Assuming the capitalist hegemony doesn’t co-op or crush either, there’s something to be said about state management of sewers and drinking water.
Private wells and septic systems can go a long ways but once population density reaches the size of an apartment complex or an industrial process needs treatment, you’re going to want some form of governance over those systems.
I always have to remind myself being able to stream audio from a cellphone while driving across a city is also a pretty crazy development.
The British Bakeoff show is forever weird for me.
TVs became SmartTVs and now need the internet to turn on. The TVs need an OS now to internet to do TV.
Antennae broadcast TV seems like an ancient magic.
Greater Ohios.
Unfortunately this covenant is a deep bond. To sever ties with one is to sever with all.
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Reminds me of the Palladium monk occupation. Strictly about dodging and the point was monks did NOT attack or fight. Striking an opponent meant being defrocked and losing monk status. I thought it was a neat take (and a direct response to the DnD monk trope.)
Pure dialogue and skill class. Never got a Palladium campaign really going though. Just a sea of worldbuilding.
I don’t really know 5e very well, nor PF, but monks were always kind of an awkward fit in 3.5 too. From what I understand the redesign put then closer to an old 3.5 prestige class with the ki strikes and such.
The meat of the class that I think is valuable is a martial that’s survivability is in dodging and whose offensive loop is to set up and exploit vulnerability each turn, whether it’s by buffing themselves or debuffing their enemy.
sad monk class sounds
But seriously, I always felt archetype of light armor being the ‘stealth’ armor class was silly. Sure, less penalty than chains and plates, but still.
Tuberculosis (consumption) was another constant killer, coming in at second.
There’s this one neat trick: Just call the communists fascist!
Now you can support foreign invasion and regime change as a proud member of anti-fa!
…Still won’t oppose capitalism though.
Spongebob’s eyebrows are symbolically, if not literally, Amazon. What did the artist mean by this?
“Communism is when centrally planned economy” is quite the premise to build upon.
That roof awning will pass on staying up before this fuckup settles.
Part of this I believe can be attributed to labelling rules. Only the concentrate portion can be called juice.
When it is made from concentrate the reconstituting water is the main ingredient. What’s shitty is that water gets more and more sugar/HFCS mixed in so less concentrate is used. Getting it down to 10% or less like that: it’s just flavoring the corn.
The AI uses em dashes because people used em dashes.
I got paid $9 an hour to hose down the furniture in the alzheimer’s wing of one of those places. Man those places are bleak.
Sure, you don’t need them for such things to exist and operate. But until a stateless system is able to supplant this infrastructure, I think it makes sense to have a governing body to recognize how many parts per million of chlorine is okay after dosing the well or the amount of fecal coliform that’s acceptable to be released into the local waterway.