[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

I really enjoy Diablo Swing's music. They have such a unique vibe that I really like. My partner and I met partially because of the Balrog Boogie!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 12 hours ago

Well, what are the moral concerns of piracy?

The primary ones are purely the product of how our economic system is structured. If people didn't need to make money to live, then the ability to mass duplicate artistic works would be a purely positive thing to me. I think art has inherent worth, and that people should engage with it.

There's nothing inherently immoral about piracy, only the external factors imposed by capitalism cause it to be problematic.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago

I'm glad someone is fighting the good fight. It's becoming more and more obvious that the prevalence of these tool in academic circles may cause more harm than good.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It's a great dream, leaving. I'm not rich enough to make that happen, though. Maybe once things get worse, I can become a refugee- but, it's more likely that I'll cling to life here until it's impossible to continue.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

Oh God, I checked and I'm so glad the trans ban didn't make it to the final budget. I was so worried about that.

That means, at least, it's going to be a few more years before they try to ban trans people from existing.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

There's a conversation that could be had about how there are no truly public platforms on the web. Ultimately, everywhere you can speak is owned by someone, and any community you build exists at their mercy. This can exert a lot of pressure on a community's standards and beliefs, and when I started using the internet, abusing this was a major faux pas.

However, that conversation requires a lot of nuance and patience. You are kind of transparently posting this in response to a moderator in another community removing your posts. If you'd like to complain about that, there's actually a community specifically for that.

By the by, free speech complaints have become strongly associated with certain political movements as dog whistles. You might want to look into that and make sure you want to present that image.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

How long have you been using the internet?

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I used to drink an inhuman amount of caffeine. It made starting my meds kind of hard, because the caffeine started actually affecting me like it's supposed to.

So I was suddenly very jittery and nervous. For a bit I thought it was the medication, but then one day when I was making myself a cup of black tea I stopped and went, "...hey, wait, caffeine?"

Weening myself off of it was brutal. I started trying to drink one tea a day, then switched to green tea and very gradually decreased the amount of caffeine. I still occasionally get cravings, but luckily I can trick my body by drinking decaf tea.

It made me so fucking cranky, by the way, caffin withdrawal sucks.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

For real, for real.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Do you have any evidence that he's made an effort to make up for his behavior that goes beyond words? This is an honest question, I never followed him because of random happenstance, so I don't know.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Bruh, he literally paid some people to wave a sign that said, "Death to all Jews." Link to Vox

"Subtle bigotry," my ass.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Ideally or practically? Those are very different conversations.

Practically, there's not a lot that can be done. In the US, there's not a good way for someone like that to continue living.

I also will note that the phrasing of your last two sentences is kind of unpleasant. I'm not sure if that's your intent, but it creates this implication that your value as a worker is the major contributed to your value to society. I don't think that's the case- I think it's possible for someone to not work and contribute a lot to the happiness and well-being of a local community. Also, part of the thing that makes humans special is that even if someone doesn't contribute to the overall needs of society, we will still take care of them out of love. That we love other people is a sufficient foundation for their existence.

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Hey all, I have ADHD and insomnia! I've tried some things, but, I'm really hoping someone has advice on how to keep a schedule. I always end up slipping around until I have to do some kind of grueling "all-dayer" or something to put myself back on track.

Thoughts? Tricks? Wisdom? I'm all ears.

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submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

Hey all,

I'm new here and I wanted to start a discussion about TTRPGs that people enjoy. I really like seeing people talk passionately about those sorts of things. I'm, personally, a big fan of games by Jenna Moran (Nobilis, Glitch, etc) and have a lot of positive experience with certain Powered by the Apocalypse Games. I'm also fascinated by a lot of OSR content because I feel like it has the potential to capture some of the more interesting parts of early D&D (my partner and I discuss AD&D quite a bit).

I used to write homebrew for Exalted and I've played some WoD games, but it's not my true passion, except maybe for Changeling the Lost. I had a long-running game of Ars Magica 5e a while ago, which was a tremendous experience and really ignited my interest in more dense, bean-countery games that I had previously been discounting in favor of lighter, more narrative-drama experiences.

I'm not as big a fan of D&D as some, but my partner and I did meet because of 3.5e homebrew, so I do have some positive nostalgia.

Anyway, what about you- what TTRPGs are you interested in? Which ones have you had long or interesting games with? What are you looking forward to playing, or setting up to play?

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