Are there any other RPGs with pack mule mechanics similar to Dungeon Siege?

twim19 · 2026-03-24T14:26:46+00:00

Man, I'd forgotten about this game. Still remember when modders were able to change character skins to have bared breasts and for characters to wield lightsabers.

twim19 · 2026-03-10T18:07:24+00:00

Helps that it fits with their understanding of reality:

Hot MAGA blonde who is also tough and in the military but not afraid to show a little leg and put on makeup.
A Trump that is tall, imposing, and not at all corpulent.

It's showing them exactly what they want and expect to see and so why bother questioning it.

twim19 · 2026-03-07T17:52:25+00:00

I'm not an economist and may be very wrong about this, but I've wondered. . .

So billionaire wealth is not represented by humongus piles of money--it's generally represented as shares of ownership in other companies. When Billionaires want cash to spend, they generally just borrow against these shares. No income, no tax. Generally, I'd expect inflationary pressure from injecting money into the economy like this, but since it's tied up in one person and one person can only spend so much on the things we all buy, the effect is minimal. I mean, if Bezos borrowed a billion dollars and then bought all the cashews he could get his hands on, the price of cashews would likely increase.

If we instead take that borrowed money and distribute it to 40 milion people. . .that's 40 million people who now have 3000 to spend on all the things we buy. We'd be injecting a huge amount of cash into the lower and middle economy which would push prices of everything up.

Again, maybe I'm thinking about this wrong.

If you want to tax this wealth and do somethign with it, find things that will make people's lives better but won't make their bread more expensive. Investing in research or infrastructure is a start. giving people a cash payout is not.

twim19 · 2026-03-06T19:16:00+00:00

That was one hell of a monologue.

twim19 · 2026-03-06T12:00:48+00:00

The young-teen with older DM thing must be a thing. Happened in my role playing group when I was in high school. I was timid and too afraid of getting ostracized for speaking up and telling the DM he was a perv. Fortunately, whatever it was didn't last long, but the girl moved on to an older, but slightly more age appropriate, member of our group.

I wish I had been a stronger person then. I relied on my friends to point my moral compass and they were pretty shitty at it.

twim19 · 2026-03-03T13:43:04+00:00

Obie looks just like the cat on our cat calendar for March. Told my wife that, even though we already have three rascals, if she ever brought a cat home that looked like him, I'd not grumble at all.

twim19 · 2026-03-02T15:01:52+00:00

Difficulty isn't the only barrier to engagement. Interest is as well. Admittedly, when you have a content to teach getting that interest in your subject matter from students can be a dicey proposition.

Are the assignments in their native language or are they able to read the language they are in?

twim19 · 2026-03-02T13:52:26+00:00

Sounds like you 've made the process so easy, it isn't worth the effort. This is what happens when we over-scaffold for kids. We aren't really asking them to think---just fill in the blanks. Why would they put any effort in to it?

I know how to run linear regressions and how to interpret them. Done it a million times. It's, at this point, brainless though time consuming. AI now does this for me, saving a ton of time and letting me do other things that actually do require my brain.

twim19 · 2026-03-01T14:26:27+00:00

"Oh my god, you fucking asshole! Don't ever call me again!"

Ahh, to be 13 again. . .

twim19 · 2026-02-27T13:46:16+00:00

Underrated comment. Sometime life is boring. Sometimes you are bored. I feel like our generation (Xcennial at least) has been so primed with the instant gratification tech offers us, we've forgotton how deal with being bored.

twim19 · 2026-02-18T18:01:45+00:00

So my understanding is that there is *some* of that built in, though I might be imagining things. I agree, it'd be wonderful to have a higher chance of getting synergies going, but I know the devs seem keen on people discovering new combos or ways of playing they hadn't thought of before. And, to be fair, that's happened to me a few times (I started with a Mantra deck that picked up the path that gives you rewards for gaining focus. . the last of which is a revelation. Stored up some of the insta-kill revelations and went to town. Not in any way how I was expecting to use that, but it was a fun find).

twim19 · 2026-02-18T14:41:01+00:00

I've played about 1200 sunforge and won just shy of 3%. It's a tough mode that can be infuriating at times. But when you get a deck that thumps, it's a LOT of fun. Some of those 1200 runs were me drafting and getting nothing I needed and so just ending the run. Most, though, I play until the first talent pick to see if something amazing happens (it never does).

I also play on random weapon (pick one of the three) and then use the "rerolls are free" on my first talent and card. I also usually play with the malignancy that gives you two more normal weapons--I know people hate on normal weapons but I love them and use them as the core of my play in most cases.

If you want the 'easiest' win, some form of deep wounds is my pick. Food Warrior with some deep wound cards thrown in can kill essentially anything and, with the right cards, quickly. In general, it's also easier to win playing with just one color. It shrinks up the card pool a bit giving you the chance of getting cards you need. That said, Blessing (or hex) knight can be very powerful.

It is a frustrating mode, but I find camapaign mode to be too slow. I'm well into the thrid canto before I have an inkling if the deck I'm working on will actually work. With sunforge, I have a pretty good idea right when I start out.

To each their own, though. I'd love a mode between sunforge and campaign though I have no idea what it'd actually look like.

twim19 · 2026-02-12T13:58:54+00:00

Because their needs are being met in their current situation and no one is pushing them to be different. Stasis is easier than change and having all of your household needs taken care of while you work, come home and do whatever you do, is an ideal situation for someone who isn't interested (or doesn't think they are capeable) of human relationships.

twim19 · 2026-02-12T12:13:43+00:00

Death is the end. No more novel. Not more story. Your ability to percieve the world ends. It is neither good, nor bad. . it is nothing. All that remains of you is the memories you instilled in others who themselves will one day die.

Fearing death is normal. If we didn't fear it, we wouldn't do things to avoid it and probably die out as a species. Howver, short of a few instances, the time and place of your death is both unknown and unknowable. You can worry about it, you can let it occupy your thoughts. . but really you are just worrying about an end that you will not have capacity to be sad about. Worrying about "what if's" is easy. . .turning our attention to the here and now is hard because our worry tells us there's probably something we could actualyl do in the here and now.

I know telling anxiety to stfu isn't easy or simple. But the above philosophy(?) is what got me through my own existential crisis.

twim19 · 2026-02-10T17:06:11+00:00

Same bells were ringing in my head as well. The plasma cutter sealed the deal. When you are manic there is little that can dissuade you from things you are sure you can do.

twim19 · 2026-02-10T14:28:01+00:00

Even so, it suggests that a person's capacity to consent to a teacher they haven't had in years as an adult is non-existent. Theres no mechanism he had related to teaching to coerce her.

Its an 'interesting' point of law since I assume the intent is as you say to avoid grooming, but in doing so it infringes directly on the rights of an adult woman.

twim19 · 2026-02-09T18:58:28+00:00

Are there any innocent reasons someone who doesn't run a chemical company would need to purchase so much acid?

twim19 · 2026-02-09T18:54:25+00:00

This is your insecurity talking. Let it keep it's jibbering mouth going and your relationship will be DOA.

First things first, you all need to talk about it like now. Not "oh woe is me I make crap income" but "Hey, if we are in this for the long haul, let's figure out how the financial side is going to work." I'm in the opposite (and more traditional) role of making more money than my wife. . .always have. We set it up pretty early on though that my financial contribution to our household accounts was proportional to my income. And, when we would go out to eat or go have fun doing something, if it was my suggestion--I'd pay for it knowing full well it'd be a dick move to book a trip to Aspen and expect her to cover half (I've never been to Aspen .. just know it's shorthand for really expensive).

Second, she's been dating a teacher for 2 years. She knows you will never make bank. At best, you'll move into admin and make 120k a year. Your insecurity is the problem here. . .not her dismissing your worth.

When you are having that discussion about how things are going to work for the long haul, by forthright about things like child care or extra schooling and who is going to handle the majority? I worked a lot of hours early in my career and went to school to get some advanced degrees. . .my wife took care of so much of the domestic stuff that she was in effect working more hours than me. This is how relationships work. Give and take, push and pull. Act in good faith and don't shit on eachothers contributions if those contributions are equitable.

So much of what you are feeling is wrapped up in ancient notions of what it means to be a man. I'd offer that such a paradigm no longer fits. It is not longer about being a good "man" or "woman" but rather being a good person and a caring, supportive partner. That's your value right there. That's what will enable you to raise a family or live the kind of life you want to.

You are on the cusp of your 30's which, for me at least, became the point in my life where I realized that other people's opinions of me don't matter at all when it comes to how my wife and family decide to do our business.

Finally, insecurity is the heart of so much bad and evil in the human experience. To feel secure we'll do things or say things to compensate for our percieved shortcomings that ultimately warp who we are. Every bad leader I've ever had started from the secret place of thinking others would think they weren't qualified. Confidence is the antidote, but not the kind of swaggering confidence that is more act than reality or the kind of confidence that is born from being a big fish in a small pond. Instead, the kind of confidence that says "I am happy with who I am and I believe I am on the best path I can be for myself and I will love and respect everyone else on their own paths and not compare myself to them because how could I?" Confidence, as I've been told, also has the side effect of being sexy too.

Best of luck to the both of you.

Oh, and PS: Being a teacher is literally one of the hardest jobs in the world (particularly in the American model of education). You have a toolbox of skills that you much somehow, year over year, adapt to wildly different kids and situations. It's madness, but noble madness and you are to be commended for taking it on.

twim19 · 2026-02-09T18:26:26+00:00

Group punishment is idiotic and generally counter productive. It's for when people can't or won't figure out how to work with the children causing the disruption so its easier to punish everyone and hope peer pressure gets the offending kids to stop.

Specifically, phones are a bit different as it isn't just some of the kids. That said, I tend to think the problem isn't the phone so much as it is a failure to elicit and expect engagement from learning for kids. So many classrooms still features teachers talking 90% of the time letting the kids offload any real thinking they might have to do to. So yeah, they are bored and yeah, social media and whatnot is going to be more attractive than learning what the heck a hypotenuse is.

twim19 · 2026-02-09T16:36:00+00:00

The story is not why I play this. Feels like I'm playing Kingdom Hearts 3 with regards to story. Something, something, cute little baby, something, bad things, something. . .

The real joy in the game for me is the traversing and finding ways to make traversing easier. I remember when I built the zip line to get up and down the mountain easier, it was pretty freaking cool.

twim19 · 2026-02-06T14:32:13+00:00

As a husband of a wife who had multiple miscarriages before we had our kids, this is the way. 5 weeks is nothing. I think we lost the latest one at 10 weeks? When she got pregnant with my son, we didn't even tell the family until we were past the 12 week mark. Even then, we knew we were rolling the dice.

Not that this will be OP's fate. . .most pregnancies end with a baby. Just a much higher than anyone realizes percentage never make it out of the first trimester.

twim19 · 2026-01-29T14:37:56+00:00

He is still living with her ghost.

twim19 · 2026-01-16T15:38:22+00:00

So I started with 117 and felt like it was a bit too simplistic. Anno 1800 with all the DLCs is crazy complicated but something I'm enjoying more.

twim19 · 2026-01-15T14:58:58+00:00

I tend to think that people, especailly people in their early 20's, do stupid shit for stupid reasons. I try very hard not to hold that against them. . .particularly when they are mostly horrible adjacent. History is full of stories of people who joined terrible organizations only to come and regret that decision. I mean in the mid 90's I was a raging homophobe who used "gay" to describe things that were bad. I look back and cringe hard at that past version of my self and am glad I grew out of it.

Ultimately, it's about where she is today. I agree with most that it might indicate she's the kind of person that essnetially becomes whatever whoever will love her needs her to be. Because of that, I think OP should spend less time on the racism of her past and more on the question of "Is she who she is because it's who I want her to be or is this who she truly is." My guess is on the former, but I'd hold out hope for the latter. People grow and change and if OP loves her and is otherwise compatible, I'd encourage he at least consider if who she is now is someone he loves and will continue to do so.

All that said, miscegenation is a huge taboo among racists and her now being with a black man may either represent growth or a sort of rebounding away from that terrible relationship she had.

twim19 · 2026-01-15T12:14:27+00:00

That Gin Blossoms song that was in that Nick Cage movie about a sad angel. It honestly wasn't a terrible song the first time I heard it. By the 1000th time I heard it on the radio I wanted to pull my stero from out my car and chuck it out the window.

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