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  • Nah its cool factorio guy doesn’t HAVE to leave.

    No pollution, no biters.

    Very doable.

    Just find an island, 100 stone for 2 landfill, and get to the island by picking up a landfill behind you and placing it in front of you.

    You have eternity, so take trips off your island to mine things by hand, craft things by hand, etc.

    Eternity awaits.





  • Nah its actually what granted citizenship.

    Property isn’t a citizen, and freeing the slaves didn’t make them citizens.

    Before this amendment, the supreme court had ruled that black people “were never intended” to be citizens under the constitution.

    During the rebuilding of the US after the civil war, this got added, so that that nonsense ruling (which was argued against, even then, since there was no such phrasing in the constitution) had no power. Instead, being born in the US was enough, which was true for basically every freed slave at that point in history.

    So they were officially not citizens, in the whole nation, just before the civil war. Then they were freed by the 13th amendment, and made citizens in this one, and then the 15th protected the right to vote regardless of race or other things.




  • Well at one point to be a computer gamer you basically needed to put together your own desktop PC.

    Integrated GPUs basically were only capable of displaying a desktop, not doing anything a game would need, and desktop CPUs didn’t integrate graphics at all, generally.

    So computer-building knowledge was a given. If you were a PC gamer, you had a custom computer for the purpose.

    As a result, even as integrated GPUs became better and more capable, the general crowd of gamers didn’t trust them, because it was common knowledge they sucked.

    It’s a lot like how older people go “They didn’t teach you CURSIVE?” in schools nowadays. Being a gamer and being a PC builder are fully seperatable, now, but they learned PC building when they weren’t and therefore think you should have that, too.

    It’s fine, don’t sweat it. You’re not missing out on anything, really, anyway. Especially given the current GPU situation, it’s never been a worse time to be a PC builder or enthusiast.







  • Both do better with prep time, but a sufficiently high level 5e wizard only needs the components for one casting of simulacrum to win guaranteed. First, take their components and cast Demiplane to hide in. If timing mattered, Dispel Magic on the door would cut the 1 hour duration short, preventing the military from doing anything about it. Take a Long Rest, then use Wish to duplicate the effects of Simulacrum, granting a copy that is missing it’s 9th level slot. Take another long rest (24 hours, since we just did that). Then, give the copy the components for a standard casting of Simulacrum, targeting you.

    Once your second simulacrum is complete, it can use Wish to cast simulacrum again, targeting you, and that copy can do it again, and again, filling up your 30-foot demiplane. Have the first simulacrum cast Magnificent Mansion, and have the chain of simulacrums fill that, too. Finally, command all but the most recent Simulacrums to leave, getting that most recent one to cast Demiplane again, and send them into the world to fight the military.

    Based on spacing rules, the mansion fits 200 people, and the demiplane fits 36. Squeezing ought to fit more, but that’s 234 simulacra released on the military, so we’re probably fine. With you and that last simulacra remaining behind to repeat the loop, it would take 23.4 minutes to refill the demiplane/mansion area, and then release another 200+ wizards into the world all over again.

    Honestly, I looked into new 5e rules for this, expecting them to update things, but besides simulacrum having a legacy tag, this exploit just… Still exists.

    As a bonus, you could retain the 16 most recent simulacra, have the only one with Wish still cast it to instead create a 25,000 gp pouch of ruby dust, then distribute it, and have all of them do a proper casting of simulacrum. After 12 hours, you’ll have 16 new wish-capable simulacra, reducing the time it takes to fill the demiplane to about a minute and a half. If you do this again, you could get it so half of the space is filled with simulacra that still have Wish, they all cast it as an action, filling the other half of the space, and then all head off to war, making a simulacra machine that creates 100+ wizards a second.

    For comparison, that’s faster than the birth rate of the whole world, and dimensional shenanigans keep you safe from missiles, nukes, and the like. Even if they broke in as people were exiting, you and one wish-capable copy could just shut the magnificent mansion door and Gate out back onto earth on a different continent, then start again easily.


  • From the site:

    Directing portions of proceeds to Luigi’s GiveSendgo defense fund

    our products are not officially endorsed by Luigi Mangione, his representatives, or any associated entities.

    So no, it’s not official.

    They have some photos of donation receipts but there’s no amount, I haven’t made the effort to see if the IDs on them can be publicly traced to that.

    Nowhere on the website does it say what portion of proceeds are donated.


  • My daughter is 6 and allowed to, with limits. She used to make a whole thing of it when it was time to do other things, but doesn’t anymore, it’s fine. On the other hand, my nephews will scream about it, and they’re older than her. Every kid is different, so maybe they expect their kid to be on the worse end, or maybe they wanna focus on those motor skills before they get to use a console.

    The scissor thing might be explained by them only recently being allowed to use scissors. My daughter had a pair of plastic safety scissors for a good while, but not every kid is gonna do that.

    Him not knowing how to scroll isn’t weird without having used a screen, and he’s definitely not past some minimum screen time age.