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Dyslexic adventures!
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Can I give you a head pat?
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tlaquetzqui · 9 hours
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“What if we had an Onimusha anime but its protagonist was Miyamoto Musashi, played by a digitally rotoscoped Mifune Toshirō?”
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tlaquetzqui · 13 hours
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Eris was better when it was in doubt whether she was going to do something stupid (but that would be interesting, and we can’t have that), but this list, plus Savathûn and Immaru.
So whose your fave destiny character?
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tlaquetzqui · 19 hours
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Being a little too cold: brrrr i’m a little too cold !!!
Being a little too warm: i am going to kill the next person who makes eye contact with me.
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tlaquetzqui · 19 hours
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That’s most of them outside Paris and a couple other major cities.
All your negative stereotypes of French people, are French stereotypes of Parisians.
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tlaquetzqui · 19 hours
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If it wasn’t about the hostages it would be over already. “We regard them as better off dead, and are now flooding every tunnel under Gaza with incendiaries/hitting every tunnel under Gaza with bunker-busters that will collapse them.” At some point they probably will have to write off the remaining hostages—at which point they should show Hamas exactly how gentle they had been being, out of worry for the hostages.
I don’t think the people who say shit like that understand what a modern military is capable of doing. Israel could turn Gaza into glass with nothing but conventional weapons, without even getting into the fact that they are almost certainly a nuclear power (are they even still maintaining the polite fiction they aren’t?).
And incidentally, no, they could actually nuke Gaza at no significant risk to themselves; the smallest warhead, the W54 device used in the Davy Crockett shoulder-fired nuclear missile—it’s a nuke bazooka—has a yield well under one kiloton (it can go as high as exactly one), and would take out a few buildings at a time. It was designed for an assumed Soviet tank invasion of Europe, to deny them access to choke points like bridges and mountain passes without rendering whole ZIP codes (or European equivalent) uninhabitable. The Israeli arsenal probably isn’t in that configuration, of course, but it could easily be converted to it in far less time than this war has gone on.
My least favorite Pro-Palestine argument/quote is “It was never about the hostages.”
Fuck you. Fuck you for downplaying October 7. Fuck you for ignoring the hostages who were murdered in captivity, ignoring the women in Hamas’s grasp who’ve stated they were raped. The one year old in custody. The people who are being tortured and slowly dying.
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tlaquetzqui · 1 day
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I have come up with a non-copyright infringing spelljamming helm for 1e Pathfinder.
The basic thing is a table, I think with either normal-looking charts or schmancy magic-hologram displays, at which the pilot sits, possibly with other spellcasters—or sacrifices, in the case of the lifejammer version—seated around it, on cushions or chairs as culturally appropriate. (The lifejammer version is chained to their seats, probably.)
The pilot's caster level determines the speed of the thing. You treat all casters who will ever have access to 9th level spells as sorcerers (so as not to have wizards, witches, and clerics jumping ahead of sorcerers and oracles—and not needing two separate listings), while everyone who only gets 6 spell levels is treated as a bard, and everyone who only gets 4, as a medium.
The pilot’s speed per round is equal to 150 feet times the highest spell-level they have access to (meaning both 9-levels casters and 6-levels are moving it at only 150 feet till 4th level, but from then on the former increase every other level, and the latter every third), except that for the levels when the 4-levels casters (paladins, rangers, bloodragers) are treated as mediums with only 0th-level spells, they instead only impart 75 feet.
Then the total level of all the casters plus the pilot, or all the lifejammer victims minus the pilot, determines the number of squares of vehicle (as per Ultimate Combat) that can be controlled.
For the casters, it’s the level times their spellcasting score: full, sorcerer-type casters are treated as their level times their key casting ability score (not their bonus from that score, the score itself), i.e. a 5th-level wizard with Int 18 can propel 90 squares of vehicle; bard-type casters are treated as 3/4 their level, times their casting ability score, so a 4th-level magus with Int 18 can propel 54 squares; and then for the medium-type casters it’s half their level times their key score, so a 4th-level ranger with Wis 18 can propel 36 squares. If your pilot doesn’t have enough squares in their pool to propel your ship, you need extra casters. (You will perhaps note that the multiplier applied to the spellcasting-class level, is the reverse of the BAB for those groups of class—which are half level for wizards, 3/4 level for maguses, and equal to level for paladins. The convenience there is you just use the BAB per level for the other class-group.)
And then the lifejamming version, instead of being spellcasting-class level times key spellcasting score, is the total character level (or HD) times Constitution. And in that version, the pilot, though determining the ship speed, does not contribute to the number of squares that can be propelled.
This same system could, probably at different speeds (maybe a tenth?) be used for land and water craft, as well as air and space ones—no reason you couldn’t, say, have a walking fortress, or a magic submarine, using the same basic system.
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tlaquetzqui · 1 day
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“Why do like six times as many Jews under 35 identify as Orthodox, as Jews over 60?”
Because when you have a higher birthrate, a larger proportion of your population is young. Um…duh?
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tlaquetzqui · 2 days
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It has by now been frequently remarked, if you think acknowledging a difference is expressing hatred, all you’re doing is revealing that you hate everyone who isn’t like you, and also don’t know what projection is.
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tlaquetzqui · 2 days
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“I know fuck-all about the combat wheelchair controversy but I won’t let that stop me from being very strident about the subject.”
The combat wheelchair is immune to encumbrance, always levitates over water, changes both its and its user’s size to fit though virtually any opening, and cannot be damaged except by critical hits. This was because the fucking loser who created it was more interested in the purely cosmetic idea of disability in roleplaying—“make sure the Burger King Kid’s Club ad has a kid in a wheelchair on the poster”—than in actually thinking about how disability can enhance roleplaying.
It isn’t representation to say “people like you exist in this fantasy world but without any of the actual challenges you face”. Because why have the player say “I’m fine in 99% of scenarios but this one time we did have to have the barbarian carry me and my chair”, when you can just head-off the very idea of the character’s traits mattering in the world or to the story?
“I wanna play a one-armed character but I don’t want there to be one second of complications involved in whether my character can use a shield.”
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tlaquetzqui · 3 days
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“What do the different parts of a hanfu represent?”
They…they represent the desire to not be naked? It’s clothing not a roman à clef, weirdo. “What is the symbolic meaning of robe or tunic, skirt or divided skirt, sash, and overcoat or cloak?” They don’t have one, why—how?—would they?
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tlaquetzqui · 3 days
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Ears and lips, next question.
Sometimes worldbuilding is fun and other times you’ve got 14 pages pulled up on your computer as you try to figure out how goats would do sign language
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tlaquetzqui · 3 days
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To be clear, this is not just about Abe no Seimei. This is about Abe no Seimei and Minamoto no Hiromasa as Watson to his Holmes, based on the novels that were also the basis of the 2001 movie.
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tlaquetzqui · 3 days
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So a bunch of payment processors are now policing what media you can use them to pay for. Yet curiously I don’t see any credit-card companies refusing to let people pay for Amazon Prime—shall we discuss what Outlander depicts?
Almost like it was never about the actual content, it was about strangling independent artists that compete with corpo media. Nah couldn’t be that. I mean it’s not like a dude went to prison in Australia for a CGI incest game, while Rupert Murdoch covered up for Arthur Clarke’s real-world pedophilia and nobody cared. Or anything. That couldn’t at all have to do with Rupert Murdoch (and Clarke for that matter) being huge figures in publishing, while the random weirdo indy dev was nobody.
(And even if you don’t care about NSFW media creators: tomorrow it’ll be normal fiction, art, political speech, and scientific research they don’t like. “NSFW is the free-speech canary in the coalmine” is a truism at this point.)
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tlaquetzqui · 3 days
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They need to give you the option to separate out “captions the music and sound-effects” from “subtitles the dialogue”, and, for translated works, “translates the original-language dialogue” from “captions the dub”. Because that second thing is not fucking subtitles.
I actually have unusually good hearing, but I have auditory-processing issues. Also? Stop fucking telling me how the music supposedly wants me to feel, half the time you’re fucking wrong anyway.
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