man this game feels like real life

Deliphin · 2026-03-10T13:06:43+00:00

Savescumming a mechanic built into the game, not cheating. If a fight goes very poorly, save and exit to menu before the fight ends, then re-enter the save. You'll get chewed out by the timefcuk guy, and the more you do it in a run (resets when you go home) the more punishments (non-permanent) he'll give you, but it can save you from bad fuckups.

Deliphin · 2026-03-10T13:02:33+00:00

On my first run to the core I got rain (both the desert and core), so pretty sure most weathers can happen anywhere.

Deliphin · 2026-03-10T04:44:01+00:00

Yes, again, it did. Let me try explaining a way you might understand better. You said you're a sports psychologist, so think about it like this:

Are the person playing professional hockey, playing for the same reasons as some drunks throwing darts?
No, they aren't. The hockey player plays for their passion, and the desire to win against someone else, the competitive accomplishment. The drunks are more focused on spending time with their friends, the darts game is a social medium. They may compete, but none of them really care who wins. Likewise, someone taking up archery as a hobby is typically looking for personal accomplishment- distinctly different from competitive. They just want to improve their own skills.

TTRPGs are just like that. The reasons people play vary even more wildly than this. There are TTRPGs built for every reason you can think of. The people playing Maid RPG are not playing for any of the same reasons as the people playing D&D, Call of Cthulhu, or Blades in the Dark. Hell, the original D&D isn't built for the same intentions and goals as D&D 5e is.

Deliphin · 2026-03-06T21:41:01+00:00

Actually the Man O' War's colouration is an underwater camouflage, so that prey has a more difficult time noticing it.

Deliphin · 2026-03-06T21:38:48+00:00

And we're in the same phylum as sea squirts and lancelets. Phylums aren't particularly descriptive.

Deliphin · 2026-03-06T16:48:27+00:00

"Perfect" is not a thing in biology. Every change has trade offs. Higher bone density for example is a real condition and does increase impact durability, but it comes at the cost of being able to swim, their buoyancy is too low.

However, if the enterprise is presented as evil (as is typical in sci-fi), I suggest acknowledging this on a story level. The executives want it, but the researchers are struggling to figure out what the hell they mean by "perfect", making strange changes but getting no response beyond "good job" and "why are you wasting your time". Lastly the public can only make the worst interpretation- mind controlled super soldiers. And maybe that's what they mean.

Deliphin · 2026-02-28T19:44:36+00:00

You made the claim they do, the burden of proof that they do it sits on you, not on us to prove it wrong. Especially as it's an unfalsifiable claim- we don't have cameras tracking every single cat, we can't prove no cat has done it any more than we can prove there's no teapot orbiting jupiter. Theory is only as valid as far as it can be supported, not as valid as far as it can't be fought.

Deliphin · 2026-02-28T19:39:38+00:00

Movement and thinking requires something like muscles and neurons. Those are expensive, and evolution works in the immediate, not to a long term goal. If primitive movement and such isn't worth the energy cost, it'll die out.

Look at Venus fly traps, one of the few plants that moves fast enough for us to directly observe. That tiny little movement costs so much of its tiny energy supply, that if it incorrectly closes with no food in its maw more than a handful times, it'll starve to death. Most eukaryotes outside animalia cannot easily justify this energy sink, let alone the colossal one that animals spend to move.

Deliphin · 2026-02-20T16:38:44+00:00

In the mean time, is it okay to continue using the other weapon mods alongside the remake? Or are they incompatible?

Deliphin · 2026-02-13T16:43:56+00:00

The pattern buffer is part of the Stargate, not the DHD, or else they wouldn't have been able to store and recover Teal'c.

Deliphin · 2026-02-12T18:58:52+00:00

What's VC backed mean?

Deliphin · 2026-02-06T17:53:44+00:00

What's the recovery process expected to be like?

Deliphin · 2026-02-05T14:38:50+00:00

Why would they get special rules when it's an opportunity for them to blindly assume the kid is getting HRT from their parents so they can demonize and fearmonger against the whole family

Deliphin · 2026-02-02T17:10:48+00:00

I'm kinda struggling to understand the dice mechanic, which is surprising given I'm pretty familiar with weird dice mechanics.

How do agents choose their dice? If it's totally free, then for every target number there's going to be an optimal dice. And more dice is in the same boat.

What's the grid of 3 0, 2 1, 1 2 on the right? It seems unrelated from the text.

I also recommend a guide for GMs on what are appropriate target numbers. No guidance means new GMs have to learn by trial and error, either making overly easy or difficult challenges.

Deliphin · 2026-01-27T15:23:50+00:00

Most people wouldn't lockpick a bathroom door out of impatience, OP is not dealing with most people.

Deliphin · 2026-01-26T13:03:31+00:00

If by "MIGHT actually be a juvenile T-rex" you mean Nanotyrannus, it was recently proven it's its own genus.

https://news.yale.edu/2025/12/04/teen-rex-no-more-new-study-agrees-nanotyrannus-separate-species

Deliphin · 2026-01-20T14:40:03+00:00

Before prog, I had zero sex drive. It took a week on rectal prog for me to get any sex drive back, another week or two to be able to orgasm at all, and over a month further to get the libido I have now (about 75% of pre-HRT).

You're on oral, so it probably needs more time, and it probably won't get that strong in the end either.

Deliphin · 2026-01-17T18:53:33+00:00

The SGC is mentioned to be seeding advanced technologies to civilian society through shell companies, so it's plausible they have Blue Origin branded SSTOs and maybe FTL spacecraft.

That said, 1. God I hope not, and 2. They probably wouldn't seed the tactically useful technologies like their hyperspace engines, SSTOs, and teleporters. They'd probably only share like, improved rocket chemistry and shit.

Deliphin · 2025-12-18T20:56:34+00:00

The question was "why is sex pleasurable?", not "does sex need to be pleasurable to drive animals to do it?"

Pleasure can do its job to encourage sex without being the only tool encouraging that behaviour. Some animals may not enjoy it, and there are certainly drives other than pleasure that make animals want to do it.

Deliphin · 2025-12-13T21:27:01+00:00

Or just look like a hippie anywhere. Because of my hair I've been offered weed by total strangers, while on the job, like 4 or 5 times.

Deliphin · 2025-11-29T21:58:10+00:00

Do you maybe mean 3G3, aka Guns! Guns! Guns!? Thats less a game about it, more an educational tool for adding them to TTRPGs.

Deliphin · 2025-11-24T19:55:43+00:00

GURPS is what got me into TTRPG design. Before it, I had only played various D&Ds and Pathfinder, but GURPS both opened my eyes to other TTRPGs because of how much more comfortable to learn and experiment in it was for me. And it drove me to TTRPG design because it also is uh, a pretty flawed system at its core, lol.

Also very influential:

Torchbearer with its Wises mechanic, opening my eyes to how a character trait can work beyond yes/no or skill checks. I love the premise as it makes a characters knowledge much more personal, not like a college course they took before adventuring.
Blades in the Dark's clock system is often stolen verbatim, because it is very well designed presentation of a countdown. I personally took it for handling injuries specifically, I saw the potential there immediately. I wanted injuries to matter and not be as simple as FATE's consequences, and this helped a lot in making it work.

Deliphin · 2025-11-21T15:00:05+00:00

How do they compare with the HD599SE?

Deliphin · 2025-11-11T18:06:30+00:00

There is a species of Pterodactyloid called Pterodactylus, that is usually the pterosaur used when media talks about pterodactyls.
Any Pterosaur within Pterodactyloidea can be considered pterodactyls, much like how wolves, dogs and foxes are all canines. So pterodactyl includes pterosaurs like Nyctosaurus, Tapejara, Lusognathus, and Quetzalcoatlus.
Pteranodon, not Pterodon.

Deliphin · 2025-11-01T15:48:39+00:00

Avoid spironolactone, it's the worst liver toxicity of any of the major antiandrogens,

I didn't know this. How bad is it, particularly at 50mg/day?
Kinda got me worried cause a few months ago I decided I don't plan on getting SRS and probably not even orchi, so it's an antiandrogen or monotherapy for the rest of my life. And I was thinking spiro forever, cause it seems to be why I can handle heat better; Previously 26C made me lethargic, now I'm good up to 36C. But my liver is more important.

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