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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Minor correction: in a few billion years our sun will expand into its red giant death phase.

    Also: our star can’t go nova by our understanding of astrophysics. If it actually can, then we might need to throw out a lot of astrophysics, including predictions on when our star will expand.

    Also also: the odds of the dice giving double 6s is MUCH higher than our sun going nova at any point in time even if it could go nova and was overdue.







  • It’s actually not that hard! There’s only a handful of core rules to know for every session and the rest you can learn as you go.

    Attacks and spell attacks: 1d20+prof (proficiency bonus)+ability+special bonuses (items, buffs, etc)
    Ability checks: 1d20+ability. If it’s a skill check you have proficiency in, add +prof.
    Saving throws: 1d20+ability, +prof if you’re proficient in that saving throw.
    Note: all of these bonuses are summed up on your character sheet under your spellcasting page, your weapons, skill lists and saving throw lists.

    In encounters you can do the following: Action (extra attack included in 1 action), Bonus Action, Reaction, Movement, Item Interaction, and any number of Free Actions.

    DCs for figuring out how hard something easy:
    5: very easy, most people can do this most of the time
    10: easy, people trained can reliably do this
    15: medium, decent odds if skilled
    20: hard, rare success unless very skilled
    25: very hard, rare success even with highly skilled
    30: nearly impossible, heroic aptitude still fails most of the time
    35: godly, the highest DC likely to see. impossible without epic amounts of skill and even then very unlikely. even demigods may fail






  • Working people would also get UBI. Most likely taxes would go up, making their paycheck smaller. But then they’re getting UBI. Ideally this would result in the majority of stable, permanent workers getting the same pay from 2 different sources. With richer people getting less and poorer people getting more.

    Lots of workers would stop working, and that’s OK. That will mean certain industries will have to pay more. UBI will result in people working just to not starve or die of exposure a thing of the past. And let me tell you, capitalists and business with FIGHT this to hell and back. It removes a huge cudgel from workers.

    But more realistically, UBI will probably start with a below-basic income level subsidy for homeless and jobless to help house and keep people in houses. Kind of like unemployment, but it actually works long-term.