sbv @ sbv @sh.itjust.works

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I, for one, welcome our new jiggle physics overlords.

Neat! Thanks for mentioning that.

thousands of enemies, most of which have solid gimmicks that tell you straight from the stat block how you can best run the creature

That's exactly what I want. I spent so much time looking at https://www.themonstersknow.com/ when DMing 5e. I like encounter design, but I feel like I had to work hard to make it passable, rather than work hard to make it excellent.

Exactly! Play the system everyone wants to play.

I'd love to give Shadowrun a shot at my current table, but nobody else wants it so we settled on Cyberpunk RED. I'm GM, so I can port most of the stuff I like from SR to RED. Everybody wins!

• Encounter design and balancing is easy for the busy GM
• Teamwork is highly encouraged through class and ability design

ngl, you're selling it.

Anything that improves combat is a win in my book. I've switched to Cyberpunk RED, and I'm discovering that good combat is hard to make in either system, but encouraging teamwork is a nice way to take a little load off the GM.

I sat through a couple of the Paw Patrol movies when my guys were younger. It helps if you can find a way to appreciate them for what they are.

Or sleep. I slept through the Mario movie and I think that made it way better.

Agreed. It was a fine example of a kid movie with kid actors. If you go in with low expectations, you probably won't be disappointed.

It is not a good movie, but my kids enjoyed it, so I got some vicarious pleasure out of the experience. I wouldn't watch it on my own.

I suspect if you polled the Carney voters from the last election, all but the NDP/Green ABC-crowd would be fine with these policies.

Ironically, many of the voters worried about the collapsing middle class (in the form of stagnating wages and the housing crisis) probably went with the CPC.

That's been the LPC strategy since the early 2000s. It works.

That's what many of his left-leaning detractors have said. Unsurprisingly, the central banker is a dyed in the wool neoliberal who wants to trim government spending while shoveling money towards the private sector to grow the economy. Maybe wealth will finally trickle down this time. 😅

Federally, only two parties have formed government. They change their names etc, but it's pretty close to being a two party system already.

It's fair to say other parties have had an effect (like the NDP before the last election), but they haven't gotten anywhere near forming government.

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I'd donate a bit to all of them (your home instances, and the respective devs) because you're using resources from each. But that's just me.

I've donated to development. Instances need support, but the platform won't improve without developers.

It's popular to shit on lemmy.ml and the tankie devs, but that's where most of the development and beta testing happens. It's wild that software that allows users to ignore the silliness of that instance isn't funded because of the instance.

(It's possible for devs to be distasteful enough that I wouldn't use their software, but we haven't gotten there yet with Lemmy)

Let's fucking go

The Facebook Files made – and provided evidence for – multiple allegations, including that Facebook was well aware of how toxic Instagram was for many teen girls; that Facebook has a "secret elite" list of people for whom Facebook's rules don't apply; that Facebook knew its revised algorithm was fueling rage; and that Facebook didn't do enough to stop anti-vax propaganda during Covid-19. Most damningly of all, The Facebook Files reported that all of these things were well known to senior executives, including Mark Zuckerberg.

It's clear which side Sorkin is taking. "I blame Facebook for January 6," he said last year. "Facebook has been, among other things, tuning its algorithm to promote the most divisive material possible. Because that is what will increase engagement ... There’s supposed to be a constant tension at Facebook between growth and integrity. There isn’t. It’s just growth."

Dude, this is a SFW instance. lemmynsfw.com is that way 👉

Breakfast beans? Damn. You're a bean fiend!