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NZ govt just released its new draft "scientific" school curriculum. To replace the previous one written by teachers, this will be scientifically generated by politicians, you see. They seem to have plugged some words into an LLM and it's generated a rather colossal number of "facts&qu...

Musk has actually had women's biographies removed from government websites to do with science, like NASA. Because you know, women don't exist in STEM subject type jobs. That's the new official truth in the US. Obviously all the Black folks were removed first, and across more than STEM type stuff, hi...

Whatever happens this term, there's going to be no record of it in any details. Musk and the Heritage foundation have decided that the people who work for them can work in the government buildings, using servers that they provide instead, and therefore none of it is official government business that...

So. It turns out hateful men using hateful lies beats "oh noes, that hateful man is using hateful lies" as an election campaign, repeatedly. The New York Times (as owned by a billionaire) insists that the real problem is a lack of sucking up to billionaires. But regardless, Donald Trump wi...

Tussock the fuck are you talking about? The existence of an outright fascist party does not make the center-right party less center right. And no centrist? I could go and make an effort post explaining how there is such a thing but ddm already exists here as a living example. There are in history: ...

We don't have a left wing party in America. There's right Republican party and center right Democratic party. Sort of. You're living under the neoliberal consensus, which is lowish taxes for rich folks, minimalist but thorough regulation, the WTO, and attempts to make government nominally function ...

We don't really get the US adds and stuff overseas, I'm sort of guessing from the feel of it that the Dems got stuck in a negative campaign about how Trump would be bad (after, you know, adopting a lot of the policies Trump used while in office which they had decried at the time, like the wall, and ...

Bonded magical creature works well, they have a few supernatural and spell-like abilities from a small list for each, they go up in HD and eventually size to get higher level effects. The guy with the balls gives them extra abilities through training time and helps them level up. They need actual he...

Buzz seems pretty positive about Harris, though I had to love the accepting the ... uh, president's endorsement, speech, which was basically, I'm a cop, he's a crook. I'm a cop, he's a crook. I'm a cop, he's a crook, who you gunna vote for? Which, yeah. I guess that works. She is going to make Trump...

For the US, Trump is going to be terrible. Mainly because he wants a trade war with China, already talking up massive tarrifs and forcing other Asian countries to do the same, and like, a great deal of US industry, and therefore jobs, relies on importing low value and exporting high value shit to an...

The ruling is really, that the courts can decide if a president was doing a president thing, and if he was, by say, being a republican president, that is above the law and only the senate can remove him from office because of it, and if he was not doing a presidential thing, by say, being a democrat...

Biden is protecting US foreign interests. The interests in Israel, are that they buy US weapons, many billions of dollars worth. This is a thing, where the US state can magic up some money, and gift it to Israel, on condition that they buy weapons from the US with it. This money goes back to US arms...

Fucking hell.

The fucking thread title is right there when you post replies.

What is your favourite kind of high level "friendly" NPC?

Like, ... what is even the point. Bunch of fuckwits.

Lol. Phonelobster, did you really just suggest the problem with giving PCs things to do is that the BBEG will immediately know about that, know when and where they are, and take the time to kill them? Because, fuck that is a terrible argument. Mwahahaha, yes I teleported in when you crossed the bord...

I was positing giving the PCs something to do that the high level folk could not in fact do. It's in the bit of my post you snipped out, you dick.

It kind of makes sense for high level NPCs to be in a state of détente. Where they're regularly talking so they don't kill each other, and the talks have in fact resulted in a few peace agreements, requiring them to not wander around murdering enormous numbers of things in each other's territories. ...

Yeah, it's all over the Alexandrian articles on it. Associated is where the Wizard's brain breaks if he tries to fireball twice because he only has room for one fireball in his brain, but disassociated is where fighters hitting things a cool way can't be once per day because that makes no sense. And...

The supreme court's ruling on abortion would be funny, really, if it wasn't so tragic. Correct in that historically, all abortion was banned, but incorrect in that Roe vs Wade recognised that historical fact and fixed it in law, forbidding bans on abortion before viability. Because in history, you w...

Heh, yeah, it'd have to be always on, really. Some people just need to take a beating, and whatever the partial effect is on "if you were immune to death" on the finger of death can contribute to that, so people don't feel too bad about trying things. Like it does when you zap a Vampire wi...

I think it probably makes a better D&D game to define leaders in general, where all PCs are (at least 4th level + or so), and NPCs that are obviously in charge of a group, and like Beholders or whatever. Where leaders don't roll for morale failures, are immune to social skills, never die (or tak...

DnD solved the "you might die" problem right from the start, by giving PCs stacks of hit points, and having monsters do not enough damage to kill them in one hit, but that in turn reduced their hit points until one hit would eventually kill them. But you could see it coming, and do somethi...

Yar, the question was, how to you have save or die mechanics in these modern games with multi-hour sessions dedicated to character creation, rather than the, 3d6 in order and you're probably a fighter and you have 10 hp, welcome to dnd, of old. And I think just having random death kinda everywhere i...

Someone had a thing with the death flag. Where, nothing can kill your PC, because they're a PC, unless you think it's dramatically appropriate to risk that. Boss NPCs can have the same trick. Then, get like +4 to hit and damage and +1 attack, or -4 to opponent saves, or whatever, but you earn that b...

The thing where your feats are set by what stat you have to push to 20 to be competitive is, ... I mean, probably better than choosing stats or a feat, but it's also poorly indexed for that purpose. Like, if you're going to be a Stronk, finding out what options you really have isn't easy. Then, how ...

So by 538.com the House is 70:30 likely to go republican, and the Senate is 70:30 likely to go democrat. So, that, like, kills all the Trump inquires? Can actually put sane judges in place, not that it matters at this point. About 7-8 R majority in the house, so, maybe get basic legislation passed, ...