Aielman15 @ Aielman15 @lemmy.world

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The reason the echo works with the Sentinel feat is because:

When a creature that you can see within 5 feet of your echo moves at least 5 feet away from it, you can use your reaction to make an opportunity attack against that creature as if you were in the echo's space.

But there is nothing in the Manifest Echo's feature that says that it can use your other features or feats. So it won't work with Shield Master or Protection.

As for the third question, yes: you can create an echo in a space you can see, so you can create it in a space that your echo can see, as well, if you're using its senses. The feature says nothing about what happens when you create the echo while seeing through its senses, though:

As an action, you can see through your echo's eyes and hear through its ears. During this time, you are deafened and blinded. You can sustain this effect for up to 10 minutes, and you can end it at any time (requires no action). While your echo is being used in this way, it can be up to 1,000 feet away from you without being destroyed.

I'd rule that you're allowed to keep using its senses immediately after creating a new one, so you can create an echo within 1,000 feet, but you should talk to your DM about that.

I mean, she lied about liking transphobic tweets:

On one level, my interest in this issue has been professional, because I’m writing a crime series [...].
When I started taking an interest in gender identity and transgender matters, I began screenshotting comments that interested me, as a way of reminding myself what I might want to research later. On one occasion, I absent-mindedly ‘liked’ instead of screenshotting. That single ‘like’ was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began.

Sure, Joanne. "My interest in this was only professional, because I was writing a book where the serial killer is a man cross-dressing as a woman that kills other women". We know how it ended.

She then proceeded with a very weird anti-trans statement:

When I read about the theory of gender identity, I remember how mentally sexless I felt in youth. [...].
As I didn’t have a realistic possibility of becoming a man back in the 1980s, it had to be books and music that got me through both my mental health issues and the sexualised scrutiny and judgement that sets so many girls to war against their bodies in their teens. Fortunately for me, I found my own sense of otherness, and my ambivalence about being a woman [...]; it’s OK to feel confused, dark, both sexual and non-sexual, unsure of what or who you are.
I want to be very clear here: I know transition will be a solution for some gender dysphoric people, although I’m also aware through extensive research that studies have consistently shown that between 60-90% of gender dysphoric teens will grow out of their dysphoria.

"I felt non-binary too, but I'm not trans, so you aren't either!".

For reference, desistance is a real term that refers to people who changes their mind about their gender dysphoria, and, although further research is still needed, she is probably citing real sources. It's also strange to insert that knowledge in a post where she's supposedly trying to convince people that she's not a TERF, among the "five reasons she's worried about the new trans activism", whatever that means. "I don't hate trans people, but anyway, they aren't real and you are preying on children".

She then ended her wall of text by alluding that all trans women are actually men who want to prey on women (never mind that, if a man wanted to become a sexual predator, he could just... Do that, instead of faking gender dysphoria? Like, a man who wants to sexually harass someone isn't stopping at the "girls only" sign. He's not a vampire). But hey, before that she said that she cares about trans women, so I'm sure it's just a misunderstanding.

So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he’s a woman – and, as I’ve said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones – then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth.

That's the simple truth of a person who should really talk to their therapist about her trauma instead of writing bullshit online.

If agreeing with known transphobes, erasing trans identity, and putting trans women and sexual predators on the same level isn't transphobic, I really don't know what is.

It happens every time. Pokémon Sword/Shield and Scarlett/Violet had the biggest launch in the franchise's history despite being (justifiably so) heavily criticized by pretty much everyone online.

People shit on microtransactions and always-online games but the top charts always show online multiplayer games are among the most played.

It doesn't make the criticisms any less valid; it just means that the general public is usually ignorant of them.

Crash Bandicoot Warped for me.

The Warp Room soundtrack is still stuck in my head twenty years later.

Miyazaki sensei-sama should just git gud and redo everything from scratch. Only soy boys and gaming journos would quit so easily.

My chaotic neutral undead warlock has the solution.

I used to play many orc flash games in the past. I still do when I want to relieve the past.

Never thought I'd play side by side with an orc.

Considering the glacial pace of modern AAA game development, I don't think it's odd that they want multiple games in development at the same time to ensure a steady release schedule.

We don't really know what these five games are (if they really exist at all), but if they diversify the offer with a mix of first person, third person, remakes of old titles and maybe yet-another-attempt-at-bad-online-RE-that-nobody-wants, which is what they've done so far (RE7, RE2make, RE3make, Resistance, RE8, RE4make), I think it's a good thing.

I thought recent RE games were well received? I've never heard so much positivity about the franchise since its early days.

I work in a hotel.

One day, a family comes to the reception to tell me that their window is broken, asking me to change their room. I ask if I can take a look.

It turns out, they didn't know the existence of tilt & turn windows and were scared that the window was going to fall down lol

How does the multiplayer aspect work? If I play the game now, will I find the entire world already filled of bridges, ladders and roads?

Yeah, I don't understand the end goal here. They sell DnD, make some quick buck... then what?

I don't doubt that the other franchises listed in the article (Transformers, My little pony, Monopoly) still make money, but if you're losing money already, the solution is not to sell one of the branches that's actually making a profit.

I'm Italian.

Four years ago the DDL Zan, a law that sought to fight language and deeds that amount to religious, political and racial discrimination by adding aggravating factors for sexual orientation, gender and gender identity, was proposed.

Among its detractors, the Vatican itself, who urged Italy to stop the law because, according to them, the Law calls into question church’s ‘freedom of organisation’ and threatens ‘freedom of thought’.

While those cartoonish evil cults aren't common, they are not the only evil religious organizations in the world. The head of one of the abrahamic religions, and one of the most popular religions in the world, fought against the freedom of my fellow LGBT+ individuals because of their supposed right of hate speech, apparently. So no, it's not an American perspective, and yes, all religions are evil.

Religion is ignorance and refusal to face reality.

As long as people behave, treat others, and vote according to the sacred scriptures written by a crackhead thousands of years ago, and their influence shapes the world around me and puts a limit to my freedom, then there will be no distinction between religion and extremism. The lesser of two evils is still evil.

Sure is, and I never said otherwise. I doubt that people playing those games care. If they are playing those games they probably like them and are okay with the idea of supporting them.

The inherent appeal of gacha games is always cute anime girls/pretty anime boys. I doubt anyone will find any of these games appealing to them if they don't like the art style in the first place.

I haven't played Honkai or Genshin Impact, so my understanding and knowledge of both games is fairly limited (mostly hearsay from people who actually played them), so take the rest of the message with a healthy dose of salt.

I've heard the production value is excellent compared to most other mobile games: for the low price of $0 (gacha microtransactions excluded, of course) you get a full open world game with nice graphics and animations and a fully fledged story (I'm unsure how good that actually is and from what I've seen I'm inclined to think "not much", but it probably appeals to anime fans).

I've also heard that you can play Genshin Impact for free and still get the characters you want if you're patient enough, which is not something that can be said of most gacha games. The PvE nature of the game means that you don't necessarily need the best lv999 S-rank character to compete with other players, and can enjoy (most of?) what the game has to offer for free, which means that you don't need to engage with the gacha aspect of the game if you don't want to. I don't know if that applies to Honkai as well, but considering it's a very similar game from the same software house, I'd say it's possible.

In conclusion, I don't think the game is worth checking out if you don't like anime and/or mobile games, but if you like any of those and are a young person without a stable income, a f2p open world game with bells and whistles such as nice graphics and animations could be appealing. Although, as I said, my opinion is mostly derived from hearsay and a quick glance at YT to check what the deal was about, I won't pretend I really know what I'm talking about here.

I'm not a pet owner anymore, unfortunately, but I have a few to share.

My first dog was able to recognize the sound of my father's car from the street, and would make sure that everyone in the entire building knew that she recognised the sound. She would bark from the moment the car appeared on the street, until my father was at home. We eventually managed to convince her to bark a little less, but even then, she would still bark a few times. Problem is, my father would frequently come back from work late at night!

My second dog loved to jump. Like, seriously, he was the world champion of jumping. He didn't know how to run, he trotted and jumped to gain speed. When somebody entered our home, he would come to them and jump around them. A lot. Sometimes we were forced to put him in another room and close the door so that he wouldn't greet our guests. He was very dumb. A very playful fella, though.

The other user came to that conclusion because you said:

We'll have fewer games in the next few years? That's like at the bottom of the list of issues we're facing in 2024.

Implying that the only issue is the lack of games in 2024. That's not the real issue. The real issue is that, while you see it as "an extreme privilege" to be working in art, those people are just at work, and they are losing it.

Sure, it's not a critical job that will cause society to collapse, but you could say that about most jobs in today's society. I work in a hotel. A friend of mine works in a restaurant. Another friend of mine is on a cruise ship. We could all lose our job today and society will still be fine tomorrow, it doesn't mean that it's a privilege for us to have these jobs. It's a job like any other for us.

It's just sad that so many people are losing their job for no apparent reason but investors' greed and the inherent flaws of a system whose goal is infinite growth.

mobile MMO by Tencent

So many red flags, they could start a communist revolution.