Anime was a breath of fresh air in the 80s and 90s. The mechs were amazing. The aesthetic was different from what we’d grown up with. The shows were more adult than kids/teens got to see at the time.

I can totally understand why Maximum Mike would have done that.

Memes, clearly.

I ask my players to provide names for NPCs. My Night City is filled with Steves and Daves.

I think it worked so well because they’d spent two or three seasons not doing that.

Not just humans, grimdark humans.

Planet Money did a really interesting episode on money in Gaza. Basically, bank branches don’t really exist, and physical paper money is really hard to come by, so getting money into Gaza is really hard.

Any money you donate would need to get past various embargoes to get to a Palestinian bank, then be passed to a person who can’t really access it.

There are multiple factions. Some of us are happy to pay the people who produce the stuff we enjoy.

gboard. Swipe typing is great. I’d love an open source alternative that doesn’t involve manually copying stuff around.

My group does weekly 2 hour sessions, so 5e combat can last weeks. By the third session of combat the players are starting to forget the stakes of the fight.

I’ve had similar experiences with 2 hour sessions in both D&D and Cyberpunk RED. I’ve started aiming to have fights done in one session, usually with the opponents having some win/lose condition that will end the fight logically.

For my next campaign, I think I’ll give Blades in the Dark a shot. I also want to try Ten Candles, but I hear that can be tough.

The trick is to say “this is just a practice roll” where the die can hear you, but wink at the GM so they know it’s the real roll. That way, the die will be a spiteful little punk and throw out the nat20 for the “practice”.

But don’t do that too often, or the die will figure out the trick.

My grandmother got cochlear implants for both ears after she became unable to hear. She loved that she was able to talk to people again. She said that listening to music wasn’t as good as she remembered, but it was better than what she had. I don’t think the garbling sound ever disappeared.

Do what feels right. If you don’t get it now, you can always get it later.

I feel like this is the best approach. An ally is an ally. If they have weird, socially unacceptable, or poorly thought out ideas, but they

1. aren’t acting on them,
2. don’t promote them,
3. still act in good faith on issues we have in common,

then they’re fine for the stuff we care about. The right has built a big tent because they understand this. We’re only holding ourselves back by subjecting each other to purity tests.

As always, there are limits, but generally we need to build more coalitions.

Wasn’t the original D&D more of a war game than role playing?

I dunno, I’m all for weird limits and mechanics in games so long as everyone is having fun. I’m sure I’ll run dungeons again, and hopefully it’ll be in a system that is designed for it.

Yeah. That’s how I would look at it. I can see how a dungeon simplifies description: I wouldn’t expect to see as much stuff in a dungeon hall, as I would in a Shadowrun street. That in turn can constrain challenges: getting over a spike pit has fewer options than convincing a bouncer to let you into the club.

I feel like that’s more how megadungeons. Yeah, megadungeons have a history in our hobby, and they’re great, but why should I prefer a megadungeon over a sandbox or linear campaign?

I get a kick out of people who express non-dungeon campaigns as a megadungeon. That kind of meta is helpful for game design.

What? Taiwan doesn’t want to give up its only strategic advantage? I’m shocked.

/uj

I’m curious how long it would take to build the supply chains and fabs to make the 50% things a reality.

Colour me intrigued.

Your nose yearns for the mines.

I feel a little relieved to stop using it, tbh. Every time I read the label, I couldn’t help but think it must be bad. I’ve found that Head and Shoulders is enough to keep flakes in check (it wasn’t before the T-Gel), so I’m just worrying about that now. 😂

That’s a neat idea. I like how it makes the race duration dependent on something variable. I’d want a way for the PCs to influence the success tho.