Carl [he/him]

they knew

Can electroplasma be used to spin a turbine? Asking for a friend.

lame people: there are too many magic items in d&d, everything’s a monty haul campaign

cool people: haha fire sword go brr

i had a game once where every player showed up with a broom of flight. 10/10 game it basically turned into touhou

ooh I like that helm, stealing that

just have public toilets my god

If this video exists, it is AI generated. It’s probably extremely obvious too, like it has a watermark that clearly states that it’s AI, but boomers like RFJ Jr are just that bad at distinguishing fiction from reality on the internet.

I’ve never liked arbitrary spell targeting restrictions. I say if you want to fire blindly around cover or into a fog cloud you should be able to. It doesn’t come up very often and because it’s easy for players to understand that they’ll have a very high chance of missing and losing the spell slot.

D&D big bad who pays peasants to learn to cast message and uses them to send spam messages directly into the players’ heads

I would propose a rule like this:

Posts solely containing AI-generated content are banned. Posts that contain AI-generated content as part of a larger piece or project that is human-created are okay.

This prevents the potential problem of people just posting their AI-generated character portraits and the feed getting flooded by those (which is the reason why I personally block multiple AI art communities), but does not prevent people who used AI generation in part to put together an adventure or something like that from sharing their work.

“lesbians are accused in 100% of space crimes” is a much less fun statistic.

They did figure out the earth was round and measure its size with sticks and shadows though, so that’s pretty cool.

Instead of downvotes, we have many, many disapproving emotes.

I always appreciate it when the test has a question or two like this sprinkled in (and if the teacher did it by accident, all the funnier)

headbang

If I could get a Motorola Droid 4 with a modern processor that would be peak.

I miss smaller sizes. I’m currently on the cheapest phone my carrier offers after my last one broke, and it’s still way bigger than it needs to be. Shit literally slowly pulls my pants down if I have it in my pocket.

I miss the fingerprint reader on the back. I don’t know which brain genius moved that function to the front but it was so much more convenient on the back.

I miss wired headphones. Bluetooth can’t go five minutes without cutting out for a couple of seconds, and while I’ve tried to use a usb-c to 3.5mm dongle that adds an extra failure point compared to just having the port. And if phones are going to be these giant bricks in your pocket anyway they might as well bring it back.

And last but certainly not least I miss a physical landscape keyboard. There are a few gimmicky ass-phones that offer this feature but they all suck for different reasons. Swype is fine but I spend as much time correcting typos and incorrectly predicted words as I do typing, plus the loss of screen real estate to the software keyboard can make some sites and apps totally unusable in landscape mode.

You’ve heard of jumping spiders? Wait till you get a load of the new and improved flying spiders!

I would do TV shows and movies that I like. Yeah streaming but having a local copy is great and often faster especially where I live.

This is very game dependent. Right now I’m in a pretty brutal one where everyone is branded by the goddess of mind control and we have miniboss encounters with our own former PCs who’ve been turned into grotesque monsters - but I’ve also played in games where the PCs were newcomers to Olympus and more or less ended up recreating the first few God of War games.

A guest on Space Ghost Coast to Coast put it best. “A plant out of place” is a weed, like an insect out of place is a pest. It’s a definition that centers ecology and targets invasive species.

“you’ll own nothing and be happy” is also a fair descriptor of software piracy come to think of it