The Gaming Den

If I tell a person quite clearly I reject that framing and they continue to insist on using it. Sashi's continued insistence on likening the relationship to a parent and child confirms over and over again that this is how they see it as well. No I am not insisting on using it nor have I ever said t...

We are not allies! You have made it very clear that you consider me a political tool who is currently useful to you because you believe joining a union would improve your material condition and I support unions. You are a ladder puller who would happily throw me under the bus for the slightest benef...

Sashi I explained my framing of the government in detail. Asking me a question about my position on parenting in a conversation about government is irrelevant. Especially because I don't buy into your likening the government to a parent in the first place. So until you shape that question in a way ...

I don't know why you're asking me another random question about this framing you continue wanting to use after I explicitly said I reject it. I'm asking because I want to know your framing and I am genuinely worried about why you deflected this question with increasingly incoherent rambling. This e...

I don't know why you're asking me another random question about this framing you continue wanting to use after I explicitly said I reject it. This isn't a random question, it's a very important one and the answer should be very easy, so easy that I am actively concerned you refuse to answer it. Is ...

Basically the rest can be summed to by the fact that none of these are actually tantamount to dealing with a parent and I really don't know why you'd want it to be our why you've decided this is going to be how you plant your flag. On this hill. On this tangent. You're welcome to idealize governmen...

Edit: oh yes I forgot the question was answered favorably for my argument but I should address it myself anyway. For the purposes of this conversation it really didn't matter if I split that question into two or three. The only reason I listed a bad thing at all instead of nothing v something was b...

Instead I will say I heavily disagree with that interpretation of a citizen's position to the government. I find it so bewildering that you actually, factually, buy into that way of seeing the government that I dismissed the idea without consideration that it is a thing you believe. The government ...

PS did an excellent job addressing the specific "Is Biden showing up to the strike better than a poke in the eye?" question. I do think it's childish that in the game of politics where everyone is acting in their own interest that you can assume any act of any actor that isn't in power is ...

The union gave Biden credit. It's in the article. Even if the union that credited Biden was the larger railworker's union that wouldn't matter. Your own post shows why it doesn't matter: Playing politics means dealing with people who most of time do not care about you or your cause, and at worse ag...

The Stop Cop City folks have built organizations that are capable of exercising power, and they have allies who are also capable of exercising power. Their opponents are several organizations that are also capable of exercising power, and those organizations also have allies who can exercise power....

Cops are actually scared of getting hurt and dying, they aren't a bunch of berserkers who want to get juiced up and crack the skulls of people who are fighting back. They only want to get juiced up and crack the skulls of unarmed, passively-resisting people. If you'd like evidence for this I'd poin...

When you criminalize the "right" way to support a movement like Defend the Atlanta Forest or Stop Cop City you will likely see a reduction in the number of people participating in the movement in the "right" way, but you'll also likely see an uptick in people wrecking your shit....

The police are really gambling on this. If you make donating to bail funds punishable in the same way burning a cop car is punishable you're going to see a lot more burned cop cars. Really not much of a gamble. A significant fraction of the country believe the purpose of the law is to enforce socia...

It is in the interests of the millionaires that you forget it. That way they can continue to pretend the solution is fewer bigots instead of changing incentives.

Isn't that a thesis of the Shock Doctrine? Never let a humanitarian crisis go to waste.

Yeah, their backstory and life cycle and demographics seem a mess. Honest question: what makes them such a mess? Lost, contradictory, and secret histories are a great way to give room to incorporate them into multiple settings (and also to preserve mystery even after players read the monster manual...

D&D style fire elementals just require a completely different set of (meta)physics than real life, which is fine because we can also have shadow, force, and fear elementals. It's definitely most important for elementals to have abilities that are evocative of their substance than to simply be im...

Finally watched this on streaming. Definitely agree it was nice to watch a D&D movie that was both good and didn't feel the need to explain or apologize that it was D&D. I also found it interesting what they left out. Weirdest thing is clerics and divine/healing magic. I know Forgotten Realm...

Rather than where you currently draw it. That makes werewolves and silver weapons interactions into wrong bad impossibility. ... I also like that it brings up silver bullets. A thing which in it's literal implementation, you are arguing against. Because again. EXACTLY your claims apply to silver an...

Blue light penetrates deeper into the ocean because water slightly absorbs red light, it's a completely different process from the one Stahlseele is discussing, which is about the wavelength of light relative to the material thickness. If the wavelength is much longer than the material thickness the...

Democrats probably wouldn't like his "become head of empire to help dismantle it" position, but it would be interesting to see how people respond to it. We all know empires are bad, right? The Democrat position is that empires are bad when people who aren't Democrats run them. I've been c...

I don't know pseudo code so I won't really engage with that much outside of trying to derive what your actual point is. Hey, congrats on being better with pseudocode than a computer scientist. The point of pseudocode is to be understandable, not compilable or to follow a specific syntax. PL snarkin...

The irony here is that you just made a phenomenally bad faith argument but it doesn't feel that way to you because you obfuscated it through enough willful misinterpretation.

Explain it. Properly. In your words. Sure. Let's use some pseudocode to represent fire immunity: If FireImmune = True and AttackDamageType = Fire Then Damage = 0 So we have a Pyromancer and want to give them the ability to damage fire immune targets. One way would be "Ignore Fire Immunity"...