A recent sociology study has suggested that men actually gossip more than women, particularly men over the age of 50.

What a cutie! Mine likes Cheerios

Technically right, but they might use a different kind of toothbrush. If you are a hard brusher and use a hard toothbrush, you could damage your enamel.

I want to know who downvoted this

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That’s clearly Yellowfang from the Warrior Cats series

Found the weeb

That’s clearly a Warror Cats cover featuring a Sky Clan cat

A phone I’m excited for is the Bigme Hibreak Pro. Its got an e-paper screen that refreshes at a tolerable speed, and you can install apps from the Google Play store which run just fine. Will it ever play video smoothly? Fuck no. Is it cool? Also no. Is it horrifically expensive? Surprisingly, also no.

Bigme has also made some exciting (but way too expensive) progress in the desktop computer world by making a 60hz eink monitor. It frankly is terrible at most things people do on their home computers, but it can keep up just fine with the boring work stuff like Vim and the MS Office Suite. Am I willing to pay almost $2k for a monitor for work? Absolutely not, but I’m glad it exists.

SHHHH, Y’ALL ARE TOO LOUD! CAN’T YOU SEE SHE’S SLEEPING?

Looks like a Warriors cover. Very pretty

When I wanted to revisit Harry Potter via audiobook, I pirated the books, and I will do it again someday.

Honestly, this feels like an aspect of the rat totem. I’d also be open to a seagull totem to represent those shamans who would literally murder for a single french fry

Never heard the term “Organization-Based Play” before, and since I’ve never played Blades in the Dark I have no frame of reference for what it’s talking about. What is it?

Look, your problem is all the competition. Lots of Linux users putting out Linux memes. So, to get a foothold you simply need to kill all the Linux users.

I think this is symptomatic of the larger problem that this new edition was pretty much only made to make money.

Gygax died in 2008, Arneson died in 2009, I don’t know how many of their cohort have gotten cancer or heart attacks or other stuff that generally get listed as “natural causes” on a coroner’s report. We are slowly losing that first generation of gamers who had to argue at length whether players should be allowed to read the rules, whether players should choose their character’s race and class, and whether they should roll their own dice.

I personally think it’s three things.

1. D&D is fucking old. Like, people who grew up on OD&D are dead now. It’s had a lot of time to accrue clooge and gunk as the genre of D&D shifted from 1st Person Wargame to Dungeon Crawler to Epic Fantasy to Heroic Fantasy to whatever 5e is, and this means a lot of different monsters to serve these different genres being carried forward into future editions because Gen X gets weird when the things they grew up with get changed or disappear.
2. D&D has always fundamentally been about going out into the world, seeing weird things, and killing them. There’s only so many times you can kill zombies before you get bored of zombies. Also, a number of monsters have gimmicks that get old fast, like rust monsters eating your weapons as you hit them and gelatinous oozes being nearly invisible. The only counter to that is more monsters.
3. Different monsters serve different purposes, even when they fill the same niche. For example, goblins and kobolds both are tiny little mooks that attack in large numbers and are inherently evil so we don’t have to feel bad about slaughtering entire families of them, but one is more likely to ambush you with ranged fire and Explosives while the other is likely to set up traps for you to wander into. Very different styles of play. Orcs and hobgoblins are both basically people, but while orcs allow you to hold up a mirror to the party by being essentially normal people but ugly, hobgoblins lead tactically complex multi-pronged attacks and are make very good scheming bad guys. Also, not every monster belongs everywhere. Imagine finding a stone golem in the middle of the feywild, or a treant in a dungeon. Attempting to make a monster for literally every situation is how AD&D ended up with the Monstrous Compendium’s fifteen volumes and appendices, so in reality the Monster Manual is an exercise in restraint.

I think I will need to get a group together to play before I can answer that question well, but characters start at muggle weight right after character creation. They probably will move into iron weight pretty fast and stay there for a while.

Bun!