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@formvienthusiast

He/Him, ~20. Just a nerd with way too much obscure nerd lore knowledge, mainly Star Wars. In My Humble Opinion, Niman does not get the recognition it deserves, especially with how widespread it is. If you disagree, we can duel. I also enjoy music, collecting vinyl, and quoting good movies. I am FormVIEnthusiast on AO3, go check me out if you want to.

Retirement Home Rumble: Round 1

Side A

Why they would crush the other geezers under the cut:

WARNING: There may be spoilers

Dr Kureha would be busy beating the shit out of the Retirement Home employees. "Why the hell are you trying to keep me here? I'm only a youthful 139 years old!"

Her opponent would be on the floor with the staff and security personnel by the time she walked out the doors.

The Snake River and canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho 

Y'know what this canyon needs? A MUSIC VENUE!

This is the Gorge Amphitheater near Quincy, WA. Beautiful venue

Okay, I was chatting with friends on discord and I’m realizing that my grade school education may not have been the norm?? I live in the United States and I thought everyone was taught in grade school like. IN DEPTH about their local native population. I think I was taught more about the Haudenosaunee than I was about US history until I was in 4th grade tbh.

So now I’m curious, on a global scale, how much people are taught about the history of where they live and the indigenous peoples there, especially in colonized regions.

I’ve tried to word this to be as globally inclusive as possible, considering colonized nations other than the US (ex. India, South Africa, Wales), as well as nations who have never been colonized (ex. England, Ethiopia, Japan). Let me know if the choices don’t allow you to choose accurately or I’ve used a non-inclusive term and I can remake the poll! I did my best 😵‍💫

pls reblog for sample size etc etc etc thank you!!

As part of a newly established student exchange program between the realms, a dwarf student arrives at a human STEM college. He’s about to attend his first computer science class. “This should be easy,” he thinks, “how complicated can human technology possibly be?”

Wait-- You mean to tell me that the entire Dwarven population still uses mechanical computers?!

Well, yeah. Lasts longer that way, and anyone with at least apprentice-level training in any field can do their own maintenance. Making such delicate cogs is a pain, but it certainly beats trying to make vacuum tubes.

How were you able to increase the processing power?! Our mechanical computers topped out at calculator-level computations. It simply wasn't feasible or cost effective to continue up sizing the design.

So you decided to run electricity through rocks and vacuums?

Yeah, vacuum tubes are a pain to make, but we managed to figure out solid semiconductors using Germanium and then Silicon that were much cheaper and easier to manufacture.

THINGS I AM UNREASONABLY ANNOYED ABOUT BY GAME SYSTEM

D&D: Please put a disclaimer that you are not a universal system. Every time I see someone try to do a political mystery game in D&D, I take 3d10 psychic damage and have to make a death saving throw.

Pathfinder: Look. If i wanted to play a game about fighting Cthulhu there is an extremely famous game specifically designed around doing that. Literally no-one is ever going to say "Wow, I want to play a Cthulhu themed game! Time to stat up a musical halfling from a magical fantasy land!".

Chronicles Of Darkness: Just admit no-one uses any of your rules. You have Social Door Rules and Integrity Conditions and Corruption Levels and I bet at most 50% of COD players could tell me which of those I made up. Just admit people aren't dressing up as Alucard The Bringer Of Shadows because they want to sit down and do calculus.

World Of Darkness: You know that old guy who's still doing his job even though he is way too old to do it any more, but he's now an institution so you can't get rid of him? Like that. The 90s called and they want literally everything about this back.

Call Of Cthulhu: I appreciate the commitment to authenticity, but maybe stop hiring actual disgraced mental asylum directors from the 1920s to design your sanity system?

GURPS: Look. Look. Listen. We both know that you just want to write history textbooks. These are history textbooks with a few stat blocks begrudgingly put in. If you just give me a book on early Chinese history I will read it and go "ah, very interesting!". You don't need to put in a list of character choices. We're all nerds. We'll read them. Live your best life.

Powered By The Apocalypse: I actually can't think of anything wrong with PBTA. That's not a bit, this is literally the perfect system. Take notes everyone else.

Mutants and Masterminds/Heroes System: Your systems have probably the most customizable character creation in the world and you both just make reskins of the Justice League over and over again. Maybe we only need one "thinly veiled copyrighted characters" setting? You can fight over it once you decipher your combat mechanics.

FATE: Ok I won't lie, I have no idea how the fuck FATE works. I have read the rules repeatedly and played three games and I still have no idea what invoking an aspect means. I don't know why. I grasped the rules of fucking Nobilis but this one just psychologically eludes me. This is more a problem with me I guess, but I'm still annoyed.

Warhammer 40k: Have you considered spending less on avocado toast? Then you might be able to afford to charge less for things?

Exalted: Apart from the lore, the setting, the mechanics, the metaplot, the character creation and the dodgy narrative implications, I can't think of anything to improve here.

Tacking on: Warhammer Fantasy: Alright, this is a doozy. There are many things I'd change about Warhammer, and the biggest would likely be the combat systems. Advantage, Critical wounds, Opposing Success Levels, it really feels like people missed THACO and decided to reinvent it using nothing but d10s and d100s. Also, in this very magic filled world, using any magic whatsoever is usually either a crime or a massive red flag.

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the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can't wear any cool jackets. and everyone's going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you're the crazy one

I wear my cool jackets anyways, because I don't listen to everyone telling me it's 'too hot' and 'how did you breach containment'.