politics politics Ex-FBI informant charged with lying about the Bidens is re-arrested as prosecutors fight to keep him behind bars
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workingclasscalendar Working Class Calendar Boeing Employees Strike (2000) On this day in 2000, 19,000 of Boeing Company engineering and technical employees walked off the job in what historian Howard Zinn called "the biggest white-collar...
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technology Technology None of these anchors are real: Channel 1 plans for AI to generate news, broadcasters
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memes memes The current state of Twitch
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gaming Gaming I can't live like this
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    9 months ago 100%

    Same, I've always played inverted. Pretty sure it's from N64 flying games, pilot wings and such.

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  • technology Technology Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders.
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    Old School Revival snuff 9 months ago 83%
    Completely random session?

    Has anyone run a completely randomly generated session before? Random as in, not a handful of prepared encounters the PCs can seek out, but random as in every encounter is generated on the fly such that not even the DM knows what's going to happen. There are a whole bunch of random generators on donjon, and I figured I could probably open a bunch of them in different tabs and roll them when I need... But is this style of play even fun? And is it an effective use of our 8 hours a month? (It sounds fun to me; I have till January to figure out if I can pull it off though lol)

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    leftism Leftism There is no such thing as "unskilled labor"
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    10 months ago 76%

    I think you've forgotten about pilots and surgeons and such... not exactly OJT material.

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    10 months ago 100%

    I only run west marches style games now. The pcs need to be back in town by end of session or miss out on carousing or possibly worse depending on where they are. Each game is self contained so people can drop or join as they want.

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  • osr Old School Revival Transitioning from Serial One-shots to Open World Play - Seeking Advice and Suggestions
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    10 months ago 100%

    I didn't mean to imply that I would run them "through" B2 "then" DCC#100. I meant to say that I would stock the dungeons and factions with the content from DCC#100, the factions/cults from DCC #100 are described as their own little mini modules with their own hooks and lore and such, so I thought I could dot them around the caves and let the players discover them. Rumors could point them to the factions and they can learn about how they are all connected by the "thing in the caves".

    B2 is super vague about the politics of the caves; it basically fills the maps with mobs and loot, then says the traveling cleric is a spy. So I thought that the monsters/loot in the cave make a pretty good cover story to keep people out, the perfect place to hide the McGuffin from DCC#100. I wouldn't push them that way, but the adventure culminating in destroying the thing the evil factions of the cave are trying to hide feels like a natural conclusion.

    Again, I've only ever ran one-shots, and the "traditional" open ended game I'm playing sucks as an example.

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  • news News 'Stand your butt up': Fistfight nearly breaks out during Senate hearing until Bernie Sanders steps in
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    10 months ago 100%

    And what make you think that 50% would vote the way you want them to? Remember that people are fucking removed. End of thought.

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  • world World News The public doesn’t understand the risks of a Trump victory. That’s the media’s fault
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    technology Technology NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series"
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    starwarsmemes Star Wars Memes Do you support Palestine?
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    11 months ago 94%

    Nah bro, that's paragliding. You're thinking of that crumbly, flammable wax used chiefly in coating and sealing, in candles, in rubber compounding, and in pharmaceuticals and cosmetics.

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  • programming Programming i wanna have fun programming again
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    11 months ago 100%

    It doest help that I work for [big corp], where the talented are poached and the remainder stick around for the swag.

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  • programming Programming i wanna have fun programming again
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    11 months ago 100%

    I think it's because they used to be exciting and mysterious, now they are just tedious and terrifying.

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  • programming Programming i wanna have fun programming again
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    11 months ago 100%

    I feel this. My approach has been to drop programming as a hobby honestly. I've learned to work on my car, did a kitchen remodel, took dancing classes... fucking anything where I don't have to look at a screen really.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes Seriously, most of them are failed artists and screen writers
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    11 months ago 100%

    Oh damn... yeah 2016. Still, he was a regular on the show. Didn't know he was considered conservative when he was alive.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes Seriously, most of them are failed artists and screen writers
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    11 months ago 100%

    Isn't PJ O'Rourke on NPR's Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me? I never would have pegged him as a conservative.

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  • technology Technology ‘Reddit can survive without search’: company reportedly threatens to block Google
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    programming Programming What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?
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    12 months ago 100%

    It sucks because we watched this whole train wreck play out in slow motion.

    We told our managers from the beginning it was a waste of time and that we should focus on the more important project that will depreciate this one anyway.

    I built the tool they wanted, within the constraints of our corporate network configuration, and it worked really well. But it required the customer to change one thing about their workflow, which would require certification.

    So they slowly scoped it back and back until it does basically nothing.

    But even though the app does nothing and has no users, I still had to generate all the documents and artifacts and recovery plans etc. I wish sometimes that I would have gotten my degree in civil engineering or something more real.

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    Programming snuff 12 months ago 97%
    What's the dumbest thing you've shipped?

    18 month project is winding down. I suspect it will have 1 use in the next 4 years we are supporting it. The tool is basically a copy of the S3 browser, only shittier. The license for the S3 browser is only 20 bucks btw.

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