I think it’s more, “fuck… Bad news. Our Newark factory had an operator completely fuck up and use ten times the thickening agent for the ketchup. It came out as a big fucking block, 10 feet cubed of pure ketchup.”

“Sir, I have an idea”

Horse Cock Master: Choose Your Own Adventure

You wouldn’t know if someone was “just lost” at sea if the problem was a lack of compass. You’d just not have heard from them for years, still wondering whether they survived, started a new life, or what.

glances at social battery

“It appears you’re not giving 200% like you wrote in your self-review… I only see 90%. Let’s shoot for 100% before end of quarter, okay? Maybe we can chat about it, through lunch.”

Drinking rehydrated piss is a sacrifice

I see a got damned American hero

…this isn’t a weird green text meme?

Holy fuck, the Enhanced Games are real? And looking into it, it’s backed by Donald Trump Jr and Peter Thiel.

Holy fuck actual dystopian future

It’s the year 2099. Nvidia-Johnson Inc has just announced a new breakthrough years after their merger. Biotech finally found a means to turn human flesh into… RAM

Not sure I have the right adapter but doggo is giving off AC outlet energy

But they need our utilities, all of them. So they want to get ahead of the game and take over that side of government now.

Except water. I bet this is some weird way of arguing they are a utility so have a right to utility infrastructure and how water is distributed.

Less “we are a utility” and more “we need all your utilities, all your clean water, all your power, and we want to decide how it’s used”

Some people definitely agree with the xenophobia. That sort of anti immigrant ideology is on the rise outside of the US too. They might not like Trump but also not quite fully disagree with what the MAGA people stand for.

I mean ffs people are now finally getting sick of Trump, but not because the damage they’ve done with deportation but because they’re spending money on war and food and gas prices went up as a direct result. Some of the people that are anti Trump these days just care about their bottom line.

You might tell your DM to look up Sabir, where the term Lingua Franca came from, the “Frankish tongue” which wasn’t really from the Franks.

This is where the idea of a common language comes from. Sabir was a simplified pidgin mix of Mediterranean languages so traders could communicate. They still spoke fine but didn’t conjugate verbs, used Me/you a lot without different forms (myself, I, yourself, them, they, etc).

Sabir was a Mediterranean lingua franca, then Latin for 1500 years throughout Europe. Now it’s English. The idea of Common in D&D comes from Westron or “the Common tongue” in LotR which D&D was heavily inspired from, which was basically written by Tolkien so that his constructed languages had a reason to exist. He was a scholar of languages, and the idea of a common tongue comes from actual history. He wasn’t just making it up. Something like that would likely exist in a Fantasy world with lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

It has real historic roots though. A common tongue isn’t unrealistic. They once used Sabir or “Frankish” where lingua franca came from, then Latin throughout Europe, now English as a global lingua franca.

As much as people think having “Common” as a language is weird, it literally has historical roots:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingua_franca

People have been using a Common language for millenia. Today, the global lingua franca is obviously English. For about 1500 years, the lingua franca of medieval Europe was Latin. And for a while in the Mediterranean it was Sabir, where Lingua Franca the term came from, which was a weird simplified Mediterranean mix of languages (no verb conjugation, etc).

Other areas with multiple languages have had their own Lingua Francas. It’s a common thing to happen if you have big areas with multiple languages and lots of trade.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lingua_francas

So it’s really not weird to have a Common tongue in games. It came from LotR which came from history since Tolkien was a huge language nerd and wrote a world for his language to exist.

It’s the price you pay if you’re the kind of idiot who has to get the super techy luxury version of something that works amazingly well and functions perfectly fine at $1.

Literally one of the cheapest parts of tabletop games, and 100% functional at less than a buck or two. It’ll last your entire life too, if you’re careful. If you make a fancy electronic version you can charge whatever the fuck you want because the person already decided they’ll pay more than 100x what they need to for luxury they don’t need.

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It’s funny how we have all the tech to make hyper-realistic everything, yet people now are suddenly nostalgic for PlayStation 1 era graphics, 8 bit pixel art, and fully offline 80s terminals to be productive.

We also have a taste of the sort of AI they wrote scifi about, but everyone automatically sees how dystopian it can be in capitalism and rejects it automatically.

Cyberpunk dystopia is literally becoming reality. Now all we need is Elon Musk sponsored cyberware, military grade shit that can get hacked just because.

that snail sucks old man dick

My president