It’s freedom to go where you want so long as you

• register with the government
• insure it
• get a license
• maintain it (likely by paying someone else to do it, since it’s a complicated skill set )
  • figure out fuel and oil sources
• probably other stuff I’m forgetting

persoally, I think being able to walk or bike somewhere is more free. Public transit that’s just always there, running every couple minutes, is also good.

As to “take a bus”, part of the problem, and part of why communities like “fuck cars” gain traction, is that most places are car-first, and thus taking a bus isn’t a viable option. These modes of transit aren’t equal. Where my parents live in the suburbs it would be a long dangerous walk to a bus stop, and then the buses don’t run often, or go many places.

People aren’t mad at cars out of spite. They’re mad because car-first culture is bad ecologically, socially, and economically.

Yeah it bothers me when the community for a game is like “{skill} is TRASH never use it” and when you do some digging you find it’s like 2% less damage per second. Or it doesn’t work well in NG+7. Some people are really obsessive about this stuff.

Brooklyn, but not an expensive or “cool” part. Great train access, very walkable, plenty of bars and restaurants, but it’s not someplace a tourist would likely come to first.

My current favorite bar seems like a neighborhood bar where there’s regulars and the bartenders know people. Very different than like something in midtown manhattan, where it’s pricey and there’s an endless sea of people coming and going every night.

I read the headline as Australia was arming their journalists and I was confused by the escalation.

And the one city in America that you don’t need cars, NYC, a drink costs $30.

The cheapest beers at my local bar are like $4. A basic cocktail is like $8. I know you were doing a hyperbole but not everywhere is Times Square :(

Shit’s still too expensive generally everywhere, but I feel like here I’m getting something for my money (eg: a subway system, sidewalks, free musuems, etc)

“I cast that wish at level 9” is a weird phrasing. So far as I know Wish is already level 9, so there’s no other level to cast it at. Older editions had “limited wish” but I don’t believe they had upcasting. It feels very “how do you do fellow children”

If you’re not going to drive, you’re going to need to account for that with the rest of what you do. If you move somewhere like NYC that has working mass transit, it’s not a problem. Most people here don’t drive, or drive rarely. Not driving (or not even owning a car) is a viable option.

If on the other hand you want to live in some suburb where the nearest food is 3 miles away with no sidewalks , you’re going to have a bad time.

edit: clarity

I’ve been happy with Bandcamp. They got sold recently so their future is uncertain, but I downloaded all the music I bought.

They don’t really have an algorithm, but you can see who else purchased something, and they do blog posts about like “what’s new in [genre]” that’s worth reading. So far as I can tell it’s written by real people.

NYC had good turnout despite the rain.

Adams is a turd and I hope he rots somewhere out of sight and removed from power.

There was a post recently saying the total sum of wage theft, including conventional theft and the results of suppressed wages, totals to like $50 trillion over the past few decades.

Shit’s bad. But other than the rich, people in the US have like no class consciousness.

It’s 1950. A black man is sitting at an all white’s counter. Is what he’s doing wrong? You’re on the jury. Do you convict?

I do wonder how the media will frame it when ICE tries to kidnap someone, and gets shot. I guess it depends on if they live or not. If the ICE agents are dead, the survivor can tell a story without being so easily contradicted. Otherwise, it’ll be competing testimony and a lot of people reflexively believe police/police-like-figures.

CEO seems like an idiot and/or coward.

DND is tricky to recommend. On the one hand, as far as RPGs go it’s mega popular. On the other, it’s a very specific kind of game and rather finicky.

Many people who don’t want to play fantasy dungeon crawling tactical combat would enjoy other genres, but finding those groups can be harder. One of my friends has no real interest in fantasy, but immediately was like “LET’S DO IT” when I mentioned a game of Vampire.

The tabletop game meetup I know of (in New York) is explicitly friendly to new players. One of the hosts said their first game ever was at the meetup many years ago.

Point of order:

“Illegal” isn’t always “immoral”. “Legal” isn’t always “moral”.

If one’s best defense is “it’s not technically illegal”, that’s a very weak spot to be in.

On the one hand, yes. On the other, I don’t want them to stick around doing evil for a long time. Maybe something immediately debilitating that takes a long time to finish?

Classic RPG. My half orc “beat with an ugly stick” master of time magick and backstab lives on fondly in my memory.

Also my extremely pretty elf, also a master of time magick.