Javascript is like Dungeons and dragons. It’s a mess, weighed down by legacy decisions, too heavy in some places and too light in others, and used in far more places than it should be. It also has some diehard fans, and some diehard fans who have never used anything else.

Saint Luigi deliver us from villains like Facebook

People act based on emotions, specifically feeling like they’re part of the in-group. You know the old saying “Would you jump off a bridge if your friends all were jumping, too?” Well, the answer is clearly yes. Most people are stupid like that.

I mean, we all are sometimes. It’s impossible to know and verify everything so we trust our friends. But for some people it’s reached a toxic level of “vaccines are bad” and “banning books is good”

With violence, though a lot of spaces will tell you it’s gauche to talk about violence. Stern words only.

Also, as a USian, even though my grandparents fought the Nazis the US was still garbage at home.

Spotify kind of sucks. I’ve been buying music from the musicians (mostly via Bandcamp) for years. Buying one album a month for like $8 means is cheaper than a subscription, and I now have a huge library of music.

Maybe. These aren’t normal times and I feel like being neutral in the face of a rising tyranny when you have a big platform is collaboration.

Trump is just the highly visible part of a whole cancerous growth. All of the right wing, with its “outgroups to bind and in-groups to protect” worldview, needs to go.

I feel like if a car is parked in a bus lane or bike lane, people should be allowed to do what they want to it. Sure , go ahead and park there, I’ve got my baseball bat ready.

They don’t really take much of an anti-fascist stance. They’re more “neutral”, which enables the oppressor.

They don’t explicitly support trump et al, but they don’t really use their platform for good. They could do a lot more to resist and organize.

I guess riots break out all around the world?

I feel like this idea that people are just going to riot and do mass violence is some right wing fear.

Most people, most of the time, are pretty social cooperative creatures.

One, I don’t think RFK believes in HIV. He doesn’t believe in germ theory. (Ars is kind of a bootlicker site, but their news is pretty good)

Two, everyone who works at ICE should be shot dead. If we have a future, people are going to look back at us with scorn. “You knew about the horrors that lead up to ww2, and you just sat back and let it happen again?” Basically yeah, we’re all scared and disorganized, and about a third of our country are rabid fascists who want this to happen.

I had an issue with installing mint. Never figured it out. Got the older LTS and it worked fine though. Maybe try a different version?

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a microtransaction or cosmetic. I’m doing my part!

*Ok, i think I paid like $5 into warframe after 200 hours, and I used some fake money from google surveys on pokemon go, so I’m not entirely without sin.

But it still spooked Wall Street, as parent company Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.’s shares plummeted as much as 10% following the news.

I think our economy might be predicated entirely on stupid.

Also, $80 is a lot when typical people’s buying power is decreasing. I think like half of americans can’t tank a $500 surprise bill, and they want people to blow nearly 20% of that on a video game? Fuck off, capitalists.

Don’t signs usually have a line through it when it means “no”, or is that just american signage?

Funny, because when I go to the suburbs or other sparsely populated areas, walking around without anybody else feels dystopian. Feels like a post-apocalyptic setting, where everyone else got taken by aliens or plague or something.

I won’t use a urinal unless it’s an emergency and no other options are available. They’re uncomfortable.

I remember some bar I was at once only had urinals, and I was like “what do you do if you gotta shit??”. Apparently the bathroom on the bottom floor had full stalls, but still. Yuck.

Conservatives continue to be garbage

It’s not always tourists but stopping in unexpected places is a common irritation in NYC. Like, they’re walking on the sidewalk and just stop, and mess up the flow of foot traffic. Maybe to look at their map or to gawk at something. It’s extra annoying and a little dangerous when it’s on the stairs

He knows that the only important clue in the room is the pen, but the players do not. Their actions will thus deal with the entirety of the room rather than the metagame thinking that would lead them to the pen. One might decide to check out the broken bookshelf, another might want to check the desk drawers. If they eventually look at the pen and discover its relevance, they will feel that much more of a sense of accomplishment.

This is kind of bad advice if you want the players to engage with the pen. I mean, if it doesn’t matter then whatever. But if it’s the only thing that matters in the room, spending 10 minutes farting around on other dead ends isn’t really a win. Players are already bad at finding clues.

On the other hand, for things that you don’t want them to immediately focus on, it makes sense to camouflage them with other descriptions. Like, “The dining room is large enough for a raucous party, but it’s silent aside from you all. The stone floor is cracked and uneven- what was once beautiful marble is shattered in places, and stained with what might be blood in others. The dining room table itself is massive- large enough to seat thirty people on a side - and looks to be made of a thick, deeply brown, wood, and seems to be in solid condition. Strangely, it’s still set as if for the party. Plates and silverware rest on top of it, as well as a few bottles of wine. {Noble Background Player} you even recognize one bottle as a particularly expensive vintage. The seats, however, are mostly knocked askew or broken. Three are intact, pushed away from the table.”

Of course, the table was a giant mimic and the wine bottle was there to trick the player into getting stuck to it. Fun was had by all.