zifnab25 [he/him, any]

Me: “Mom, can we have New Star Trek?”

Dune Mom: “You have Old Star Trek at home”

Old Star Trek At Home

TrashFuture has hit on a few new attempts at Killer App firms, but it’s all Mindfulness this and AI that.

I think the last app I downloaded was an AI art app, which I used maybe twice.

Picard was already bordering on elder abuse.

Certainly possible that elements were AI generated. However, this image feels like it had someone putting polish on it. The symmetry - both in the setting and in the focal point of the image - plus the sharper color contrast particularly between the red of Mt. Doom and the blue of the mountains and the way that you get a real sense of light coming directly from the volcano and radiating out into the rest of the image. Someone definitely had their hands on this in a material way, even if it was just moving clip-art onto a canvas and tweaking the colors a bit.

Doing another Slay and Say.

Fighter: Barbarian’s fratbro drinking buddy

Wizard: Fighter’s emotionally distant and verbally abusive father-figure

Monk: Wizard’s even more emotionally distant and verbally abusive father-figure

Sorcerer: Monk’s third ex-spouse, mostly along to look after the Fighter because he’s like a little brother to her

Ranger: Sorcerer’s daughter by a second marriage and also the Druid’s husband (which has led to some confusing moments with the cleric)

Bard: Rogue’s legal defense counsel

Sure. But that’s one point of failure relative to the N points tied to each major update to a “supported” platform.

Spend 500 hours re-engineering your application for each platform

Just using ten year old proven technology that’s built on a universal backwards compatible framework

Genuinely love to break up a combat/dungeon-crawl heavy game with some light-hearted day-in-the-life-of gameplay once in a while. Having the DM describe the lazy cat stretched across the alchemist’s countertop, while some mischievious pickpocket tries to nick the rogue’s enchanted dagger and the knight errant helps an elderly woman cross the street can add a lot of color to a very number-crunchy game. Picking through a flea market of random niche nebulously useful magic items, while a merchant drops hints about the next sidequest, gives you a real adventurer’s vibe.

Genuinely hate having long, drawn out arguments over whether the shopkeep would have the principle material component for my most import spells or basic equipment (there’s no bat guano, one swayback horse, and only sixteen arrows in a fantasy city of 50,000 people? god damn, dude). Or digging through spreadsheets to figure out how many javelins the local economy can absorb. Or bickering over whether the Charm Person spell gets us in fight with town guards. Genuinely do not want anyone consulting a series of random charts and tables to determine why we can’t get a full night’s rest in the town’s nicest inn.

Please just make this a fun story to enjoy and not a pedantic fight over the future prospective mathematical efficiency of my stat block in the next combat.

I’m sorry, but that’s just bullshit. The rule was implemented as a patch in to deal with the fact that Strength is the most efficient stat in 2e. Everyone wanted to max out their strength score and Gygax didn’t want everyone coming to the table with near-identical stat blocks. So, for one value - 18 - in one stat - strength - he created a secondary rule that stratified characters that much further.

RPGs are games, not art, and I don’t give myself airs.

This is also nth-levels of bullshit.

Rivaling the rogue’s boutique skill system for moments of “Why on earth did they shoehorn that in there?” game design.

Old 2e game back in middle school. My DM introduced a weapon common to goblins called a “Herculean Club”. It did d10 damage and could be used by a small creature, but it would break in two if you rolled less than a 3.

Our ranger loved them, because they were ideal for two-weapon fighting (big oopsey on the DM’s part). But his rolls were shit, so he was always breaking them. At one point, he went through six different clubs in an encounter, and the DM demanded to see his character sheet. Dude had, like, 30 of these on there. But also an 18/70 strength score, so… shrug

Going to the B-roll footage of Apocalypse Now to deny the existence of Vietnam

Me, a player: “So my options are the left door or the right door?”

You, the DM: “Yes.”

Me, a player: “I choose the left door.”

You, the DM: “FUCK!” tears up 300 pages of notes

It was such an enjoyable piece of cinema. So nice I saw it twice. Breaks my heart that Zack Snyder will be allowed to continue to make over-hyped flops while these folks are stuck in limbo.

Nice try, but everyone knows timelines only impact hair below the earline.

Europeans: “Those perfidious Russians and the nefarious Chinese are the two single biggest threats to our domestic security. Why… they’ll just hack into any old thing and fill it full of evil communist propaganda. They’ll shut down our critical infrastructure, hijack our data services, and spam us so full of phishing attempts that you won’t know what’s safe to click on! And all just to watch us fail, then laugh at us. The fiends!!!”

Also Europeans: “Google’s CEO said we need to dismantle the last ten years of digital safety standards so we can undermine the YouTube adblocker. Make this our top priority.”

No microphone

Its funny, because I’d love to have a sound setup that accepts audio. I do FoundryVTT games regularly from my couch, and being able to talk at my TV, rather than setting up a bluetooth headset, would be great for hybrid home/remote games.

I know my TV has a built in mic, because it occasionally goes into “Did You Say Something?” mode based on keywords I never bothered to figure out. But I can’t get it to sync with the server I’ve set it up against.

Damned near everything has a mic in it, but nobody wants to let you use it for what you want.

Adding 30 years to a cast that was already in their 30s/40s when the original aired was hard enough with Picard, when the people were supposed to look like people. And that series wrapped last year.

Curious to see what they do with the remake, but folks aren’t getting any younger.

staring at my Microsoft DevOps certification, dejectedly