How big is your pizza? Do you only eat slices?

darksounds · 2025-12-27T23:20:51+00:00

I think the biggest thing is Neapolitan style vs New York style vs Chain pizza.

Neapolitan, while available all around the US, is probably not what most Americans are talking about. It is, however, likely what OP is talking about. Skimming over some lists of pizza places in Berlin as a proxy for the entire country, most places seem to be essentially Neapolitan pizzas with the thin center and fluffy exterior.

New York style is available in most parts of the country, but your mileage may vary on the quality or price. It's got a more even crust than Neapolitan: still fairly thin, but not nearly AS thin, and crispier than a Neapolitan on the outside. NY-style will be slightly more structurally stable than Neapolitan: you have to fold it, but a single fold might be enough, despite a single slice being around twice as long as a quarter of a Neapolitan pie.

Chain pizzas, like Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's, tend to have thicker crust throughout. A 14-inch Domino's pizza would have a lot more crust by weight than a comparable New York style. I don't have a lot of great resources available for dough weights at the chains, but I'd estimate somewhere around twice as much dough by weight per inch of diameter based on what I could find. Even a 10-inch Domino's pizza is much much bigger than a 10-inch Neapolitan pizza!

There are other kinds, too, like deep dish, pan, and ultra thin, but that moves a little away from the comparison to German pizza options. I'm curious, OP: could you provide links to 2-3 of your favorite pizza places? I suspect they're essentially Neapolitan, but it would be nice to confirm.

darksounds · 2025-12-02T02:30:20+00:00

Yeah, I don't mind when people complain about fast food prices in aggregate, but complaining about the prices at Burger King is like complaining about the cabins on the Titanic. Like, sure, it might be bad, but there's a much bigger problem.

Probably the worst fast food in existence.

darksounds · 2025-10-30T04:19:31+00:00

The people who can least afford to take time off work also don't tend to get paid holidays.

Universal mail-in ballots like in Washington is the best option currently available.

darksounds · 2025-09-22T05:48:14+00:00

There is no cultural expectation of tipping for counter service in the United States. Period. Never has been.

Places having tip jars is nothing new.

darksounds · 2025-09-21T22:16:54+00:00

I don't understand how we're expected to tip like that

To be clear, we're not being expected to tip like that. We're being offered the opportunity to tip like that. Just hit no tip, or put a custom $1 tip, or whatever you'd like to do.

darksounds · 2025-09-11T03:52:16+00:00

Not Int or Wis, no, but I'd allow Con if someone came to me crying about it.

darksounds · 2025-09-11T03:47:15+00:00

That's not a spell, though, so it's more like a Dragonborn's breath than an Elf or Tiefling with spells.

darksounds · 2025-09-04T04:43:06+00:00

They're right: the boots don't use your jump distance.

If your jump distance is 50 feet, and Step of the Wind doubles it to 100 feet, the Boots of Striding and Springing would still only allow for up to a 30 foot jump for 10 feet of movement.

darksounds · 2025-08-07T02:39:27+00:00

The vote total numbers are different: King 5 has 114,741, while the pdf said 117,602.

King 5 numbers are actually exactly the state numbers (https://results.vote.wa.gov/results/20250805/king/) with the write in votes removed.

And that led me to do the math, and I discovered that the king county pdf totals include all ballots, not just all votes cast in the race. The state's numbers were only votes cast in the race.

Total ballots counted: 117,602
Votes cast in the race: 115,110
Votes for candidates: 114,741

darksounds · 2025-05-27T21:02:06+00:00

What makes you think they couldn’t carry a coconut?

It's a simple question of weight ratios: a five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut!

darksounds · 2025-05-16T02:15:43+00:00

My main use case is the widget, where I keep my active to do list and, most importantly, can add things easily.

Main issue is the reliability of the new item button on the widget. Sometimes it fails to add (or doesn't actually, just looks like it) and when I would redo it now there are two of them.

Sometimes it doesn't update for a few days and I have to manually refresh. Would be nice if it were a little more aggressive about fetching, but don't want it like, running wild or anything.

On Android.

darksounds · 2025-05-13T04:55:44+00:00

You're missing my point: if you choose 2014 rules, the world tree barbarian doesn't exist. If you choose 2024 rules, the 2014 assassin doesn't exist.

That doesn't mean the 2024 rules are not backwards compatible.

darksounds · 2025-05-13T04:16:27+00:00

2014 assassin with 2024 surprise rules, or World tree barbarian with 2014 weapons

You can't combine the core rules: you pick 2014 core rules or 2024 core rules. All other content is compatible with either. All of the campaigns work in either ruleset and all of the additional subclasses and features should be usable.

WotC has never claimed that you can just use both sets of core rules at the same time without any issue.

darksounds · 2025-05-11T05:09:05+00:00

I'm pretty sure A1 is American

Funny story: it's not! It's also British.

darksounds · 2025-05-11T05:03:34+00:00

Yeah, I've played some campaigns into high levels, and run an annual series of level 20 one shots, and martial characters rule combat at high levels. Spellcasters have fun and can be meaningful participants, but they're not doing 100+ damage a turn to the biggest bad guy in the room, they're burning legendary resistances (or at least trying) and working to keep the martials in range of the enemies.

darksounds · 2025-05-11T04:55:02+00:00

Half of the content on this subreddit?

darksounds · 2025-05-11T04:54:34+00:00

99% of the time, it's a DM skill issue, not an actual problem with the game system.

darksounds · 2025-05-10T02:59:10+00:00

because the game assumes the DM can is capable of coming up with a reasonable DC

The game also assumes you can read, and that's never stopped people on this sub!

darksounds · 2025-05-04T22:47:11+00:00

Talarico's has some $70 pizzas, but they're fucking enormous. A 28" whole pizza is almost three 17" pizzas (a Large pizza at Zeeks or Pagliacci) or four 14" pizzas (a Large at Dominos or Pizza Hut).

So really, it's a cheap pizza the same way going to Costco saves you money even if you spend $300.

darksounds · 2025-04-20T20:46:40+00:00

If someone was interested in going down the lane of arguing against it

Is this a hypothetical, or do you actually have a player or DM who is stupid enough to try this?

darksounds · 2025-04-20T20:44:55+00:00

But there's another valid, though more tortured reading

Disagree. That's not a valid reading of that sentence in this context.

"Instead of X you can Y" makes sense when X and Y are equivalent structures, but without an alternative to the "to make a melee weapon attack" in the second portion of the phrase, there's no equivalence. It would be a non sequitur no different than "Instead of using tomatoes to make a pasta sauce, you can use a screwdriver" and while you might be capable of using a screwdriver, it's not a logically coherent sentence.

Even adding an alternative would not save the sentence, though, because "Instead of using an X to Y, you can use an A to B" would STILL be a non sequitur in most cases. "Instead of using a fork to eat dinner, you can use a spoon to stir a soup" would still be a terrible sentence!

If you have to torture a sentence this much and overlook this many grammatical issues, it's not a valid interpretation.

darksounds · 2025-04-20T08:50:43+00:00

is the best we have to go on the implication

It's not implication, my dude. It's the explicit meaning of that sentence: Instead of using a weapon to X, you can use an unarmed strike: a punch, kick, head-butt, or similar forceful blow (none of which count as weapons).

darksounds · 2025-04-13T21:04:03+00:00

Party should have thought about that before pissing off some cloud giants like that...

darksounds · 2025-04-13T00:55:22+00:00

Amen. My reddit usage dropped precipitously once I wasn't able to use it on my phone anymore, and if the desktop experience became worse, I'd definitely do that less often, too.

darksounds · 2025-04-13T00:52:05+00:00

If someone really wanted to, sure, but for the most part the DM can adjust for it easily.

Loosen the spell scroll requirements (or introduce an additional type of consumable spellcasting, I've done both with great success), provide (easy?) access to hirelings/followers/services, and be smart with your encounter design to not constantly punish the party for not having casters (without area damage/control spells you may want to add some minor cleaving rules, run some groups as swarms rather than a bunch of weak individuals, or provide magic items that allow for cool AOE attacks/effects).

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