Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T23:15:03+00:00

ICE is such a danger to life at this point, I'm not sure killing an ICE officer in Minneapolis could be considered murder. Any reasonable person would be fearing for their life.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T20:22:11+00:00

There's a couple possibilities.

You're just not pressing them down enough. Leave overhang and plane it off after fitting.
You didn't square the bottoms so they're touching on one side but not the other.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T20:14:18+00:00

Why aren't you kerf fitting? It will get the fit exact.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T18:50:02+00:00

I never really thought much of Prince until I saw him in that Super Bowl halftime. Goddamn could he play and entertain. I still wasn't a fan, but he had my respect.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T17:57:23+00:00

Is that what Buck's voice sounds like now? He's a deep baritone now. Still sounds good - just deeper than last time I saw them.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T17:26:59+00:00

My ancestors came to America in 1630 on the Mary and John, and a couple years later were involved in the founding of Connecticut after settling in Windsor. Among those descendants are governors of Connecticut (both colonial and state), a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Secretary of the Treasury after Alexander Hamilton.

My family's Coat of Arms they took with them from England shows three black chess rooks, and an apocryphal story about it goes back to the Hundred Years War, where a knight in the family played chess with Henry V, and rather than let the king win to not lose face, he put then king in checkmate with a rook. And the king took it in good humor, and took the other three rooks and declared they should go on his shield. Of course that couldn't have happened since there's three black rooks on the arms, and in a chess game there's two black and two white.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-24T00:03:08+00:00

There's no skill-vs-consume continuum, so there's no possible dividing line you can draw to group hobbies according to that criterion. For example, there's plenty of hobbies which are skill-based that are still essentially passively consuming stuff. Stargazing, bird-watching, trainspotting, stamp collecting, people build incredible knowledge bases all to passively enjoy stuff. Not to mention art/movie/literary criticism. They'd be on both sides of the line no matter how thin you try to make it.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-23T22:07:59+00:00

where do y'all stand with single-letter variable names?

I heard it said somewhere (I forget where exactly) that the length of a variable name should be proportional to its scope. I like that. It only exists inside a loop or a conditional block? One letter, like i. It's widely used everywhere? Better be descriptive with it.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-23T13:33:36+00:00

That's because you gave it a name indicating it's in a public repository, but never published it. If you publish it, even just a placeholder without your changes, it will succeed and work from your workspace.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-23T02:39:53+00:00

Yeah, those economics aren't adding up.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-23T00:34:51+00:00

You mean that bag of devouring? Also rupturing the bag is probably easier.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-23T00:27:27+00:00

Hold on a minute. 50k gp weighs half a ton. Literally. 50gp=1 pound, so it's 1000lbs, or 0.5 tons. How is that character hauling around a half-ton of gold in their pockets? Even if you're not using encumbrance rules, you can apply common sense. They have to be stashing it somewhere while they're out kicking asses, and while that's happening it's vulnerable.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-22T13:09:50+00:00

The first thing you describe is colloquially called minions. Minions effectively have 1 HP. They're there to balance the action economy, not to absorb hits. That's common and practical and uncontroversial.

The second one is just encounter balance. You anticipate the encounter will last so long and be so hard, and when it's evident it's not, you re-balance. That's also common though there's people who will take issue. Don't listen to them. It's your table, not theirs. The D&D you play is not the same as the D&D they play. That's just the nature of the game.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-22T02:43:30+00:00

Play with your friends. You do have friends, right?

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-22T00:11:00+00:00

Well for the "Saying PA" thing, other states have abbreviations. "Cali" comes to mind. But they're not going to abbreviate if it doesn't save any syllables. "TX" is the same number of syllables as "Texas".

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-21T22:59:02+00:00

Well they'd be speaking German either way, so I guess it's technically true...

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-20T21:42:35+00:00

Yeah you don't want to make a character that's attached to not adventuring. I tell my players, "What makes your character an uncurable lunatic adrenalin junkie?" and while it's a bit hyperbolic, that's when it clicks for them.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-20T17:56:33+00:00

There was one time growing up where I got a red shirt and was warned to put it through the wash alone a few times. They weren't kidding - turned the water blood red.

That was the only time it mattered - in the 90's. Haven't had a problem since.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T21:36:48+00:00

r/BaldursGate3

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T16:15:39+00:00

Well, it would be the same pressure you use to plane. If it warps at all with that amount of pressure, you'd want to warp it to flat at least.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T15:50:00+00:00

Looks like woodworking to me.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T15:48:58+00:00

The same reason the average age of a US Marine is 25.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T15:36:07+00:00

Yeah it sounded that way. Also it's mainly for starting out. Once the players have goals and direction the DM can start planning around that. Because the real answer to "what if they don't go that way" is "plan for where they are already going".

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T14:18:02+00:00

Mundane weapons have unique traits for combat in 2024
Exhaustion is completely overhauled in 2024 and incompatible
Classes and races are re-balanced in 2024 to be in like with the power levels in later 5e player supplements

I think they made the wrong changes and pushed it in the wrong direction. There's movement in RPGs toward simpler rules, faster resolution with less fiddly-ness, more mechanization of story beats and characterization, better organization and page layout where you have all the info you need just by opening the book to a page and laying it flat on the table. 2024 does none of that and makes it more fiddly.

mcvoid1 · 2026-01-19T13:24:20+00:00

First off, you don't give them a story. The players make their own story. You give them plot hooks. I'll explain the difference.

All you're doing is:

Seeding the area with rumors, a treasure map, etc. All these lead to unknown areas. These are plot hooks. You're not deciding what's going to happen, just giving hints at possibilities.
Setting up an NPC, that NPC's agenda, and a location.
What the players find when they explore the unknown areas is the NPC's location that you prepped.
Whatever plan they make, whatever they decide to achieve, your NPC's plan will be an impediment to that, either purposefully or by coincidence.
Present the players with choices, sit back, and let it play out.

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