Indiana GOP Sen. Bohacek on Trump's use of r-word: "When it seems quite clear we're isolating a population by use of a slur, at some point you have to speak out... it's a word used to denigrate the intellectually disabled community... you can't validate slurs like that... it's a matter of character"
December 2, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Indiana GOP Sen. Bohacek on Trump's use of r-word: "When it seems quite clear we're isolating a population by use of a slur, at some point you have to speak out... it's a word used to denigrate the intellectually disabled community... you can't validate slurs like that... it's a matter of character"
I wrote about the dirty, demeaning, absolutely booming business of turning something like a shitty bigoted college essay into a shitty public career as a bigot, and also estimated how old Marine Todd would be today. defector.com/the-conserva...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Attention, Bluesky! By order of the great Burgermeister Meisterburger, anyone on this website who is found with a toy in their possession shall be thrown into the dungeon.
At the same time if you try to explain a complex process (let alone a non-linear collection of related systems) to me verbally I won't retain shit. I'll forget the beginning of the sentence before you get to the end.
December 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
At the same time if you try to explain a complex process (let alone a non-linear collection of related systems) to me verbally I won't retain shit. I'll forget the beginning of the sentence before you get to the end.
(This is, btw, incredibly alien to me. When I want to learn a game I read the rules cover to cover twice, first just to get an idea of the structure and layout of the rules, and a second time to memorize core systems. Then I play, and make a fair amount of mistakes, but know how to look things up.)
December 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
(This is, btw, incredibly alien to me. When I want to learn a game I read the rules cover to cover twice, first just to get an idea of the structure and layout of the rules, and a second time to memorize core systems. Then I play, and make a fair amount of mistakes, but know how to look things up.)
But for the majority of people I've played with, the biggest stumbling block to playing TTRPGs is difficulty related to learning games by reading the rules. You show them a mathematical formula or a gameplay phase diagram and they shut down -- for things they understand via demonstration no problem.
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
But for the majority of people I've played with, the biggest stumbling block to playing TTRPGs is difficulty related to learning games by reading the rules. You show them a mathematical formula or a gameplay phase diagram and they shut down -- for things they understand via demonstration no problem.