Every day would be great. I’m still working on ‘once.’

*If only!*

It’s all I want for the next several Christmases (and various other holidays).

Try XCOM Long War. It will take you 80 years, because you will rage quit a lot.

Hey, I get jokes. They just aren’t funny most of the time. But I totally got them, yep.

True, but projects like LibreWolf are the first step to creating a true fork of Firefox that’s completely out of Mozilla’s hands.

I’m already using librewolf. As soon as I saw Firefox was using ai I figured it was time to switch.

It looks like it’s prepaid only

“Cancer risk” can be a lot of things. It’s not like cancer is just one disease - it’s a whole family of diseases. The mechanisms by which something increases cancer risk are many and frequently poorly understood.

Fortunately, the mechanism of action of ionizing radiation and the cancer risks associated with it are well understood, and so we know that bananas are not dangerous.*

(* well, they’re not dangerous because they are radioactive. It could turn out that they’re dangerous for some other reason.)

Only those three? That’s easy enough. I expected a few more

I know where to find zines, friend. 😅

I meant more like a list of the exact ones referenced in the court case.

It’s a more effective at building awareness if I can narrow it down to the specific materials being censored.

I can’t think of any better way to showcase the erosion of our so-called ‘freedoms’ than distributing banned zines. Anyone have copies I can print?

To harvest your data! Why else?

Titles, headers, and other web elements typically have punctuation standards that differ from the punctuation standards for body text.

The “writer’s room” stuff is, by definition, not role-playing. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely enjoy it, but if you tell me we’re role-playing and then hit me with that, I’ll be upset at the whiplash.

I feel like games like FATE need to pick a lane. Either we’re all writers telling a story together, or we’re trying to role-play as characters and be immersed in the world. But you can’t accomplish both things at once.

And if we’re doing the writer’s room thing, we should just play Microscope. It’s my favorite improv-game so far (although I’m open to trying others).

FATE is my favorite least favorite system. I love so much about it, but find about half of it absolutely intolerable.

For example - players making up their own consequences. It’s so metagamey that it immediately kills my immersion.

Edit - Don’t get me wrong, I love the idea of the Consequences system, but it rubs me the wrong way for the players to be the ones choosing them.

The 5-min adventuring day is more of a “poor GM management” problem than anything. If time effectively stands still when the PC’s rest, of course they’ll rest at every opportunity. But yes, PF2 has a bit less of powers per day and a few more powers-per-short-rest (well, PF2’s equivalent of a short rest, anyways).

Pathfinder absolutely can be used to tell a great story. In fact, I think it’s better at that than most of the so-called “narrative systems” out there. But perhaps that’s because most of the narrative systems out there run into some of my own pet peeves - namely encouraging metagaming via player abilities that are entirely divorced from the character you’re playing as. Some other pet peeves include giving players the ability to retcon/declare things as an ability, or having mechanics that explicitly assume that the world only exists insofar as the PCs interact with it.

In my personal opinion, player’s choices only feel important if they have real consequences. This means that the GM must, at a minumum, have enough mechanical ‘rigging’ to work with that players can reasonably predict the likely outcomes of a given course of action, and see those consequences ripple out into the world in the thousand tiny ways that make the game world feel real.

Plus, there are dozens of ways to streamline a crunchy system and make it easier for new players to handle. But there just aren’t that many (good) ways to add complexity to a game that’s transparently simple on it’s face. I find that simpler rules systems paradoxically encourage power-gaming in this way - if you know you can solve any problem with a +8 Tomfoolery skill and a pile of “story points”, why would you ever do anything else? But if you have to choose your approach based on its consequences - not just based on what number is higher - then all of a sudden he decision of whether to bribe, lie to, persuade, sneak past, or assassinate the guard becomes a whole lot harder. And there’s no way to weasel out of it because the skills have extremely defined uses that can’t be bent to mean something other than what they mean.

(Sorry, that reply kinda ran away with me there 😅)

(But if you would like thoughts/help/advice on how to run a crunchier system in a way that produces very “story focused” results, I have a lot of practice with that. It’s both very rewarding and not as hard as it seems. Anyone who reads this and wants to chat, please do. My dms are open.)

I always found D&Ds “linear fighters quadratic wizards” thing to be kind of garbage

Not to be a walking stereotype here, but you’ve really got to give PF2 a try. It’s hard to succinctly say why martials feel so good in PF2 - it’s due to a lot of little changes across a lot of different systems - but let’s just say that Fighters and Rogues are legitimately my favorite classes in PF2. And I’ve pretty always been a magic girlie in D&D.

gross.

Thanks for the good work! Education is important!

I couldn’t express it better myself. Although in terms of “having a functioning democracy” the colonizer countries aren’t exactly doing well either. (It’s almost like powerful people will exploit anyone and corrupt any system…)