jjjalljs

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 1 hour ago

The right wing doesn't care about hypocrisy. The only thing that matters is "is this good for me right now?".

Pointing out hypocrisy to them is as effective as someone saying your geometric proof is invalid because you're wearing a yellow shirt. It's just not a part of their worldview or system of values.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 hours ago

. I’m sure there are efficiencies and they need to be enacted but we need to ask why we use the systems we use.

Yes. This is sometimes known as chesterton's fence

https://theknowledge.io/chestertons-fence-explained/

G.K. Chesterton was an early 20th century English writer known for his clever paradoxes.

He once wrote: “There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, ‘I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.’ To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: ‘If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.’”

In other words, don’t be so quick to tear down things you don’t understand. That fence may have been put up for a very good reason, even if that reason is not immediately obvious. To ignore that reality risks unintended and potentially negative consequences.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 hours ago

I saw that one too and thought similarly!

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't know about "fine". It has a lot of weird stuff baked in. Hoisting. Unexpected type coercion. Too many ways to loop over something and I always forget which one is which. "There's more than one way to do it" is kind of a recurring problem, come to think of it. Several function declaration syntaxes. Dot notation AND bracket notation for objects.

Also it will forever bother me that object keys aren't quoted.

const foo = "hello"; const bar = { foo: "world" }

That should be, in my mind, { "hello": "world" } . It's not. It's { "foo": "world" }

But if you want to do that, you need to do const bar = { [foo]: world }. Which looks like your key is an array with one entry, a string with a value of "foo"

You also end up learning a whole framework, with its syntax and idioms, every couple years. Angular. React. Redux. Whatever.

There's also a lot of people who have never used anything else, and want to use javascript for everything.

Javascript is basically D&D. Wildly popular. Full of legacy jank. People try to use it for anything even though there are better or more specialized tools.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If they had to pay people for interviews they'd probably be a lot snappier about the process.

Like, sure, I'll do nine hours of interviews if you're paying me $100/hr.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 4 hours ago

I mean, we live in a hellscape. Even if they had given him a start date, they can still fire him at any point for no reason. Labor has almost no protections (in the US, at least). It would be only slightly less bad to accept the new job, take it, quit the old job, and then get fired.

I'd rather we have like basic income, free health care, and public housing, so people don't need to worry about dying because some capitalist is willing to hire them.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 21 points 6 hours ago

Seems like Starbucks is wasting time with this dress code. Good on the union for fighting back.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 7 hours ago

You can always count on republicans to have a bad idea

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 7 hours ago

The stories about that dude are so good. The sheer pigheadedness of some players. Like the guy who spent like 8 hours fighting that boss instead of just walking around. he eventually won, to his credit.

I gave up after a couple tries on my first dude, but when Margit kept kicking my ass I restarted as a sorcerer. Killed both of them with the trusty pew-pew magic pebble.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg is garbage and shouldn't be allowed to keep living with his tremendous, ill-gotten, wealth.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 8 hours ago

It can be accurate or biting satire, but I didn't enjoy it. It's a long game to spend so much time annoyed at a main character.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 6 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

I didn't finish gta5 because there's a lot of just driving around doing nothing. And then the missions are very restrictive - you pretty much do exactly what it says or you go back to the checkpoint.

I'd rather they were more like Deus Ex or Dishonored (I think those are called immersive Sims now?).

Also Trevor is just unpleasant

 

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

 

I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

 

Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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