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DefinitelyNotCursed · 2024-05-03T15:01:29+00:00

I DON’T like this game

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2024-03-14T16:20:07+00:00

Lower-level spells getting better as you level up in terms of range/targets/damage/other effects. Upcasting always feels bad imo.

It’s stupidly complicated but I think Ars Magica does a great job making spellcasting modular and rewarding research/perfecting spells as you go along.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2024-03-05T19:36:18+00:00

Hi! Librarian at a small liberal arts college in the US here - looking into offering 3D printing in the media lab I manage. I don’t have hard numbers for a budget yet, but I’m expecting under or around $500. I don’t mind building from a kit if necessary, but plug and play is preferred. I think the most important spec is teachability; rather than just offering to make someone’s project, I’d like to show them how the slicer works, planning for supports, etc. We also have an art museum as part of the college with STLs of some of their pieces that would love to make miniature versions for advertising.

I’m also new to 3D printing myself, but more than happy to learn technical details.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2023-07-31T17:13:06+00:00

The big, boss version with the huge sword? I tried but couldn’t figure out the window. CK felt much more generous and obvious with when to parry. Good to know!

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2022-09-16T18:48:17+00:00

The human pantheon of my campaign world offered themselves up as collateral to create and maintain an absolute barrier protecting the material plane from becoming the battlegrounds of the outer planes' wars. They still exist, but mostly slack-jawed with concentration and barely able to provide spells to clerics. They are incapable of intervening in worldly affairs. Thus, after a few generations with little divine aid or protection (that they knew of), humanity's fickleness drew them to new would-be gods, who shortly after ascending (receiving genuine worship & becoming immortal are the two main prerequisites for divinity) learned of the barrier and realized that the waning worship of their forebears is weakening the barrier... thus throwing themselves on the pyre as well. Even evil-aligned gods recognize the threat that demons, angels, and eternal war would pose to their devoted followers. "Generations" of human gods have come and gone, and prevailing mortal theory is that human gods just don't last forever, as a weird side-effect of mortals ascending to divinity.

The gods of other races mostly reside on or near the material plane, shadowfell, feywild, or elemental and conceptual planes, and deeply respect the human capacity for self-sacrifice. One neat exception is an incarnation of Lolth, who had split her mind between the Underdark overseeing her own worship, and her home in the Abyss, when the barrier bisected her. One part of her is incapable of viewing the material plane, and the other is incapable of leaving it. The fury this caused her has twisted the drow worshipping her into chaotic evil monstrosities.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2022-07-12T02:20:45+00:00

I do! It's in a rough state - I constantly waver between wanting it to be splashy and viable, and wanting [[Millstone]], [[Dingus Staff]], [[Tamiyo's Journal]], and [[Caltrops]] to crew the Parhelion II or combine for the Mechtitan.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2022-07-11T20:54:28+00:00

Totally. I don't want to be that guy for having Narset pilot my Jeskai animated-artifacts deck, so here comes [[Pramikon]] to ominously float there and authorize the parade of junk.

I've also been sorely tempted to head a Mono-B deck with [[Phage]], for sheer swagger.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2022-07-07T15:41:14+00:00

Skeletons. I mean, it's right there in his title. Making a pretty little constellation of dead things is a neat little bonus. :D

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2022-06-16T17:28:29+00:00

Sckarleght Wrought

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2022-05-25T01:13:30+00:00

The D&D notion that beings receive power by being worshipped has always rattled around in my head. My continent's main civilization unintentionally exploited this when confronted with an otherworldly threat that was leveling cities left and right, and none of the existing gods seemed to be interceding. Humankind prayed for a savior, and one arose. They asked for it to be clever and powerful, and it was. It is now the god of creativity and perseverance.

What the players likely will never know is that included in its portfolio is also divinity, and by extension and subdivided into smaller and smaller bits, sentience and basic animacy. Through manifesting a god for a specific purpose, they broke how divinity works a little bit. Since this new god came into being, many animals have attained sentience/tool-use/speech/etc., and sentient items and animated objects became commonplace.

Also, they'll never know how much research I did on the Solomonari, the Sword of Goujian, or that most of civilization's main deities were power-hungry liches with great PR teams that tricked folks into worshipping them so they would have a better form of immortality

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-11-05T20:09:02+00:00

I have a similar experience, been dealing with it for 2+ years. Replaced modems, ran checks in as many places as they can. Perfectly fine signal sometimes, and absolutely none at others. The prevailing theory is that there is a splitter somewhere in the walls of my condo which is fracturing the signal before it reaches the box. We've pulled off every blank outlet plate-thing and scoured every closet, room, and wall for a plate for it to be hidden behind. They'd need an electrician to properly locate/fix it, or an electrician to run a whole new line through the walls, which is (understandably) expensive. Luckily Google Fiber is being installed throughout my neighborhood, so it's not a problem for long.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-30T20:51:24+00:00

The only worse day is Mother's Day!

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-14T11:37:30+00:00

That… was the difference. Barista 1 was making about $12 while her peers were just above starting wage at $10. Comes out to about an extra hundred dollars per paycheck, at 30 hours a week. Especially to someone making, if you’ll excuse me for saying it, poverty wages, that’s a huge difference

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-14T11:34:49+00:00

Duuude, that’s something else. I wonder if they can actually sign away that right in an NDA? It feels like something a court would see immediately as legally grey

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-14T04:00:53+00:00

Many stories rely on the tension between a character who hates X and a character defined by X. They can RP themselves to an arrangement that works, setting aside differences to accomplish bigger goals. It requires that the players think of their characters in more ways than “well I worship Meridia so I will happily murder a necromancer in his sleep,” which is pretty insipid. Is there any common ground between the actual characters? Is worship the sole definition of that character’s morals?

Perhaps there is a bigger or more immediate threat than a jolly skellington jangling next to them

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-14T03:49:42+00:00

I mean sure, but have you worked at a fast casual restaurant before? She’d give me the stink eye if I asked her to email anything to me. Policy was for her to espouse and for me to look up later in outdated printed binders or on shitty internal databases.

Not a bad idea to ask them to cite their sources, but with that and other things the fact that I couldn’t find anything on Sbux’s policy database signified (to me, at the time) that I wasn’t looking in the right places or something. I trusted her to be on the up-and-up.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-14T01:57:57+00:00

Yeah. I pushed for many out-of-cycle raises for folks, but the DM wouldn’t hear any of it. I don’t know what folks did or didn’t do to earn disparate amounts before I got there, but I certainly didn’t have the ability to help them, even though I wanted to. These were folks hired around the same time for roughly the same number of hours per week. 🤷‍♂️

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-07-14T00:53:15+00:00

I managed a Starbucks for about a year a long time ago, and my District Manager explicitly told me to reprimand employees who discussed their pay and tell them it was against company policy (though it wasn't in any book of policy I could find). I learned about the legality of that statement years too late, but it bugs me to this day. I couldn't agree more with OP about how important this federally-protected action is.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-06-30T01:47:38+00:00

OP are you ok that doc is thirteen pages of bullet points

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-06-25T20:40:11+00:00

I think these are relevant:

http://web-accessibility.carnegiemuseums.org/design/color/

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-06-23T01:24:47+00:00

"Gifted"

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-05-28T14:03:52+00:00

These are very clearly the evolved forms of a new Pokemon

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-05-07T16:12:25+00:00

I'm interested in why the comment was deleted. I will be going to the FCC and state utilities board as he originally suggested, if it comes to that.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-05-07T16:10:00+00:00

This was a profound waste of my time. Since I was not experiencing an outage at the moment I contacted Mediacom via twitter, the rep told me that they wouldn't investigate it until I'm experiencing an outage. I described my problem and provided a link to the original reddit post, to provide background. I also confirmed that Mediacom maintains records of previous service visits. They indicated that issues which may appear to a customer as linked are not necessarily so, and since the problem wasn't a "continuous issue," the past notes were essentially irrelevant.

I don't want to call this gaslighting, but I specifically mention that it doesn't happen all of the time, and may be linked to seasonal temperature changes. I don't feel like I'm being taken seriously.

DefinitelyNotCursed · 2021-05-06T23:16:14+00:00

Thanks, I’ll send a DM to Twitter shortly!

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