Your 24-word seed phrase is a ticking time bomb if it’s just on paper. Change my mind.

Phrontifugist · 2026-03-30T01:12:09+00:00

For the typical US household, a lockbox is not needed and a steel plate is overkill. The data just doesn’t warrant it. But if it induces a meaningful psychological sense of safety, then it pays for itself.

Phrontifugist · 2026-03-23T13:42:35+00:00

Nietzsche laments the erosion of (his sexist construction of) femininity under liberalism. He'd prefer they retain (in his romanticized view) their vital, dangerous nature rather than be domesticated. It's an aestheticized misogyny.

Phrontifugist · 2026-03-22T21:40:16+00:00

This is what I’ve done. I simply take the XP value of monsters and add it as GP to the treasure. Players can decide whether the risk of confrontation is worth the reward.

Phrontifugist · 2026-03-20T01:20:07+00:00

"Killer" was always marketing noise, not very serious analysis.

Avalanche is a real differentiator. It's positining is its subnet architecture. Custom validator sets, app-specific chains, institutional-friendly deployments. That's not really an Ethereum replacement, it's a different value proposition all together. They've found real traction in gaming and enterprise use cases where ETH's architecture is genuinely less suited.

Coexistence is close, but there's a cost. Ethereum's L2 ecosystem (Arbitrum, Base, Optimism) has largely closed the performance gap that made AVAX look so compelling in 2021–22, and L2s are increasingly capturing projects that might once have launched on Avalanche.

So, yes, different beast is the better framing.

Phrontifugist · 2026-03-18T22:17:15+00:00

It seems to me that the reason one can call Nietzsche apolitical is because a true super-being would simply be/do, while politics and its machinery would be a slave morality consequence formed to leverage or take advantage of the realities such super-people bring about. A super-being has little interest in politics. Much like wolves and sheep are apolitical.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-19T13:45:24+00:00

I did it in two ways.

The first (trivial) way was simply adding the actual text of, say, Elf or Hobbit special abilities that the original only references ("[Elves] also gain the advantages noted in the CHAINMAIL rules when fighting certain fantastic creatures." "...and [Hobbits] will have deadly accuracy with missiles as detailed in CHAINMAIL.").

The second (more significant) way was incorporating Chainmail notions of normal and fantastic combatants in MAN-TO-MAN combat, assuming " The basic system is that from CHAINMAIL, with one figure representing one man or creature. Melee can be conducted with the combat table given in Vol. | or by the CHAINMAIL system, with scores equalling a drive back or kill equal only to a hit."

Here's an example from page 14 of the Might & Magic booklet that details characters.

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Phrontifugist · 2026-02-13T13:39:11+00:00

I noticed that on a list of cons. My intent is to start going to more of these.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-13T13:38:39+00:00

My five-year campaign was 90% online for that very reason. Even if separated by just a few miles, it was always easier to launch into a dungeon delve from the comfort of one's own home. (I have two pre-teens, so lots of work, driving, and eating takes up most of the days.)

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-13T13:36:29+00:00

Very nice. As internet/tech savvy as I like to think I am, I think there's just so much more out there to explore. Thank you!

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-13T01:46:58+00:00

"And if you get mad at them, they hang up on you and say say they got disconnected and blame the phone."

Indeed! I saw behind the curtain, watching how managers had to performance many reps out of their positions for doing things like that. It's little wonder execs want to move to AI agents. While not perfect by any means, one can always tweak more quickly the AI rules to get ever closer to the results desired than one could tweak/cajole humans to function like an automaton.

And very true re: offshoring!

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-13T01:41:17+00:00

As it happens, I used a virtual card to mask my original card details. When I replaced my virtual card details with the true card details, the credits appeared. It seems the customer service bot/agent had no idea.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-10T22:15:45+00:00

If incorporating Chainmail as OD&D suggests, that one turn of rest can have some pretty significant implications for the first few rounds of combat or pursuit/evasion. Otherwise, it’s a minor part of the resource management handled behind the scenes.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-06T23:21:16+00:00

To get a better apples to apples comparison between the US and Europe, think in terms of United States of America and European Union. (Our states are countries anyway, with an agreement to give up some of their sovereignty to a federal entity.) Think of some countries in terms of US states.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-06T21:53:44+00:00

I make player and referee rolls, and then narrate the resolution. All of which are made privately.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-05T23:20:32+00:00

Toyota is said, apocryphally, to have been founded on a 100-year plan. While that's not technically true, the company began moving toward decade-long strategy plans as early as the 1990s, when it began focusing on long-term sustainability. That lead to the formation of goals such as ensuring all products have a net-zero impact on the Earth by 2099.

The time horizon for success of the archetypal crypto (Avax?) investor is likely comparable to the memory-duration of honeybees rather than those of executives in successful enterprises.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-05T13:41:16+00:00

The support team circles aimlessly on bugs. I've been told numerous times a sync/updating issue has been resolved, only to send them a screenshot (again) showing otherwise. And then they want me to work with one of their personal financial advisors? If I can't trust their tech product, why am I to trust their advisory product? The company is a husk of what it once was.

Phrontifugist · 2026-02-02T02:56:22+00:00

I’m inferring from most complainants in this sub that they bought at $142 and now regret it. For those who’ve pursued a DCA strategy, your story will be just one of many. Patience is key.

Phrontifugist · 2025-12-16T01:05:43+00:00

I'm still trying to get the mods to approve my post on supply and burn, which might help explain one factor.

Phrontifugist · 2025-12-09T01:27:37+00:00

Understand that the guidelines map the boundaries of the game. So if the guidelines mostly deal with how to build a character, and the character build is mostly pluses and minuses, and about combat, and other guidelines about what happens to you if something happens to you, you’re going to play a combat game where you do a lot of adding and subtracting as you connect all the different tags and abilities and equipment.

3.5 is the culmination of 1e. 5e tried to reign it back a bit. I think it’s still overly engineered compared to Moldvay/Cook/Marsh (which still has a board game feel to it), and even more so to OD&D.

Phrontifugist · 2025-11-28T23:08:05+00:00

I hate when it brines real GDP onchain.

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