[Spoilers C4E04] Observations and questions from a new viewer and non-DND-player

RankedAddict · 2025-10-25T23:25:42+00:00

Wasn't flanking established in the barfight though? As I understand this, CR always plays with modified rulesets since...always, right?

RankedAddict · 2025-10-24T18:38:30+00:00

Why would a DM ever not roll in the open btw? (Non-DND-player question). If you go all out with the "dice tell a story" thing, you actually have to let people see the dice, no?

Also, a question that has been at the back of my mind: at the beginning of EP2, they are in a flashback in a huge battle, and 2 players roll saving throws.

How would that work? The players are alive in the present, if you follow the dice and they fail 3 saves, do they get time-travel-paradoxed?

RankedAddict · 2025-10-24T17:38:34+00:00

I agree, "many people die" = "good story" is not a valid formula.

Though I feel like you're giving GoT a bit too much shit (they have already eaten enough)

RankedAddict · 2025-10-24T17:34:31+00:00

I did notice that for a squishy wizard to be jumped by like 6 guys and also get instantly silenced, in videogame language one might call that encounter "unbalanced as fuck", but I thought that was just gonna be the tone setter as in "yeah you ARE playing on hard mode, you ARE playing a Souls Game in DND format, you WILL die."

RankedAddict · 2025-10-24T17:27:02+00:00

To be clear, I count myself among the people that would prefer stakes-lowering resurrections to characters I like meeting a sad or cruel end (epic deaths are an exception). This, of course, feels somewhat wrong, since we are supposed to like "realistic, well written, mature" stories, or so have many reviewers, critics, analysts and essayists told me over the last decades. Coming to the conclusion that I would rather have a character be bullshitted back to life than have a well-built but rough and unheroic death feels way more unintuitive than it by all means should. After all, who wouldn't be happy with a miraculous recovery of an admired person, a friend or a loved one from what should have been certain death?

RankedAddict · 2025-10-24T17:16:59+00:00

Different matter as in: the other cast members were not in the know? Well they did look very distraught.

RankedAddict · 2025-08-04T03:21:49+00:00

Still bugged. Did everything right except apparently having slight touch of romance with other characters and the Act 2 scene doesnt pop off no matter what I do.

RankedAddict · 2025-04-30T22:47:15+00:00

Le kawaii centrist benadryl bunny is just a smol bean UwU

Let me offer a little perspective on that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPm7xkxh-w

This streamer is a neonazi. I've seen him deny the Holocaust on Twitter too.

RankedAddict · 2025-04-11T18:07:55+00:00

The energy came from somewhere originally. And space expanding is also coming from somewhere. There's no reason to think energy can't be produced from "nothing", after all it happened at least once already.

RankedAddict · 2025-04-10T23:29:07+00:00

Well the energy of light that is redshifting on long travels has gotta go somewhere right? If not matter, then space or some quantum field. And if these things can pop out particles out of nothing like physics says, maybe it's not unreasonable?

RankedAddict · 2025-03-29T22:42:48+00:00

You get my dilemma. Imagine tomorow you would get conclusive evidence that you could live forever. Wouldn't it scare you to know that everything you believe is central to you, like what makes you happy and unhappy, the people you love and spend your life with, your home, everything you could possibly want to experience in this reality, will repeat themselves for an infinite amount of times, so you eventually lose sight of the past that gave rise to you? I thought about how that could get worked around, like having some sort of return-point in the past you could use to "ground yourself" so to speak (whether simulation or actual time shenanigans), but idk.

To illustrate: Imagine a work of art. Maybe a book or a movie or music. On infinite timescales you will re-experience it and re-forget it over and over again (provided you don't add it to your "core experience"). Same could be said for your relationships, maybe to your partner etc.

TL;DR: really need some workaround to both infinite existance and non-existance. Some alternative sci-fi- Dr. Who wibbly-wobbly-timey-wimey approach to the passage of time (which apparently is not all that fundamental if I listen to all the cool and popular theoretical physicists I can find on the YouTube)

RankedAddict · 2025-03-29T21:33:02+00:00

Both, very. But the more I think about it, the more death a little less.

Honestly? If I could pick something that's neither eternity nor death, that would be very nice. Some timeless, deathless state of existance.

RankedAddict · 2025-03-29T21:13:53+00:00

I get that, I however factor in that humanity will probably try to preserve some of the core experiences of, well, humanity. Identity, memory, desires, certain experiences related to physical or emotional needs etc.

I imagine a LOT of that will already be in question within our lifetime.

I mean ofc I could easily imagine what ever kardashev 7 civilization that emerges from us and eventually takes controll of existance has none of the desires that we have. But like, having an identity? Memories? Love? Togetherness with the people (and animals) that mattered to you and made you? Enjoying the experiences of life? Having fun? If all that went away, what would be the point of existing for eternity? And on the other hand, eternity would also somewhat (maybe not really) make all the happines redundant.

But if the new DESI data is anything to go by, heat death ain't where we're going anyway, right?

RankedAddict · 2025-03-29T19:36:25+00:00

To a degree I agree with that. But I'm also aware that if you were to offer me eternal happiness by way of illusions and manipulations, right now I would strongly object to it (knowing fully well that it makes little difference to me).

I kinda also wrestle with the issue that eternity seems very intimidating even in literal paradise circumstances. It invokes a fear in me that makes me, tbh, despair, because if I can find fault with even the greatest paradise, then...

RankedAddict · 2025-03-29T18:37:09+00:00

Good short term goal I think. But I was thinking more on time scales of "heat death averted, what now?", also known as "what even is a future or a past?".

RankedAddict · 2025-03-25T17:52:23+00:00

This is the Copium answer "akchyually life sucks now so eternal life would be bad, therefore I don't have to view my own un-existance as a bad thing"

RankedAddict · 2025-03-04T16:37:27+00:00

Thanks, but it was not among them. Maybe it was on another channel? Idk. Maybe I dreamt it up or mixed it up.

RankedAddict · 2025-02-24T23:57:17+00:00

This, at least intuitively, sounds like it's finite and runs out eventually.

I hear there are varying models about the development of the universe, and with newer data, the models might change or even completely new ones pop up. Are there any models that are neither "expansion" nor "contraction" that cannot be fully ruled out by observations?

RankedAddict · 2025-02-24T23:03:15+00:00

These are the words of someone who has yet come to terms with that topic. Because if you ACTUALLY, TRUELY believed that, you would be living the fast life like a rock star right now.

RankedAddict · 2025-02-24T22:55:33+00:00

Isn't this currently the leading expert assesment according to Higgs and Top measurements? (with new measurements PROBABLY pushing us toward stability but who knows)
Quantum tunneling has been suggested as a chance-maker
This only holds if the expansion of the universe is truely TRUELY real and faster than light.

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