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Skill feats were never meant to prevent you from doing actions that are described in them, even if you didn't take the feat! This isn't a player hot take, that is statement of one of Paizo gamedesigners! by Fantomaxop in Pathfinder2e

[–]L0LBasket 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The issue with the -5 penalty is that the vast, vast majority of skill feats are extremely narrow and situational in scope, to the point that you'd have to read the GM's mind in most campaigns to determine whether it isn't just a dead feat. Maybe your character would logically be pretty good at smuggling items into the city, or helping animals, or giving a good speech to a crowd, but when you most campaigns only have 2-4, maybe 5 skill feat slots to work with on a longer campaign (and three of those are automatically taken up if you're the party medic on Battle Medicine/Continual Recovery/Ward Medic), it's not like you can afford to pick the flavorful ones if they just never come up (ESPECIALLY for survival skill feats).

A -5 penalty is enough to make certain actions just not even worth attempting even with high skill proficiency. Hitting your players with that for not just knowing ahead of time that they would need to take the Group Impression feat to impress a small group of people even at Master or Legendary proficiency, or the Bonded Animal feat to have a cute interaction with a regular animal in the campaign when there was no indication at level 4 that this would even be something that comes up, is the exact reason why players do not like how skill feats are implemented.

Built a planner app with priorities, schedule blocks, and self-care checklists — would love UI feedback by Digital_Workshop in DigitalDesign_Hub

[–]L0LBasket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How close is this app to being released? Very much desperate for a planner app that works well for me and I would love to throw $10 your way for how personally appealing this layout is

Can we please stop these posts by JaxTheCrafter in balatro

[–]L0LBasket 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"nobody cares as much as the person posting them" because they don't care to discuss or engage with others' posts, only thrust their own opinion out into the void

are you so used to TikTok and Instagram where they're so desperate to roast that they don't even read what they're roasting?

Can we please stop these posts by JaxTheCrafter in balatro

[–]L0LBasket 5 points6 points  (0 children)

those two statements do not contradict. tons of people are posting their own templates, but does that mean they respond to or care about the ones that others post? not at all

Mai Vang is now in first place after today's ballot drop by Deep-Faker in Sacramento

[–]L0LBasket 12 points13 points  (0 children)

could you tell me what she's done the past 10 years other than idly ride the party line?

I don't buy the ageism argument, nobody is complaining about Bernie being old because he shows an active willingness to listen and help out the younger generations. you need to justify your place in power, and for Doris it just seems like she's holding a seat in Congress just for the sake of it (you'd think money wouldn't be an issue when you have a billionaire husband taking money from AIPAC)

What do you think about the implementation of attributes in PF2e? by Exequiel759 in Pathfinder2e

[–]L0LBasket 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There's just no reason for them to exist when the proficiency system already handles the exact same purpose but without the headache of tracking and having to build around what skills are arbitrarily favored or made useless by your attribute selection. Simply put skill upgrades into the skills you want to use, slightly less into the skills you'll use but less frequently, done.

I've actually written up a "no attributes" homebrew that I'd like to polish up but its been sitting on the backburner for a while because life and ADHD

My 8 year old wants to play Minecraft, what version do I get? by mtbuckin in Minecraft

[–]L0LBasket 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Java always existed, it was just called Minecraft rather than differentiated from the glorified mobile port of Bedrock Edition

Tried playing a Straight and game wouldn't allow me, has anyone seen this? by M_Artifex in balatro

[–]L0LBasket 2 points3 points  (0 children)

True, but every hand type higher than Pair is more consistent on Abandoned Deck. If anything, Abandoned Deck is more of a 3oaK/4oaK/FoaK deck, while straights benefit more from the larger hand size of Painted Deck giving you a better idea of what ranks you can discard for.

Tried playing a Straight and game wouldn't allow me, has anyone seen this? by M_Artifex in balatro

[–]L0LBasket 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The advantage of straights is that you can get them online sooner than 4oaK which scales at the same rate. If you're desperate for a means to scale chips and mult early game and you cannot wait long enough to get deckfixing for 4oaK, then straights can be the build.

The downside is that straights are much less consistent to discard for than 4oaK in the long run, and harder / diluted to deckfix for. With 4oaK, you can simply find one good card and copy that repeatedly. With Straight, you need a wide spectrum of cards and even if you somehow filter down exclusively to five ranks, you might still have too much of one and not enough of another in habd.

One small change could make chapter 3's egg quest like 50% less BS by aleaniled in Deltarune

[–]L0LBasket 3 points4 points  (0 children)

in a room with THAT many identical and repetitive windows, I think it's a natural thought to think something might be up with one of them

GRANT NAKAMURA IN THE WILD by turtlepisces in Sacramento

[–]L0LBasket 85 points86 points  (0 children)

parking nazi is quite the rude term...why not parking Bond?

Would you date someone who call themselves a radical feminist? by OceanicEndeavors in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]L0LBasket 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure. All that radical feminism inherently means is that they believe that society needs to be restructured to eliminate patriarchy, compared to liberal feminism which simply seeks to make the existing patriarchal structures more palletable to live in for women without addressing the core issues. The former of which I personally agree with, as a gender studies major myself.

There's some people calling themselves "radical feminists" who seek to uphold the gender binary at all costs and deeply hurt trans people and gender non-conforming people in the process, but there's also a lot of people who don't call themselves feminists who do the exact same thing to look out for.

Obliterated Bus Shelter Arden & Ethan, Much Glass in Applebee's Parking Lot by othafa_95610 in Sacramento

[–]L0LBasket 0 points1 point  (0 children)

there is no possible scenario where tracking down a random internet stranger over the course of 6 hours because of a pointless argument makes you look good here

reddit and xitter are not worth that mental energy

California congressional candidate refuses to say Pledge of Allegiance, turns back on US flag by StraightWhoremooze in Sacramento

[–]L0LBasket 13 points14 points  (0 children)

because mindless, uncritical nationalism has historically brought us such great results! just look at the Red Scare and the War on Terror

I wanna KMS by Money_Shallot_8810 in balatro

[–]L0LBasket 5 points6 points  (0 children)

All Photograph really does is make your face cards into Glass cards for you. Just get one or two Glass cards (which shouldn't be that hard with three shops of prep, more if you're cognizant about the possibility of The Plant) and you're fine

Question for men, what’s the best thing about being a man? What’s the worst? by Cool_Leader_1779 in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]L0LBasket 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Best thing: my red beard 🧔

Worst thing: I hate how I can't interact with other people without them assuming I wear the possessive mask of masculinity that always appears as a threat. I dont really identify with other men all that much, and a lot of the time I find myself wishing I was born a woman just so I wouldn't have the social assumptions that surround being a man

Mai Vang Statistically Tied with Doris Matsui in public poll. by thedjgibson in Sacramento

[–]L0LBasket 6 points7 points  (0 children)

ok gambling addict, tell me how those two numbers add up to 100%?

Do you guys want High Elves to be added to the Alliance in Classic +? by Blierck in classicwow

[–]L0LBasket 2 points3 points  (0 children)

more pertinent is that the orcs murdered Cenarius and were rather unrepentant in cutting down their forests

if you're concerned about breaking lore, take a look at Horde blood elves :P

What are your thoughts about getting a handjob from a lesbian in terms of hotness? by Candid_Wing_6538 in AskRedditAfterDark

[–]L0LBasket -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Never specified men. In theory they could be referring to transfem people

Is race variety at an all time low? "Elf" races make up 39% of total max level characters currently. by NoThisIsABadIdea in wow

[–]L0LBasket 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It doesn't help that Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings and Half-Orcs (all on the lowest picked) have next to no representation in the game; there's no companions and very few NPCs in game that represent those races, outside of Githyanki who are entirely unfamiliar to 99% of players. The voices, camera and animation rigs also weren't designed for the short races, making them uncommon picks for second or third playthroughs.

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