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

We had cars. People still used them a lot instead of walking.

I am going to take this opportunity to shit on car culture. Walking several miles a week because I live in a walkable city is pleasant, and almost certainly good for my health and weight.

I don’t have objections to the rest of your post. I just hate car culture.

How is this guy still just walking around enjoying life?

I want to say that everyone hates that kind of purple job prose, but I suspect there’s some small minority of people who actually think and talk like that.

I kind of want to build a LinkedIn but you’re only allowed to talk like a real person. If you post slop or whatever that kind of shit is, you’re banned and we all pledge not to work with you.

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.

They’re bad people and too many folks are pretending they’re not.

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.

I think a lot about how “good” and “fun” are two different things.

You can have a game that’s a fascinating exploration of a theme that really unifies mechanics and story, but is an absolute downer of misery to play.

You can also have a game that’s a glorified slot machine with bugs, no real player input, and abusive monetization, but people’s brains light up playing it.

There’s some subjectivity of course, but sometimes I see games that are good at what they’re trying to be, but I don’t have any fun with them. Some people seem to demand those overlap all the time.

Not in any way I can discern! She’s in the planning meetings but her entire role seems to be sharing her screen so people can tell her what to click on. (This is excruciating to witness. It is so slow.)

Sometimes she’ll say “remember to check your capacity!”, but two other people on the team say that too.

She seems to be entirely non-technical, too, so she doesn’t have much input on any of the discussion. The inter-team stuff is handled by two other people. (A lady of importance whose title I don’t know, and some sort of business analyst)

Sure, “brightness” or “intelligence” might not be innate and immutable. But at a given time, some people are more or less various things that get called intelligence. Maybe they’re just having a bad day. Maybe they’re more routinely making bad decisions because of poor peer examples and nutrition. It’s not always their fault.

We need less consolidation, not more. Fuck this.

If you think paying labor leads to stagnation you’re in the wrong community

Maybe shame and embarrassment would work, but the kind of people who drive this kind of car are probably anti-social assholes who don’t care about other people very much.

But these people get off on being jerks. There’s something wrong with their brain so empathy doesn’t work right.

You’re missing the point, so yes you do seem stumped.

What does that have to do with the ownership class extracting value from labor?

But if you go to the gym with a machine that lifts the weights for you, you don’t get any stronger. The point is not that the weights get lifted.

I think a lot of people really struggle to understand this.

People straight faced say things like “why would i read a book when and write an analysis when i can just have a tool do it for me?”. The teacher doesn’t really want to know your personal analysis of Dracula. They want you to practice doing analysis.

I think there’s some sort of unfortunate synergy where the people who are less bright are more likely to go for AI, and by virtue of being less bright they’re less likely, less capable, of dealing with and recognizing the hazards.

And you think that costs more than the productivity gains from having the computer?