nala [he/him]

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  • nala [he/him]tottrpg*Permanently Deleted*
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    2 years ago

    The Black Hack is my new favorite rpg. It's really simple, if you know how to play DND it takes only 10 minutes to learn (if you don't know how to play i think it would still be simple). It moves away from the war-gamey aspects of modern ttrpgs, instead combat is designed to be as simple as possible. Basically, you describe what your character does, the dm tells you what stat to roll, and you roll 1 die to see if it works. You spend way more time expressing your character, and way less time looking at your character sheet.






  • I know infared has said some fucked up stuff recently, but he is just correct here.

    The next word in the book after the quote BadEmpanada used is literally "But". Lenin is saying that the imperialism of rome is essentially different from that of modern finance capital. Super dishonest from BadEmpanada.

    Full quote:

    Colonial policy and imperialism existed before the latest stage of capitalism, and even before capitalism. Rome, founded on slavery, pursued a colonial policy and practised imperialism. But “general” disquisitions on imperialism, which ignore, or put into the background, the fundamental difference between socio-economic formations, inevitably turn into the most vapid banality or bragging, like the comparison: “Greater Rome and Greater Britain.” [5] Even the capitalist colonial policy of previous stages of capitalism is essentially different from the colonial policy of finance capital.






  • When Trump got in he deliberately tried to cut any federal resources used to contain hate groups

    Looking into this, I found a PolitiFact article that I think is actual doublespeak.

    From the conclusion

    Buttigieg said, "The Trump Administration cut funding allocated to the Department of Homeland Security to combat white nationalism."

    He points to the $10 million Countering Violent Extremism grant program, which was launched under Obama and not renewed under President Trump. It was meant to last for two years. When it expired in July 2019, Trump >did not renew it. That’s not exactly the same as a "cut."

    However, a group that was slated to get a grant under Obama, Life After Hate, had its grant rescinded under the Trump administration while the program was going on. The group was one of the only ones with expertise on >white nationalism. Overall, most of the grant proposals were focused on Muslims or immigrants, and not white nationalists.

    Buttigieg left out part of the story.

    We rate this statement Half True.

    Like it says that he DID what he was accused of, then just says that it is proof against the accusations.