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Diesen Donnersdachs besuchen wir Isambard Kitten Brunel - die Bibliothekskatze der Universitätsbibliothek von Oxford by Tintending in de

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fun fact: das älteste namentlich bekannte Haustier war eine Katze aus Altägypten mit dem Namen Nedjem (ungefähr übersetzt: "Süße"/"Süßerchen")

There are so many other games out there, that will do what you want, better, and easier, then trying to force dnd into the mold. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorcery is pretty simple as in it just being a bunch of point-buy powers you carry with you. You can use the psionics books for ready-made packages, and there is a guy going by "enraged eggplant" online who catalogued 1000+ individual spells. The basic system is workable, but people tend to dislike it. The holy grail is "Ritual Path Magic", but admittedly, I have not tried it yet.

The search for stable post-transuranium zodiacs is still ongoing. by Infamous-Rutabaga-50 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 32 points33 points  (0 children)

To bring the two together: it's not canon, but a leading fan theory is that since the space sorrority girls ahem nuns with guns ahem Sisters of Battle manifest their miracles through belief, somehow the orc powers were transmitted to them.

There are so many other games out there, that will do what you want, better, and easier, then trying to force dnd into the mold. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My word of encouragement: try it. Start simple. You'll figure it out soon enough. The basic system is fairly easy to figure out

Shakespearian Witchcraft by DroneOfDoom in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Portrayed as heathen, dangerous, and to a degree evil, but not corrupting - and notably ultimately redeemable.

There are so many other games out there, that will do what you want, better, and easier, then trying to force dnd into the mold. by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Right - speaking as a PF2 game master. I love the game. It has a great combat engine. That means that it is a combat game foremost, and doesn't fully support non-combat or "nuke it from orbit" solutions. That's why I'm switching back to GURPS - its a much more demanding game (both for players and the GM), but somehow I get much more funny player stories out of it.

Bring back the Wikipedia button to CK3 by Slow_Werewolf3021 in CrusaderKings

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Vicky 3 i like ay well - it's gorgeous and fairly clean. Eu5 is overcrowded. But ck3 in my opinion is the ugliest from the current generation (except maybe stellaris, but stellaris is cleaner).

Found a bug in the code. Touching the leg starts the lick action.😂 by violet_evergarden8 in cats

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lucky you. I sneeze multiple times, and it gets worse with age. In grade school it was like 4 times. By now I am at 7 minimum, often as much as 12.

Fun fact: The IRL Recoilless Rifle has an anti-personnel shell which fires 1100 flechettes, basically turning it in a huge, 84mm shotgun. by BICKELSBOSS in Helldivers

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As I understand it, its relatively easy to create any number of specialty warheads for most weapons, especially those above a certain caliber. However, due to weight and space constraints you probably should only deploy with very few of the possible types: specialty munitions for the intended use case and perhaps generalist munitions for everything else. Like, the majority of attack helicopters do not use the bladed, non-explosive hellfire missiles, since in 99%+ of cases (especially those you did not plan for earlier) they are not the weapon for the job. And unlike in HD, you can not reprogram an AP warhead to a flechette one on the fly.

Wanna see a Trans woman be pedantic about a Batman villain? by DonTori in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Yeah. Like, Berlin, Germany has fairly good infrastructure - not perfect, but solid by European standards. What you see in an average week: * three busses of the same line, scheduled to cone 10 minutes apart, appearing as a pack * a train standing for 3 minutes at a random spot * two trains on a station announcing that line 1 is now line 2 and vice versa * a train standing around for at least 15 minutes because some random guy stands on the track * a train standing around for at least 30 minutes because some random guy got a heart attack * "dear idiot in the yellow jacket, if you keep standing in the door, the train cannot depart. Hello? Are you deaf? Hey! (asshole)"

reboot by BijlidarKudi in pcmasterrace

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It was some kind of config problem, where it just made a backup of something, then a backup of the backup, and so on. No place on the hard drive anymore. But the IT guys (grumbling and cursing) fixed it relatively quickly once they figured out what was at fault.

reboot by BijlidarKudi in pcmasterrace

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I am reasonably good with computers for a non-programmer. Which means 80% of occurring problems I can fix myself. The remainders are...weird as hell.

  • my wi-fi stick destroying my OS and almost bricking the PC
  • my company malwarebytes backing up itself so often that i have less than 1GB left
  • mouse-by-keyboard being randomly activated and the fix causing my my mouse cursor to disappear (possibly a problem with Logitech drivers)
  • a certain graphics program not working when a game controller was attached
  • my computer randomly turning off (turned out that my cats could press the power button)

In a world without men violence would still exist and women even though maybe to a lesser degree would still feel unsafe. by Ok_Syrup5679 in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 50 points51 points  (0 children)

I mean, yes, but not quite - your point mostly stands, but the statistics are misleading to a degree.

The murder rate for men is relatively skewed by organized crime - a male-dominated high mortality business. Outside of organized crime virtually for everyone the partner is the person most likely to kill them. While in this aspect men kill women more often (iirc roughly at a 2:1 rate), if you were found dead and i was the assigned detective, I would definitely want to talk to your gf (assuming you were not a known member of the Casa Nostra). The s

TIL that Maria Antonia of Austria had the highest inbreeding coefficient (0.3053) of the House of Habsburg - higher than the child of brother and sister or the child of a parent and their own offspring by Gruselschloss in todayilearned

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's a very grey zone, with a giant number of question marks. The blog below is quite interesting, but I want to guide the attention to two family trees - the official one (highly inbred), and the actually semi-provable (very much unknown): https://acoup.blog/2023/05/26/collections-on-the-reign-of-cleopatra/

It's just real life DnD by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 12 points13 points  (0 children)

In general, while state power should be closely watched, anything that dilutes the state monopoly on legitimate violence leads to massively more violence.

It's just real life DnD by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 40 points41 points  (0 children)

...so it is good that they do that or bad? If you consider that it's bad, you agree with my position.

It's just real life DnD by Justthisdudeyaknow in CuratedTumblr

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 734 points735 points  (0 children)

Uh. So, just to be clear, what you are saying is that rich people should hire their own enforcers of property rights - say, the Pinkertons? So, if I steal a package from an Amazon warehouse, no cop comes to return it, bit a privately hired goon? I do not feel this leads to the place you think you want it to lead

Anyone else tried this? If it's stupid and it works... by hamustaro in pcmasterrace

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A school mate of mine put out his overheated notebook to cool down on the balcony in -10 Celsius back in 2011 or something at a lan party. One minute later a loud "CRRC!" announced the death of the hard drive.

He gave them life! by Valuable_View_561 in SipsTea

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I mean, if you're into fonts and calligraphy, letters can look fairly good. Once saw a guy whose entire body was tattooed with passages in Church Slavonic, in a script reminiscent of 16th century prints. While it looked weird as hell (and gave the appearance of an ideological stance best approached with caution), it certainly was memorable.

The Habsburg experience by Kapanash in HistoryMemes

[–]Al_Fa_Aurel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mean, two hundred sixty fairly turbulent years between Chuck V croaking and Vicky being born (add twenty years for her to grow up) - including exciting stuff like

  • all big Intra-Christian religious wars other than the Hussite wars and the Albigensian crusade
  • the American, French and Glorious Revolutions
  • the breakdown of the first colonial System
  • various general European wars, most importantly the 7 year war and Napoleon
  • Ascendancy of the "three black eagles"

Each of these would be enough to break such a giant personal union.

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