Munrock

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[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Or it's a glimpse at Rom's Dengist arc

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

The kicker is that Rom eventually becomes Grand Nagus and starts transforming Ferengi society.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 months ago (9 children)

The new HBO The Last Of Us series for example has this scene,

I love that scene. It's so authentic: hearing a white American describe his successful living arrangement as literal communism but saying it's not communism, and a black American correcting him. 100 years of Red Scare and minority struggle captured in a few lines of dialogue.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Get in the pokeball.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago

Church and State will still be seperated; they're just doing a little gerrymandering. Education is church now.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I recommend Dungeon World for the following reasons:

  • Zero prep. Whoever's going to be the GM doesn't need to spend hours on planning. There's also shared world building, instead of the players just creating their characters and the GM being responsible for everything else.

  • It has few rules, but they're important. New players playing dungeon world tend to quickly pick up on how the game is delivering structured creativity, and once they collectively have that understanding you're in a good place to experiment with other systems or homebrew variations on Dungeon World.

  • It has low material demands. Pencil, paper, 6-sided dice. A browser window with tabs for everyone's character sheets in Google Docs will work, but you don't even need that.

  • There's a bunch of other themes under the 'Powered By The Apocalypse' system that you can easily switch to.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 months ago

The pill's effect works on the coffee, not the teacher, and the bewildered teacher is wondering why his coffee sets off his hayfever

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

Where I live it's both in person and over internet. I can show a QR code to my pharmacist and if I'm too old to know what a QR code is or if my phone is dead I can show the paper prescription or give them my ID

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago

That's not just research, molten salt heliostats are in active use already.

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 8 points 5 months ago

"We did it! We time travelled! But what year is it?"

"I'll ask that guy over there. Hey stranger, are you aware that Palestine is being illegally occupied by a genocidal Zionist state?"

"Yes."

"So we're somewhere between 1948 and 2025..."

"I can narrow it down. Hey again stranger, are you a liberal?"

"Yes."

"So we're somewhere between 2023 and 2025."

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 5 months ago

How'd that work out for Australia and Gough Whitlam trying to close Pine Gap?

[–] Munrock@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't matter what the people outside China think. The people inside China - on both sides of the Taiwan strait - think Taiwan is part of China. They all call themselves Chinese except the tiny minority that speak with American accents. There are indigenous ethnic minorities on Taiwan whose ancestors were not part of China, but they didn't call themselves 'Taiwan' because that's a Chinese word.

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