“As of January 2026, the total U.S. national debt has exceeded $38.5 trillion. This figure represents the total money borrowed by the federal government to cover annual deficits, which is growing rapidly, with a rise of over $2 trillion in 2025 alone.”

I definitely want to tax the hell out of the rich, but we are in a deep hole. A long term systemic change will serve us better (or in addition to) talking all of their money now.

I play most MMOs as Auction House PvP.

I wrote a bitmap rotating function in the early 90s and whenever pixels rotated off the top of the screen my BIOS would reset.

I was delighted when we could afford a decent 2d graphics library.

Red-eared slider turtles, smooth shell turtles, stupid huge snapping turtle, four species of duck, coots (aka chicken ducks), many species of heron, hawks, rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, lots of butterflies, and the occasional bobcat.

I live in Dallas, but got lucky and found a house with a tiny bit of nature in the concrete sprawl.

• Dollhouse
• Skins
• Being Human UK
• Misfits
• Wonderfalls

+1 to others recommendations for Dirk Gently and Pushing Daisies

TRS-80 Model 1, Level 1. 4k RAM, 1.77mhz Z80 CPU Cassette tape for offline storage, but I mostly just typed the program back in.

I agree with him. That’s why I think we should ensure that everyone has some amount of medical coverage.

• MULE
• Might and Magic VI
• Master of Orion
• Civ 1 & 2

Empathy < 0

Firefly, Out of Gas

Not what I would do, but the safest way is to villify then execute small and unpopular minorities (in the minority/majority sense) and then cater to the monolithic block that emerges. Super evil but it works.

Well, bless their hearts!

Thanks for the feedback!

My intent was to bring spell damage (especially cantrips) in line with melee attacks. These are the reasons that I feel that melee attacks are more effective than spells at low levels:

• They cost one action vs two
• They get Strength damage bonus
• Assurance with Athletics lets them circumvent MAP and trip is so effective
• There are many class feats that discount or eliminate the cost of a stride when you also attack.

My alternative was to nerf Electric Arc because other cantrips pale in comparison, but that didn’t feel like it would give players more options.

My own biggest critique of these house rules is that they make Clerics even better and they sure don’t need the help.

Not much, what’s UP with you?

Local vcs let’s you decouple saving progress (commit) from publishing your change (push).

This is a huge improvement over exclusive locks (old visual source safe) and shared server (like perforce).

There are many other improvements, but that is the one that had the most impact on my daily workflow.

de nada

Spanish phrase

de na·​da dā-ˈnä-t͟hä 

: of nothing : you’re welcome

I sound even more southern than I am because I say “y’all” frequently to avoid gendered pronouns. People, you, and we are often good. I think my favorite is “you folks”.

I’m having trouble figuring out the math for this. My assumptions lead me to divide $30b by 8b people, which is about $4/person. I’m not confident that people can eat on $4 for a year.

What am I getting wrong?

I agree, but this is the worst Haiku I’ve ever read.