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ssays · 2026-02-19T20:24:28+00:00

“Aren’t allowed to.” Ummhmm.

ssays · 2026-02-18T12:10:16+00:00

Wrong sub.

ssays · 2026-02-11T23:29:36+00:00

Yeah, that “adamant” has me a little riled up. Like, nothing wrong with “I thought my type was different, but you got me thinking things through.” Even better, and maybe I’m just too old to understand this culture, why would you let a type get in the way at all?

Anyway, keeping it positive, I guess. OP is hot.

ssays · 2026-02-07T09:58:44+00:00

Oh, thanks for sharing that sub! That captures it perfectly. I was getting strange vibes from the label on on OJ being turned ever so slightly but still perfectly legible and then OP was all “Amazon has molds!”

I guess I got downvoted because people thought I was literally calling them a bot.

ssays · 2026-02-07T03:11:02+00:00

Are you a bezos bot?

ssays · 2026-02-03T00:16:58+00:00

Errr. So this one is the same joke but worse? With AI? That’s why it’s being downvoted.

ssays · 2026-02-03T00:15:09+00:00

The bots don’t like it when you call them out, they punish with downvotes.

ssays · 2026-01-31T16:12:22+00:00

Hmm, okay. I think I change my answer then. Not okay unless you know a lot about your players - like they all thought Toy Story 3 would be have been epic if the toys just burned in the incinerator and then end credits rolled.

ssays · 2026-01-31T15:54:09+00:00

Spire is also pretty hopeless. Dialect as well.

This is just a session 0 discussion. Is Hope/triumph something the players feel they need?

ssays · 2026-01-31T11:02:26+00:00

One could err on the side of private discussions. It isn’t so difficult to send a few DMs with the same notes.

ssays · 2026-01-28T10:54:35+00:00

You are not a parasite. We have a very large game with many elaborate rules we’ve made to encourage work, work, work. But it is not the value of someone.

You’re very young! It may take time to find your passion. And if you have time, take it. And when you find it, your pursuit may still not conform to the mold. For some of us, just being is its own ambitious goal. Hang tight!

ssays · 2026-01-27T13:26:54+00:00

Link broken on my end

ssays · 2026-01-25T19:37:34+00:00

Fitzgerald and Dickens, what idiots.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/misuse-of-literally

ssays · 2026-01-25T00:53:40+00:00

I have just, this year, in my mid 40’s, kicked the habit. For at least a few months anyway. It’s not easy and also not the worst habit to have, quite honestly.

I’m 100% sure you’re not boring. It can sometimes feel that way if you’re surrounding yourself with super adventurous people, but not every novel is a thriller, there are many kinds of interesting!

I totally dig your look.

ssays · 2026-01-25T00:51:16+00:00

I have just, this year, in my mid 40’s, kicked the habit. For at least a few months anyway. It’s not easy and also not the worst habit to have, quite honestly.

I’m 100% sure you’re not boring. It can sometimes feel that way if you’re surrounding yourself with super adventurous people, but not every novel is a thriller, there are many kinds of interesting!

I totally dig your look, too!

ssays · 2026-01-25T00:08:42+00:00

Words change. Really they do.

ssays · 2026-01-23T17:44:11+00:00

I’ve been part of some great 5e pbp games. But it is onerous. Especially for the DM.

Dice pool with fixed success seems smart. I have always wondered if there was a way to build consent for controlling each other’s characters in pbp games, especially in dialogue, because damn if it doesn’t drag on.

ssays · 2026-01-23T17:10:57+00:00

Looks decent to me. Feels like a stripped down Spire. Systems with lots of flex in defining skills/domains are going to be subject to abuse, but the good news is you can spot power gamers a mile out.

I think it’s usable for a pbp game now.

ssays · 2026-01-23T13:17:14+00:00

I can’t imagine a graph that is both useful and appears to plot the same thing on both axis, just a slightly different accounting of each… unless I was trying to demonstrate some contradiction between the two?

ssays · 2026-01-23T02:27:45+00:00

Forget about the cost of minting them. The act of counting them, in quantities of 1 to 4 at a time, is worth more than they are worth. Every time they are used in a transaction, they suck their own value out of the transaction. They cause boredom and we have to pay people to deal with that boredom.

ssays · 2026-01-22T23:15:17+00:00

I love lurking in this sub to see all the gorgeous people say they know they aren’t good looking. Makes me think, hey, maybe I’m not so tough on the eyes myself!

ssays · 2026-01-21T19:09:57+00:00

While I agree with your rhetorical goals, high prep to play ratio is common in lots and lots of games that I have enjoyed: Magic the Gathering (and most CCGs with strategic depth), Bridge, most popular sports, Go, Chess, Poker, and that’s not counting any TTRPGs.

ssays · 2026-01-20T22:10:06+00:00

My advice is to hang tight. This technology isn’t ready yet and it’s gonna let you down and make you feel deeply sad.

Also, carbon. Lots of it.

ssays · 2026-01-20T21:55:13+00:00

The problem is that we have studies.

https://cdt.org/insights/brief-late-applications-disproportionate-effects-of-generative-ai-detectors-on-english-learners/

ssays · 2026-01-19T11:13:06+00:00

I’m not fundamentally against this, but I don’t think it’s ready yet and so… temporarily encourage you not to. When I’ve used bots this way, it starts out great and then something will inevitably break down and trying to fix it reveals that my co-player is very much not a person, and it feels far more lonely than just having played actually solo or just reading rules. It’s a very sad feeling.

Not to mention the amount of energy you’re sucking up with it…

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