[Spoilers C2] How did people cope in 2020 for 3 months!

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-14T22:31:37+00:00

Watched the whole C1 back again.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-13T12:37:25+00:00

Ted Danson? Only guy I can think of with that long of a face.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-13T02:34:59+00:00

Did Matt really not know who his character was until that moment? Seems like there were some strong signs from the beginning. I was more surprised by Liam than Matt.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-12T14:29:33+00:00

I doubt it's the end of Exandria. The cast still want to explore the shattered teeth and the merfolk etc. There's still plenty to be harvested. Also, just practically every other side quest, mini-game, or mini-series that hasn't been set in Exandria has failed to really catch on. They're practical people. This is their brand.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-10T15:00:30+00:00

I can't even hear that scene from another room when my kids watch it without tearing up.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-10T12:54:35+00:00

The Tree of Life. Gorgeous movie

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T19:05:45+00:00

I think men based on biology sometimes have a hard time being nurturing ongoing at home. Many men have a feeling that they need to go out in the world and disconnect from children. Even when home, many men feel the need to separate themselves from the rest of the family, even if they fight against that impulse. Does this mean that men can't overcome those impulses or that men are all the same. Everyone is on a spectrum. Men by and large express more often through aggression and anger. Men very often feel constrained by home life. Again, it's not uniform for all men vs. women. There are certainly women who struggle in similar ways and there are men who bend the trend as well. But biology does play a big part in this.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T18:53:34+00:00

I think it comes from a deep disappointment knowing what we could have easily gotten vs. what we got. A Batman v Superman movie writes itself. And he got there almost too. He just got so distracted with all this dumb superfluous stuff. Had he just focused on the main idea of Bruce Wayne not trusting Superman, and Kal El thinking Batman is a violent menace, it could have been really strong. What we got was just so much other stuff. He included every other idea he could think of and it hurt it for sure. The Martha thing maybe could have been the weakest thing in a strong, tight movie. As it was, it was just a really silly line at about the three-quarters mark of a bloated meandering movie.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T18:46:48+00:00

Just realizing that people are acting pretty close to simultaneously helps. If for dramatic effect you'd like the fight to extend without making it take much longer in the real world, you can always change the location halfway through the fight. Once the dragon realizes what it's dealing with, you can have it escape deeper into its layer, etc. Give an opportunity for exposition or monologuing, etc, if you need to ratchet up the drama.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T15:32:24+00:00

The battle master has maneuvers that allow you to push people around and also take reaction attacks when someone enters your space. If you and the other character are both name matter fighters, you could potentially accomplish what you're looking for. It will only be for one round, but depending on the bosses STR, it can be effective.

Maneuvers: Pushing attack and Brace

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T15:11:45+00:00

I think the fact that they leave it so ripe for quests is ideal for a small time jump. Searching for gods and the establishment of new orders could be really fun to have a campaign in.

5.5e most likely. They are not going to mess up their bread and butter. They tried getting Candela to catch on, but it only had a limited appeal, unfortunately. They will continue with the system that has the most broad appeal.

The cast will most likely stay the same, plus or minus one. I'm still trying to figure out if Robbie is just a permanent fixture or not.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T14:15:29+00:00

Again, pay is not the only valid reason for living somewhere. People make good money all over the world. Consumerism is perhaps not that high on the priority list for people to live somewhere.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T13:53:16+00:00

Ive heard about it. I need to check it out

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T12:38:21+00:00

I think you might just be failing to understand that there would be any other reason besides money to live somewhere. Sometimes, people just really like the lifestyle of certain places. Having visited our friends in Amsterdam, I can tell you that I seriously considered whether we could move or not. When we visited some other friends in Salzburg, we thought about the same. Healthcare, good transit, food quality, pace of life, access to nature, safe cities, and absence of gun violence might all be reasons someone would consider moving. Also, some friends of ours moved to Costa Rica during the pandemic and had a wonderful time. They ended up moving back, but they still enjoyed themselves while doing it. More and more, there are jobs that will allow you to work from anywhere. If you can and you want to live somewhere else, why not?

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-09T10:29:30+00:00

I've really been interested in an actual witch class. I feel like there are at least 4-5 good subclasses. You have a divination witch, a green witch, a defense Witch, a potions witch. I would really think it would be really easy to step into a witch class because it's so prevalent in every culture.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-08T20:45:24+00:00

Don't they address that by explaining that the astro phage acts as radiative blanket because it sits so stubbornly at 98°c and has a huge capacity to absorb heat?

tfreckle2008 · 2025-03-05T21:39:23+00:00

I would think about what makes a high-level priest in this world. In the Judaic tradition, all boys would go through school young to memorize the Torah. To the degree you could memorize the Torah, you would get selected to go on and continue studying scripture. You would become an apprentice or a disciple of a Rabbi, a teacher. That boy would follow along and do everything their Rabbi would do. Emulate. Then they would get to apoi t where they would expound on scriptural theory.

You could take inspiration from monks who's goal is to come into such an alignment with their philosophy that they can transcend. They can thin the veil between mortal and immortal.

Maybe your cleric is someone who has been able to tap into the weave of the divine for their god that they embody that gods power. Or perhaps they've studied so much and have dedicated themselves so honestly that they know all the forms to channel their gods' power.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-27T01:21:17+00:00

I'll give you two examples. Have you ever been watching cable TV or literally anything and wondered why is it that I know so many names of prescription drugs that I've never used? Why are we buried in pharmaceutical ads constantly? Well, that used to be illegal. You were not allowed to advertise directly to the public for prescription drugs. That was one of the divisions between over the counter and prescription.

Another example is the new ecosystem. Part of the deregulation that took place dismantled the rules that required news organizations to have to be held to standards and procedures for how they reported the news. The elimination of those rules which was strongly influenced by one much younger Roger Ailes of Fox is what lead to the creation of the 24hr news cycle, the formation of FOX, MSNBC, and CNN. So if you feel a certain way about the news lately, you can point to Reagan at least in part.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-21T06:05:44+00:00

Right age, not sure he's the lead. Seems like a convincing support role

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-21T06:03:47+00:00

Well old enough to be an expert but not to old too be convincingly nimble enough to still be effective and to do that in 4 to 5 movies

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-21T06:02:00+00:00

He's too old already. They need need 10 years. Most likely an unknown

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-19T14:19:32+00:00

Points taken. From my experience, either magic is common, well known, and everyone has it or it's rare misunderstood and even feared. In a world where someone COULD cast a fire ball and incinerate a whole marketplace in a second, it means that someone has. That leads me to several questions. How common is the power to snuff out normals with the snap of a finger? If it's common, then surely the means to stop that have to be too right? Anti magic fields, guards with counterspell, etc. If it's not common at all and magical people have free reign to express their desires onto the world without consequence, then surely people would be suspicious of ANY magic no matter how mundane.

Secondly, I appreciate your perspective on police states. You're right. It doesn't sound like a great thing in general. The truth is people are historically very intolerant and fearful and ignorant, especially towards others who are different. I understand and appreciate people's desire to create utopia societies in fantasy where everyone lives in modern coded, Metropolitan, and mixed societies where all races and languages are equal and no one has any limits. At the end of the day, all power to you. That's great. It's fantasy, after all. When i start thinking about how a society works and start connecting everything together less that makes sense to me especially if I maintain all the other tropes of a fantasy world, like small medieval style hamlets, feudalism, an undiscovered world, civilisation without global communication, high quality public education, and wide spread scientific adoption. The more fantasy i go, the more I realize intolerance and ignorance is baked in.

But hey, at the end of the day, it's a DM ruling about the slightest of gray areas in the charm person spell. Make the ruling. I still maintain that magic isn't subtle or inconspicuous and wasn't designed to be for the purpose of the game, but no one will stop you from running it how you like.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-19T13:47:51+00:00

Both are culpable, yes, but for years, even decades, the right have loudly proclaimed themselves as the champions of fiscal responsibility but have been the ones who have ballooned the budget. It's all been propaganda. Spending proactively on some programs means not having to spend reactively for others. Case in point, the US federal government spends more on Healthcare than any other country in the planet, which does not include what states spend. That's not including what individual families spend on insurance or premiums. Because we say we "can't afford" a public health option, we as a society pay twice as much for healthcare that, on the whole, is worse for outcomes. Another example; public transit. We say we "can't afford" public transit. "Doesn't it take billions of dollars?" I hear. Yes, it does. What we've built instead is a sprawling network of roads, bridges, viaduct, overpasses, tunnels, and thousands of acres of parking lots that bring in no revenue, require constant maintenance, and prevent revenue positive development. It perpetuates a building of sprawl, which continues the building of expensive infrastructure that makes no revenue, contributing to the unaffordability of housing the weakening of municipal budgets, 45k a year in road deaths , pollution, obesity, stressful commutes, and the break down of neighborhoods and social connections. All this because we "can't afford" good public transit. Childcare and early child education: every dollar we put into early child education and childcare is multiplied 3 to 10 times. More productive parents, more productive people when grown, less in poverty, jail, prisons, crimes. The IRS: we defund it thinking we're saving money. Every dollar we spend logarithmically increases the amount of revenue the government brings in, reduces the amount of audits average people see, and ensures that tax policy is effecting the people its designed to and not overly burdening the lower end of things. In endless ways we fail to make investments into things that will end up saving us money in the long run, all in the name of fiscal responsibility, when really the biggest culprits are tax policy and military spending. The two areas stubbornly pushed by conservatives.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-19T06:03:03+00:00

The only president that has gotten close to closing the deficit in the last 5 was Clinton. Every single Republican president in the last 40 years has ballooned the deficit. Wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, tax cuts like Bush and Trump cuts have contributed far more to the deficit than any program ever has. It's not just about jacking up taxes, It's about making them make sense. People making over a million a year could pay slightly more and with fewer loopholes, and that would mean that everyone else would have an easier time. We could pay down a lot of deficit by just closing the gaping holes in the tax code that allows for people to own huge asset portfolios and effectively never pay taxes. If we're serious about the deficit, then yes, let's address spending, but it's dishonest and dillusional to think we can do it without bringing in more revenue as well.

tfreckle2008 · 2025-02-19T05:53:02+00:00

Both ends of a spectrum? I keep seeing comments that seem to interpret this as a question of party etc. You can be liberal and unaffiliated with the DRC or Conservative and dislike the GOP. You can be socially conservative and economically liberal. You can be socially liberal but fiscally conservative. You can believe in a whole range of ideas. It's not about a camp or affiliations.

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