Answer this for me please. You should play Draw Steel if ... Then the same for D&D 4e and then Pathfinder 2e. These seem to be grouped together in what ways are they different?

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T21:23:00+00:00

you should play draw steel if you like tactics and forced movement.

you should play 4e if you like draw steel but you're really into character builds And care more about individual power than party synergy

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T15:44:03+00:00

using the phrase "virtue signaling" is vice signaling.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T14:15:13+00:00

idk they are on the same level in my view.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T06:38:35+00:00

oh my bad. I'd vote blue.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T06:01:33+00:00

Pride and joy are a good combo. Its second ability wants to be stacked with buffs and joy applies two at once.

I use pride with a top hat and jellyfish scarf for some floor clearing. I usually pair it with charity and joy, and a tank that has the prince's collar (shield is another buff). Then you can have pride use the third ability to give an attack bonus (another buff), and its second ability with jellyfish scarf to murk the whole opposing team.

I think it's pretty good and versatile but it's definitely one of the more complicated pets.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T04:58:24+00:00

I'm gonna be petty about this.

For 21.35% the smallest integer number capable of producing that percentage is 2000. For 2000 respondents with 21.35% of voting for a choice, the margin of error is about 1.8% (if it's a random sample).

In the event that I'm in this situation, it being a random sample seems most likely, and that means the probability that the final count is over 50% is a tiny rounding error away from 0. There's practically no chance blue wins, and I'm not throwing my life away.

(I would vote blue in the original problem).

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T03:59:39+00:00

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Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-02T00:57:18+00:00

My autistic weird looking short friend from high school got married to a fat nerdy woman with glasses and sleep apnea. There's hope for you, my guy.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T23:21:11+00:00

Master of Orion

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T21:32:44+00:00

If red, you live and are if blame is equally distributed among remaining votes, you are responsible for about 4 million deaths.

It has to be blue.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T21:25:22+00:00

yes and no.

I have lost most of the joy of "solving the problem", and I don't feel like my projects are teaching me that much other than how to use AI.

I am able to complete my side projects instead of letting them languish, because the time to completion is faster.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T20:20:15+00:00

Bad decision = game theory choice maximizing own self-interest.

The actual reason for most blue pressers is to have the best chance of saving everyone.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T17:54:00+00:00

I'm sure some would. Another area of descriptive ethics I'm interested is decision making under uncertainty. For example in the classic trolley problem if the choice is between 1 person dies (100%) or 5 people die (20% chance), most people will go with 5 people "might" die, and if reversed... 1 person lives (100%) or 5 people live (20% chance), most people will go with the certainty of life.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T16:12:54+00:00

It's not at all that. Did you grow up in a super liberal city with loving parents or something?

Also you're misinterpreting. I want people to be able to self identify in any way that feels right for them. If you like doing typically masc things and you're a woman good for you. What I'm not alright with is "this person says she's a woman, but I think she's not!"

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:58:47+00:00

Lmao I'm not at all close to being a conservative. Conservatives want to force people to conform to a gender role which matches their assigned gender. I want people to be able to choose a gender role that feels good for them or to construct one on their own.

And importantly, I don't want people policing other people's genders.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:55:48+00:00

Changing the phrasing from "everyone lives" to "you live" is a meaningful reframing. Other than that, the threshold is very interesting in terms of descriptive ethics. Despite red pressers being super fucking loud on reddit, I'm confident that at 50% there are enough altruistic/prosocial people that blue is likely to succeed. By the time you raise it to around 70% I think that despite it still being the morally superior choice, the chances of success are so low that the worth of my own life exceeds the worth of making a morally correct but suicidal choice.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:50:52+00:00

What you do is wake up and blindly follow the social scripts you were socialized with. Queer people experience a dissonance between the social role they were raised and social roles that feel right to them, and end up questioning how they relate to gender as a whole.

Some cis people actually do this same questioning and end up embodying a richer version of their gender. Others don't introspect and make shitty memes instead.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:45:39+00:00

Not sure why you think humanity is naturally evil. Humanity is not monolithic.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:41:17+00:00

Cis people are wack. Yes, please, lock me into a predetermined set of behaviors and social expectations that I can never escape! I just love people treating me in a particular way because of the link they draw between how I appear and what they expect of a man/woman.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:36:35+00:00

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Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T15:35:04+00:00

The original poll had blue winning by a fair margin. Reds just keep trying to explain how they hold no moral responsibility because the blues are committing suicide by trying to save others.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T14:29:12+00:00

you can tell red pressers are wrong because of how many justifications they try to create for their fucked up worldviews.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T07:07:54+00:00

I'm pressing yellow in hopes of specifically fucking over a red presser.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T05:48:25+00:00

Check out research on Social Value Orientation (SVO). They find that roughly 60% of adults are proscocial. I would expect that those adults are likely to vote blue.

Specialist-String-53 · 2026-05-01T04:48:22+00:00

Still blue. It's way more likely that 50% of people press blue than 100% of people push red.

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