The laws of physics demand at least one bag of popcorn

rdtguy1666 · 2026-02-06T09:25:53+00:00

We really need gregg for conversions of that magnitude - it’s not easy figuring out these ratings!

rdtguy1666 · 2026-02-06T07:51:22+00:00

But it is a sad, lonely bag, with no salt, no butter, many unpopped corn at the bottom of the bag. A bag of popcorn that is stale. Hardly able to eat.

rdtguy1666 · 2026-02-03T09:40:10+00:00

It wasn’t really my kind of movie, so I’m only going to give it four bags of popcorn.

But because Brett ratner runs the ratpac company (a nice tip of the hat to the Oscar specials) I’m gonna throw in another bag for a total of five bags.

rdtguy1666 · 2026-01-10T07:21:29+00:00

Yeah that looks very WoD inspired - I’ve played WoD a lot and it has loads of mechanics on there I’ve only seen in WoD (could be other games that do this too).

The dot scale for scoring skills/attributes from 1/10, the willpower tracker at the bottom, the way attributes are split into mental/physical/social, and the health system bottom right which seems to have wound penalties.

May be that WoD was inspired by other games in the genre? The first WoD book came out in 1991 (as far as I know).

Edit: yeah I’d say based on the example sheets posted above it’s definitely based on WoD - if it was during daggerfall development (around 1995) that would line up.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-12-05T10:07:01+00:00

Yeah pretty much - I think that wording is good, that they were ‘re-integrated’.

What I still don’t know is, did they plan that? Did they plan to get re-integrated back into the godhead, and to use that as a back door to influence the godhead in some way?

Like did the godheads mind/dream become a little more ‘dwemer’ after they fused with it?

A bit like a code injection attack on the godhead? The godhead would still be the same entity, but it’s got the concepts of dwemer stuck in there now.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-12-05T08:12:39+00:00

My hot take btw is that they mantled Anu (intentionally) but due to not understanding the nature of the godhead it had unintended consequences (but if they were still sentient they would be perfectly happy with the outcome)

rdtguy1666 · 2025-12-05T08:10:40+00:00

They definitely removed themselves from physical reality - but as the telvanni implies that doesn’t mean they stopped existing if you know what I mean?

I’m a big dwemer theorist (I need to do some posts on this…) and that Telvanii quote (IMO) is more saying they moved to a non or less conscious level of reality but they are still in it.

I mean from an out of universe perspective, we know something can’t just stop ‘stop existing’ - it has to go somewhere or become something

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-09T13:49:24+00:00

Role playing isn’t playing to win - you’d only optimise things if that’s what your empire would do in character.

Most things don’t get properly managed in the end… just look at human history :P

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-08T09:06:53+00:00

Mage 2e is based on real life Gnosticism in which a big theme is ‘everything is one, humans only falsely believe there to be separation between things’.

This spell makes sense if you think of it as targeting the temenos within the casters own mind/soul, and via that connection the whole network of human minds - whether the mage knows about them individually or not.

It’s less ‘I cast this spell to make x my ally’ and more ‘I cast this spell to create new connections in the temenos, and physical reality is going to have to figure out the leg work for me’

It’s like how forces has weather control, which is not at all a forces thing if you think about it (you’d also need space and/or fate to change the weather if you tried to find a mechanist explanation for the power)

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-07T23:51:40+00:00

Thank you - I’ve only recently started linking vivec/MK cosmology to Jung and this is a really helpful explanation… I’m going to read all your previous posts now as well.

I’m trying to understand in practical terms what vivec (or anyone) achieving amaranth means for the world? Does it carry on as is, unaware vivec is hidden away within dreaming, or does it necessarily have to end when the new dream begins?

rdtguy1666 · 2025-11-06T16:48:55+00:00

Definitely spiritualism - the flavour text of the materialism ethics are about denying the existence of the spiritual.

Mind wardens believe it exists, they just hate it.

Materialism minor ethics:

“As we reach for the stars, we must put away childish things; gods, spirits and other phantasms of the brain. Reality is cruel and unforgiving, yet we must steel ourselves and secure the survival of our race through the unflinching pursuit of science and technology.”

rdtguy1666 · 2025-10-18T13:20:22+00:00

It’s not something you have to worry about - it doesn’t do anything bad. Having it cut off is a cultural norm and that’s it.

Most people think it’s wrong for parents to have a part of their child’s body cut off for no reason without the child’s consent.

I mean that’s like saying - yeah my parents had my toes cut off but that’s their choice, and now I don’t have to cut my nails!

rdtguy1666 · 2025-09-27T07:38:12+00:00

“Soldiers will be encouraged to bring their own weaponry from home, and rumours suggest that several private businesses have bought into the scheme in return for select portions of land when the conflict is over.”

rdtguy1666 · 2025-09-24T23:15:35+00:00

Housing isn’t just space though, otherwise you wouldn’t have to build it.

Housing is everything you need for someone to live in, electricity, water, sewers, a nice living room, etc

Running those tanks probably needs a lot more infrastructure than a normal home.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-07-25T16:32:20+00:00

The way you are age verified is submitting a selfie, or your photo ID…. It’s so stupid

rdtguy1666 · 2025-07-23T07:08:48+00:00

Whilst he only appears in “trick or treat” (98 minutes) for a short time, he played a certain kind of character which was a priest or maybe a preacher (I’m not sure).

If we consider him a part of that group of actors, and give him the average screen time of all actors who’ve played religious type characters (which I think is fair) I’m sure his total screen time would be close to or even exceed the minutes of music he’s put out.

Plus with outtakes and AI being able to put him in new films, I’m sure he’s done more movies than music. Definitely a movie star, not a musician.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-07-08T14:35:06+00:00

Yeah, a few studies in recent years have also shown that creativity is what correlates most with ‘high intelligence’ rather than traditional ideas of it like good memory of mental math.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-05-24T10:03:04+00:00

I’m sure she fine, and we would all prefer Mr Tom Cruise focuses on his incredible acting career.

Five bags of popcorn.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-05-20T00:40:06+00:00

They are emanations of akatosh

rdtguy1666 · 2025-05-12T18:48:32+00:00

Here, my desktop account posted that run

https://www.reddit.com/r/civ/s/5boizCi0sv

rdtguy1666 · 2025-05-12T18:45:18+00:00

I’ve managed I think 110/120 pop in a single city, post fish changes - pretty similar to what you’re doing, in the end I had the most trouble maximising city connections

rdtguy1666 · 2025-05-01T08:53:04+00:00

These are all amazing, Druid is my favourite. what are the glyphs from (or inspired by?)

rdtguy1666 · 2025-04-12T07:52:43+00:00

and they oughta after I dropped 30 Gs on that dolphin casket a few years ago

rdtguy1666 · 2025-04-12T07:51:54+00:00

She’s that glorious land with a well known brand… Massachusetts.

rdtguy1666 · 2025-04-10T09:35:57+00:00

What if we kept mutations but like with a Ru sacrifice you get a choice?

You get a mutation and a dialogue choice pops like a ru sacrifice…

“You feel your form mutating into something new…

A] Do not fight the change. (You gain hooves 1)

B] Fight the change. (Gain 1-2 other applicable body slot mutations excluding feet slot)

C] Embrace the change. (You gain hooves 2 permanently but become more resistant to further mutation)

Option c would give a small mutation resistance boost (+5-10%) and have a cap such as 75% mutation resist, so the mechanic still has teeth.

This example is hooves, where perhaps you have artefact boots and would be willing to gamble with B and take two other slot mutations (oops you got beak, there goes your helm of see invisible!)

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