ryven @ ryven @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know the official term is "legacy Umamusume" but everyone I've seen talk about them who played the Japanese release calls them "parents."

I love learning new rules. It's honestly almost as much fun to me as actually playing the game.

Oh cool, I guess I just didn't see it!

With regard to vehicle combat, I find it very strange that the very first NPC we meet has a man-portable surface-to-air missile launcher, but there don't seem to be any anti-vehicular weapons that players can use.

Or at least I think there aren't; I'm not nearly as far as you are, but I looked ahead in the research tab and didn't see any.

I am about 4-ish resource tiers in out of 7-ish or so, and I don't feel like it is especially grindy by the standards of survival crafting games. There is obviously some grinding for resources, but there is also a good amount of exploring and doing quests, during which you can pick up a lot of the things you need. Getting through the iron tier was a little bit long because you don't have access to a large vehicle inventory yet at that point, but I also took that time to reveal a bunch of the map, clear out bandit camps, etc. so it didn't become too monotonous. There are a good variety of secondary resources that will keep you visiting different kinds of locations (wrecked ships, old mining operations, etc.) so that even if you just want to farm resources, you won't just be spending all your time running between ore nodes.

If your friends would be playing together, they could also do things more efficiently by sharing bases so that they don't each have to build their own infrastructure, and eventually you get access to a mining buggy that is faster to operate with two players (a solo player has to switch between the driver and mining laser seats).

The kids are alright.

Does OOP always play characters with the same backstory beats? I'm always making up new insecurities/obsessions/neuroses for my characters because I feel like I can't use the same backstory twice. (They have to have something going on, though, because well-adjusted people don't make a career out of going into trap-filled holes in the ground and fighting to the death for the inhabitants' pocket change.)

This is the one where we bully our little brother into going back to the world where he can't walk, right? :P

I feel SO free right now. :P

Canceled Pride? Well, I canceled my sub!

It sounds like they wanted to run someone but had trouble recruiting a candidate:

But Bloom thinks that would-be Democratic candidates were disinclined to challenge a sheriff’s office power structure that tends to be dominated by conservatives, saying, “The people that [party leadership] asked to run were scared; given how conservative law enforcement can be, they didn’t want to blow up their careers.” Unlike other states, Virginia does not require that sheriff candidates have a background in law enforcement.

And later in the article:

That no Democrat filed to run in Chesapeake does not surprise Liam Watson, director of Bluegrass PAC, a Virginia group working to fund and elect downballot Democratic candidates in rural areas of the state. Watson, who is also an elected council member in the city of Blacksburg, knows the dynamic well: His own community, Montgomery County, leans blue but has a Republican sheriff.

“The challenge is finding people who are both qualified and interested,” he told Bolts.

He and many others noted that the most obvious path to being a sheriff is to work as a sheriff’s deputy, and that there are clear disincentives to challenging an incumbent who could then make your life difficult or fire you if you lose. “Nobody wants to run against their boss,” Watson said.

I think she has to act through the Board of Police Commissioners, and I'm not sure she can fire them before their terms are up. She could definitely threaten to not re-appoint them, but I don't know how much leverage that really buys her.

And those armored bulldozers sometimes destroyed humans along with the houses, such as the case of peace activist Rachel Corrie.

Unfortunately the DMG says that if a character somehow acquires the same feature more than once, only one counts.

I feel like I first saw this pic before AI image generation was any good, so it might just be good old fashioned Photoshop.

Nah man, the older I get the less I trust adults. They let me be one and I'm the biggest fuckup I've ever met!

OP already accounted for social situations where you would expect to meet people, though, and his parents seem to think that he should be approaching people in other situations—like in a store, or on the street. I'd be very cautious about that.

Not quite the same but I used to work at a local, family owned supermarket chain that is now out of business. I started at one of the busiest locations, but after I moved apartments I transferred to another location that was out in the 'burbs. At the first location I worked at, all our equipment was well maintained, stock was reasonable, stuff seemed normal.

At the suburban location, our equipment was all falling apart. The roof leaked. The other stores sent us their overstock and charged it to our departments. I was in the deli, and one day the contracted maintenance guy was there and I asked if he could take a look at one of the meat slicers. He said sorry, corporate told him not to do any work at this location that they hadn't pre-approved.

My first hypothesis was that this location didn't make any money, and that's why they didn't want to spend to fix it. One day I decided to ask the store manager about it—he was pretty chill and we talked sometimes, so I figured he wouldn't mind. I said "Does this store actually make any money?" and he said "Well, let me put it this way: the numbers I report to corporate show that every department here, except floral, makes a profit every month. And then the numbers they put out in the quarterly reports show that we've never made a profit since we opened."

"Where does the money go?" I asked.

"That's above my pay grade," he said.

I'm convinced someone was embezzling funds. A couple years after I left, the whole chain closed one day with no notice to the employees.

"If our strict measures were not accepted, then our organization could become careless and it could result in eroding the public's trust," he said.

They don't think telling this guy to starve in his old age over $7 will undermine public trust? It's undermining my trust in this official's judgment right now!

I guess I don't live in Kyoto so they probably don't give a rat's ass what I think.

I mean, it depends on the edition. In AD&D the damage of fireball increases faster than your HP: you deal 1d6 damage per level and you gain 1d4 HP per level (and you don't get an automatic max roll at first level), so on average a fifth level caster has 12.5 max hp and deals 17.5 damage on a failed save.

Nowadays with higher hit dice and higher average Constitution scores and potentially larger Constitution-based hp bonuses, it's more survivable for sure. It also doesn't expand to fill its nominal volume if cast indoors, so it's a lot easier to find space to cast it in dungeons without frying yourself.

Edit: This is ignoring the fact that not all mages are equally likely to survive to fifth level; rolling higher HP makes you way more likely to survive to the next level, so I suspect if we surveyed players of fifth level mages the actual average HP would be somewhat higher, with the low rollers having been filtered out by dart traps, lucky kobolds, etc.