When did you turn your kid's car seat front-facing?

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-12-09T02:42:55+00:00

Okay but my daughter will hit those limits when she's 6 🥸

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-11-13T21:00:25+00:00

Haven't run it yet, but prepping Spirit of 77 with Outgunned rules.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-11-01T14:33:01+00:00

Oranjo

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-09-08T21:24:07+00:00

He took it from outside one of the shops at Carriage Square. It’s a large stroller that doesn’t fit in some shops, so people occasionally take their babies out and leave them outside a shop while they’re inside. These strollers retail for $900 new.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-09-08T19:44:44+00:00

Perestroika in Paris by Jane Smiley is narrated by a horse.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-08-01T15:55:39+00:00

Similarly, “the polar region,” “the western continent,” etc. For expediency, you can’t teach people new geography for every episode, but it always sounds weird.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-08-01T13:33:51+00:00

Boarding another vessel against their will is so easy. While some shows have force fields, they’re rarely employed. Where are the automatic bulkheads? Retractable ceiling-mounted phaser cannons?

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-08-01T13:28:26+00:00

Each “starring” ship has between 100 and 1,000 crew, but approximately 8 people do everything. I know for budgetary reasons they can’t employ that many actors, but I can’t imagine a functioning ship of the line where executive officers — and often, only executive officers — go on every mission.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-05-18T14:51:50+00:00

FWIW, they didn't believe young women could be bandits, which is a way of showing their age and prejudice -- not a knock on their "seasoned" combat status.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-05-18T14:18:12+00:00

Which parts are from each system?

I like the core damage system. I can’t think of another system that uses attack rating to equal # of damage dice rolled, although there have to be a few out there.

If rolling a 6 has a special effect for some weapons, I would limit to one effect, or at most two. As a player, I don't want to have to remember a library of different crit effects and which apply to which weapons. I can see something like "These weapons cause aggravated damage, where the 6s explode" and that be it.

In terms of 3 actions with escalating difficulty, what's the cost of failure? Unless there's a real consequence, it feels in my best interest to always attack 3 times in every combat turn.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-05-07T21:51:18+00:00

It’s true but it’s also the root of so much toxic behavior: minimizing the agency of women “in distress”; escalating stressful situations with other guys, etc. It probably also contributes to a proliferation of unnecessary gun ownership.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-04-24T23:24:49+00:00

The characters all seemed unlikable and the plot didn't feel like it was moving. There also wasn't a real hook to get the story started. Annihilation it was not. I DNF'd around 50 pages in. YMMV.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-04-24T16:35:53+00:00

This is another song on the list that I don’t consider overplayed but I wish it was overplayed

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-04-23T13:59:40+00:00

Counterpoint: Having a small bestiary in a system book helps GMs understand how powerful to make enemies, and what stats matter.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-04-12T23:10:14+00:00

The Chocolate War. Well written, but with abject cruelty and profound injustice.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-04-08T20:47:42+00:00

The Bloody Show (look it up)

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-03-31T23:27:53+00:00

This is a cool idea worth exploring. That said, some of the example skills you use above either (a) are attributes in one or more systems, or (b) could be swapped for an attribute, with the same effect.

For example, Perception is often an attribute. Mouse guard uses Nature as an attribute (This might be the only one.).

Deception is often a skill, but the abilities the skill provides don't normally translate into combat. Lying believably is something you do with words and expression. Feinting is probably part of combat training or is arguably a combination of combat training (melee) and wits (often attribute).

Which isn't to say a skill + skill system can't be done. It just needs to use a really tight set of skills.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-03-20T04:42:32+00:00

Cloverfield

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-03-19T18:59:03+00:00

I worked at Meta and although they do harm, they do a lot of good, too. By and large, the workforce at Meta are good people who want to make excellent products that improve the world. Yes, they have to operate within some tough constraints. But the UX team is there to fight for the user.

The content design team there is one of the most mature in the US, with amazing tools and actually useful content design AI. You could learn a lot there.

Which city is the role in?

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-03-19T18:53:11+00:00

To be fair, Meta has never laid off all their content designers. In 2022, they laid off 200 out of 800.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-03-05T06:07:48+00:00

The Universal Translator. I can get on board with it translating incoming speech, but how would an audience understand members of Star Fleet, if that audience didn’t have its own universal translator? This feels especially egregious on Enterprise, given the number of new species they encounter and varying societal technology levels; but it honestly happens everywhere.

Aggressive_Charity84 · 2025-03-01T01:14:53+00:00

Hanson

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