Most players are only half paying attention, and are badly trained by video games to assume every NPC is telling them the truth.

I had a player once I think of as the worst player I’ve ever had. Easily confused, impulsive, and very bad at sticking to a coherent character. They’d be all “I’m a soldier I follow orders!” in one scene, and “fuck what my commander said I’m going awol” the next.

I think a lot about one time I had an NPC lie to her PC’s face. The NPC was in faction mildly unfriendly towards the PC’s faction, and the PC was looking for one of theirs. The NPC told a mildly implausible lie about the guy’s whereabouts, and the player’s brain just ground to a halt when following up on it was a dead end.

“So no one here has heard of the guy?”

“Seems so.”

“But other-guy said he was here.”

“He did.”

“So where is he?”

“Not here, so far as you can tell.”

“But he said he would be.”

“He did.”

“And no one here has heard of him?”

“Seems so.”

The other players lost their patience and pointed out that maybe the NPC was lying, and it wasn’t the GM making a mistake or misunderstanding.

I don’t think it was especially worth it, but maybe lying would work better with a better player.

Anyway. You also don’t want to train your players to go “INSIGHT CHECK” during every interaction, and if you have someone lie once they’ll probably be paranoid for years. Same problem with traps, once. You burn them with a floor trap once, and then they’re all 10’ poles and chickens

Man, if only they had allegiance to a radical left base. It’s so irksome how republicans just say things without caring about truth or consistency.

Double jeopardy doesn’t typically align with the layperson’s understanding of it.

I affectionately call lemmy “the commie site”, but my current instance I think defederated with a lot of the spicier places.

Something like half of the US can’t read at a 6th grade level. They cannot read and understand the complex writing at the bottom.

They’re still there for, well, I can think of three reasons.

People vote for them. Organizing people to vote is hard for various reasons, but that mechanism is still present.

They’re not murdered. Always an option, but certainly an escalation that doesn’t scale well.

They’re not expelled. Wikipedia says "In the entire history of the United States Congress, 21 members have been expelled: 15 from the Senate and six from the House of Representatives. Of these 21 members, 17 were expelled for supporting the Confederate States in 1861 and 1862. ", so that’s not a commonly used option.

Personally I worry that if non-violent options fail, more people will see violence as an acceptable option.

Match group should be broken up.

Also racism!

People don’t want those people getting something for “free”

You’re doing more harm to the environment and shared spaces than the person riding the bus.

A Minnesota Republican lawmaker has dismissed climate change concerns by declaring that her faith is in Jesus Christ rather than scientists. Rep Mary Franson, a long-serving member of the Minnesota House, made the comments during a committee hearing last week.

Mary Franson is not fit to hold office and should be removed.

We shouldn’t be doing more acquisitions. We should be breaking these companies apart.

We used to do retrospectives at one of my old jobs, because everywhere loves cargo-culting agile and scrum stuff.

I quickly realized that a lot of the problems were largely outside the team’s control. It was shit like “The CEO doesn’t believe in designers or UX, so he won’t hire one, so we spend a lot of time doing that work badly ourselves.” Or, “management is making us spend all this time in ‘planning meetings’ so we don’t get anything done”

Stuff that has easy solutions, but we can’t do because some idiot or powerful cry-baby is in the way.

My last job was pretty good about code reviews, when people actually spent time on them. My front end code got much better when the front-end expert actually reviewed it.

My current job, code reviews are a rubber stamp farce and I’ve seen total garbage sail though. The code base is a tire fire. These things are related.

I suggested at my current job that we adopt a policy of fixing things as we go. Boss wasn’t interested. He said his boss said “he doesn’t want people gold plating things”.

Okay. I guess we’ll keep this tower of bash scripts that breaks once a month.

Misread the /s as is and was mildly confused.

Also yes, police have very poor or negative value for what they cost.

but because nobody in a car would stop to help a pedestrian anyway

Yes. I believe this has been well known since at least the 1960s, as I think Jane Jacobs wrote about it in “death and life of great American cities”.

Cars remove people from the community. A driver cruising along at 25+ mph isn’t going to see much, and stopping is far more difficult than on foot.

Late Afternoon? I work from home. I shower before going out into the world socially.

I think a lot about how a Iranian man I worked with, a high ranking executive, said to me straight faced “the Republicans will unlock the economy” in like 2024.

People believe absolute nonsense.

They also say that park roads can become more deserted without a steady stream of cars, raising public safety concerns.

Pro-car people will reach for any excuse.

The only cars that should be in parks are emergency vehicles during actual emergencies.

I really dislike when the cop cars cruise through. There’s one by me where they park at an entrance, causing a blind spot for any cyclists.

Utah, Florida, and Texas are all conservative places I would never want to live. This can be another reason why.