[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

My last character who was getting well known in the local area was also well known for blowing his gold on booze and gambling at every available opportunity, which is a good way to deter the money-seekers!

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

My grandfather was a lifelong Republican but also a great lover of the outdoors and the national and state park systems. The idea of putting up golf courses on park land would have sickened him. He wanted people in the future to have the same opportunities he had to enjoy camping, hiking, etc.

I don't know why Rubio and Mast chose this moment to publicly fall out with DeSantis, but among the rank-and-file Republican voters there have always been individuals who cared about conservation.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Don't you press R1 when your attack hits to pull the trigger for extra damage? You do use the revolver part, just only in close combat.

Or did I hallucinate that? It's been over 20 years since I played it.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 weeks ago

Do you have to activate it to use it? Can you not use it offline?

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 weeks ago

Mortal men cannot long resist the influence of the Ring at such close proximity. Replace Boromir with any other human, dwarf, or elf, and some member of the Fellowship would still have turned on the ring-bearer by the end.

Hobbits are more resilient, but with long enough exposure even they can be swayed. It was only a matter of time.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

"Good news! We've shoddily reconfigured this triangle maker to make circles. You have to hold onto it as it goes through the machine or else it will get thrown around, because the machine is designed with the assumption that the product has corners. Ignore those stickers that say not to put your hands that close when it's operating, that's just CYA shit that doesn't matter in the real world. Also when the machine jams because it wasn't designed to operate on circles, we'll blame you for using it wrong."

— Management the last time I had a factory job.

(At that job it was actually a machine that was designed to wrap large objects in plastic, but was being used to wrap cabinet doors, some of which were less than 18 inches long and weighed just a few pounds. The thing is covered in labels that say not to put your arms near the rotating plastic spool, but if you don't hold onto the doors for dear life it will fling them all over the place, endangering you and everyone else nearby, because it is only intended to operate on stuff that weighs many times as much as the average object they were putting through it. Also if the doors are not wide enough, the plastic will be in the wrong position when it gets cut and some of it will get caught on a moving part, which will eventually jam it, so you have to hold onto the door with one hand and pull the plastic out of the way with the other, and if you fail to do that enough times (due to needing both hands to hold the smallest doors as they move through the wrapper) then it will jam and it will be your fault, because you should have magically had an extra hand or something.)

Sorry, I didn't start this comment intending to write a whole rant, but it kind of ended up there. :P

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

All, top 6 hours.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 45 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm pretty sure centrists think we're bad because we want to abolish private ownership of the means of production, unless "leftism" means something else where OP is from.

The political center wants to maintain the status quo with regard to private property.

Edited for clarity.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 1 month ago

Did he? My recollection is that he gave her a 70% chance of winning, which is not at all the same as predicting that she will win.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago

Replace the overhead light with a desk lamp, get a rug and some wall hangings in there, maybe some fairy lights, a little bookshelf. Could be super cozy.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 58 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They're by different writers, and I know on their podcast I have heard people disagree in the past about things like whether a polling difference is meaningful, so maybe they're just each calling it like they see it.

[-] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 61 points 1 month ago

The lawsuit claims paramedics cleared Moses to continue the training on Jan. 6, 2023 even though he was not able to stand or walk to the next round — wrestling. Instead, a trainer came to Moses and got on top of him. The recruit soon said he could not breathe, became unresponsive and was taken to the hospital, according to the lawsuit.

I have to assume this wasn't actually attempted murder because they did take him to the hospital after he became unresponsive... but I can't imagine any other reason to "wrestle" someone who can't stand. Haven't we seen over and over that this leads to suffocation and death?

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