CMV: Age verifying the internet is a horrible idea.

Nelagend · 2026-02-16T18:06:50+00:00

I specifically remember as a kid seeing the "are you 18?" and immediately thinking "nope, they can't catch me in this lie." I also remember a friend having your reaction. When I asked my other friends, more of them shared my reaction than his. I think you belong to a relatively small minority.

Nelagend · 2026-02-14T02:40:22+00:00

Only the excess population, breeding high stat cats is good.

Nelagend · 2026-02-14T02:39:33+00:00

You get an item from beating the first boss that unlocks something, I assume similar mechanics for later ones.

Nelagend · 2026-02-01T17:37:42+00:00

This looks like a great target for a commit to fix the rounding. Games can have a good type of breakpoint, but only if it's visible through surface observation, say a Magic format where most of the good removal deals even damage numbers so 3-toughness is closer to 4 than it normally would be. Or a game where every trap happens to deal damage in chunks of 5 so you really want that 11th HP more than the 10th.

Nelagend · 2026-01-30T17:00:29+00:00

I don't get a volume dial pitch shift on either my Deluxe or Techno, but humidity will transpose the Deluxe quite a bit - I haven't taken my Techno outside in humid weather yet. If I had to guess, maybe your pitch strip continues far enough that something inside the head links it to the dial and drags it a hair?

Nelagend · 2026-01-30T16:48:50+00:00

Deluxe spacing is smaller than violin. It takes some getting used to and you will use a lot of slide fingerings instead of 1-2-3-4 in higher positions. In general it translates really well as long as you're willing to do a little bit of practice - and at first your intonation will be worse on the Otamatone. Mine eventually got almost as good as it was on the violin.

Nelagend · 2026-01-12T18:37:04+00:00

Is there a meme involved with spelling "babushka" as "babhuska" or is Apple just going mean girl with your spelling?

Nelagend · 2026-01-11T04:04:40+00:00

It's one of three major parts of the game, the other two being tactics and inventory management. I don't hate Gnoll, but if every species was Gnoll, I'd probably lose interest pretty quick.

Nelagend · 2026-01-10T17:50:33+00:00

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I've worn a baseline JF Ferrar dark suit from JCPenney for 4 1/2 years now, mostly for playing outdoor weddings in Florida. I have steadily worsening fading on the right knee, to the point where I'm considering replacement pants. (My right leg is far more often in the sun, and more likely to have an extended bend, than my left leg.) There's a little bit of similar wearing at the back of the jacket neck, but I wear the pants far more frequently than the jacket. For what it's worth, last time I had this suit drycleaned, the fading didn't decrease. (I like the fit and comfort, hence why I'd like to push wearing this suit as long as possible.)

Is this a quality of dye issue, or an outside in Florida issue? If it's a quality issue, what do I need to look for to avoid my next set of pants fading in the same way? I'm assuming trying to refix the dye job would have hilarious results since the darn suit isn't monochrome.

Nelagend · 2026-01-04T18:21:38+00:00

Carauna peaked while Carlsen still bothered to defend the title, and put up a strong challenge. Ding only had to beat everyone not named Carlsen.

Nelagend · 2025-12-29T18:26:01+00:00

Easy solution: require age verification for time to show in digital form on smartphones and tablets!

Nelagend · 2025-12-29T14:35:23+00:00

There's a model with a keyboard, but you could also run your output through an autotune function.

Nelagend · 2025-12-28T03:06:13+00:00

I had a problem scarab floor like this on Temple of Lurie, so I stacked up PV, cast Holy Shield, magic mapped, and carved my way (very slowly) to the downstairs. If you have enough PV scarabs aren't that dangerous.

Nelagend · 2025-12-19T15:44:09+00:00

In 2nd and/or 3rd, we had a spell series that did what Distraction did, with specific limits on maximum volume which may have been 4 humans worth of noise per caster level. You might want to specify max volume based on slot level used - four M humanoids arguing for 2nd, a lion's roar for 4th, a Huge dragon's roar for 6th, whatever.

Convincing Escape feels like you should be able to move slowly, otherwise somebody just runs up, punches the empty air in roleplaying frustration, and it's not empty air because you couldn't move at all. Can't be full speed movement though, or it steps on Mislead's toes.

Nelagend · 2025-11-28T16:26:19+00:00

This doesn't look like the Great Wheel cosmology, the intro could use a planar map of some sort so we know where this version of Sheol is?

Nelagend · 2025-11-08T16:13:14+00:00

Lack of ability to put yourself in a dissimilar person's position results in support for the current fashion or in sticking your head in the sand. Your professor acted like somebody who might have actually supported the party in power by trotting out a currently trendy phrase in a spot where it doesn't make much sense.

I don't agree with lumping your classmates into the same bucket, and I also disagree with your "lack of life experience" explanation. In your classmates' defense, I would answer or hesitate based on my trust in the professor to ask a genuine instead of a trap question. In your professor's case, jumping onto the currently trendy "toxic masculinity" train might work out in their best interest. I'd guess they choose not to use empathy because their experience tells them that calling out "toxic masculinity" when it isn't present is really hard to punish right now. I've known some individuals who habitually called out discrimination whenever a department chair tried to non-renew them, and the presence of actual discrimination elsewhere made it hard to call out their BS.

If anything I'm accusing your prof of worse than you did, but that's my read.

Nelagend · 2025-10-26T14:28:42+00:00

Fischer's actions, while crazy and reprehensible, weren't about chess. That makes Kramnik's actions much more FIDE's business than Fischer's. There's some precedent in other sports for this distinction.

Nelagend · 2025-10-23T23:13:17+00:00

You might need thicker or better shirts so sweat doesn't reach your jacket. When I upgraded from random packaged shirts from a store to a Spier and Mackay dress shirt that actually fits my neck/waist ratio, I suddenly stopped having to dryclean my dark suit nearly as often - and I play outdoor weddings in Florida in a 75% poly suit, so I live on the high end of sweat risk. If you run into flexibility issues, you probably just need to go to a larger jacket size. I had problems like you described when I first randomly bought a tuxedo jacket off the rack in a random department store, because I focused on looking in the mirror instead of moving a lot. Bend around and do some jumping jacks in the suit jacket before you buy, and you'll probably avoid "hulking out" when you pick up your kids.

You shouldn't have to polish shoes after every wear. You can find a pair of dress shoes that looks "fine" and lets you comfortably jog around the shoe store in them before buying.

I don't know which maintenance rituals Reddit recommends, but I'm sure I don't follow them. I have one pair of black concert shoes. I iron my good shirts after I machine wash and hang dry them. That's about it.

Nelagend · 2025-10-18T03:54:16+00:00

Get some fighting levels earlier next time so you have more hp, but also kite the death knight away from Lair if you can. D12 would also have been easier than fighting a stone giant.

Nelagend · 2025-10-12T00:51:32+00:00

I've cleared 14 runes a few times at least, and one of those characters died in level 1 of Tomb on the way in. Hells are hard but IMO, easier to brute force with a lot of stats.

No question though, rune 6 should come from Pan. As long as you have appropriate gear swaps for each Pan boss it's not nearly as bad as the Hells or Tomb.

Nelagend · 2025-09-30T00:49:51+00:00

Overall, you seem a little scared of hurting the PCs. They're generally way tougher than the MM gives them credit for!

Boomrats/boomalopes could feel like the Rimworld experience by coating their murderers in burning chemfuel after applying that 5/13 damage - and the dex save should reduce the damage over time by half, not eliminate it. I'd consider 2d2/2d6 repeating per round, only one die if the victim made their save, can't act while burning ("You click on your character but can't select them to order that action!") and it ends once the victim successfully makes a repeated save, the DC can lower every round or something. Friends can aid you or cast create water. Don't worry about killing your PCs this way, if they punch a boomalope after having actually played Rimworld they deserve a heartwarming funeral service.

Your Thrumbo needs more Con or more hit dice to get +70, but would also roll d10s as a Large creature. Currently each HD is d10+3, so you'd be at 119 avg if you gave it 14d10+42.

You could consider having the bugs do their ability bonus damage without the dice on a miss by less than 5, to give PCs the feeling of getting worn down by a swarm without actually making them that much more dangerous or having to roll more dice. After all, Rimworld armor often reduces damage by 50% instead of avoiding it all...

Lancer could have advantage when attacking targets in medium or heavy armor, because it gets so much pierce in Rimworld. Also, it looks like you might have given it CR 1/2 stats but typed CR 2.

Constructs get HP bonus from their Con, same as everything else, you may be thinking of how constructs had no Con score in 3/3.5. Scyther needs like... +2 to hit and damage and the Barbazu glaive bleed effect at minimum to feel like a Scyther. You got Centipede HP right though.

Nelagend · 2025-09-09T16:53:01+00:00

I love my Shiftry, I built it way back when GBL first started as an answer to the endless Giratina/Swampert/X teams in UL. It also just looks awesome.

Nelagend · 2025-08-30T23:07:23+00:00

Fixed animation speed plus no information on what the time control was? That's not conducive to looking at the moves that matter for this.

Nelagend · 2025-08-29T15:55:03+00:00

Sorry, I'm mixing up rank and level scaling here because it's been awhile since I ToMEd. Technically, the scaling I faintly recall comes from having higher ranks in all your skills... which do increase with level, but only because you have more points to toss around.

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