in this time where people will talk about not wishing ill will on an old woman let it be known the uk government have shown nothing but vicious apathy towards pensioners, during covid and during the cost of living crisis.
boris johnson was told how pensioners were riding the bus to avoid staying at home due to the horrendous cost of heating their homes and he waved it off by talking about his implementation of the scheme that allowed pensioners free transport.
Gale telling Durge that he's sure that Durge would have people to invite to their wedding is ofc Larian half-assing things, but it's funny to hc that Gale just had an oopsie social interaction where one says smth kinda weird/incorrect and then later realizes that it was weird/incorrect but it's too late to correct now. However, Durge takes that as a "you should invite someone to our wedding" kind of expectation and tries to comply. Family members are absolutely out of the question even if they weren't dead or a god he hates. And outside of Bhaal's temple, Durge is pretty sure he had only one friend. But he was apparently a very good friend. And Durge has Gale's resurrection scroll that never got used. Death's not a problem yeah. Perfect solution yeah.
And this is how Gortash gets tossed from Bane's torture session into Durge's accidental torture session where he gets invited to the wedding of his ex that he's still very much into
Artea: "Would I play Ramon again?" ...Technically, yes. I would- I would play- I would- I would play Ramon again. It... considering I don't know how the future of the server will be, I can't really tell you guys yet whether or not I will return as Ramon. [To themself] Is the music working? [Talking to chat again] I don't know yet whether or not I would return as Ramon, especially considering I'm going away for 3 months. So, you know.
Artea: And taking over Ramon's charac- chat. That's going to be something you will really- you will hate to hear about. Probably. I think you will hate to hear about it.
Artea: I hated playing Ramon at the beginning, because I was scared of accidentally killing someone's Egg. I was also scared of, you know... it was just me being paranoid a lot, and because it was- it wasn't technically my Egg at the time, it just felt scary. [Laughs]
as requested, here is a drive with all the wwdits episodes on it including the new season 4 episodes. i’ll keep updating it each week as they come out!
tbh i think that even unwinnable fights should be winnable. some of the BEST fights i've ever run as a dm were ones i built kill the players (in a fun way. I had some cutscenes prepped so even the loss would be a different flavour of win)- but then they were clever bastards and managed to either win the fights or pull themselves out of trouble. I think it's perfectly fine to plan for a fight that players aren't supposed to win, but you need to let them. if they can't win, they can't lose, and the meaning of that encounter is diminished. do that too many times, and they stop trusting you to give them roleplay prompts and start expecting to sit there waiting while you drive the story for them.
but if they can win... if there is always the chance to win, no matter how impossible the odds, then they ALWAYS have hope. they always get invested. they feel the big emotions of success or the big emotions of failure, and you fucking Win as a dm/roleplay prompter/lead bastard.
one of the reasons i didn't accept being trans sooner is because i'd look at the cishet men i know and at how they treat women in their lives, at how fucking vile they can get and how casual they are about being blatantly misogynistic, how there are usually absolutely no repercussions for any of it, and i'd think to myself "if this is what being a man is about then i don't want to be one". eventually i'd figure out that no, this isn't what being a man is about, it's just something a lot of them perpetuate, it's not inherent, you don't have to be That. so seeing other trans men who, generally speaking, should've had somewhat similar experiences, come out of it on the opposite end where they gleefully grab onto transmisogyny and have fun with it and feel justified and righteous perpetuating it is fucking baffling
I do appreciate the fact that Edgerunners carries on the idea the game proposes; that cyberpsychosis isn't caused by the amount of things you install into yourself but by things like faulty/poorly-installed cyberware, stress and trauma, and other outside factors like your environment and your mental health. The trailers were making me a bit concerned that it was going to renege on that idea considering they were clearly setting up a more in-depth exploration of cyberpsychosis, but I think they do a good job of explaining that you can't just install heavy-duty military-grade metal into yourself and be done with it. You need medical care, medicine, time to adjust, time to heal. All things you can only get if you've got the money for it, and all things that can easily be taken away if that money suddenly disappears.