Using a summary written by a soulless lie machine is irresponsible

Most people seem to not even have any notion of how things can be better. They never even think to look up like “block ads”. They just take whatever fuckery they get

He’s a horrible person who deserves no peace and no dignity.

I don’t think we should let this guy just walk around. He’s clearly a danger to himself and others.

I will continue to not buy consoles.

I would hope, perhaps foolishly, that those appointments would not be confirmed.

Alito is a disgrace. I hope he’s removed from power soon

Republicans are conservatives, authoritarians, the most important thing for them is adherence to the group. If they valued anything else more, they wouldn’t be Republicans.

I mean, I imagine there’s still a window where you can ask for it for free, but you make an interesting point. For many people, it has lowered their cost of food. I’m not sure all of them could have found free food as easily.

I don’t enjoy fireworks. Maybe if it was like the year 1600 and I’d never seen color and light it’d be really cool. But we have high definition Tv now.

Her father said two of the three drinks she was accused of “stealing” were about to be thrown out.

Too many places throw out perfectly good food and that should be a crime.

There’s an app “too good to go” that lets you buy some discounted food at EOD, and there’s probably other similar things out there.

Where I used to work at a supermarket, I made friends with the deli guy and got a lot of food before it was thrown out. Management didn’t like it, of course.

I could see that being compelling. Proud that you survived oppression or whatever. But it doesn’t really apply to the us, which is what this topic is focused on.

I don’t think I’ll get it. Maybe if it’s on deep discount on PC eventually, and it doesn’t have horrible DRM, and the reviews are good.

I didn’t really like gta5 that much. It’s very on rails / Simon-says in a lot of the stories. I guess they’re going for something cinematic. I’d rather have something more like an immersive sim.

I think it feels fiddly to people who already know a thing or two about mechanics, but most of the fiddliness can easily be ignored or barely paid attention to and you can still manage to play and have fun.

I mean, this is true, but if you ignore enough rules you’re essentially playing a different game. I talked to someone once who “played DND” but didn’t use skills or spell slots, and I think they just let casters interpret spells based on the names. That’s so different it’s arguably a different game. Or at least as different as a Chihuahua and a husky.

. It’s a lot easier to just hit straight brick walls in games like pathfinder or shadow run where the player is so lost they just can’t play.

I agree with this, but note those systems are far more crunchy than DND. Something like Fate goes in the other direction, and I think is why it’s better for fast games.

Though as an aside, a downside of Fate is it’s so open it can cause a tyranny of the blank page effect. DND puts you in a pretty small box, and that can be helpful for people. The small decision space is a positive for some kinds of players. Though if you were doing Fate, you could just tell people to pick from some core ideas similar to character classes.

but 5e is pretty damn good at it while also being popular enough that people have heard of it and are interested in trying. That last part is just as important as being technically good on paper.

This is also undeniable. Someone who’s going to half-ass it will drag down a game in any system.

I think we agree more than we disagree for what it’s worth. Check out Fate though. It’s free ( https://fate-srd.com/ )

Its perfectly reasonable for someone to be proud of where they come from because the overall experience there shaped them as a person in what they consider a net positive.

It’s not “perfectly reasonable” to be proud of that. It’s common, but the whole dispute here is people saying that it is unreasonable.

Many people consider a personal accomplishment of some sort a prerequisite for feeling proud. Being born somewhere is not that. You can see other people in this thread rejecting being proud of a sports team they don’t play for.

(There’s also pride like LGBT pride, but that’s more of an explicit rejection of being told to be ashamed. And surviving while queer is something of an accomplishment.)

Renting a car is very expensive, and I think they can check your driving record?

There’s no song, novel, or individual that is created without outside influence and in the vast majority of cases that influence comes from a village/city/country. You literally wouldn’t exist as the person you know if you were born somewhere else.

This is true but seems irrelevant to the point. You wouldn’t exist without the sun, but no one’s out being proud of the sun.

Because being a citizen of that country/city means you are inherently responsible for and add to the culture of said country/city.

A lot of the flag waving types I’m thinking of, the maga hats et al, are making the country worse. If only they were responsible (as in, accountable).

Being proud of something you had no part in creating always seemed weird to me.

Write a novel. Perform a song. Win a race. Makes sense to be proud.

Happen to be born someplace? Big fucking deal. Most of the people who go on about being proud of the US are going out of their way to make it worse

I guess that’s fine.

It’s by design.

This is true. However,

It’s just meant for more casual play, that’s all.

It’s kind of bad at that goal. It’s really fiddly and full of friction points. What bonus do you get for 16 strength? Why do they insist on keeping that mapping.

I’ve had to kick people for just refusing the learn what dice to roll after months of sessions.

Further evidence of it not actually being great at casual play.

Which leads me to

5e is a great gateway drug to get people into TTRPGs

Counter argument: it’s actually really bad at that. It’s so specific and idiosyncratic it pushes people away. Uncountable players just bounce off the whole genre because their first impression is fiddly “what does 15 strength mean again?” and “sorry, you can’t fit your cool idea into this class/level system”

Fate Core or Accelerated would be much more in line with how people think about this sort of stuff.