Hey, at least the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is about to be finally resolved in our lifetime.

It’s such a weird precipice we’re standing on, we either take a step back and go back to the status quo, which arguably isn’t fantastic, but it’s livable. Or we jump off the edge into a fascist dictatorship where someone with brain worms is trying to ban vaccines, remove fluoride from the water system, Ukraine possibly falls against Russia, the US becomes a third world banana republic, civil rights are vastly curtailed, and likely the environment takes a huge nosedive and life on earth becomes a nightmare hellscape.

Like, how the fuck is this even a close election? Hopeful based on some reporting I’ve seen, but it’s not even noon, so no idea where things go from here.

I think it happens all over and sometimes it really kind of depends on how long your argument is and the general impression people get from the first part of it. If you’re making a devil’s advocate argument in the first part, but then the twist comes later on, people are going to think your first devil’s advocate argument is the gist of it and downvote you based on that alone without getting into the nitty gritty. If people can form a knee-jerk reaction within the first few seconds of reading your post, they will, nuance gets lost.

Day #1 was a success. 29 more to go.

Surprisingly calm while being given a bath.

That was one of the biggest things that took me out of that movie. They stage this huge operation at the Gotham Stock Exchange or wherever, everybody knows this giant crime is happening there, but woops, looks like Bruce Wayne has been magically bankrupted, there’s nothing we can do about it. It just took me out of it thinking, “I don’t think you can just bankrupt a billionaire like that.”

You just got to wear them down enough, break their willpower. They can learn to love in time.

If a girl doesn’t like you, but you just keep pursuing her, everything will eventually work out and you’ll be happy together.

Our boss just took us out to lunch and gave us four hours off the rest of the day to go out and vote, which is probably the most encouragement to vote I think I’ve ever gotten from any boss before. I’m sure I was entitled to it this whole time, but it’s never been encouraged like this before with this boss at any of my other workplaces, if anything, previous bosses probably would’ve talked shit if I said that’s what I wanted to do with my time.

If I ever get a robot with titties, I’m just going to be playing with those all day long, don’t even care about how good the AI is.

For us, our group has been playing together in one form or another for maybe decades now, we all know each other fairly well and take turns GM’ing. Session 0’s for us usually tend to be character creation and some worldbuilding, but that’s about it. Some of the people I game with though tend to be less improvisational is what it feels like alot of the time. It’s just kind of how they are, I know it walking in.

Even if it’s a homebrew adventure they wrote, they have a tendency to just stick with what they wrote and won’t deviate from that. So if/when the PCs do something outside expectations, it’s inevitably molded or pushed back onto the rails, sometimes in more obvious ways. “Story beats” for them are unavoidable combat encounters that they planned for, so goddamnit, we’re getting into combat regardless of what the players do to try to avoid it.

And I try pushing out in different directions, I’ll GM and try running one shots with different systems, mechanics, or just switch up the generic fantasy stuff we seem to tend towards, just to do something different, but everyone still has their comfort zones with what they usually run and how they run it.

I wish I had a DM that cared that much about my character to incorporate it into the game. They usually just seem to want to railroad us through the pre-written campaign or adventure we’re playing.

We’ll have a big environmental 9/11 moment where a major American city becomes permanently uninhabitable and then there will alot of handwringing about “What could we have done!?” Then we’ll start getting lukewarm serious about it for maybe a few years, but by that point it’s way too late.

I really want to like AI, I’d love to have an intelligent AI assistant or something, but I just struggle to find any uses for it outside of some really niche cases or for basic brainstorming tasks. Otherwise, it just feels like alot of work for very little benefit or results that I can’t even trust or use.

Everytime I get sick I think about this. “I am going to appreciate my life so much more when I’m not sick.” I appreciate not being sick for about five minutes before it just goes back to being whatever.

I’d probably try outside if I was going to let a woman try to hold it and aim, otherwise they’re gonna miss from just piss-poor aim or I’d start getting hard and that would make it even harder to aim.

And that last 1/3rd person is the one actually spewing it.

If she gets elected she’ll be the first female Vice President AND the first female President, from back to back terms.

We’re probably more likely to see a return to feudalism, with the wealthy getting worshipped as god-kings and regular folks going back to being illiterate peasants working the land for their overlords.

A few weeks ago, I was lying in bed. Literally all I was doing was moving to turn and I pulled a muscle in my leg. Getting old fucking sucks.