Call the function from the if block.

Now your tests can more easily call it.

I think at my last job we did argument parsing in the if block, and passed stuff into the main function.

I think a lot of people in the US have their head so far up their ass being racist and doing other xenophobia, they’d rather drown in their own shit than than have “one of them” get something “for free”.

I do sometimes joke that in order to hold office you must be able to win a game of Civilization with 2 different victory types.

I know it’s not for everyone, but for me I feel like buying music I like directly from the artist/label or via bandcamp has been a better experience. Now I have a library of DRM free music, and I know the musicians got a better cut.

There are many approaches to this problem, but as a reminder and context setter I’d like you to look at “wealth to scale” https://dbkrupp.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

It’s kind of infuriating that if you’re wealthy you basically get basic income. You can put some of your money in safe stuff (high yield savings, bonds, whatever) and just get more money without working. But a poor person needs to debase themselves for food.

Yeah I was going to say. It’s like that “no take only throw” meme with the dog. Capitalists want us to spend money, but they don’t want to pay us enough money. Just spend what we don’t have.

If I had a nice job I’d be out spending a lot more money. But they want to replace everyone with AI, or off shore, or whatever.

Conservatives often have very poor media literacy. They’re often not smart or empathetic, because if they were then they wouldn’t be conservative.

They’re never satiated.

They’re broken people and aren’t addressing the actual problems.

I read a post about different communication styles, and this is “builder vs maintainer”. https://www.haileymagee.com/blog/three-communication-differences

A builder will try to add to the conversation by adding their own experiences. A maintainer will not add their own, but will focus on the other person’s.

A builder talking about something may feel like a maintainer isn’t that interested because they’re not adding anything.

A maintainer talking to a builder may feel annoyed because the builder keeps talking about themselves.

Less access to goods and services made it generally unpleasant.

Less access? what? What places are you comparing?

I live in a city and have never felt like I have less access than when I was in the car centered suburbs.

It was a good game. Not perfect, but very good.

Even the things I don’t like are pretty minor.

• upgrading weapons is kind of tedious. Once you know where the stones are or the bearings, it’s kind of a chore to get them.
• related: once you know where some high value items are, it’s really tempting to just beeline for them from the start. But that’s kind of tedious. I guess I could just pretend I don’t know where the +5 stats talisman is.
• a lot of side content isn’t especially rewarding. The first time you play it’s exciting because you don’t know what you’ll find. But later it’s like “nah, this catacomb has a useless ash and boss I’ll fight elsewhere”. Which is a shame because most of the level design is great.

One of the reasons UBI games are trash

I parsed that as “universal basic income games” and was really confused. Ubisoft makes more sense

I feel like advertisers and capitalism are so gross, they’ve poisoned the whole concept.

I don’t think there’s anything innately wrong or violent to put up a flyer that says like “I’m starting a frisbee club. We’re meeting Saturdays at Noon in the park”. That’s an ad. But it’s a whole other beast from ads that track you. Or ads that try to make you feel insecure or inadequate.

Seems like the shared trait is “what’s good for the ownership class, in the most selfish short term sense?”

I’ve always had trouble finding players, not DMs, but yeah could be.

I found the solo play of both Remnant games really unsatisfying. Slow pacing, uninteresting enemies. Is it much better with friends?

I feel like if you’re going to get a group that shows up on the regular you might as well just play regular DND?

Yeah, I mostly play Fate or nWoD. But a lot of people are really emotionally invested in D&D, so sometimes I think of ways to try to trick them into playing something different while they think they’re still playing D&D.

no different than taking a bunch of books you bought second-hand and throwing them into a blender.

They didn’t buy the books. They took them without permission.