Shyfer @ Shyfer @ttrpg.network Posts 10Comments 1,025Joined 1 yr. ago
Plenty of Democratic administrations have done coups and wars all over the world. It's just a US empire policy, no matter who is President, mostly because of capitalism. Sure, conservatives are usually worse about it, but Democrats do it, too. Biden is supporting a genocide in Israel. McKinley fought the Philippines, Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish American, JFK invaded Cuba and tried to coup it, Truman led the war in Korea and established a US puppet dictatorship in n the south for, JFK and LBJ were also involved in Vietnam, etc.
Not in the same period of time for the same level of development. And when it did, they accomplished it mostly through colonies and 1800's imperialism.
I know someone in the US who is adamant Biden cheated, too. That's not really evidence.
I mean, they seem to be for open markets and pro-Zionist, also more for Christians than indigenous, and against Chavez, who helped a lot of the poor in Venezuela. So far, she's looking pretty conservative but I'm learning as I go along.
Isn't the opposition conservative? If so, doubt it will be good for the people. I don't know too much about the politics of Venezuela specifically, but I've never seen a conservative government benefit anyone but the rich long term.
And even if you're don't get banned, just like Reddit, you may get down voted a lot if you go against the discourse of the current thread. But not sure if that's fixable anywhere with big groups of people.
It's tough because I don't actually want all the redditors here because of the low effort pun comment chains, constant bot comments, pervasive echo chambers and pop culture drivel. But on the other hand, I do miss the discussion in some of the more niche subreddits here.
The dichotomy of man.
Tbh, I'm embarrassed to say that I thought that people were run over by tanks until I saw someone arguing it on Lemmy and I went to look up accounts by Western reporters there at the time, including the guy who took the tank man picture. So even if the "tankie" instances are right on this subject, they probably shouldn't ban people, but should disseminate correct information instead.
Time to revive it!
Same. The monsters are amazing, and would be a big boost to 5e, but I haven't been playing it as much lately.
Cool list. #10 reminds me of Vash the Stampede
I don't know exactly what this all means but it sounds like it helps people find content for Lemmy, which is great! Content means users, users means more lurkers, some of who will turn into active users, which means interesting ND varied discussions on different topics!
I figured it meant drama happening from players going out and then breaking up or something like that. Seen that before, but I could totally believe your theory, too lol.
I really need to read those books lol.
He cites the issue in the blog post, but it will probably be a hard one to find on the internet. Someone else in this thread tried, but wonder if it's the kind you have to go to a library and look at that microfiche or microfilm to find. That would be cool if someone finds a link.
I was very surprised. Then I was surprised at how surprised I was. Oh well, never meet your heroes. Or look into their opinions on race, gender, or sex lol.
Some of those quotes blew my mind. It sounded exactly like FATAL. I couldn't believe it lol.
Yet apparently a bunch of people need to learn that, because according to the author when they brought up his flaws in a book, people were falling over themselves to say he was besmirching his good name or slandering Gygax and stuff like that. People need to learn their heroes aren't perfect, even now, and that's why I think it's good this article is spread and read. Not everyone knows to separate the author and their work.
I would blame social media for encouraging parasocial relations, but this is the kind of stuff that existed before the internet, with other musicians and artists and authors, and it's brought up in academic courses on similar work, so I guess it's just a human thing that people need to be aware of.
Good point, and I think that was main thesis of the article. There were sexist parts of the game, but nothing easily fixable. Gygax and Arneson created something greater than themselves, that could live beyond any flaws they had (well, Gygax, so far nothing on Arneson luckily).