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My nephew has talked about how lucky some of his friends are because they get more robux from their parents than he does and how he wishes his parents would give him more "nice things" like that.

This is a kid who has been to disneyland multiple times and has gone on multiple cruises before he was a decade old. They have a big trip basically every summer, but he doesn't want any of that, he just wants more robux.

Gamer uncle of kids with non-gamer parents here.

I did what I could.

My niece's taste in games is impeccable. She's 13 and among her favorites are Hollow Knight, the Ori games, Inscryption, Cult of the Lamb, and of course big mass kids appeal games like Pokemon and Mario.

My nephew (9) is a lost cause. It's all Roblox and mobile child casino garbage and he doesn't have even the slightest interest in anything else. I'm pretty sure my partner and I are the only people in his life who have never given him Robux.

It's highlighting "me" as a keyword. The only language I can think of that uses that is Visual Basic.

Yeah, absolutely. There are plenty of RAW ways to allow a bbeg to monologue, at least to some degree.

Of course it's also entirely within the GM's power to just tell the players to let it happen, but it definitely feels better when there's some kind of in game reason why.

By the rules of the game you can't surprise someone who is aware of your presence, so you're correct.

That also means you don't automatically get to interrupt a monologue by blasting the bbeg in the face mid-sentence. You need to roll initiative to see if you are able to act before they can respond.

That all reeks of effort though.

But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby."

How does this make any sense at all? How does one "pass as even younger" but still somehow "look legal to passersby"? Those are directly conflicting concepts.

Alright, my bad, though you still haven't provided a link to any of these.

Also, from what I can see that 8645HS iGPU does not match a PS5 in performance and has exactly the same iGPU as the 8700G. It's not even close to a PS5's performance.

...none of the processors you list seem to exist? The only "7800" ryzen is the 7800X3D which retails for more than that by itself, let alone in a complete system, and I highly doubt you mean the A10 7800 which is over a decade old. No AMD CPU or APU that I can find has ever been branded as 8800 or 8900.

The closest and highest end match to any of those numbers, the 8700G, falls well short of a PS5. There's no way it counts as close unless you're talking astronomical scales and "within an order of magnitude" is considered "close". The iGPU on the 8700G being a newer architecture than the RDNA2 in the PS5 doesn't make up for the fact that the PS5 has three times as many compute units.

I'll happily eat crow if you can link to one of these alleged $300-$400 PCs.

That's more of less the starting line of my point. The Dems won't change anything, I agree, but if the republicans never win that opens the door for another group to fill the void, or at least for things to begin shifting left at the parties chase the votes.

That was your starting point, yes, but I disagree with your conclusion. Both parties pissing everyone off just deepens the current mire. At best you can argue from an accelerationist standpoint that the faster we make things worse the sooner people rebel against it, but I'm not enough of a pessimist to believe that's the best option.

The dems attracting consistent support would begin the lamentably slow process of digging out of the current situation. It should've started 20 or more years ago, but now is still better than never.

I don't expect so.

The Democrats are unlikely to enact meaningful change, sure, but if they consistently started winning it would create a political environment more conducive to change in the future. The republicans being unable to win would start shifting things in the other direction and it's delusional to think otherwise.

On the other hand, if both parties piss everyone off then the needle doesn't move as the parties lose support in equal measure. This seems to be where things currently sit.