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I don't know where gamers' hard-on for Valve comes from. They're a monopolist software developer whose biggest product is a middle-man DRM platform masquerading as a game library utility. Their whole schtick is increasing the cost of your games, and limiting your right to access those games how, when, and where you want. Yet somehow, they're the darling of the gaming scene.

It's fucking bizarre.

I can't wait until someone shuts this prick up.

The thing that is surprisingly hard to keep in mind is that the US is a culturally fascist country. It has been for a very long time. It's what a fascist democracy looks like.

It is a country with long standing and broadly shared and accepted foundational mythology. It glorifies the military, and the "All American" young adult. There's a strong cult of tradition, a deep distrust of learning and knowledge, and firm belief in the United States as a country and people of "action". Despite their own claims to the contrary, they believe that disagreement with the US is betrayal, particularly on the part of people who arr not white and born of white US citizens. They always have an external enemy (and often an internal one, too) to judtify any action. They have contempt for countries and peoples they see as weak, and a huge hard-on for machismo.

American exceptionalism, which is taught to every school child in the country, is a fascist doctrine.

You can go down the list of fascist qualities outlined in Ur-Fascism and see that the US has always ticked off a large majority of them. The only thing that's different today is that Americans are confronting someone trying to turn it into a disctatorship.

It's not the fascism that bothers people about the current shift, but the governing structure the current fascist-in-chief is trying to impose.

This is a wild quote, because it's still trying to apply a lens that is focused on economic decision making.

Trump never pays his bills. He thinks paying people for their work or products is what suckers and losers do. He actively steals from people, and he thinks it's the smartest thing he does.

He thinks the US is wrong for paying for what it buys. Nothing more complicated than that.

Ugh, not another Discor... Wait, someone's actually using Matrix in this context? Amazing!

What is the baseline for this thing that it's labeling CNN "left"? It's practically the dictionary definition of centre-right.

It's also green accents, for PDFs. Particularly look to the "Second Edition" tag in tag in the upper right corner. Those are the ORC books.

That's not what's happening. People weighing in on the political situation, airing their concerns, or trying to highlight issues that aren't being reported on aren't the ones being called out here. It's the "but I'm one of the good ones" comments that have been peppered into every discussion on non-US-centric communities.

Whether you're one of the good ones or not is immaterial. It's contributing nothing. It's just people trying to make the discussion about them.

Welcome aboard! We're a small community here, but active. Please feel free to pepper us with questions.

It, uh, helps with community visibility.

The green-trimmed 'x Core' books are replacements for the red/tan-trimmed books. They're fundamentally the same, with some language changes, class touch-ups, and minor rule updates. The mapping from old books to replacement books is:

• Core Rulebook -> Player Core
• Advanced Players Guide -> Player Core 2
• Gamemastry Guide -> GM Core
• Monster Core -> Bestiary

It's worth keeping in mind that the contents of all of the rule books is available for free in multiple places online, most famously on the Archives of Nethys website, but also piecewise on pf2easy.com.

I wish the co-op grocery stores were still around here. They got pushed out of the cities years ago.

Plenty in smaller communities around the province, but Loblaws' and Sobyes' ghetto brands are encroaching more and more.

Users that you see with an email-like suffix to their name are using different websites and are less likely to be Camadian (though, as you know/ we are everywhere). Users without the suffix (if your client omits local addressing) are on lemmy.ca and are much more likely to be Canadian.

Ooo, there's a Canadian Rexit happening? Cool! I keep my Reddit usage much more focused on niche hobby communities now, and there's zero talk of Reddit politics on those yet, sadly.