I get most of my music from Bandcamp, on bandcamp friday’s. It sucks they sold out and are probably circling the drain, but for a long time they were a solid independent source.

Buying directly from the band at a show or through their label is also cool.

It’s more of an up-front cost, but after years of doing this I have a large drm-free library.

I really thought this was the onion. Satire is dead.

Sometimes my cat will whine and try to get in my lap, but if I pick him up and put him there he leaps off. It’s only good if he climbs up himself.

True, true, an individual can do little. But I hope that every so often someone will read a post about how the owners keep all the profits without doing all the work, and move leftwards.

Anyway. Good chat. Let’s all continue doing the best we can.

That kind of capitalism is not the only way for a society to be.

In actual small business I’ve found it’s common for the employees to earn the same or more than the owner.

Ehh. It still has a structural problem where the non-owners get a wage, and the owner gets a wage plus indefinite profits. The people who built the thing will eventually leave or be fired and stop profiting, but the owner can cruise or sell. Like how a baby tiger is cute, but it’s going to grow into something dangerous.

As I said, it’s a skill that benefits from practice. Many men have more practice, and thus perform better. It’s not innate. Some men do badly despite years of practice.

felt nice to support the team

I think most places are capitalist orgs, so your money is just going to shareholders. The developers got paid a wage, and maybe some stock options.

Really small teams, purchases probably go to people doing the work. But for a larger company, especially something like Microsoft (who own overwatch), buying stuff only kind of sort of through several layers of indirection helps the team.

It’s kind of a bad system, honestly, because people who don’t work on a thing keep profits from that thing

I don’t do microtransactions. Fuck 'em. They made the game shittier so they can try to annoy me into paying money. They know that once you spend any money, you’re more likely to spend more.

You’ll stop using corporate social media now, right?

A big chunk of that is capitalism. People who aren’t doing work make decisions and keep profits. A self directed team might blow their budget on famous voice actors, 8k graphics, and executive retreats, but probably not.

Misread as 71% of Americans want [Taylor] Swift to end Trump’s Iran war. I was like I didn’t know she was in politics, or had that power.

A member of the general public can’t issue a citation.

My lawyer tells me it’s a “crime” to smash the windows of an illegally parked car. Even if they’re double parked in the bike lane.

Awakening 2nd edition is pretty sweet, but it’s not exactly speedy. I do enjoy the mini game of figuring out exactly how many dice I feel comfortable giving up for my bonuses, though.

But yeah, my most recent game is a purely street level situation. Recent events include

• killing an AI music CEO because fuck that noise
• killing a nimby lady, a dirty lawyer, and dirty assemblyman as part of a favor exchange
• agreeing to help a spooky but friendly old lady try to get her church back from a grifter (this will probably involve murder)
• agreed to supply a “maybe a mad scientist?” guy that’s been working on animating the dead with bodies. (They provided two deceased dead cops)

There sure is a lot of murder in this game, though.

Once again, when the legal system descends into farce, vigilantism becomes more appealing. The rich can twist the law as much as they want, but they’re rolling the dice that they’ll have a surprise plumber visit.

And the people who run this shit need to go to jail. I’m sure a lot of them would rat out their corrupt buddies for a reduced sentence.

Poster makes a meme about Mage, a decidedly non-dnd game. Replies are all DND anyway. The RPG hobby, everyone.

Anyway, my current game has a similar problem. Blowing up a data center with a car bomb, killing a dozen construction workers and cops: sleep.

Letting a video of the PCs shrugging off multiple close range gunshots go online: real shit

There’s that political cartoon that’s like two people on bikes through a beautiful downtown, and one says to the other “If anyone tried to add bike lanes like this back home, I’d murder them”

Good. I look forward to a future where people who fought transit have their lives improved by it, even if they’re too small minded and foolish to recognize it.

I went back to windows for a little bit a couple years ago because when I tried to install mint on the new desktop, Ethernet WiFi and HDMI didn’t work. I tried some fixes but it was a real shit show.

After a little while on windows, I went with pop!_os , which worked out of the box