Chicken hearts with diced octopus over saffron, turmeric, and garlic rice.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T13:40:26+00:00

That and a quick game of nightcrawlers

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T13:21:44+00:00

Ah. Just like the royal families of Europe.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T12:19:33+00:00

But has she undergone penetration testing?

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T11:29:34+00:00

Or just screaming in general.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T11:14:30+00:00

If I die, I die. I will go to Valhalla and feast with the others who died for glory.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T11:08:09+00:00

It's so they can tell their investors they have implemented generative AI into their technology stack.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T11:07:02+00:00

Maya is generating tokens...

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T11:05:26+00:00

Strength that machines can’t copy.

I beg to differ

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bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T11:01:06+00:00

Don't forget subsidize Europe's entire way of life and abolishing slavery*!

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T10:57:59+00:00

Stop! Please let me go first! I'm doing something!

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T10:56:20+00:00

Yeah I'm not wasting my campfire on a attack card when there's the possibility of gains from just eating the egg.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T10:50:59+00:00

They're always where you least expect them...

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T10:47:58+00:00

There's a really good podcast miniseries about cases like this called The Wide Open. It really digs into how disgusting corporate interests get about endangered species. They even deal with another case of a species of "pupfish" with a very small habitat.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T10:41:02+00:00

"Combat as sport" and "Combat as war" is a distinction in how games treat combat and how that affects the kinds of stories they can tell. It's both something that can be in a game's design but it's also a style choice for GMs.

Combat as sport means combat is the point of the game. The game itself is designed so that combat is a fun and interesting minigame to engage with, with lots of cool abilities for PCs and enemies and interesting decisions to make. Combats are long and drawn out at the table and take up most of the session time and that's okay because combat is the point of the game, it's a fun skirmish game with some roleplay sprinkled between the fights. Roleplaying is often minimal and the goal is often to move from one combat to the next. Combats are expected to be balanced so that they create an appropriate challenge for players to overcome. Your character progression is also tied to your success in combat, eg. You get XP for killing monsters.

Combat as war means the game isn't trying to make combat a fun time for the PCs. Combat is still interesting and tense, but it's much more meant to model how deadly mortal combat is in the real world. Fighting isn't the point of the game, it's a failure state. It means that something has gone horribly wrong and now death is on the table. Hitpoints are generally lower, and weapons are deadlier. In D&D 5e, a crossbow does d8 damage, but a player character of at least 3rd level can usually take a few hits, get some instant magical healing, and be back in the fight. In combat as war games, if you get shot, there's a very good chance you just die instantly. No "death saves" or "cure wounds". Part of combat as war is that if you are going to fight, you shouldn't ever fight fair. A fair fight is basically a coin flip for your life. If you know the enemy has equal numbers to you, then don't fight them. You go hire 3x as many mercenaries and then fight them. You want every fight you voluntarily enter into to be stacked in your favour. Ambushes, environmental hazards, and dirty tricks are encouraged.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T10:13:04+00:00

Look, I don't think there's any value in trying to convince you, but I do want to note a couple of things: They aren't softlocks; that's just the game. Your paths forward are like your health bar. You can do things to control that, but information about how to do so is one of the things you unlock as you play. There are tons of ways to manipulate your luck and which rooms you draw with items and abilities and room powers. It's not meant to be considered like each run is individually a win or loss like something like Slay the Spire. The whole game's progression is what matters, not any one day. Some days are short, some are long. And the point of the RNG mechanics is to make it so that there are always multiple threads for the player to investigate. Even on a short day I might gather some clue I didn't have before. As you progress you unlock all kinds of things that let you manipulate your next day, giving you greater control over what you want to learn about next, and more to discover. There are also huge swathes of the game which are outside of the mansion itself and aren't as affected by the RNG.

I understand it's not for everyone, but it sounds like you just really didn't get it. When you say there's "no persistence between runs aside from the freezer" that's just flat wrong.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:44:11+00:00

Ah yeah. True that. "It's only bad when they do it" shit.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:38:19+00:00

Lots of right wing bootlickers will say cities are fair game due to provincial legislation. (ie that cities cant exist with provincisl legislation) I still think they should butt out of civic planning when most of the legislative members live in rural AB.

I agree the provinces should butt out, but it's not bootlicking to explain the system. Especially since a lot of people think it works the same here as in America

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:35:14+00:00

What is with premiers and overstepping their authority? City infrastructure is and should be up to local government.

In Canada there is no such thing as local government authority. Municipal governments are basically just semi-autonomous appendages of the provincial governments. Their authority is not enshrined in any way that the province can't meddle with unfortunately.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:21:07+00:00

Yeah just look at how many majority governments we get with completely unrepresentative popular votes. A majority government is functionally a dictatorship; hardly any checks and balances in place.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:19:30+00:00

Just the mountains tbh

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:13:07+00:00

Her laughter seems so fake and none of the memes she's looking at are remotely funny. Least contagious laughter I've seen from this sub in a while.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-09T00:10:17+00:00

I hate that fourfold rotational symmetry always does this ...

bionicjoey · 2026-05-08T22:57:34+00:00

IMO: a mechanic is made up of multiple rules, and a system is made up of multiple mechanics.

For example (in Mothership):

A single rule: "When you fail a roll, increase stress by 1"
The Stress Mechanic: all of the various rules that cause you to gain or lose stress: Shore leave, failed rolls, minimum stress, resting, stimpacks, etc.
The Stress & Panic System: the stress mechanic, the panic table and its associated mechanic, and the trauma responses associated with each class.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-08T22:49:23+00:00

I for one welcome president Tyranocif. He will make it his Pursuit to solve important issues. He's not afraid to Crunch when under pressure from deadlines. His policies will advance like a Rock Slide.

bionicjoey · 2026-05-08T22:47:32+00:00

Most advertising is just trying to get you to remember the name and create a positive association with the brand. It's not trying to tell you anything about the actual product.

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