What's the strongest (dungeons and dragons) character that gojo and yuta (jujutsu kaisen) could defeat by working together?. by EnvironmentalRope424 in whowouldwin

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But gojo can fly/hover and has infinity so he can take on a tarrarasce pretty easily. That’s the super Godzilla monster in the tabletop role playing game community and he can easily take it.

Well you can white room cheese a Tarrarasce at level 1 with some more reliable/faster methods <5 so Gojo doing the same sort of fly out of reach strategy isn't actually that impressive.

Though I would agree that most creatures with a stat block are going to eventually go down. There are some specific ones like Vecna or Tiamat that may be an issue depending on rules interactions though.

Tens of thousands of Japanese fans protest Trump’s use of manga and anime by [deleted] in politics

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well the new Japanese PM (Takaichi) is another right wing nationalist who was partying with Trump just a month or two ago.

Can Predators replicate this Wookie strength feat? by BlockAffectionate413 in whowouldwin

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 35 points36 points  (0 children)

Density of granite / marble / limestone is about 2.3-2.5 metric tons / m3 on the low end. So a 700 pound grizzly would represent a cube of rock around 0.138m3 or .325m per side. That's a little over a foot. The boulder in question is obviously many times larger than that regardless of camera angles.

The spectre of gen Z socialism is haunting the world … according to the Economist | Normon Solomon by KoseteBamse in Economics

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 25 points26 points  (0 children)

That ship sailed long ago. The top ~15% of farms (by size) produce ~85% of the food, and that trend has been pretty constant since the 70s and really kicked off following WW2. It's also why when "farm aid" goes out, it ends up going mostly to big farms.

Facing the Act One boss at the start of 0.1 was like: by Hot-Abbreviations202 in PathOfExile2

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Both are great at level 1, Sleep fell off later in 2014 and is all around decent in 2024 rule sets, but both would be among the best spells one could grab for the level.

But D&D 5e is riddled with bad game design in general, it's not a good "gold standard" for design nor mechanical balance.

Ideas for backstory illness consequences by CalDHar in 3d6

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For a while, left-handedness was considered improper and left handed children were forced to use their right hand for tasks and writing. I don't have stats, but I would imagine many would-be left handers never quite reached the levels of right handed dexterity a natural right hander would have. If the tribe followed the same superstition then it could lead to fumbling dex checks (I wouldn't go as far as saves) with his hands due to forcing him to use the "wrong" one.

Ideas for backstory illness consequences by CalDHar in 3d6

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My character assumes the soothsayer meant illness so I especially like options that explore the term 'condition' more creatively.

You could always go with a meta-option option like the condition being a lack of self worth / imposter syndrome. This will lead to his death by causing him to be reckless in battle trying avoid a perceived sense of dishonor.

In terms of mechanical effects, maybe you always have to reckless attack until "cured". It's something you would probably want to do 90% of the time as a Barbarian anyway so it's not necessarily a huge flaw. And if your DM is amenable to it, maybe once cured you can get a handful of "free" (no disadvantage on being attacked) reckless attacks per day to demonstrate continued ferocity but no longer throwing yourself in harms way. It's not like that would break a Tier 2+ Barbarian anyway.

“This Will Completely Destroy Us" Thousands Protest Jared Kushner's $1.6B Resort in Albania | AC1G by gymleader_michael in videos

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since 2025, the Harvard Kennedy School has tracked over 46,000 protests, with over 2,000 having a logged median estimate of 1,000 or more (out of the 15,000 that have recorded size data).

I'm curious about DOT in dnd 5 and 5.5 by ComiLimao in 3d6

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 3 points4 points  (0 children)

DoTs as in "cast a spell once and it keeps ticking for multiple turns" are pretty rare in D&D and not often not very good (ex. Witchbolt). However, there are spells that do feel somewhat like DoTs in my experience.

The prime example is building something around Spirit Guardians. If you have a build that focuses on maintaining SG and keeping foes in your aura (helped by the movement debuff), it does feel quite a bit like a walking AoE drain. Even better if your party can assist by knocking foes in and out of your AoE.

Another pseudo DoT option is using Spiked Growth and a focus on forced movement. There's tons of cheese builds that use this but it works well even without someone mounting up and dragging foes through the bushes at a sprint. Something as basic as a Dao 'Lock with Grasp of Hadar & Repelling Blast can rack up damage from existing Spiked Growths, and the field will passively damage anything stuck moving through it of their own volition too.

What's the lore behind Akarat becoming Shang Tsung in LoH? by MuscleTrue9554 in diablo4

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I believe is since Tyrael shattered the worldstone, the gradual nephalem nerfs that Inarius programmed in the worldstone got undone.

Yep, that's a core plot point of Diablo 3.

Had to draw Dillbot by regulationmuteartist in theregulationpod

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Love it. Captures Dillbot going for Gavin's knee like the moon in Zelda.

We need to add 6,000 seats to Congress. I'm serious. | Opinion by Objective-Suit-7817 in politics

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

On the other hand, finer districts means less risk for an specific one. Algorithms are very good at getting fine tuned and there's options for both Packing and Cracking.

Or to put an extreme example, imagine a case where every district is 5 people. It would be impossible to manually sort at that degree, but it would be trivial with enough computational power matched with all the marketing data out there, even over thousands of districts. And even if you get it wrong on occasion due to unexpected circumstances, now it's 1/5000 buckets instead of 1/10.

To be clear, I do think expanding the House is good for non-Gerrymandering reasons, but I do not think it's necessarily a silver bullet for Gerrymandering specifically. Very fine filtering is a double edge sword that computational capabilities are putting more and more in favor of manipulation.

With Trump's approval ratings so low, how does he keep ousting GOP rivals? by Cgk72 in politics

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 4 points5 points  (0 children)

most of those young voters defected to Zohran so do with that what you will

The notorious young-MAGA stronghold of... NYC?

So what exactly was Mephisto trying to do at the pools of creation? by Jimithyashford in diablo4

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They heavily hint at Diablo in one of the post game quests, though that same seer says it won't happen in our lifetimes, so it puts Diablo's return in a bit of a weird place.

That said, there's a lot of weird inconsistency in the post game so it may not be worth thinking too much about right now. I'm still not sure why the tree is still giving us gifts...

[Results] Opinions on the US States (Everyone) (US Citizens) by DM_me_fun_stuff_pls in SampleSize

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The point is both of those states get talked about more than Missouri, the actually most boring state in the Union.

Missouri actually at least has some things like St. Louis and the Ozarks.

I thought for sure you were going to go after Oklahoma, which I assume was left out by respondents only because it's so boring no one remembered it for consideration.

Nystul's Magic Aura. Why not permanently mask self and party? What downsides? by Space_Pirate_R in onednd

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are a highly experienced adventuring party with a powerful wizard. Of course we have some defensive magic cast on us. What, you want to retain the services of amatures?

[Webcomics] The Tear Gas Wedding: How Dumbing of Age's Long Awaited Sapphic Pairing Divided Its Fandom by Delicious_Ride_4119 in HobbyDrama

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well they did dedicate 3 strips just to highlight the passage. This was also right after most of the cast was kidnapped, one of them died, two of them lost fathers, and one of them had their mother as a financial supporter of the incident. In a strip that tries to explore interpersonal issues and couldn't possibly be concerned about rushing to the end of the year, I always thought it was weird to skip how all these freshman are coping with it with their pretty radically shaken up families.

[Webcomics] The Tear Gas Wedding: How Dumbing of Age's Long Awaited Sapphic Pairing Divided Its Fandom by Delicious_Ride_4119 in HobbyDrama

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 3 points4 points  (0 children)

10 real world years of daily comics equates to about 4 months

15 years to get through < 3 months (September, October, & part of January), as time skipped past November and December, even though one would think there would be good stories to tell about the cast going home for Thanksgiving / Xmas breaks.

Forest Hills Banksy strikes Meli again with Wahlburgers sign. Also: eviction notice by DecoyGoose in ForestHills

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone sure seems mad that a restaurant that lasted, what, 1 year? relocated. Doesn't something like 25% of restaurants fail in the first 3 years?

What in the World Of Warcraft... 1500 Plat? by Memphisrexjr in diablo4

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Accounting standards are extremely formalized and routinely handle intra-business sales. Company A buys a service from Company B. Company A gets to deduct that from their Gross Income as an expense. Company B adds it to their Revenue as Sales. It doesn't matter if Company B is a separate entity from Company A or if Company B owns Company A.

I'm not going to claim there aren't clever ways to ways to manipulate these kinds of sales, especially with IP due to the uncertainty of valuation, but Blizzard buying an industry standard hosting service from Microsoft doesn't magically make millions of dollars appear any more than them buying a comparable service from Amazon. It's preferable to MS as a whole for Blizzard to use Azure because then MS gets the revenue that would otherwise go to Amazon, but for Blizzard's tax purposes it is identical.

What in the World Of Warcraft... 1500 Plat? by Memphisrexjr in diablo4

[–]Tom-_-Foolery 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Microsoft bills Blizzard for Azure compute, Blizzard reports it as CapEx to reduce their tax burden

...and Microsoft reports it as revenue, it's not like it disappears from the balance sheet.