SolOrion @ SolOrion @sh.itjust.works

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I agree that we have a two tiered justice system.

I don't really agree that this is an example of that.

A: homie isn't walking free. He's in prison waiting to hear exactly how long he'll be in prison.

B: The thing with poor people getting gaps between verdict and sentencing is only a thing because of the scale of crimes involved. Someone rich is going to need to commit way more significant crimes that will require more in depth consideration for the punishment.

If a rich person commits a minor crime they'll almost certainly manage to get off. A poor person is almost certainly going to get a verdict and an immediate sentencing.

Welcome to capitalism, where making insane amounts of profit isn't good enough unless it's 5% more insane than it was last year.

Cool seeing this sort of thing on Lemmy! Hope it gets traction.

I already own this game, though, so I do not want to enter.

Honestly I think the part of this that surprises me is that he got fired for this.. in the 1980s.

I wonder if there's an ask historians thread on exactly when racism became "denormalized", if that's a word.

Basically just a list of topics the DM and the players might be uncomfortable with or just not tolerate.

A lot of people use 'lines and veils' where a line is a hard no and a veil is fine as long as it's happening offscreen.

As an example, as the DM I would have sexual assault down as a line. I just don't want it in my games. A veil would be something where it can happen and be referenced but not occur in front of us or be overly dwelled on. I'd have sex in general as a veil as well as things like torture. I'm just not comfortable enough with those topics to roleplay them actively.

Okay yeah I see it now thanks.

I don't, what is this a reference to?

Fabricate would work fantastically, and I think you're underestimating the amount of money you can make with some craftsman stuff.

People will pay a lot for well done custom made stuff. Knives, swords, furniture.. all of it is worth a sizable amount once you have any kind of reputation and start taking commissions. I mean thousand dollar chandeliers and multiple thousand dollar tables.

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No shit.

The solution there is that ideally no human is allowed to make a mistake significant enough to have any impact.

If Bob the nuclear engineer does something fucking stupid, but there's an automated failsafe that resolves the problem.. was there really that big of a problem?

This issue is.. that stuff gets expensive quick.

..beers? 4-5 beers over the course of a night is fine. Especially if you're a larger person. I'm a pretty big dude and unless I'm shotgunning them I can drink 2-3 beers and barely be tipsy.

I don't even drink often, either.

Now if it's every night or something there might be an issue.

It would require a constitutional amendment to outright ban guns, and our Congress can't agree on year to year budgeting. Getting the required votes to ban guns would be functionally impossible. Honestly even if it didn't require an amendment I don't think it would be realistically passed as a regular law.

So: banning guns outright is off the table entirely.

More gun controls always seemed to be approached in an incredibly stupid way- they tend to ban the scary things rather than the dangerous things.

So many gun laws are just fucking stupid. Tons of stuff is banned because it looks scary.

SBRs being illegal is pretty dumb.

Anyone that asks "how bad could the pirate necromancers be" is clearly not a Warhammer Fantasy fan.

I will now be that guy:

tracts*

Basically every modern cartridge is supersonic unless they're specifically underpowered to make them subsonic.

The smallest thing you're going to regularly encounter is .22 LR- for context this is the kind of thing you'd use to hunt very small animals- and even that straddles the line of super/subsonic.

Basically what I'm getting at is that it doesn't need a "large gun".

I was actually fine not knowing holy shit that's nightmare fuel.

Pueblo villages are the other side of the country afaik. I'd like to see one, but I'm not driving two or three days straight for it.

I haven't heard of effigy mounds before, though, that's really cool.

That's fair. In the UK if you wanna see some old stuff you can just.. go see some old stuff.

Meanwhile my entire town(and actually the majority of the state lol) barring like three houses was burned quite literally to the ground during the civil war so nothing predates that.