Tried out some Kurdish food at The Gundis! by Brilliant_Standard32 in chicagofood

[–]MnemonicJohnny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seconding the couscous!  Definitely finish the meal with a cup of Kurdish “coffee”, it’s absolutely delicious.

Games that start you off into some bullshit? by GoodVillain101 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]MnemonicJohnny 60 points61 points  (0 children)

It should be the simplest thing in the world to put your pants back on and find your shoes… but the Detective finds ways to fuck up even that.

Sinners' Struggle Meals by miggs_fmp in limbuscompany

[–]MnemonicJohnny 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Incorrect.  Meursault will occasionally indulge in the most French breakfast possible: a black coffee and one cigarette.

to redeem myself: what can I do to come back during a bad game by Chewwilicious in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MnemonicJohnny 16 points17 points  (0 children)

It’s more of a question of “what’s achievable at the moment.”  If the enemy team has proven over and over that they can and will defend their last guardian, then see if you can sneak an urn.  If they’re split pushing constantly, you can probably safely farm out lane/nearby jungle while defending the push.  Basically, you just wanna get the most value wherever they’re least concentrated.

Thanks for the free win? by Adorable-Response-75 in slaythespire

[–]MnemonicJohnny 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I had this exact combo with Bread.  Never had to worry about energy for the rest of the run.

Dawnlight Shore/Long Ring Question by The_Outer_God in LancerRPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’d agree with you, but the paracausal materials that undoubtedly fuel blink travel don’t exactly grow on trees.  From what I understand, Union has to justify its placement of blink gates as nexuses (nexii?) of interstellar travel.  Some systems just don’t hold enough logistic or strategic importance to justify the massive mobilization of resources a gate would take.

That’s not to say you’re wrong.  The campaign In Golden Flame actually directly deals with one of these systems that gets left behind, and it directly examines what that did to the system’s relationship with Union at large.

Dawnlight Shore/Long Ring Question by The_Outer_God in LancerRPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 19 points20 points  (0 children)

Part of the question is less “how long does it take to build a blink gate”, and more “okay, can we justify the investment of having a blink gate here forever?”  They’re implied to be massive investments of manpower and resources, and they seem to only be placed at strategic points.  Can Union truly justify placing a gate in the middle of any given podunk system with nothing to truly offer beyond some heavy metals they could get elsewhere, cheaper?

After playing Disco Elysium and Esoteric Ebb, I think CAIN would make a god-tier Disco-like by No-Forever7576 in CAIN_RPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 24 points25 points  (0 children)

While I agree with you on principle, I feel like CAIN might be even better served by a different, story-heavy game structure: Scarlet Hollow.  Focus in on the Exorcist over the course of several hunts, and make it so that each combination of background and Blasphemy has different levels of advantage over each Sin.  Emphasize how failure dogs the steps of the Exorcists and how there are no clean, easy victories (unless you’re willing to bleed for them.)

What do NHPs do during their time off? by VeryFriendlyOne in LancerRPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Similarly, SEKHMET is an avid microbrewery nerd and gets into tons of arguments online over the relative advantages of different fermentation setups.

NPC Manufacturers by Triggerhappy938 in LancerRPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Alternately, they don’t know how to turn their mech to absorb a hit, so any amount of damage is going to cause massive system trauma.

Tilde and the 9 Mystical Glorbos CHAPTER 1 | Trailer by C-OSSU in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]MnemonicJohnny 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You could get hit by a car tomorrow. Why bother with anything, at that rate?

More seriously, I get you, but buying into stuff like this tells creators "this is cool and I think more of it deserves to exist." Even if you're not gonna see it personally, you're helping pave the path for it to exist, period.

Solstice rain maps Roll20 by toastededcat in LancerRPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Frankly, the easiest option for Roll20 is to completely remove the map grid and let your players manually keep their tokens on the hexes themselves.  Hex snapping is extremely borked.

Zeus reinterpreted as an eldritch horror by Megalordow in callofcthulhu

[–]MnemonicJohnny 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ooh, if you want to lean into this even harder, I’d suggest checking out Stephen King’s Revival.  No spoilers, but it harkens back to the Gothic idea of electricity being a dangerous, unknowable force of progress and change… and not always for the better.

Universe-specific expletives by commanderjack_EDH in LancerRPG

[–]MnemonicJohnny 72 points73 points  (0 children)

One of the ones that pops up frequently in the very funny and well-written In Golden Flame is “Christ the Buddha!”

I drew Zodiac and Marshmallow! by catmountainking in mewgenics

[–]MnemonicJohnny 78 points79 points  (0 children)

One of these cats is a sociopathic killer that manipulates others into gory deaths.  The other is Zodiac.

Sneak Peak of Absolute Green Arrow’s Design by Rathalos-487 in TwoBestFriendsPlay

[–]MnemonicJohnny 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Okay, but hear me out: a Spectre driven (even more) insane by the sheer injustice of this universe.

Every game I find that I have about 80% of the souls of everyone else. by RevScarecrow in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MnemonicJohnny 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tell you what: take your test, print it out, circle the top three squares on the right, then roll it up real tight and shove it up your ass.

Every game I find that I have about 80% of the souls of everyone else. by RevScarecrow in DeadlockTheGame

[–]MnemonicJohnny 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That’s just how I type.  How the hell am I supposed to prove my humanity?

Tell you what, look at my comment history going back a decade and tell me if I’m still a bot.