Did I make the printer, no.

Did I make the plastic/resin, no.

Do I understand the complex processes necessary to make all those things, no.

And I don't need to.

I just need to understand how to use the wonderful tools other people have made to make the idea real.

As someone who 3d prints, I like this analogy. And it's one of the things I love about printing.

To take a thing that exists only as a digital idea. A file. A bit of code. And turn it into a physical object is just so damn cool.

And women!

Realism cannot conceptualize, 'The US is at war because these specific individuals are filled with bloodlust and want to watch snuff films.' let alone begin to provide useful analysis of it.

It must be left in a dustheap of history with the other failed theories.

Putin wouldn't launch an ill-conceived invasion of Ukraine.

This sounds so much like what people were saying before Russia invaded in 2022.

40k.

GW simply cannot understand or fit scale into their setting.

It's one of the things I like about WH Fantasy. It has a scale that actually works for games, books, etc.

Amen.

I never found that style of gameplay enjoyable before, and now I just don't have the time.

Spending five hours looking up guides and practicing over and over again to beat a boss is... ugh. I'd rather weed the garden.

Does this make them bad games. No.

They are not games for me.

Nay, Lawful Good.

And yet the days are too short.

Amen to that.

Timers.

No seriously. Those sand timers for little kids that have 30sec, 1min, 3min, 5min, etc

Give people 1 minute to decide their turn or their character takes the 'dodge' action or equivalent.

Bonus it give combat the sense of urgency and panic it normally lacks.

I appreciate a well designed crunchy game where there are intuitive and easy to reference rules on how to play the game.

I am a 'rules not rulings' kind of player and GM.

Which is why I want D&D to have rules for social conflict that are as developed as the ones for chopping heads.

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And this is why it's all gender, wars are for porn, and Bush is a woman.

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Right, and I think China trying to take Taiwan would put us pretty close to dumb 1939.

Yep.

Three basically regional conflicts that all start melting together.

See Perun for the exception that proves the rule.

Vanity of vanities, all is vanity

I would agree that's it's not 1914, but we could be headed towards dumb 1939 if Ukraine continues, and Iran becomes prolonged, and China really does decide that 2027 is the year to DO IT.

Well see, that's why we're heretics.

On account of the heresy.

Look, either admit that God as an uncreated, eternal, One doesn't make sense to be gendered; or make like us proper heretics and go all in. God does have a gender. He's male. He's got a wife. etc.

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My brother-in-law is fully work at home and his drives are just 7-8 minute hops to take his daughter to the park/poll.

He is also feeling very good about his life choices at the moment.

Unfortunately they are also highly dependant on LNG and don't have nearly as much storage for gas.

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I just want my <$10k EV econo-box of a car and some $.15/watt solar panels to power it.

I yearn for the Seagull.

Aye.

And people still drive their emotional support APCs.

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Reasonable concern.

For what it's worth, people that I've seen who are aware of maladaptive behaviors tend to be pretty successful of being better about them than the previous generation, if not avoiding them altogether.