Related to this... a significant part of why I favor game designs that are looser, less "simulationist", and more "story driven" (a term which unfortunately now has a bad repute due to the Critical Role crowd), and why I favor letting the GM have a lot of leeway, is because a rules-light game leaves much more room for both the players and the GM to be creative and do "outside the box" things that are fun and unexpected. For example, in an L5R game I was running, a group of PCs were on a boat sailing into a bay where bandits were lurking. The boat got caught on an underwater chain and the bandits started barraging it with arrows. The characters who didn't have bow or spells were jumping into the water to swim ashore, which was going to take two or three rounds, but one player proposed that his character run along the chain (which was about a foot under water) to the shore. Needless to say there are no rules in L5R for such a thing! So I said "cool, roll Athletics," he spent a Void and got a phenomenal roll, and I ruled that he not only did it but made it to shore in a single round. Conversely, consider a similar example from the opposite side: A D&D 3.5 game in which our group was on a boat in an underground river and encountered a dragon-turtle. This being 3.5 rules, everyone was a specialist and our heavily-armored fighter was only effective in melee... but the dragon-turtle had 20-foot reach, so she was unable to do anything. I suggested she could leap onto the dragon-turtle's back... ...and the GM consulted The Rules, as the BroSRs prefer, and ascertained that the roll for such a jump would be mathematically impossible for her. And the Sacred Rules cannot be changed! So she, the party fighter whose enjoyment of the game came from being effective in combat, had to sit there twiddling her thumbs for a dozen rounds while the spellcasters (myself included) whittled the monster down. These are not straw-man hypotheticals. Both of these events happened in real games. Which of these approaches to The Rules produced the better gaming experience?

@Peaches_Sabrina @captivedreamer7 Some of them probably were Leftists in sheep's clothing, yes. I still wonder about that "Peter Henlein" guy who pulled a Swann Marcus on election night and never returned.

@Peaches_Sabrina @captivedreamer7 They really are seriously damaging him with the voting base by now. Completely toxic and stupid people. Make me embarrassed I ever rooted for him.

It's easy to Monday-morning-quarterback it now, but things looked very different in fall of '22. However, his chances were never as good as his supporters wanted them to be -- he was always going to be an underdog, because Trump had earned a huge amount of loyalty. It's one of those questions you run into a lot in politics: Run now even though a failure might wreck your chances later, or wait and then wonder if you missed your best opportunity?

@Titus_PulloBC @Nic_Notabene @captivedreamer7 He also seems to have bad judgment in who he picked for his social media team. They enlisted a bunch of third-tier cranks and grifters (Pedro, Reaboi, that obsessive troll-fan "Max Nordau," etc) at the start of '23, and the results were disastrous.

The unctuous reply from libertarian crackpot Phil Magness is just *chef's kiss*. The departure of these two clowns from any possible position of influence over the Right is pure gain.

You know, all these "experts" who keep screaming that impoundment is un-Constitutional really ought to be able to cite a specific line in the Constitution that says "all funds appropriated by Congress must be spent," don't you think?

@AJDelgado13 Are you actually this dumb, or are you just pretending for the clicks? Given your track record, I lean toward "actually this dumb."

@wendyp4545 Kash has a lot cleaning-up to do...

@ThisWeekABC @MarthaRaddatz

@MaxTwain24 Oh look, Max Twain telling ridiculous lies again. As he always does.

@magills_ It's... kind of incredible, actually. A monumental unforced error.

@NathanJRobinson Fuck off, Britbong commie.

@ScotsFyre Wonder how long Harry will keep going in the post-USAID world...

@EricLDaugh

@WBRZ "effectively shutting down a corrupt and unaccountable organization that attacks small businesses" Fixed it for you.

Exactly this. I was NeverTrump in 2016, I accepted the arguments against Trump from ConInc and the establishment. Then he got elected (and I realized the immense relief I felt at Hillary not being President meant I had perhaps made a mistake) and proceeded to... do everything he could to keep his promises, in the face of unprecedented and massively corrupt & dishonest opposition. And the ConInc'ers I had trusted in 2016 refused to credit anything he was doing, while going along with the aforementioned corrupt & dishonest opposition. A very eye-opening four years.

@RobertCNott @DerekPederson3 Goodbye, and don't let the door hit your stupid ass on the way out.