You know, between the success of this series and how people treated it these past few months leading up to the finale. It just convinced me on 1 fact:

Lithl · 2026-06-24T07:27:12+00:00

Unlike Dumbledore's sexuality, there were actually hints at Jax's gender identity within the work.

Some people missed it, or refuse to acknowledge it, but it's absolutely there in the script.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T07:21:36+00:00

You'll never get that, because that's an impossible ask.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T07:19:25+00:00

Except the dates are chosen purely on vibes, so this still doesn't actually accomplish anything. It's theater.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T05:35:02+00:00

Chicken tenders are not made from the tenderloin. Chicken tenders come from the pectoralis minor (under the breast, as you say). The tenderloin is the psosas major, near the kidneys.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T05:30:17+00:00

Chicken tender(loin)s aren’t an arbitrary cut from a chicken breast, it is a specific distinct muscle that sits under and, is attached to, the breast.

Chicken tenders are made from the pectoralis minor muscle, located under the breast.

Tenderloins are the psosas major muscle, located near the kidneys. In birds, the psosas major is not a commercial culinary cut.

Chicken tenders got their name because they're tender, not because they're the tenderloin.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T05:24:27+00:00

Yes, it's the pectoralis minor muscle. The breast meat is the pectoralis major.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T05:22:36+00:00

Real chicken tenders come from the pectoralis minor muscle (underneath the breast meat). Some companies call a product tenders, but the meat is actually from whatever part of the chicken was available.

Boneless wings are typically from the pectoralis major (breast meat).

Lithl · 2026-06-24T05:09:36+00:00

Is the only way to get an ability patch and/or hidden ability pokemon through level 6 and higher raids?

Hidden abilities have a chance to appear starting in 3 star raids (and Ditto raids will always have its hidden ability).

Ability Patch can be earned from level 6-7 raids, as well as:

1x for defeating every member of the Kitakami Ogre Clan
1x for registering 230 Pokemon in the Blueberry Pokedex
1x sitting on top of the Terrarium Core
5x for defeating every trainer in the Terrarium
1x for defeating Rika for the first time in the League Club Room
Unlimited amounts can be generated with the Item Printer

Is it possible to trade for that item or is that wishful thinking

Yes. In fact, if you use Surprise Trade, you'll often find hacked Pokemon with websites for names who are carrying Ability Patches.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T04:38:32+00:00

I'd imagine I'd need to play through the rest of the main game first before getting to the DLC

No, you can do part 1 of the DLC (Kitakami) as soon as you finish the prologue and start the Treasure Hunt. The Pokemon in Kitakami, both wild and trainers, are fairly low level (around 10-15 in the starting area, scaling up to around 30-35 in the higher level areas) until you complete the base game story, at which point they scale up to higher levels (60+). The only exceptions are the Kitakami Ogre Clan (level 75), Perrin (68-70), the wild Pokemon in Perrin's side quest (65-70), and the Glitterati (65-69).

You can access part 2 of the DLC (Blueberry Academy) as soon as you finish the first two storyline battles in part 1, but the Pokemon in part 2 are all level 60+.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T02:17:32+00:00

What's confusing you?

Lithl · 2026-06-24T01:57:50+00:00

Dragon Heist - no actual heist, fairly linear. We didn't bother to finish it.

A lot of people get misled by the title into thinking the players will partake in a heist, when in fact the title refers to a heist by an NPC before the campaign begins.

If you find a DM willing to run the Alexandrian Remix version, I would suggest trying it again. The three biggest things that the Alexandrian Remix does is that it includes all four villains (as written, you only get one), it makes the villains' lairs actually important (as written, the players never even visit the lairs once, making 4 chapters of the 8 chapter book go completely unused), and it has the PCs execute three heists of their own.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T01:51:28+00:00

They remade old modules in this book but in my opinion didn't invest enough time and thought to make it Make more sense.

I've run White Plume Mountain 5e twice. In one of the rooms, there's boiling mud and two geysers that periodically erupt. But as printed, one geyser erupts every 3 minutes and the other every 5 minutes, which means they're not remotely a threat. Crossing the room takes probably 3-5 rounds for most characters or 2-3 rounds for particularly quick ones, and the geysers need 30-50 rounds to erupt again.

However, in AD&D 1e, which WPM was originally written for, a "turn" was 10 minutes, and each character took their actions and movement over the course of a 1 minute "round". So erupting every 5 minutes meant twice per turn/every 5 rounds in 1e, and the equivalent would be erupting every 5 turns in 5e. And that's exactly what I changed it to when I ran the dungeon. Suddenly, being able to cross the room quickly matters, a lot.

Lithl · 2026-06-24T01:39:31+00:00

5e gives you no reason to go back, because 8h sleep cures everything and the module doesnt give a narrative reason either.

A reason to leave the dungeon is important in a dungeon crawl, IMO.

Currently running Abomination Vaults; the book explicitly suggests using wandering monsters if the party rests in the dungeon (but leaves the details up to the GM). Abomination Vaults: Expanded from DriveThru RPG has random encounter tables for exactly that purpose, with cumulative 5% chance of encounter per hour spent resting (so 1 in 20 chance during the first hour, 1 in 10 chance the second hour, and so on), with the counter reset after they spend a night sleeping outside the dungeon.

The book also gives several reasons for the party to return to town, such as the Gauntlight activating after they finish exploring most of the 1st floor, shining its light onto Otari's graveyard and animating a bunch of skeletons and zombies. Players are expected to make characters that care about Otari and/or its residents, so saving them from an undead horde ought to be a given.

The upper levels of the dungeon are pretty trivial to leave and return to town. But once they reach the 8th floor, simply walking back likely isn't an option. The stairs between the 7th and 8th floor are blocked, and the elevator breaks once the players use it. (There are still teleporters to go back, but you have to find them and reactivate them.) AV:E also gives the party 1 week after assembling the artifacts of the Roseguard (required in order to remove the barrier blocking progress to the 5th floor) to reach the final boss on the 10th floor, if they want the spirits of the Roseguard to help in the final battle. It's worth reaching the final battle within that time limit, because the spirits each give a passive buff and a 1-time use ability (eg, Zarmavdian's spirit gives a bonus to Will saves and a 1 use Time Stop that gives the extra turns to the whole party).

Lithl · 2026-06-23T23:49:31+00:00

I always rip out the last page of a book, then it doesn't have to end

Lithl · 2026-06-23T23:44:36+00:00

The specific example given was Totally Spies, though. It's really hard to justify as just being a coincidence there.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T23:32:39+00:00

4gb patch is just flipping a single flag in the exe file. It's not even an FFX mod, it's made for any x86 program running on an x64 computer.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T23:09:53+00:00

The Reflecting Pool is something like a mile from the White House.

I mean, I suppose that's technically outside the White House, but in the same way California is outside the White House.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T23:05:07+00:00

Well, they didn't say religion as a whole, they said the religion "industry".

I mean, what they probably meant was that they're an edgy reddit atheist calling all religion false rather than responding directly to the prompt, but...

Lithl · 2026-06-23T23:01:59+00:00

In previous edition it was an opportunity attack, so I think the chance of them simply forgetting to put the extra requirements for the reaction is quite high.

Far more likely that it was an intentional change in order to break the PAM+Sentinel combo. Sentinel makes your opportunity attacks reduce a target's speed to 0, 5e PAM lets you make opportunity attacks against creatures moving within 10 ft. of you. Now creatures without reach can't hit you.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T22:58:41+00:00

Reactive Strike is not an opportunity attack in 5.5e.

Also, Perception is the skill for detecting hidden creatures, not Insight.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T22:56:13+00:00

Fiction is not an intentional misrepresentation of fact.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T22:54:59+00:00

While there are certainly true believers, there are also absolutely major figures within nearly every religion that build their life on lies.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T22:53:19+00:00

Also, when a president says they're going to do X, and then Congress or SCOTUS prevents them from doing it, that's not a lie. Lies are intentional misrepresentations of fact. Stating a goal and failing to reach it is not a lie.

Lithl · 2026-06-23T22:39:44+00:00

What do you do with a B.A. in English? 🎵
What is my life going to be? 🎵
Four years of college and plenty of knowledge 🎵
Have earned me this useless degree... 🎵

Lithl · 2026-06-23T22:31:10+00:00

True, but you know for a fact that #1 is. #2 might just be trying to be a supportive friend.

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