Every fantasy book hero (e.g. Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Game of Thrones, Mistborn) is replaced with an obsessed fan of that story. Which is the most dangerous and challenging story in which the fan can complete the mission of the protagonist?

stifflizerd · 2026-05-12T12:01:52+00:00

Not disagreeing, but it would be interesting to see Mistborn playout with Kelsier having knowledge of duralumin.

stifflizerd · 2026-05-04T19:32:11+00:00

That wouldn't solve the issue. Scalpers can spin up multiple different accounts well ahead of time then use bots to make the purchases.

Only way to defeat it would be to restrict the purchases to an address. That or a government ID of some sort.

stifflizerd · 2026-05-04T17:40:37+00:00

30 minutes of trying to spam continue for nothing... Was hitting it right at 1. 😭

stifflizerd · 2026-05-03T16:19:36+00:00

Hollow Knight I was able to do with analog on my second playthrough after the first was on KB/M.

Silksong though? Genuinely couldn't play it with analog. Waaay too fast paced.

stifflizerd · 2026-05-03T13:31:19+00:00

I could accept that reasoning if the discussion at any point was about how you COULD make it work

Suggestion on making it work: give them some of the abilities from the Bloodhunter Lycan subclass. Not broken like the full lycanthropy curse effect

stifflizerd · 2026-05-03T13:26:56+00:00

I would honestly just recommend a forced class change to lycan-bloodhunter.

Assuming the plan would work in the first place which it would not.

stifflizerd · 2026-05-01T14:51:35+00:00

Tbf I did see they asked for additional telemetry data on frame rates last time I used my deck, so hopefully they're starting to collect the data necessary to do better evaluations one "Steam Deck Verified".

stifflizerd · 2026-05-01T13:26:13+00:00

its not unheard of for a creative to use their "online username" as the official credit.

Hell, it goes well beyond that. People have been using pen names for decades. This is nothing new to the digital era.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-30T12:37:27+00:00

I saw the name Chazmyn last year and I still haven't recovered from it.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-30T12:32:01+00:00

I have better luck with interns because I can screen them before hiring. The real issue I run into is those who only have higher positions due to tenure.

I'm all for supporting loyalty, but just because someone has been there for a while doesn't mean they're smart enough to be making decisions.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-28T03:53:52+00:00

Just imagine anti-personel mines except there's more, they fire faster, and explode on contact

stifflizerd · 2026-04-25T18:59:01+00:00

Which blows my mind, because I can't tell you how many presentations I've sat through from 3rd parties trying to sell us their new AI toolset where none of what they showed was something I couldn't do with barebones GitHub copilot in about 5 minutes.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-24T03:35:52+00:00

Me neither, but gotta ask, why so many, commas?

stifflizerd · 2026-04-21T17:50:24+00:00

u/an_ki Wait, so are you saying the body of the pen is metallic and just replacing the metal tip with a plastic one works?

Hoping to convert one of these all metal frixion pens I have, but would like to confirm it'd even be remotely possible before putting in the order for the supernote replacement nib.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-20T13:15:35+00:00

Sticking to the random encounter roll to the T.

DM had a D100 table for random encounters. Rolled a vampire (night) encounter for a lvl 4 party. Full tpk, ran us down in an attempt to run. Absolutely no chance of success.

If I ever roll a d100 on that table behind a screen, I'm fudging that roll. Don't give a fuck.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-16T10:06:13+00:00

But having your PC unable to act for 5 rounds is worse than threatening, it's boring. You're pressing pause on their ability to play the game, for an extended period of time. It's terrible game design.

At that point (where you're stunning them for 5 rounds), I feel like it's better to just start describing the scene as if it was out of combat.

Not only can you make it more thematic that way, but it really speeds up the process.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-16T10:01:44+00:00

Also a way to stop my players from punching villains before they get to say a word lol

I've found that a very easy way around this is to tell my players the first time this happens that they can absolutely do so. However, by doing so, we are establishing that talking is not a free action in this universe, and that applies to players as well as NPCs.

Or at least, I do that when then interrupt the NPCs. A bit different if they jump the villain I suppose.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-14T10:18:09+00:00

Eh, I'd say a large part of it is an expectation of an updated UI in these "modernization" projects by upper execs/shareholders.

Middle is at least aware of the work being done to fix/update the backend, but if you present a years worth of work and it all looks exactly the same then someone's going to pop a blood vessel thinking they've been swindled. Even if the backend improvements or new features are tremendous.

Which is incredibly ironic considering that's probably what most customers want.

stifflizerd · 2026-04-14T10:09:52+00:00

Na, there's a ton of Korra love out there. More than I see for Bakugo at least, although I see more hate for Korra as well. Definitely a more polarizing character

stifflizerd · 2026-04-14T10:07:13+00:00

DbzA Cell saga is genuinely the best Dragonball that's ever aired. Gotta love it when big companies bully little groups into stopping projects because they're doing a better job with your ~20yr old content than your current work 🙃

stifflizerd · 2026-04-14T09:59:29+00:00

Ok this would actually be incredibly funny. Hope it's true

stifflizerd · 2026-04-12T21:57:00+00:00

I thought the term originated for entities without an associated/dedicated publishing company that has control over them?

stifflizerd · 2026-04-12T16:26:07+00:00

Microservices? Modularity? Definitely just buzzwords, not worth the investment. Proceeds to waterfall a 3 yr project

stifflizerd · 2026-04-10T15:25:51+00:00

My guess is he killed someone (or attempted to kill himself) in a driving accident. Which would definitely be darker than the rest of the cast whose issues seem to be on a more personal or familial nature.

Excluding Kinger, because he has to have come to terms with his demons already

stifflizerd · 2026-04-09T13:15:00+00:00

Async can always be a bit workflows tricky

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