Yes, yes, clearly we haven't given the rich enough power. If only we gave them more, then they'd solve all our problems! Let's abdicate our responsibility to each other even harder!
That'll surely fix things this time!
Kichae
joined 2 years ago
"They hated who I hated! I didn't think they'd hate me, too!"
Not to be confused with Kitt bashing.
Would you be surprised to learn that business is actually a network of cargo cults, where the thing they're trying to superficially mimic is other businesses that don't know why they're doing what they're doing?
I work for an online edtech company that saw massive organic growth during lockdowns, and has been chasing that dragon since lockdowns were lifted. They spent millions expanding their workforce at the time, while they severely pared down their school outreach team. They made multiple moves that only made sense if you assume lockdowns would last forever.
I raised this with management a couple of times, and their only response was "everyone else was doing it, too".
Honestly, I think it's one of the most undercutting, least thought out features in piefed, that focuses entirely on the immediaye convenience of the end user over the health of the discussion groups and servers that make up the network.
It's the eating a tub of icing for supper of social media features.
Hey, do I work for you?
They're not self-aware enough to understand they are shitty fathers. Narcissists can't admit to fault or failing without taking mentall damage.
So, there's this issue that there is a significant fraction of indigenous people who aren't interested in being called Canadian, in no small part because every interaction indigenous groups have had with white Canadian institutions have been done on the white Canadians' terms.
White Canadians lobbying them to get on board the Canadian Unity train is... just more of that.
White Canadian political leaders stepping all over indigenous land and consultation rights is just more of that.
Nothing about the current discourse around national unity and inclusion is signalling that white Canada is looking for any kind of real partnership with indigenous people. It all just screams of an opportunistic shot at forcing indigenous people to get on board and shut up.
"We're the front page of the Internet!"
"No, not like that..."
Laziness has ALWAYS been derided as a character flaw.
This is a nonsequitor. Masturbation has also long been vilified. Doesn't make it not pleasurable. In fact, many things that are pleasurable are framed as character flaws by people who believe they will benefit from your self-denial.
Voting like this is a bit of a dark pattern, though. Especially downvotes. They come from places where the platform owners want to download the responsibility of community management to the community itself. This has a nasty tendency to silence valid criticism while simultaniously supporting brigading behaviour.
At the very least, we should be having serious, design-focused discussions about eliminating or highly restricting downvotes.
Over on the 2e subreddit, u/EzekieruYT let everyone know that they'd stumbled across a pre-launch Kickstarter project called Pathfinder: Dragon's Demand. Speculation swirled for a bit before former Paizo Marketing Director Aaron Shanks chimed in to quietly announce the title, and confirm that it's being built on the 2e ruleset.
No details have been announced yet, and the studio behind it doesn't have a deep catalogue, so who knows what it'll actually look like in the end. People are getting hyped for PaizoCon, though.
u/AvtrSpirit over on Reddit has released some interesting homebrew rules for defeat, Hero Points, and martial attrition using the Wounded condition. I thought they were worth spreading around some.
The comments on Hero Points in particular made me realize that many tables are much more stingy with HPs than I would have expected. Players love Hero Points. Are y'all not just handing them out like candy?
Heroic Defeat:
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1cbjw8c/heroic_defeat_variant_v2_fewer_rules_all_feedback/
Anti-frustration mechanics + MCDM's victories and recoveries:
Original Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pathfinder2e/comments/1cn50gc/heroic_variant_part_2_antifrustration_mechanics/
Because there is zero trust that this won't be a one-sided liberalization, in favour of the fascists.