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All animals tend towards reinventing crab, all transport solutions tend towards reinventing train

I liked his video on Operation Praying Mantis and then I watched one about how awesome was the US bombing campaign in Vietnam and how we could have won without the politicians ruining everything, and that ruined my stomach to want to watch more of him 🙁

My theory is that these stories are purely to make the Russian military paranoid of its own troops

Good fuckin luck with that

As I interpret it, the purpose of a hook is a big signpost to your players that says “hey the prepared adventure content is over thataway”

If they are down for the social contract they will presumably not be dickholes and interact with it. Of course, it is your job to make it engaging and give them a reason or shut all the alternate pathways off or however you want to do it. But likewise it is kind of their job to interact with the clearly marked “adventure is here” signpost as opposed to implicitly saying “naw fuck what you had prepared I think we would prefer you had to wing it, it’s what my character would do.” Ttrpg environments carry a significant implied social contract on all sides.

Merry Uristmas

I didn’t say everyone; I certainly don’t think that. When you’re backing Cornel West and saying you’re super concerned that the Democrats might lose the election and then making up false things about the Democrats and uninterested when you get called out on the false things and keep repeating them, though, I don’t think it takes some kind of crazy X-Files type of leap of logic to say hey everybody I think this guy’s not 100% on the level.

It was surf shorts and button down shirts all unbuttoned and long hair, just bumbling around drunk and happy in the grocery store like Jeff Lebowski. I was fit though yes. If I went in drunk with shirt unbuttoned today someone would probably get the manager out to talk with me about it.

And pay your power bill, and brush your teeth even though you already did yesterday, and try to prevent a horrifying fascist dictatorship with a credible chance at taking over the US from succeeding. I know I know it is oppressive to have to do these things.

I mean honestly I’m not even saying you should do that third one, just that you should stop implying that the pro killing protestors and political opponents guy is basically the same thing as an identifiably old person who isn’t as on board with a good progressive agenda as I would want him to be. But yes, whichever version you want, all three of those things are among the things I would recommend to get in line with if you want a safe and happy life going forward for the next few years.

A belly has developed

And yet... you're the one in this thread who's stumping for the boot coming down on all our necks. But sure. Keep talking.

Part of the point of the book was, every country is like that. You can't just write some stuff in a book and expect it to do anything. People will follow them, or not, or they will as the current Court is doing find absurd reasons to argue why they are following the rules when they are not. At the end of the day it's just a book.

Habits are strong, shared values are strong, codes and norms and laws and traditions are strong. But they're not invulnerable. Fire up people's loyalty and sense of justice and tell them that the leader is the law and that's now the most important thing, and watch all the laws in the world crumble and tear like wet tissues. It doesn't matter if it's just in people's heads or it's written in stone on every street corner. It doesn't make a difference.