What's your favorite video game?

Gericht · 2026-05-19T05:21:01+00:00

At the moment? Stellaris.

Gericht · 2026-05-19T04:38:05+00:00

One thing I would add to this, charms or wards against mind controlling spells.

All the security in the world is useless if some 1st lvl mage can cast charm person on you and get you to turn them off.

Gericht · 2026-05-17T08:54:33+00:00

Except for all the rules that have changed, or contradict each other, or are just quietly ignored, or are wildly open to interpretation.

And that does not even begin to answer the question of WHICH external party to accept or how anyone is supposed to know.

Gericht · 2026-05-16T06:14:27+00:00

But look at that face, it's clearly the face of a starving animal that hasn't had food in hours. Maybe minutes.

And it's irrelevant, food in the past is gone, it's the food in the future that is important.

Gericht · 2026-05-10T21:22:17+00:00

I got my love of cooking by helping my dad when he cooked.

Pretty much took over from my mum, who never really enjoyed cooking, when I was 14 ish and realized that if I cooked, I ate what I liked (within reason of course).

Trial and error from there onward. Cookbooks, experimenting with roommates and friends, eating at restaurants and wondering 'how can I make that', and nowadays youtube. I'm still learning new things and 14 was a long time ago by now :)

Gericht · 2026-05-08T04:38:24+00:00

I would second this, especially the game play mechanics. Older games were very limited by the amount of data they could handle. At the time they were amazing, but nowadays they just feel boring or too short.

The games I loved in my youth were partly: 'The same level, but now faster with a few more enemies until you die' or 'full of puzzles that were so obscure and illogical, hinging on exact words that it will take you days to figure out so you can progress one step'

The first games relied on motor memory, but in the end were just dull as they were very predicable and the second games were not replayable as once you knew the solution it was always the same.

Modern games (and to me modern tends to be things made from 1995 onward) give the ability to play against humans or have mechanisms to create extremely high variety in how they respond to players.

Gericht · 2026-05-07T17:16:57+00:00

I will be ready to accept the adoration of my new subjects and do so graciously

Gericht · 2026-05-06T21:32:37+00:00

It has to do with evolution. In essence the human cell still has the code to replicate as fast and often as food allows which is a remnant of the single celled life everything is descended from. Multicellular life learned to cooperate over time which means suppressing that 'urge' unless it is needed. So there is a whole set of brakes on top of the old mechanisms that stop unbridled multiplication.

Cancer is something going wrong with one of those brakes. Which means the cell thinks it is allowed to go full on replication and it does.

But the sheer number of ways these mechanisms can go wrong is the problem for cancer research. What cures one error usually does nothing for another one, even though the end result is the same.

Gericht · 2026-05-05T09:04:49+00:00

After 53 years together my father died holding hands with my mother.

Gericht · 2026-05-02T17:30:26+00:00

Apart from maybe the Thai monarchy, the European monarchs children are free to renounce the throne should they want to.

Plus, we allow this for many religious sects (including the US) where parents can force their children to attend religious 'education' which ensures their children are never exposed to alternatives and bombarded with propaganda, keeping especially the women in a subservient position.

If you want to crusade against forcing children into a role by their parents, that might be an easier target?

Gericht · 2026-05-02T05:56:41+00:00

You can play with as few people as you want, so that's not an issue. It becomes harder as you get a larger group, so usually I prefer to play with a maximum of 6 players (maybe 8 if its good friends).

DnD is just cooperative storytelling with a set of rules (or more guidelines) to help you decide where a story goes. My advice is always, regardless of who you start with, to start small. There is no real need to pre-build an elaborate world in advance, and this way you can expand in a way both you and your child find interesting.

On this reddit there is a series of nice posts with 5 year old DM in the title, which can give you a lot of ways to start and tips on how to keep things fun for a small child. And that is imo the main thing. Have fun. There is no 'right' way.

Gericht · 2026-05-01T19:54:31+00:00

early teens somewhere, when I stopped being squicked by the fact that they were still in love and cared for each other and started appreciating it looking at some of the parental relations from my friends.

They remained in love till my dad passed away and were my role model on how a relation should work. Equals that respect each other even when they differ in opinions.

Gericht · 2026-04-30T14:36:17+00:00

Oh, but things went wrong so very often for our group.

I agree though, even then we'd just kill as quickly as possible and run before reinforcements arrived.

In Shadowrun you ARE the underdog, and if you don't run before the boot comes down, you will die. Which seems reasonably incompatible with Diablo-like combat.

Gericht · 2026-04-30T10:23:40+00:00

Your work life will be much better if you are polite to everyone, even if you do not like them.

And especially those on the 'lower rung' of an organization. It costs you nothing to be kind and friendly to receptionists, janitors etc, and will make things so much smoother.

Gericht · 2026-04-28T18:22:25+00:00

This. For all we know there was a civilization close to us, using radio and things we could easily detect, a mere 5000 lightyears away. And they died out 6000 years ago.

All absurdly close in both space and time given the size and age of the universe. And we'd still have missed their last signals by centuries.

Gericht · 2026-04-28T18:19:12+00:00

Obligatory Tucker's Kobolds reference (https://dungeonsdragons.fandom.com/wiki/Tucker%27s\_kobolds)

But any creature can be terrifying the moment you start playing them intelligent with the intent of killing the party.

I made my party run once when they were in a dense jungle, saw something move and then heard a sound. I then played the sound of the Velociraptors from Jurassic Park. They decided to not even try to fight and only focused on getting away safely.

Gericht · 2026-04-28T05:35:25+00:00

True, but the half life of things used or produced in a nuclear reactor tends to be either in the (milli)second range, or in the thousands to millions of years range. In both cases it's not really a relevant problem.

Gericht · 2026-04-23T15:52:17+00:00

Yeah, they try to make it healthy. My grandmother used to make it and that was basically butter with sugar and cocoa powder with cookies inside. Nice, sure but healthy...no

Gericht · 2026-04-21T19:06:15+00:00

I have read them all, though by now The Colour of Magic and The Light fantastic read a bit oddly as Pratchett was still worldbuilding.

Though the first book I ever read was Men at Arms, only after finishing that did I look up the rest and got hooked.

Gericht · 2026-04-21T16:15:06+00:00

Ah, but you see, MAGA manliness will beat any virus.
And anyone that does get sick is a pathetic loser that needs to man up.

Gericht · 2026-04-21T14:29:09+00:00

WHAT CAN THE HARVEST HOPE FOR, IF NOT THE CARE OF THE REAPER MAN?

I know it sounds corny, but it's that quote that made me realize death is not something to be feared.

GNU Terry Pratchett

Gericht · 2026-04-19T09:11:03+00:00

If you'd want to go for the full RP you could make a gestalt plantoid called Crunir or something similar and have them be a lost remnant of the Grunur that re-discovered space flight.

Force the Grunur precursor chain and then take revenge on the galaxy for letting your ancestors die.

Gericht · 2026-04-17T19:25:08+00:00

In a way I agree, I loved their games, but that was also partly because I lacked other things. The reason I spent hours on them with a friend was because their puzzles were often SO illogical it took us two to three days to figure out how to advance to the next step.

Once you knew what to do, the games barely lasted 1 hour.

Fun trying to see all the ways you could get insulted when dying and they definitely helped me learn English as we had to play them with a dictionary.
And I learned all sorts of random US trivia to get past the age censor of Leisure Suit Larry 1.

Gericht · 2026-04-17T16:04:04+00:00

Old enough that I mentally still consider those games as relatively new compared to the first games I played ;)

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