M. Orange @ miracleorange @beehaw.org

a big neurodivergent pile of vegetable matter // 29 // sf bay area

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Maybe this was just the first step in Mr. Nutley brokering peace talks between your dog and his clan.

I would actually highly recommend the [World, Star, Citie]s Without Number systems. They've been going for about ten years, and while the individual systems themselves are genre-centric (fantasy, sci-fi, and cyberpunk respectively), they're all inter-compatible and offer a good midpoint between crunchy systems and rules-light.

Also, I think Savage Worlds is setting agnostic and a little bit crunchier than most rules-light systems, but I have little experience with it.

Charmed did the reverse in that Hell is basically a bureaucracy.

Please remember that SpaceX and Tesla have entire teams dedicated to handling Elon and reversing his decisions. Twitter did not have the infrastructure required to handle the sheer level of stupid that is Elon Musk.

I don't mean to diminish your comment, which I agree with very heavily. I just think that you (and others) would find it interesting to know that I looked it up, and apparently that "Cree proverb" is neither of Cree origin nor all that old. It was seemingly said by Alanis Obomsawin, an Abenaki woman (Canada First Nations, I believe?), and first published in 1972.

Regardless of origin, though, it's extremely poignant and applicable here.

I'm aware of how accompaniment works, but a full orchestra can only follow a person so much. They try to match her overall tempo, and it's pretty spot on during the coloratura passages, but her constant back-phrasing during the rest makes it sound like she's dragging behind the orchestra.

Compare this to a performance where she takes it at a slightly slower tempo, and she's much more in time with the orchestra. Granted, I think it's a worse performance than the OP, but it's hard to look menacing when you look like kale. 🥬🥬🥬

I think her acting choices are great and her vocal quality is unbelievable, but I've never really been able to deal with how sluggish Damrau can sound singing this aria. It leaves the realm of interpretation and starts sounding like she's dragging behind the orchestra.

Yup, it uses Firebase.

For a Google Maps replacement, everything is going to work off of the base OSM maps, but OSMand is not a great app imo. Organic Maps is good if you want to be COMPLETELY FOSS, but if you want something with good navigation and real time traffic, Magic Earth is what you want. The app itself isn't FOSS afaik, but it's privacy oriented, has very few (if any?) trackers, and can be used completely offline.

No one said the legends were good.

From the moment it was announced, I could not contain my excitement for Octopath Traveler from the art style to the graphics to the music. I was even into the name. I was so enamored that I bought the collector's edition.

Then it finally came out and never have I regretted a game purchase so much; not because it was awful, but it was so mediocre. Honestly, if it were awful, I might have been more okay with it, rationalizing how a game could turn out so bad with everything going for it, mourning what could have been, etc. It did everything it promised it would, I just realized that it didn't really promise much beyond an art style and being a turn based RPG with 8 main characters. The package was delivered, but it turned out to be Game Gear, not Gameboy.

I think buying that game put me off collector's editions. The package for it was very impressive, but I think I finally saw the man behind the curtain and realized that what I was buying was just a bunch of plastic and art books that I was never really going to touch anyway. The only physical bonus I cared about from that point on was Steelbooks, but I don't even buy physical games all that much anymore thanks to my Steam Deck.

Honestly, Octopath Traveler put me off blindly preordering games in general. Now I just blindly buy old games, so if they're bad, I have no one to blame but myself for not doing the research LOL

Okay, but isn't that game just one big bug?

I am as well, but unfortunately that isn't usually the case in my experience.

You're assuming that most people would think they DON'T always have spots. I feel like it's more likely that people would assume they always do because that's the popular representation of them.

I think it's likely that they meant 4e was the change that made it not D&D. That said, time has dulled the shock, and honestly, 4e had a lot of great shit in it.

It's very accessible compared to other cRPGs. D&D 5e was already designed to be beginner-friendly, and Larian just made it more beginner-friendly while also making one of the most open-ended games I can think of.

Could be doing this in preparation for the Switch 2.

In Xenoblade, the entire story is the tutorial. Hunting uniques in the postgame is the real game.

Literally all of Candlekeep is a tutorial with the quests and the guys in green robes everywhere. It's kinda great, actually. Allowed you to skip it if you wanted, but there if you need it.

Like it would even be enforced.