Depends on how steep the hill is and how precise you need to be with your position. Parallel parking in San Francisco almost requires the handbrake.

I live in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and regularly drove my standard transmission in San Francisco (one of the hilliest cities in North America), and used my hand brake all the time to maintain my position while I engaged the transmission. I’m not really sure what you’re on about…

Like any decent Lovecraftian work, it looks like a big ol’ bag of NOPE.

Joy as an Act of Resistance is a fantastic album from IDLES. Never Fight a Man with a Perm is one of my favorite songs about kicking Nazis (well, specifically alt-right toxic manfluencers) in the face, and Danny Nedelko restores my faith in humanity and reminds me why we fight fascists.

I don’t know; during the Bush Jr. Era, I would have agreed with you, but I think the powers that be have figured out that religion is more useful for creating wedge issues than actually governing.

If the goal is simply controlling the population, then oligarch-controlled media and social media seems to be perfectly adequate with just a little bit of religion to give the conservatives bad-faith plausible deniability when it comes to the racism, misogyny, and homophobia (both the politicians and the voters).

It also seems pretty likely that Jerome was “Gamby,” the known double-amputee from across the bay, as described at the end of the article

“Would you fuck me? I’d fuck me”

“Why should I change my name? He’s the one that sucks.”

~Michael Bolton, probably

seconded

I thought The Raconteurs were ok, but the Dead Weather really got my attention.

that was the tipping point for me, specifically.

Hey, I’m not the one downvoting posts because I don’t like their tone.

Plus, I don’t judge people based on their choice of game (as you seem to); I am simply pointing out that there are other options. Sure, I used “better” as a shorthand for “more complex, more balanced, more inclusive, better written (especially from the GM’s PoV), and more universal,” so I could have done a better job of explaining what I meant. If you think that’s being condescending, I’m happy to give you specific examples of why I think that and you can judge for yourself, or go read/watch any of the many, many side-by-side comparisons.

I play DnD with my good friends because that’s what they want to play, and I don’t judge them or their character choices. I mentioned Pathfinder as an option before session zero, and we agreed to go with DnD due to people’s familiarity. However, in a community dedicated to DnD and TTRPG’s in general, it doesn’t seem out of place to me to talk about other options. And the other people upvoting my original post seen too think it’s a valid contribution as well.

Like I said, you should play whatever game you want. If you don’t like Pathfinder players, then you can just, you know, not play Pathfinder. Feel free to downvote and move on.

You can play whatever you want, but in the comments of a post specifically about one of the very few places that DnD pays lip service the LGBTQ community, it seems appropriate to talk about the primary competitor that absolutely crushes representation and social justice issues.

But you do you.

In addition, you can play Pathfinder 2 which has queer, non-binary, asexual, and trans characters as part of the core rules.

Plus it’s a straight-up better game than DnD

If I’m being honest, I don’t expect to see a penny of social security. I’m making other arrangements wherever possible

I’m not an etymology expert, but I did see a few sources that all claimed scot came from a Scandinavian word “skat,” which was a redistributive tax (Source)

I do like your explanation, too, though. The other explanation I’ve heard a few times was that it was related to the Dred Scott case regarding an escaped slave who petitioned the Supreme Court in an attempt to gain his freedom (it didn’t work, though, so I’m not sure why people would claim that to be the origin of the phrase “Scott free” anyway)

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Like, I’ve been saying it since he was accused, he could very well get off Scott scot-free

FTFY. I agree with everything you’re saying; I just have this weird compulsion to correct misused homophones. A “scot” is an archaic word for a tax (unrelated to being of Scottish descent, AFAIK), so the term isn’t anything to do with a person named Scott. Pedantic, I know, but I really can’t help myself, so… Sorry? You’re welcome?

Either way, have a nice day.

Except DEI is a wisely used word in a positive way for the bulk of the country, especially in educational settings.

Edit: I don’t have a solution, but I live in the DEI world in higher ed, and I hate to see positive terms get co-opted by racists and bigots

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