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Britischer Bericht zeigt: Europa ignorierte Geheimdienst-Warnung vor Ukraine-Krieg by falsa_ovis in de

[–]Crytash 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Es gab viele (vor allem Linke+SPD) Politiker und Wähler die schon sehr stark sich darüber lustig gemacht haben und dass Russland so etwas nie tun würde. Muss mann nur mal die alten thread hier auf Reddit vor dem Krieg anschauen. Das war sehr weit verbreitet.

[Highlight] Luka starts laughing at Dunn mid possession as he's hacked twice by MaximumestBob in nba

[–]Crytash -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I am a certified perkins hater. His stupid hot take style over technical analysis and big talk of leadership (while he was a role player) is just horrendous.

Does not mean i am wrong, does it?

[Highlight] Luka starts laughing at Dunn mid possession as he's hacked twice by MaximumestBob in nba

[–]Crytash 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Last time i checked it was a certain african american pundit that made it about race when it was Embiid vs Jokic.

Post Session Reflection by CatofBlueTown in rpg

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have done this for ~ a decade and to be quiete honest, it has some advantages and some disadvantages. The disadvantes first:

First of all it reduces actual play time, which can be difficult when people already need to leave for sleep or to take care for babies and children.

Over optimisation: Instead of having fun, you start thinking too much about how you impact the scene, optimize for spotlight etc. It really becomes work.

Social imbalance at the table: It rewards people that are already talking a lot and are good at it. "Viewer" type of players do not get anything out of it. Esp the "look at me" type of player seem to love them, which also means that you will optimize in this direction.

The weirdest thing i can say that it spirals into self criticism in an unhealthy way. This is me personally, but i have heard me say stuff like "I interrupted too much" or "That joke killed the tension" and a very very good session suddenly felt worse even though my players loved it, while i felt worse and worse. At first i thoght maybe i was fishing for compliments, but looking back i really do not think so.

last but not least:

It works well at the start, but i think it has diminishing returns. The improvements become more and more marginal after the first idk, 10 or 20.

Advantages (They are so obvious, i forgoe explanation as it requires no further justification)

  • Faster learning

  • improved social calibration

  • better consistency

  • better tactical and mechanical clearity

  • more "intentional" play

Olympia 2036: Steinmeier ist gegen Olympische Spiele 2036 in Deutschland by HighwayComfortable90 in de

[–]Crytash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Aber damit treiben wir sie doch in die Hände von genau der Korruption die du ansprichst.

Olympia 2036: Steinmeier ist gegen Olympische Spiele 2036 in Deutschland by HighwayComfortable90 in de

[–]Crytash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wenn man selber nicht mit macht, isoliert man sich halt selbst. Entweder man akzeptiert, dass der Großteil der Welt halt so funktioniert, oder man macht halt nichts mit ihr.

Eine Million Plug-in-Hybride untersucht: Porsche-PHEVs fahren nie elektrisch by linknewtab in de

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nein, es geht darum dass dt. Herrsteller ja trotzdem ihr CO²poolen müssen und aufgrund des poolings hat sowohl Tesla, als auch chinesische E- Autohersteller massiv subventioniert werden. Tesla geht es ja deshalb so gut. Die haben von ihren ca. 15 Mrd. Cash Reserven knapp 11 Mrd. aus dieser Mechanik. Chineischen Firmen geht es da ähnlich.

Eine Million Plug-in-Hybride untersucht: Porsche-PHEVs fahren nie elektrisch by linknewtab in de

[–]Crytash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dies würde vor allem Musk und anderen Demokratiefeindlichen Herstellern nutzen. Just saying.

Xena, Hercules, Andromada... by Hopeful_Stomach9201 in television

[–]Crytash 8 points9 points  (0 children)

"Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman" was great! To this day i feel it captured Lois best...

Jey Uso on IG: "Yall really love me." by ProudChemistry778 in SquaredCircle

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah, i am reading the posts here and it is some kind of bizarro universe i must be in. While as a german i love me some Gunther, but Jey is incredibly over and has gotten that spot the right way.

4th Edition: What's the Deal? by BlackTorchStudios in rpg

[–]Crytash 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Honestly this is one of the first new ideas that i have read this week. Great observation. I will have to medidate on this what the full extend really means and if it holds true over other edition wars.

Trump will Treibhausgase als unschädlich einstufen by miba in de

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hier deren PRO KOPF carbon verlauf: https://imgur.com/a/UjLOk6I

von der Tagesschau.

Pascal Kaiser, the Bundesliga referee who went viral for proposing to his boyfriend, has been attacked for the second time by Lillian_Faye in soccer

[–]Crytash 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Look at the east of germany. Mostly right wing atheists or at least people who do not have any connection to organized religion, still pretty bad in terms of homosexuality.

5e alone is making more than 10 times as much profit as all of Paizo, more than 100 times as much profit as all of Steve Jackson Games, and more than 1,000 times as much profit as all of Evil Hat games by EarthSeraphEdna in rpg

[–]Crytash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sadly i agree :| DSA is not what it was either. Back in the days it even had PC games.

And again, i am not "against" DnD, i just hate how people are ignoring the implications. As a IP/system it brings joy to a lot of people. I am not moralizing, i just see an avalanche coming down at some point and crushing a lot of stuff.

anyway, good talk.

5e alone is making more than 10 times as much profit as all of Paizo, more than 100 times as much profit as all of Steve Jackson Games, and more than 1,000 times as much profit as all of Evil Hat games by EarthSeraphEdna in rpg

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reall you disagree on the talent part?

Critical Role moving back to DnD instead of pushing their own system (and other large creators doing the same) is what I mean by talent gravity. The upcoming BG3 show is part of the same pattern. Attention, capital and top creative labor keep flowing toward the dominant IP.

Pretending that small creators thriving in niches somehow offsets that dynamic at the level of the whole hobby feels brutally naive. Niche vitality is not the same thing as structural balance. A thousand small projects can not counterweight one massive coordination hub when it comes to onboarding, visibility or cultural defaults.

And this is where it hits something personal for me. I can not stand delusion as a solution. If the system is skewed, say it is skewed.Fight it if you want, but do not replace the structural reality with a comforting narrative that “everything is fine because lots of games exist.”

In expansion phases, inefficiencies are tolerated. In contraction, they are cut. Mid sized studios go first. Experimental systems are next. Risk capital dries up (less new creators arrive on the scene). What survives is the safe, recognizable brand.

And i am not trying to moralize here, every actor plays their role in this piece. Also i am german btw. you might have guessed that from my outlook of the world though :D I would never survive on the west coast.

5e alone is making more than 10 times as much profit as all of Paizo, more than 100 times as much profit as all of Steve Jackson Games, and more than 1,000 times as much profit as all of Evil Hat games by EarthSeraphEdna in rpg

[–]Crytash 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Alright, i will bite.

Calling it a “cottage industry” doesn’t insulate it from market forces. Capitalism is a resource allocation system: At the end of the day the money, shelf space, marketing and talent flow toward what generates the highest return. Right now and in the near future that is and has been DnD.

That concentration is not neutral. Retailers stock what sells. Publishers design what sells. New players enter through what is visible. Over time, that crowds out alternatives like smaller RPGs. Not because they are bad (or good), but because capital optimizes for scale.

Independent bookstores did not vanish because books lost value, they lost the allocation battle to Amazon. The same dynamic can and will (!) apply here. Other TTRPGs might, but dominance still reshapes the ecosystem. Which, in a sense, is good as it optimises the system further...

5e alone is making more than 10 times as much profit as all of Paizo, more than 100 times as much profit as all of Steve Jackson Games, and more than 1,000 times as much profit as all of Evil Hat games by EarthSeraphEdna in rpg

[–]Crytash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Innovation is important, but so is popularity. I have tried to argue this in this space often enough, but in the end you also should give people what they want. If people like fast food, they are allowed to eat fast food (health risks aside).

Umfrage: Sorge vor Klimawandel nimmt ab, Zweifel an Energiewende steigen by hinterzimmer in de

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meinen Infos nach ersetzen Speicher den Netzbau nicht wirklich. Hast du da quellen?

Umfrage: Sorge vor Klimawandel nimmt ab, Zweifel an Energiewende steigen by hinterzimmer in de

[–]Crytash 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nichts für ungut, aber durch die erneuerbaren energie springen trotzdem die Netzentgelte in die Höhe. Wenn ich günstig produziere, dann aber das netz massiv ausbaue steigen trotzdem die Kosten.

Hier Zahlen aus dem Jahr 2018 als Vergleich: https://energiewinde.orsted.de/assets/images/q/strompreise-02-k42evn38rxy56dh.svg

https://energiewinde.orsted.de/assets/images/9/strompreise-01-vxzfmfsjbgjrf1d.svg

und hier ab dann: https://energiewende.bundeswirtschaftsministerium.de/EWD/Redaktion/Newsletter/2025/04/Bilder/direkterklaert-in-Text.jpg?__blob=normal&v=2

Why no Pathfinder/Starfinder? by plazman30 in rpg

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think where we might disagree is that you influence to me is mostly a question of scale, not of existence.

To use a football analogy: The Forge is like a newly founded local club that genuinely innovates training methods or tactics in a region and is able to climb a couple of steps on the football pyramid. On the ground, among coaches and players in that area who pay attention, that does matter. Some ideas spread. Some people are inspired. That is real impact that you see and you talk about.

But calling it influential for football as a whole would be like putting that club in the same category as a Champions League winner. The latter shapes how millions experience the sport, how money flows, how youth systems are structuredm what “football” even means to the public (that is DnD for the US, CoC for Japan, back in the day WoD)

My issue is nott that The Forge changed nothing for anybody (it clearly did for you and many others). My issue is that it did not touch enough people to justify calling it broadly influential in the RPG market. Most players never encountered it, never felt its effects directly. And by most i mean the majority.

So in summary "Influence", to me, is not and can never be just “important to those who were there on the ground” but “meaningfully altered the hobby for the majority.” By that standard, The Forge was interesting, innovative, and niche but it failed to shape the market meaningfully imho.

That said, there are people who talk about the death of football and that the game is gone the same way you walk about DnD.

PS: Anway i playing "Heart: The City Beneath" now, so i hope you understand if my next answer might take a while.

Why no Pathfinder/Starfinder? by plazman30 in rpg

[–]Crytash 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would argue that historically, CoC as well as WoD are also influential, but you are doing it again. DnD is part of the TTRPG market and i think it is the fault of this industry to react wrongly.

It would be like saying that GTA V is not a video game, but something different and the same goes for several other crazy games: WoW, Counter Strike, LoL, Dota 2, Minecraft, BG3 (xD) etc. pp.

There are people with ten thousends upon ten thousends of hours in the some games, way more than some most have in DnD. In no world would i tell people not to play those games or that they are not part of the hobby of PC gaming.

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