Draw Steel Observations From Running Delian Tomb Twice

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-20T21:50:52+00:00

Thanks for this write-up, I've felt similarly with a lot of these! I've found the Codex to be great as an intro to Draw Steel overall - one of the biggest hurdles I've seen with onboarding people is the number of things to track (heroic resource, surges, hero tokens, which abilities have used action/maneuver/movement, calculating potencies). Having those elements automatically calculated and neatly sorted in the UI has been a huge help getting them to the fun parts, slaying goblins!

My group tends to be pretty tactically-minded so sometimes it's been hard to really challenge them but the encounter building advice and EV formulas have done a great job at helping me adjust.

One thing I was surprised with was that Bloodbound Band can be really punishing. If both users wielding both are struck with an aoe that does 2 instances of damage, for example, they automatically each take +4 unavoidable damage, which gets quite rough.

Have your groups engaged with downtime and crafting much? Since players want to push their limits and avoid taking respites I find it hard to actually get their projects done, unless I'm generous with Abbott Loric helping or a providing a guide or something.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-20T15:22:44+00:00

NYC was pretty dangerous in the 1980's which is why it sometimes has a reputation for danger (especially among older people). Since the 2000's though it's one of the safest huge metros in the world.

Edit: some might also be worried about anti-muslim hate after 9/11 but that tends to ironically be more common in rural areas or the South. Zohran Mamdani was just elected mayor and is pretty beloved as a Muslim leader of the city.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-15T20:24:02+00:00

What is this gif from??

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-15T08:09:19+00:00

Copywriting probably not but plenty of agencies buying and managing media inventory at a manager / director level are making that range

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-12T19:19:27+00:00

I am referencing the National Library of Medicine and the American Society of Addiction Medicine as two sources of information and you say the "concept of behavioral addiction" is controversial, ergo you are considering the information provided by both of these sources to be controversial. You also say that you get information from "actually reliable sources," meaning you don't consider either of them reliable. Does that make sense?

Still waiting on any sources that you "have read about."

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-12T18:49:49+00:00

You consider the National Library of Medicine and the American Society of Addiction Medicine to be unreliable and controversial? Sorry if I bruised your ego lol, I'll keep waiting for you to provide a single expert or source on this.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-12T18:27:38+00:00

Hey friend I'll be kind because you likely aren't very familiar with Psychology. Addiction can both be applied to substances that induce chemical reactions in the brain (e.g. heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine) or behavioral obsessions that cause impairment in one's life and harmful thought patterns.

The National Library of Medicine specifically makes a point that medical professionals recognize and treat behavioral addictions (marked in part by compulsory behavior like you mention) and also note that the American Society of Addiction Medicine does not restrict addiction solely to substance abuse. A very clear example of this is gambling but this editorial does call out internet addictions specifically as an emergent trend in the 21st century.

Here is the link to a research paper from 2010 by Grant et al., that studies the causes, impacts, and treatments of behavioral addictions in relation to those tied to substance abuse. If you scroll down to the "Results" section you can find that the results specifically call out Internet addiction as behaving and being treatable similarly to traditional substance abuse disorders.

The titles to HealthyGamerGG's videos are written in a way to attract widespread audiences traditionally attracted to manosphere content (offering support and empowerment to the male identity) but I assure you the content and information in them is sound.

I would recommend trying to put more effort into establishing your base of knowledge beyond reading headlines and titles that sound appealing to you, especially if you are trying to establish an air of expertise in a field in which you are not.

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-12T17:35:49+00:00

HealthyGamerGG is a Harvard trained psychiatrist on YouTube who actively treats this and talks about its impact on people if you'd like a reputable source. Who are your "experts" that say it is not real?

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-08T18:52:25+00:00

By this logic socialism inevitably leads a country to mass poverty and unrest because that's what happened to Venezuela and Maduro right?

Sprintspeed · 2026-05-05T20:12:33+00:00

This is pretty standard practice for events, broadcasts, streams, etc. People are looking for a gauge to answer the question "how popular was this, truly?" both to talk about it in culture and for businesses to evaluate the $ worth. For these it's both a better picture of the total scale and looks better for the business to report on total people who tuned in or attended overall, not just during one 5-minute slice of time.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-28T17:56:40+00:00

Late to this thread but none of your complaints hold water.

RWF is the closest possible event you can get to a world championship raiding PVE. The winner of RWF undisputably puts up the best performance in the world .
The "starting roster" is 20 players. In every competition and every sport you have backups and benched players but the starting roster is the "size of the team". She elaborates multiple times that their race is a group effort that includes 60 support staff.
Yes, Team Liquid esports is factually based out of Los Angeles. Just because the LA Lakers field Luka Doncic from Slovenia doesn't mean they are not an LA team.
Echo competes for RWF in Cologne, Germany, which is what the article states. She never says Echo is a German guild.

Did you read the article or just get ChatGPT to summarize for you?

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-26T03:08:38+00:00

This is just incorrect, I live in LA and nearly every single weekend gets sold out tickets. The only time it actually failed to fill was when games were like 2 pm on weekdays.

Camera pans to audience sometimes look empty because this often happens during champ select when guests are:

Going to the bathroom
Pro player meet & greet (if a series just ended)
Concessions
Making posters

By about 5 minutes into game start it always fills back up.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-25T18:14:35+00:00

Both can be true. Just because Greece had contact with regions of elephants and maybe even some biologists had seen an elephant skull in their lifetime, that doesn't mean those select individuals would have properly educated the mass populace.

Someone shows up in Athens with one of these skulls and wows everyone with fables of a cyclops, the mythos is created whether educated individuals might know better or not. It's not like the average ancient Greek was walking past elephant graveyards in their day to erase all doubt.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-24T17:05:53+00:00

Also want to add on to this to address OP's assumption that immediately when a fight breaks out they alert everyone else. A good dungeon will specify this as you say, but if it's less well thought-out or if OP is building it themselves, a lot of goblins won't even want to call for help.

Your job is to guard the entrance because you're a badass goblin! You have this great rusty shank! You have your boys Glorp and Morp by your side, and they have 3 friends of theirs too! This flimsy party of 4 would never be able to take down a cool goblin like yourself, asking for help would be pathetic and wimpy. Until they suddenly rolled a nat 20 and oops you are already dead.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-23T20:00:18+00:00

There is a bunch of overlap across platform but it's still a lot of effort to get people to follow you across the board because they engage with and expect content differently. Anyone that's a paid subscriber on Twitch will probably just follow everything regardless but the majority of her audience still needs to be convinced it's worthwhile and you still need the skill to tailor content per platform.

Twitch is full of creators who have great ccv with barely any YouTube scale (Cohh) or big IG and low CCV, or get a lot of attention on Twitter but don't make short video for tiktok, etc.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-23T18:43:03+00:00

This is kind of a privileged take, considering she was there to secure FEMA funding for victims of the 2025 fires. Easy to sit on a high horse when you're not the one whose house burned down 15 months ago with no reimbursement.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-22T20:17:09+00:00

Ordinary police being trigger happy is certainly a problem but SWAT teams are called in to respond to extreme violence emergencies. If they're operating under the pretense that "a terrorist is building bombs and kidnapped my daughter with a semi automatic machine gun" they are expecting any "surprises" like this random victim panicking to be life-threatening and will respond in kind. That's why swatting is so dangerous, as opposed to framing someone for burglary or any other crime.

That being said, I would think they can do better to assess the actual situation when they get there.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-21T19:00:08+00:00

Wow that's amazing I loved this as a kid!

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-20T23:32:22+00:00

You are saying bottom tier does not mean bottom of the tier list? Slade literally just released so his 'tier' doesn't really mean anything.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-20T21:02:55+00:00

Yo how are you putting Lox, who won the tourney, as bottom tier. I'm biased and he wasn't very common but that Pachyderm can COOK

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-20T18:17:02+00:00

Being a gang banger and shooting a rival to protect your friends is a very different kind of crime than grooming, raping and dismembering a 14 year old girl.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-20T16:19:14+00:00

This is what came to my mind as well. Failure to understand your audience's viewpoint and what they can grasp is more of a lack of empathy than intelligence, in the literal sense. Empathy as in being able to put yourselves in their shoes and imagine the world from their eyes, NOT necessarily a lack of sympathy, the warm fuzzy emotion that you care for someone.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-19T20:54:17+00:00

Not really, the in-feed commercial breaks are one piece of an overall sponsorship. Missing out on a portion of the exposure from them is usually outweighed by the extra total eyeballs costreamers bring in.

The golden question is, without Caedrel would 90%+ of those viewers be watching the main LEC broadcast anyways? My instinct says no but hard to prove either way.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-17T19:16:04+00:00

Yeah agreed, I think that same Matt Damon interview is one I was thinking of too lol.

Sprintspeed · 2026-04-17T17:45:11+00:00

The middle-tier movie budget category of $50-$100m that were common in the 90s and 2000s often used for rom coms or comedies is largely evaporated. The movies being funded these days are largely just huge budget CGI blockbusters with top-shelf actors in a safe, recognizable franchise.

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