I’m new to my party and roleplaying in general (though I’ve consumed it as entertainment) and I’m having a slightly different issue. My character was intentionally designed to be a bit naive to match me as a player, and doesn’t have high skills in any int based stuff (at least for now) and instead has medical, nature, survival, etc.

A lot of puzzles or traps etc I can as a player try to reason through, but my character shouldn’t be able to sus out, and I feel torn between playing the character as it should be or adding ideas to solve stuff so we aren’t just sitting there twiddling our thumbs for ideas.

Recycled protein.

It sorta sounds like she passed away, but could also not be that. I dunno.

Not really a waste if it’s the entertainment you enjoy the most. I’m not sure what you envision as gaming, but there are all types. Some are violence and conflict, but some are stories, some are just cooperative, some are puzzles.

Do you view tv, reading, radio, podcasts as all waste of time? Do you think all entertainment is a waste of time? If so you’re at least ideologically consistent, but I disagree and think humans need entertainment in their lives, for stress release etc. Different people will enjoy different entertainment, and with the caveat of it not harming other people, I don’t think it should be subject to gatekeeping.

Sure. I do have some benefits that help, like a WFH schedule, but even on the work in office days I can do games that don’t require a ton of time, like a few Monster Hunter hunts (3-12 mins a hunt) or a few Warframe missions, but thats usually because I don’t cook those days, don’t exercise,and I have no kids and don’t really do other entertainment except reading, podcasts and some of those I do while gaming. When I read I often don’t game same day.

I used to game more, but had less sleep, so I do less in work from office days. WFH days I get much more time (2-2.5 hours not spent driving/getting ready), plus I can sometimes play less intense games while working, on short breaks, during lunch, etc. I do usually exercise and cook those days, but even then there’s time. I don’t go out often except for the exercise though.

People still will, because lots of people spoil, some like watching streaming etc. When new stuff comes out and I’m not ready to start it, it often also involves stop visiting certain communities, discords, etc.

I think you misunderstood. They are saying Trump and those in his cult/admin are a danger to everyone and everything. Do you think the MAGA movement isn’t a threat to indigenous groups, animals, or nature at large? Just the way they’ve already attacked environmental protections should show they check every checkbox.

I don’t use it, but I assume the writes for you was to imitate VS Codes GitHub copilot. While it will suggest code in stuff like scripts, you can absolutely ignore it

Eh, that’s your view of it. I first came across this joke in high school, with our chemistry teacher. He didn’t do it to feel superior; if he wanted to do that he could humiliate us in different ways. He used it as a teaching opportunity to show how a slight exaggeration on true facts and a complicated sounding word could confuse people.

He probably also did it to show us why learning some chemistry nomenclature could help us out. He was a fun teacher that loved showing us the joy of science, not a condescending asshole.

You seem to think we all enjoy tricking people, but there are several comments here explaining the joke for people who don’t get it. If they weren’t here, I or someone else would have. Not everyone who has a little fun with something someone doesn’t know yet does it maliciously.

The whole 1 in 10000 xkcd thing is something I love, and whenever my fellow IT people get angry that some client doesn’t know something we find obvious, I counter that there’s tons of law, fashion, medical etc stuff we dint know but our clients are experts at.

Very intelligent people can like childish fart jokes and dad jokes. It has nothing to do with their intelligence; people just have opinions on humor. I don’t like scatological jokes, but I don’t try to define someone’s intelligence with it. That would be extremely stupid, as they are not related.

Rip off were the words I originally wrote, but I didn’t feel like being that mean about it. I don’t fault your reasoning though.

It’s a parody on an xkcd comic.

I get that, but I’ve gone to Home Depot to buy something expensive(in room ac), listed on their site as available, only to find none when I got there. I wouldn’t want to pay parking for what amounts to false advertising.

My motivator to get out of bed is not getting fired and feeding the cat. I seldom drink coffee. Made well I enjoy the taste, but it’s ever been good at keeping me awake or making me productive.

10 years ago if you made this guy a villain in a movie it would be so overdone you’d lose suspension of disbelief.

There are definitely some like that. The American system has a number of tricks to try to force people to do what they like as well though. Poverty, over policing of minorities, lack of social safety nets etc can cause people who grew up barely avoiding prison choosing military thinking the only choices they have are death or military, shoved at them when they’re too young to really know the world. Add education that specifically avoids or lies about what US actually does overseas, plus a bunch of jingoistic propaganda making being a soldier appear to be a respectable profession.

I grew up in a cult that avoided military so I never had those feelings myself, so I got to watch it from the outside, and even the pledge of allegiance every morning was weird jingoistic programming from early ages. It can be difficult to see past that at 17. I’m not saying they don’t deserve any punishment, but I do disagree with the idea that every single one wanted to kill people.

It’s Dr Manhattan at home

Adding to the other responses, birds have simple digestion systems and the seed makes it into the poop, which birds do in flight so the seed will spread. Mammals digestive systems would destroy the seeds before they can spread

Same. In fact I worry about how often I feel like I’m sometimes slacking at work, but generally my numbers look good. I warned my boss not to spoil me because I can fall into bad habits.

Washington Times is a right wing rag started by the Unification church which is pretty much a cult, and tries to trick people into thinking it’s as legitimate as the Washington Post(which we can also argue it’s legitimacy, being owned by Bezos). It’s been criticized often, and any public figures who has quoted it more than once should know that, and are likely just ignoring the facts.

Just using the Washington Times makes him responsible.