barrbaric [he/him]

It’s fine so long as everyone’s on board with PC death, but this is just an example of D&D struggling to hold onto a giant audience with conflicting views. If they get rid of death, the people who actually play D&D the way it’s meant to be played get pissed off. If they don’t, the more narrative-focused players (who really shouldn’t be playing D&D in the first place) will get pissed off. So they just ignore it.

July 26th 2020, a day that will live on in infamy as the first day of Hexbear.

Fate watch order is really simple, actually: don’t watch any of it.

Yeah that’s what I mean by it mostly just ending up as a plot twist and not being explored fully. It’s too bad, really, but it’s still one of the better isekai’s for not just being “generic anime boy in dragon quest land with X special item/skill/mom”.

You can always just pirate and have a copy of it stored locally.

This is why you’re still level 3 while Eternal Demigod Jaff Bayzoz is level 36, you gotta get on that #adventuregrindset.

The “reborn as babies” thing is a plot twist in that spider isekai, and it makes some of the cast pretty weird. It’s a decent show but I don’t know if I’d recommend it.

Huh, for some reason I’d just assumed pasta had milk or butter or something mixed in with the flour but apparently not (for the boxes in my cupboard anyway). Perfect example, comrade!

The main thing for me is laziness. I hate cooking, and it’s difficult to have lower active prep time than eg throwing a frozen pizza in the oven and walking away. Naturally, none of the prepared/frozen vegan meals near me are even remotely as cheap as the carnist ones. This is why I support enforced veganism: with the proper policies (eg turning meat subsidies into lentil subsidies) vegan options would be way cheaper.

Anyway, since you offered advice, do you know of any dinners that would take 5 minutes or less active prep time? Again, and I cannot stress this enough, I hate cooking.

Yeah, I’m divided on veganism.

I support mandatory enforced veganism but am not currently vegan.

Oh so now you believe the CIA?

The Foundation TV series. No, it’s not a movie, but it’s so bad I feel it should count anyway.

How odd, I thought the ideal person under capitalism was an independent agent in the free market who placed personal profit over all, and yet when workers do it it’s suddenly wrong. Curious.

China made the volcel police real??! 🤯

It’s largely the active sort imo. It’s night and day since we reverted from our custom algorithm.

Hmm yes I will decouple my economy from China

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Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus

Do you have any actual proof that the profit motive has any positive links to innovation, or are you just taking it for granted? The first cell phone was invented in the USSR, and Frederick Banting sold the patent for insulin for $1, to name two counter-examples. What innovations have come from the profit motive?

Likewise, I doubt the claims of market efficiency. 10% of Americans were food insecure in 2021. Hundreds of thousands are homeless. To me, this is a drastic failing of resource allocation in the richest country on earth. When push came to shove during WWII, even the US ran their war industry as a command economy because corporate graft could not be tolerated in an existential crisis. Socialist countries consistently outperform similar capitalist nations; compare Cuba to any other Caribbean nation (or even China to India; while I assume we would disagree about what China’s doing, I think we would agree that it’s more government-directed than US-style “free-market capitalism”).

I’m curious what would justify whether something should be nationalized to you. Surely it’s not just to do with profitability, as you give healthcare as an example. Is it to do with how essential something is? If it’s the latter, then surely that would justify the nationalization of food, decommodification of housing, etc.

To your point of “regulate businesses to ensure good behavior”, surely you must realize the reason we don’t already have those regulations are that private businesses bribe politicians to prevent such regulations.

That’s fine. The government can give subsidies for low income people or subsidize some products directly.

Why should we give money to rich parasites that contribute nothing when we could just nationalize their “business” and run it at a loss? Why must everything have a profit motive?