You know, he’s something of a scientist himself.

Nobody said 8 was better than 10.

Yes! I completely forgot his name, but I love the skit!

There was a stand up act about a guy who was learning German, and decided to listen to German speeches as he slept to help him absorb the language quicker. You can probably guess how that can backfire.

Do you fuck by lying unconscious for 8 hours? Your stamina is astounding, but you need to be a little more active.

The problem with the fediverse is that not enough people get how it works, so they don’t use it, so there’s not enough content, so there’s less incentive to use it. The benefits of the fediverse are that you can’t exploit and ruin something for everyone if there’s an alternative readily available for them to use instead, and the fediverse is BUILT on those alternatives.

The problem with web3 is it does nothing practical enough to justify its existence. The only people who found a use case for it just used it like stock shares, being something worthless that might be valuable if enough time passes. Calling it an alternative to money is absurdly naive at best, manipulative at worst.

Imagine if you had a boss who told you they would only pay you in company stock, and tried to say that it’s better than being paid money. That’s what this is.

No, like you’re part of some tech-bro cult. Which is worse, I will point out. Rejection of the current status quo doesn’t mean we want a WORSE status quo.

And we already have plenty of people in the current establishment who want to pay their employees with something other than actual money. We call those people scumbags. At least being paid in exposure isn’t bad for the environment.

“Fs in the chat” -> “Subjects, please join me in mourning”

“Thanks for the dono” -> “Your tithe is greatly appreciated”

“We’re going into subs only mode” -> “You may only speak if you are of the proper station”

Ironically, “we just got raided” can be said in both instances, but means different things.

Defence lawyers are only really vilified for opposing the police. After all, they’re helping someone the police arrested, and everyone the police arrest are evil, right?

In the broad strokes, I absolutely agree, but I think you need a few asterisks in that statement to avoid becoming copaganda yourself.

There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with the law*, with enforcing said law** or those who chose to enforce it***

* The law isn’t always just, and can be just as rotten as the lawmakers can. It used to be against the law to be gay, and that law IS fundamentally wrong. “Don’t murder people” is a just law, though.
** The law isn’t always enforced evenly. Some officers only enforce the law when it suits them, letting wealthy people get away with murder while cracking down on minorities for minor offences. If you make sure to treat everyone evenly, you’re fine.
In addition, enforcing unjust laws is unjust, and I don’t care if you were just following orders.
*** Not everyone chooses to enforce the law for the sake of the law. Many cops became cops because of the status that comes with the badge. They don’t care about protecting the innocent. Luckily, even the most ruthless in the 99 is in it to protect people.

It’s kind of been a running thing that the only way to make a group of cops the good guys is to have them point out how bad most cops actually are. There’s an episode where Terry gets racially profiled and has to sacrifice a promotion so he can get even a little bit of justice. There’s an episode where NYPD posters keep getting defaced, and Gina has to point out how most people hate cops for good reasons. The series starts with Holt pointing out the NYPD kept him from getting promoted due to being a gay black man, then promoted him when they thought it would make them look good.

Heck, all of season 8 is spent opposing a police union and trying to stop police corruption.

It’s copaganda that desperately didn’t want to be copaganda.

I was tempted to just say “gay lawyers”, but the challenge was a BAD description, and that one is just too good.

Gay people argue in front of a judge, and your ghost mentor makes your friend’s boobs grow bigger while giving you advice.

Bards make fantastic villains. They can be the puppetmaster whispering in the ears of leaders to cause wars, or they can be the flashy conqueror who gives a villainous musical number instead of a monologue.

Edit: Give the villain Vicious Mockery, and have them use it liberally. The players will want them dead.