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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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I want you to remember:

The fascists hate you too and they just will pretend otherwise until after they've killed the rest of us, before they turn on you.

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Trump kept the conflict going so he could win the election. Fun fact, Reagan did this with the Iranian hostage crisis. He prevented the release of the hostages until he won the election.

trump didn’t negotiate shit. you are the dumbest person alive.

this is entirely because of trump's negotiation (just like the afghanistan withdrawal was trump's deal, not biden's): here is a haaretz article on it. there will be many more in the coming days

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DUCK!

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I loved 4e but it was very easy for combat to turn into a terrible grind fests that inexperienced DM's would drag players through.

You know what was great about 4th Edition D&D? It was the only WotC edition to do the whole designed encounter thing right.

Some of you might be surprised that the DM designing balanced encounters for the party wasn't really a thing in the TSR days. You could just run into some unfair killer bees who'd absolutely murderize your group and that was part of the game. The move to encounter balance came with 3rd Edition and the introduction of challenge ratings and encounter levels. You still had random encounters, but those were usually also roughly balanced for the average party level. 5th Edition is very much in a similar vein. And it's honestly… not that good or interesting.

But between the time when the oceans drank 3rd Edition and the rise of the sons of 5th Edition, there was an edition undreamed of.

Whereas 3e was still sort of trying to do the AD&D thing but not really, 4e was built from the ground up with the designed encounter premise in mind. And they made it easy and interesting! An important aspect of this was transparency. The classes were split into clear roles, so you could expect any given party to have certain bases covered. Monsters also had roles so you could easily mix and match them, and aside from level they also had a sort of difficulty category. Want to throw a horde of mooks at your party? Use minions! Need a boss fight? Use a solo monster! And you could mix and match these categories too. Plus the whole XP budget thing was way simpler.

4th Edition was so good. Too good for this sinful Earth, and certainly too good for your average 5e improv kid. I'm sorry 4e. We didn't deserve you, because we did not appreciate you.

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Cointelpro with ai is doing to suck.

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We are all going to pay the price for people who couldn't believe a multiple times convicted fraudster would lie to them for personal profit. I would be a rich man if I had poor morals.

From low-income voters who supported Donald Trump last month, a plea to the president-elect: don’t cut our benefits.

Trump has frequently made grand promises to protect Social Security, Medicare and other benefits. But with a growing list of billionaires on his cabinet, a vow to quell spending and a slim Republican coalition in Congress consisting of some anti-spending hawks, his voters aren’t so sure.

Pennsylvania Trump voter Lori Mosura described the billionaire as ��more attuned to the needs of everyone instead of just the rich” in an interview with the Washington Post. She lives below the poverty line, receiving $1,200 a month in food stamps and Social Security benefits.

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Today's Card Is: Shroofus Sproutsire

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GET YOUR HAND OFF MY PENIS!

What is the charge?

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May they argue so hard they forget to look both ways before crossing the street.

babe wake up, the anti semites are having a nationalist fight

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This is how it always works. They always fuck people out of their rewards for any reason.

The economy is in such shambles even Judas isn’t getting his 30 pieces

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As a kid, I would love the music of Warner Bros. cartoons. It wasn't until later that I realized all the music was either classical music or made by Raymond Scott.

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lrb is SO FUN

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“We Used To Have Faces” by John Stark

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