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I think it's already been mentioned that Biden openly stated he didn't think he was going to get the minimum wage through.

The again. He did also just recently openly state that he "likes children more than people"...

Well known fail tier Vulcan Romulan Klingon Ferengi, Ben Shapiro. What do you mean by this? It can be seen in poor taste to compare a jewish person to a Ferengi. I was unaware. Ben Shaprio is a person? In all seriousness though, we both know that it was a criticism of Shapiro personally, and one th...

In seriousness, when our PM did that while the country was on fire, he too tried the "Look I don't hold a hose" excuse There are... so many extra things about that because our current PM never met a Train wreck he couldn't smash 5 more trains into. But I'll restrain myself to adding these...

Lets not even consider Spock. Machiavelli would condemn Cruz for doing it wrong. He was really big on at least going to the effort of appearing to do the right thing being a major part of this sort of job. In interesting news, I've seen this argument that Cruz shouldn't be expected to do anything el...

You know what I meant. Don't be fucking disingenuous. Don't you be disingenuous. I'd have hoped my example of the actual context you were demanding being in public here would let you understand that it happens with more than one sort of audience. There is nothing limiting the masturbatory fantasy a...

Omegonthesane wrote:Wanking to your supposedly possible character optimisation is a private affair

Private? Context?

It just now happened right here.

In front of everyone.

Loudly and proudly.

The audience, for instance, this audience, is part of the fantasy.

Didn't Harshax want to basically amend the constitution in order to embarrass Republicans for how they voted on impeachment? But now he doesn't like the barest minimum effort that would have made the impeachment not an obvious farce to non-partisan observers? What am I missing here? edit: No wait, o...

So yeah, the Senate should have called witnesses, a thing that would not have interfered in passing the one law they are going to pass all year. I mean this is the thing really. I don't think they should have gone with impeachment at all, they should be getting things actually done. But since they ...

And I bet my dad could totally beat up your dad a 20 Wiz/20 Fighter/20 Outsider HD/19 Divine Ranks/who-cares-what-they-selected. What with my dad being my 15th level "Optimized" character that never did the sub optimal mistake of adding 20 levels of a character class, 20 HD of monster and ...

Wait... does Harshax think he is the one proposing radical change in the strategy of the Democrats rather than just another weirder and stupider form of the same fail strats of worthless token maneuvers founded in there being "Decent Republicans" and Republican voters who care about hypocr...

Look the Democrats have been (firmly) losing "the long game" for a long enough time now that one has to ask, is their "plan" to be successful next century? And also who the fuck still falls for "long game" excuses? It's been rather a number of decades now, that shouldn'...

But because you don't explore the planet until "when you activate the system," the sleeper gets placed during/as part of the activation. I think that means the system doesn't contain a sleeper when you activate it, which means you don't "activate a system with a sleeper," which ...

The function of the various things you are calling "setting police" is not to enforce the status quo. No, their function is to maybe be defeated by PCs, if the PCs are the right level and care enough to take the risk/cost. In the mean time they really do enforce the setting norms, on othe...

That's because you keep thinking that setting police are by some internal definition automatically and inherently "the bad ones" and not just NPCs policing a setting. You keep conflating execution and function, not just in what you are saying, but rather clearly in how you even understand ...

NPCs shouldn't enforce the status quo. There's no reason to. If the party wants to change it, why can't they? You don't realise it. But what you are stupidly saying is that no NPCs should ever oppose the party. You still haven't grasped that the problem with setting police isn't them existing, isn'...

Are you seriously trying to conflate low level mooks with the types of powerful NPCs I'm complaining that that is what you are doing by declaring their function to be a problem because you wanted to glibly answer "all of the above". The problem with setting police isn't that there are pol...

Are you complaining about the specific NPCs, or the functions they perform, or the execution of it? Yes to all. So, for instance, you are complaining about the very function of setting police NPCs as being bad. Minus the bad execution, minus the specific examples given, NPCs policing settings are a...

I thought I made this clear in the OP, but I guess not... This thread is about official NPCs in published settings that exist either to preserve the status quo and/or dick the players over. I listed a few examples in the OP and was curious if anyone had any other examples. The problem is "DMPC...

If this is just a thinly veiled thread to complain about bad settings in general with a focus on Planescape I'm all for it. I always thought Plainscape is a wildly over rated setting and arguably right up there as one of the worst, possibly the single worst, official D&D setting ever created. Bu...

I don't like the term DMPC. And not just because it sounds like something invented by a child that didn't even know what an NPC or a DM actually is. My main problem is that people who use the term often use it to conflate various problems into an amorphous mass of pointless confusion. I'd go through...

I'm old. I'm "familiar" with these old shows They were endlessly rerun when I was a kid. I watched I Dream of Jeanie when I could and avoided Bewitched like any real man has. I'm not proud to say it, because she has far too much explaining to do, but I have even once or twice laughed at Lu...

I'll give you my attempt at a quick take on the first four episodes, trying to be minimally spoilery (like you can spoil this). 1) Bad old show knock off, maybe a hint something is (oh no) not right? 2) Bad old show knock off, maybe a hint something is (oh no) not right? 3) Bad old show knock off (n...

So. Wandavision its fucking bad right? Its a real waste of some pretty OK actors who are trying to act pretty hard there, you can almost see their acting bone break on screen they are trying to carry this crap so hard. It's masturbatory dumdum mystery box writing made by and for dumdums. It's bad. I...

They already maintain a community rules wikki, that IS at least very slightly different to the most recent publisher released official rules document. (I think?) the rules Gurus DO gain clout for maintaining it. That and I think at least one of them either has at least once met a game designer, or r...

Correctly identifying what the rules explicitly say is irrelevant to them Well, I think this is fairly obvious in large part from the way one of their major defenses, unsolicited, is to constantly rant about how they don't think hard formal rules are good things. It's somewhat of a give away when s...