One thing I like about Gloomhaven is it had just enough randomness to prevent it from being purely a math optimization game. But it is a damn fine math optimization game when it wants to be.

yeah you got different beholder Swarms, your Eyes in the Pyramid, with mind powers, you got your Eyebeamers, good in a fight, your Roaming Eyes, they're…yeah they're Romani. Yeah the whole situation with them is unfortunate, no one knows if the best solution is a hard retcon or just ignoring it

A fun thing to do is flip through the D&D Monster Manual (any works) and imagine a playable '90s White Wolf version of that monster. Splats, powers, permanent and temporary energy scores, secret societies, mortal lackeys, antagonists. Minotaurs, lamias, oozes, umber hulks.

Thinking about Wild Zero AGAIN!?

It all comes back to the West buying into, and promoting, the false argument that to condemn Israel is to be antisemitic. That hamstrung us from day one.

you can read any business tweet with "with AI" the same as "with cocaine" it's the same attitude

The ascendancy of twerps like Brandon Sanderson could have so easily been avoided by shouting "NERD" in a loud voice and shoving him in a locker a decade ago.

Shit has gotten mad Mormon these last 10 years

The headliners are a fascist and a far-right conspiracy theorist. Yaaaay.

1/ The US attempted to send several Iran-bound bombers to an Italian air base without prior authorisation and was refused permission by the Italian government while the aircraft were in flight. The news comes a day after Spain disclosed it was refusing US military overflights. ⬇️

This explains a lot of the problems with Bluesky as a piece of software. Jay: You know we're only here because Twitter is full of Nazis. Do you really want to give people more reasons to just go? You know that gen-ai is grossly unpopular outside of a few insular Silicon Valley polycules, right?

Half the reason she wants the reboot is because they all turned on her.

People will pay a premium for new builds on the assumption that translates to no need for major maintenance (& thus big added costs) for at least a decade, but that's not always the case.

Equally conceivable is that these satellites are made to the same exacting standards as everything else that Elon has anything to do with.

In retrospect this is very funny

I hope that people on here can conjure as much energy for the fact that Israel has 'legalized' arbitrary military 'court' death sentences for stone-throwing Palestinian children as they can for indignation at hearing the words "Free Palestine." I truly do.

"Let's keep tanking the global economy for no foreseeable political gain even harder."

All these people calling Charlie Kirk's shooter a "groyper" because they think those are the only guys that reference memes. But they weren't there! They didn't witness the October 2016 me_irl meme war! They don't remember where they were when Filthy Frank retired! They never saw the Big Chungus!

look, i'll give you clint eastwood as a conservative filmmaker, his films are genuinely good, but there is absolutely no way mel fucking gibson films are good enough to justify how fascist they are. apocalypto isn't merely conservative leaning, it is legitimately birth of a nation-level racist.

This is very funny but it's also yet another reminder of the fundamental misalignment of this site's leadership and its core user base, which I imagine will cause legitimate and potentially existential problems down the road

Well Ian, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are both dead. Unfortunately the same cannot be said of Rowling. Hope that helps.

Yeah. Fuck John Lithgow.

Lithgow claims JKR is misunderstood. Lithgow is now on my do not watch. This breaks my heart a little.

A death penalty applied ethnically. Can we call it what it is NOW? ALSO WHAT THE EVER LIVING FUCK

“Why’s everyone yelling at/about John Lithgow *again* today?” I wondered. Ah. I see. Lithgow has long been one of my favourite actors -- adding grace, intelligence and unpredictability to every project he’s joined. He is dead to me now, for JK Rowling has been *very specific* in her views 😡

And the award for most incurious inexplicably famous SF author goes to...

is it bad that I opened the video and they said ,"Designed by Monte Cook Games" and I said, "Oh that's why it failed"

doing well clearsky.app/attie.ai/blo...

I wonder how floor-crosser Lori Idlout's constituents will react in the next election.

It is almost like Canada's renewed interest in the North has nothing to do with Inuit themselves and is really a whole new phase of colonization.

Me: I don't trust Twitter sleuthing as a source for interpretation of a primary source. Do you have any secondary sources that verify the claim independent of the Twitter sleuth.

This is an interesting article. What I will say is this: while I have not seen either of these movies I'm excited to see both.

Yes. Hahaha. YES!

I first went 👀 when she was SO anti-devolution back in 2014. Not wanting Scottish independence is a totally valid viewpoint but her spiteful hardline attitude to it online with the size of her following reeked of "she's fucking horrible".

fuck Israel, fuck the genocidal monsters in the IDF, from the river to the sea, but if you think the problem is that Israel is Jewish and not that it is a settler-colonial state committing a genocide, or think this is a good excuse to start hating Jews in general, please fling yourself into the Sun

i love the ban message we have on the r/killthecomputer subreddit

That is, we might call folks who are willing to make such claims "sunshine leftists" or "summertime allies," following Paine's critique of men who abandoned Valley Forge. That is, when solidarity is too much, the issues too hard, they flee to other things that are "more pressing."

Ok he's a real one for this.

One mechanical innovation of Daggerheart I fully want to integrate into my D&D games is environmental stat blocks. Those are SUCH a good idea for adventure-oriented TTRPGs.

Pretty much.

Meanwhile, I had my first encounter with an all-genders public restroom in Seattle (all stalls, no urinals), and was surprised by how thoroughly mundane and unremarkable a co-ed restroom actually is in practice when the people involved are normal and not, yknow, paranoid gender-policing creeps.

Me to the radio station: How does it feel To treat me like you do

note that a few individuals at WMF wanted to push slop hard, and the editor community roundly told them to go fuck themselves

What does this guy think the "social credit score system" is? He seems deeply uneducated on top of being absolutely unhinged.

One of our greatest Canadians, “the father of Medicare,” saw this coming 🇨🇦

Every Sikh gets their own religiously-required sword.

I see that the sephiroth poster who was going on about treasonous leftists is now openly calling for nuclear war against a nuclear power.

"but i grew up with harry potter! i can't NOT watch it" hey thats really pathetic 👍