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The exception is password managers. It's a very rare tool that makes things more secure and easier.

Your OS probably comes with one, and if not there are cheap or even free ones available.

It's more subtle than that. Obviously no one who already smokes is going to say "Oh, the packet isn't as pretty as it used to be, guess I'll quit smoking now."

It's about the big, long-term picture. Companies spend money on branding and advertising because it works. You create the perception that your product is for a certain type of person, which makes them more inclined to buy it. By making cigarettes boring, you make them less appealing, and on average less people will smoke.

The proof is in the pudding. Social attitudes to smoking in Australia have totally flipped within a generation or two. It used to be something that everyone did. It's now mostly seen as a gross habit.

Great comment. We have the same thing here in Australia with tobacco laws. The most recent change was to ban almost all branding on cigarette packaging. They're not allowed to use fonts, slogans, logos, or colours, just the brand name in plain text on a standard brown-green box.

The logic being that branding makes a product more attractive to a consumer. Make it duller and less people will buy it.

Tobacco companies fought it tooth and nail. Kept arguing it wouldn't stop people from smoking. Well then why are you lobbying so hard against it? Obviously the only reason they will ever fight anything is because they think it will hurt their revenue. So whatever they oppose, I support.

It's ragebait. Ignore it. Even if it's not, attention is what they want. Engagement feeds the algorithm. Ignore it.

A player in our party recently got a magic item that can boost your athletics and double your move speed once per day. I didn't get how useful it could be until I saw him grapple an evil priest and just fucking drag him from one side of the map to the other.

Turns out grapple + double move speed + dash action is super awesome for getting enemies out of position and screwing up their formation.

So my recommendation is to look for ways to boost move speed. This quora post lists some ways: https://www.quora.com/What-are-all-the-ways-to-increase-movement-speed-in-D-D-5e

I'm sure you can find more if you talk to your party members or DM though. Off the top of my head, Glamour Bards have an ability that lets the whole party move up to their movement speed as a reaction. Then there's Haste obviously. Ask your party if they have any spells or features that can make you fast 😃