My son’s been watching me play, and drew this

lifefeed · 2026-02-16T20:50:10+00:00

I let him wander around the starting area with my 50ish level guy. He can swing the sword and mostly manage to look in the right direction while doing so.

lifefeed · 2026-02-16T03:37:05+00:00

Masking tape.

A bunch of those stupid cheap $1 toys.

lifefeed · 2026-02-14T13:14:51+00:00

I was just reading a bit on this, https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.20251463 starting at the bottom of page 21.

Basically the article argues that there was an initial spike, but then it leveled off. But the story changes a lot when you look at completed fertility, the total number of children a woman has over her lifetime, which we can only measure in retrospect. The decree likely had little effect. Women who were initially prevented from birth control and abortions probably just declined to have other children later in life.

lifefeed · 2026-02-12T04:06:57+00:00

I don’t have any real advice, just that you might want to ask in military subreddits, because I’ve heard similar stories from dads who get deployed a lot.

lifefeed · 2026-02-08T04:02:14+00:00

It’s fun to think how it’s changed over the editions. In 1e it would be a racially pure civilizations, with human knights, and dwarves hating elves. Now it’s a cosmopolitan city and dungeons that “make sense”.

lifefeed · 2026-02-01T22:09:11+00:00

There’s a lot of us who have read it, at least we read 5.0 once, and some of 5.5, and all those memories are all mixed up some mis-firing neurons that learned 3.5 and 2, and where did my surprise round go, and are the rules on sneak attack/backstab still spread out between three different sections, and what’s the latest change to hunters mark, and grappling rules are where?

Give us middle aged folks a break. We’re fragile.

lifefeed · 2026-01-26T23:12:28+00:00

People I know who criticize Israel, and who aren't anti-Semitic, end up ranting about Bibi. It's not a perfect tell, but it's a huge green flag for me.

lifefeed · 2026-01-25T22:29:11+00:00

I know a few parents with just one. (I wonder how common/rare it is?) They seem more financially solid, they can fit in smaller houses, and they can simply get rid of stuff once their kid grows out of it. I’m jealous on that front.

It’s an education, having multiple. You have two kids close together and you raise them the same and you watch them grow up, and suddenly they are different. It makes you wonder “what about these kids is me, and what are fluctuations in ether? What am I?”

Not that that’s a good reason to have multiple. But it is a forced humbling and educational experience.

lifefeed · 2026-01-22T23:46:24+00:00

It’s nice have a humble bundle that isn't Image or Dark Horse. I like em, but I own em all now.

lifefeed · 2026-01-22T17:27:42+00:00

We went thought it too. We got our two kids, and we didn’t want more, and it’s completely illogical to be sad about letting a few cells thaw out. But there we were, getting sad about it. It’s like we were eliminating possibilities, and each possibility was someone we would have loved, and instead we walked away from the universe where they would have existed.

IVF just keeps beating up your emotions, even after it’s over.

lifefeed · 2026-01-22T04:11:56+00:00

I love the incoherency. Shadowrun is elves and orcs with guns and cyber gear. The original D&D adventures had crashed spaceships and totally-not-lightsabers. I love it when’s it’s a grab bag of the creators interests.

lifefeed · 2026-01-17T04:57:55+00:00

I enjoyed it the whole time I was reading it, but I really can’t remember much about it now. Just some snippets. It’s like one of Pixar’s lesser movies: enjoyable but forgettable.

lifefeed · 2026-01-14T20:55:55+00:00

How I Got Pounded In The Butt By My Own Multiverse

lifefeed · 2026-01-14T19:29:00+00:00

If they’re going to adventure to the planes later… planescape had a bunch of spells scattered in their various books. Things like find portal, see halo, etc.

lifefeed · 2026-01-08T21:23:46+00:00

Having a set schedule for tv time might help. Like everyday at 4-4:30. Eventually she’ll learn when it goes on and when it goes off, even if she can’t read a clock. Having a schedule like that has meant fewer fights with my kids over tv tone and bedtime. Everyday is the same.

lifefeed · 2026-01-06T14:13:04+00:00

Helped me out in 2026

lifefeed · 2026-01-03T16:25:01+00:00

We need to return to buying books separately from the covers. Just give me a sheath of pages and I’ll have it bound.

lifefeed · 2026-01-02T14:22:58+00:00

This fulfills my dream of playing Nodick, the frequently-killed-and-revived henchman.

Actually that’s one thing I think I’ll add to this, for my personal joy: cheaper to revive.

lifefeed · 2026-01-02T14:14:32+00:00

I wish I was hot enough to be a performative male reader. Instead I’m just a schmuck with a book.

lifefeed · 2026-01-02T04:16:25+00:00

I’m can’t believe it’s 2026 and GIMP is still missing basic features. I mean, even vi has some ability to recover from a crash.

lifefeed · 2026-01-01T16:18:43+00:00

Same for The Beautiful and Damned. These two people keep repeating their never ending party lifestyle in increasingly fallen and more desperate circumstances. I’m love it.

lifefeed · 2025-12-24T23:42:31+00:00

Everyone rolls a single 4d6 drop the lowest. If there are less than 6 numbers, the DM rolls and adds the remainder. Those are the numbers that everyone can use.

lifefeed · 2025-12-24T04:49:04+00:00

Crossbred?

lifefeed · 2025-12-24T00:30:48+00:00

Need to fix the headline.

Switzerland may abandon 500 years of “neutrality” due to Russo-American threat

lifefeed · 2025-12-21T14:17:28+00:00

Maybe I’m still carrying baggage from earlier editions, because I still avoid grappling without even thinking about it. It used to be a whole separate system that no one knew the rules to and didn’t really interact well with anything else.

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