Not too far into my first campaign, I was playing a Hexblade warlock with a level of sorcerer for some extra spell slots / CC spells. We get ambushed by some bad guy guards trying to rob us. As they’re stalking us in the bazaar we were shopping in, the initiative rolls begin out of nowhere.
Roll a nat 20 for initiative, and end up going first. I cast grease and catch them all in it. 4/5 guards fail the save and fall prone. The 5th guard goes second and shoots an arrow at me, does a few damage. I react with hellish rebuke. It ends up engulfing all of the guards, the hay cart next to them, and half the bazaar into a raging grease fire inferno.
I learned to be more aware of my surroundings after that day.
I’m a guy, and not only was it an appropriate response to some clown who was just about to launch into his tradwife diatribe, I also thought it was funny as hell.
Consider that you might be a snowflake for feeling personally attacked by a silly meme, crying and raging and calling everyone a hag. That says infinitely more about you than anyone your infantile comments are directed at.
I’m basing this reply on the assumption that you do not know why the government shutdown is happening.
If the US Congress cannot pass a budget, the TLDR is basically that the government shuts down and many government workers end up working without getting paid, and many less fortunate and underprivileged citizens will lose access to the SNAP benefits and other various social safety nets that provides them with the basic necessities to survive.
One of the main reasons the budget bill is not passing is because the Trump administration and the Republicans want to strip the federal subsidies tied to the ACA (affordable care act). If the Democrats cave and help pass the bill, it will increase health insurance costs by an order of magnitude for most people in this country, and for about 40 million people, make health insurance completely unaffordable. So Trump directly said that those same 40 million people will face malnutrition or starve, because he wants to take those subsidies and put them in a tax cut for the ultra-wealthy. The same ultra-wealthy people that couldn’t spend the fortunes they currently possess over the next thousand years, even if they tried.
And they’re willing to let people starve and die, so that they can have more.
Edit to add: by “ultra-wealthy”, there are about 300-500 families in the entire country. So they would benefit, while 40 million people will starve.
“We’ll starve you out if you don’t let us strip away your health insurance coverage”
“Both sides are the same.”
Yeah one side passed the affordable care act, and the other side wants to cancel subsidies for it so they can give incredibly, unimaginably wealthy people even more money that they’ll never get to spend before the world burns. But sure, both sides are the same.
I’m doing ok, but I live in a community where a lot of people aren’t. I’m gonna go spend a boatload of money to feed my neighborhood, because fuck the right, they can’t win this fight. If they win, not only do 40 million people go without affordable health insurance, but all of the rest of us with health insurance will see those costs skyrocket literally overnight, as most people have to elect their health coverage at work between now and the end of November.
Check on your neighbors in need. Make sure they have food. If you can afford to, help them out.
If Canadians do what we did with travel, but apply it to US cars, they’ll be in a world of hurt.
(And whiskey/spirits, but you guys have already done a great job there)
Seriously, you’re 100% right. The more you fine folks of the north stop buying our shit, the more pain you’ll inflict. And our corpos need pain inflicted. If I could suggest, avoiding products from our red states would mean even more than blue states, but that’s a minor distinction at this point.
I wish it was easier for you and the EU to move away from big tech, because that would really start getting attention more than anything else.
Not the person you replied to, but I take exception with the word “too” in front of unconventional.
Obviously we know now that she was perfect in the role of Brienne. The main reason (for me, anyway) why film and tv largely suck now is because studios want the “safe” and “conventional” choice for every role. I’m also well over 6 feet tall, I want my tall queens well represented on the screen.
ETA: tall men don’t seem to have a problem getting roles. The stigma against tall women is just dumb to me.
If you’re in Europe, you can cross multiple countries in 3 hours. A 3 hour drive in any direction barely gets me out of my own state.
So I can understand why OP’s asking Americans. We’re pretty much secluded over here on our own plot with Canada and Mexico. Madrid to Moscow is about 4000 km as I understand it. Or 800 km less than it is from NYC to LA.
I’ve been to 44 States, Canada, Mexico and two other continents. Bad shit can happen anywhere. I will say that the best times I’ve had were hanging out with complete strangers from completely different backgrounds than mine and trading stories with them about home.
I fire roast my tomatillos and serranos before making my salsa, that’s why it’s green and hot as hell, and also doesn’t taste anything like raw veggies.
My local mall got leveled and replaced with a giant Amazon distribution center. So now we have two anecdotal stories about malls.
Most of us who didn’t vote for the mentally deranged orangutan saw this coming from a mile away.
I’ve been here a while, but I might need some help here. Everyone left of Biden is a tankie? Am I understanding you correctly?
Not too far into my first campaign, I was playing a Hexblade warlock with a level of sorcerer for some extra spell slots / CC spells. We get ambushed by some bad guy guards trying to rob us. As they’re stalking us in the bazaar we were shopping in, the initiative rolls begin out of nowhere.
Roll a nat 20 for initiative, and end up going first. I cast grease and catch them all in it. 4/5 guards fail the save and fall prone. The 5th guard goes second and shoots an arrow at me, does a few damage. I react with hellish rebuke. It ends up engulfing all of the guards, the hay cart next to them, and half the bazaar into a raging grease fire inferno.
I learned to be more aware of my surroundings after that day.
Everyone in France speaks English the moment an English speaker tries to speak French.
My French sucks. I would intentionally butcher French just so they’d roll their eyes and start speaking English.
Bye bye. Douchebag.
You felt personally attacked enough to come in here crying about misandry and calling everyone a hag.
I’m a guy, and not only was it an appropriate response to some clown who was just about to launch into his tradwife diatribe, I also thought it was funny as hell.
Consider that you might be a snowflake for feeling personally attacked by a silly meme, crying and raging and calling everyone a hag. That says infinitely more about you than anyone your infantile comments are directed at.
I’m basing this reply on the assumption that you do not know why the government shutdown is happening.
If the US Congress cannot pass a budget, the TLDR is basically that the government shuts down and many government workers end up working without getting paid, and many less fortunate and underprivileged citizens will lose access to the SNAP benefits and other various social safety nets that provides them with the basic necessities to survive.
One of the main reasons the budget bill is not passing is because the Trump administration and the Republicans want to strip the federal subsidies tied to the ACA (affordable care act). If the Democrats cave and help pass the bill, it will increase health insurance costs by an order of magnitude for most people in this country, and for about 40 million people, make health insurance completely unaffordable. So Trump directly said that those same 40 million people will face malnutrition or starve, because he wants to take those subsidies and put them in a tax cut for the ultra-wealthy. The same ultra-wealthy people that couldn’t spend the fortunes they currently possess over the next thousand years, even if they tried.
And they’re willing to let people starve and die, so that they can have more.
Edit to add: by “ultra-wealthy”, there are about 300-500 families in the entire country. So they would benefit, while 40 million people will starve.
Ah yes. “Make America Great Again”.
“We’ll starve you out if you don’t let us strip away your health insurance coverage”
“Both sides are the same.”
Yeah one side passed the affordable care act, and the other side wants to cancel subsidies for it so they can give incredibly, unimaginably wealthy people even more money that they’ll never get to spend before the world burns. But sure, both sides are the same.
I’m doing ok, but I live in a community where a lot of people aren’t. I’m gonna go spend a boatload of money to feed my neighborhood, because fuck the right, they can’t win this fight. If they win, not only do 40 million people go without affordable health insurance, but all of the rest of us with health insurance will see those costs skyrocket literally overnight, as most people have to elect their health coverage at work between now and the end of November.
Check on your neighbors in need. Make sure they have food. If you can afford to, help them out.
(And whiskey/spirits, but you guys have already done a great job there)
Seriously, you’re 100% right. The more you fine folks of the north stop buying our shit, the more pain you’ll inflict. And our corpos need pain inflicted. If I could suggest, avoiding products from our red states would mean even more than blue states, but that’s a minor distinction at this point.
I wish it was easier for you and the EU to move away from big tech, because that would really start getting attention more than anything else.
Brought to you by “the party of fiscal responsibility”
Opens ticket
Ticket only says “read customer email and advise”
Email chain is a mile long going back 3 months
Closes ticket with “please clearly and concisely explain the problem in the next ticket you open”
3 day SLA on our tickets, so back to the end of the line they go.
Maybe more men should be taller.
I know how that sounds, and that’s the same as saying more women should be “conventional looking”, whatever the fuck that means.
I figured as much, and I was pretty sure I caught your angle on it, but I didn’t want to speak for you.
Not the person you replied to, but I take exception with the word “too” in front of unconventional.
Obviously we know now that she was perfect in the role of Brienne. The main reason (for me, anyway) why film and tv largely suck now is because studios want the “safe” and “conventional” choice for every role. I’m also well over 6 feet tall, I want my tall queens well represented on the screen.
ETA: tall men don’t seem to have a problem getting roles. The stigma against tall women is just dumb to me.
Except what? That was exactly my point.
If you’re in Europe, you can cross multiple countries in 3 hours. A 3 hour drive in any direction barely gets me out of my own state.
So I can understand why OP’s asking Americans. We’re pretty much secluded over here on our own plot with Canada and Mexico. Madrid to Moscow is about 4000 km as I understand it. Or 800 km less than it is from NYC to LA.
I’ve been to 44 States, Canada, Mexico and two other continents. Bad shit can happen anywhere. I will say that the best times I’ve had were hanging out with complete strangers from completely different backgrounds than mine and trading stories with them about home.
I fire roast my tomatillos and serranos before making my salsa, that’s why it’s green and hot as hell, and also doesn’t taste anything like raw veggies.