I imagine if all you do is watch films, you get tired of common stuff. You’ve seen it before. But if you only watch films sometimes, some of that is still interesting to you.
Kind of like how some video game nerds will be only “only double soj 2x blan Blah is viable” but like other builds do fine for everything except some optional mega bosses
I was at a major concert the other day waiting in line for the bathroom. So many men just strolled out of there without even looking at the sink.
I feel like trying to mix an action game (eg: click on their head!) and a stats game (eg: your precision stat gives you a 80% chance to hit their head!) almost always has bad outcomes.
Bethesda games are kind of the quintessential example of it. Everyone’s probably had the experience where there’s some half naked goon, you slam an axe right into his head, and… he just gets mad. Maybe your damage is low, his HP is high, or your accuracy is low so it “missed”. Fallout is full of “I shot this guy four times in the face and he didn’t die!” dissonance.
You could probably do a lot of work so the animations map to the outcomes better (eg: they dodge or parry), but Bethesda seems happy with just not doing that. So you get goons in Skyrim with 20 arrows in their face, because they’re higher level than you.
Uh… What?
Game A has 100 recommends, 300 not-recommend
Game B has 90 recommends, 10 not-recommends.
Is A more highly recommended? In a meaningful way?
Well, thankfully I included examples other than magic.
However, I do think trying too hard on “martials should be like real life” easily leads to harsher limitations for them. It’s not always intentional. But when someone says “I want to leap 15 feet over the chasm” some people get all “you can’t do that! I can barely jump five feet and I’m athletic (they’re not)” and you have a whole digression where someone looks up human records and then argues about if 16 strength is really Olympic class and what about all your equipment and blah blah blah.
It’s much rarer for that kind of argument to come up with wizard types, in my experience.
Clearer rules up front help, though I feel like half of DND players have never read the rules.
I guess I’m lucky almost no one I know is trying to side hustle slop their way into money. I don’t think I would put up with that happily.
Oh. Well. I don’t think anger is an appropriate response, unless you’re some sort of evil light mode gremlin that switches people’s settings on them.
I did give some of my old coworkers shit whenever they shared screen with full light mode, because it was like a mini flashbang.
It’s uncomfortably bright, especially if the room isn’t already very bright. My apartment is lit by a single lamp and a little sunlight from the windows. Full screen light mode is like a flashlight in my face, and too big a change in brightness every time I look around my apartment and then back to the screen.
Do you have trouble seeing dark mode? That’s hard for me to imagine.
I wouldn’t mind ads on streaming media if they were limited to a few seconds at the start and end, and had some constraints (eg: no volume tricks to sound louder). Just a calm voice saying “This episode brought to you by WidgetCo. The best in Widgets. [logo] [url]” over a neutral color. That’d be fine. But the hunger for profit can never be sated, so it’s longer, more obvious ads more frequently forever. So they can all get fucked. I won’t watch at all.
“it seems silly that you can just go around the corner and suddenly you’re hidden. They know you’re there”
This was rebutted with “they know I’m somewhere over there, but not exactly where or when I’m going to pop out. I’m a 7th level rogue, I’m sure I have tricks you and I can’t even think of”.
Sometimes people get like selectively simulationist. They’ll ignore most of the game’s gamey bits (inventory management, hit points and recovery, magic) but some things throw them off. Usually things that are closer to lived reality. For example, someone having no problem with a wizard hypnotizing an entire room, but balking at a fighter climbing a tall fence.
There was also: “It seems like a lot of damage…”
“I’m pretty sure rogue is balanced around doing sneak attack almost every round. The fighter gets multiple attacks, but I don’t. Almost every other class gets a resource to burn like spell points or ki points or superiority dice. I have nothing. All I do is sneak attack. Without it, I’m a particularly accurate peasant that can run away real good. And I still miss about a quarter of the time, which means my whole turn accomplishes nothing”
I wonder if the DMG or something published expected damage per round or per encounter somewhere.
If you were an organization with ideas to push, would you just ignore reddit? It’s pretty cheap to pay people to manage social media, especially if you don’t care about some slop from LLMs.
If it’s “full of”, I don’t know. I don’t use it anymore.
It’s short sighted to hold such individualistic opinions.
That’s conservatism. They’re all selfish idiots. Many of them don’t even understand how they’re hurting themselves.
I’d rather spend billions on teaching people how to write better than AI slop, but here we are
The law allows union representatives to sue anyone for $6,250 if they can prove an individual falsely impersonated a union representative.
That is too small a fine.
I had a dm once say he was thinking about saying no about my rogue’s “I shoot, move, bonus action hide around the corner” loop. But then he said he realized if he said no, my character would suck and it’d be no fun.
I think that was the right call.
This seems like an obvious improvement and I kind of want everyone who thought otherwise to be banned from working in decision making roles.
Mark is a good, kind person
No he’s not.
He has done tremendous, incalculable, harm to countless people. All of our lives are worse because Zuckerberg is an asshole.
Or when you get past where you can coast (calc 2 for me) you realize you don’t really know how to learn and study. It didn’t ruin my self image but I did change majors.
I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask but maybe this comic will be interesting anyway
Every Republican that leaves office, by whatever means, is good for the world.