Correct. No matter how much noise Russia makes about the sanctions not affecting them, they desparately want them gone. They’ve been able to weather them better than originally predicted, but only by mortgaging today to pay for tomorrow. Their economy is starting to show serious strain. Investment is basically zeroed out, consumer spending is collapsing and they have a workforce shortage. It’s getting dire.

Reminder that in Florida “pedophile” means “being trans in public.”

This is about killing queer people, not child sex offenders.

Depends what you want to do with those character sheets.

If you just want a text file that people can paste their character sheet into, this will work: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/taf/ If you want to actually build full custom character sheets, you probably want something more like this: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/universal-tabletop-system/ Or this: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/custom-system-builder/

There’s also a general purpose PbTA system that’s meant to be customised into different PbTA hacks: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/pbta/

I guess in the sense that you have to load some kind of system to play, there’s a requirement to use some sort of plugin, so maybe that’s a dealbreaker. But it’s generally not an issue. While premium content for Foundry exists, it’s mostly in the form of rulebooks and scenarios that have been ported into it by the people who make and sell those games. The actual systems are all free, with literally only one exception (Brambletrek, for some reason).

So, it seems like the plugins don’t really affect you either way then? If you don’t want that added functionality, you’re good to just not use it, right?

Can you help us to understand why the plugins to add games is a problem for you?

Maybe I’m missing your meaning here, but it reads kind of like you’re expecting some kind of situation where a single VTT would somehow support every game system out of the box?

For the record, this might not be a win for the GOP.

The thing about gerrymandering is that you get wins in places you wouldn’t by stealing your safety net from places where your win is assured.

As long as everything goes well, that gives you some extra seats.

But if the math changes - say, because you’re calculating your odds off of a massive swing towards your party from Hispanic voters that has completely evaporated in the year since the election thanks to the president’s horrific immigration enforcement policies - you can end up losing not only the seats you tried to rig in your favour, but also the seats you stole that safety net from.

This is why other states with plans to gerrymander additional seats suddenly suspended those plans after Nov 4th. If things continue the way they are this plan could see the GOP almost wiped out in Texas.

The fact that those words came out of her mouth and she didn’t immediately stop and go “Oh, fuck, I’m the bad guy here” is completely insane. How cooked does your brain have to be for you to even be able to say something like that in the first place?

This. Gog doesn’t force you to use their launcher and most games are DRM free.

If you think it’ll be an inconvenience to split your library, check out Playnite. It’s a unified launcher for all of your game libraries, and it works really, really well. Nice clean UI, easy management with lots of filtering options, and integrations for every game library out there.

https://tryhackme.com/

Honestly, everyone should give this site a look. A lot of the entry level lessons are just a really good intro to the basics of modern operating systems and how they really work under the hood. Then as you continue to dig in, you start learning how to break them / break into them. It’s really good stuff presented in a very digestible format with real machines for you to test everything on.

You seem to have some familiarity with this. Would I be right in surmising that these systems are based on some kind of append only ledger system similar to git?

Someone who likes small dicks, obviously.

And Harris saw a massive surge of popularity when Biden first stepped down. When the only thing most people knew about her was that she was a black woman, everyone loved her. It was only when she opened her mouth that her popularity tanked hard.

The rates of rape experienced by trans people suggest you’re entirely wrong about that last part.

It’s only paedophilia if it comes from the pedophile region of Alabama. Otherwise it’s just sparkling ephebophilia.

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-run-grocery-stores/

This, BTW, is why the deal with Argentina to import more beef will do nothing for prices. Argentinian farmers pretty much exclusively raise very high end free-range grass fed beef that sells for a very high sticker price. This might be good for, say, Michelin star New York restaurants, but it won’t help anyone out in the grocery store.

They can’t say ‘lie.’ It’s one of the few words you can basically never use as a journalist.

It’s not about the incontestability of the truth. It’s about the fact that a ‘lie’ (as opposed to a ‘falsehood’) requires intent. Basically, unless you have psychic powers, or a written, signed declaration from the person saying “Yes, I intentionally lied,” you can’t prove it’s a lie. And in journalism, you do have to be able to prove the things you say. Potentially in a court of law.

He could just be stupid. He could just be ignorant. He could just be suffering from serious mental decline. We don’t know for sure.

I get that’s not a satisfying answer. We all know, intuitively, that Trump lies, constantly and endlessly. He tells himself ten lies in the morning just to get out of bed. I get it. We all know it. But journalism has to be held to a higher standard, and that standard has to be applied consistently, not just when it suits us.

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“Have we tried ‘Kill all the poor’?”

Remember, releasing the files is extremely popular with Republican voters, to the point where anyone who votes no is going to look like they’re basically in bed with the evil deep state pedophile cabal hiding under the pizza parlor.

That means for them to kill it in the House, a whole bunch of GOP reps have to face a firestorm from their constituents.

If it does in the Senate, it’s because they let that firestorm spread to every GOP senator too.

And if it makes it to Trump, and he’s forced to veto it? That might just be the final nail in his presidency. His polularity is already tanking. This could kill it completely.