Europe and the Colonial Projects (dibs on the band name)

It’s almost time, we’re almost back to web-rings.

14/f/cali, obvs

Yeah, if you want to chat off-topic take it to AIM.

Old-school forum with under a hundred people and a couple mods that give a shit is peak but does have problems with stagnation and over-specialization. Casual chat rooms or a -chan style board are a good counterbalance and nobody should exist in only one social space. Reddit et al. is a weird in-between and Discord feels like worse IRC.

Cool bigotry.

Not how evolution works.

Bringing up how the weather makes a bicycle a poor choice is not a “stupid counter point”.

There’s going to be some psychopaths no matter what (I have a buddy with permanent injuries from an intentional hit-and-run on his bike) but the bigger problems there are poorly designed roads, improper bike lanes, and lack of enforcement for distracted driving. Empathy doesn’t resolve infrastructure failures.

The solution is to make everyone uncomfortably hot and sweaty?

More tax dollars get spent where more of the taxpayers are. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/Washington_population_density_2020.png

Beyond that simplification I can’t really address your point because it’s quite vague. Public transit has been a fight for a long time, in part due to loud anti-tax lobbyists and NIMBYs fighting infrastructure at every step.

You should have a little empathy instead of blind car-hate.

All the tech fascists steal words. Palantir is from Lord of the Rings.

Captain planet (he’s our hero) (gonna take pollution down to zero)!

We could really, really use an environmentalist power that isn’t beholden to any nation or company.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen non-homogenized milk in a jug like that.

Milk is so easy to tell if it’s spoiled, no reason to throw it out without a sniff test.

Encumbrance makes a lot of sense in the context of old D&D, progression was tied to how much treasure you could get out of a dungeon. It also works well in survival-type games where resource management is a key mechanic. But like many facets of old D&D it is applied widely with no consideration.

It’s very important that we find a healer or we’re going to die! But also, you can only get one camp interaction per rest so take your time~

This doesn’t bother me at all. It’s kinda weird that games are often expected to give 100% of their content to average investment players. Leave some meat on the bone for the tryhards!

Yes, but that perceived value has existed for thousands of years across many forms of civilization. Gold is a pretty safe bet. Humans like shiny.