He's fine. People on the internet are addicted to rageahol.

His backstory does make him out to be kind of a jerk, but I don't think you learn the details until Act 2 or maybe 3.

Saint Luigi deliver us from these horrible "justices"

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.

No, I'm saying the board (or whoever hires the CEO) should pay less, and take someone qualified who would accept it. You don't see software engineers making six million a year, because that's not good value for the money. But as I said, it's a joke- the rich have class solidarity like no one else. They look out for their own.

Most CEOs don't produce much of value.

Yeah but like... so what? Hire someone who's good at the job for a reasonable rate. Let your competitors blow millions on high comp CEOs, and invest that money you saved in your business.

Except that's a joke - it's all a circle jerk where the ownership class pays themselves well.

Many right-wingers don't care about words or truth or consistency. They just want to hurt their out-group.

Remember to download anything you buy on Bandcamp. It's possible for it to go away, I think if the artist pulls it, and then you're SOL.

Other than that, great service. Definitely recommend buying music over renting it from Spotify

Renting games and music seems like a bad idea to me, but I am in the minority. Buy a new album once a month for $8, after a year I have 12 albums. Pay that to spotify and I have nothing.

Gamepass is priced more aggressively at $12/mo, but I assume it's a loss so they can eventually raise prices. Even so, if I buy a new somewhat discounted game for $36 every three months, after a year I have four games. With gamepass, I'm pretty sure I end up with nothing.

But I don't think humans are known for long term thinking.

Magical Diary is a fun little game about being a teenage girl that goes to wizard school. There's 2 but I only played one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/211340/Magical_Diary_Horse_Hall/

My time at Portia and my time at Sand Rock are pretty chill. They're kind of like Stardew but 3d, and I liked them more. It has some fighting but it's very PG cartoon-ish. It has a major mechanic where you just hang out with the NPCs, or go on dates with them. The second game, sand rock, is better but they're both good: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1084600/My_Time_at_Sandrock/

Have you by chance read the comic Watchmen?

I still sometimes think about the time I was exiting my apartment building, and as I passed through the outer doors some choral music started blasting from nearby. It definitely felt like the building door was a fog gate and I was about to find a large field boss on the street.

Luckily for my low vigor and "int but i haven't felt any spells yet" build, no boss attacked.

Everyone who wants to remove food regulations should just be shot. I'm so tired of these absolute fools that slept through 10th grade history trying to take us back to the gilded age.

If you know a way to get from here to there, please share. At my old job I tried to radicalize my coworkers so they'd understand our interests align with each other more than ownership. I had some success.

Hang everyone who works for DOGE as traitors to this country.

Probably better than getting the death penalty for allegedly shooting the CEO dead, but yeah there's no risk-free way of getting rid of the the worst sorts of people.

More generally, it's in-group vs out-group. For many people, the in-group is "white men" and the out-group is "everyone else". But this behavior is pretty baked into humans. We'll form stupid groups over anything. I was reading a book about how people change their minds, and it talked about some experiments they did. Like, they gave kids at a summer camp different colored shirts, and sure enough they formed separate groups. They had to stop the experiment when one group tried to burn down the cabin of the other group.

I don't know how to fix this.

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That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault. <-- here

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

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I hope all the republicans realize what horrible people they are before they die.

I'm told the best way to kill someone and get away with it is to hit them with your car. Not, like, drive into a crowd of people, but like nail them when they're crossing the street or walking near the side of the road. Especially if they're walking or on a bike. You can just say you didn't see them or whatever, and our car-focused culture will be like "yeah ok that happens."

So hypothetically if any healthcare CEOs are out jogging in their suburbs, someone could run them over and maybe not even be charged with a crime.

a state he won with 64% of the vote in last year’s presidential election

64% of Arkansas voters deserve to absolutely, relentlessly, get fucked. Sucks for everyone else, though.

Why should we have a market for housing at all? Not everything needs to be a market