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MA History. Accountant. Mostly here to follow ancient and monetary history. Seoul. 🏴
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Those books are so good. The show, as good as it is, doesn't begin to do them justice.
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How can you be this naive? Still. In 2025. The man has never in his life cared about a law unless it helped him. If you want to give people a reason to not worry about this it'd be more intellectually sound to just point out he's old as hell.
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You useless sack of shit.
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But George Lucas did, lol. Amazing.
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Hopeful. Pretty sure it'd require a military coup and a cultural revolution. 100 million resentful, stupid, provincials.
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Exactly! There was that clip toward the end of the campaign of he and his team sitting around watching Fox News while he dictates tweets to them. It's always just that.
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For a guy who is supposed to care about truth you're sure hanging a lot on categorically unverifiable counterfactuals.
Biden was weak on foreign policy. He is a lifelong believer in the Israeli project, Netanyahu trampled him and Biden was too cowardly to stop aiding an outright genocide.
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The "would haves" are baseless speculation. It's cope. Self-soothing hypotheses to deal with atrocity.
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Oh come off it. Pretending the United States isn't a major player with real pressure over what happens in Israel is delusional. Biden actively armed Israel and prioritized arms.
I'm a historian. I'm very interested din the facts but political calculus and the facts do not necessarily coincide.
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I'm a fan of the IRA stuff and his economic agenda but let's pump the breaks on successful, huh?
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I mean if there's a good reason NOT to use Biden as a scape goat or sacrificed lamb, I'm all for hearing it. I'm just not sure I see the value on the face of it.
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This game looks incredible y'all. Pretty stoked to get my hands on it and get it on the table.
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I think throwing Biden under the bus is good. He's out of the picture and insanely unpopular regardless of how I feel about the specifics.
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Your takes have sucked shit lately, but from a strategic pov I like this one even if I disagree with the reasoning. He's not worth defending and there's value in letting him be the sacrificial lamb.
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Unexpectedly soft is orders of magnitude worse. Not a contest.
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Ain't no way anyone with a functional brain can look back at the 2024 and think "Ah yes, I would trust these people."
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China is gonna cook the US, but BRICS will be highly ineffectual. It's already filled with competing interests and inherent conflicts that make any more than surface level cooperation unlikely and longterm strategic cooperation impossible.
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The enemy did. You're not even paying attention.
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You wanna self soothe, that's great. Organizing is great. But pretending you're going to organize people to take over their local governments in time to stop Trump and co from carrying out the breadth of their agenda is cope. Sorry to break it to you.
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I don't have one. A thing everyone should admit before investing in a strategy too slow and late.
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I'm sorry but this is cope. This is what should have happened 15 years ago. It's a good idea but it will not help with the current crisis one bit.
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That's exactly what I thought before looking at the source, lol. Like it didn't sound like him but I just could not remember that Capote is existed.
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Without knowing which Truman this is, it's even crazier.
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Living here felt great during covid. Starting to feel great again.
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Only dedicated players notice this. Casuals remember their first crit fail/crit success as their favorite moments.
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This is actually it. The 5% critical success and 5% critical fail occupy mental space and narrative weight way above their actual value. People like it more than they dislike the other parts.
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He trying and failing to do tricks on it. Smh.
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Coming back to this image a month later hits different.
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Thanks for the rec. This looks incredible.
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I always make two very different encounter tables and some kind of specific event table before I even start on dungeon rooms. It's just way more value per minute of work.
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It's just D&D via early Nintendo video games.
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I solved it by becoming a one-shots only GM (in principal), takes all the stress of choice away for me. Also just much much easier. And if a game goes great or doesn't wrap up and we want to play more then we do.
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This is the first "I'm never leaving this website" moment of 2025 for me.