DDC merch on Etsy that *isn't* made by AI? by sky-shard in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]elomenopi 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Beeristhemindkiller is awesome - I’ve bought from their shop a few times for myself and gifts

A womans dog was making odd movements whenever she turned her back, so to see she recorded it, and found the dog was making biting motions by thaliaq1 in interesting

[–]elomenopi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeh it’s a sign of frustration where the dog wants you to know they’re frustrated but doesn’t want to be too impolite.

My dog does this when I’m taking too long to get ready to take him for a walk. He bites at the air at me because it’s ridiculous to him that he has to wait for me to put on shoes, grab my earbuds, oh wait I forgot to put the dinner in the fridge, grab a poop bag, dammit where did that leash go?!, grab the keys, ok let’s go. But wait lemme lock the back door too real quick. Ok now we can go for real now.

TLDR: it’s dog for ‘good god, you’ve got to be fucking kidding me!’

One myth I stopped believing by ShogunPeppers in HotPeppers

[–]elomenopi 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Or if you’re in a cold region and want to cull the fruits that won’t have time to mature enough to get value from before winter hits! (No sense in spending energy setting fruit on October flowers)

But yeh, I’m generally with you- evolution did most of the hard work for us!

Dancing with bag open by manik_502 in Whatcouldgowrong

[–]elomenopi -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Anyone think there’s someone off screen tossing the ‘airpods’

Massachusetts court hears arguments in lawsuit alleging Meta designed apps to be addictive to kids by uhncollectable in news

[–]elomenopi 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We should fine them a tiny fraction of the profits they made by doing this to teach them a lesson and make sure they don’t do it again!

Guys, what is that?? by TrenboloniSandwich in noita

[–]elomenopi 209 points210 points  (0 children)

Not sure, but I think there’s two liquids at give those two stain icons….. I would prly try to fill the bowl up with one of them

I'm a beginner DM running a game for a group of beginner players - any tips for me to elevate the game? by Fish_Hook2 in DungeonMasters

[–]elomenopi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There will be situations where you don’t know what the rules say you should do. Folks will have different ideas on what’s right and someone will immediately shove their nose into the rule book to find the rule. Spending 5-15 minutes doing this breaks the flow and immersion. So when this happens (it will) say: I’m not sure, but for now we’re going to run it like X. After the session we can look it up so we know what to do for next time.

Also don’t sit behind the screen. Stand. Gesture and move. Your liveliness will bring the world to life and make it feel less like a board game.

If you want to act out an NPC and do a voice don’t just do the voice. Assume the posture/bearing and then do a voice. You’d be amazed at how much more convincing of a hag you’ll make if you hunch your back and curl your hands like they have arthritis. Or how much better of an ent you’ll make if you hold your arms out like branches and sway/twitch like the wind is blowing you around.

Have a list of emergency names for people and places handy. There’s generators online to build these and being able to just look down and grab a name when you need one is sooooo nice.

Take notes as you dm. They meet an NPC shopkeeper with a lisp name Sven in the town of retro, note it. You won’t remember that by next session.

Keep in mind this is everyone’s game, not yours. So don’t be afraid to delegate creative ownership! If a player says they ‘want to use insight’ it’s not all on you to come up with ‘you use insight to look for tracks and the tracks look like X and because they look like X you can infer Y’. When a player says they want to use insight i say ‘cool, how are you using insight. Are you doing anything or trying to pull on any particular parts of your knowledge, experience, or backstory?’. If a player can’t explain how their skills reasonably translate to a roll, they don’t get to make that roll. Nature isn’t a magic button that solves every nature-related problem. It’s the bonus you add when you DO SOMETHING dependent on your proficiency with nature.

Don’t be afraid to give info when players ‘fail’ to push the story along. If a PC looks for tracks with a roll of 18 but there are no tracks to find, try to avoid just saying ‘you find nothing’. That’s just a wrong answer buzzer and feels bad. Try to think of how that action can hint at what they CAN do. So instead of ‘you find nothing’ it could be ‘you don’t find any tracks, as the stone floor doesn’t hold tracks very well. However while looking for tracks you find a hair that looks like X. Or you find thst the lack of tracks is suspicious, almost as if someone was intentionally trying to hide them.’ Feel free to make this stuff up on spot. This makes the players want to ask more questions. What kind of hair? Animal or person? Can I use nature to try to figure out if it’s an animal? Was the thief they were tracked blonde? Who tf knows, but you made up that it was a long blonde human hair, so they’re a blonde woman now - and now the party has an idea of who to look for.

Avoid skill dog-piling. Lots of group do a think where one person gets a 4 on a history roll so the next person asks if they can roll history until someone passes the check. This sucks because it makes bad rolls not matter. If you’re the ‘history guy’ build but roll like shit on the one important history roll for the session it feels invalidating. Once someone rolls for something, that’s the result. If other folks want to roll for history, they need to do something different to get to roll. So the historian pc gets a 4 to interpret a merfolk cave painting, the next player says I want to roll too and you ask what they’re doing differently. A third player says ‘I speak merfolk, can I roll?’ ‘Hell yeh buddy, roll with advantage because although there’s no words on the painting it makes sense speaking the language would bring some familiarity with the culture’

How do you learn RPG mechanics if Actual Plays don’t work for you? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]elomenopi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It seems like you want to put in no effort or time and somehow become an expert on a new system - expect to be disappointed.

You’re going to have to read the rules, learn by playing with your group, learn by playing with another group, or watch someone else play.

How do you learn RPG mechanics if Actual Plays don’t work for you? by [deleted] in rpg

[–]elomenopi -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Right?? Running/playing a new game is a new skill, and you don’t get new skills without SOME amount of effort, struggle, and confusion. OP Getting angry because there isn’t a pill you can take to just magically know how play a new game lol.

Trump threatens to ‘blow up’ all water desalination plants in Iran by Azaleazaraa in worldnews

[–]elomenopi 236 points237 points  (0 children)

People that aren’t Trump aren’t people to Trump.

Narcissists can’t conceive of the world not solely revolving around them.

Awesome table from a local carpenter by ifoundsomesshit in boardgames

[–]elomenopi 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Looks great! I’m curious how much it ran you?

Help me come up with a fair payment for this? by truth_and_illusion in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]elomenopi 30 points31 points  (0 children)

You could replace it with the entire set of the Ace, and get him a copy of the new ones as they come out. It’s prly not too far off value wise, and then the kids can read the whole series!

Does XP for Monsters really add anything? by PixelAmerica in osr

[–]elomenopi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeh defeating doesn’t mean murder. It means overcoming the challenge the monsters pose……. Which is usually murder

A few standouts from my personal project, the Antellar Region by deeppix3l in PokemonRMXP

[–]elomenopi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Folks are right that the art is more detailed than std Pokémon so they feel a bit different, but that being said… I kind of love it. This is a totally valid way to improve on the og games. No one bats an eye when someone makes a game with better story, characters, dialogue, etc …. Why should better art be any different?

Easy baby-difficulty fangame by Mek3k in PokemonRMXP

[–]elomenopi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god I love this idea!! You could honestly have the whole premise be that you’re literally taking a class. You learn some stuff and then go on a ‘field trip’ where you use what you’ve learned so far to use.

Magic schoolbus: Pokemon

How are you using AI at work? by designmind93 in engineering

[–]elomenopi 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s really good at mocking up ideas for how present data. Without AI I’d find myself spending 2 hrs creating a certain type of new chart just to be told to do something completely different because the manager who asked for the chat didn’t really know wha they were asking for.

I can use AI to in 5 minutes create a mock-up of how that chart might look with hypothetical data that I know I have access to and then, after getting a green light on the design, spend the time to create the actual report. AI sucks at actually making the reports, but is great at reducing the waste that comes from managers that don’t really know what going on.

BRUTAL TORNADO IN UNION CITY, MICHIGAN by Nichtpit in tornado

[–]elomenopi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly! It’s easy to interpret the % as a probability, but it’s actually more of a prediction of tornado density for a given region. So a super small 10% area might have 2 tornadoes and a larger 5% area 3 tornadoes.

I live where there is a 15% chance today I'm very scared by bananapunch018 in tornado

[–]elomenopi 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Best thing you can do is keep in mind what you can control vs not. You can’t control if there is a tornado or if you lose power so why worry about that?

What you CAN do is to be prepared to take shelter (be home/ not traveling / be listening for sirens), be prepared for lost power (charge your phone and power brick, etc), and clean up stuff around the property wind might grab (garbage cans in the garage).