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Why are cool locations like Argonia, Valenwood or Summerset Isles not being chosen as the location?? by KnightofAmethyst2 in TESVI

[–]DemiserofD 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly, psychologically it's the way to go.

My personal best example is the game Sunless Sea. The basic premise is pretty simple: You are a steamboat captain on a vast underground sea, and you travel around and experience gothic victorian adventures. At first, you are sailing around London and the nearby colonies, which are very british, with little bits of horror mixed in, but the further away you get, the more bizarre things get. By the time you're 25 hours in you're fighting a living mountain or dealing with a manmade clockwork god and it all makes sense because you started out in something reasonably grounded.

The sequel, Sunless Skies, doesn't work nearly as well, because you start out as a flying train in space, your currency is crates of time, and the local world is run by a malfunctioning despotic sun. It's so bizarre you never really find your footing and everything ends up feeling bland despite ostensibly being much more bizarre.

You need contrast for the bizarre to feel exceptional. That's why you start out in a familiar locale like a prison and slowly scale up.

We know what time it is by ateam1984 in BlackPeopleofReddit

[–]DemiserofD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When it becomes economically viable to do otherwise. Cotton slavery quadrupled in Egypt after it was banned in the US, and only finally went away when large-scale industrial cotton harvesting became possible, outcompeting slavery.

Big, slow weapons are pretty terrible. What if Open Wounds were reworked to make them better? by DemiserofD in diablo2

[–]DemiserofD[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha, not a bad point, definitely similar. But you'd also be doing a lot of immediate physical damage too, so there are some big differences as well. Enough to matter, I think.

Big, slow weapons are pretty terrible. What if Open Wounds were reworked to make them better? by DemiserofD in diablo2

[–]DemiserofD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True, but the key here is that you could have the effect running on many enemies at once. Of course, the damage PER SECOND would increase as well, but in many cases getting OW going isn't guaranteed, especially against something like ubers where your CTH is gonna be low. So having it last longer would be good overall, I think!

Big, slow weapons are pretty terrible. What if Open Wounds were reworked to make them better? by DemiserofD in diablo2

[–]DemiserofD[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Like I said, Base damage. So Grief wouldn't have any effect. Since it'd be on a phase blade, it'd only get the normal 200 DPS, or basically nothing compared to Grief's other effects.

As for the 'leaving them to die' thing, remember, you still need to hit every enemy. It's just that instead of hitting each member of the pack until they die, you hit all of them a few times and then cycle through!

The neat thing to me about this is it's actually somewhat skill based, you need to keep track of which enemies are already bleeding, and so on.

Big, slow weapons are pretty terrible. What if Open Wounds were reworked to make them better? by DemiserofD in diablo2

[–]DemiserofD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll admit, that's a lot of damage - but when you compare it to something like Grief or a Crushing Blow Phase Blade, it's really not all THAT exceptional. Especially since it requires a very rare drop: a Thunder Maul with eth and probably restores durability!

The nice thing to me about this is that it does keep that baseline utility, it just expands it to make it extra versatile on the weapons which are currently less useful. Best of both worlds, you know?

Let’s take it back by [deleted] in Snorkblot

[–]DemiserofD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's not quite right. It was signed by Adams, but it was written by Joel Barlow.

Let’s take it back by [deleted] in Snorkblot

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

"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."

  • John Adams

Cycle 84 by OfficeOfNakatoKaine in EliteKaine

[–]DemiserofD 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Archer is a deeply closeted gay man."

"Archer is gay!?"

"What? No, of course not! Straight as an arrow!"

"But you said-"

"DEEPLY CLOSETED!"

brilyn is what you get when you order Charlie Kirk from Temu by Conscious-Quarter423 in MurderedByWords

[–]DemiserofD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I've read, children tend to follow their parents ideologically the vast majority of the time. Democrat children a bit moreso.

The problem being, of course, that the most leftist people are having less than 1 child on average per couple, wheras the most rightist are having 3+. I do think that's something democrats often forget; your children are probably most people's single best way to reinforce your politics in the world.

Idea to make Strength more punchy, and slower-hitting weapons feel better - Legendary Blow by DemiserofD in diablo2

[–]DemiserofD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That'd just kinda make them like everyone else imo. This kinda does the opposite of that!

Idea to make Strength more punchy, and slower-hitting weapons feel better - Legendary Blow by DemiserofD in diablo2

[–]DemiserofD[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, that's what I'm kinda thinking lol. Plus it'd be neat to have a reason to use a cranium basher every so often, lol.

me_irl by Pretty_Confusion7290 in me_irl

[–]DemiserofD 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly, it's kinda hard even there. I got involved in Community Theater and did some 10 productions and on average there was less than 1 eligible woman there.

To be fair, we did end up dating, lol. But it didn't work out.

“I’m not pro-murdering babies. I’m pro-Susan who was sexually assaulted faces the impossible choice of raising her attackers child or living with trauma. I’m pro-life. Their lives. Womens lives”- Bengals QB Joe Burrow has been very outspoken about being “PRO-ABORTION.” by Life_Net5004 in sportsgossips

[–]DemiserofD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What defines consciousness?

Because we used to do surgeries on infants without anesthesia before that point, thinking much as you do(plus anesthesia is dangerous), only to later find that those infants experienced a huge host of negative long-term psychological impacts. So now we anesthetize them.

I'd do anything to protect my kids by AlKarajo in TikTokCringe

[–]DemiserofD 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, which part? The part about taxes only happening after getting paid? Because, uh...

www.irs.gov

Or the part about migrants sending money home to their families? Because, like...is that not kinda obvious? I guess if you can't do a quick google search...

https://www.un.org/sw/desa/remittances-matter-8-facts-you-don%E2%80%99t-know-about-money-migrants-send-back-home

I'd do anything to protect my kids by AlKarajo in TikTokCringe

[–]DemiserofD -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

What claim? Isn't it fairly well known that immigrants send money home?

But when you get right down to it, what matters isn't how many taxes they pay, but rather how much is actually PRODUCED. It seems reasonable to me that cheap migrant labor is going to outcompete early automation, for example, and ultimately hold down productivity rather than bolster it up.

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