Imagining this painting coming to life and heading out to visit other paintings.

As far as swords go, the gladius is still the goat.

Ugly people are still have always been making it, pop acts have just make a pretty person pretend to sing it it sells better.

If you’re buying $1000 worth of lumber $50 to ensure it gets home undamaged (and without damaging your car) is cheap. I’m pretty sure you can also elect to cut the boards in half to better fit them in a smaller vehicle.

Upgrading an old house isn’t much more difficult or expensive compared to doing a full renovation, the problem is that the two groups that tend to do these kinds of renovations - flippers and real estate corporations - are incentivized to target the “lowest common denominator” which means boring modernist minimalism.

covering the fireplace with drywall

I hate those two more than words can describe.

Frankly, George Orwell is part of the problem. Aside from a brief stint during the Spanish Civil War where he supported the CNT-FAI, he spent the overwhelming majority of his life supporting the British Empire and relentlessly hating Communists (and other socialists and members of minority groups) of all stripes, to the point where even the British government told him to chill the fuck out because they were allied with the Soviets. His books aren’t immensely popular in extremely right wing countries because they have a left wing critique of government overreach, they’re popular because they are anti-government in exactly the same vague and malleable way that all populist right wingers are.

The whole Western world is at this point, it’s so depressing. Even when the left seems to win democratically people like Macron nakedly abuse their authority and choose to caucus with the fascists over the social democrats.

I remember subscribing to YouTube Red when it first came out (and had a reasonable price), literally the first video I watched after subbing included an ad for YouTube Red in it. I was so fucking pissed lmao, thank goodness for SponsorBlock.

druid wildshapes into an Owlbear

ehhh that’s well within the bounds of what a DM could homebrew, I’m thinking a custom subclass that grants wild shape into a limited list of non-beast creatures.

Classic DM move, stopping your players from having fun. That’ll surely make the game better.

Seriously though if everyone in the group isn’t on the same page tone-wise then the DM should talk to the player causing the issue outside of the game like an adult, and if everyone is on a different page from the DM then the DM should either adjust their expectations or move on.

Tons of the problems of modern day matchmaking could be solved by this, but if players are running their own servers then they can just have their server give them the items they want, which means no more premium currency purchases for R$.

I don’t have a washing machine so I end up using an overpriced laundromat (or visiting my parents lmao), but ever since I saw a tiktok of a tiny Japanese machine that was both a washer and a dryer one of those been at the top of my wish list. I don’t even care if it can only wash one or two sets of clothes at a time, that’s all I need.

ad revenue and shady services

So as long as there is money to be made?

Fair

Shady shit happens specifically because there is money to be made. If everyone around the world stopped paying for porn, full stop, then the only porn that would be made would be passion projects from artists who want to create for the sake of it.

Hezbollah isn’t just a military organization. It’s a political party. The majority of those pagers were in civilian hands when they detonated.

If your country has been under siege for fifteen years and is currently being invaded, I’d say you’re allowed to put booby traps in the places the invaders are likely to go.

kill individual fighters

They killed like 1 fighter in exchange for wounding a thousand civilians, including at least one little girl who died. The pager shit is every bit as indiscriminate as the bombing.