Paradise Lost

Housekeeping in Neverland

[Paradise Lost @Lycenae]

Q for marketing execs: if I buy that exercise machine you’ve been flogging to death, will it come with that empty 2000sf workout studio with glass walls high-up in a forest of serene sun-dappled trees? Asking for a guy with a dark, junk-filled basement with occasional cobwebs.

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@BriannaWu @thefrankwu The super-intense popcorn chomp. Love it.

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@Blackmoor_Film @CurmudgeonRPG There’s this sense now that there is a “right way” and a “wrong way,” and that there’s “good gamers” and “bad gamers.” Which means there’s a desperate grasping now to know that you’re “playing ttrpgs right” which results in “my system is the right way to play” arguments.

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@Blackmoor_Film @CurmudgeonRPG I personally have no problem with making “romance” a focus of a game, if that’s your wont in life. Flirt with that bipedal vampiric warthog in the party if that’s your thing. I just find that modern gamers need far more affirmation than those in the 1980s.

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@YoDanno @philomancer76 It is true that newer editions have made some mechanics cleaner. I really don’t have too much issue with that. But, I think you can change mechanics without “monsterizing” entire generations of gamers that you wish to make “go away.”

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@YoDanno @philomancer76 I view this as just straight-up intellectual dishonesty. He knows it’s easy. It’s just a hobgoblin he picked to somehow try to paint pre-3rd D&D as “the bad old days of colonialist/racist/sexist grognards” that the world is forever better for having gotten rid of. That’s all.

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@TWLadyGrey This is why I am looking forward to the GOP burning EVERYTHING down. Because these fuckers have no idea what they’re losing, and they won’t know until it’s all GONE. Fuck MAGA, and let it all burn. Because they won’t listen to anyone until they’re wallowing in their own filth.

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@TWLadyGrey I like beans.🫘 🤣 But I get your point.

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@PatrickW The reason they don’t use cane sugar is because of tariffs. And heavy subsidies to corn. So, “we’re going to make it much harder for you to make your product, and relieve none of the regulatory pressures that caused you to make formula decisions in the first place.”

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@TWLadyGrey Yeah, but the military runs on captains and majors. You can’t court-martial all of that without completely destroying the military as an effective organization. Which I guess is the point because Trump basically hates the military.

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@TWLadyGrey The only national level org with any competence left will be the military, so I almost assume he’s going to start using it for domestic tasks, like law enforcement and deportations. Which will be so problematic that the SCOTUS will weigh-in on letting the USA become militarized.

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@TWLadyGrey I agree that It’s going to be “rule by executive order,” with lots of firing and dismissals of pretty much anyone that doesn’t go along. Which means so many people get lost from the federal government that it can’t actually function at any comparable level to right now.

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@TWLadyGrey Right now the conservative movement is taken with an obsessive compulsive oppositional defiance disorder. Anything the Democrats like is automatically opposed, as well as the converse being true. Seems to me it should be pretty easy to fake these guys out. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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@TWLadyGrey Honestly, I think people really loved indoor plumbing BITD. Having to go outside to the outhouse was definitely a pain. And having indoor plumbing was a sign of the upper class, which everyone aspired to. This modern day Luddism seems to be pretty recent.

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@TWLadyGrey Deciding that NOW is the time for resistance… AFTER the election, is the stupidest fucking thing I‘ve ever seen. And there’s these things called “recess appointments” that Trump has already talked about using to get his people into place. It’s over and they don’t even know it.

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@TWLadyGrey “Want” is doing a lot of work here. Honestly, I don’t think people really understood the kind of chuckle-nuts he was going to appoint. But then, they probably didn’t/don’t really care either.

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@TWLadyGrey Eventually. Sooner now, I suppose.

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@TWLadyGrey I asked them what’s gonna happen when the tariffs hit. They say nothing, it will be fine. 🤷🏻‍♂️ My sense is when the shit hits the fan, they’re just gonna blame the Democrats.

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@TWLadyGrey I’ve met some truly nice people out here in exurbia who are Trump voters. They genuinely thought the economy was terrible, even though they were doing “ok” personally. That small dissonance did not motivate them sufficiently to look outside their bubble.

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@TWLadyGrey I think they are going to be shocked that Trump’s first act will be to release thousands of bloodthirsty insurrectionists who are going to feel emboldened to take out their lust for payback on elected Democrats, RINOs and brown people they think are here “illegally.” 🤦🏻‍♂️

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@TWLadyGrey Just be patient. As the Nazis took power in the early 1930s, they murdered/purged their own first. They were brutal. Then they started in on every one else. 🤣🫠😩