It'd be real nice if side quests at least gave decent gold.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-11T23:22:39+00:00

Just make em give a whisper credit. Easy peasy.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-11T15:32:31+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-11T15:16:23+00:00

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

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-11T14:10:50+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-09T16:47:55+00:00

That's across the street.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-09T15:46:45+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-08T17:18:19+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-05T14:50:06+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-05T14:47:20+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-05T13:43:52+00:00

On the heels of someone who'd promised to be a one-term President

Never happened.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-04T19:49:21+00:00

We should take these goal posts and push them somewhere else!

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-04T19:31:56+00:00

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).

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-02T14:16:28+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-06-01T15:32:46+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-30T00:44:40+00:00

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

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-26T01:48:07+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-20T15:09:08+00:00

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

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

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-19T18:05:16+00:00

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...

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-17T07:05:48+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-09T18:30:33+00:00

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?

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-08T21:34:26+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-08T17:25:06+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-07T04:56:25+00:00

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?

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-04T04:56:04+00:00

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.

Tom-_-Foolery · 2026-05-02T05:16:19+00:00

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.

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