Lol, that makes way more sense, thank you. Clearly hadn’t had enough coffee this morning!

I’m new to this hobby and have only dipped my toes, but please tell me “out of mana” is a commonly accepted shorthand for this problem, because I love it

I would be willing to bet that the average police officer fires very little outside of annual or semi-annual qualifications, though my evidence is purely anecdotal.

I was on Reddit for a couple of years before creating an account, but I couldn’t stand seeing another “one of us” crowd surf the whole thing to enshitification during the API thing so I’ve stopped going there.

Spiner does a great Stewart impersonation, I love it every time

Fuck me, I completely forgot about that. You can just highlight a portion of a real picture and input whatever the fuck. I was scanning the background, but it was all pristine because I bet it’s real.

I used RainX wipers for a long time but Bosch makes a superior product, they last for a long time so far, even in the baking sun

It’s common phrasing for somebody being made fun of. I assume that since the correspondence dinner has recently been a sort of roast of the administration by the press that she was using it in the “being targeted by jokes” sense, but who fucking knows anymore.

I started by picking a lot of indexers, trying to cover my bases, but every search would take forever because it sifts through every match to find the best one for your criteria. In the end I pared it down to just to just a couple big ones that even I’ve heard of and it’s been fine 98% of the time.

I’ve always heard the private indexers are best, but I don’t have experience with them.

I play it and enjoy it for its departure from standard D&D. It basically just codifies the way I wanted to play anyway, which is to say with a more narrative focus.

I have also found it to be combat heavy based on how the adventures are written out, and the system is clearly balanced for its board-game style combat rules. It’s not terribly cumbersome to keep track of all of the moving pieces even if it does seem a bit complex at first, and the hero skills can make for some cool heroic moments.

I think it would be harder to do theater of the mind for combat but not impossible. All of the forced movement abilities might make things difficult to track unless a lot of things are handwaved, but I think they’re all surmountable problems.

I also like the character creation well enough that even if you don’t use the system you should absolutely steal the character ideas.

Our online group has been beta testing the Draw Steel official VTT, the Codex, and it’s been a really great way to experience the game thus far. MCDM’s whole operation is far better than D&D for my money, and I haven’t seen any signs of them even slowing down.

Medical History Barbie with Character References, we can do differential analysis

I’m with you, I love arcades but I just wish I didn’t have to buy SpaceBucks (tokens, credits, chips) in order to play. Oh, Capitalism, is there nothing you can’t enshittify?

I’ve read that the reason for the useless stories prior to recipes is that the more you have to scroll the more ads you will see, or it counts differently as a page view, something like that. Basically just another example of enshittification to please the search engine.

That is genuinely surprising, but I’m terminally online so maybe it shouldn’t be. These articles get trotted out every 6 months or so when Star Citizen passes whatever milestone. Lots of people enjoy it, some people complain about it, but it’s certainly an anomaly in the gaming space.

Didn’t most console games run at 30fps until recently, so effectively 30hz, right?

I swear, games running at 240fps on a 240hz monitor have actual motion blur, no need for post processing

Ha, forgot about that. Maybe this trailer just feels over the top

The first one was campy but it felt way less self-aware

Yeah, kinda.

For anyone who wants to skip the article–which is really just a fluff piece interview with Salvatore–this is the rest of the quote.

“That’s been one of the toughest parts,” Salvatore told Polygon in a Zoom interview. “4th Edition D&D almost broke me, not because I didn’t like 4th Edition D&D. I’m not making any judgments – positive or negative – on any of the editions, but the changes were so sweeping.”

He tries to put things from the games into his books and it’s hard to do when things change drastically, so he just sorta fudges it.

Yeah, and somebody is going to have to start, so is that you?