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Cake day: April 10th, 2025


  • If it is within a one hour commute of a place with a decent number of jobs, then that could be a viable residence.

    Not entirely sure what you precisely mean by ‘guest house of a villa’, but uh, its pretty common practice just generally around the country to rent out an ADU or guest house just as a residence.

    You’ll get no sympathy from me as an entitled landlord while millions are homeless and over a hundred million can barely afford rent.

    People like you will walk past a homeless person and sigh, and wonder why somebody else isn’t doing more to help them… seemingly unaware or not caring that you are part of the problem.

    I’m sure your kitty kat is wonderful, but please don’t use it to put a happy face on your exploitation of the poor.


  • Bad kitty, bad!

    A good kitty would stop AirBnb’ing their place and either do something more useful with it, or just put it on the normal rent/home sale market to help local rent and home prices go down.

    Don’t let the fuzzy innocent kawaii lull you into excusing their not immediately directly predatory and exploitative behavior.


  • This is a reasonable take.

    Yep, there are instances where rules lawyering way too hard can be detrimental in a situation where the rules… just fundamentally do not well handle a rather niche situation.

    And likewise there are situations where disregarding the rules too often, in too many scenarios… well it can just destroy the entire point of playing a ‘game’, feels unfair, you might as well just be doing a collaborative creative writing session at that point.

    If you find yourself frequently running into the first situation, perhaps come up with some modified homebrew rules, made clear to all players before hand, or switch over to a different game, a different ruleset that is better tuned to your players/playstyle.

    If you find yourself frequently in the second situation, find a new DM/GM, or stop being a DM/GM, and just be a creative writer… or just make your own entirely new ruleset/game.

    If either of these situations only occur rarely, you’re probably doing a good job of being a DM with the given ruleset and given players.


  • Yes.

    Calvinball is a convoluted game where Calvin amd Hobbes constantly and arbitrarily introduces new rules and addendums and exceptions to existing rules, on the spot, whenever something they don’t like happens, so that the outcome will always bend toward what they want it to be, ie, the rule composer winning.

    The strips are basically a storyboarded out version of the concept of ‘moving the goalposts’.

    EDIT:

    I got some details wrong:

    There are are multiple short and longer strips that mention or are fully based around calvinball.

    Hobbes is actually usually the one more successful at rembering the current, but also ever shifting set of rules, and is also usually better at making up rules that overtly benefit himself.

    Some of the strips seem to involve rules being made up that are more just chaos for the sake of chaos, other strips more clearly feature biased, weaponized rules.

    So… sometimes its chaotic neutral, sometimes it is chaotic evil that is based around chaotic rule making, so perhaps thats lawful evil…

    I’ve always found this particular ‘loophole’ kind of problematic and nonsensical with the DnD alignment chart of lawful v neutral v evil: chaotic:

    There are many real world systems where complex codes, rulesets, laws, are in fact so complex, contentious, inconsistently modified or interpreted that… chaotic evil and lawful evil begin to merge.


  • Because some people enjoy playing a game with fair and consistent rules, and find playing calvinball to be frustrating bullshit that is very often obviously biased towards certain kinds of actions, decisions, player builds, even just outright biased toward specific players.