This is absolutely my experience. I was lucky enough to have a home desktop and needed to transport stuff to my university, floppy drives were the main method but so painful. Zip drives were better, but still sucked and frequently failed.

I clearly remember swapping the zip drive for a cdrw one. Far more reliable and 6x the space.

That’s fine, I don’t require players take advantage of it. Spend your time crafting, resting, whatever. It’s all just a game in the end.

One of my long standing house rules when I’m DM is to let people just be as creative as they want during downtime, as long as it doesn’t affect the story. Druid wants to spend all day wild shaped as a turtle, hanging out in the pond? Sure, go for it - I’ll ignore the X/hours per day limits or whatever. The wizard wants to cast Wish just to create a sick looking pipe to smoke from? Amazing, no XP or gold cost for that. Fighter wants to use Action Surge repeatedly to chop an entire tree into firewood for their winter log cabin? Don’t forget to mount a deer’s head above the fireplace.

I used to share the struggle with names, until I started to learn Dutch and realized that I can just use common non-English names.

No more Bob the Blacksmith, Tom the Wizard Shop Dude, Jane the Horse-Mechanic; now there’s a bunch of Noor, Sem, Yara, Mees, Saar, Bram, Lotte, Luca, Felix, Mia, Lia, Gerrit, Hendrika, Inaya, Mael, Manon…

I’m running a PF2 campaign where the party are outlaws running around Alkenstar, robbing banks and seeking vengeance.

Every day begins with some newspaper headlines. One will be about them if they did something substantial or noticeable, but I have a ton of fluff ready to insert. Some is story related foreshadowing, some is just stuff like “Prices of apples are up 2% after news of heavy rain in Geb’s south has washed away too many skeleton fruit pickers”

Oh hell no. Decriminalize drugs, homelessness, or petty theft from major chain stores with insurance for that crap.

Now, bicycle theft? That strains my dedication to opposing state violence.

All of your descriptions are hardly unskilled, those take a good deal of education, practice, and in the case of plumbers legal certification that probably involves an apprenticeship. It’s absolutely a skilled profession.

In my youth I briefly worked for a temporary agency and did a bunch of odd tasks to fill in when needed. The least skilled thing I did was for a newspaper: sliding racks of newspapers from a conveyor belt onto a long table, watching this massive table vibrate the newspapers for a solid couple of minutes (to prevent pages from getting stuck together as the ink dried), then throwing in the day’s collection of laminated ad inserts into each set, and then pushing the boxes onto the next conveyor belt down the line. Training was thirty seconds of instruction.

I would call it ‘labor’ because it doesn’t need any adjectives or qualifiers. It’s just work, somebody laboring at a task.

30 euro for gigabit up/down, Netherlands

As somebody that rode a motorcycle for years: you can make eye contact and still be unseen.

He wrote Altair Basic, which is more than just repackaging. I can only assume he tended towards more business related tasks after that though.

He also once thought every home would have a dedicated ISDN line.

I believe it came out during his divorce hearings.

Nederlandse heeft een sterke geschiedenis in Amerika. Er was zelfs een president die geen engels spreekt, want Nederlands was zijn moedertaal.

I saw this attitude growing up around evangelicals. “God gave man sovereign control of the earth to benefit us” kind of nonsense.

These assholes see a beautiful park like Yosemite and are disgusted that it’s full of people relaxing and enjoying the scenery; because all they see is a forest of trees to cut down and a mountain range just waiting to be mined.

They don’t care about the long term consequences at all because they’re also convinced that Jesus is going to return any day now, and when he does the entire planet is getting incinerated as all physical reality of the universe is summarily disintegrated as god sends all the good people to heaven and the rest of us losers to hell for all eternity.

I don’t know how many times I’ve heard the argument that NOT clear cutting the world’s forests was actually bad stewardship of the planet that their god ‘gave’ us.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-bill-gates.html

And unlike many others, Mr. Gates started the relationship after Mr. Epstein was convicted of sex crimes.

https://www.soapcentral.com/human-interest/news-when-bill-gates-first-meet-jeffrey-epstein-former-microsoft-ceo-reportedly-regrets-ties-disgraced-financier

Bill Gates made his acquaintance with Jeffrey Epstein in 2011 when Epstein had been jailed for years for soliciting prostitution from a minor.

https://jacobin.com/2021/08/bill-gates-jeffrey-epstein-mistake-cnn-interview

They were two of the richest men on Earth, meeting after Epstein had already been convicted for child sex trafficking, very intentionally scratching each other’s back and bolstering each other’s charitable endeavors. The relationship between them — and what compelled both to build one — should be seen not as a lapse in judgment but as an indictment of billionaire philanthropy itself.

There’s plenty more out there if you look.

I just setup vaultwarden a few days ago for a small group, it’s very simple.

Bill Gates became friends with Epstein AFTER he was convicted.

I have to nitpick slightly; Holland is not a country. Amsterdam is in the North Holland province of the Netherlands.

Source: I’m on the train from Amsterdam to my home in Nijmegen, Netherlands, which is not a part of either Holland.

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