It can simultaneously be dumb for him to trust the company and for it to be the company’s fault that he was fed something he specifically asked not to be served.

If a transmissions company tried to spend money preparing for a disaster like this, their shareholders would sue them into the ground and lobby to make it illegal to acknowledge the existence of the sun.

I do wish I shared their optimism that the police care.

This isn’t the equality any of us wanted ;-;

It’s a known glitch on the current patch. You can always block the player, but it’s probably a relic of attempting to force the playstation account integration - they may have intended to handle cheater through sony rather than worry about it themselves.

IBEW bud from the other corner of the country! To be fair, I’m not at 5 years yet, but I get 4 float days, 10 vacation, 7 sick days, unsure what it’s like for normal hourly workers but as a shift worker I work any holidays on my schedule. It’s hilariously bad, I only semi-joke when I say I’d like to go on strike from my own union to make it actually work for me.

Oh, and despite working well over 400 hours of overtime, none of that translates into extra vacation time. Yet corporate is flabbergasted at poor retention rates.

“exactly”

follows up with the exact opposite of the comment

And you say the american education system is the problem.

Whoever did the row behind their feet really fits the spirit of anarchychess. I hate it.

But-but-but it won’t run the newest Doom!!!1! 🙄

Sounds hilarious. Can’t wait for my 6 8s.

Just for clarification - you don’t want ensure your party has, say, someone with the ability to talk to people, but you also don’t want to talk to your DM ahead of time to ensure you’re not playing a politics heavy game where a face will be absolutely necessary to make any progress?

Not everyone needs to be specced into being the perfect version of one of those four basic archetypes. Like you mention, “dedicated healer” is essentially gone in place of short rests and healing word spam. But won’t it feel awful goofy to have a player die as the three other 8 wisdom barbarians fail their medicine checks to stabilize?

Ah so we’re complaining that dumping constitution makes you die faster? Yeah if you roll up with 8 strength 8 dex and 8 con you’re going to get split in half by the first kobold you encounter, what a concept.

If you’re playing a bard with 14 charisma(or heaven forbid, 16 like a filthy minmaxer), you’re only a few percentage points behind your team on your vicious mockeries. You genuinely have to try to be truly useless.

People like you defending this nonsense is exactly the issue, but you’ll never realize it.

So I’m paying thousands of dollars for a GPU to save the AAA company money?

Yes, but you deepthroating the technology is now relevant to me, because now it’s limiting my options on what hardware I can use to play the game, unnecessarily.

What’s the worst AMD card that can run it again? But it’s tooootally just because everybody has to have ray tracing, right? It would just be inconceivable to have, uh… unrealistic light rays? That’s what my game has to have to be playable these days, fucking light rays?

Yes, it stinks that AMD’s ray tracing performance is so far behind. But ray tracing is an unnecessary gimmick, and mandating it is a stupid choice. Imagine mandating your game has to have V-sync, or motion blur, or depth of field, or any of these garbage settings a sizable percentage of the playerbase immediately disables?

Absolutely, there should be some level of “okay who stands in front of the skeletons, who fireballs the skeletons, who puts the fighter back together after they get fireball’d too, and who stops the whole party from getting killed by a trap before they even reach the battle”. If you’re gasp optimizing, you might even tailor your skillmonkey around the gaps in your party’s abilities - you probably don’t need the world’s best arcana checks with a wizard in the party, but it would be nice to grab face skills if you don’t have any other charismatic fellows around.

…betting on who wins a chess match? A thing that absolutely happens in the betting community?

Honestly, the list of things people don’t bet on is probably shorter.

New AAA releases that can’t be bothered to optimize worth a damn. If those are something you just can’t do without, then sure, but it’s odd to be all doom and gloom over less than 5% of the games people will play this year lmao(15% of steam playtime in 2024 was new releases, it was a pretty even split between AAA, AA, and indie, and not every AAA game is optimized like ass).

Being useless in combat is a personal choice that can absolutely be avoided without hampering your ability to be a skillmonkey. You won’t be obliterating the enemy en masse, but that’s what the casters are for.

Play a Thief rogue and have a blast with fast hands when initiative is rolled, or be almost any bard and hand out bardic inspiration while you stand as a mild speedbump of meat between the wizard and the enemy.

Or maybe chat with your DM about game expectations prior to playing? I know it’s an impossible ask for the internet at large.