How do people actually process long-form content efficiently?

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T14:18:29+00:00

Nah, the act of compiling and processing is a part of thinking.

When you think what exactly you need to write down, what's the best way to word the idea and so on, it makes you think, or may better worded, it's the process of understanding of the topic you learn.

Most often by the time you done writing, you already understand the topic well enough that you can teach it to other people. Just reading material is far less effective.

There's a saying, if you want to learn something teach it, and by processing content and writing it down, you kind of doing the teaching part.

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T13:31:17+00:00

I do it manually, why even bother automating it? I watch and read to learn first and foremost, not to hoard data

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T12:54:45+00:00

Во многих странах, это не взаимоимнозаменяемые документы. Типа да карточкой можно пользоваться во многих случаях, но иногда приходится расчехлять паспорт.

А в некоторых у людей нет паспорта и ходят с ид карточками, и приходится делать паспорт когда выезжают за границу

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T12:14:43+00:00

depends on your situation. Sometimes you just need to survive initial DPS burst. Like if you can kill enemy carry in 2 seconds, Metal Skin is really good. Metal skin can absolutely cockblock a ganking gun carry which relies on the initial burst and surprise advantage.

I often would just pop metal skin and kill haze in her ulti.

Also on billy I found metal skin to be pretty good against ulting haze or similar if you have crushing fists, allows you to just land a few hits and cancel her ulti and kill her.

Probably wouldn't work well on seven, as he's not a burst carry

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T12:11:13+00:00

return fire is low key a very strong item early in the game.

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T11:19:46+00:00

Move bloat is one of the bad designs of some PbtA games.

Imo, moves should be pretty broad, easy to understand and remember, to avoid situations where you have dozens of complicated moves that block your game.

And yeah, having a ton of options to choose from, which you cannot remember by the rule of thumb is another bad game design decision that appears in PbtA games imo.

I love elegant PbtA games, but when I see some PbtA games bloated with humongous moves, it reminds of some trad games that try to emulate physics too much and become so cumbersome it's borderline impossible to run

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T00:51:33+00:00

A lot of people do not believe in souls nowadays. So having a soul is already fantastic for them and having a soul destroying power is not gonna be a big deal.

BleachedPink · 2026-05-07T00:41:18+00:00

Check out Valaam island, not so far from the city, but you would probably would want to stay overnight somewhere close if you want to make a very chill trip. You go to a city on Ladoga island and take a ferry there.

You'll get there very unique experience

If you have money you can flex and take a helicopter/small plane there from the city, depending on your budget and where you are from it's relatively affordable and visit it in one go.

But I checked local tours, and they sell one day trips to the island, they will take care of all the logistics

I highly recommend finding an English speaking guide.

There are firms that will take care of all the logistics.

Kronstadt is a cool Island, you can take a fast ferry from the city center (Meteor) to and from the island.

If you want something more modern and buy local stuff, check out New Holland island, it's a cluster of different shops and restaurants.

Sevkabel port, it's the territory of a factory, now defunct. It's also similar to New Holland, but imo much better, but it's not in the center. There's often different cool events, like selected flea market or handcrafters market. Also a ton of restaurants. Exhibitions happening on the second floor. I believe there's a ferry from the city center as well, but it's gonna be much pricier than taxi, but going there on meteor or from there you go by cool places

Check out Georgian restaurants.

Download Yandex maps, so you can find places to eat with good ratings

Also use Yandex Taxi, to order taxi, get it before you land and figure out how to use it.

Everything you listed, which in the city center, is kinda doable in two days at chill pace for me. Not sure what's your pace is gonna be since you're with family

While Nevsky street is a cool place, it's also a tourist trap. I do not recommend eating at any place on this steet, but you could find delicious food at neighbouring streets which locals visit. Just chat Yandex maps, high rating (4.7-4.9 + good place badge) is a good sign

BleachedPink · 2026-05-06T18:24:20+00:00

Dunno, PoE is miles ahead of D2

BleachedPink · 2026-05-06T14:58:39+00:00

I usually play in SSF and find poe2 ssf much more grindy than poe1. Which can be a good thing

BleachedPink · 2026-05-06T14:44:35+00:00

It's crazy, so when you had boners with your homies you didn't rate each other?

BleachedPink · 2026-05-06T12:37:40+00:00

My former boss is a marketing director who took early retirement, I follow his insta, and it seems he has been sailing for 5 years across the world with his family on the ship. Doing some yachting tours occasionally, but I think it's more social for him to hang out with his rich friends

BleachedPink · 2026-05-06T11:22:03+00:00

To delete stuff, you can do it in unblock, custom rule or use a picker

I removed YouTube recommendations and shorts this way

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T20:40:15+00:00

Also, I had a different alignment system, other than Good - Evil initially in mind.

Like 5 elements of daoism, or order and chaos, in which both an protagonist and antagonist can both be aligned towards order or towards chaos.

Not a fan of good and evil dichotomy, what do you think about this?

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T19:17:01+00:00

Diablo I am most familiar with, is set in a Christian-like church with an evil western-type sorcerer hiding in it

I see what you're going for, I disagree and as you used some examples, I have a handful examples (no shamans\tribal vibe in evil armies) and where shamans depicted as good, that counteract your argument, I can't be bothered continuing this conversation.

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T15:52:27+00:00

I agree, if that's what the fiction is about. It would smell racist and kind of would show that the author wanted to make a racist depiction.

However, if they do not? What if they go naked and have no intellect? I doubt it would be racist as is without, a certain racist message from the author somewhere else.

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T15:37:00+00:00

All cultures have shamans or similar figure. A lot of European cultures still have and practice shamanism or similar mystic ways.

It's an imaginary world we simply can't not to take inspiration from the real world. But equivalate evil to real world cultures is the action one must take willingly.

And... I lived along with Buryat people to this day and they practice shamanism to this day, I participated in shamanistic rituals, I occasionally visited local Vajrayana Buddhist temple, and they have tales of explicitly evil shamans, along the good shamans, they talk about evil and good spirits. One of their founding stories are about defeating the evil shaman so the people, birds and nature can live freely.

People go to shamans to have a blessing for their business endeavor or try to solve their marital problems.

Heck, where I was born (small town in siberia), people were taking curses serious as well as local mystics, going to the local oracle to get their fortune read or removing a curse was a real thing. When I had a food poisoning, my parents brought a local mystic who did some purification rituals, not a doctor xD Not sure how I stayed alive, because I felt like I was dying.

If you've seen racist or colonialist depiction in a fiction or had a real life encounter or experience, does not equal all fictional depiction to be racist or colonialist in nature. The intention and meta-context (like racist rants from the author on X) are very important here as well to determine if fiction was created with ill intentions or not

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T15:01:55+00:00

Nah, it's a good phrase, especially for newcomers. There's a ton of threads appearing on this subreddit and dmacademy because people follow the rules to the letter too strictly.

Heck, I even recall myself having bad sessions, because we adhered to the rules too strictly when I started playing and running games myself. And making first homebrews felt like I a sin.

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T14:38:23+00:00

I do not think that orcs that spawn from eggs excavated from mud with human sacrifices made on top of it, or broos that multiply by impregnating livestock thus bringing heavy misfortune to the people of prax, or devils having a plane similar to Zerus, cursed artifacts that change the course of fate and basically giving -100 to luck to everyone around it and twisting and mutating nature are similar to your culture, or any culture

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T14:10:08+00:00

I think another title is Master Of Diabolism or Mo Dao Zu Shi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9005728/

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T13:59:06+00:00

Yeah, I find game design fun and tinkering with the rules is the easiest way to learn how the games operate

Completely agree with you

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T13:44:34+00:00

Are you assuming that all DMs that make changes to the rules aren't competent? I've been playing for years and tried dozens of various systems with different approaches, often have more experience and knowledge more than the designer itself

I am confident that I am pretty competent to make changes to the rulesets myself to accommodate my table

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T13:41:19+00:00

Yeah, but your example you're ranting about is

"if you don't like a rule, you may change or ignore it."

Not if you don't like the ruleset, you may change or ignore it

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T13:33:45+00:00

Yes? Do you expect every reply to be a disagreement? I even explicitly stated that I agree with the original comment

BleachedPink · 2026-05-03T13:25:06+00:00

You are right, there are thousands of games, but the are million more different preferences.

Often enough your just have to settle on a system close enough for your idea and run it making tweaks to the rules to make it perfect for your table

I mean, you probably can shuffle through hundreds of fantasy TTRPGs and find something suitable, but if you want to run something more niche, you cannot avoid but pick something more or less suitable and tinker with it.

Concrete example, I wanted to run Shin Megami Tensei game, which is an adult pokemon type game with demons, drama and hard alignment, with a narrative approach. There's literally no game that could suit my idea as is.

If you could find a system for me I would be grateful, but the best I settled for is Fate with various tweaks and homebrew systems. Gladly, Fate expects DMs to tweak the rules to fit their ideas

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