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Nobody saw my poll, not even any "silly boys" (a joke from BotW; basically Hestu gives you the options of "I can see you" or "I can't see you," and if you say you can't see him then he calls you a "silly boy" and the dialog moves on).

This reminds me of the time I ran for an election in a LARP, and got a whopping... zero votes. Which hilariously resulted in a Ranked Choice backfire with the only other human candidate getting half the votes, and "none of the above" getting the other half.

And part of me is still in the 6th grade, trying my damndest (and failing) to not freak out because this kid is telling me that I'm still "zero for zero" and that once I get one friend then I'll be "a real boy."

(Yeah, I know, I'm an enby. That's not the point.)

Another part of me is in junior high. Whenever I express an interest in something everyone *immediately* drops their interest in it, no matter how much they were enjoying it beforehand. High school, staying home alone playing video games or getting shuffled between youth group meetings but don't get allowed to go to any of the fun activities because there's just that many more meetings. After college, getting asked by the little shits at work what I like only to have them immediately start shouting that it sucks and I really ought to be liking this other thing.

And now, every art and writing project I share gets crickets because I have no followers to tell me if it's worth finishing or not.

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Would you believe Twitter thinks this is "Sensitive Content"?

I've seen worse in a Frazetta pic!

Yeah, I do art.

The Daz Troll just made a pretty big mistake.

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Did I seriously just say this twice? Looks like I did.

Because "good parenting" is the gateway drug here. The desire to filter your child's experiences, to control everything they see and hear, so they can "learn the right lessons" and all that. Everything must have a teachable moral lesson.

And when they decide to stop listening, that's when you start the book burnings and the demands for censorship and increased "parental rights." Because clearly some ne'er- do- well must've gotten in and brainwashed your child.

Twitter (2020) VS the Hays code (1930)

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And when it stopped rolling, the severed head found itself lying next to a skull.

"What got me here?" the skull asked.

"Good parenting got me here," the severed head replied.

Twitter (2020) VS the Hays code (1930)

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Why the hell do they even have these? Dropships have *fire factors* instead of weapons, and more armor than I care to think about. You'd have to be f-ing stupid to get within range of one of the damn things.

So pictures are getting out of new plastic Map Scale Dropships, apparently they are coming out with the Mercenary Kickstarter.

Here's the Union...

And the Overlord...

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Yeah, some of us were told that in school, that we were bullied due to somehow not treating the bullies the way we wanted to be treated ourselves.

To which my response was, at some point it becomes "screw unto others as others hath screwed unto you."

Looking back on it years later, it's still a really bad moral standard. "Well, victim, your resistance provides justification for what they're doing to you, so you need to be the better person *first* before you can expect anything better from them."

It's so wild how many grown adults can't grasp such a basic concept like "if you are nicer to strangers they will usually be nicer to you in return"

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My CO won't let me purchase a Vlad. She's convinced the Lich that's allegedly mine and keeps haunting the repair bay, plus my baby Ghengis Mk.1, are "bad enough."

I just want to be able to nail things down so they can't try and run when I'm slow- walking my way thru a building to get at them!

Lancer fact I completely made up: Caliban users are all automatically put on a list by ThirdComm

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"What got you here?" the skull asked the severed head.

"Good parenting got me here," the severed head replied.

Twitter (2020) VS the Hays code (1930)

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Paladins had to have an 18 Cha before 3.x. That's manageable in 2e since the preferred stat generation is 4d6 then drop the lowest, rolled six times, and arranged to taste. That's a lot more forgiving than having to roll a natural 18 on 3d6 on exactly the sixth roll. And they were also restricted to humans only.

So there's room for the bard to not be the hardest class.

As for all those tables, let me offer this: every place you see a table in 2e, 3.x gives you a *formula*. Character generation went from what I described above- rolling a few dice and then copying some numbers off some tables- to *fucking math.*

My first oD&D character took maybe ten minutes. My first 3.5 character took four hours plus. Because of math.

And since you cheesed Thac0 by not showing the *two page spread* in the 1e DMG that Thac0 replaced- it's simple. Subtract the target's Armor Class from your Thac0, and that's what you need to hit it. And yes, it is subtracting a signed number, but signed numbers are still relatively fast.

so how do druids work on ad&d, I know they are a sub class of cleric, but’s that it

Well, like anything in 1st edition, the answer is a simple yes, and also no.

While they are listed as a subclass of cleric, druids are essentially their own class with their own progression table, spells per day, spell lists, and unique abilities—such as a rudimentary wild shape. As well as a level cap of 14.

However, they are treated as clerics for the purpose of their attacks and saves because in ye olden days everything was covered with big-ass matrices!

So for the purpose of these tables, it makes sense to minimize the number of actual classes. So technically, there are only four classes, requiring only four entries on the attack and save matrices. But then subclasses expand that to 9 without having to expand the matrices for each new class.

And while this may seem stupid in retrospect—which I mean, fair—it's important to remember that original and basic D&D only had those four classes, with others being added as subclasses in supplements. So the entire game up to this point had been built around that four-class concept.

Although in true D&D fashion, they immediately then go against that, because the monk, originally introduced as a cleric subclass, is now a fifth top-level class and just stated to use the cleric attack matrix and thief save matrix.

However, they did evenutally figure it out, and in 2nd edition just did what 1st edition was basically already doing and put all the classes in four groups instead of grouping them under the four originals.

Then third edition realized that all thsoe matrices were stupid and just used attack and save bonuses—a thing that somehow took 25 years and a change of ownership to figure out—while also kinda losing the groups and actually having listings for all individual classes. Then simplified it even further in 3.5 by just spelling it out as good and poor saves, and good, average, and poor attack progressions.

And as long as I'm doing a long-winded thing on early D&D, it's also important to point out that bards were also a class in 1st edition, and were basically a subclass of druid that required taking 5 levels of fighter and 5 levels of thief, as well as having minimum stats of STR 15, Dex 15, Con 10, Int 11, WIS 15, CHA 15. I just like pointing out how absurdly difficult it was to be a bard in 1st edition.

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why do cats have an extra bean on their wrist... what is if for..

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Honestly, give me a Tactics game where you can recruit him... but he's this young tryhard who's desperate to prove himself and that pushes him to do stupid risky shit. Kind of like Naruto from Season 1.

And meanwhile you've got a slightly older Link who just groans internally whenever Ganondorf does something stupid... again... because he's not actually *bad,* he's just trying too hard.

There should be a Zelda game where Ganondorf isn't the big bad. But he is a complete pain in the ass. Every single mini game starts out with him having the high score, and after you beat his score, the next time you visit he's 1 point above you.

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scientist voice: today i will be a dick to this cricket 

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Why do we even bother studying history when it *always* repeats itself anyway?

Browser wars, people were actively putting code into their sites to crash Netscape browsers. Early '00s (when people were refusing to use Firefox- and rightly so- because it was based on Netscape 6 instead of its current codebase), people would code sites to error out if you weren't running IE 6 on Windows.

We know this history. And yet, it repeats itself for at least a third time. Nothing we do seems to break the cycle.

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

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Firefox v120!

New copy link without site tracking feature: removes the tracking at the end of urls usually that end with "?=[long ass string of numbers or info on your browser or how you clikced the link]" previously an optional feature of ublock origin to remove it as you go to sites, but now you can also copy links as well

New "Tell websites not to sell or share my data" option in privacy settings. Websites have no obligation to do this, except under GDPR which is most sites. adds a bit to your fingerprintability, however if everyone turns this on it will work better for everyone.

Firefox is rolling-out Cookie Banner Blocker by default in private windows for users in Germany during the coming weeks. Firefox will now auto-refuse cookies and dismiss annoying cookie banners for supported sites.

you can set "cookiebanners.service.mode" to 2 to automatically refuse cookies and have them stop asking you about it. While it's also an optional feature of ublock origin, this might work better

Firefox has enabled URL Tracking Protection by default in private windows for all users in Germany. Firefox will remove non-essential URL query parameters that are often used to track users across the web.

Not sure how to turn this on in settings (this is also an optional ublock feature, these don't hurt to stack) but once again removes the tracking at the end of urls telling you how the link was shared and how you got there

Firefox cares about your privacy and is making the internet a safer place from corporations. Do your part and download it today

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This explains my early- budding love of TTRPGs and game design.

(deranged squirrel voice) all the datas!

I was the kid who reverse- engineered most of the BattleTech mech construction rules from just a single Technical Readout. Didn't work out the balance of the weapons (weight & ammo use vs heat) for a long time, though.

And then the to-hit matrices from early BECMI and 1e. And monster datas!

every now and again i think "surely it can't be that weird for a child to sort things, it has to be something every child does"

and then i remember that my mother finally had an allistic child after two autistic kids in a row and was baffled and annoyed to find out she couldn't just keep him occupied by sticking a box of unsorted buttons in front of him and let him sort them

like my mother thought, exactly like i do sometimes, that surely every child must just sit there and sort whatever is in front of them but no, actually, most of my non autistic peers didn't do this and thought i was a fucking weirdo for doing it

anyway i still struggle to believe that most people don't find deep enjoyment in sitting there and arbitrarily sorting shit. what do they even do if they need to do data entry? do they just suffer? weirdos.

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the transition im crying

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