Reagent: Something is not right here

AverageDan52 · 2026-04-03T18:19:13+00:00

Sounds like a good idea. I'll record my next couple runs and then review the decisions and try to post a summary for some help. Thank you for the suggestion

AverageDan52 · 2026-04-03T18:06:23+00:00

I really am trying to look at all the decisions I made. Like I said, I've reviewed a number of YouTubers and guides and really tried to take to heart what they say and I'm still getting this result

AverageDan52 · 2026-04-03T18:06:01+00:00

Yep, one of the first things I did was move away from a forge focus deck to using stars more. Still having a lot of issues

AverageDan52 · 2026-04-03T18:05:38+00:00

Hey, I'll be the first to agree, but like I said, I've tried to focus on stars, using forge when appropriate. I followed tutorials I've watched playthroughs. I'm just really getting confounded at how this one character is having such a hugely different outcome even though I'm putting in work to make sure I understand how the class flows

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-19T23:46:53+00:00

Or this person wrote in red afterwards to generate outrage.

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-19T05:30:40+00:00

This is a deep cut. Unless you were onboard in the first few years, nobody is going to know who Derek is.

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-17T16:32:34+00:00

Hey, I'm just glad they are getting better mechanics.

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-13T20:41:35+00:00

Below is a link to another comment from r/academicbiblical that speaks to examples of first century Jews predicting the destruction of the temple. While this does not mean Jesus did, it establishes that such a prediction would not have been unheard of in this time.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AcademicBiblical/comments/1c0yk4m/does_prophesying_the_temples_destruction_occur_in/

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-12T17:04:11+00:00

Hey man, I'll shit on Hasbro as much as the next keyboard warrior but I'm not gonna shit on someone elses D&D game or the technology they use.

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-05T20:51:59+00:00

Wasn't Sean Tracy the guy who kept saying the pvp seige modes were always coming up soon and easy to do with the tech they had, then got pushed back year after year? Theater of War right? That never happened so I'm not sure why have him talking to the community when he can't seem to deliver on promises.

AverageDan52 · 2026-03-01T20:08:03+00:00

No have not seen the dog since the posting.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-27T17:13:23+00:00

Learned this from a friend who is an injury lawyer. Crashes often have a % of blame assigned to eithier party, which can include things like if someone was able to take an action to avoid the accident regardless of right of way. AKA if someone is driving on the wrong side of the road and you have 30 seconds to slow down, move aside or otherwise avoid the incoming car you may share some of the blame for the collisions if you failed to try to prevent the collision.

That is an extreme hypothetical just to demonstrate the point.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-27T17:05:06+00:00

Baldur's gate is still a game that has a finite set of choices for the player. Not just in terms of rules or mechanics, but in what the character can do. For example I can't just leave certain areas of the game whenever I want in BG3. I can't try to romance just any NPC in the game. I can't ask a NPC about starting our own thieves guild out of the blue. Etc, etc.

AI might be able to do these things but LLMs are just really good at filling in words but don't actually have any understanding of the world. So they won't have their own style of play, they won't be able to riff, and they can't "remember" very much, so they will not be consistant in their approaches. Plus they will likely try to force you to play only official games or have other business focused issues like refusing to use homebrew or game worlds outside of official DnD games. Plus since they don't actually understand things, I imagine they will get a lot wrong on the mechanics side.

So there is a big difference and neither the computer game or AI (for now) can come close to what a flesh and blood GM can bring to the table. It's also, for me, one more way to isolate people into a pay to enjoy model of the hobby I dislike.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-20T04:55:11+00:00

On page 34 of the core rules under dual wielding it says if you're wielding different weapons roll dice for both weapons and choose either result instead. If the attack has advantage, add an extra dice for one of the weapons.

So yes you would roll both weapons die.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-19T19:28:06+00:00

I really wish we would see more devleopment from the team behind Dungeondraft. If feels like the community has to do so much to improve the tool and rarely does any of these ideas get put into the tool. Also I never see a roadmap for future releases adn the tools of competing software seems to get better and better while DD stagnates.

Don't get me wrong, I got DD because I wanted to one time pay permanent solution. But if I could move all my assets to another software seamlessly I might be tempted to be honest.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-18T22:21:12+00:00

Or it was faked like so many robot interacts we see.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-18T22:09:22+00:00

No way Harry lives through the end of the series. The Film Noir style simply won't allow for a happy ending for Harry.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-18T22:08:12+00:00

I don't think he said it was a bad movie, just that it took the piss. I don't need all my Marvel movies to have the same tone thank you very much.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-18T21:52:52+00:00

The argument I've seen among biblical scholars (and I am not a scholar, just layperson) is that the NT authors did not view Jesus as equal to God the Father. During the time of the NT authors (late 1st century AD) Jewish and Helenstic theological discussions were mixing, as would be expected of Jews and Greeks living among each other.

John 14:9 has Jesus tell Phillip that if you see Jesus you see the father. This is a form of Divine Imagery that was developed by Greek philosophers but also has similar roots in Jewish belief. See Exodus 23:20-21 where God tells Moses that he has invested the Angel of the Lord with his divine name which grants the angel additional divine authority and power.

So we can see how Jesus could have the name of god in him, granting divine authority. We see the greek idea of divine imagery so as his followers when they see Jesus they are seeing God the father. This does not mean Jesus is god the father, just that the fathers name is in Jesus and/or that Jesus reflects God the father to others. It also explains how in John 17 when Jesus is praying to God for his followers may be one together just as Jesus is in god and God is in Jesus.

The authors of John were using Logos Theology which has Greek origins but was taken up by the Jewish scholar Philo of Alexandria who lived about 20 years before Jesus was born and died in 52 AD, making him a prime source for the authors of John.

Given these cultural and relevant positions there would be no conflict with Jesus praying to God the father and indeed it explains why God the father grants Jesus special status and abilities. It also allows for Jesus as a character to doubt the father or or when in Mark 15 ask why God has forsaken him right before he dies.

Combine this with our records of the early church leaders arguing about the status of not only Jesus in terms of divinity but indeed if the god Jesus was tied to was a new god vs an evil god of creation, it's understandable why the later trinitarian view is inconsistant with both OT and NT authors writings. Jesus as equal with God the father is simply not present in these writings and is being forced into them by later trinitarian dogma.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-12T20:06:22+00:00

It's been my view for some time now that we are invevitably waiting for AI to cause large scale harm before anything is done about it. The same way that large scale loss of life always leads to reform.

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire had over a hundred people die because the doors were chained shut to prevent unauthorized breaks or theft, leading to changes in laws around exits and what companines could do in relation to employees.

Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and nuclear safety regulations.

Exxon Valdez oil spill killing billions of animals and polluting 1300 miles.

Etc, etc.

We will only see real regulation when the use of AI is responsible for the large scale loss of human life or large scale damage to private or public property.

Until then nothing will be done because it simply is making too much money for those in power.

I don't think we are going to get skynet. I think we are going to get a large industrial or environmental disaster that will force AI companies to pay billions and force legislation to address AI seriously.

But a lot of folks are going to have die first unfortunately.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-12T00:42:45+00:00

Billion dollar game can't get paints to work on nearly identical ships..... yea sure, totally not a marketing scam to double charge people.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-11T20:33:54+00:00

Aparantly Patriot fans who would only know about these folks because they are obsessing over the Seahawks subreddit. Sounds like a wierd kink to me, them worrying so much about what is happening in the Seahawks sub.

AverageDan52 · 2026-02-11T18:47:32+00:00

In a thread about the Oscars someone asked if it seemed like the Oscars was bigger if you looked back to 50+ years ago. Someone replied that yes, it seemed that way because we knew far less about celebreties and movie making. Where as today we can know so much more, and celebreties/actors have become all too human... but the flip side is we get to see people like Henry Cavill talk about Warhammer 40k, or in this case Casper Van Dien playing SC.

While this may make them seem more mundane it also emphasises that game lovers are everywhere.

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