Shhalahr

Don't worry Donnie. We're all dying just a little bit more each day.

Life: It's terminal.

How many of them are the "It's not a religion, it's a personal relationship with Jesus," types?

I'm on some text lists. There are definitely some people putting out feelers for Kamala. Got a couple requests for surveys about it.

Worth adding that “unemployment” in this context just means people who are claiming unemployment benefits, a things that runs out, and when they run out, they no longer are counted by it.

✋ This is where I've been for the past year and a half.

I managed to do that with Abbey Road of all things, though a Round Trip example. Started the album on my way out. Paused it while doing some errands. Went home, and it finished up just as I pulled in. Of course, I had to get lucky with traffic flow, so I don't expect to be able to intentionally repeat it.

The point isn't there being a 'real' solution. The point is that there wasn't really a problem to begin with. This is more like when your party assumes a door is trapped and takes an hour to decide how to approach it, but the door was really just a rotted normal door ready to fall off its hinges.

I'm generally not big on that approach. But then again, I rarely play at levels where the PCs can really take that superhero approach. Could be interesting to roll with that some time.

DMed a game where an otyugh dragged a PC into it's trash pit. Bit of a Death Star trash compactor scenario. But he got out and the party beat the otyugh within an inch of its life before it retreated.

When the party passed by the same pit, I described one the otyugh's eyestalks sticking out before it Noped back under.

Oh, I love that metaphor.

One of the primary reasons Reddit cited for its API rule changes was LLMs profiting off its data for free.

Its data? Seems to me that most of that "data" was actually generated by users. Which Reddit, in turn, profited off for free.

Only one punch? Letting them off easy, I see.

I tend to go with the "distract myself" method. Think about some song, movie, game, etc. Keeps the brain from ruminating on that shit. And usually can manage it long enough that the thought's barely a vague memory afterwards.

Basically, the idea is: Don't feed the demon.