"Mike, Echo, Oscar, Whiskey. I repeat."
"Mike, Echo, Oscar, Whiskey."
very normal about this cat (lying
Somebody translated the infernal runes face tattoo that you can put on your character and the runes on the forhead literally just spell "forhead", the runes on the nose spell "nose" and the runes on the chin say "chin"
Dark magic version of those </head> tattoos.
No YouTuber will ever top the phrase "A powerful rat named Charles Entertainment Cheese."
"A California-themed amusement park in the already California-themed California" is also a banger and comes from the same channel.
How quickly we forget "You would have to pay an industrial engineer to create a complex computer simulation of a theme park populated with agents, all with unique preferences, riding attractions of varying capacities in order to compare and contrast wait times, number of rides ridden, and other factors with and without a virtual queue system just to get to the bottom of this incredibly niche curiosity" followed immediately by
theres literally no wrong way to play singleplayer games btw. savescum, play on easy mode, mod, look up guides and walkthroughs, whatever the hell you want. always remember if it sucks hit da bricks
So I was made to feel old today...
Two decades today
spoiler: the weird trick was "offering more pay and benefits"
fr this was an excellent article though. it has the "no shit" energy of a study that says not bullying your children makes them happier, but tears apart the "nobody wants to work anymore" rhetoric and points out how it was the mbta *ceding to union demands* that caused the spike in applicants. read it here
Anonymous asked:
this “stephen king” guy is out here writing scary books that frighten people and we’re just letting him????????
and who made him king of the stephens anyways????
the stephen council, after I overthrew the stephen senate
Hey do you have any reccomendations for Tabletop RPGs? I've pretty much only used D&D 5e but with the WOTC's latest acts of fuckery I'm wanting to move to some different games.
This is quite a broad question so while I would appreciate knowing what type of game you're looking for by the phrasing of your question it seems you've no specific problem with the game of D&D 5e itself and your problem is more with the company. I'll thus keep my answers limited to what I consider games in the general wheelhouse of D&D: action adventure fantasy.
- Pathfinder 2e. Pathfinder is very much the big non-D&D fantasy game on the market and it's got a lot going for it: most of it is familiar to D&D players all the way down to mechanics, it has a free online rules reference called the Archive of Nethys which contains all the rules of the game and not just a stripped down set of basic rules, and it has a lot of ongoing support in the form of adventure paths and supplements. It is more rules-heavy compared to 5e, but that is not necessarily a bad thing: its systemic nature means that while there are more rules to learn, the GM has to make fewer off-the-cuff rulings.
- Fantasy AGE. Green Ronin's house system, originally developed for their Dragon Age RPG and then turned into a generic fantasy RPG. Characters are made by choosing one of the four generic classes, Warrior, Mage, Rogue, or Envoy, and then specializing. Uses a 3d6 system with one of the dice as a special effect dice that generates stunt points for you to use on attacks and maneuvers. Aims to be more cinematic than D&D, not sure how well it does that.
- Break!! The one action adventure RPG I'm looking forward to the most at the moment: very much a D&D-like albeit with a unique setting and aesthetic. Heavily inspired by video games and anime. Absolutely gorgeous and just looks fun. Very much looking forward to this one. It was recently Kickstarted (I was one of the backers) and the full release should be around the corner.
- Rolemaster. If you're insane like me you might get a kick out of playing a stupid fantasy game with lots of tables. If you check the #rolemaster tag on my blog you will find me talking about this game that is actually the best and makes D&D look like a dumb baby game for dumb babies. (Note: don't actually get into Rolemaster unless you're already a weird type of guy who enjoys huge lookup tables or wishes to become one.)
Now I may have misinterpreted your question and you may be looking for something completely different from D&D. If so, let me know, and also let me know what specific wishes you have from an RPG. That way I can better recommend you more games. :)
Nah, you were right in that my problem is mostly with the company. If it helps, I am currently working on building my own setting, which is mostly Science Fiction (of the Post Apocalypse and Steampunk kind) with some added bits of fantasy like magic and undead and such. Unfortunately, I haven't had the most luck with finding a system that can do both Sci Fi and Fantasy, instead of one or the other. Then again, that issue can be solved with a bit of hombrewing. Anyway, thanks for the help!
Hmmm, both sci-fi and fantasy and adaptable to post-apocalyptic? Numerera might be a good fit, but since I haven't actually read I am not quite sure how well it fits these criteria.
The aforementioned Fantasy AGE does have a science fantasy setting called Titansgrave: The Ashes of Valkana which I have not read but may also be worth checking out.
And finally there's Starfinder. I've actually played in a post-apocalyptic science fantasy campaign using Starfinder (which is basically Pathfinder in the future and in space), but to be completely honest, I'm not a fan of the system. It's very much Pathfinder 1e and while I think Pathfinder 2e is a cool and good game, I don't have that same opinion of 1e. But again, Starfinder also has a free online reference, so you can check out how you vibe with it before buying anything.
The good news is Starfinder is getting a second edition to bring it in line with Pathfinder 2e.
all in all you're just another dick and the balls
This was always annoying, but since the introduction of the stupid clown it's become downright obnoxious. No, Tumblr, if you're going to be putting stupid popups on everyone's dash, you don't have a leg to stand on here. Any "boohoo you owe our advertisers your eyeballs" defensibility you had went out the window with the One Piece clown. Not sorry.
Every time I see a website doing this it just reinforces my feelings that they can either charge me for access, or fuck off.
I have ad free and the clown is still there, giving Tumblr money won't free you from one piece
Does Tumblr not know what an ad is or what
also they still show you that could you disable your adblocker pop up even if you have purchased ad free and just also happen to have an adblocker active
Oh so buying ad-free doesn't make them stop pestering you to buy ad-free either. Good to know. So ad-free has zero advantages whatsoever actually.
Currently trying to cancel my ad-free subscription, and it keeps saying "an error has occurred" and keeping it active!
It's that easy
I am here at the tumblr dashboard
MR BEAAAAAAAAAAAAAST
the blogsitter called the blog owner and said "everything's great, but can i cover up the creepy clown jpeg next to the dashboard? it's kinda freaking me out" the blog owner got quiet and then said "take the blog and leave the website right now. i don't have a creepy clown jpeg"
A thing that bothers me about wizard schools in popular media – outside of the magic-grade-school stuff, anyway – is that they’re typically depicted as being basically magic universities, but their actual curricula and pedagogical approaches look much more like those of a technical institution. Like, buddy, that’s not a wizard university, that’s a wizard trade school. You can’t just slap university student culture on top of trade school pedagogy. It doesn’t work like that – the one emerges from the other!
“Well ACTUALLY wizards are” wizards are made up. They can be analogous to whatever real-world class or vocation the author wants. Wizard-school-as-university and wizard-school-as-technical-institute are both perfectly fine; what I am grumping about is wizard-school media that doesn’t seem to have a clear picture of how different sorts of educational institutions actually operate.
Okay but now I really want to know what a Wizard technician would look like. Would he wear magical overalls with all kinds of reagents and magic tools sticking out of his numerous pockets?
A guy like that walks into your tower with a toothpick in his mouth, takes one look at your summoning circle and goes
“I see yer problem. You used chalk B12 instead of S3. B12 is only for transmutation circles. Gimme a sec I think I have a piece somewhere here.”
He fixes your circle, test summons an imp and goes.
“There ya go. Fit as a fiddle.”
“It’s the chalk.”
“The chalk? I always use that chalk, it’s never been a problem.”
“Ah - yes. This stuff will work just fine for most circles, but, uh - here, take a look with my loupe. You see the off-color flecks? Can’t hardly see them with the naked eye, but those are impurities. Silicates, might even be some iron in here, to be honest. Usually won’t cause a problem, but - you said you hadn’t tried this particular summons before?”
“First time trying a 5th level, yeah.”
“Those silicates will make your scribing a little fuzzy when viewed from the astral plane. You see, for example, these three fine lines here? With this chalk, on the astral that looks like one thick line with fuzzy edges. They can’t tell exactly what you want, and they’re picky lil’ critters so they just won’t do anything in response.”
“Really? Oh. I always thought the expensive chalk was just fancy to be fancy.”
“Making pure chalk is difficult, you need a dedicated production line or dust gets in the finished product. To be honest, you don’t need to bother with it for most things, but 5th and up, 5th level and up, it actually is necessary. Anything with lines within about two millimeters of each other.”
“So I need to start over?”
“Unfortunately yes. You’ll have to erase all this, but with some good chalk it should work just fine. Next new moon your summons should go off without a hitch.”
“Dang. At least it’s not my sigils, I was worried it was my sigils.”
“Nah Your sigils look good. Even and balanced. You know what you’re doing, it’s just an equipment problem.”
“Thanks for the help, sorry to make you come all the way out here.”
“No problem! It’s my job.”
#scene from moonstruck with vincent gardenia explaining the different types of pipes but it’s metallurgy ores #there’s the kind of ore you have— which is garbage. then there’s steel which is pretty good. unless something goes wrong. #and something always goes wrong. #and then— there’s copper. which is the only kind of ore i use. #it costs money. it costs money because it saves money. (@macklesufficient)
Story time. I was looking for these at the hardware store not too terribly long ago and didn't know what they were called. When a sales associate asked me if I needed help, I said I was looking for the drunk octopus hooks and held up my fists in a boxing pose.
She knew exactly what I was talking about, though.
