crunchy RPGs are actually more accessible for some people - not everyone is good at the collaborative storytelling side of tabletop and some folks find escape in character builds
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One of the things I say about myself is that among my hobbies is RPG character creation. Actually playing the character is an optional extra.
jul 21, 2025, 5:25 pm • 4 0 • view
I feel this, its probably a good chunk of why I like Lancer so much
jul 21, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
I concur. A truly skilled DM can adjust the crunchiness to suit the needs of the players at the table. Sadly, the best DM I ever had the privilege of playing with who could actually pull this off no longer runs.
jul 21, 2025, 4:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Totally agree and great point! This is why I am thrilled to be in 2 groups - one that loves crunchy systems that let the players immerse themselves in complex rules, another where we sample tons and tons of quirky lightweight, rpg-driven, usually fail-forward mechanics.
jul 23, 2025, 4:17 am • 2 0 • view
I hate hashtags and avoid using them as much as possible this is probably my most Old Man Yells At Cloud opinion
jul 23, 2025, 4:06 am • 127 1 • view
The only place where hashtags are Good, Actually is tumblr, where they've evolved into a way of giving commentary to a reblogged (or original) post without adding to the text of the post itself.
jul 23, 2025, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
#OKBoomer
jul 27, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
name one serious poaster who hashtags (you can't)
jul 23, 2025, 4:09 am • 1 0 • view
Are there still people using hashtags?
jul 23, 2025, 4:15 am • 0 0 • view
I don't mind them, but I don't really use them. Especially on Instagram; I just don't know what I'm supposed to tag. This is why I let my students mostly run my dance studio and company IGs.
jul 23, 2025, 4:24 am • 2 0 • view
I have an instagram account that I open once every six months to check out a friend’s story when they ask me to watch it I do not understand that platform
jul 23, 2025, 4:27 am • 1 0 • view
I've had one for years ... decades? that had like 5 posts. I just don't take pictures. I started using the platform recently but I don't really post. I mostly just like posts by my students, a few authors I follow, and some LOTR-related accounts. And this one guy who does cool tricks with a bow +
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
while talking about ancient combat. He's pretty dope.
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 am • 2 0 • view
I use them for very important running gags.
jul 23, 2025, 4:58 am • 6 0 • view
hashtags are mostly useless absent special circumstances like an event that's going on (a conference you're attending) or a community you are a part of
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 am • 6 0 • view
You mean the pound sign? #cake #puppies #town
jul 23, 2025, 4:30 am • 0 0 • view
it’s fine to have a type, everyone does, but if you volunteer that someone isn’t yours to their face you are a huge asshole
jul 23, 2025, 4:11 am • 155 2 • view
I think it's fine in the specific context of turning down a second (or so) date. Like "you're cute, you're cool, you're just not my type, sorry" (without going into detail!)
jul 27, 2025, 12:33 am • 0 0 • view
the ideal life is hanging out by the pool all day with a book and an infinite supply of frozen margaritas
jul 23, 2025, 4:43 am • 97 3 • view
Yes but I prefer ice 🤭
jul 23, 2025, 4:46 am • 2 0 • view
Man, than is hella political XD
jul 23, 2025, 4:47 am • 0 0 • view
Oof, either bad take or typo. You meant 'gin and tonics.'
jul 23, 2025, 4:57 am • 0 0 • view
my wife is very pretty (this one is less opinion than fact)
jul 23, 2025, 4:54 am • 124 0 • view
the single greatest fictional weapon ever invented is the lightsaber
jul 23, 2025, 4:58 am • 149 3 • view
As much as my heart wants to agree with you, my brain is objecting that it's the Death Star
jul 23, 2025, 5:05 am • 0 0 • view
Considering all the Kyber crystals that went into that thing, it's basically a ginormous planet-skewering lightsaber anyway
jul 23, 2025, 8:55 am • 2 0 • view
I was going to suggest The Peacemaker, but in practical terms it's probably the worst, given it's slightly indiscriminate action and effect.
jul 23, 2025, 5:50 am • 2 0 • view
I agree on cinema. Still love the massive at McGuffin that is the Green Lantern Ring.
jul 26, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
And wish the stodgy-ass Jedi insisted on extremely formal sword-fighting styles, like Kenobi v Vader, because the Jedi were obsolete assholes.
jul 26, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
As long as you don't count the weirdo Kylo Ren with the Lightsaber Laser sputtery guard part, anyway
jul 23, 2025, 5:01 am • 0 0 • view
It is sometmes a bummer to me how much this is true We'll never make something better and it will always be locked into one particular thing At best people will always think "yeah you stole that from star wars"
jul 23, 2025, 5:26 am • 1 0 • view
In a world in which the Holtzman shield exists?
jul 23, 2025, 5:03 am • 0 0 • view
Sir, can I take a moment to talk to you about our lord and saviour the Klatchian fire engine?
jul 23, 2025, 5:01 am • 7 0 • view
Thought that was banned in a few hubward countries and using it could get you excommunicated or sainted by a dozen religions...
jul 23, 2025, 5:15 am • 2 0 • view
He was not lying when he said it was an elegant weapon for a more civilized age.
jul 23, 2025, 9:10 am • 0 0 • view
I was always fond of the TR-116 Sniper rifle from DS9. a regular projectile rifle, modified with a scope that could see thru walls, & had a small transporter built in so that, when fired, the bullet would be beamed to within an inch of the target, meaning you get a point blank shot from a mile away
jul 23, 2025, 2:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Special Shout out to the Cerebral Bore from turok 2. imagine a gun that fired those balls from the phantasm series. where you fired, the projectile would seek out the head of your target, drill into their brain, spray it everywhere, then exploded and blew their heads off.
jul 23, 2025, 2:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Thinks about it. The only serious competitor is the Ring of Power.
jul 23, 2025, 5:40 am • 1 0 • view
cucumber water is bullshit either give me actual water or commit to a soda or juice of some kind, none of this “hint of flavor” shit
jul 26, 2025, 4:31 pm • 97 2 • view
This. If I have to re-read the container, because I can't tell what flavor it was supposed to be, it didn't have a flavor.
jul 26, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
*LaCroix has entered the chat* FIRST OF ALL, HOW DARE....
jul 26, 2025, 4:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not a huge fan of drinking anything, and particularly not plain water. If I want to stay hydrated, floating a little cucumber or fruit in a pitcher of water helps me to keep drinking. Something about the faint taste of something good helps. But YMMV, no worries.
jul 27, 2025, 12:14 am • 0 0 • view
cucumber goes in pimms, not in water
jul 26, 2025, 4:38 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay so, if you are charging me for it yeah, but I don't mind those jugs of water with cucumbers (or lemons or strawberries or whatever fruit or veggies that have high water content) floating in it that are free to use and often self serve.
jul 26, 2025, 4:51 pm • 1 0 • view
Homeopathic soda.
jul 26, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
baseball is the best sport for Remembering Some Guys, huge roster sizes and you can even Remember Some Guys from the 1920s
jul 26, 2025, 4:35 pm • 68 2 • view
brent abernathy
jul 26, 2025, 4:48 pm • 1 0 • view
and when you remember one of those guys was named "Urban Shocker" it makes your entire day
jul 26, 2025, 4:37 pm • 3 0 • view
an enormous amount of parenting advice is bullshit, simply because “this works for my kid” is far less universal than we’d all like it to be
jul 26, 2025, 4:42 pm • 185 9 • view
Even much advice from the professionals can be included in this. (Not *all* of it...)
jul 26, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
The only parenting advice should be "Get to know your kid, and know what works today will not work tomorrow. Enjoy the adventure."
jul 26, 2025, 5:04 pm • 5 0 • view
I think advice shaped like this (eg in a book) would be great: Here are 10 very different strategies for problem X, including how easy/hard it is to (a) predict whether it’ll work for your particular kid, (b) actually try it, (c) tell whether it’s working, and (d) stop/recover if it doesn’t
jul 26, 2025, 8:55 pm • 0 0 • view
also you never really know if it worked for your kid until they're in their 20s anyway. short term success doesn't guarantee long term success
jul 26, 2025, 5:00 pm • 3 0 • view
Have you tried 'insert very specific thing that happens to work because a very unique set of circumstances' it's like the kanami code for children.
jul 26, 2025, 4:48 pm • 5 0 • view
Like weighted vests, some kids it works like a magic charm like some dragon ball z containing the kids power level type thing and other times kid is just like nope no weight in fact weight is evil.
jul 26, 2025, 4:55 pm • 4 0 • view
Particularly annoying for the parents of picky eaters. “Have you tried -?” “YES"
jul 26, 2025, 4:59 pm • 6 0 • view
i have one kid who will eat anything and the other who was at constant risk of turning into a giant chicken nugget. fortunately they're both adults now and so they can do their own meal planning
jul 26, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
there are other franchises with awesome, iconic ships but Star Wars is the king of spaceship design and it’s not particularly close
jul 26, 2025, 4:57 pm • 122 1 • view
The 4 seconds rule is likely the most precious gift George Lucas gave to the 5th art.
jul 26, 2025, 7:43 pm • 0 0 • view
none of which make aerospatial sense, but this is still correct
jul 26, 2025, 6:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Falcon. The Firespay. The Blockade Runner. The Hammerhead. The Star Destroyer. The EXECUTOR.
jul 26, 2025, 5:25 pm • 4 0 • view
True. I like a lot of entertainment franchises but when I'm buying new doohickeys for my office, Star Wars stuff always beats out everything else.
jul 26, 2025, 6:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Star Wars ship design is so good that they can take a slice of pizza in space escorting the AT&T logo and make them instantly iconic. And TIE Fighters? Who thought that was a good design? How does it work that well? INSANITY!
jul 26, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought Battlestar did a nice job
jul 26, 2025, 5:12 pm • 3 0 • view
Star wars might not always be great cinema but of all the sci Fi universes it has become the most cohesive
jul 26, 2025, 5:06 pm • 1 0 • view
The most iconic Star Trek designs are all variations on a single (strong) theme, but Star Wars ships all have their own thing going on while still looking like they belong in the same world
jul 26, 2025, 5:16 pm • 4 0 • view
the people who designed those ships gave us a rare instance of something having both quality AND quantity and I will always be grateful for that
jul 26, 2025, 5:03 pm • 2 0 • view
platforming sections in games that are not designed to be platformers are almost universally terrible and should not be added
jul 26, 2025, 6:30 pm • 86 2 • view
College football for the same reasons
jul 26, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
One of my favorite things about baseball is how it's 150+ year history of being a major sport means that major events from, say, the '70s (turf, Reggie/Fisk homers) seem relatively recent, whereas in basketball or football, events of similar impact ('72 Dolphins, ABA) feel like eons ago
jul 26, 2025, 4:53 pm • 1 0 • view
In England, both cricket and soccer have similar length histories and corresponding Remembering Some Guys features.
jul 29, 2025, 7:57 am • 0 0 • view
Replay of Fisk's home run still hits pretty hard, and I wasn't even there for it (they said, Remembering Some Guy).
jul 26, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Pretty partial to the BFG-9000 myself
jul 23, 2025, 6:10 am • 1 0 • view
zero stones ZERO CRATES
jul 23, 2025, 5:16 am • 12 0 • view
it just seems incredibly awkward to discuss at all because I feel like there is no possible way to talk about it without sounding like an absolutely massive pervert. what are you going to say after "I like redheads because" that sounds normal.
jul 23, 2025, 4:45 am • 2 0 • view