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Dear god. Listen to yourself.
Like, straight up, if you're playing apologetics for a fucking cop who sexually assaulted someone by trying to well-akshually rape, you need to deeply probe your motivations there. Because I promise you, you don't have good ones.
That's what we get when we have a punishment system, rather than a justice system. This guy has had his feel bad, so everyone's square!
Public safety? No thank you! We're here to trade mildly reduced visual clarity for an eye!
I mean, that's fine if you live in a place that has those kinds of amenities. In some places, Loblaws is cheapest.
Canada has many food deserts.
Member co-op grocery stores used to be cheaper than the private, corporate stores, but they came with that barrier to entry that kept many people away. And the corporate stores continued to build capital, so they could afford better locations, more convenient parking, etc. Now, co-ops are niche, and need to operate as specialty stores because they were squeezed out of the market.
We could have affordable grocery co-ops again, but it would take a lot of blood, sweat, and tears at this point.
Cool. You... don't have to use it, or any sites that leverage it. But the Fediverse is an open network, and to that extent it should be able to support everyone's needs. But if we want the Fediverse to be anything other than an internet enthusiast circlejerk, rather than a backbone technology for the internet, then supporting a wide variety of use cases is necessary.
It claims that diversity among dragonkind is reductionist?
Yeah, I got a couple paragraphs in and couldn't take any more. It was incoherent noise from someone whose personal dragon fantasy comes from being scared of them as a toddler.
I love it when the meteors hit just right.
Yes, but a long ass time ago. What's happening here is that he's not getting his way over something, or he's gone and done something that we haven't heard about that will stain the company and he was removed, or he was told his farts still smelled, and he threw a tantrum.
This has all of the hallmarks of a billionaire baby being told "no" over something for the first time in a while.
Have you seen the installed customer base? An independent publisher would be extremely hard pressed to walk away from that.
We have seen branching out since the OGL fiasco, though, which is nice. More system neutral or OSR versions of modules and statblocks, or multi-system statblocks.
With a large enough test, you could provide several adventures, several systems even (there's zero reason to make the claim specifically about one commercial product when TTRPGs are a whole hobby category), with or without snacks, in a controlled environment, with a set roster of GMs. It would just take many thousands of participants over years to run the study.
No, then you have many compounding and interacting variables. Maybe it's free snacks that improve mental health. Maybe it's the features of the room. Maybe it's specific adventures.
Even with large numbers, experiments need some controls. You either need to know the context details so you can account for them, or ensure they're the same across all observations.
At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if "checking the tractor" just involved knocking on the window and shining a light in, menacingly.