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Reminder that in Florida "pedophile" means "being trans in public."

This is about killing queer people, not child sex offenders.

Depends what you want to do with those character sheets.

If you just want a text file that people can paste their character sheet into, this will work: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/taf/ If you want to actually build full custom character sheets, you probably want something more like this: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/universal-tabletop-system/ Or this: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/custom-system-builder/

There's also a general purpose PbTA system that's meant to be customised into different PbTA hacks: https://foundryvtt.com/packages/pbta/

I guess in the sense that you have to load some kind of system to play, there's a requirement to use some sort of plugin, so maybe that's a dealbreaker. But it's generally not an issue. While premium content for Foundry exists, it's mostly in the form of rulebooks and scenarios that have been ported into it by the people who make and sell those games. The actual systems are all free, with literally only one exception (Brambletrek, for some reason).

So, it seems like the plugins don't really affect you either way then? If you don't want that added functionality, you're good to just not use it, right?

No, I'm not being optimistic. I'm being observant.

You can assume the worst behaviour of people like Trump without falling into defeatism. He doesn't have superpowers. He lives in the same reality you and I do.

We know for a fact that major economic slowdowns such as the bond markets getting "yippy" (his word, remember?) will cause him to back off. There are things he's not willing to break and he's proven that.

And we know that despite all his rhetoric about ignoring courts, he never actually seems to follow through. The National Guard got redpployed to other cities. Abrego Garcia got brought back to the US. The shutdown ended before he could actually be tested on his threat to not hand out food stamps. He never actually defies the courts, when push comes to shove. Instead he relies on running ahead of them.

That's still bad. It's why new cities are being picked as targets for crackdowns, and they're now trying to deport Abrego to a different country. No one is defending him here, or implying that he's in any way respectful or subservient to the rule of law.

But he exists in reality. He's not a demon or a god or a phantasm from another dimension. He operates within the rules of the same reality we inhabit. There are limits on what he can do, and if you're paying attention you can start to piece together what those limits are.

That's not optimism, that's just knowing your enemy.

Can you help us to understand why the plugins to add games is a problem for you?

Maybe I'm missing your meaning here, but it reads kind of like you're expecting some kind of situation where a single VTT would somehow support every game system out of the box?

For the record, this might not be a win for the GOP.

The thing about gerrymandering is that you get wins in places you wouldn't by stealing your safety net from places where your win is assured.

As long as everything goes well, that gives you some extra seats.

But if the math changes - say, because you're calculating your odds off of a massive swing towards your party from Hispanic voters that has completely evaporated in the year since the election thanks to the president's horrific immigration enforcement policies - you can end up losing not only the seats you tried to rig in your favour, but also the seats you stole that safety net from.

This is why other states with plans to gerrymander additional seats suddenly suspended those plans after Nov 4th. If things continue the way they are this plan could see the GOP almost wiped out in Texas.

We already know what the other hypothetical loopholes are. None of them would offer him as much freedom to implement tariffs as the one he's currently trying to use. That's why he's using it in the first place.

As for ignoring the courts, I think it's really important to understand that:

1. Trump hasn't actually followed through on that threat any of the times he's made it so far... They've dragged their heels on a lot of things, but they've never actually managed to fully defy a court order yet. That's why Abrego Garcia isn't in El Salvador. If the Trump admin were actually confident they had the ability to flat out ignore the courts, that guy would still be rotting in Bukele's black site.

2. This is very, very different from ordering ICE to bully immigrants. The Trump admin continuing to enforce a tariff that the courts had struck down would immediately crash the US bond market. Remember when bonds got a little "yippy" and Trump chickened the fuck out? This would be a thousand times worse. Because any tariffs collected by the admin would, eventually, have to be paid back once the rule of law prevails. Yes, I can already see you gearing up to say that the rule of law will never prevail, there won't a 2028 election, etc, etc. I know all that, but international bond markets don't. They are hidebound stuffy old institutions fully of neoliberals who expect norms and rule of law to prevail. Which means that the US putting itself in a situation where it will be forced to repay potentially trillions of dollars in illegally collected taxes (depending on how long the tariffs are illegally enforced for) will look an awful like a serious likelihood of a country going bankrupt or defaulting on its debts. That's the sort of thing that sends bond markets spiralling. Liz Truss collapsed the UK bond market and her own prime ministership by doing far, far less.

I don't think there's going to be any movement on this until the two tariff related cases clear the US supreme court.

The F-35 deal is a major bargaining chip in our negotiations with the US, and those negotiations aren't going to go anywhere until we know what we're negotiating against. If the supreme court strikes down Trump's ability to tariff under the IEEPA, that absolutely destroys his leverage. We know that his own party have already voted against his tariff agenda multiple times, so the only way he can do this is by going around Congress. If he loses that option, he's suddenly playing with a completely empty hand, while we still hold all the same cards we did from the start.

I suspect that's why this "Review" is taking so long. The government is going to want to have it say whatever backs up their position with the US, and right now they don't yet know what that position will ultimately be. What we do know is that Saab's eagerness to make a deal gives us more leverage because we can very credibly threaten Lockheed (who basically own the US government) with walking away. After all, 10,000 jobs and total ownership of the production pipeline is pretty tempting.

https://tryhackme.com/

Honestly, everyone should give this site a look. A lot of the entry level lessons are just a really good intro to the basics of modern operating systems and how they really work under the hood. Then as you continue to dig in, you start learning how to break them / break into them. It's really good stuff presented in a very digestible format with real machines for you to test everything on.

Call or write to your MP. Let them know how unpopular this is. Make reference to the disaster that similar laws have been in places like the UK.

You seem to have some familiarity with this. Would I be right in surmising that these systems are based on some kind of append only ledger system similar to git?

Someone who likes small dicks, obviously.