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@PeriklesGREAT Whatever makes you relax on the weekend is cool.

First thing pops in your head when you see this ?

@Blackmoor_Film I would agree. So you are an evil, not heroic or even self interested dude? So you are here in your gaming session to make your friends' time bad ?

The biggest problem with evil characters is actually a lot of problems. First off: On a metagame level, much of what appeals to me about the hero theme is how players work together. An evil character is in conflict with everything it cannot kill or subjugate. Conflict is a fail state, unless the DM nerfs the game to favor that one player who must win. Which points to how narcissistic playing evil PCs ultimately is. Players who do things like torture enemies and or even play aginst other players just do not get invited back. If I want conflict I will play a war game. Just one reason of many, I could go on and on about why having evil PCs break a classic RPG format.

@PeriklesGREAT Only one? "Only fix broken things." He was an equipment mechanic. I could go on and on.

One thing your dad taught you ?

@nud3doll @Starbucks Poor doggo!

@Starbucks started shafting me on the strawberries in my refreshers... the dog isn't taking it well.

@aakashgupta People want to live in Kamazotz apparently.

Let me explain exactly why every new subdivision in America looks like the top photo, because the math is wild. A mature tree increases a home's value by 7 to 19 percent. On a $400,000 house, that's $28,000 to $76,000. A single shade tree produces the cooling equivalent of ten room-size air conditioners running 20 hours a day. One tree on the west side of a house cuts energy bills by 12 percent within 15 years. The bottom photo is worth more, costs less to live in, and sells faster. This has been documented by the University of Washington, Clemson, Michigan State, and the USDA. The data is not in dispute. Removing those trees saves the builder roughly $5,000 per lot. Concrete trucks need twice the dripline radius of every standing tree. Utility trenches need flat ground. A bulldozer flattens 200 lots in an afternoon. Preserving trees adds weeks and thousands per home. So the developer pockets $5,000 in savings and the buyer eats $50,000 in lost value for the next two decades. The person making the decision and the person paying for it have never been in the same room. The Woodlands, Texas is the proof of what happens when they are. George Mitchell bought 28,000 acres of Houston timberland in 1974 and preserved 28% as permanent green space. He forced McDonald's to build behind the tree canopy. That McDonald's became one of the highest-volume locations in Texas. The first office building, designed to reflect the surrounding forest so you couldn't see it from the street, leased completely. The Woodlands median home price today: $615,000. Katy, a comparable Houston suburb that clear-cut: $375,000. Named #1 community to live in America two years running. Fifty years of data. The trees are worth more than removing them saves. Developers clear-cut anyway because they sell the house once and leave. You live in it for 30 years.

@steelhavengame1 @jondelarroz Well, we've all seen what people get up to when giving access to the tax moneys of a single county. Imagine if they had access to the resources of planets, and had replicator technology.

@wizardglick @jondelarroz All that big government budgets, eh?

The last time Robert Picardo posted about Starfleet academy was a week ago, when the show's final episode aired. He was clearly contractually obligated to post positive about it and attack fans as trolls. Now he's ranting about Trump nonstop. It's a reminder actors are fake.

@IterIntellectus I'm not entirely sure how I feel about AI right now, but when the Butlerian Jihad happens, I know what side I'll be on.

this is art

@MarkMaddenX You've heard of the "Cajun Navy," now let me tell you about the "Yinzer Navy!"

I live on an island. Who has a boat that wants to ferry me to& from Station Square on the first night of the NFL draft? “They didn’t figure we had a navy.”

@Love2Brido @Jamesjonesik8 I have cunning plan that cannot fail....

@wizardglick @Jamesjonesik8 😂 cunning plan

This is hard. Isn't it? 🧐

@bell01brain @Jamesjonesik8 I've never seen a Cricket game, and I don't know the rules, even though I've come across many references in literature.

@Jamesjonesik8 Cricket- The USA were in the recent T 20 Cricket World Cup

@Love2Brido @Jamesjonesik8 For the love of tiny baby Jesus, someone please invent "dart-ball!"

@Jamesjonesik8 Darts, Billiards, Snooker, Bowls, Curling - did take me quite a while tho

@Jamesjonesik8 Soccer, cricket, pentanque (well that might mean something like ball in French).

@steelhavengame1 @jondelarroz It was included last minute in the design spec by a non-technical manager that wanted something to do. The dev team pulled a weekend charette and billed at double time. Win-win really.

@jondelarroz Why does the hologram age?

@trueLiberalist Well, the total bill is the number that you go on, because that's the number you have. The toolbox is the toolbox.

I understand the point. However, if the point of tipping is to pay the server, how much is the value of the work the server provides? Does it go up with the value of the food or the price point of the place? Or is it a range with a floor and ceiling based on number of diners?

@gotrice2024 Well, at the sandwich shop I worked at, you could delete anything including the patty and the bun. One lady ordered just a plain patty. Asked for it to be chopped. It was a meal for her little dog :-)

A father and daughter decided to order some plain cheeseburgers from DoorDash. What they got completely baffled them, what they wanted was a bun with the meat patty and a slice of cheese, no onions ketchup or pickles. What they got was a box with one slice of cheese in it. The interesting thing is McDonald’s claims that this is how he ordered it, both DoorDash and McDonald’s aren’t taking responsibility, could this be user error instead of an issue with McDonald’s?

@DelusionPosting Or, I'm easily entertained?

@HighwayToTheDZ @RobProvince Could all be fixed by some votech gear head high school guys. Bit then you would have to interact with "the poors" and maybe even see oil.

It doesn't. Its all fiscal. Not fake machismo. Engines have soul? That's one of the goofiest things i've ever heard about EV vs. ICE vehicles. I love my daughter's 1987 F150 but its engine is a piece of shit 300 straight 6 that has shitty compression and leaks oil all over my drive from the front fan housing. Thousands to fix. Its cool only because its old, not because it has soul. If it had a soul, it was crafted by satan himself. Will our battery cost a fortune to replace? Maybe, who knows where the battery tech will be in 10 yrs (Donut has a promising battery). But the electric motor will immediately work when we hook up a battery to it. Almost zero wear and tear. And no, im not thinking my Mach-e is saving the environment. I just dont think a measure of a man is if the thing that turns the wheels explodes to move pistons vs when current-carrying conductors that are energized to create torque. I GET the cool factor of an 1970s engine rumbling but I also get the cool factor of getting in a car with 400v propelling me from 0-60 in 3 seconds in pure themepark-like joy.

Electric cars are like a lady’s razor for their pubes. Engines have a soul. Hope this helps.

@SteveLovesAmmo Devlin?

You can really date someone by asking what cartoons they grew up watching. Me for example were: Dinosaurs, Ahh! Real Monsters and Aladdin.

@smokefatsalt Also chicken wings, etc

The saddest part about BBQ is it used to be poor people food. Used cheap cuts and slow smoked them till tender. Today it is more expensive than a typical steakhouse, charging $36/lb for brisket. Worst thing to happen to BBQ ever is it became popular. Now get off my lawn

@LeahRain77 Don't care, but the in between Winter-Cold wreks me. My mind a spirit are like "Hooray, I'm gonna do this and that and plant and watch baseball" and my body says "you are weak and going to fail. Go back to bed."

Hot weather 🌴🌞