Completely anecdotal and privileged: my desk job was so much less dense than child care that going to work felt like a break when we had babies. Not to imply anything bad about anybody! But the mental accounting isn’t just unhealthy, it’s impossible because you don’t know how hard someone else’s subjective experience is.

The job wasn’t even good! It was galling and crushing. But at least I knew what was happening that day and could influence it somewhat.

Testosterone?

They are petaQs

Gets so bad?

There’s plenty of technology that could be, but isn’t yet because the incentives aren’t there.

If we turned all this wasted ingenuity towards the betterment of humankind, then everything could get much better very quickly.

Found Aquaman

No. When you say Democrats, do you just mean congress people and not registered Democrats in general?

If we’ve got to stop the killer ourselves, then what difference does the cop make?

I absolutely blame the Republicans more than Democrats, but there’s no point in arguing with fascists. There’s good honest people in this thread who are just wrong.

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

You forgot jury box! Everybody look up “jury nullification”.

I just hope nobody rips off the Culture, they would get so rich and we’d all be forced to admit how much smarter they are.

Fair, but IMHO level 1 characters are more like guitarists who finally feel confident, and level 20 are like Jimi Hendrix. We skip past the part where the character would be an incompetent NPC.

Were they deleted or something? I don’t see them.

Even if you’re not pirating, you can still play using the SRD. You can skip the DMG entirely and get monster stat blocks online.

I can just say “I spend the down time practicing” instead of “I spend the down time on social media”.

But if I buy shares in the casino, then I still have to wait for a return!

Grand Theft Auto game creator sacked us for trying to unionise

The in-game radio will be a cruel reminder that they’re in favor of the things they’re satirizing.

The bars will run dry.

I get that same fun playing D&D. There’s risk and a thrill you might lose, but it’s super cheap.

My wife and I are fantastic gamblers. We always get more value in free drinks than we lose gambling.