I mean the problem with this position is that the GOP doesn’t really need any excuse to escalate things. We’ve seen for decades now that if they can’t find real reasons to do some hateful thing they will fabricate reasons, lie outright, or simply do the thing anyway. There’s also the large historical parallel to nazi germany and Hitler. Europe tried to appease them by capitulating over and over and it got them nothing. The parallels are obvious to our current position and we can either resist as much as possible now and maybe stop things from getting that bad or we can roll over giving them what they want and things will just keep getting worse. They won’t stop because you roll over. They won’t ever have hurt people enough to satisfy them.

Quoth the liberal “Not this election cycle”

Wasn’t that what that black guy who befriended several members of the KKK and got them to quit did? I seem to remember in a documentary about him that he pretty much just talked to and listened to them. That never made much sense to me as a kid but it makes a lot of sense now.

Sign me up twice. Maybe they can share their arcane knowledge too.

It sure is a way to cling to power.

Give overspecialized parties a chance. The severe skill gaps create unique and interesting challenges for the players and forces them to interact with your NPCs in ways a well rounded party wouldn’t to overcome those gaps.

“Zeroth they came for the people I hated and I said nothing because fuck them”

Cats are lessons in consent and authoritarians hate consent.

Honestly I think engineers of all kinds can benefit from more study of biological systems. As an engineer myself, I find there’s a lot of inspiration to be gained by looking at life and understanding how it works. My primary work is controls and learning that biological muscle operates as bang bang control was mindblowing. Like look at the agility and complexity achieved by essentially a fuck load of on off actuators. It shows how far you can go with extremely simple methods and honestly helped me chill the fuck out about making everything perfect.

Here in America we have great wars, the best wars, possibly ever. We do war so well we fight on both sides, and we always win. We’re so good at war, we keep it civil. The most civil of any war, possibly ever.

This implies the billionaires actually work for their money, when in reality they don’t, they exploit the labor of others.

To be honest it’s probably all the hot trans-girls turning them down, like there’s a conspiracy or something, but hot trans-girls just don’t like conservative assholes.