Booooy, I'm really nervous about running an online TTRPG session when there's an ice storm going on just outside, with several districts already reporting outages haha. XD
Fingers crossed we keep power!
Glad to see they realized the damage (albeit hilarious damage) that this was doing to their brand. XD
I'm hoping now that the saga is coming to a close, we get a good Crispy's Tavern episode about it!
DA's been a godsend for making boss arenas and specialized dungeons, when I can't find a map online that meets my needs. :P
The first person view, allowing me to show the players what they actually see is real chef's kiss as a feature too. Y'all did good with it!
Oh dang, you're part of the Dungeon Alchemist people?
It's a *REALLY* nifty piece of software. I'm sad that I could have been using it a year earlier if it wasn't for that misunderstanding.
Honestly, that's probably one of the main reasons that godsawful game has had the staying power it has.
Because it sure ain't because it's a fun game to play!
I'll never forgive LLMs for usurping the term AI and making things like machine learning and ProcGen get tarred with the same brush.
I got bamboozled by Dungeon Alchemist that said "AI powered" but it's actually not LLM, it's just a simple procgen algorithm they made. Like... Gah!
Writing moustache-twirling villains who profiteer off poor people's suffering seems edgy and one dimensional in fiction, yet it's just another fucking day in the real world.
Dang, for someone who never got past Loguetown in One Piece, I actually really enjoyed the singular episode the live action adaptation devoted to it.
I wonder how far they'll be able to take the adaptation!
This has me remember an argument I had with a project member in University when Syria was the conflict du jour, and he was saying the entire region should be nuked to glass:
Him, sneering: "What you FEEL for these people?!"
Me: "Yes! Because. They're. People!"
Yup. Yup yup yuppity yup.
I did not have even the slightest hint of self-respect until I was in my mid-twenties. And then I had to actually build it from the ground up.
And online devouts keep telling me "Oh, then you weren't REALLY christian, real ones have no angst!" x_x
Or both!
The monday after DST is always awful. Boy does it hurt lol.
I'd bet money one of the very next sermons was about the "importance of forgiveness, because all of y'all are as bad as the guy who did the actually bad thing, so if you don't let him skate on it, you're even worse than him!!!"
It seems to be a favourite whenever parishoners get mad or leave.
Yeah. The dogma of hell, when you really step back and think about it, is one of the most monstrous ideas ever conceived of.
It it were real, nothing could possibly be more evil.
Seriously, the dogma around hell and "we all deserve to burn and must beg for mercy we don't deserve. Even an unintended thought can merit hell!!" scarred me inside enough that it's begging me to write a book about how hell is the most evil concept to have been invented.
I *still* remember the moment I looked over my shoulder at church during a hymn, saw an entire building of glassy stares and thought "oh my god I'm in a cult".
That said, I only really started having my "angry atheist phase" over 15 years later as I realized the true scope of the damage I had.
Then, after taking my first CEGEP level ethics classes started opening up my mind a little, as well as realizing "wait, these 'false religions' I keep getting mad about probably see US as a false religion..." I started questioning more openly.
From there it was inevitable.
I don't recall the very first spark that got me questioning, but there were MANY of them that each lit the flame a little more each time.
The first real domino to actually fall was realizing "wait, original sin/we're all born evil is bullshit?" So much of my internal damage came from that. :(
One of my favourite daydreams is knowing how and when to Short this bubble.
It'll never happen, but gooods is it fun to think about. XD
And you're way oversimplifying the first bit, it's way more absurd and awful than that.
The concept of "we're all born inherently sinful and deserve to burn forever unless we throw ourselves at the mercy of magic sky wizard's son" did a looooot of damage to me as a teenager.
Which is funny (not actually funny) considering how some of those "gay is hard to explain" parents do wild stuff like have their kids roleplaying weddings, ship them with other kids, and then as soon as they near puberty start doing "purity balls", etc. x_x
Yeah, the "it's a difficult conversation" canard is absurd.
I have friends who are parents, and yeah, it was like one sentence for them to explain to their kids.
Game is absurdly funny BTW.
I ran into a guy telling lewd joke about a succubus, went "okay... Yeah, sure tell me the joke, although I'm regretting this already..."
And then the punchline hit and I friggin' *HOWLED* XD
- Starts playing Esoteric Ebb, the talk-em-up "Disco and Dragons" type game.
- Hey, let's go high Wisdom and balance the rest out a bunch.
- Oh woops, got a -2 INT modifier.
- ...Hey wait a minute. Wait a minute, did I just make off-brand Carrot from Discworld, only without the absurd charisma?!
Investors: "Anyway, we were so impressed that we invested the entire planets' economy in this, if it fails you're all cooked."
Presented without additional commentary, because none is needed:
"If not hero, why camera follow?!" basically.
It doesn't surprise me, when a substantial amount of people seem incapable of empathy unless something affects them or their loved ones directly. :s
kill the imposter syndrome in you head because not only is there someone out there doing it worse than you, they're also using chat gpt to do it
Anyways.
Wait, you mean she's not a- *does a triple take*
