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There are certainly worse candidates. Stewart still seems like he has a soul, unlike most republicans.

I haven’t seen any real evidence to that effect.

Do you accept that facebook is harmful to the world, or would I need to try to prove that? There's the time they tried to see if they could make people sad by adjusting the feed. (They could)

If you accept that, it's a small step to "They benefit from having more users on their platform". More users means more engagement, which means more ads, and advertisers pay more money for those ads. No one's going to pay big bucks to advertise their stuff to an empty platform. Facebook's going to have a harder time selling user data and metadata if users aren't on there.

Now, getting one family to stop using facebook is a drop in the bucket. But every family that leaves makes it easier for the next family to leave.

I think there was an illustration in one of the Vampire books that had a malk kissing a fish.

I'd known the term, and then forgotten it, but recently was reminded of it. I was complaining about how some players just always want to be zany and wacky, instead of just playing to the premise. Like, you pitch a gritty game about hunting vampires in 1980s new york city, and they want to play a talking horse. or three kids in a trenchcoat. or a dead man's seeing eye dog. Just stuff that could kind of work, maybe, but is going to take a lot of work and take a lot of spotlight constantly. Instead of playing, I don't know... An investigative journalist who's been looking into mysterious deaths, a nurse at the hospital who's seen some shit, a business man who just can't get promoted (maybe because the owners are vampires).

Some of this is subjective, I guess, but I feel like some players are just not on my wavelength about what fits into a theme.

I've heard of Bleed, but maybe in the context of a horror story. A player's character was cursed so they couldn't play music anymore without some unknown bad stuff happening. They were going to play anyway, since music was everything to them. The other player characters intervened, and took away their instruments. The cursed player had their character sneak back, break into the cleric's chest, and steal their instruments back.

We were all like "Wow this is such good drama and tension!" But then the cursed player got really mad and upset at us in real life, and was like "Of course I'm upset! You wouldn't let me play music and stole my instruments!" We were all like, "..in the game, right?"

They were like, "No! I'm really upset at you all! Don't you feel bad when you watch a movie and bad things happen to the characters?"

We were like, "Well, sometimes, yeah, but it's not like.. the same as it happening for real."

They calmed down eventually, but left a few sessions later in a similar blow up.

So whenever I think of bleed, i think of that player just yelling at us in real life for stuff that was happening to their character.

Can you share what lead you to support Adams, and what changed your mind?

Those aren't the only email providers, and using email is less harmful than using Facebook.

email exists and isn't run by the worst people on earth

I have no context of who the author is or what the author did

Their usage of "woke" in the name is a clue

I think a lot about this one time in a game of modern day magic. The players wanted to contact another group. They knew the other group was double warded against magic. An anti-teleportation spell on top of a general anti-magic spell. Serious business.

The players wanted to some time and resources trying to punch through these wards to teleport directly to this other group. I told them the odds, they said ok, and rolled. The dice said no. They mulled about for a bit, and then said they wanted to try again. I said ok. They got their spells together, spent their resources, and rolled. The dice said no, again.

I said, "Do you want a hint?"

They said, "Yeah"

I said, "You just want to talk to them, right?"

"Yeah", they said.

"Why don't you just call them on the phone?" I said.

"...oh."

Sometimes players get tunnel vision.

Adams is trash. No one I know (here in NYC) voted for him or even likes him, but I hang out in pretty left wing circles.

Fascists are lucky it was just a sandwich.

Someone's going to throw a molotov and I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh when those fascists burn to death while sobbing.

One of the many things I've cut down on because of unemployment. I used to socialize in bars more often.