“Exactly”. “Truly”. “Literally, in the traditional sense not the post modern sense where it means emphatically or figuratively”

People mandating return to office are climate criminals, all. They should be sentenced to picking up litter and other community service for the rest of their lives.

It’s one of those self fueling problems. Businesses post on Instagram because people go there, and people go there in part because that’s where they found out about businesses doing stuff.

Better options are possible, but the big money is backing this hell. Less money to be made from RSS feeds , web rings, and email newsletters.

I don’t use any social media other than this. I find out about bands I like playing from their email lists or bandsintown. I’m on a couple “things happening in the city” email newsletters. It doesn’t demand my attention.

Living without a car in NYC is pretty great. That’s whole categories of expenses I don’t have.

Took the train last night to an event, walked to a nearby bar, walked to get some pizza, took the bus home. Easy-peasy.

Someone in the friend group took a car (Lyft) home, but I can’t imagine wanting to spend like $30 to save maybe 20 minutes in that situation.

In general, you need to make the right thing to do easy and the bad thing to do hard.

If taking the bus was fast and free, and driving meant you had to file a request to get a day license and drive no faster than 25mph, people wouldn’t drive so much.

I really would like to somehow convince more people to adopt the idea that, like, Facebook and friends are run by bad people and you can choose not to use their products. Just stop. Find another way. Be uncomfortable for a little while.

But people aren’t up to the challenge.

I’m reminded of that post that showed all the people in the “boycott cod” group playing call of duty.

The bulk of video game players seem to be feckless marshmallow eaters.

I’m happy with my linux machine. Consoles would have to be a lot cheaper to be tempting. Or I’d have to make a lot more money.

“Most of the time, once people have lived with it, the opposition softens,”

That’s because people, even me, are kind of stupid and unimaginative. They don’t like change for primitive reasons.

Taking public transport is not something that you do because you are poor,” said López-Aparicio. “It is something that you do for the common wealth of the whole society

If only we could get that idea in people’s heads.

Wages are not up. I’m not going to spend that much money on a redundant toy. Pay me more then I’ll think about it.

I have discovered that a gentle nudge makes them stop snoring. This might not be universal but it has been working for me.

Otherwise, white noise can help. Like a fan or something

I had a really fun game of Vampire back in like 2016. I’d love to have another go at that, or Mage. The dice pool system always felt simple but exciting. Characters started out competent and being able to buy individual skills or powers was more satisfying than waiting for whole levels.

I’ve heard good things about Delta green, but never looked into it.

Alas, my college days where “hey you look nerdy you wanna play vampire?” are long gone.

For the first point, you could use a random generator and make it pick from a Gaussian or Poisson or other probability distribution depending on the situation.

Many RPGs that aren’t so closely related to DND use a dice pool. Instead of like 1d20, you might roll 3d6. Now you’re more likely to get an average result. Only one way to roll 3, but a bunch of ways to roll 10.

The nWoD games you roll d10s and count how many come up 8,9, 10. Very fast, and once you’re good at a task you know you’ll generally succeed. It’s more a question of how well you’ll succeed and how strong the opposition is.

I’m not mathy enough to talk beyond that, but I find it much more satisfying.

I hear pathfinder 2e is a big improvement, but still has some of the stuff I’m sick of.

• rolling a single die means flat probability. Equal odds of getting the worst or best possible outcome
• spells per day is anti-fun for me. I want to do cool stuff, not feel pressured to hold onto it “in case I need it later”
• class and level is very coarse, and makes some concepts impractical, impossible, or awkward to execute
• I’m not as interested in “numbers go up big” anymore, and that’s kind of the default.
• I’m not really in the mood for fantasy. I’d rather do modern day occult

Tabletop RPGs. I’m sick of DND. Hard to find good groups for other games. There’s a meetup I go to every once in a while but I want a regular group building a big story together

The whole venture capitalism thing is bullshit. It’s just vibes and rich man hubris.

I’d like Amazon broken up.

I haven’t ordered from them in a couple years, I think. They make a stupid amount of money from AWS so me spending $10 elsewhere isn’t a big deal, but it feels worthwhile.

Also, I live in a livable city. A lot of things I can just walk outside and get in under an hour.

Is this happening on android, too?

What I was trying to get at is something can be worthwhile even if you don’t personally enjoy it.

Conservatism, probably. The whole in-group supremacy thing is pretty bad.