You can turn that one on desktop off, btw

If only separated bike lanes were more common. I’m really not comfortable riding with all those cars just right there.

Apparently Vanguard has a whole proxy voting system that I left on the defaults!

If you set a minimum vacation time, it’s not bad. But most places don’t do that, because they know you’ll take less time if they say unlimited.

Solidarity doesn’t have to mean they like have a club with a secret handshake. Their goals are aligned, and they tend to work towards those goals, even without explicit coordination. It’s rare to see anyone in the ownership class work against those interests. You don’t see a lot of the owners saying “we should give people more time off” or “we should let the workers have a say”. It’s pretty consistently “we should squeeze people for more money”. It makes the news when ownership is like “We’re going to pay people more”, and it doesn’t make the news when labor is like “i’ll just work a little more off the clock to catch up”.

Contrast with labor, where people are often undermining their interests. Being anti-union, voting against regulations that would protect them from exploitation, giving away labor for free.

This seems trivial to solve without all the LLM parts. It’s like… 1-3 lines of code to pick a random item from a list. Surely someone has made websites or apps to do that for you, if you can’t write it yourself.

Or a no code solution: dice or a dart board or cards or any other randomization tool.

Solidarity doesn’t mean they’re all in love and never squabble. But it does mean that they will prioritize their class’ interests, especially if it’s in conflict with labor.

I assume rich people often keep enough shares to control who sits on the board, and thus who is the CEO. There’s a lot of people sitting on multiple boards, folks know each other, blah blah blah.

Also many shareholders aren’t really involved. I don’t even know how it works if you own shares through Vanguard or something. I’ve never been asked to vote on company policy.

From what I’ve seen in start-up land, leadership is a lot of in-group bro times. It’s all gut feel. Shouldn’t expect rational, honest, decisions from them.

Does final fantasy tactics advance 2 count? Because I finished that.

It was pretty okay. The story was thin. The difficulty was low and fell off a cliff after I figured out an easy combo, aside from two optional fights. The shop system was more tedious than fun.

I’m not mad I played it, but I think it’s the weakest in the franchise I’ve played.

I don’t know why anyone would be surprised that discord is getting shittier. It’s a private for profit org. Not getting shitty is an exception.

The rich have class solidarity. They’re not going to casually fuck each other over like that.

Nice! I got about two remorts in, but haven’t played in a while. It’s a pretty solid mud.

I’ll always have a soft spot for Project Bob, which I think shut down. Diablo-style items and a very fast paced combat system. Alas. Time marches on.

200 is a lot of people for a mud. The only one I know of that’s that big is aardwolf. Which do you play?

It was always going to end like this. If you’re surprised, I hope you learned a valuable lesson.

I know plenty of adults who are really bad at money and paying bills.

I feel like the average video game player has really poor media and political literacy, but maybe it’s just the ones who make noise online who fit that profile.

If conservatives alone got what they deserved (misery) it wouldn’t be so bad. But they insist on taking everyone else down with them, too.

I typically buy music , most often from Bandcamp. I figure $10/mo gets me one or two albums I can keep forever. I tend to be more depth-first with music, where I get really into a band for a little while then move on, so this works for me.

Like I think stealth rolls should be hidden. You shouldn’t have an idea that you’re not hiding well.

I don’t have the players actually make the stealth roll until something opposes it. They’re doing the best they can. Here comes the guard. Roll, please.

Plenty of systems have something for that, often with a variety of options.

I believe 5e has a similar rule, but it seems rare for players to have actually read the rules. I don’t think D&D is especially detailed about this, but I don’t know where the book is to check. I don’t think they give DCs, where I wouldn’t be surprised if Pathfinder 2e had a simple “target number is 8 + the creature’s HD” formula with guidance on what to do for the range of possible outcomes.