There’s a sticking point that no one’s been able to explain to me:

If you’re in the minority, revolution is against the democratic will of the people.

If you’re in the majority, you have the votes to actually accomplish something with reform. It’s not like we live in a monarchy, reform is possible under our system.

If reform isn’t working to bring about your goals, either your goals aren’t popular enough, or they are popular but the people lack the will and organization to vote for them.

If the people lack the will and organization to vote effectively, they certainly lack the will and organization to topple the government.

My area of expertise is managing complex systems and change implementation. I sincerely don’t understand how revolution is supposed to work where reform doesn’t. No one has been able to give me an answer that doesn’t bill down to idealistic hope. How is this revolution supposed to be implemented, and why can’t we build the foundation for revolution while simultaneously using the tools we have for reform? Wouldn’t widespread support for reform be the best possible proof of consensus?

Oh sure not just for injuries, in fact I only very rarely use them. But I’d wager that anyone who is dissatisfied with the depth of D&D 5e on this one aspect is probably similarly dissatisfied on others. The initial draw for me, for instance, was the extensive Skill list and detailed character creation.

Frankly I think the “fiddly” reputation is overblown. Sure, if you try to use every mechanic from the beginning then yeah it’s a lot. But the basic Success Roll mechanic is dead simple, arguably simpler than 5e. If you start with the basics and only add more complex stuff as you want/need it, it’s really not that fiddly.

You could add a bunch of homebrew mechanics to D&D. Or, you can do what I did and switch to a system that incorporates that kind of granularity from the start. GURPS has tons of rules for these kinds of injuries.

Only when people act like self-righteous dickheads, doesn’t drive you mad quite as fast.

And presumptuously colors uninhabited areas.

There’s no bad logic, this is just your personal taste. I don’t think “Diet Coke” is blatant product placement. I think it’s just someone mislabeling a 40 so the image doesn’t get flagged. Diet Coke being the label they chose could be the result of anything: their personal beverage of choice, some meme, themselves being the subject of actual product placement, anything.

Reading the intent as deliberate is bad logic.

How can you be so selfish as to go on such a rant when there are starving kids in Africa?

If I got upset every time someone acted somewhat less than optimally, I’d go mad in a single day.

The love of money is the root of all evil.

I’m thinking maybe someone shared the image someplace that had content restrictions on depicting alcohol use. That’s definitely supposed to be a bottle of malt liquor.

Just replaced my phone so I know exactly where one is. I’m on eSIM tho, so doesn’t really matter.

I’ve heard good things about the whole industrialization arc. I’ll binge it eventually like I did with the city watch, Rincewind, Death, and witches arcs.

Agree with them “Sure. Then they should be closed during school hours, right?”

The inner darkness

Best By dates are not expiration dates, expiration dates are estimates.

That said, my wife has no concept of expiration until something is obviously covered in mold, and says some wild stuff. “Oh that’s got lemon juice in it, it doesn’t expire” like babe, lemon juice isn’t some timeless magic spell.

Right, but after enough failures the defeat becomes demoralizing. I’m not saying it isn’t self-destructive, but human nature frequently is.

its a weighted vote based on how much money you are willing to spend.

Correct, which means capitalists with orders of magnitude more money has more influence than a boycott. A company with lots of money can weather a boycott longer than people stay committed. A company with massive market share cannot be effectively boycotted. Look at Nestle, constantly being boycotted but they’re rich enough and diversified enough to ignore the boycotts. This isn’t a lack of conviction of the consumer, it’s a fundamental property of the system.

Then if they get better lawyers you make better law. There are several examples of an eternal cat and mouse chase in the modern world

You keep trying to put bandaids on a gushing wound. We’ve shown beyond any doubt that the bandaids are incapable of keeping up.

I want to own my own things and I want to own whatever factories I spent money constructing. My personal property. And to stop me from abusing my workers or whatever there can be laws that stop me

I want my own things and don’t want anyone to siphon enough money from the value created by others to afford constructing a factory. No one earns that much money. Those fortunes come from being a parasite.

Best I can do is tonsil hockey.

you do it by boycotting them

No, you don’t. “Vote with your dollars” does not count. So long as some people have more money than others, that gives some people more vote.

then make better laws

Then better lawyers, repeat ad infinitum. There’s no such thing as a perfect law, there’s always some loopholes. If you can’t lobby your way around it, that is.

Have you looked at the news in the last few months??? Voting doesn’t work as nicely as you would like it think it does

Certainly. But it’s even worse when it comes to private companies. As weak as the countermeasures baked into government are, they’re ironclad compared to the countermeasures in capitalism.

No system is perfect. The goal is to find one that’s least bad.

I dropped this /s