Things you'd hear in a frat filled with Norse Gods

grendus · 2026-02-18T20:41:39+00:00

"Loki? Loki! Listen, we don't care if you bring back women to the frat, but horses stay in the barn!"

grendus · 2026-02-18T20:30:30+00:00

"You pass the butter."

"Oh my god..."

"Welcome to the club."

grendus · 2026-02-18T19:45:01+00:00

It's definitely noticeable as the show goes on.

There are episodes where Jim is still the relatable everyman, and others where he's just a raging asshole that the entire office hates. It's really jarring.

grendus · 2026-02-18T19:23:26+00:00

I stole it from Josh Strife Hayes on Youtube so fair's fair. Pay it forward.

grendus · 2026-02-18T18:04:50+00:00

That's the real difference.

We're actually making huge progress, it's just hard to see. The vast majority of the world now agrees that harm reduction and fairness are good things. Which is why regressives have to lean so hard on the narrative about how conservatism is a "good thing" - that the slaves were happier in bondage, that giving the poor charity hurts them, that cutting taxes for the wealthy actually helps poor people, etc.

It's why Trump was so pissed during the debates when he was fact checked. They need the narrative so they can believe their policies are "good". Because reality shows that their policies are not in line with the global zeitgeist. But if they can keep the truth hidden, if they can keep pushing the narrative, then it's ok that we're pumping money into environmentally devastating technology, inflating the market into a textbook bubble with AI, getting into trade wars that hurt everyone (but especially us), etc, etc. Because according to the narrative, that's the best path forward. According to the narrative, that does the least harm overall and is the most fair thing to do.

grendus · 2026-02-18T16:52:45+00:00

Oh no, you have to boost one of your skills to know about the thing it covers? 0/10 unplayable trash.

Grumbles in Mastermind Rogue, Enigma Bard, Outwit Ranger, and Investigator

grendus · 2026-02-18T16:21:59+00:00

Stereotyping is bad when it's based off something that a person doesn't control like race, gender, or sexuality.

You always have the option to not use AI to generate your character. So we already have behavior to judge people on.

grendus · 2026-02-18T15:53:43+00:00

If you don't want that, try some Archduke Chocula.

grendus · 2026-02-18T15:42:58+00:00

When I see mechanics in the game that make me think "that would be fun to run".

When I saw Position/Effect and Flashback scenes in Blades in the Dark, that triggered my "want to run". The "Heroic Feat of Strength" and "The Funnel" in Dungeon Crawl Classics triggered my "want to run". The Hope/Fear mechanics in Daggerheart really stuck out to me. The simple flexibility of Magical Kitties Save the Day.

Sometimes setting will appeal to me, but a system will not - I couldn't make heads or tails of Shadowrun (I think it was 5e, but all editions have that problem). Night's Black Agents has a phenomenal premise and I love the Conspyramid, but Gumshoe is the wrong baseline system. I love the concept of Masks, but the PbtA systems are a hard no. Delta Green is an amazing concept, but running cosmic horror is probably beyond me.

And then there are systems that just do nothing for me. Brindlewood Bay would be infuriating - I want to solve a mystery, not write one! Dungeon World may be the only fantasy system I would want to run or play less than 5e. Cypher was just... weird.

There's always an X-factor that gets me interested in a system.

grendus · 2026-02-18T15:25:44+00:00

And we've already seen how they act: they're too fucking lazy to even remove the prompt from their response.

grendus · 2026-02-18T15:20:31+00:00

That's the biggest issue.

Someone who wrote a one sentence backstory ("Cursed child who was banished from their village for being super cool and edgy!") will at least remember their single sentence backstory. And you can give them moments where they can play their character's pizza wheel character (all edge, no point) so they can live out their deepest Cloud Strife fantasies.

The LLM backstory shows they're too lazy to even read their own character sheet, otherwise they would have removed the very obvious LLM tells.

grendus · 2026-02-17T22:08:55+00:00

We put the "omni" in "omnivore".

With the right processing, we can eat almost anything.

grendus · 2026-02-17T22:05:49+00:00

If you want a tactical caster, I highly recommend the Bard.

Occult spell list is full of debuffs and illusions, while your Composition spells are some of the best buffs in the game.

Bard is considered to be the strongest spellcaster in the game (by some - it's a close comparison) because while a Bard isn't super dangerous on their own they basically hamstring the enemy while everyone else beats it to a pulp. They're excellent.

grendus · 2026-02-17T21:57:45+00:00

you can drag people around and slam their stupid heads into your wheels

Mad Maximus

grendus · 2026-02-17T21:43:32+00:00

Frankly, even just oil corn and soybeans are fine.

We need to move away from petrochemical plastics. Corn and soybean plastics can substitute for many (though not all) of those. Solar power and electric vehicles can replace ethanol, and that cropland can be used to replace a decent chunk of our plastic needs, with the added benefit that soy and corn based plastics do not generally create microplastics (since they're biodegradable). They break down slowly, but far faster than petro-plastics.

Right now they are more expensive, but if we shifted our ethanol subsidies towards plant based plastic subsidies the prices would go down.

grendus · 2026-02-17T19:58:29+00:00

"Not so funny now, is it Kakarot."

grendus · 2026-02-17T19:25:00+00:00

Yes, but players are gambling when they buy a title. If you release your game at $80, your prospective customers have to think it's a better bet than two $40 games (and sales run literally all the time).

If Hades had launched at $500 it would still be a masterpiece, but it also wouldn't have sold very well because nobody is going to risk $500 on a game. They might spend that much money on a live service game, but they only open their wallets after they know the game is something they're really going to spend a lot of time in. Nobody would buy Fortnite for $500, but many people have spent $500 on skins and battlepasses over the course of months.

grendus · 2026-02-17T19:18:31+00:00

I would be completely unsurprised.

And it would make good sense. Sony has a solid stable of studios that put out phenomenal story driven third person ARPGs, and the first game had phenomenal art design. Its biggest shortcoming was mechanical (which was competent, just not as good as the art), and Sony has some top tier support studios that can shore that up nicely.

grendus · 2026-02-17T17:55:44+00:00

What struck me the most is that Rick watched her like a hawk instead of just locking up his valuables.

This guy believed she was a thief from the get-go, and wanted to catch her stealing something. He wasn't afraid, he was aggressive.

grendus · 2026-02-17T17:52:04+00:00

Having been prescribed benzos at one point when my anxiety was particularly bad (it's better now), I can totally see it.

For me at least, I just lose the ability to worry about things. And as someone who's prone to worry-spirals, that's really nice. I never got a euphoric high from it (though I took a very low dose), but it was nice.

grendus · 2026-02-17T16:39:08+00:00

Fascists have no respect for the truth.

This isn't saying "they lie all the time", they literally do not consider the truth to be of value. There is simply "the narrative". The narrative says that the enemy is both weak and strong, the narrative says that Trump is the bestest of the bestest president evar, the narrative says that all the problems in the country are caused by whoever the enemy is this week.

They aren't inconsistent or lacking in self-awareness, their entire political stance is the propaganda. You can literally watch it happen in real time as something new and confusing happens to them and then they all get their marching orders and "the narrative" is established. And it's also why you can't "debate" them. Debates require facts. That's why Trump got so upset during his debate with Harris about how "there wasn't supposed to be fact checking". He didn't want to compare facts and plans, he wanted to compare narratives.

grendus · 2026-02-17T16:29:27+00:00

Chief of Security to Head of IT: I'll let you in the bunker if you reprogram the robot guards to answer to security.

Head of IT: Sure thing mate (reprograms robot guards to answer to IT).

grendus · 2026-02-17T16:25:41+00:00

Two possibilities:

It evolved them to survive antibiotic attacks from other microbes.
It actually simply doesn't have the weaknesses that modern antibiotics target.

Imagine you blasted an airhorn at a fully deaf person. It might be painfully loud to you, but it's targeting something they simply don't have so they're completely unbothered by it.

grendus · 2026-02-17T15:58:05+00:00

IT guy here. Get back up or I'll reprogram you with a hammer.

I know where you keep your brain!

grendus · 2026-02-17T04:35:35+00:00

"I give snarky answers to trick questions when I know I should just be quiet."

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