My wife runs a large online D&D guild, with games 4-5 nights a week (not that you play in all of them, they just have that many people). They’re no strangers to kicking people that cause drama, and they have several trans and non-binary members already.

I will say that they might not be able to bring their character in, as-is, if it’s heavily based on “official” D&D lore and sourcebooks. The group has spent 8 years building all their own lore and tuning some homebrew rules and classes. It’s mostly built on the 5e foundation, though.

I believe this is where they’d go to apply.

I wonder how much Harry Potter had to do with the trend, cause superficially, that’s Harry’s story. It’s a good implementation of the trope, though, because it’s subverted rather quickly, and by the end of the seeies it’s a core theme: Everyone WANTS to treat him like he’s inherently special, and he’s really not. It’s his CHARACTER that makes him special.

Arcane.

Gotta figure he’s considered that possibility. Imprisonment of an elected federal official would be distinctly tougher for Trump to just shrug off.

Also depends how much presence you have on social media, and how public you are avout your political opinions there.

Not banned… at least not that I know of. Just saw the writing on the wall after the API horseshit.

Yeah, just like it was announced for 2023 in that one XBox showcase.

I’ll believe it when I’m playing it.

Not really, not on its own. It can GET demanding depending on how big you go with building stuff.

Thank god, we STILL use TFS at work, and its core version control model is reeeeeally fucking awful.

Nah, I definitely think it was a ruse, just not this one. What the fuck were they ever gonna DO with 3 million e-mails coming in within a week? Actually analyze them all to idendify each employee’s value? Nonsense.

A) It was a cheap way to bank an excuse to fire anyone who didn’t respond “for cause” at some later point when they identify people they want to fire, and are looking for cause.

B) They were planning to feed all the responses into an LLM or something similar. Maybe as a way to look for certain “woke” buzzwords and make a hitlist of people to target for firing.

I was thinking the same thing. Perhaps an “English isn’t my first language” scenario?

I’ve seen forms of this joke quite a lot in the last few years, and it never fails to make me laugh.

Because its value was always fictitious.

Immediately grabs the apple she dropped

Yeah, this tracks.

It’s one of the old tweets by Marko Elez, the 25-year-old that recently resigned from Elon Musk’s team at the USDS, after said tweets surfaced. He has since been re-hired.

According to Musk’s plan, he would be one of two people given full access to all of the financial IT systems at the US Treasury, and probably all the other agencies they plan to come after in the future.

Who?

These days, replace “Documents” and “Downloads” with “the root folder of OneDrive”.

Yes, it’s bad. Usually, with posts like this, you have to read it with a “okay, this is a biased perspective, what’s the real story underneath?” attitude. I.E. you woupd expect the OP to describe their friend in the best possible light, and toxic traits might be described in a very reasonable way.

You do not describe your friend in a reasonable way. You describe a very toxic person, outright. Perhaps you’re just better than most people at being unbiased (kudos, if so, but then I also have to assume you know full-well the answer to your question already). If not, the implication is that this is your “biased towards your friend” perspective, and the actual reality is far WORSE than you describe. This would also imply that you might have some issues of your own to work through, that you think the things you describe are normal friend behavior.

Either way, this person does NOT sound like a force for good in your life. Unfortunately, at your age, removing toxic people from your life is not going to be easy. For one, I’m guessing you go to school together, so you can’t just avoid her entirely. Your best bet is probably to just think about ways to minimize the time you spend with her, or at least alone with her, and increase the time you spend with other friends. I.E. don’t let yourself be dependent on her as your only friend.

Good luck, and props for seeking out advice on a problem like this.

No, we want the money that we pay to benefit society, in ways that we couldn’t on our own, to be used to benefit society, in ways that we couldn’t on our own.

It has indeed been pushed and advertised by TikTok. Or at least, within TikTok.