TugOfWarCrimes

And my toddler throwing a tantrum at bed time is the user arguing with IT that they did turn off the power and rebooted when they just closed the laptop and opened it again

Ahh the classic "my friend told me to do something dumb so I shouldn't be held responsible for actually doing it."

At least he's young enough to excuse it as part of growing up. No excuses for adults though.

Not me personally but related. American Truck Simulator has started displaying in-game billboards for an irl truck driving recruiter.

I'm usually pretty strongly against in game advertisements, but this one just kind of makes sense to me.

It will be interesting to see how the existence or lack of a downvote option affects communities over time. There's some interesting arguments to be made both for and against. And now we actually have a way to easily test and compare between comparable communities on different instances.

I agree about not using it just to disagree with an opinion, but I do think the ability to downvote is very important. It just needs to be clear that it's supposed to be used to reduce the impact of stuff this is either harmful or just distracts from the conversation.

If I'm in a thread talking about what the best flavor of milkshake is, I will absolutely upvote someone claiming that chocolate is the best even though they are "objectively" wrong. They are however engaging with the conversation. On the other hand, someone who comes in saying that they hate milkshakes and prefer lemonade, while they're not exactly wrong in having that opinion, it would be worthy of a downvote because they're in the wrong place for that comment.

And then there's the bots/people that if they lost the ability to ever talk again, the world would be a better place. Never feel sorry for downvoting them.

Disgusting. People like that are the reason that No D&D is better than bad D&D.

This exactly. I make a note of ruling out things like this at session zero when I DM and also help others to identify their limits. I've had people ask why I make such a big deal out of it and my answer is always "because I've seen what happens if I don't."

I mean, as a long time D&D player, this would be a pretty accurate adaptation of some of the tables I've played at.

He got better

From memory it was several months between Frodo arriving in Rivendell and the actual Council of Elrond. Maybe that's what you're remembering.

The entire profit driven ideology she's acting as the face of is what's unnecessary

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