Yes, rogue could have a 100% chance of success. Obviously their chance isn’t going to get any better than that, seems like an odd thing to bring up as a counter point though.

As for your suggested explanations for the assistance, none of that lines up with it being at worst non-impactful to do a paired group check. The rogue is completely unimpeded by helping the paladin, and in situations where their chance isn’t already 100% they might even have a better chance, since any possibility for success from the paladin could potentially cover a failure from the rogue. If the rogue only fails on a 3 or less and the paladin needs a 19, that raises the success rate from 85% alone to 86.5% with the paladin tagging along.

Even it was a group comprised entirely of equally skilled rogues I don’t think it makes sense to make them more stealthy in groups, which is what this rule does, for the simple fact that larger groups of people are enormously easier to spot.

If the simple fact that literally any pairing of two people is more stealthy then either of them alone isn’t enough reason to not use this rule for stealth then I don’t know what is.

So what, exactly, is the justification for how a rogue “covers for” a plate wearing paladin with no dex bonus? Keep in mind that that “half must succeed” rule means the rogue is very slightly more likely to succeed with a noisy partner than alone, assuming that success and failure are possible outcomes for both participants. Even if it’s impossible for the other to succeed the rogue is at worst unimpeded.

The 2024 rules specifically clarify that stealth is not typically a suitable skill to be rolled in such a way.

Could be something other than D&D. +18 is pretty easily achievable in mid-level Pathfinder 2e.

I’m in a similar boat. Pledged but it’s been years since I gave them money and I’m not really following it closely anymore. Can’t say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.

I’m a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it’s not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn’t even notice if no one else brought it up.

I’ll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I’m not chomping at the bit.

People continuing to give them additional money now are simply deranged though.

That’s not a complaint specific to discord though. You just don’t like large chatrooms.

I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.

That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.

Alternatively you allow that line of reasoning but subsequently require that they spend hours searching every room they enter multiple times.

Steam may share shaders between linux users with the same GPU, but I’m not sure.

It does.

This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.

You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.

Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.

I don’t even have those anymore and now their absence is causing problems.

Tycho, of Penny Arcade, actually had some words on this subject around the time the PC version of Stellar Blade came out and people were up in arms about it. I’ll quote it here because I think it’s a good passage.

I used to say that I grew up Christian, but I think it’s probably more accurate to say Evangelical, especially now that more people might know what I’m talking about. Sex was VERY naughty and we needed to be constantly on the lookout for incursions of this secular, demonic, but also somehow worryingly inherent force…? Breaking that pernicious notion down and enabling people to express themselves was the project I thought I’d more or less seen completed. Now it’s come around some weird bend, with precisely the same energy as before, except now it’s being done for the correct reasons. It can’t possibly be this dumb. And yet!

It’s incredibly fucking boring to have the tail end of the revolution you saw win shame the tools that gave them victory, dust off a bunch of regressive shit, and then have the pluck to feel righteous about it.

It sort of mirrors my own experience (minus the evangelical upbringing). I definitely recall a period of general sex-positivity that has now come around some strange turn whereby the very same voices are admonishing people for daring to enjoy sexy things.

It’s very strange.

Conceptual numeracy is a human thing. The universe absolutely cares about quantifiable physical properties which we represent as numbers.

I had a lot of trouble with this and in my case I just have weirdly curved nails. Viewed from the front my big toe nails are basically half-circles, so any pressure at all pushes them edge first into my toe.

I’m sorry… 18 year old puritan… furries? Can you elaborate?

It’s more than a feeling.

It’s just interesting that there’s a distinction between botanical and culinary classification. Once you realise that there are two different systems that don’t necessarily need to completely agree then it’s not a big deal.

…also, what exactly is wrong with taking a bite out of a tomato like an apple? They’re delicious.

There are definitely ways to run partial testing suites on modified code only. I feel like much of what you’re complaining about is an already solved problem.

What are the nature of the complaints? Just the game compatibility issues mentioned above, or something else?