I get that by calling attention to it, Trump increases the odds of an attack though.

Yeah that’s really the whole of it. They’re not trying to get smart professional people to shoot their enemies. They want to get impulsive people. That person isn’t likely to go look up these things but if they get the idea put in front of them they might act

I really really hope that one of these days these doge dweebs are going to do something like this, and security just shoots them dead. Musk too if we’re lucky.

Maybe, maybe. But the way stochastic terrorism works is you just roll the dice against long odds over and over and eventually someone does what you’re suggesting.

Posting about it on social media seems to be thinly veiled stochastic terrorism

I highly recommend using a guide if you’re not extremely chill about missing stuff.

I also realized partway through I really dislike pathfinder 1e, so i just started cheating, and then lost interest.

It would be funny (in a way) if a handful of pro-nazis mistakenly showed up and then got the shit kicked out of them or something

I feel like social media has definitely made things worse. Stupid people can find each other and make each other more stupid. Start whole “flat earth” or “anti-vaxx” groups and conventions. Before social media, you might have a couple idiots in your office or village, but they’d typically be surrounded by more average people who could level them out.

I think the right wing has also been trying to defund education, which isn’t helping. ( For example, https://www.propublica.org/article/idaho-deteriorating-schools-repair-bonds )

There was also a disaster in how reading was taught in the US for the past 20 years, so a lot of kids didn’t really get taught to read well. ( https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ , if you’re interested )

is the joke there’s no diagram, or did the image just not load for me (firefox browser)

True. Kingmaker, if I recall, had a lot of weird “aha! You didn’t return to this particular forest on this particular day, so now you don’t ever get to meet this key character! No, there wasn’t any foreshadowing!”

That was kind of annoying.

Foreshadowing helps a lot.

I posted in another thread about this somewhere, but the original’s D&D 3.x ruleset was bizarre and, frankly, awful. I don’t want to play that again.

A larian-style turn based RPG could be interesting, if the system was solid. But I feel like there’s still this lingering idea that players don’t want complexity, despite the continuous success of Larian. But maybe disney is looking to aim higher? Meh.

This sounds like sort of monkey’s paw shit.

“I wish we’d tax the rich.”

“Granted. And the money will be used for weapons, not education, healthcare, infrastructure, and all that stuff you were thinking but didn’t specify.”

yeah, but in those players’ defense that is the norm in video games. Most people hate timed quests!

Sometimes it’s funny when tabletop RPG players expect the game to behave like a video game.

GM: “The nearby town sent a message that a swarm of zombies is coming down the haunted mountain for them! They need help!”

PCs: “Cool. But let’s finish that mushroom side quest first, and then we gotta help our wizard buddy get his new broom tuned up.”

GM: “…okay.”

<two in-game days later>

PCs: “Ok, what do we see when we get to that town?”

GM: “Seems like everyone’s dead. Looks a swarm of zombies or something came down from the mountain and ate everyone alive or something, maybe a day or two ago.”

PCs: <confused, shocked>

Also I believe I found the related source: https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2025/attorney-general-james-secures-1675-million-doordash-cheating-delivery-workers

I didn’t see anything on a quick read about how they came up with these numbers, or if there are any more serious penalties. Seems like a pretty light penalty.

I was going to say the same. But I think there’s a big difference between a band (art) and like the startup tshirts I’ve accumulated as “free swag” over the years (not art).

A band is cool and human expression. Some website that sells ads in emails is capitalist nonsense.

Been living in NYC for (oh no I’m old) many years. No car. No complaints.

People imagine “the city” is all times square on New Year’s Eve but it’s not. The streets are rarely empty, but it’s also almost never shoulder to shoulder dense.

I find the suburban emptiness depressing, personally. I like other people being around.

I’m pretty sure cities are like as old as history. They certainly go back a while https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_continuously_inhabited_cities

Wage theft is bigger than all other theft, but far fewer people are dragged onto the sidewalk and strangled to death for it. Maybe that should change.

If billionaires were building libraries and colleges and such, they wouldn’t be so bad. Still bad, but at least we’d be getting something.

Today’s ultra rich are more into bunkers and are just soulless, selfish, and frankly kind of stupid.

I don’t understand why people believe the republicans are good at the economy. They lose a ton of money and give most of the benefits to the rich. They eat the seed corn by gutting the foundations of society. Sure, you can save a little money now by cutting that pesky “free college tuition” thing but then you’re going to pay for that in other ways.