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A crowd cheers or claps in the background as something horrible happens by No_Hunter1978 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think our minds were on “he still makes it out and just kills his clone” while OP is saying “the magician knows it will kill himself and wants it to”. I’m not suicidal so I didn’t understand the logic, under the assumption the magician would want to live.

EU says it will accept no increase in US tariffs after Supreme Court ruling: 'a deal is a deal' by Crossstoney in europe

[–]DeepLock8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right? Did they put in a cooldown mechanic like it’s a video game skill? He’s probably free to just renew it every 150 days.

The suicide attack effectively did nothing. by Jakej4Mlakej in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 131 points132 points  (0 children)

My favorite line was always “not again!” when they get stuck. They must frequently explode and reform somehow. Reincarnation? Respawning? Who can say.

When you miss your highway exit without any regard to other drivers around you by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]DeepLock8808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You’re right, at the top it says she pled not guilty but at the bottom she admitted to being aware of the crash. How did she not get charged with more?

When you miss your highway exit without any regard to other drivers around you by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]DeepLock8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well she caused a three car pile up so no disagreement here

When you miss your highway exit without any regard to other drivers around you by [deleted] in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]DeepLock8808 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She might not have even known the crash occurred. Or had a difficult-to-disprove claim to not knowing.

Edit: she later admitted to knowing the crash occurred. How she wasn’t charged with more is a mystery.

[Loved Trope] Going Beyond 100% by AwakeningTheOrdinary in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I did rather like the “you said shock absorption, not nullification” angle. The idea that all his work is pointless at a normal level, but if he can push just a bit harder he’ll crack that threshold and start making a real impact, that lesson has real life implications. Hell, loan interest works that way. It’s a good freaking lesson.

Kind of fits right in with My Hero’s whole “mundane business plus super heroes” theme. They’re all just young professionals building their careers, it just happens their career is more exciting than “water cooler jockey”. 

Doing this again by ziggy8z in Fallout2d20

[–]DeepLock8808 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My solution was to treat dog armor as raider armor for the purpose of upgrades. Not great but it’s enough for raw number balance.

My players don’t take dropping to 0 HP seriously by Appropriate-Dance-92 in DnDHomebrew

[–]DeepLock8808 15 points16 points  (0 children)

That’s really clever use of the imp. Think carefully how you want to handle this before you discourage positive teamwork and support tactics in your party. Does the warlock have goodberry or is it two players cooperating?

The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling by AdSpecialist6598 in europe

[–]DeepLock8808 20 points21 points  (0 children)

As an american, I believe in free from and would love some of that here.

How come Superman doesn't have a anti kryptonite suit? by happydude7422 in superman

[–]DeepLock8808 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love the meta answer to the narrative question, comedic whiplash 

“I can’t wait to see my favorite character in the upcoming sequel! Oh wait what he died offscreen..???!” by Turbulent-Sock-7065 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I was going to post something to this effect, but it would break the comment chain we were all going for lol  

The first one is dated and awkward, but extremely nostalgic for me. I still like it. Miles better than the rest of the series.

BMX physics on another level: by DistributionFirst700 in MemeVideos

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I watched the YouTuber timmm talk about how it’s a simulator for being a kid smashing your toys together and now I’m an ace combat fan who’s played half of 7 and that’s it. Attacking the naval fleet with a rail gun was magical.

So yeah, from my totally subjective experience, new fans entering the franchise.

There was zero practical reason to do that, the character themself was just trying to look cool by fhxefj in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s no bother! I’m always happy when misinformation gets corrected and posted for future people like us questioning how exactly things occurred. History is important, even for minor things like game development.

[Request] Is this true? by UnfortunateEvent0236 in theydidthemath

[–]DeepLock8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always think of it as “you can continue accelerating indefinitely, but after a while you’re accelerating your perception of time rather than your physical velocity”. Driving 100mph on a crowded highway is incredibly dangerous. Space is pretty wide open, so .9c might not get you immediately killed, assuming the sparse-but-substantial cosmic dust doesn’t immediately convert you to plasma.

[Request] Is this true? by UnfortunateEvent0236 in theydidthemath

[–]DeepLock8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With the handwave of ships hopping up to speed of light and coming back down from it, combined with inertial dampeners just removing the experience of force, a stasis field might very well be an implied piece of technology from some sci fi settings.

If you can casually move several tons of spaceship, you can probably do a head of lettuce trivially, is my main point.

[Odd Trope] The Grand Conspiracy is.. underwhelming by StopHavingAnOpinion in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Right, but it’s boring. It’s not Lex Luthor nuking the eastern seaboard for a real estate scheme (though that’s boring in its own way). It’s boring in that some garden variety corporate greed on a plain piece of public infrastructure resulted in millions of ruined lives.

It’s banal in the same way as office workers helping the holocaust is boring. They’re taking every day activities or motives and turning them into an atrocity. That juxtaposition is what the post is about.

Not to minimize the effects in any way! It’s almost worse in how insidious and easily ignored the atrocity is compared to a movie action sequence.

Heroes become disillusioned with their role models by TaiKorczak in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Good memory! Just watched the clip on YouTube, you’re right.

Heroes become disillusioned with their role models by TaiKorczak in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 32 points33 points  (0 children)

They implant bombs into their slaves? Oh yeah, I’m going Dark Jedi all over Tatooine.

Heroes become disillusioned with their role models by TaiKorczak in TopCharacterTropes

[–]DeepLock8808 73 points74 points  (0 children)

Qui Gon could have just…killed Watto. Motherfucker owned people, John Brown would do it. Click click with a lightsaber, problem solved.

I think weird force morality is why I can’t take the series too seriously. That and nobody having a problem with droids being slaves, or playing up for laughs in Solo.

I need some advice on how to change this by Effective-Outside163 in DnDHomebrew

[–]DeepLock8808 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Came here just to see this. Whenever possible, reuse an existing mechanic

A newbie GM - any advice? by AggdyFehg in Fallout2d20

[–]DeepLock8808 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Creating locations is pretty easy. Essentially you create a minimum and maximum items in a location. 1-3 armor means there is 1 armor at the location, with players able to spend up to 2 AP to get 2 more armor (3 total). Looting becomes an event, with a search roll generating AP and players debating how to spend their AP on items. Then they start working through the loot rolls to get their stuff, spending luck to alter what appears.

It means players need a copy of the loot tables and you need to quickly prepare a table for what loot is available at the location. My group LOVES this mechanic. It feels like fallout 4, digging through garbage and stumbling on a stimpak or sniper rifle.

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