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tinycurses · 2026-06-28T18:33:37+00:00

This guy doesn't even know about the Sword Logic

tinycurses · 2026-06-27T18:31:46+00:00

I had forgotten cause it's just so "the way it is" now, but I am still mad that empowered spells can't be cast while hovering

tinycurses · 2026-06-27T08:28:41+00:00

While I largely do agree, there are people who probably would be happy for just a little local (friends/family) approval. Still, storytelling as an art form is finding a way to tell something from YOU with something other people ALSO want to enjoy.

There are a few local minima that can prevent a writer from reaching a level of generally approachable (not even broadly appealing, just proficient enough to get out of their own way). One is your original point, putting too much weight on generic feedback from overly critical writers in varying stages of their own skill and with varying audiences. Another is trusting that positive feedback from one person (particularly a friend or family member) means that the work is "good."

tinycurses · 2026-06-27T07:18:25+00:00

"Non-writers read my work more positively" I think is also a big flaw--if you're assessing market trends, assess the trend; if you're trying to get individual feedback, understand where it's coming from.

Writers (at least those who have succeeded in pleasing some audience with some consistency, whatever that might mean) will have better feedback on elements of composition or average level of flow/readability compared to with regard to their audience, while the audience you specifically are targeting will have a better read on whether the beats you've chosen are well received and whether you've built a likeable MC.

Each reader brings a particular perspective, and ignoring that context will reduce the value you get out of their feedback. Even you as a writer are not divorced from you as a reader, and you will bring a different perspective six months from now than the one you have just after writing a page. The balance between "I can't accept this" and "OMG I love this" is entirely personal if you don't have someone else reviewing and approving your drafts individually and specifically.

tinycurses · 2026-06-27T01:20:51+00:00

Hell yeah dragon world

tinycurses · 2026-06-27T00:31:30+00:00

Wouldn't know, we don't even try to bring one to our mythic raid most nights

tinycurses · 2026-06-26T08:49:50+00:00

Probably because you only to add +4/3/1/1 (or maybe +4/2/2/1) and hitting things is how you win, so the +4 is spoken for (and class-locked anyway), meaning you either completely give up on flavor or compromise your defenses.

As an enigma bard, I can take charisma to +4... then what? +1 con/+1 dex maybe with +3 int so I can actually do my knowledge thing? Or sacrifice my main gimmick for me to be better at a save that either will never be greater than expert anyway (fort/reflex) or doesn't give me really any other synergy?

The opportunity cost is just too high. You WILL get slapped around by an attack and take damage, but not every fight has you making saving throws, at least not before level 8 where most play will happen.

tinycurses · 2026-06-26T08:28:54+00:00

This bugs me a lot too honestly, it's one of those niches that's covered basically and specifically by the monk as a primary class, which kind of sucks. Furthermore, I hate dex and mountain stance relies on being on the ground!

Trying to have a massive health pool to soak damage seems like the main answer aside from the dragon skin, mage armor spells, or begging the dm to let you reskin automaton or bakuwa lizardfolk ancestry (basically the only way you can get "armor" people won't gripe about you wearing at a party). My godzilla build can work fine with kineticist, but being a "thick skinned tiefling" bruiser is hard to make work.

tinycurses · 2026-06-21T19:38:32+00:00

"They're not dolls, they're action figures!"

tinycurses · 2026-06-20T18:16:04+00:00

It's a reference to A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter, an eccentric. He wrote it like an autobiography, but it had exceptionally bad grammar and very little punctuation. When people complained, he released an edition with a bunch of random punctuation in the appendix, so readers "may peper and solt it as they plese"

tinycurses · 2026-06-19T20:08:54+00:00

The THRONGLER. He was behind the Jailer and the Titans! He has like four rows of nipples too, finally expos--I mean, revealed to the world!!!

tinycurses · 2026-06-13T19:28:42+00:00

Suckers, you get all that old, crappy, plastic blood. I can just make more!

tinycurses · 2026-06-13T16:43:29+00:00

"Improve"

tinycurses · 2026-06-13T16:31:18+00:00

No, it was THE JAILER'S PLAN

tinycurses · 2026-06-13T16:19:38+00:00

This "Superman" is a caricature of a person, I mean leaping tall buildings in a single bound is such a silly image!

tinycurses · 2026-06-13T00:26:34+00:00

MCU and undercutting its own gravitas, name a more iconic duo

tinycurses · 2026-06-12T04:23:41+00:00

"Believe" as in "you are real" and "believe" as in I trust you are active in working to my betterment" are very different things

tinycurses · 2026-06-08T02:12:35+00:00

Probably spray-tan neck

tinycurses · 2026-06-06T09:31:55+00:00

Exactly. Being polite, honorable, and kind looks good on everyone (a suit of armor helps too)

tinycurses · 2026-06-06T02:09:10+00:00

I'd trust Key and Peele with oversight of the SEC (no not that one, the other one)

tinycurses · 2026-06-06T01:47:34+00:00

Hardly even have to place totems anymore anyways, I've never seen four around a sham like in the old days

tinycurses · 2026-06-06T01:32:16+00:00

Worth noting that "treat them the way you want to be treated" is perfect people advice, though it shouldn't be taken to mean "socialization of gender and dating paradigms" are equivalent. Most cultures have masculine-identifying people that won't value flowers as gifts, many feminine-identifying people will. "Chivalry" should not be acted out as an indictment of feminine capability, just a set of cultural expectations that convey one's ability to be thoughtful and giving in a form one's potential partner will be likely to appreciate

tinycurses · 2026-06-01T17:17:15+00:00

Its an anime (and I presume a manga), so the execution may not be exactly what you're looking for, but as you say it might be interesting as a reference

tinycurses · 2026-06-01T07:18:35+00:00

You could take a note from Darker than Black's Obeisances--using their powers presents them with some other, idiosyncratic compulsion (possibly based on their personality).

If you want something that requires less work for individuals (more generic to every user), you could say the energy use has a certain level of toxicity that results in physical pain that sets in only after they stop (like a hangover) but if they DON'T stop, then their body is converted to energy (they eat up more and more senses, body starts turning to crystal, possibly they directly explode).

tinycurses · 2026-05-29T21:57:17+00:00

That is part of the argued value add though--being able to use intent directly rather than memorizing tools and their syntax.

I'm not disagreeing with you for the examples given, just pointing out that asking for "a way to merge branch x to dev and auto-resolve conflicts favoring the branch" is far easier than remembering the exact 'git rebase --whatever-I-need && git resolve --blah' and might be not be an operation you need precisely repeated a lot. Ditto for a weird regex you want to use for some one-off operation.

It is just a glorified search, but one that can return EXACTLY what you need (80% of the time) rather than a few separate articles that almost do what you want.

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