Based on what exactly? I’ve gone to one of his events, he’s pretty explicit about being a science educator. I can’t say I’ve seen him claim otherwise anywhere, though people definitely like to put those words in his mouth.

Didn’t DOGE already cut support for the Panama facility? Something along those lines was in the news a couple months ago

People also shouldn’t just be able to make money off of other people’s creations without limits.

IMO, ideally we would implement a system of ‘open licensing’ where people could freely use others IP as long as they pay a public, standardized percent of revenue based on the usage.

It comes from the FFG Star wars RPG system and its method of creating multiple success/failure conditions. It’s an entirely independent system to the light/dark side force mechanics.

That’s fair if it’s not solving a problem for you, but it does add something new that resonates with a lot of people (at least it did for me). I’m speaking from the Genesys side so I don’t know how daggerheart handles it, but I absolutely loved it. I found it made skill checks more collaborative, my table would suggest ideas for how to interpret the roll, and having more to ‘explain’ got people more descriptive in how they talk about their actions. We went from ‘I take a swing. Nope, that’s a miss’ to ‘failure with advantage, ok I go in with my axe but I can’t get through this guy’s defenses. For my advantage, I want to hook this guys shield with my axe so the next attacker gets a boost die to hit’.

It does make checks more involved, but I prefer fewer, more impactful checks as a general rule anyway.

“Oh no, I only want to be kind to people if it requires absolutely no effort on my part.”

What a fucking child.

“Fan”

That’s the part that precludes payment. Fan works legally have to be free, that’s what makes it not copyright infringement.

I do, though not nearly as often as I’d like. I think people often get too hung up on how to meditate and try to force the ‘empty head’, but that’s like starting out on challenge mode. The most effective method for me is to sit somewhere outside (preferably a peaceful place) and focus my mind on listening. Nothing else, just listening for whatever sounds are around, and naming them. Wind, birds, water, construction noise, whatever it is, just touch each sound, then listen for another.

I guess it’s more of a mindfulness exercise technically, but it’s all the same concept. It’s grounding yourself in the physical world, quieting the constant chatter and focusing on something external and tangible.

Cool, so let’s just stick to using pronouns for everyone. After all, it’s simple enough to accommodate the people who really don’t fit into those neat categories.

That’s pretty much exactly what I’m saying. If you offer software that requires outside servers to run, you should be legally obligated to release the code used to run the servers if you discontinue supporting that software. That doesn’t make mmo’s any different, just a minor change to how they handle end of life.

Yeah if you think most people are going to care or even know about this, you haven’t been paying attention to the last 20 years.

Or people are used to this concept and accept it as normal instead of unethical behavior that should be illegal.

Why would people here care that much about this? This kind of material exists on any site that allows user submitted content, and the only solution is aggressive automated moderation, which winds up hurting everyday users. Would you prefer that anyone who uploads a song or podcast that names a drug be automatically removed and have to be manually approved?

These are low-effort scams to steal credit card numbers, it doesn’t seem like any of these had an actual avenue to purchase drugs. They should be removed for sure, but this is hardly some wild breach of responsibility.

You’re right, all gendered pronouns should be abolished. Everyone is a ‘they’ from now on since division must be avoided at all costs.

This has got to be machine printed right? They’re no worse than Wizard’s usual minis, but yeah they always suck. The biggest problem IMO is the sculpt, they look like they’re made out of mud. I assume it has to do with the rubber they use. I don’t know, I’m way too spoiled by printing my own to consider buying something that looks this bad.

You should take a look then, this one is subtly but significantly different. They found Dimethyl Sulfide, which is (to our knowledge) only created by living organisms.

Wasn’t that the big news last week?

My understanding is that they were embryos from HIV infected parents, so they had very little chance of avoiding infection during birth. His argument is that their chances of survival were already so low, there’s little harm that could be done if the treatment wasn’t effective.

Maybe it would be more helpful if the old leftists who wasted too much time protesting started putting their lives on the line instead of insisting their children should do it for them.

Don’t worry I’m sure we’ll get them soon, their top prompt writers are all over it.

My dude, that’s not a toad, that’s a leopard frog.