1. I don’t keep track of PCs’ kit and abilities. Just because 29 hit last time doesn’t mean they can’t do some whack-ass thing this time.
2. It’s fun to ask

I’ve had an 8Pro for a while. It’s great. Killer battery life (for me). It’s getting updates, so things occasionally get nicer (like the new notification placement). The camera is good. The fingerprint sensor is lousy, but face unlock is good enough for me.

I’d get one, if I were you.

Have you considered seats?

Like you say: a big part of the problem is that economic indicators don’t typically include what people have to spend or their ability to obtain assets they need/expect.

The Hatchet has an excellent episode about the problem. It also talks about political vision. Basically: parties don’t express a vision, they just look for individual policies to pander to different constituencies.

Working through options isn’t necessarily bad, but it can disrupt the game and make it less enjoyable for other players. The idea with adding time pressure is to add to the fun.

😞

I think of it in terms of what if something different had happened.

What if Gore had won (or at least disputed Florida)? What if the US had provided policy support to the ex-USSR in the 1990s?

I hear they have flying cars (greenhouse gas negative) and they’ve just cured cancer.

This is also the work from home experience.

not allowed?

No. Give me snow. Give me snow year round.

I DM’d a group that tried to optimize every situation, and every turn off combat. That’s okay as long as it stays fun, but once they start spinning their wheels, or one player turns combat into a slog, then I take measures.

Outside of combat, that means the real world keeps ticking along. Usually that just means NPCs ask the PCs to stop blocking the street, or a beggar starts asking for money, or the person they’re chasing fades further into the distance.

Combat in 5e can be a slog (even with the usual DM busywork), so I’ll give players a visual countdown and then move their turn to after the next character in initiative order. As soon as they start doing something, I stop, but I want to set the expectation that this is a high stakes scenario and they need to keep up with the pacing.

I’ve spoken with my players and they’re cool with it.

in the second quarter, the top 20 per cent of Canadians held more than two-thirds of the country’s wealth, averaging $3.4 million per household. By comparison, the bottom 40 per cent of Canadians accounted for only 2.8 per cent of Canada’s wealth.

I’d love to see that broken down further. I’m guessing there’s a bunch of really rich households at the top that skew the average.

I like:

• customizable swipe left/right gestures,
• swiping to close a post,
• being able to set the font size of the different parts of the post list,
• different display formats for different communities,
• switching between accounts easily,
• the markdown hints in the editor,

I don’t think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.

“I’m not a denier and I’m not an acceptor,” he says. “What’s going on with our waters? It could be a plethora of issues.”

That’s a denial.

It’s really fucking sad seeing this kind of astroturfing. Actual environmentalists toil for years and don’t get this kind of platform. Then these shit bags come along and get the red carpet treatment from media.

But why does she leave?

Thank you for keeping quiet. I appreciate it when people choose not to post content-free comments.

It’s on Reddit too.

HELL YEAH!

Aqua isn’t really a wild card at my house. 😬

I don’t know.