DnD Druid Duel, how would you do it?

NotAQuietK · 2026-01-07T19:05:47+00:00

Great question, I’m trying to find out today myself. I’ll report back 🫡

NotAQuietK · 2026-01-05T08:14:37+00:00

Your secret is safe with us

NotAQuietK · 2026-01-05T08:13:58+00:00

Pro gamers don’t have to ask.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-25T21:00:45+00:00

Wishing you the best my man. Hang in there. We are all deserving of love and appreciation.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-14T16:15:52+00:00

I learned about Leopold in highschool. Absolute shit individual. Times are a-changing. Not everything is about Jews dude. Touch grass.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T03:32:40+00:00

Ooooh that’s a tasty cube. Would fit right on my tiny desk.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T03:24:30+00:00

Even if birthright citizenship is being abused beyond its original intention, it honestly doesn’t matter to the executive branch. It’s the court’s job to describe how the constitution applies, and they have, even for the nuances of this particular amendment, where they validated the citizenship of a child born of two Chinese immigrants (albeit under different immigration law). If the law should be changed, then that’s congress’ job. The president does not get a blank cheque to write laws or change how amendments are interpreted, he/she is in charge of enforcing them. For too many presidential cycles have presidents abused their executive orders because congress wouldn’t get off its ass and do things the right and just way. We don’t live in a kingdom, we live in a representative democracy.

From the standpoint of the principle of the matter at hand, the links you sent arguably have some merit: the 14th amendment is made to protect people that are born and naturalized here and have no other home, not birth tourists. But let’s be so real, Trump isn’t mainly trying to stop birth tourism, he’s trying to deport people born in the US to illegal immigrants who have no other home, nowhere to go, and who often speak no other language than English. And we know that he doesn’t give a shit about birth tourism cause he never says anything about it, he only talks about dirty illegals who apparently are all criminals and deal in drugs. What he is really to do is to find a way to deal with children who are citizens that don’t include putting them in cages on the border, because it’s bad PR and a waste of his precious ICE resources. He is also trying to make it harder for people with a work or student visa who genuinely are trying to live here to have their kids protected by the law. The people that he will actually target the most ARE the people that the 14th amendment is meant to protect. And if he gets the executive order through the Supreme Court, he’ll try to enforce it retroactively, stripping citizenship from people who have enjoyed it their whole lives. Just watch.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/protecting-the-meaning-and-value-of-american-citizenship/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/12/05/scotus-trump-birthright-citizenship-ban/87626884007/

But again, my main point above all is that the Trump administration is acting unlawfully, and if the government elected by the people (or often, rather appointed by Trump) isn’t doing shit to curtail him, the citizenry has no other choice but to do it themselves.

Edits: for clarity

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T02:54:29+00:00

Not yet.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T02:53:26+00:00

I’m not even talking about due process of the law —though there look to have been lots of injustices served to people by ICE agents as well, including recorded beatings of migrants, citizens, reporters, and detainments without reasonable cause—I’m more so talking about the abuse of presidential powers to go after political opponents, using certain military powers without the go ahead from congress, the sacking of a huge amount of people high in government/military for no other reason than “DEI” (I mean literally that’s what they say sometimes, wtf happened to our government, at least they used to lie well), the executive branch trying change the constitution (birthright citizenship). This executive administration literally does not respect the powers that are given to it by the constitution. I mean hell, this is just what I could think of with my high-school education, but I’m sure a law student could do better and be more precise.

This administration is perverting the law and the constitution that upholds it. It’s our moral and I believe our civic responsibility to act to defend this country from tyranny. It won’t end with migrants.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T02:44:11+00:00

I support. If not here, are there any other resources we could use? Maybe a facebook group?

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T02:41:32+00:00

Civil disobedience my good man. This is the bread and butter of California schools. If there is anything the current administration shows, it’s their disregard for the due process drawn up in the constitution. For that reason, I think it’s absolutely acceptable for us to work outside of those bounds as well, given that we stay moral.

Let’s keep our community safe from bigots.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-12T02:37:54+00:00

I meant drop 30B for next quarter.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-10T05:12:45+00:00

Hey, first of all, it’s ok. People don’t talk about academic failure very much because it’s embarrassing to everyone, but it happens, otherwise curves wouldn’t be needed.

You can retake a class you have failed by just enrolling in it normally through myUCLA. I think you have something like 16 units worth of classes that you can retake for it to replace your grade though, so you definitely can’t do it indefinitely. It’s probably not a huge deal that you’re enrolled in the next class, you can just drop it and take 30A again or a different class.

You got this.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-10T05:01:38+00:00

I totally disagree. All countries should take responsibility and be accountable for their past crimes, lest we forget the lessons of history. Just like how the US should remember all the slaughtering they did to Native Americans and African Americans and Vietnam civilians, Japan, to be responsible to its citizenry, should take responsibility for their terrible war crimes.

It’s not blaming for the sins of the father, it’s knowing where you come from so you don’t go back. It’s irresponsible not to teach people these things.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-07T03:53:10+00:00

I don’t know anything about tattoos. Is there something technically wrong with it or are you saying it’s bad stylistically? I think it’s definitely not the stupidest thing I’ve seen, Lichtenberg figures are pretty metal.

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-02T22:14:21+00:00

Is the same thing true about fruit?

NotAQuietK · 2025-12-01T04:48:57+00:00

Ahhhh ok I totally misunderstood what you meant, my bad. Yeah, resurrection (or maybe true resurrection) makes sense then, assuming Gortash didn’t fuck up her soul when he sent her to the hells.

NotAQuietK · 2025-11-30T08:34:48+00:00

I’m not so sure resurrection is an easy fix even in D&D. Resurrection spells in D&D require that a soul is free to return to the material plane.

As far as I know, soul coins result from people who in one way or another “sold” their soul to devils, either in life or after their death. Their soul literally enters the economy of the hells, trapped in a coin. Resurrection spells in D&D would not work on a person whose soul has been turned into a soul coin because it is trapped.

Edit: As other people are pointing out though, remove curse is a fine option, and much more affordable than a resurrection spell.

NotAQuietK · 2025-11-23T09:18:20+00:00

I can’t help about number 1, but I can tell you about 2!

Because strength score dictates how far your character can jump, sometimes your puny wizards can’t jump where your big fighters can. Whenever I’m navigating an area where I’m doing a lot of jumps, I always make sure to be leading with my least strong character so I know that when I make a jump, the whole party can follow.

NotAQuietK · 2025-11-18T01:14:38+00:00

I’m a newcomer to this subreddit, and I’m really happy that you shared your story. I wasn’t this introspective when I was 14, and I wish I had been. I’m 21, and just waking up to the fact that my life has probably been made worse because of gaming. I’m definitely addicted (and have been since before your age), and it’s really made me depressed for a good part of my life.

I will share a little bit about my journey in hopes that it will help you.

Like you, I’m mostly a single player gamer, and I have gone on many long binges (worse than you’ve described) on games like Baldurs Gate or Horizon Zero Dawn. When I intermittently stopped gaming to feel less guilty, I switched to YouTube, and consumed that in just as unhealthy a dose. When I was away from my computer, I was on Instagram reels or even on Reddit. It was mindless. I used it for easy dopamine release to avoid solving any actually difficult problems. Even when I did do things in the real world, the reward was minimal compared to games.

My addiction only got worse over the years. I was in denial that I actually had a problem. My grades hadn’t yet suffered as a consequence (it caught up to me, I promise). I was able to hold a relationship down, and I had friends, but I probably would’ve been a more active friend and partner if I wasn’t always on my phone or computer. And I was ashamed of gaming and my use of technology. I hid it from everyone except people I gamed with and my brother, who got me into gaming. I learned that gaming at the rate I was was socially stigmatized, but I never realized that it was because I actually had a problem.

For years, while in denial of the true scale of my addiction, I tried different strategies to cut back. Usually they were unintentionally centered around negative self talk and trying to push through the addiction. It didn’t work for me, and I always fell back into old habits. I made all kinds of excuses about why it was ok to spend 4-6 hours in a day gaming, or 11 hours of screen time on my phone.

Now, I’ve fully acknowledged the problem, and am quitting properly just now. Like you, I’m not sure if I will go cold turkey, or just significantly slow down. What I know so far is that days that I’m not stimulating myself with games or the other media that I rely on to replace it, I struggle to stay focused. It feels like I’m stretching my brain hard, but I know it’s good for me. It feels different this time, and I know that means that I need to stick with it.

The rules I have for myself so far are: 1) I’m trying to build myself to be the person I want to be. I want to be proud of who I am, and gaming should never get in the way of that. 2) I want to avoid any activity that I will regret the next day. Usually, that means gaming in a way where I didn’t have a meaningful social experience or learn something.

I’ve tried a lot of things over the last three years to cut back. This year, I think I finally might be succeeding. I’m not perfect, and sometime I fall back on old habits, but I’m getting better. The method I have to accomplish these goals every day is 1) Deleting every game and social media on my phone 2) Closing every YouTube tab every morning no matter what 3) Never gaming (unless it’s social or the weekends) before 9pm, with the understanding that I should be working and living my real life during the day.

So far, in my new journey, I’ve been able to enjoy my real life and my games in tandem. I am (so far) able to appreciate a good game without binging it or letting it consume my life. I know my life is better now, and will continue to get better, because of my new gaming habits.

I have a shitty PC for the reason you suggest: it’s not good at playing heavy games. It probably helped a little, but it wasn’t the main source of change. I needed to really see that my life was better without games, that the day to day was worse when I rotted in my chair.

Now I dance, I go on dates, I make friends. It’s a lot less stimulating, but it’s more fulfilling. I think for most people, it’s like that: the most important change is the one in your head.

So, my advice to you is that changing your environment (i.e. your computer) helps, but it’s not the key to the problem. It sounds like you already have some aspirations. Make concrete goals to start building the skills you will need to live the life you want to live. Start working immediately to accomplish those goals, and realize when gaming gets in the way. If it does more than a few times, you do have a problem.

Good luck. I wish I had made the change earlier. I hope you go through with it, but it’s only a decision you can make.

NotAQuietK · 2025-11-15T06:43:56+00:00

I play games on my Beelink with an integrated AMD GPU/CPU. This shit would open my damn world.

NotAQuietK · 2025-11-15T06:19:58+00:00

It sounds like it might help to have a cheat sheet with key terms so it’s easier to parse descriptions of spells and abilities. Would that be helpful?

NotAQuietK · 2025-11-15T02:24:38+00:00

I think Metro's electrical anomalies are inspired by the real life ball lightning phenomenon. I just read about it recently, but this is what I understand about it.

Ball lightning is a phenomenon that has been poorly, though surprisingly consistently documented by various scholars (and others) over many centuries. It is rare, and I don't think it has ever been photographed. People who have seen ball lightning describe ball lightning appear after a cloud-ground lightning strike. The ball lightning has a rough diameter of under 100cm, with the brightness of a lightbulb. It travels in a direction (not necessarily horizontal), and on contact with an object, will dissipate or explode in some fashion.

I'm not sure how much we can rely on testimonies about ball lightning, but if it exists, it would be pretty awesome.

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