I think she wins solely because of abortion. Yeah, dems didn't do anything to protect abortion rights, but they're also not the freaks showing up to protest or bomb abortion clinics and harass women on the daily. "Not actively making things worse" plays well for people in a lot of circumstances.

My prediction is that I'll be one of 10 PSL voters in my entire state. Will report back if I'm on the money or way off. Also voted in person for the first time ever because this backwards state doesn't do mail votes. It only took like 15 minutes but like why? I even got to use a touch screen to print out my ballot and stick it in a scanner. If you're worried about mail being manipulated, how come you don't worry that scanner dumps straight into a trash can hidden in the shell?

How was Rogue Trader? I haven't played the other Owlcat games because they have overwhelming options and I'm not a tabletop enjoyer. I read Rogue Trader is a completely different rules system though.

Haven't had trick or treaters in 7 years across 3 different apartments and multiple states. Just 1 fairy princess around Year 5 and had to scramble to find some stickers to give her. Everyone does the trunk or treat stuff now, which made sense for little kids, but is also sad because it turns it into a sectioned off activity that you drive to and then go home.

Meanwhile I am scrolling the internet from within the US on a Chinese smartphone

It's not a co-op. They're just relatively small and mostly hire senior developers who demand a higher level of respect and work/life balance. They used to only work on projects people had interest in based on consensus and personal interest. People floated between teams, you were free to convince people to work on your pet project instead, etc. They stopped doing that when they started on Half Life Alyx and talk about it in the design booklet because it also meant that literally nothing ever got completed since there was no direction and promising projects floundered from lack of support.

He's also adamently a proponent and supporter of Transcendental Meditation and has converted half the actors he's worked with. Which as an individual practice isnt't a problem, but the organization behind it is a huge scam started by a predatory rolls royce yogi who Lynch personally knew. The same guy who made The Beatles leave India because he creeped on their girlfriends.

I half forgive him for this because I think he probably doesnt read literally anything on the internet and has had the privilege of the organization sheltering him from any of their wrongdoing. Unless a friend of his personally told him, he might not have any idea.

I got halfway through Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty and now the game just won't get past the loading screen anymore so I can't finish it. I was having fun too. The game is pretty easy and not at all like a Souls game mechanically even though that's a common comparison, unlike the Pinocchio game I still haven't played yet. Fitting with the theme, the first difficult boss was Lu Bu where the game really expects you to know how to parry. I'll try booting it up again in a few weeks and hopefully it randomly fixes itself after a Proton update or something.

We've been having wild swings where it's like 30F one day and 90F the next day. Over and over. It sucks because you can't put away the box fan, pack the heavy jackets, or whatever because you're gonna need it all on different days of the week.

Use Thunder. Its on Fdroid. Or you can grab it straight from Github with Obtanium.

BlueSky got like 100K new signups in a day when Twitter announced it would let all posts be used to train the Grok AI. Artists are starting to migrate specifically, but even a lot of my friends finally shut down their Twitter accounts. There's extensions that help you find your Followed people on Twitter under their BlueSky handles. It sucks because it's still a big corporate platform, but it's at the very least better than Twitter.

I never played the Pathfinder games but a ton of CRPGs don't let you do that still. I don't even like D&D, I think the rules system sucks because it encourages specialization/roleplaying at the expense of fun.

A little tangential to your point because it doesn't justify Israel's actions or anything, but there's a really good book I just wanted to share called Eternal Treblinka that explores the views of holocaust survivors in relation to animals, among other things. I imagine the person you talked with read this, but had some twisted takeaways.

“In relation to them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an eternal Treblinka.”

I think he was napping at the time, but she was a longtime smoker who insisted on Asmongold getting her cigarettes, even though she was on oxygen. That combination led to an accident that sent her to the hospital and she died later. I don't like the guy at all, but I feel bad for him in that specific circumstance, because you're stuck either being an enabler or exerting your will over someone you're supposed to be supporting who is otherwise still capable of independent decisions.

Yea, I queued up one of the Xinjiang episodes the other day too. Pretty much any of them are good though and makes me really want to travel there again.

I haven't really thought about it since I made my account, but I use different pronouns irl that fit my assigned gender. I set my pronouns, name, and other information differently all over the internet to try and mix things up for privacy reasons and wanted to stay ambiguous. I try not to participate in the trans mega or threads where I think I'd be perceived as faking an identity that isn't mine though. So if folks think [any] or [none] makes more sense in the context of this site, I'd change to that instead.

Roleplaying a hyper religious zealot makes a little more sense at least in universes where gods frequently interact with mortals and grant them magic powers. Maybe you can get your powers from the God of Socialism. If you stray from the path, you get the Revisionist trait and your God calls you a until you finish your redemption quest in front of the rest of your order.

Or something. I'm just shitposting. Paladins are fun to play cuz they're like less boring fighters that also cast spells.

I thought most people were reasonable about their concerns and didn't seem to blame the people moving in as much. It is a little weird to be wealthy (as opposed to seeking asylum) and move somewhere and not even speak a little of the language like that one family. The guy at the end was saying that it's not the fault of the people moving in, but the local government colluding with the property owners to extract as much money as possible without doing anything to address the problems it was creating for locals.

He sexually assaulted at least two people and hasn't really done anything to make amends for it that we know publicly. He just disappeared for a year. I've posted at least one of his videos here before because the content and people he's talking to were worth hearing. But I do try and preface that with Andrew is a piece of shit and you shouldn't subscribe to their patreon or anything.

This is true and really annoying. It also means that you're usually stuck with whoever the Rogue companion is if you don't have those skills yourself, which you may or may not like. Baldur's Gate 3 was truly revolutionary by just letting you use the highest skills from your party members in most circumstances. But even PIllars of Eternity 2 has MC-specific checks, and checks that your other party members can contribute to if they have points in the same skills. Hacking, speech, lockpicking, and other 'social' skills are pretty much mandatory to not be locked out of significant chunks of content in some games.