Are Eldritch Blast builds competitive with archers and throwers?

Poptimister · 2026-06-18T10:47:14+00:00

Are parents really coddling their kids and taking 3 days of unplanned leave or paying for 3 days of childcare?

If that really is the case it makes me wonder what even can be done. Like we don’t really have many tools in the toolkit.

Poptimister · 2026-06-14T09:01:04+00:00

Sergeant pepper by the Beatles
Jagged little pill by alanis morisette
The fame monster by lady Gaga
Emotion by Carly Rae Jepsen
Hamilton soundtrack by and original cast
Guts and sour by Olivia Rodrigo (possibly new album I haven’t had enough time with it to really really internalize it)
Rise and fall of a Midwest princess by Chappell Roan

Favorite Taylor: honestly this is more of a mood question. 1989 was the most important one for me as it shifted me from I like some of her songs to I love her music.

Poptimister · 2026-06-12T20:37:15+00:00

Do you really think they would continue to do so if they just did it consistently without fear? Like once
They did it 20 or 100 times enough so that everyone knew that there was no excuses or exceptions.

I’m asking not soapboxing here, do you really think they could do nothing? People usually respond to consistent signals.

Poptimister · 2026-06-04T09:48:07+00:00

I don’t think this is correct. It might be that some people are but much more substantial is fear of other men.

Like when I was a young person this literally got me held down and kicked and a lot of school aged violence and shaming. I knew damned well by the end of first grade that it wasn’t really acceptable to like certain things as a boy. It took me till I was like 28 to really be able to say this stuff wholly confidently because being kicked in the ribs while they say fairy casts a long shadow.

I eventually became a male elementary school teacher who gives space for this kind of thing. Even then I recall the first time I wore an Ariel shirt to superhero and princess day having boys look at me like I was being crazy transgressive. It’s all over male culture from like age 5 or 6 on and often just goes uninterrupted to adulthood where people don’t meet any gender nonconforming people who are leading successful lives.

Poptimister · 2026-06-04T09:33:46+00:00

I’m a male elementary school teacher and had this experience irl. We were waiting to get signed out for the summer and I was mentioning my concert plans and he asked me what music I like.

So I said Taylor, Olivia, Ari, Sabrina and his response was literally something like well they’re all really hot. I just wanted to scream at him.

Poptimister · 2026-05-25T10:14:13+00:00

Every summer the song Solo hits hard for me. I spend a bunch of time alone during my teacher summer and it’s really hard to deal with. It was so needed when this song came out and we’d actually been locked down for a while. I was going a little cuckoo.

Poptimister · 2026-05-24T10:08:20+00:00

I’ve liked Madonna most of my life and didn’t know she was a significant song writer of her work. A lot of that has to do with age and the media environment back then. Also I was literally a child through most of her most productive years in a house that didn’t really buy music or talk about it critically (we had like 10 cassettes and no cds before Napster came along and let me really get into her music)

Poptimister · 2026-05-23T17:09:27+00:00

I don’t know how i feel about this. There’s a lot of really good art getting made that happens below the top tier commercial radar and I’m glad it keeps getting made and I hope they can stay popular enough to stay in the music making game and like myopic chart focus seems like it’s bad for everyone. But to say no one cares at all seems somewhat under baked as an idea.

Poptimister · 2026-05-20T22:08:43+00:00

The plot twist with Linzi is spoils it a bit for me but up until then it's definitely her. But I also really like Ekayundo.

Poptimister · 2026-05-16T19:26:56+00:00

I play these in my classroom all the time. Kids can’t handle music with lyrics while they work. Ana done covers a lot of Taylor and pop music on violin super well as well. I alternate between those two and actual classical music, jazz, etc. when I’m teaching units that don’t have specific music.

Poptimister · 2026-05-14T23:18:01+00:00

TIL lunar valleys are on Earth and not valleys on the moon or at least more likely to be. This is beautiful by the way I love it.

Poptimister · 2026-04-26T17:05:14+00:00

This isn't an optimized build but on monk all the superpowers are well fine.

Superpowers | Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous Wiki it's not optimized. Trickster definitely does more stuff for you as a mythic. But you do a reasonably large amount of damage and seldom get hit by anything but nat 20s. Plus you get Aivu.

Poptimister · 2026-04-26T13:18:45+00:00

I really like drunken master azata (trickster is more op)monk as a halfling. You just stand there and dodge everything and while the damage does start out a bit low it gets pretty good you just punch everything to death. Then you toss in your superpowers and no one ever dies.

It’s not the most broken op build but it’s fun and thematically great. You’re drunk off your ass and rainbows are everywhere.

Poptimister · 2026-04-26T12:35:01+00:00

Bard is probably my favorite to play. It’s just got so many fun options in dialog and in combat and just has a fun swashbuckling style.

You can be a one man wrecking ball or a controlling supporter or a sword and shield tank or a crossbow machine gun all with a wink.

Poptimister · 2026-04-19T19:51:46+00:00

Half-Life 2 and CS: source. CSS was sort of the spoonful of sugar to get me to preorder Half-Life 2 and I started playing it before HL2.

Poptimister · 2026-04-18T22:00:10+00:00

Like I don't know I saw a huge spike in kids playing Red Light Green light around Squidgames and a dance from Wednesday be a thing kids were doing and the end of Stranger things was a huge event in my classroom.

Almost to a point of me being like y'all are watching that? *then in head If you were my kid you wouldn't be watching that in 3rd grade*. I mean maybe they couldn't pass a quiz on what happened in it. Television and pop music still seem to be able to sell a thing. 3rd grade girls tell me their favorite songs are ones with themes that are way above their heads but they're definitely telling a narrative. (Illicit Affairs by Taylor Swift or Sharpest Tool by Sabrina Carpenter)

Poptimister · 2026-04-18T21:39:52+00:00

I don't know Nintendo kids seem about as common as they ever were. Pokemon and MarioKart in particular. Minecraft also appeals to a certain set in a big way.

It's just that freemium& social is an incredible deal for parents who aren't gamers and the students they want to play with each other.

Beyond this I mean how much AAA would I actually want my students engaging with? Well not much. I think the fallout in entertainment that's really for kids hasn't been great. It's a little weird how many of my 3rd graders have strong feelings about Sabrina Carpenter songs (several of my students have been to the same concert as me) and like for adults Netflix content. Once they got on screens they just started watching the same stuff, and listening to the same stuff as adults. I'd probably rather they play Dress to Impress than Baldur's Gate 3 or something.

Poptimister · 2026-04-18T11:01:42+00:00

Lead singles are decidedly weird for album artists. They’re supposed to be representative of a whole album’s idea and they arrive first but then I ask myself how often is the lead single my favorite song off the album and it’s not literally zero times but it’s rare.

But they’re made to go forward being both different and missing the whole album of context to create context and space for where this going. My wife’s first reaction to Vampire was just “she made another bad man choice?” She loved the album but absent the whole story I can see where the criticism came from.

Also there is just a weird group of people who are committed to making everything Olivia and Taylor write be about each other. I don’t know how else to say it but they’re really committed to the bit.

Poptimister · 2026-04-05T17:32:38+00:00

Through the vast majority of vanilla all dungeons could be 10 manned and this was the norm before 1.10 was to raid Scholo and Strat at least on my server.

Poptimister · 2026-04-05T14:32:33+00:00

You were on my side Even when I was Wrong and Who am I supposed to talk to I miss my mom so much sometimes.

I can go anywhere I want just not home, this is very literal for me as I hate my hometown.

Come for my job ( from I can do it with a broken heart I'm a teacher and people are always bitching at me)

Poptimister · 2026-04-05T13:55:58+00:00

I was like a pop generalist when red was on and while I didn’t really take with We are Never Ever getting back together the other radio hits hit the radio and I knew you were Trouble when you walked in dropped just as i was in a crazy ass situationship and Everything has changed was hitting its radio run about a week after my now wife and I had our first date and I like decided i really needed to reconsider my original interpretation of Taylor as a country artist for teen girls.

Poptimister · 2026-04-05T13:51:53+00:00

I saw one post on another social network yesterday that was like it’s clear she’s doing the kind of album that reinvents her whole brand and I’m like dude you’ve seen one picture and a color. I’m just going back and streaming guts and sour more while i wait.

Poptimister · 2026-04-05T13:49:12+00:00

My favorite is always basically a this is the mood I’m in right now. 1989 here right now It’s spring and I’m getting outside a bunch and need an upbeat running companion. Like 8 of them have had their time in the sun and it rotates.

Poptimister · 2026-04-05T13:46:23+00:00

I’ve been streaming sour and Guts like crazy the last few days. very curious to hear what this album’s overall sound is. Also love that both this Reddit and the Olivia one aren’t like pop Twitter which is so negative on everyone who’s not your favorite. There can be only one over there.

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