Piracy and open source projects are the best way to weaken the tech oligarchy.

I can think of some other ways. Some of them don’t even involve plumbing!

A member of the general public can’t issue a citation.

My lawyer tells me it’s a “crime” to smash the windows of an illegally parked car. Even if they’re double parked in the bike lane.

Awakening 2nd edition is pretty sweet, but it’s not exactly speedy. I do enjoy the mini game of figuring out exactly how many dice I feel comfortable giving up for my bonuses, though.

But yeah, my most recent game is a purely street level situation. Recent events include

• killing an AI music CEO because fuck that noise
• killing a nimby lady, a dirty lawyer, and dirty assemblyman as part of a favor exchange
• agreeing to help a spooky but friendly old lady try to get her church back from a grifter (this will probably involve murder)
• agreed to supply a “maybe a mad scientist?” guy that’s been working on animating the dead with bodies. (They provided two deceased dead cops)

There sure is a lot of murder in this game, though.

And the people who run this shit need to go to jail. I’m sure a lot of them would rat out their corrupt buddies for a reduced sentence.

Poster makes a meme about Mage, a decidedly non-dnd game. Replies are all DND anyway. The RPG hobby, everyone.

Anyway, my current game has a similar problem. Blowing up a data center with a car bomb, killing a dozen construction workers and cops: sleep.

Letting a video of the PCs shrugging off multiple close range gunshots go online: real shit

There’s that political cartoon that’s like two people on bikes through a beautiful downtown, and one says to the other “If anyone tried to add bike lanes like this back home, I’d murder them”

Good. I look forward to a future where people who fought transit have their lives improved by it, even if they’re too small minded and foolish to recognize it.

I went back to windows for a little bit a couple years ago because when I tried to install mint on the new desktop, Ethernet WiFi and HDMI didn’t work. I tried some fixes but it was a real shit show.

After a little while on windows, I went with pop!_os , which worked out of the box

They’re not smart or visionary. They’re just rich. They sell us a myth that they’re titans but it’s a lie.

It’s all projection. They have poor empathy and poor critical thinking, so they think everyone is basically like them. That wouldn’t necessarily be a problem, except they’re also a bunch of toxic submissive types that will always yield to perceived authority.

They’re shit people. Failures to live up to human potential.

I don’t think so. I think it looked like a normal rectangle flash drive, but with some buttons on one side.

Oh! It was the creative nomad muvo, the model without the screen. Looking online it was actually two pieces- the flash drive part slid onto the audio part? Man, it’s been a while.

Maybe around 2003? It was a weird little device that was also an MP3 player. It had a headphone jack, play/pause/next/prev, and that was it. Was like 128mb and played mp3s in order they were written to the device, I think.

I thought it was really cool, but maybe not my best purchase.

Nationally, 66% of young people ages 18-29 voted for a Democratic candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives, compared to 31% for a Republican candidate (NORC Civic Health & Elections Project).

There’s always this ~30% insane floor. Like, about a third of the population are just broken in their heads. I don’t know how you can run a society indefinitely like that.

They don’t care about facts. They just say stuff for the effect. Which is a kind of stupid but maybe also just a different thing, something broken in their soul.

One of life’s paradoxes is that supposedly very smart people often do the dumbest things. The leadership of the Big Tech & AI companies are a case in point

I don’t accept the premise that the leadership of these companies is smart. Not in a broad sense.

I work at a multinational mega Corp, but not one you’ve probably heard of. I am very disengaged.

For one thing, I’m technically a “contractor”. I have to go to all the meetings, but I don’t technically work for them. They give me the legal minimum of paid time off, but only after I looked up what my rights are and fought them for it. They don’t pay for holidays. They say “have a nice Thanksgiving” and then dock me two days pay.

The pay is insulting. I’m making less than I made ten years ago.

There’s no technical leadership. These people are supposed to be doing python. They don’t know what unit tests are. They barely know how imports work. Trying to change everything is a months long battle and emotion massaging exercise. The people in charge don’t understand or care.

They do love AI though. Lots of AI generated code. They don’t understand it but it looks so slick. Vomit.

So fuck them. I used to go out of my way to fix problems and promote good practices. Not anymore. I hope the upper management and owners suffer.

They’re probably not even renewing contractors past the end of the year anyway.

Back in like 2016 I got a game of vampire going. I pitched it to two non-ttrpg friends as “what if you’re vampires but the head vampire in the city is basically Donald Trump…”. 100% player retention.

Game ran for like two years. Lots of blood. We still talk about how the highlights.

I got a mod where your wife survives and you can find her early on. It was pretty sweet.

Failure has to be the player’s fault.

I was going to say “they have to have low random factors” but I realized that’s the same thing. Dying to a random crit in a souls-like would be infuriating