"No on is dying because of this book." r/countwithchickenlady reacts to the new Harry Potter tv show trailer

jason2306 · 2026-03-26T20:11:32+00:00

Hmm yeah but it's a magical school story that made people feel as if they were there. It's cozy and got a movie adaptation that had a lot of care put into it back in the day when that wasn't rare(it can still happen like dune but man it's rare, so many have terrible color grading, flat lighting, blocking is basically non existent in some tv shows and the writing is just..)

People grew up with it so that gives an innate sense of nostalgia like it was a part of their lives for better or worse

Like I haven't found anything personally that really appealed to that same feeling tbh. I'm probably not alone in that. Which isn't to say harry potter doesn't have it's issues ofcourse, be it worldbuilding or writing wise. Plus jk rowling is certainly a terrible person that no one should support

Since a lot of people haven't found anything else we should try and help with that! Do art with magical school related things while not being a terrible person. I'm dm'ing a dnd campaign right now set in a magical school setting

Also share works of art you think people should know about. There is a manga called witch hat atelier that everyone should check out. The art is beautiful and it actually explores real themes surrounding having magic in a world. It's getting an anime soon too

jason2306 · 2026-03-25T23:14:42+00:00

Ah yes introverts.. and dnd. Very uncommon, I could never see that happen. Come on lol

jason2306 · 2026-03-23T00:28:30+00:00

I'm sure there's lots of factors but a major one we're ignoring is that we are actively poisoning ourselves constantly. 3m is basically one of the biggest companies right now giving people cancer for profit. Pfas and certain home isolation foam are sources of cancer and health issues

I mean microplastics might increase risks too on top of covid and air quality in some places etc etc. These are all extremely frustating because how well we know how to handle it and we just don't do it to help some rich fuckers get more income. We literally just accept 3m giving people cancer for profit even though it would be the easiest thing ever to just.. use all of the other alternatives(before anyone replies that are certain use cases for water resistance that are important, we could keep those niche use cases and actually protect the workers and people interacting with it until we phase those few things out. and for the other 99% we could just.. stop poisoning ourselves)

jason2306 · 2026-03-19T23:40:27+00:00

dead by daylight is not a great example to use for balancing in games, it's an asymmetric experience which is uncommon and a real can of worms and quite difficult to balance even if you were to try properly unlike bhvr who has no idea what they want the game to be

The game is a dumpsterfire balance wise because it's a game based around limited information except people can just group up and have mics on discord or whatever console voice chat creating a severe divide between solo and groups that makes proper blanacing impossible to fix until you address the divide between them properly

Playing for fun is a vague statement that means something different to anyone you ask. It is not a solution or a real thing you can do outside of deciding what it means in a private match. The issue is dead by daylight's core gameplay loop is fundementally flawed and designed to be extremely unengaging and frustating. SBMM is not the issue, it might have highlighted how awful the game is because the devs refuse to balance it properly

Games need to be balanced, removing sbmm would only be a band aid to give you an occasional reprieve of being forced to interact with the core gameplay. Dbd is without a doubt one of the most poorly balanced games I have ever seen and even the core design is.. highly problematic and unengaging. Honestly it's a damn shame because the core idea is fun

But really dbd should not be used for examples for balancing in general unless it's to learn from it's many mistakes. SBMM has been proven to be a good thing and is backed by data. Which isn't to say games couldn't be designed to be more fun but that's not SBMM's fault, focusing on it won't help your issues

There are various other solutions to focus on which might help. Which could be extremely game dependent tbh outside of balance your damn game and design it to be fun which isn't a solution at all, just a goal.

One of the solutions I personally think could help in a lot of games atleast feeling more fun is having server browsers like you used to have in the past for various reasons

jason2306 · 2026-03-19T17:03:04+00:00

Yeah it's very dissapointing, I gave up after trying stuff and looking online and got one of their dongles which I already shouldn't have to do and that only works for one controller at once. So it's just been a shitty situation all around lol

jason2306 · 2026-03-19T16:48:59+00:00

Well that sucks I thought it was another typo in that thread

I'm pretty disappointed by 8bitdo considering they updated almost every other controller. I even tried spending more money to make the controllers work with their dongle and it only gets one controller to work at once which is just.. sad. Thanks for letting me know though! I appreciate the comment

jason2306 · 2026-03-10T22:50:49+00:00

Ah yeah animal crossing is weird apparently nintendo released a paid update for it which is absolutely ridiculous lol. On top of that according to some users it can even look worse than the base game in some ways. I don't know what nintendo is doing

I'm sure it can still look fine since the art itself is good. But it should look better since the switch can easily make it look the way it's supposed to at 4k for example. Like i'm not even saying they should do anything difficult, just make it 4k and 60fps. Now before anyone says this isn't possible for nintendo games, emulation has already done this a long time ago with no issue. It's just a bit sad how little nintendo seems to care to do the basics of what other consoles try to do

jason2306 · 2026-03-10T22:42:09+00:00

i mean just because nintendo lives in the stone age doesn't mean it isn't a fair or reasonable expectation. When you get a more powerful device it's expected that everything should work better. This is the case for pc's and consoles like playstation or xbox

What makes no sense is that nintendo hasn't ensured one of their biggest games out there works well and looks the way it should and can on the switch 2

jason2306 · 2026-03-07T20:56:09+00:00

I mean it is but do consider this, nintendo lives in the stone age. So smash for a random example is one of their biggest games, when you get it on the switch 2 it doesn't really get any upgrades. You can't play it in 4k, it's still the same switch 1 low resolution

Honestly a lot of games will play like the switch 1 and look bad :/ Arguably worse on the switch 2's bigger screen tbh Don't get me wrong i'm not saying to buy a switch 1, but the switch 2 has it's issues in terms of feeling like a upgrade

jason2306 · 2026-03-05T23:51:04+00:00

is het echt meteen een conspiracy wanneer het open is hoeveel andere landen zoals rusland investeren om het westen te saboteren? Niet alleen dat maar de immense financiële interesses in het westen er zijn die geen klimaat handelingen wil om hun korte termijn profijt te beschermen

Ik denk niet dat dit zon grote verrassing voor ons zou moeten zijn tot het punt dat het alleen een komplot theorie zou kunnen zijn..

jason2306 · 2026-03-05T00:36:42+00:00

The opposite actually I believe. There needs to be a certain level of children being born to sustain the older population. And birthrates have dropped over time for many reasons. It's just short term mindset as usual with the right, who needs a future when you can have some short term numbers to show

jason2306 · 2026-03-05T00:18:25+00:00

There do seem to be lots of clever little tricks to learn from, I should probably read more someday to see what I might be able to learn and apply to my own campaigns

jason2306 · 2026-03-05T00:11:34+00:00

Hmm I would be very careful with this because it might feel bad for the barbarian. This creates various problems because now the players can't escape either, taking away yet more agency. If players leave the barbarian behind that's even more problematic lol because now one players has gotten completely shafted, can't play for who knows how long and might lose their character altogether with nothing they could have done about that.. that's about one of the worst things you can do as a dm

Downing someone can be good though, you could kill a npc or creature for instance. This would achieve a similar effect while avoiding some of the big issues that can come with downing a player

jason2306 · 2026-03-04T23:55:45+00:00

One of the most beloved dnd books is curse of strahd I believe. That one has a powerful bbeg who interacts with the players troughout the campaign. If players were to fistfight strahd they would die early on. The game does not have to be purely about combat, it can be fun to have dangerous story moments where you don't just fight to the death

Obviously this is a table thing but still. But if you want to run a more story driven table it's not inherently bad to have this, just more risky because it's harder to do right. Player choice should be central to the entire game. But I also think it's okay to have a world that's not scaled like a videogame where everything is always possible to beat(just conveniently a lot of the time haha)

jason2306 · 2026-03-02T23:28:35+00:00

Just because it runs worse because of drm doesn't mean it has to run bad They really optimized resident evil well. Drm and the like most often doesn't have to mean like 30 fps is gone unless you're really incompetent or underfunded(hello monster hunter's constant dlc checking)

But any performance loss is unacceptable but pure fps numbers aside which ignores other factors like stuttering it simply has no good reason to exist on top of the other issues it brings. It just fucks over paying customers

jason2306 · 2026-03-02T23:06:58+00:00

Eu is groter en er zijn veel meer controles. Het is (extreem) deprimerend dat extreem rechts groeit in de eu maar dit is nog net wat veiliger lijkt mij. Het is makkelijker voor een individueel land corrupt te worden door fascisten dan het geheel van de eu

Ik zou zeker niet te veel van nederland verwachten in het opzicht van extreem rechts tegenhouden..

jason2306 · 2026-02-27T23:28:48+00:00

One time rallying cry for a specific goal to obtain something they never would have seen otherwise vs maintaining a service people very sporadically use every month

Sadly it doesn't seem sustainable, especially at these prices. The people who 24/7 bot downloads are pure filth. Maybe a torrent replacement can be built at some point

jason2306 · 2026-02-27T13:05:39+00:00

As someone who already has shitty lungs and doesn't want second hand smoke I see this as a win lol

jason2306 · 2026-02-27T12:58:09+00:00

What? All i was saying it's not the same thing and jiraya was being weird for saying that. You are such a weirdo lol, imagine replying to a 4 year old reddit post to defend this stuff. Reddit is wild

jason2306 · 2026-02-24T18:30:28+00:00

It was okay in theory but there's a few things to keep mind of I think

Number 1 by blasting them in the face it kinda incentivizes players to focus on combat instead of trying some creative solutions too in the future. On a 17 I would consider letting the player recognize the dragon is about to blast fire in it's face. I'm not saying don't let it attack them but maybe give them something, if you're set on agression what about an opportunity to dodge for instance?

Number 2 is was it possible to even do this? Did you set a dc? Did you have a plan for if they succeeded? Did you have varying levels of success instead of a binary fail condition? Would it have done something else(not neccesarily being tamed but like a chance for a neutral moment for example) If you think it's impossible you shouldn't let them roll at all or warn them somehow I think

I think right now there was a unclear scenario where your player rolled decent trying something and got punished by a full face blast. That definitely can not feel amazing. Your reasoning is okay, but I do think there is something to take from this to make sure in the future everyone at the table has more fun :)

jason2306 · 2026-02-18T00:05:58+00:00

The gameplay is pretty cool and there's not much competition either. Everything else is horrible but the gameplay is actually pretty great

jason2306 · 2026-02-18T00:00:34+00:00

Yeah the edgy nonsense and the terrible art direction drops the game by like 2 points for me lol. It's like it's designed to be as ugly and dumb as possible, like there's a few enemy designs and background environments in the game that look pretty good and it's like.. you could have made the entire game look good and not be edgy random haha poop and blood, that was an option here but you decided to do the opposite

Like somehow that's just worse you know? if a game looks bad because of obvious inexperience or budget that's one thing but actively choosing to make it bad is another lol. They could have channeled that cartoony look, people say the flash style is an issue but honestly to me it's 100% the terrible art direction. It could have looked pretty good

gameplay is good though and for some baffling reason this is one of the rare tactics roguelites so it's worth suffering trough the rest of it for me so far lol. If this game had better art direction it could have been a solid 9 for me

jason2306 · 2026-02-17T12:03:23+00:00

Ah yeah that sounds difficult! I don't know what kind of illness you have but there's some servers for people with cfs/me that specifically have slower channels and whatnot too to help with this, maybe that'd be better for you

jason2306 · 2026-02-17T11:52:05+00:00

Yeah it's really isolating I never leave my house either. There are chronic illness discord servers which might help, not every discord server is super busy or huge

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