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  • How's that work, everyone gets some capital? If not then I'm pretty sure he's just pitching more corporate welfare without calling it that.

  • I wish I could believe this but the reality is fascism drives away competence so we have an executive regime that can't figure out how to have a top secret meeting on discord without accidentally inviting random journalists

  • I had to use Reddit a few days back because apparently that's the only place DuckDuckGo looks for search page bug reports

    It felt bad

    I used to spend a lot of time there but yeah fuck spez and the oligarchy dicksuckery he's blatantly committed to

  • To address your original question more squarely - I might use such a resource if it was free. First because the rarity tiers are poorly thought out and second because even if characters are networking through factor/dealers instead of browsing a shopkeeper's dispaly case - you still have to assign a price.

    The 1st Edition DM's Guide gave every wondrous item its own specific gold piece value. The relative valuations weren't perfect but I was shocked when I came back to D&D in 5E to find per-item valuation was abandoned. If I was going to tackle the problem myself, I'd refer to the 1E DMG valuations as a starting point for consumables like potions and scrolls, then consult a few of the most popular "magic item tier guide" articles to supplement 5E's overly broad and internally flawed valuation by arbitrary rarity tags.

    Classic example, the merely "Uncommon" Weapon of Warning is arguably a keeper all the way to endgame. Many DMs even nerf away its party-wide benefits entirely, because making the whole group reliably immune to surprise is game-breaking. You could gain the same personal benefit, and free up the attunement slot, by spending a precious Feat slot to take the Alert feat - but even that doesn't compare with also making all allies within 30' immune to surprise.

    If you survey the 1E magic item valuations, it helps to be aware that a) attunement slots weren;t a thing - you could equip a lot more magic! Also, b) wands in general and many other "spend a charge" items did not regain X number of charges every day. A Wand of Fireballs with 50 charges was worth about 50 Scrolls of Fireball - and when you spent the last charge, it was just a nonmagical stick again.

  • I didn't question the trope of magic item shops back in the 1E/2E days. I wouldn't run it that way now. For anything more wondrous than healing potions and +1 weapons/armor, the characters have to network through patrons, quest givers, guildmasters, mentors.

    This isn't a big problem in less experienced/more casual groups, but some players (myself included) do like to pore over articles like "most powerful wondrous items for bards". I don't think it's good for the game to feed an expectation that characters can acquire any item they can name if they just save up enough coin and search enough magic shops.

  • They've boarded up all the smashed windows with magic PNW transparent wood

  • The story where YHWH declares He handed over His people to captivity to chasten them for falling away from His commandments to comfort the poor, the foreigner, the widow and the fatherless (Jeremiah 32:25-29, Hosea 10:10)?

  • Following, so I remember to circle back to see what your final selection was!

  • Tech has to get a whole lot more secure, reliable, and personalized before I would consider buying a robot. I want to know my robo-butler isn't going to report me to the thought police if I grumble about my job or my city council. I want to know that common-sense features and updates won't be paywalled behind a subscription model. I want to know I won't have to sit through ads every 2 minutes while it does its chores. I want to know that yet another massive data breach won't provide criminals with an interior map of my house and images of every friend and family member who's ever visited my home.

  • I grew up in a "culturally Christian" family in that we observed traditional rituals at Easter and Christmas, but we never attended church. My father was a narcissistic abuser, which doesn't work with Christian values like humility, temperance, charity, etc.

    I had some school friends who conveyed rather dire, exclusive Catholic doctrine. Their notions of God were a turn-off. I internalized my father's dim view of religion.

    In my late teens or early 20s, Ayn Rand held a brief fascination among some of my friends, and I'm a little embarrassed to admit it but I got pretty Randroid for a hot minute myself.

    Following Rand's admiration of ancient Greek philosophers, I got interested in formal philosophy as an academic topic. Rand doesn't really hold up by comparison, her would-be contribution to the discipline of philosophy is regarded as unimportant by serious academia.

    Somewhere in the branch of philosophy dealing with causality and existence, we eventually confront the question: what causes the universe to exist, or is the universe itself an "uncaused first cause"? Causality with no First Cause felt more awkward to me than living with the assumption of a Prime Mover, and we may as well call it God.

    I reserve a healthy skepticism around most supernatural claims, but bottom line? It felt like a particular mistake to dismiss the Resurrection as mere myth.

    Every major religion embeds some variety of the Golden Rule. It's right there in the Great Commandment. Now and then I contemplate other mysteries of my relationship with the First Cause, but the Great Commandment is my pole star.

  • Must have been carrying a lot of Epstein files!

  • The only Kingsolver I've read was "The Bean Trees", which I loved. Didn't realize it was her debut novel at the time.

  • Welcome to Lemmy! Reddit won't get better, so now's a great time to emotionally divest from it.

  • Sounds like Netanyahu is outsourcing the genocide to Trump

  • Too bad RFK actively wants poors to just die

  • Anything with "trump says" is garbage headlining

  • The hypothesis stipulates "Apart from the top management, no employee is aware of project Cobra". So the hypothetical interns are handled by a consulting third party, not Reddit itself.

  • They'd have to pay out the $1M to consultants to forward for any actually-effective hands-on gruntwork of trying to influence the social media user market, or technical attacks on the code infrastructure or federated service provider resources. It would show somewhere in their financials.

  • Another day ending in "Y" already?