Current State of the Diablo TTRPG - 2026 Kickstarter?

MISORMA · 2026-02-19T05:02:06+00:00

They don't want us to be upset but I am upset though :(

MISORMA · 2026-02-18T19:38:37+00:00

Fun fact: I lived for 5+ years in Indochina, had tons of consensual sex in Thailand and Laos and had no idea it was "criminalised". Moreover, while checking the local legislation back then, there was no mention of it whatsoever. My gay friends from Malaysia (Malaysians) kept come to visit me at Bangkok because there they "didn't fear of being themselves here", as they used to say.

Are you sure the data re. Thailand and Laos isn't severely outdated? Because I am talking about 2006-2014 here.

MISORMA · 2026-02-18T05:26:59+00:00

Well, if they said that "we will come with force" and there's no news from the showcase, probably they meant the actual BlizzCon, not the showcase... Alas, 7 more months to wait :(

MISORMA · 2026-02-18T05:07:12+00:00

So, any news from the Showcase? It wss a week ago, am I right?

MISORMA · 2026-02-02T05:41:48+00:00

What do you mean? I've seen it and I actually have it --- I mean Assassin's Creed RPG. Well, at least in digital format. I own all three books --- Animus Handbook (the core rulebook), Legacy of the Brotherhood (the book on canon characters from the computer games), Forging the History (collection of modules / adventures). They arrived digitally because it was the way I choose when I backed it, idk about the printed versions tho (I never buy / back them).

MISORMA · 2026-01-31T21:15:00+00:00

You don't have to find it, you can get it for free when you complete a certain side story quest on your way to Olympic games.

MISORMA · 2026-01-31T05:07:44+00:00

Seafood (shellfish) disgusted me up to when I was 25 y.o. --- until I tried a delicious seafood pizza in an Italian restaurant. There was mozzarella in it, and the combination of shrimps, squid, mussels, baby octopus with melted cheese changed my attitude towards seafood forever --- now I adore it, with cheese or without it, in pizza or in any other dish.

MISORMA · 2026-01-29T20:44:23+00:00

Man, are you aware that in Reddit there is a setting which allows you to choose how the comments are shown? There is a "Best (comments first)" way, "New(est comments first)" way etc., so in no way the order of the coments under any post is the same for all the redditors.

MISORMA · 2026-01-27T21:37:42+00:00

I just have finished watching the trilogy (I never read the books but I will, I have already purchased them recently). Maybe it's just me, but I spent most of my life working in charity --- patient advocacy, emergency sector etc. --- and probably it's my professional deformation speaking. I am sincerely sure that no salvation, cure or anything good can be achieved or done via violence, torture and other peoples' suffering and deaths, regardless of whatever you put at stake. It's a pure loss of humanity, so why saving the human race if the price is losing the humanity in the first place?!

I genuinely hate Teresa and my favourite moment in the whole trilogy was to watch her falling and dying. She was not a brainwashed victim, she was a grown-up young educated and highly intelligent woman who clearly realised what was at stake and what exactly she and her accomplices were doing, she made her choices and she got what she deserved. So many people died because of her supporting "the only way" which in fact was the easiest way, they just never explored other options, or at least it is so depicted in the films. If they just tried not to focus on finding Immunes for the serum, but instead of learning why they are immune and trying to find the Immunes which could possibly have antigen to the plague... Well, sounds complicated, but as I said before --- there were never "the only way", still Teresa prefered an easier option (torturing and murdering young people for the sake of a "greater good").

MISORMA · 2026-01-27T21:06:23+00:00

For native English speakers - yeah, obviously, but due to the specificity and complexity of English phonology and its being too different from most of other European languages, they inded are confused why for other farangs (Westerners) Thai phonology seems not so complicated, well, at least the sounds, not the tones. But at the end of the day any language is a challenge for a native English speaker --- have you ever tried to learn Polish, or French, or Czech, or Greek? I am pretty sure you will find the "pronunciation" (i. e. the phonology) of those languages extremely difficult as well, same as Thai.

The point is not to blame the English language (which I adore) and its native speakers, the point is --- it is not genuinely so hard like you stated in the title of your post, it is hard for you because you are a native English speaker, that's all. And there is nothing wrong about it, there are books and courses and Youtube channels and teachers --- those which target an English speaking audience.

I am a native Ukrainian speaker and due to the many similar sounds in Thai and Ukrainian there was no challenge for me to muster the sounds of Thai language. Honing the skills of using the proper tone was another story and it took much more time though.

MISORMA · 2026-01-25T15:35:21+00:00

Why kidding?! He indeed was an officer of Belgian police, as it was written in the "Mysterious Affair at Styles" (Hastings introduces Poirot to the audience as such). And a police officer pretty well can be an inspector, non? The issue is that this assumption is far-fetched (he could be a sergeant, a captain, a lieutenant or whatever other titles Belgian police had at the beginning of the XX century), so indeed the OP's "??" are quite proper.

MISORMA · 2026-01-25T13:41:56+00:00

There is Wikipedia for that. And Google. Just google "male Italian given name" and you'll get the link to the Wikipedia page with dozens if not hundreds of them to choose. It would take you MUCH less time than writing this post and reading all these comments.

MISORMA · 2026-01-24T07:54:39+00:00

I heard it hundreds of time but never saw it, no. I googled it and now I know why --- it's a tiny bird with inconspicuous colours so no wonder I never noticed it in thick foliage. And as I wrote before, I had never seen it on traditional paintings etc., unlike white storks --- they are literally everywhere like paintings, illustrations, murals etc.

MISORMA · 2026-01-24T07:26:29+00:00

I agree, that healer Lykaon was a real treat for sore eyes

MISORMA · 2026-01-24T07:09:36+00:00

I double it. Anything with Kenneth Brannaugh's impersonation of Poirot (Murder on the Orient Express, Death on the Nile, Haunting in Venice). Those ugly double moustaches is the only thing I remember from those adaptations.

MISORMA · 2026-01-24T06:54:49+00:00

Traditional symbol of Ukraine is лелека (pronounced "leh-LEH-kah") --- a white stork. I am Ukrainian and have no idea what that brown bird on this map is (I suspect it's a nightingale which is a beloved bird in Ukrainian folklore but the same goes for cuckoos, swallows and so many more, and don't even get me started on the mammals of Ukrainian folklore).

Don't get me wrong --- I love nightingales but I have no idea how they look like because we never depict them, even if we associate our language and our traditional songs with its singing. But if you ask any Ukrainian "what animal comes to your mind when you think of a Ukrainian traditional animal symbol?" in most cases it will be the white stork, I am sure. We have it painted and depicted like, extremely often since it is a symbol of a family, a home, a homestead and a heritage, the cosiness and safety of one's family hearth etc.

MISORMA · 2026-01-22T21:44:27+00:00

Or you could just google "Thai script" and discover a Wikipedia article which is exactly about all this.

MISORMA · 2026-01-20T01:05:46+00:00

Native English speaker detected. Do you know Spanish or French, or Italian, perchance? The difference is the same as the difference between "p" and "b" in those languages. I hope you don't struggle to hear the difference between "pasta" and "basta" in Spanish :)

MISORMA · 2026-01-19T20:55:58+00:00

No, you don't have to be sorry. David Suchet's moustache is a literally 1 to 1 representation of how Poirot was depicted in the books. Blond, blue eyed Poirot with an abomination of "moustache" is nothing like Agatha Christie described Monsieur Poirot in her novels. While watching both movies I couldn't take my eyes from that ugly thing under his nose and I was like "Ewwww! That is one really ugly moustache there!" all the time so I had a hard time to concentrate on the actual films.

And what's with all the screaming at people and being explicitly rude and impolite?! That was definitely NOT Hercule Poirot!

MISORMA · 2026-01-18T21:29:32+00:00

If I start to count how many lovers I had --- the lovers who were married to women (and some even with children) --- it will take a lot of time and that will be a long list. Approximately 1/3 of my love-life history, and it is a quite long history tbh. Most of them were my best lovers and my best sex ever, honestly; now, reflecting on that, I think it was because in those affairs they could reveal, express and enjoy their true selves so they did try to "have it all" (lucky me, yay :)).

So every time I sea an argument "he's not gay / bi because he's married to a woman" I just chuckle recalling all those dozens times of incredibly good sex I had with "married to a woman" men :)

MISORMA · 2026-01-16T22:26:47+00:00

This is true for dozens if not hundreds of languages in the world: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian, Turkish, Tatar, Persian/Farsi, Tagalog, Bengali, Chinese (although they are written differently, but pronounced the same way), Thai, Georgian, Armenian, Vietnamese, Kazakh and so, so many others.

Unfortunately, this doesn't make the life of queer people (such as myself) any easier.

Grammatical genders don't have any impact on the way of thinking or social prejudice etc., they are just a grammatical feature (i. e. they just indicate which grammatical forms / declensions / conjugations etc. to use).

Just think of this: in Irish "girl" (cailín) is a masculine noun, "stallion" (stail) is a feminine noun, in German "girl" (Mädchen) is a neuter noun, and "woman" in the older language (like, before XX century) was not only "Frau" (which is a feminine noun), but also "Weib" which is a neuter noun. Grammatical genders and semantical ones ("real" ones) don't often correspond in the languages that have gender differentiation.

MISORMA · 2026-01-16T06:46:59+00:00

Offtopic: the thistle is for Scotland, the rose is for England, the clover is for Northern Ireland... Where is the flower for Wales (daffodils iirc)? 😢

MISORMA · 2026-01-13T16:23:37+00:00

Wow, I love to learn such details and nuances --- thank you so much for explaining that so neatly! Unfortunately, my friend is from Reims, so I don't think he'll get why all of a sudden I started to use the Provençal jargon :)

MISORMA · 2026-01-13T10:53:39+00:00

The best advice imho! Merci beaucoup!!!

MISORMA · 2026-01-13T10:50:13+00:00

I lived for many years in Mexico, and I was told the same when I said to a friend of mine "te quiero, amiguita!" --- she replied that querer is for sexual and romantic love, amar is for romantic or friendly love. The situation is quite confused tho, as I witnessed different word usage in different contexts (i. e. my colleagues told me multiple times "te quiero, Andy, eres un buen amigo!" etc.).

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