“The Parlor Room” is everything I wished Tom Vassal’s “Dice Tower” and Wil Wheaton’s show had grown into.

I think the big difference is DropOut has such a deep bench of comedians.

Even so, The Parlor Room is my favorite effective and entertaining way to shop for board games and learn the rules.

I wish my second favorite, “Beer and Boardgames” would join DropOut so I could watch them ad free more easily.

Be sure to check ouy Hyper Team Mechatron Go.

It’s a delightful spoof of Power Rangers that has more heart than it has any right to.

Archie is an idiot, here.

Yes. And the awkward social situation is when they ask what I’m wearing, but I didn’t pay any attention to the brand of the urinal mat.

I don’t want that to happen again, so now I’m careful to take note of the urinal mat branding.

Oh fun. Oscar feels like someone anyone could just sit and chat forever with.

Except there’s no non-wildcard Republican candidate.

They’ve cracked the formula for telling their voter base that this time will be different and anti-establishment.

While the Democrats have solved for how to exhaust their voter base patience. (Bombing innocent people in other countries.)

Approval based voting is the only way the Democratic party remains a player in American politics.

How does this compare to first past the post? Does it make any difference in outcomes?

Yes. It may be the only chance American Democrats have of winning any future elections.

The next wildcard candidate will attract a bunch of votes, while a Democrat who stands for shitty compeomises could still get a “better than the other asshole” approval vote.

Tagging is essentially the same as removing and not a compromise in my book.

Come check out Mastodon sometime, where we also tag movie spoilers, politics, mentions of any medical condition, and eye contact.

There’s nothing wrong with eye contact. It makes some people really uncomfortable. So we tag it so that they can filter it.

I wish I could upvote this twice! I’m actually on my way around to my second re-read of “Small Gods” during another full Discworld read-through.

Yea. Any religion that believes in a just interving diety runs into this.

If i really believe my god is perfect and all powerful, then why should I have compassion for all the unlucky people that god clearly despises?

It’s hard, because the idea of a perfect loving god is incredibly attractive.

It’s the evidence that sucks: if god is real and all powerful, then god is, at best ineffable, and at worst a terrible raging asshole who lovingly created a parasite that eats childrens eyes.

Now, if we’re willing to believe in a sort of weak impotent god, the theology gets more interesting.

why would I want this type of thing done at the community level?

I have an RSS feed for my unfiltered comics.

I read here for the community.

I’m happy to just skip the work of bigots, and have mostly blocked the users who routinely post that stuff.

That saif, if we’re going to remove credit with intent, i have a request:

let’s be clear and cedit “some random bigot”, so I’ll know i might not want to seek out the artist.

Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents… This is still surprisingly weird.

Lol.

This is a dumb strawman.

There’s basically two consumers, plus a bunch of lies told by the Epstein class.

Consumer 1: Wants a good product produced in a way they feel good about at a fair price. This typically includes preferring both locally made and fair wage pricing, as well as not-killing-the-planet.(Non-sociopaths who are currently not afraid about their finances tomorrow, tend to fall in this category.)

Consumer 2: Just needs the lowest price possible to survive another day. (People may drift btween these two modes, based on life events.)

Cosumer 3: Epstein class rapist. Wants you to believe their crimes are somehow your neighbor’s fault.

Edit: This maybe flew over my head. Is Orange man Epstein class?

I think it’s going to work. You’re probably not alone in liking this comic.

What.

Ok.

Edit: Oh gosh. It’s everything I hoped it would be.

Oh.

I thought it was some kind of slang, and I just wasn’t young and hip enough to get it.

I really appreciate all your efforts to bring content to the community!

Tagging gives people who could get fired the option to have the content blurred until they click it.

We try not to be judgemental assholes here, but plenty of our bosses are judgemental assholes.

That’s why the tag is “Not Safe for Work”.

It is more generous to err on the side of caution.

It also result in more reach, because the other option available to folks with shitty bosses is just to block users and instances that don’t tag things.

I.e. I’ve blocked everything here with the word “moe” because holy shit those folks have no fucking clue how to tag anything.

“Not Safe for Work” people want to browse at work, and could get fired for having this comic scroll past.

The fact people could get fired for this is total bullshit. But it is what it is. Tagging gives people options.

This isn’t about judgement, it’s about making spaces for people to enjoy without risking their jobs.