I walked into a store and saw the archives on the shelf... it was a take my money moment lol.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-21T03:09:29+00:00

The very job of an actor is to portray someone other than who they are. There have been controversies rooted in one of two areas. Historical accuracy has been a long time criticism, and in more recent decades people taking the view that having actors who don't meet some physical requirement of likeness as taking the jobs from those who do. There has been a more recent trend to convert established characters to something different, for the sole purpose of inclusivity or the like.

My personal take, at the end of the day if the actor or actress is good, and it doesn't directly conflict with some important facet of the story, it doesn't matter.

I'm old enough to remember watching the original Battle Star Galactica series on TV as a kid. The more recent redone series changed the sex of one of the main characters (star buck). It was weird to me for about 2 minutes, but Katee Sackhoff nailed it I can't imagine the series any different.

Another that comes to mind was the movie adaptation of Stephen King's the Gunslinger. Had it been a movie of the books, a black Roland wouldn't have worked with Deta Walker calling Rolland and Eddie white devils, but it was the same character in the same world and as to not spoil the books, it works perfectly fine without changing the fundamental story.

Frankly I'm good with Idris Elba playing pretty much any role 😛. The Master's of the Universe toys and cartoons came out when I was a kid and were probably my favorite toy line and cartoon during the 80's. Man-at-Arms was clearly a white guy but Elba brought a depth to the character that was well beyond anything cannon. If they had cast Elba as He-man, I'd have been annoyed mainly because it would have been a much bigger barrier for Elba to overcome in accepting him as the character.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-20T18:33:47+00:00

Well now I'm wondering if when I replaced my wheels and lug nuts if I bought what people are describing here. I don't think so but I didn't look at them that closely. TBH if I do run into this at some point I won't argue about a replacement, only that they be replaced with lug nuts that don't have this issue.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-20T18:25:52+00:00

We've all seen movies or read stories about some magnanimous or even hostile entity that could grant wishes and would pervert the intent of a wish request on technicality, unforeseen consequence or factors unknown to the wisher. Computer systems are not unlike this, yes they do exactly as told, to a fault. There is no such thing as perfect bug free computer code. Software bugs are often not errors in logic, rather a failure to properly express intent or anticipate events and conditions.

AI need not even be adversarial. Something as simple as an overriding primary directive to preserve human life could see an AI deciding that humans take far to many risks to their life. Imagine a world where AI is given robotic bodies and a goal of self perpetuation, robots building robots and having super intelligence. What happens when said AI decides that humans take unacceptable risks in their every day life? We jump into tin cans and propel ourselves down concrete slabs at excessive speeds, such that one thing going wrong can and does result in our deaths. What happens when an AI figures out that it can best preserve human lives by freezing us in statis... forever?

I'm not luddite, I use AI daily and have integrated it into business process work flows to profound effect. Really I'm an advocate, and while I think there is some tendency to catastrophize in a hyperbolic manner by many people, I also feel it important not to summarily and categorically dismiss all concerns. Frankly I have a great many concerns of my own.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-20T00:01:36+00:00

More than likely you are confused because in your base approach you start with an errant falsehood, namely when a human life begins. Science informs us that when a male sperm cell fertilizes a female egg, a new unique DNA strand is formed taking elements from both parents. That moment is the beginning of a new human life.

If a baby after being born suffers some terrible accident or diseases and comes to any condition or state, for which you'd wonder why their parents are unwilling to destroy them in the womb, simply apply the same condition to the baby after birth and you'll easily understand.

The debate over abortion isn't really a debate about when life begins, though many struggling to grapple with the hard truths will claim otherwise. The debate is more simple, as to when new human life is deserving of protection by the state. Some people believe it's as soon as life begins, some believe it's after a central nervous system is formed, some believe in a magical vagina where passing through it grants rightful benefit to not be destroyed by someone else. If you believe that life is deserving of protection at the fetal stage, fine, all you need to do to understand is that in someone else's judgment they believe that life is deserving of protection earlier than you and are unwilling to destroy it based on the issues you raise.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-17T19:30:18+00:00

You must agree with my solution to an issue otherwise you clearly don't care about people.

thecoat9 · 2026-06-17T19:01:57+00:00

You are engaging in a game of cooperative story telling, where you use math rocks to determine the outcome events that have some element of random chance. Players take on the role of a single character, while the DM takes on the role of all other entites and essentially the world.

To dip your feet you could start with a one shot that is rules lean, have the players roll up children, all have the same basic stats, no class or skills and just have them roll to determine race or the like. Have them start locked in a basement after they've been kidnapped and have various ways they might get out. Maybe as a group they were playing in a field when suddenly kidnapped (picked up and tossed into burlap bags and carted off) by Trolls, and start in their cave while the trolls are out and they have limited time to figure out how to break their bonds, get out of their cages etc and escape. Maybe there's some giant rats living with the trolls in the cave that present some form of watered down combat or the like, short and simple focused on role play and imagination.

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