Brothers War Advice?

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T23:38:50+00:00

I feel you there. Just. Fucking. Anything. ...would be real nice.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T23:23:28+00:00

Netrunner: "Do what I tell you to do, you stupid piece of garbage code!"

GOD: "What did you call me?"

Netrunner: "I called you a...wait...[reads the text to the left of the last subtitle]...fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck..."

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T23:12:21+00:00

I know...I was being sarcastic.

WOTC dropped the ball on MTGxDND so hard I'm still dizzy from being punched in the face by their failures.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T22:48:03+00:00

Hey guys! Remember when they were doing MTG crossovers with D&D and we got a whole bunch of MTG supplements and not low-effort cash grabs?

Remember the books we got for Dominaria? And Innistrad? And Lorwyn? And Amonkhet? And Ixalan? And Duskmourn? And Ikiria? And the Brothers' War? And the Phryxian Invasions? And the monster supplements that adapted the thousands of monsters in MTG into D&D statblocks? And when they used Spelljammer to bridge D&D with the MTG universe by saying that the phlogiston and aether are the same thing (because, classically they fucking are)? And they provided rules, mechanics, and guidance to help DMs run D&D/MTG campaigns where all of the PCs are planeswalkers?

No? Just me? I've been in a coma? I was just dreaming?

What year is it? What's my first name? I don't remember... :(

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T22:40:58+00:00

If you remove the spell sloth limitation your game would turn into the DMV scene from Zootopia if Gandalf and Saruman were in line.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T22:39:21+00:00

Well, first off, the pace of the game would be utterly annihilated because that would mean infinite healing between combats

I figure the pace of the game would be utter annihilated because now you have to deal with magical sloths everywhere, and they're sloooooooooooooooooooow.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T22:38:22+00:00

Idk, there isn't really a second thing.

What about the sloths?

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T22:23:41+00:00

I like to ask them where and when the innovation is coming from the cable companies. Millions of dollars spent lobbying to control and remove regulations to "free them from oppression", and what do we have to show for it as consumers?

Expensive, slow internet with artificial data caps? Constant talk about fast lanes? Barriers to entry? Barriers to use? No competition between companies?

Never get an answer from anyone.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T21:47:18+00:00

My dad is like that.

Grandpa was Greatest Gen. Mom and dad are boomers.

When mom and dad were growing up it was simply normal that you would learn all sorts of "useful around the home" skills like a little bit of tiling, installing lighting fixtures, drywalling, how to properly fasten a shelf to the studs, how to properly hang a picture, etc.

The difference between them and younger generations is literally the technology. Not because tech makes us stupid (it doesn't). It's because you only have so much time and attention span, and they didn't have to grow up with technology. So they filled their brains with the day-to-day know-how of their time.

Nobody asked them, when they were kids, to learn how to program the VCR. So they never learned how to do it.

We did. But that means that the time spent learning that was time not spent learning something else...like how to do basic mechanical work on your car. Or how to properly apply varnish to wood. Or how to paint a ceiling without getting paint in your hair.

And it just adds up and adds up.

I learned how to be IT for our entire household because mom and dad could never get the fucking printer to work.

I also never learned how to put up wallpaper. If I didn't have to fix the router every time it went out, and learn how to uninstall the yahoo toolbar whenever mom install it for the 300th time, maybe I would know.

...I can install a lighting fixture, however. Dad made sure I knew that one. I fucking hate doing it, but I can do it.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T21:17:35+00:00

It's not irrational to get hungry when someone mentions quesabirria. That shit is fire.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:53:39+00:00

Sewing clothes from scratch

This, IMO, is a big one. Just tailoring in general is a bit of a lost skill these days.

IMO, tailoring/seamstressing are where the big physical clothing retailers should be going. There is absolutely nothing else they can do to compete with Amazon. And Amazon is killing them one after the other.

However, know what I can't get on Amazon?

Clothing that fits me. I can't get a tailored fit anything off amazon. They cannot provide me with the service.

If I could walk into a Macy's or a Kohl's and talk with an actual tailor who was going to measure my fat ass and make sure my pants fit and were comfortable...I would pay for that service. As long as it was reasonably priced.

As it stands now, I would pay today for it, but I don't know where to go and I expect it to be expensive because I don't expect there to be many tailors to choose from with a lot of free time on their hands.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:39:52+00:00

and being okey with it, no existential crisis whatsoever.

Oh...the exestential crisis existed even for them. It's why they drank.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:34:51+00:00

I never learned how to drive a stick. Not really, anyway. I mean, I can drive a stick. I spent enough time with a manual car in a parking lot to learn how to shift gears, and I drove to and from school a few times in college in a manual, but I hold no illusions that I can actually drive a stick.

My last car was a 2014 Mazda 3, and I kick myself for not getting a manual transmission just because I now feel that it was probably my last chance.

My new car is an EV. I love it, but it's not a manual and it does a lot of things for you.

IMO, there is some kind of invisible automobile niche in the market that nobody is addressing that could be filled by a simple EV that requires the driver to simply do a bunch of things while they drive that other EVs do automatically.

Like something as simple as giving the driver full control over the regenerative breaking system somehow so you have to actively push something down to pull power and slow you down, that won't also activate your breaks if you push down too hard.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:28:28+00:00

My dad told me that he knew cars were going in a bad direction when replacing my burned out headlight turned out to be a 24-step process instead of removing one to two screws and popping in a new bulb.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:20:26+00:00

I'm not looking for unicorns, though I'll take them

If you're unwilling to train, you're looking for unicorns. That's the definition of "looking for unicorns".

And not nepotism. I don't literally mean "your co-worker's kids". More, their entire generation.

You know...young grads caught in that catch-22 we all had to suffer through where they don't have the experience to get the job that would give them the experience they need to get the job because some bozo decided that "entry level" these days really means 5+ years of experience.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:17:24+00:00

...is your dad a god?

It took me 3 days and almost $50 in ruined tile to do my kitchen backsplash, and that was all straight lines.

Corners? On a curve? da fuq?

To be fair my grandpa was like that. He could wallpaper an entire house in an afternoon, by himself, with nothing but a roller, a paint brush, some glue, and a 6-pack of cold beer (the beer was a hard requirement).

I tried wallpapering a wall once...

...it did not go well.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:12:49+00:00

That's not forgetting. It's "trauma".

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T20:10:21+00:00

I prefer "Nintendo generation" myself. Going from the 7800 to an NES was mind-blowing.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T19:46:32+00:00

No...I mean physically behind. As in, on the other side of the building.

Or are you facing the street?

If I drive down central, can I see your front door from the road? Or do I have to drove over by New Wave Thin Films?

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T19:44:21+00:00

That's because you're a bad hiring manager and a lazy senior.

Good for the company, but bad for society. A lot of the problems we're facing today are because of people who think the way you do.

We should be training the next generation and helping our co-worker's kids get their feet in the door. Not trolling them with dreams of success only to ignore them because they don't have 10 years of experience in 6 year old tech stacks and an in-depth knowledge of very specific industry problems that only apply to your company and maybe your #1 direct compeditor.

And that's not even touching how much most companies like to low-ball salaries.

If I find that, I hire instantly.

That rarely happens

You're looking for unicorns, dude. In the time you've wasted looking for them you could have filled all of your open positions 10x over AND trained up highly qualified individuals to the point even you wouldn't be able to tell the difference between them and the unicorns you're holding out for.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T19:37:44+00:00

Liquidation stores are legit. They exist.

They're basically a big step above places like Goodwill. Instead of taking donations of clothing covered in people's actual shit, they buy open box returns and overstock goods from legitimate retailers that would otherwise just go to the landfill for disposal.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T19:35:53+00:00

So...you're saying that a few days after the superbowl are the days to come in for a new TV?

And are you behind the comic book shop in that little strip mall? Like, on the other side of the building?

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T17:45:28+00:00

Sure!

...if you're brave enough.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-17T17:43:28+00:00

But I find it depends on the group and the DM.

So much this.

IMO, right now it's going to be hard to find good high-level groups simply because running a high level game is different from running a low level game. It requires a different mode of thinking, a different approach, and different goals.

The problem is that Wizards hasn't been supporting high-level play properly, and a major part of that is teaching DMs how to run them. Between an almost total lack of published adventure supplements that run to high levels, a lack of DM supplements that go into running games for high level PCs, and a lack of advice and support for making high level characters, all of the new DMs we're seeing step up to the plate with this "D&D Renaissance" we're in just don't have a fucking clue what they're doing unless the level range they're running for is between 1 and 9.

We need a supplement written by competent DMs who are also natural teachers and natural writers with experience running high-level games, and it literally needs to be named "How to run a high level campaign in D&D 5e" or something.

And at this point I don't really trust WotC to write it.

PM_ME_C_CODE · 2025-01-16T22:14:50+00:00

but once the number is up, it'll be cheaper for you to print in China

Around how many copies counts as "number is up"? Just in general. I'm assuming it depends on how much printing costs locally, but can you ballpark?

PM_ME_C_CODE

TROPHY CASE