The fact that two supervisor types watched a video, claimed that nothing was done wrong, and then the highest supervisor watched the same damn video and flat out said there needed to be an investigation… and then nothing was done to those supervisors? That’s some bullshit. Charges being brought against an officer should mean that everyone who tried to cover for said officer should be shitcanned as well.
Legolas is just tired of trying to explain why a red sun is different. Humans and dwarves just don’t have the photoreceptors to see green.
Lovely how xkcd seems to have the answers to life and its mysteries.
If Heather is smooth enough (which you could argue either way based on the other party not realizing it’s a date), this is her opportunity to pivot hard into it being a date. Say something mildly sappy and emphasize it really being a date, go for the kiss.
Your view of whether it is disinformation depends on whether you believe church leaders and politicians had sincere beliefs about it, so, obviously, that’s going to be pretty personal to you. I have met several federal level politicians and ‘influential’ church leaders and gotten to know them well enough that I can say they push lies with intent, so I’d be confident in stating that the various flavors of satanic panic weren’t entirely organic and honest.
The right wing of america and the various christian cultural movements/monoliths have been allies since roughly the reagan campaign. The power of that alliance is a large part of the republican’s base/power. The politicians on the right have a great deal of push on them to parrot christian talking points, like the satanic panic of various flavors that was pushed about music and activities like D&D.
So while the d&d being evil may not have started as right wing propaganda, it quickly became so due to the way the cultural onus of christianity pushed politicians into acting. You can see the same thing with ‘christian’ values around political fighting with abortion, teenage pregnancy / sex education, israel (though that one is obviously much more complicated than just ‘church leaders fetishes -> politicians’ stances), ‘morality’ based laws around prostitution and gambling, etc.
I saw a comic recently where the evil cultist tried to sacrifice his virgin friend to gain power/favor from a demon. Only, whoops! The friend had lied about being a virgin, and the cultist was one. Cultist learned just what the hard way is on that one.
I think it’s an exercise left to the reader. Probably more likely the second one, as why would she not finish eating it, or eat half and then leave, if it was the first?
It seems like the edges would be easy… If the panels aren’t floating directly on the water, you could either make the height above the water enough that the rise and fall wouldn’t let them touch the ground, or simply use an angled panel that arcs up higher.
Jesus, how can anyone take those reddit posts seriously anymore? That wasn’t even creative in its creative writing assignment. Hilarious, but pretty stock standard.
Not enough of them to matter, likely, just like covid.
Damn, I’m 2 for three. One day I’ll have the spare computer to self host something.
I believed in your nonbelieving, friend!
Fair enough. I think any ‘realistic’ setting is going to have a large enough world that you can find anything you’d like in it, and the various ways that M:tG makes wackiness in its magic systems leaves a lot of ripe fruit to pick for any story.
Gotta use your pocketknife to whittle it.
Ravnica isn’t grimdark? Exploding gang warfare goblins, angels that lead crusades against small sins, a festering sin imprisoned beneath the world? Cancerous growths that hold the last nature a city dweller might have a chance of seeing, but will lead to your skull being added to the growing staff’s power?
Maybe it’s not 40k levels of wanking grimdark, but it’s not a very nice place.
Except that the elf’s parents likely wouldn’t care. If we’re going with D&D generic lore as our base, elves typically are on their own(ish) from physical maturity around 20 and on. They simply flit about with different projects and teachers until around 100.
Well, you might be able to talk a library into hosting a ‘computer education’ class weekly or monthly, with a focus on linux, but I highly doubt you’re going to be paid for it. It would certainly have to be a passion project, just to get people off of windows more.