In 2021, I played through Pokemon Prism and reignited my love for pokemon games. I used to be a Smogon Grinder in the Gen 4 era and coming back to Sword and Shield convinced me the series has nothing for me anymore.

Earlier this year, I played Pokemon Lazarus, and it is immediately my all time GOAT.

Bless you sir

Is that his skin? A mask? I cant tell. This guy looks like he skinned a dark chocolate bar and made a human suit

Brett Ratner, according the article, is now attached to direct Rush Hour 4, which the article implies is due to Trump (?) putting his fingers on the scales. It seems fishy

jfc OP. its not common, this is the second most abuse filled upbringing I have ever heard about. You desperately need therapy.

Its like a monkeys paw

Mutants and Masterminds is like, the ultimate trust fall for players and DMs. If everyone is being cool, then it literally has everything. There are a ton of options but its basically OGL 3.x with all the limiters turned off, with all the flexibility and power that implies.

If people aren’t being cool, well then, unrestricted time travel only costs 6 (of your default 150) build points.

I’m really looking forward to playing at least a whole adventure of drawsteel. We did the demo and it only took 3 hours for 4 encounters. For example we could play that much 5e and not finish 1 encounter.

I’ve been hearing about DM’s complaining about Rogues SA since 3.x days. These are the same guys who (allegedly) thought the monk was more powerful that the sorcerer because the monk’s chart had so many more columns and class features.

Why did you even play with this guy?

Imagine if we could grow toilets?

possibly? Being a liberal is the default where I live. Its generally considered the opposite of “conservative.” I give liberals (in the US politics sense) a bit more grace than most leftists. It is as far left as most people consider “allowable” in the US. They don’t hold very many abhorrent social opinions; they are quite supportive of queer rights, they volunteer at soup kitchens with me, oppose nazis, are environmentally conscious, etc.

Their main issue is that they have never been taught to view the world differently. So they talk about environmentalism, and they get behind bike lanes and electric cars, but they cannot conceive of restructuring cities to make use of more public transportation, or say blowing up fossil fuel infrastructure in minecraft. They want to help the homeless, but they can’t imagine just housing people, they support shelters and clothing drives and the salvation army, and other stop gaps within the system. I’ve long since resigned myself to the fact that people who think what I think are rare, and even various other stripes of leftists (anarchists, syndicalists, MLs, etc) are all gonna be a vanishingly tiny minority. I don’t think most liberals are so far gone we can’t reach them.

(Unless you meant like, neo liberalism, with like Thatcherist and Reaganite austerity, in which case yeah, basically fascism).

I feel like your rebuttal is mostly hinging on the definitions of “defend” or “support” are. Look man, I understand that the US is going to invade Venezuela, or least is testing the waters a bit. Aside from military adventurism being what dying empires do to feel young, Trump himself is desperate to do anything from being exposed as part of the “Deep state” his cult was built up to hate (not that anything will then happen).

But when you deny the Uyghur genocide, or say Putin is “de-nazifying” Ukraine, it sure sounds to me like you simping for the imperialist expansionism of other empires, because in the broad strokes, they oppose the one you hate. Which, fuck dude, I hate the empire you hate, and they are the biggest one, but I can also hate more than one thing. You can oppose US imperial interests while understanding that Putin is trying to reclaim Ukraine because it was one of the richest former Soviet Republics. Both are evil, but trust the people of Ukraine to know how to best bet on their own safety. We make the same choices everyday in a dictatorship of capital. Do you buy a product from the company with slaves or the one that poisons water?

Just cause you hate Hershey doesn’t mean you simp Nestle.

For the same reason people fall into fascism. Capitalism is putting the screws to people. Rent is too high, food is too expensive, people are on a treadmill, and dissatisfaction hangs in the air like miasma. People are mad, and they don’t know at what. They sense something is rotten, they dont have the words. Fascism co-opts leftist talking points, but pulls a bait and switch with the Jews and migrants and whoever.

Tankies also start from this choking miasma, you look at Tankie propaganda, its compelling. The US commited genocide and war crimes, and is more racist than you know. Capitalists are terrible, yadda yadda you know it. Tankie propaganda also frames politics as a team sport. When you look at the US (or you can look at it as the “Nato Empire,” which can be an interesting way to think about it), as the ultimate evil, can be easy to see anyone opposing them as good or worth supporting.

You’re right, that does seem very nice.

I work in social work; I would say about 60 percent of what I do is paperwork. My agency has told us not to use LLMs, as that would be a massive HIPPA nightmare. That being said, we use “secure” corporate emails. These use Microsoft 365 office suite, which are copilot enabled. These include TLDRs at the top, before you even look at the email, predictive texts… and not much else.

Would I love a bot who could spit out a Plan based on my notes or specifications? absolutely. Do I trust them not to make shit up. Absolutely not.

This is where Bart is recruited by LT Smash to join a boy band. Here he is meeting his other boy band members. Milhouse and Nelson, and then he says “Are you kidding? I bet the next one is…” to which he is cut off by Ralph spinning around in the chair, “I’m a pop sensation”

I dont get it, that Champaign was non alcoholic!

This is where Homer goes to space. Barney was the other “average person” candidate but here hes about to spill out. I think he crashes a jet pack

I remember the arms and armor one! I got it for my best friend one Channukah… like 20 years ago

lol the cat is named Mewbert.

I fucking love Gator days

This man is a poet