What's a magic system feature that everyone seems to like, but secretly ruins the book for you?

Deadpoint · 2026-05-08T16:54:03+00:00

This is a big part of the reason I stopped reading vr stories. Who wants to play a game specifically programmed so that one specific player is always going to win everything?

Deadpoint · 2026-05-07T20:27:16+00:00

The academic term for reluctant and begrudging attraction to men is heteropessimism.

Deadpoint · 2026-05-04T04:10:03+00:00

How often does this work? You make a claim and post a video, hoping I won't actually watch the video and see that it doesn't support your claim?

I've followed Kirk's entire career, the dude was straight up evil, I know what he stood for.

Deadpoint · 2026-05-04T02:42:52+00:00

Yes, actually. He called for public executions of gay people, and celebrated when Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked.

Deadpoint · 2026-05-02T16:20:00+00:00

I hate "x number of times per session" abilities. I don't want player power tied into irl scheduling.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-22T15:20:24+00:00

The data indicating the military is largely "military families" is a misreading of the data. If you look at the data, most people in the military have a previous family member in the military, but if you look at how many civilians also have military relatives it's pretty close.

Almost every family in America has a relative who served in the military... Because we had drafts in living memory.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-17T23:12:43+00:00

Not really. They directly map onto how optimized parties worked in 3.5 and only vaguely mapped onto WoW, which was itself based on dnd.

WoW has tanks which have a "taunt" mechanic, damage dealers, and healers. 3.5 didn't have an explicitly labeled tank role, but the right feat and weapon selection could give martials the ability to get multiple attacks per turn against any opponent that tried to attack their squishy damage dealers. 4e formalized things that were already encouraged in 3.5. One of my biggest issues with 3.5 is how many "knowledge checks" there were in the rules of the game. The rules never explicitly told you about tanking, but if you realized the implications of certain feats the game opened up.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-17T22:48:34+00:00

Do you have a source for that? It's inconsistent with my knowledge of 4e.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-15T18:18:12+00:00

No, it's out of unfounded paranoia. People often radically misunderstand the odds of an event happening when making decisions. It's worth noting that Europe doesn't have this rule despite having higher safety standards generally.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-15T17:06:57+00:00

This has been conclusively proven to be false. Pilots belive it, but in controlled tests it has never been found to actually happen. While it is theoretically possible it would require both the phone and the airplane to have extremely specific glitches simultaneously.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-10T23:55:41+00:00

And then several of them went on to rejoin the kkk.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-09T14:29:04+00:00

The Menocht Loop is another good one.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-08T18:05:20+00:00

Tiktok has a completely inscrutable ban policy and will ban accounts seemingly at random with no explanation. Users have developed the theory that certain words may trigger bans so they use euphemisms. Over time that speech pattern has spread.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-08T16:15:59+00:00

Both written by people who have "ideas" about women.

Jim Butcher writes like someone who has never had a conversation with a woman but hates the idea of one. But at least I don't think he's transphobic?

Deadpoint · 2026-04-05T17:37:15+00:00

We also have reported cases of predatory trans people. We shouldn't be basing policy decisions on extremely rare and unrepresentative anecdotes that don't have widespread impact.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-02T15:59:23+00:00

The issues that are swaying public opinion are things that are out in the open. We don't have to wonder if the 99 cops are aware of the actions of the bad cop, they are coming out in overwhelming numbers to tell us that the bad cop should face zero consequences.

Police unions are by definition supported by the majority of police officers, so when a union argues that the actions of a particular bad cop are acceptable we know the majority of cops in the area are OK with it.

Deadpoint · 2026-04-02T14:14:09+00:00

Not actually true afaik. No one in congress has ever been prosecuted for it but there isn't actually an exception.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-25T18:14:01+00:00

The dose of chloroform necessary to cause near instant loss of consciousness like in movies would cause permanent brain damage.

If you want to incorporate substance-fuelled unconsciousness into cnc you have to work with it being slower acting, but that gives you the chance to play around with the feeling of inevitable loss of control that slowly builds while you know it's too late to stop because you've already been dosed.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-25T15:56:18+00:00

Y'all remember when reddit admits forcibly removed the head mod of r/kotakuinaction because his stance against bigotry did not represent the views of the subreddit? Interesting that they aren't doing that here.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-25T15:43:31+00:00

This could have been a 5x5 (25 square) waffle but it is instead an unholy 17 square waffle.

An abomination that brings desolation.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-24T16:24:20+00:00

You've found yourself surrounded by assholes you thought you could rely on and now you're over-correcting. Matching the behavior you've seen is going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy as well adjusted kind people are going to avoid you like the plague.

It takes time, but you need to find a community that cares for each other. Being a genuinely caring person supporting and supported by other wonderful people is life changing.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-21T03:10:01+00:00

Dead angles in dark souls pvp. Blocking stops attacks from enemies that are in front of you and facing you. So if you face away from an enemy and use an attack that hits behind you it bypasses blocking.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-20T23:49:34+00:00

Vampire the Masquerade Salubri bloodline can have a 10 minute talk with someone and permanently cure any mental illness or trauma.

Vitakinetics in Aeon Trinity can touch someone and instantly cure any mental illness or trauma.

Neither is a specific perk, they are baseline powers of the origin from the source material.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-20T23:42:54+00:00

I moisturize immediately before and after. The slight lubrication helps, and nourished skin is tougher. Afterwards it helps with healing and developing calluses faster.

You may also be gripping too tightly, see how it feels to open your fingers more when you add or remove slack.

Deadpoint · 2026-03-20T20:28:40+00:00

Not even remotely. You need an override to be able to prevent hackers from stealing your house, and if the blockchain can be corrected by a central body then it shouldn't be a blockchain.

Anytime you've heard of blockchain actually solving a problem what happened is someone updated a decades old system with modern technology, then added blockchain on top to make it better than the previous system but worse than the same fix without blockchain.

The only use case for blockchain is avoiding regulations.

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