Jim McGarva

When I was struggling with the same issue, I made a subsystem called "a long and harrowing journey." To emphasize that it's not going to make sense for a 5-day trek no matter how dangerous the environment.

A short trip in a dangerous environment is best handled by having encounters (combat and non)

Having second thoughts on this.

Oregon Trail is primarily a resource management game where the consequences of your decisions are largely incremental, mostly only accumulating impact across ~150 days, on a trip with a time limit.

The game falls apart if you shrink it down to a week.

A photo with a finger touching a bottle or not touching a bottle. The angle makes it impossible to tell.

A photo with a finger touching a bottle or not touching a bottle. The angle makes it impossible to tell.

Acting like you can tell if something is touching something else from a side angle is ridiculous. You cannot. People who watch sports with video reviews will know this.

In one of these pictures, my finger is touching the bottle. Can you tell which? (No, you cannot.)

"Unsex me now" is, however, a dispiriting thing to hear on a date.

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them!

The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

Just lost a run of Hades 2 and was pleased. I didn't get the boons I wanted and had a bad build. Still could've saved it by playing well against rivals Chronos. Instead, I played pretty bad.

I'm happy because I was afraid I was getting to the point where winning was automatic. Not yet!

what if, due to AI, in a couple of years the only people who have jobs are podcasters? that brings us to the obvious question: how are the rest of you going to get the money to pay for my podcasts? that's something you all need to be thinking about because i will not change my lifestyle.

Not trying to be annoying here, just wondering what my options are.

If they're bandits, they're sentient and share at least some values with humans. So then if they're not people, morally and ethically, what else could they be?

Do they have to be? What else can they be?

What if they are orc bandits?

What did people think Ring was selling?

"Oh wait, they can share footage of everyone who comes to my house including my own family with the cops?"

Yeah, that's literally the whole point.

I write books that mean something to me with my own brain.

I just learned about the lawsuit over the McRib being false advertising because it contains literally no rib meat.

I don't need 100% purity, but setting the bar at 0% is also wrong.

That goes for ribs and leftism both.

Kids love to be like, "you only asked me nicely eleventy billion times. I don't know why you've gotta yell about it."

The revelations make clear they are dumb as hell. The other thing that separates them from us is how cruel and awful they are.

If these people aren't being rewarded for their talents, which are absent, one might conclude that they get rich because they are awful. We reward cruelty above all else.

A comic about the failure of D&D. A new GM desires to create a vivid fantasy world full of drama and story. D&D promised this.

After repeated disappointment and many houserules, the GM has stopped trying to make the game fit the vision and is just doing what works: cool fights with minimal story.

"what's an accomplice?"

Ccing the guy's daughter on this is an insane power move. Finkelstein does not pull his punches.

Imagine the monetized benefits of universal adherence to the AAP’s recommended vaccination schedule.

I’m sorry but I still can’t get over the fact that the analyst Jean Leray was captured by Nazis in 1940 and knew it was time to become Goblin Wizardman & this is why the world contains sheaves

People say pederasty was considered normal in ancient Athens. And I always wonder: do they really believe it would have been normal for a poor farmer in Attica to have sex with a boy from a rich landowning family?

It only ever went one way. It's always been a class thing.

See also: the British.

Communists seeing their claims about the global bourgeoisie once again proven right only for the public to go “omg Alex Jones and the conspiracy theorists were right!”

This is where I fell off of the modern Fire Emblem games.

I like to optimize in the combat - that's the point of that part of the game.

But the feeling that I have to optimize having conversations around campus? I hated that.

He introduces you to his friends from Pella named Alex and Cletus.

Deep down? Man, I've been saying that we're run by idiot fascists for years and people thought I was just a crazy communist or something! And I have a lot of self-doubt about some things, but never this. I would stop and think "am I being crazy? No! They are literally killing and torturing people!"

Palestinian Americans: Please don't kill my family.

Trans Americans: Please don't take my medicine, I need it to live.

Liberals: Enough purity tests! Of course we're going to kill their families and take their meds! But the other guy would also kill Mexicans. We would never - they clean our pools!

A large black dog rolling around in the snow, burying himself and getting covered in it.

A large black dog lying in the snow, looking at the camera with snow all over his face.

This boy loves the snow. His favourite time of year.

I wish my Omi was still here. She grew up in Austria in the 30s. On the one hand, I'm glad she doesn't have to see this all. But all the same, I wish I could talk to her about it. I have so much I want to ask her.

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition. Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN.

"Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."