I think it’s going to work. You’re probably not alone in liking this comic.

Oh.

I thought it was some kind of slang, and I just wasn’t young and hip enough to get it.

Yes, exactly.

I really appreciate all your efforts to bring content to the community!

Tagging gives people who could get fired the option to have the content blurred until they click it.

We try not to be judgemental assholes here, but plenty of our bosses are judgemental assholes.

That’s why the tag is “Not Safe for Work”.

It is more generous to err on the side of caution.

It also result in more reach, because the other option available to folks with shitty bosses is just to block users and instances that don’t tag things.

I.e. I’ve blocked everything here with the word “moe” because holy shit those folks have no fucking clue how to tag anything.

“Not Safe for Work” people want to browse at work, and could get fired for having this comic scroll past.

The fact people could get fired for this is total bullshit. But it is what it is. Tagging gives people options.

This isn’t about judgement, it’s about making spaces for people to enjoy without risking their jobs.

This reminds me of some places that I have lived.

I think we’re mostly on the same page, you just can still trust a Democrat, I guess?

Let’s extend your analogy, though: the Democrats are shooting too, just not directly at me, at this moment. There’s plenty dead at their hands.

I still might rally behind a Democrat to stop an authoritarian, one more fucking time.

And I might not.

We did this dance.

Democrats do not stop the shooting.

I am strongly inclined to trust a total stranger over an established Democrat.

I am not alone in that.

Even if a Democrat cared to save any of us, I do not believe that the Democratic party has the remaining influence to make any difference.

The Maga crowd got something right: the average Democrat politician is spineless, broken and unwilling or unable to disobey orders from a secret cabal of pedophiles.

If we could wake the Maga types up, they might realize the dumb fucks they’re worshipping are part of the same pedophile ring.

Through that lens, being the person that knowingly votes for some niche candidate that they know isn’t going to win any election against those two, knowing full well that by doing that you’re making it that much easier for the Christofascists to scrape out a win and continue pushing this morality horseshit on the people…no, you don’t get a pass. Not anymore.

So when do we hold the democrats accountable for being openly detestable, if not when the they’ve handed the whole country over?

Our only chance at this not getting worse is a likeable candidate. We know democrats are committed to never running one.

What’s the answer here?

Yes, the Democratic party running a true populist is the answer sure. We all know that’s not going to happen.

The US Democratic plans to continue to eek out loses from the jaws of inevitable victory, and enjoy ongoing campaign funding and unaccountability, as their reward.

This, what we have today, is literally their whole platform. They helped plan this.

When do we hold them accountable for that? Is is still too soon?

Wake the fuck up, and realize YOU ARE WORKING CLASS. THEY ARE RULING CLASS. Stop doing their propaganda for them.

Yep.

This thread is full of folks willing to bet that the spineless overlords will change enough to save them from the openly authoritarian overlords.

It is for any democrat who makes it into significant power, yes. Gotta work within that system for slow gradual improvements that can be easily undone.

They’re never a reincarnated plumber named Sal from Hoboken NJ. I blame the Bronte sisters.

Maybe they just don’t talk about it.

Devotion to agnosticism is beautiful.

To me, it means I will passionately defend another person’s right to remain “undecided” on all things spiritual.

It can be surprisingly effective in some circles.

Do you need a specific game mechanic for that?

Not really, I suppose. But having it explicit can help players realize they have the option.

“Concede” is also handy for situations where a player feels that their character winning this particular battle would be out of character.

It’s a particularly helpful rule for cases where the player wants their character to do something particularly foolish, maybe to reach a specific story outcome, but still wants some influence on the final outcome.

It can go along the lines of:

Player: My character doesn’t have the brains to not start this fight, but even if we roll lucky and win this, it would feel broken. Can I roll an attack and then immediately concede?

GM: Sure. What would that look like?

Player: What if my character is disarmed somehow?

Etc.

I’ve seen where a few outcomes get discussed, and if the group doesn’t have a strong favorite, we just ranked them in order of luck, and then determined the full encounter with a quick single roll.

Why reference the imperfect copies gen AI makes when you have databases of the real original artists and pictures and 3d scans of real things in the world out there to reference.

I think it is because one of these approaches requires skill and time, the other requires a ChatGPT subscription and George Jetson to push one idiotic button.

It makes people feel that they can contribute in fields where they were previously (and still are) useless.

Pandora’s box is open and will never close again.

Yes…but this Pandora’s box just had a fart in it.

We know we can’t put the fart back in the box.

We just want people to stop acting like it is about to revolutionize modern cinema.

All it is going to do is clear the room.

Ohhhh… It took me (checks post age) seven hours to get it.

That was a surprisingly good sequel.

A woman once told me she worked in a club and when one of the regulars passed away, a bunch of them went to his funeral.

There’s certainly worse legacies one could leave, than having spread some wealth around while presumably having been respectful enough to be missed.

How dare you compare this popular almost plot free slugfest to that… Other…popular almost plot free slugfest!

Edit: Of course, I’m joking. And I am vaguely aware that both franchises have some kind of plot now.

Still, I think it’s funny you got downvoted for making the obvious comparison. We either have one die hard fan in here, or someone with fat fingers meant to upvote you and misclicked.

I hope so. That game made the rest of the stupidity of adapting a plot free game into a pointless movie worth it. Because we got a game out of it.