Everyone laughed when our WoL reacted to hunting Atmas. Then the designers put this in. The devs *know the farm is something we dislike, that we find it boring/tedious.* Joking about it doesn't make it better. Being fourth wall breaking meta actually makes me more annoyed. Occult Crescent's fate grind was pretty terrible. The only interesting thing is Fork Tower, and I've had zero chance to actually get into it. But, even if I did, as a casual player, Fork Tower is an example of the problem for casual players -- difficulty comes in two varieties:

@PolitiBunny I just tried to call it; I got "this number is no longer in service." I tracked it to here, -- Checking the phone number via Google, we get the same Washington Problems and random realtors. So... not sure what else to find.instagram.com/washingtonianp… @PolitiBunny -- a second number! Glad I Googled before calling -- looks like it's associated with a uh, escort.

https://x.com/PelicanState20/status/1854621046781231292

-- So, since it was a law review article, I was curious: What argument are they making? Well... let's read along. @TheFollowingPro @StarowNiklas @thevivafrei @DaniAhnDirect @gosney_steven ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewconten…
The introduction shows the argument isn't "not disqualifying prosecutors is right," it sounds like the article is going to argue "how unique and pervasive the problem is" and the law doesn't address it well. The relevant footnote points to research on cognitive bias, by the way.

The fact that Toy Box has already released for Rogue Trader, and that a majority of the bug fixes I see online are showing people how to bypass the problem using Toy Box, is just a sign. I was stupid and bought Rogue Trader too, thinking they had learned from KM/WotR. #RogueTrader @OwlcatGames has not learned, apparently. And they won't learn until a buggy, incomplete mess sells so badly it hurts their bottom line. A lot.

So, I generally find these sorts of "play style" questions interesting. So, naturally, I saw this -- and being a person who hated on my share of Bad D&D Articles, clicked the image without noticing it wasn't a link. So, now I've decided: "How bad is the article, really?"

https://twitter.com/Nerdcognito/status/1741119283478864072

First, that is the short title that shows up in Google searches/other feeds (Image 1). The actual title is much less objectionable, but you'll only know that if you click through to the article page (Image 2). ... I should consider doing something with that Xeogears link, huh?

-- Everytime I thought about how to do the big next steps... I realized: I don't have the time, money or ability to do anything bigger than making this video that would get ignored. This all started thanks to a video from @MyInfo11014278 So, what is this? My two months or so casual analysis of those couple of accounts that Camelot pointed out as a weird thing. I got intrigued, and as you can tell, I started digging. But this is as much digging as I can reasonably do, so it was time to share.

@NBCNews Hold on, in your report -- do you really say he knows "the value of hostages" and draw a moral equivalency to his being "convicted of terrorism" and those hostages from the Oct 2023 attack, people kidnapped at a concert? @awstar11 @AGHamilton29 People who are arrested and convicted of crimes are generally not considered "hostages." It's interesting you don't mention the four Palestinians he was ALSO convicted of killing, not just kidnapping: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Sin…

I watched a guy known for sacrificing to find a missing girl and sat with a kid drawing up a will called a callous racist murderer who wanted to enslave people while paying zero taxes. This "well, it's normal to call Republicans murdering slavers is normal" is something...

https://twitter.com/jonathanchait/status/1702636053427900678

a lot of people DID NOT REALIZE until we saw it happen to Romney. We accepted Bush-Hitler-Nazi, because sure, that's what has been said forever. But, Romney was NOTHING like Hitler-Nazi-Right Wingers. 2

One final complaint for the day on BG3: The Larian Launcher repeatedly fails to launch from Steam for me. As in, I have to run the game three or four times over and over before the launcher launches so I can launch the game.

There is no reason to have a launcher in a launcher. I lied. BG3 is a good, but incredibly sloppy game. For example, this tool tip is just a lie. It does not last until a Long Rest, as it shouldn't.

I have only bad ideas, but I do want to be one of the inifinite people taking a stab at "fixing" Healers in FF14. My recommendation is to try and turn the core damage spam spell into a proc that encourages better gameplay. How do we do this? Well... Step 1: Change healer's basic attack from a melee attack to a ranged magic attack, with the swing timer effected by Spell Speed.

By the way, Cait Sith is the most obviously "rejected project designed by committee ever." Here's how I imagine it went:

Reeve: "I need a small robot to explore areas of the city that might be dangerous for people to travel to in case of collapse or poor air quality." President Shinra: "I've wanted us to have a mascot, make it cute."

Heidegar: "GIVE IT A WEAPON."

Scarlet: "Cats are cute."

Hojo: "I can make a necro-robot taxidermy cat."

Alex Murdaugh being found guilty means that, technically, the investigators can do everything wrong, fail on every point, and even when the state concedes "two shooters is as likely as him doing it," and a jury comes back guilty. From the night of the shooting, SLED believed Alex was a suspect. They refused to do a thorough search of his property, failing to even analyze the hair in Maggie's hand while insisting there was no sign of any defense. Was that dog hair? Human hair?

We've now heard basically everything but the rebuttal (which given the state's presentation in the Murdaugh case, I imagine will be a recitation of the closing, with emphasis on the looking in the eye and the coming of storms.) I came in thinking Alex easily was the sort of scumbag who could shoot his own family.

The state convinced me that, despite being a lying jerkface who steals from people, he loved his family, and that a two shooter theory is as likely as a one shooter theory.

So, time to catch up on rebuttal testimony, which starts talking about what another person (Crosby) and Paul did on a different property, where Crosby had rules about hunting that may or may not have been the same as on Moselle. Really staying on topic here. "I had a conversation... I was told... People said to me..."

Judge: "None of this sounds like hearsay to me!"

So, I heard that @cbouzy is allegedly being targeted by someone claiming to know of an assassin for hire and seems to be using a real name. Now, it's possible the stupidest person in the world is threatening to kill him, but it's also possible it is a completely routine scam. These two links will explain the pretty common scams.

wired.co.uk/article/kill-l…

scamnet.wa.gov.au/scamnet/Scam_t…

@wil_da_beast630 Last time this came up, I dove into the data that ACLED had (acleddata.com/2020/09/03/dem…). They get the data by breaking up protests as individual events. So, a few people at a prayer vigil are one protest. Hundreds of people downtown rioting are a separate event. @wil_da_beast630 So, the data is technically correct, but it gets the data in a way that is going to give them the answer they want. For example, they also separate events if protesters separate -- so if 100 people protest, and 20 break off to be violent -- that's 2 events, not 1 event.

So, in all the hoop-la of the Great Correcting yesterday, you may have missed this Op-Ed: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/… The author pretends Heard's statements are cryptic or hard to parse, stating: "Casual readers may well have wondered: What on earth is a “public figure representing domestic abuse”?" @ErikWemple goes so far as to claim a "less clear formulation would have been tough to conceive."

Alas, the Wayback Machine hasn't captured all the corrections in Taylor Lorenz's comedy of errors. Google Cache captures the first correction... before it gets wacky.

So, all this coverage from the media about content creators post Depp-Heard trial has me wondering...

What were people saying about the coverage and circus surrounding the OJ Simpson trial? So, let's do some digging. nytimes.com/interactive/20… -- Oddly enough, the NY Times retrospective cuts off after the verdict. So, no real commentary on the media/Court TV that we can see here.

Two reasons I read the manifesto. First: To be able to discuss it with people and know what is in there, what isn't, and to understand the primary sources that we'll be discussing. Second: Because bad speech can't be hidden or buried. We need to confront repugnant speech, expose it for what it is, and lay it bare in front of people as the flawed excuse for reasoning that it is.

Ok. If this is how I lose my Twitter account, so be it. We've got 180 pages. Let's lay some ground rules. 1. No snark this time. For the Cuomo documents and court opinions, I've been sarcastic and jokey. Not this time.

2. When possible, I'll include screenshots of any outrageous claims that need to be made.

3. ... This is going to be disturbing. Expect breaks throughout.