Yeah, they’ve already placed tons of bets against themselves; own-goals are just lining their pockets.

Give that the gilded age was characterized by a massive spike in wages… No. No, we aren’t. Or rather, yes, we are, but only for a very select few people. For the rest of us, we’re entering into a new depression.

The definition of DEI, Wokeness, CRT, etc. according to Trump and Republicans in general is “Anything we don’t like” or “Anything we can weaponize against ‘The Left’”.

This is great, thanks for this link! Didn’t know this was a thing!

Not only that, it’s a meaningless requirement. There’s subs on Reddit that exist solely to farm karma. You make a post, everyone upvotes it, done.

I kind of get it, though. Like, things are bad and might be affecting the people who you’re interacting with even more, and when things are generally shit and someone is just obliviously dancing around going “Look at this neat thing that happened today!”, it’s hard to tolerate. By saying “I know it’s bad right now, but this small thing happened and I wanted to share it”, it sets the proper tone to avoid that. Maybe that’s just me, though.

You could just look up articles on his policies - given his high profile status, they’re all over right now.

A pork pie!

I’ve always thought men look great in hats. Not baseball caps, but actual classy hats. I’d say go for it, man!

I bought a new hat about 5 years ago. In the first year, I had a young woman tell me she liked my hat (random passerby in a supermarket), but she giggled as she said it. I spent the next long while wondering if she was being genuine and she was just nervous about saying something, or if she was making fun of me and had said it ironically. (She was with someone else, so that seemed to make the latter more likely).

A few months ago, an elderly woman at the pharmacy told me she liked my hat, and that one I knew was genuine.

I haven’t left the house without that hat since. Still riding that high, too.

In 2011, I worked at a company that was near a small local sandwich shop, and I’d go in there frequently for lunch. At one point, when I got back to the office, I found that they clerks had written in sharpie on the bag something to the effect of, “You’re always so bright and cheery when you come in here, we love your attitude!” Made my year. I still have that bag in a box in the closet.

‘Cause I been drivin’ and puttin’ so long, that

I didn’t realize the water is gone.

Just an off-the-cuff example, a business review with a client. I’m involved in making the deck that’s being shown, so I already know the talking points from our side; the only thing that’s relevant to me is the client’s response. The meeting might be 45 minutes of us presenting and 15 minutes of them responding, so if I can get a quick summary of those responses, I can save all that time.

I mean, I’ll take that notebook. Pass it over.

Terraria

Really don’t know why you’re getting downvoted. Getting a transcript and summary of an hour long meeting that you weren’t at is so much easier than relying on someone taking and sending you notes.

No, but a multiplayer game which starts with, for example, 4 players could be reduced to 2 players before it ends, so they have to specify ‘begins with’ to keep that multiplayer game from also being a two-player game at that point.

And this really sums up the level of semantics and minutia that requires a 299 page comprehensive rule PDF for a card game.

Or any interaction that requires understanding layers.

In all fairness, the instructions you actually need to know to play the game could be summarized in a single page (with the caveat that there will be a lot of edge cases that won’t be adequately explained there); tournament judges and, to a lesser extent, tournament players are the only folks who need to know the majority of what’s in that PDF.

That said, the game is super archaic and hard to learn, and any player who thinks otherwise is probably either playing only at a super basic level, or just isn’t considering how long they’ve been playing and how much nuance they’ve accumulated. Sorry you had a shitty experience; your friends absolutely should not have tried to throw you into the deep end like that. You sound like you already know, but to reiterate it, this was absolutely not a failing on your part and was 100% your friends’ fault.

If you actually want to try the game (and I completely understand if you don’t), you can go to a game store that sells MtG products and ask for a (free) intro deck. They’re small decks with simpler cards and a booklet explaining the basic game rules that can be helpful to learn the game.

There’s also Magic Arena, the computer game version, which really does a pretty good job of teaching the game. If you don’t mind that format, I’d absolutely start there.

Wow. If you told me this was satire, I’d 100% believe you.

“Here, just use this easy quick-reference PDF.”