the_toast_is_gone @ the_toast_is_gone @lemmy.world

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How long will this farce go on?

I think it depends on the amount of fun you have. There's a difference between "I grinded for 30 hours to get this item, I felt pulled into doing it and now I'm 6 hours late for work" addictive fun, "I played for 30 hours on and off, it was such a relaxing experience" chill tf out fun, and "I played for 30 hours, I broke my controller from gripping it too hard and my heart was pounding the whole time" hardcore action fun. It's tough to gauge a game just on how much time it takes to complete.

There was a period of time that you couldn't discuss absolutely anything on the Internet without being called a cuck for some bizarre reason. Oh, you drink coffee? Enjoy your Starcucks. Oh, it's a soy latte? Well that makes you a soycuck and thus you are a double cuck!

It got old fast.

How often do more ethical businesses swoop in to rent out the spaces formerly occupied by indentured servitude corporations? If these businesses aren't replaced by something, what will the people formerly working there do for an income?

A lot of people simply don't because they can't. It's absurdly expensive because the system isn't designed for people to pay for it out of pocket. If someone doesn't have insurance, they'll either beg the hospital for mercy or ignore the medical debt because it doesn't count against your credit score. Even if they do have insurance, it often doesn't cover a portion of the cost, the insurance is extremely expensive, or both. The people with quality insurance through their employer have it good, but the system expects everyone to have that privilege.

I'm in a group game right now that's in the third act of Gatewalkers, and my own game is going to be homebrew. I considered getting the Kingmaker module for Foundry since I already have a license - I got it so my friend could GM Warhammer Fantasy RP for us - but my eyes watered at the $120 price tag for the Kingmaker module.

Love me some Pathfinder. I'm gearing up for a solo game right now.

I said "we can change that" and I believe that. Let's start promoting other TTRPGs wherever we can. How is that defeatist?

First, Alex Jones's trial was a civil matter. The families of the Sandy Hook victims took issue with him and took him to court of their own initiative. This is a criminal matter. This involves people being tried and jailed by a foreign country over laws of which they were potentially unaware. That is a significant escalation of the situation.

Second, no country has the right to tell citizens of other countries what they can do in their home countries. That's nonsense. Allowing the UK to extradite random people over Internet comments would set an awful precedent for the future. If a right-wing extremist became PM and made it illegal to promote gender-affirming therapy online, would it be right for him to extradite US citizens for "causing physical or psychological harm"?

Here's a longer excerpt from the interview. In the words of the police chief at about 1:40: "And whether you're in this country, committing crimes on the streets, or further afield committing crimes online, we will come after you."

"Being a keyboard warrior does not make you safe from the law. You can be guilty of offences of incitement, of stirring up racist hatred. There are numerous terrorist offences regarding the publishing of material. All of those offences are in play, if people are provoking hatred and violence on the streets, and we will come after those individuals just as we will physically confront on the streets the folks who are causing the problems for communities."

I didn't pick up on the word "extradite," but the wording means either they're going after anyone in the world who commits a crime against their laws, or they're only going after UK citizens. Either way, this nonsense is what you get when there is no First Amendment.

Maybe their AI guy they're hiring can code up a thing that'll let their overworked (and soon to be fired) writers/formatters automatically cross-reference actions, spells, etc. without having to manually do it. That might actually be a good use case for it.

Oh no wait, when they do that they'll just have the LLM write the entire book for them so no writers needed.

Brand recognition, probably. Everyone outside the hobby has heard of D&D but none of them have heard of Pathfinder or Savage Worlds or whatever.

We can change that, though!

It would be easier to change the educational system, but our society has grown so gluttonous for shortcuts that I can't recommend the easy way here.

If one parent dies, that's tragic. The surviving parent should seek support from friends and family to raise the child. If both parents die, that's even worse, and the kids should be placed either with their remaining family or with one willing to adopt them. That's an entirely separate apparatus.

And if we, as a society, make it a habit to offload our morality and wisdom teaching onto the schooling system, we're going to end up with no more parents at all; just breeders who ship off their kids. I'm sorry your parents were terrible, but that doesn't mean we should force every school to pick up a curriculum for everything.

Socially responsible, not criminally responsible. If I'm a parent and my kids are hanging out with another family, and I find out that my kid keeps getting smacked around by the other family's kids, then I'm not gonna bring my kid over to that family any longer. Sucks to be them. Same deal here. If we start discouraging people from atomizing into the smallest possible family units so they can spend more time together, it'll reduce demand for real estate, power consumption, all sorts of things. It's how we've lived for centuries, fleeing your state the minute you turn 18 isn't something that was done much until recently.

Mostly I'm just annoyed at books that are inaccurately titled and people who expect schools to teach children absolutely everything.

I do want a better experience for children, and I will gladly support them. This is partly a cost of living problem, but just as much a problem is people tuning out and deciding not to raise their kids any longer; you can see this from the entire genre of videos online where teachers talk about how Gen Alpha is barely literate, if that.

That's the problem. If parents didn't suck, we wouldn't have this genre of nonfiction.

Oh, I know I want good parents. That much is painfully obvious. If my worst problem was that I was bored with my life, that would be great.

But again, where does it end? We need to draw the line somewhere and start holding people accountable for how they raise their kids. We need families to unite and provide for children however they can, even if that just means grandma watches them play when they're home. Any little bit helps. We're so atomized in America that maintaining a healthy family structure, much less raising children effectively, is difficult. The end result is that teachers are struggling to keep up and becoming burnt out. It would be better for everyone if people could just teach their children non-academic stuff instead of expecting someone else to do it for them.

The best question I can ask is, where does it end? Where do the responsibilities of the school (state or private) end and where do the responsibilities of the parent begin? If we start including everything under the sun for schooling, then eventually schools are going to completely take the role of parents in children's lives. We need to draw the line somewhere, and we need to start holding families accountable for treating their kids poorly.

And renaming the books to "Things my parents should have taught me."

Actually, I don't want everyone to have parents like me. My parents divorced when I was too young to remember why and neither has explained why it happened. I want parents to actually teach their children how to live healthy lives. School has its place, but if you want school to teach children everything, then you might as well send them to boarding schools the minute they can string together coherent sentences.