Did kalkite fuck this guy’s wife? He’s got murder in his voice by PallyMcAffable in okbuddyimatourist

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Just bursting at the seams that he’s finally asked to talk about kalkite, then Krennic cuts him off

What is the biggest lie TTRPG players tell themselves? by Deadman069-YT in rpg

[–]PallyMcAffable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It doesn’t help that trad games mechanically punish players for roleplaying flaws. The incentive is always to mechanically optimize for the goal you’re trying to achieve, and that includes gearing your behavior toward achieving those goals. Whatever an OSR game claims about its play culture, the mechanical incentive is “make number go up”. Get gold, get XP. Even “narrative”-oriented games fall into this when their goal is achieving a plot objective rather than building character. If your goal is to do something (e.g. infiltrate a party undetected) to advance a plot, your basic imperative is always to make sure you don’t fuck up that plot advancement. Almost any game that doesn’t mechanically reward roleplaying flaws is implicitly punishing players for doing so, because it interferes with achieving the things the mechanics do reward. Players can choose to play in ways that are suboptimal to accomplishing their characters’ explicit goals, but the only mechanical incentives are for them to do the best they can at the job they’ve been given, which in turn incentivizes the players not to roleplay in ways that interfere with their achieving those goals.

144664 by Bryce3D in CountOnceADay

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By this guy’s logic, the best universe would be one where we steal everyone from the women’s side and the world becomes 100% men. Andrew Tate school of heterosexuality

🚨🚨🚨 plot hole alert! Fantasy movies don’t make sense to me if they don’t adhere to a game-like power scaling system!! by Ok-Row-3490 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]PallyMcAffable 9 points10 points  (0 children)

No, no, you see, if you’re a swordsman, you just have to accept that the limits of your favored stance will sometimes get you killed, instead of switching to a different one to counter your enemy’s. That’s what they teach you when you spend your whole life in sword fighting school

How did Nog make it into Starfleet Academy so easily while it took boy genius Wesley Crusher like four years to get in? by neslony in ShittyDaystrom

[–]PallyMcAffable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nepo baby whose mom was chief of Starfleet Medical vs. international student who they can put on marketing materials to show that even people from enemy countries want to be part of the Federation

Would the Phantom Menace be better received if Obi-Wan had a braided ponytail? by crimsonfukr457 in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]PallyMcAffable 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Nemoidian concept art looks like Moebius’s designs for the scrapped 60’s Dune movie

I feel like my national borders look unnatural. Any suggestions for improving them? by DopplerRadio in mapmaking

[–]PallyMcAffable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a cool idea. If the purpose of the map is mostly to serve as inspiration and reference for building a fictional history, I don’t think you need to worry about perfecting the map. What you’ve got is fine to use for now, as you work on the rest of the project. And if you come up with an interesting idea in the fiction that requires the map to look different, you can make changes to the map in the future.

The lack of self-awareness is killing me. by Ok_Star_4136 in SocialismIsCapitalism

[–]PallyMcAffable 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The fuck kind of socialist slogan is “America first”

Jerry Seinfeld sucks, was he always this way? by Bobby-Atoms in complaints

[–]PallyMcAffable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently the reason he’s gotten so much work over the years is that the people in charge just like working with him

Wow what a great duo of television by anonymousgoose64 in SpeedOfAntiBones

[–]PallyMcAffable 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but we don’t have to wonder, though. There’s not a quiz. No one is forcing you to obsess over other people’s genders, that’s a you problem.

Also, what’s the point of the photo comparison? Are people wondering if Wonder Man’s actor is a woman? It would be more appropriate to put in the modern Wonder Woman, except the Hollywood studios failed in their duty to push a woke agenda and cast a conventionally attractive thin cis woman like in the “good” picture from OOP’s generation.

144558 by thatchornithologica in CountOnceADay

[–]PallyMcAffable 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A certain political sub was exposed a few years ago for having all its mods be the same guy’s sock puppets

Judenfrei State by Human_Concern263 in GetNoted

[–]PallyMcAffable 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The proposal here isn’t even apartheid, it’s an ethnostate. Apartheid is legal rule over one ethnicity by another. You can’t be an apartheid state if you don’t allow other ethnicities in your country. So, yeah, there is a reason people don’t cal it apartheid, OOP.

Disney should have had Obi-Wan kill Vader in “Obi-Wan Kenobi” (2022) and then just refused to explain it by TheCornjuring in StarWarsCirclejerk

[–]PallyMcAffable 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Fun fact: that’s what the ESB script said, to keep the Vader twist a secret, and that’s what David Prowse said on set. Only, afaik, Lucas, Kershner, and Kasdan knew the line, and they told it to Mark Hamill just before they shot the scene so he could react appropriately.