🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 @ ZDL @ttrpg.network

My Dearest Sinophobes:

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The North American dialects pronounce the 'r' in those words because they're rhotic dialects. Most British, Australian, and New Zealand accents don't pronounce the 'r' because they're non-rhotic dialects.

Just remember that Brits don't pronounce 'r' unless it's not there. So the phrase "Law and Order" is pronounced sorta/kinda like "law rand ohduh". The two 'r's that are actually present are not pronounced, but the linking sound between "law" and "and" is the 'r' sound. That isn't in the orthography.

And people say English is a hard language to learn! This is me scoffing!

You know it used to be Taiwan (Republic of China, properly) who was a permanent member of the Security Council, right?

I'll add to this list:

5. Consider breaking your group up into a fluid set of sub-groups that meet at scheduleable times.

I've always said it: Nobody has time for things. You make time for what you value.

If you're not making time for your hobby, you're not all that into the hobby.

There's also this version.

Most dads will have seen it, though, right?

Replace "Lemmyverse" with "the American left" and you're closer to the truth.

• The American left is against racism ... yet harbours an alarming amount of antisemitism and an increasing amount of sinophobia.
• The American left is against ageism ... directed at young people. Old people are open season.
• The American left is against religious bigotry ... except Christians. . . .

It's just tribalism cosplaying as idealism. (And it's why, for example, Chinese LGBT groups have been quietly removing themselves from interaction with American LGBTQA+ groups over the past few years.)

Let's see:

• signed up a day ago ✅
• makes a group that's guaranteed to be contentious ✅
• responds to people's contention in ways intended to egg them on ✅
• has literally no other content in profile ✅

Conclusion: Troll. Just block and move on.

Or, you know, someone knows German, since "Stollen" is a German fruit bread that anybody who's ever been to Germany in the winter will likely have seen and probably tasted as well.

Those so simple-minded they think there's only two kinds of people, and…

Yes. That's exactly how it works. 🙄

Yes. That's exactly how it works here.

🙄

Indeed.

Storage mode

Disassembled to show all pieces.

Dice tower mode.

Dice tower mode in action. (video link)

In my case because I want to avoid computers when playing, not increase my usage of them.

But of course that's because I hate computers.

I have no need for the sheer number of dice I have, but I have desire.

I got my literal gem dice (as in machined form semiprecious stones) because they were gorgeous. The same applies to my dichroic prism dice. I have my metal sets because I just like the feel of them; the heft in the hand and the satisfying thunk as they hit the dice tray from out the dice tower. I have several sets of dice because the colours appealed to me. (I tend to give these out to new players as I introduce them.) I have speciality dice (FUDGE/Fate dice, various Chinese dice, etc.) for the times I need them. And in the end it winds up with me having way more dice than I strictly speaking need.

But I regret none of them.

Nobody cares "how it works" and "what really goes on". They care about the outcomes.

And the outcomes are a festering pile of half-truths sculpted to meet a pre-defined narrative.

If I open up any news site anywhere in the world and read what it has to say on subjects I know something about, it takes little to no time to start racking up a large count of egregious errors of fact. And note here: errors of fact, not simplifications, etc. Outright incorrect information.

So when I extrapolate my findings in my own areas of expertise into the areas I lack expertise in, I have zero confidence that what I'm being told is correct or truthful.

So it doesn't matter how things work. It doesn't matter what really goes on. Whatever goes on and however it works, the output is factually incorrect and narrative-furthering. Apparently being "one of the most self-critical professions there is" isn't helping.

Time to change how things work and what goes on, no?