Gutless2615 @ Gutless2615 @ttrpg.network

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PF2S is bloated with unnecessary rules. If that’s your thing, and I totally get the appeal of having a “wait let’s just see what nethys says abou — Oh apparently there are mechanics for this drug” moment; personally I find it really gets in the way of the session. Rule and move on with the story. Keep the mechanics to what they need. We’re ultimately dealing with a pretty simple underlying system: d20 roll high. All the subterfuge and wordy mechanics don’t really change that at the end of the day you need to roll a d20 and generally do better than a 12 or so to do what you want.

This is why I play Shadowdark. It’s amazing. All the best bits of 5e design, none of the cruft. Ruleslite is the way to go.

Sports surge

Thanks I fucking hate it

Not one of those listed and not sure if it fits the assignment but I started watching the Mobile Suit Gundam, The Witch from Mercury anime and have been enjoying it. It’s got some fun if tropey sci fi environs

If Yuki doesn’t have a seat next year I will riot.

Thanks, I hate it!

Some humble proposals for a few other sci-fi options for the next round that are a bit fresher than Gibson and Asimov (not that I don’t love the old guard!):

• Venomous Lumpsuckers by Ned Beuman - winner of this years Arthur C Clark award for science fiction, a dark satire environmental disaster page turner touching on cryptobros, greenwashing, carbon credits and short selling late stage capitalism. Hilarious, but be warned: optimistic, it ain’t.
• Terraformers by Analee Newitz - another extremely welcome breath of fresh air by Newitz, a sci fi epic spanning millenia also focused on environmentalism and capitalism with her refreshing approach to non-human sentience and fluid sexuality (Check out her “Autonomous” too if you haven’t already!)
• A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers - beautiful prose and descriptions of a colorful and diverse cast of misfits on a worker class intergalactic highway construction ship. Some of the best descriptions of characters I’ve seen lately and some really interesting aliens.
• Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi - imo MUCH improved offering from Scalzi over Red Shirts but still his characteristic pop-culture drenched page turner. One of the most face-punchingly terrible antagonists in recent memory.
• Exhalation by Ted Chiang - incredibly evocative and thoughtful collection of short stories

I don’t know. Am i crazy for feeling like Weir is just rewriting The Martian (again)? Another engineer survivor porn story where the very smart man needs to very smart man way out of the escape room.

You didn’t read the article, did you?

Well to be clear I'm not choosing the anki platform. I've found an anki deck already made for the vocabulary I'm trying to study. I'm specifically not trying to use their platform, hence the OP. If you have another spaced repetition self-hosted alternative, I'm all ears. Appreciate the free-ish mobile suggestion, but I'm on iOS, not android. Ideally I'd have a web-app solution, or at least a self-hosted sync server I can access with an iOS app.

Unless I was mistaken, I still needed to set up an anki account to access anki-web. I want to access it on iOS and not about to pay 30$ for their app. I also tried to spin up the docker container but ran into some issue that probably could have been sortable, but since I wasn't interesting in going down the account route I backed off and started looking elsewhere.

Looks like they’re wearing crop tops.

You want a trip down “is this a cyberpunk dystopia company” name, go check out the data brokers on the data broker registries in Vermont and California.

Bold. To me it seems like Andy Weir telling the exact same engineer survivorporn story over again. It’s The Martian, but in an only slightly different locale.

My kingdom for an actually creepy creepy pasta and not Bigfoot fan fiction erotica

The trilogy is amazing. The last book in the series Children of Memory is maybe my favorite. Some real heady hard sci fi.

Children of Tiiiiiiime

Hear ya I had the same misgivings. Ultimately though it’s been working well.