Silver hawks was my favorite saturday morning cartoon.

An unwitting psy-op asset is the best kind of psy-op asset. What Putin famously called, useful idiots.

Ok, so biden can officially order the assassination of the right wing supreme court justices and Trump, then appoint replacement judges and lobby congress for a constitutional amendment permanently stripping presidents of their absolute immunity. Since his orders would have occurred while he had immunity, he’d be in the clear, he’d have illustrated the flaw in the ruling, removed a dangerous individual, and prevented future abuses. Win.

Looks good but it could use some genre settings. The straight section in particular is full of generic vanilla content and it’s all kinda samey.

That’s A real hoot coming from the woman who gave us president Donald Trump.

Ok, I had it create an Inkling custom race and then generate a third level rogue using that race and a custom weapon to represent it’s splattershot. I hope this is what you’re talking about. I’m an old. I’ve never heard of an Inkling so I just googled it and came up with this thing from Splatoon. I made it for 5th edition D&D:

The Inkling Race: Inkling Inklings are humanoid cephalopods that can transform into squids and swim through ink. They are colorful, expressive, and adventurous beings that love to compete in turf wars and other sports.

Ability Score Increase. Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Age. Inklings mature at the same rate as humans, but live slightly longer. They reach adulthood around 18 and can live up to 120 years.

Alignment. Inklings tend to be chaotic and good, valuing freedom, fun, and friendship. They are rarely evil, but some may be selfish or rebellious.

Size. Inklings are about the same size and build as humans. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Darkvision. You have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Inkling Weapon Training. You have proficiency with the hand crossbow, the net, and the whip. You can use these weapons to shoot or spray ink of your color.

Squid Form. As a bonus action, you can transform into a squid that has a swim speed of 25 feet. You can breathe underwater and move through ink of your color as if it were difficult terrain. You can’t use any weapons or equipment in this form, and you can’t speak or cast spells. You can revert to your humanoid form as a bonus action.

Ink Resistance. You have resistance to acid damage and immunity to poison damage and the poisoned condition. You also have advantage on saving throws against being blinded, deafened, or restrained by ink.

Ink Vulnerability. You are vulnerable to fire damage and have disadvantage on saving throws against fire effects. You also have disadvantage on saving throws against being blinded, deafened, or restrained by ink of a different color than yours.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Inkling. Inkling is a complex language that combines sounds, gestures, and ink patterns.

The Inkling Character (A third level rogue):

Name: Ink Race: Inkling Class: Rogue Level: 3 Background: Urchin Alignment: Chaotic Good Hit Points: 19 + your Constitution modifier Hit Dice: 3d8 Armor Class: 15 (leather armor + Dexterity modifier) Proficiency Bonus: +3 Speed: 30 ft. (walking), 25 ft. (swimming) Darkvision: 60 ft. Languages: Common, Inkling Saving Throws: Dexterity +6, Intelligence +3 Skills: Acrobatics +6, Insight +4, Stealth +9, Thieves’ Tools +6 Tools: Thieves’ tools, disguise kit Equipment: Splattershot (hand crossbow), 20 bolts, shortsword, leather armor, burglar’s pack, ink vial x10, set of dark common clothes, belt pouch with 10 gp Traits: Ink Resistance, Ink Vulnerability, Squid Form, Inkling Weapon Training Sneak Attack: 2d6 Cunning Action: You can take a bonus action on each of your turns in combat to Dash, Disengage, or Hide. Roguish Archetype: Thief Fast Hands: You can use your Cunning Action to make a Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) check, use your thieves’ tools to disarm a trap or open a lock, or take the Use an Object action. Second-Story Work: You gain the ability to climb faster than normal; climbing no longer costs you extra movement. In addition, when you make a running jump, the distance you cover increases by a number of feet equal to your Dexterity modifier.

Stats for his splattershot weapon:

Splattershot Simple Ranged Weapon Cost: 50 gp Damage: 1d6 piercing Weight: 3 lb. Properties: Ammunition (range 30/90), loading, special

Special: When you hit a creature with this weapon, you can choose to deal no damage and instead cover the target with ink of your color. The target is blinded until the end of its next turn, unless it uses an action to wipe off the ink. Alternatively, you can use an action to spray a 10-foot cone of ink from this weapon. Each creature in the cone must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be blinded as above. The ink also covers the ground in the cone, creating difficult terrain for creatures that are not Inklings. You can use your squid form to move through the ink as if it were normal terrain. You can carry up to 10 ink vials as ammunition for this weapon. Each ink vial costs 1 gp and weighs 1/2 lb. You can use a bonus action to reload the weapon with an ink vial. You can also use a bonus action to switch the color of the ink, choosing from the following options: black, blue, green, orange, pink, purple, red, or yellow.

Hmmm. This feels eerily similar to an episode of star trek deep space nine.

A little over a decade ago I worked for a company that designed and fabricated stonework for buildings. Not just anyone can clad their house in marble, so I wound up interacting with some very wealthy people. I can’t say who, because they’re still just as wealthy and powerful and I’m about to shit all over them. I came away from the experience with much less respect for them afterwards. They essentially have no interaction with ordinary people at all. They don’t do anything for themselves, and they don’t engage with the real world. It’s no wonder they lack empathy and only act in their own self-interest. The real world is an abstract concept to them, I doubt they think about any of us as being real people.

I was raised dirt poor, like food insecure and periodically unhoused poor. The guy I interacted with was literally a billionaire and had always been a billionaire. His staff treats him like a noble lord, and they buffer him from nearly any circumstance that would lead to him experiencing reality. One perk of being a white guy with good diction and vocabulary is that you can hide your low-class upbringing. Put me in some decent clothes and they’ll assume I’m from a similar background and speak more openly. The conversations were disturbing. The things they said about poor people, my people, were horrible. They think about us like animals if they think about us at all. I had to sit there and smile the whole time.

Even before he became a political figure, he could have had the entire LAPD at his house within moments of the first sign of trouble. It’s not like the french revolution. They have a modern army that is well trained to deal with large groups. They’ve had lots of practice. We can’t just roll up on him with a guillotine in the back of our truck and expect to actually prevail.

My experience at that job radicalized me somewhat and drove from me any lingering desire I might once have had to obtain wealth. I do not want to live in that world. I want to unmake that world.

people are rarely able to harm the person that harmed them, because the power imbalance is what facilitated the harm to begin with. The axe forgets, the tree remembers. Getting through the multiple layers that insulate the upper class from consequences is an uphill battle and it’s fought on many fronts. most of these fronts you’ll never see because the upper class prefers it that way. It’s a long war with many individual engagements. but this is always the goal.

right, that’s only true in the actually literally completely true sense. I have a love hate relationship with AI, I use several of them. As far as I’m concerned AI stands for “assets and inspiration” because that’s the only use for it. It can generate royalty free assets to chop up and use in art, and it can help brainstorm ideas if you’re feeling uninspired, but it’s actually really terrible at creating anything new or interesting on it’s own. There’s a difference between art and content. And what AI generates is content. Stuff to fill space. It’s not going to replace novelists any time soon, but if you make your living writing meaningless ad copy that just fills space then your job is in serious trouble. It can’t create art because messaging is a fundamental part of art and AI has nothing to say. Artists and writers do a lot more than just regurgitate their influences and copy patterns. They also have a point to make. When you engage with a piece of art, the artists is trying to say something, make commentary on the world, or evoke a specific emotional response in the audience. There is intention in art, but “AI” in it’s current and likely in it’s future state is incapable of approaching any task with intention. It’s just a machine learning tool spitting out formulaic patterns. It’s great if you want to create 250 stylized variations of the letter “B”, so artists can use AI to speed up their brainstorming phase and thus it can be a useful tool for artists, but it will never create anything new or interesting without a heaping helping of human interference.

AI will be writing shitty superhero movies that fill up space for the next thousand years, because those kinds of movies are just content. Aesthetically pleasing content, but still just content. It’ll never write anything that you haven’t seen a hundred times before.

ugh, I constantly forget to eat. People would ask “how the hell can you FORGET to eat, for two days” and I’d be like. “three days… I think”.