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thought you stood a chance?
I have seen this meme at least 471 times, it's still as funby as the first time.
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thought you stood a chance?
I have seen this meme at least 471 times, it's still as funby as the first time.
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Time off and a healthy lifestyle are driving some young Americans to Europe: 'You are a person first and a worker 2nd'
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Damn, isn't 8 years a bit much?
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YouTube’s anti-ad blocking test gets even pushier with a new timer
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But I hate the service, it's the only service around though.
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Six in ten people want UK to re-join the European Union
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Of course we do. As long as they accept the Euro and change road signs to metric. I honestly don't know which one would feel worse for the English.
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Are almost all mobile games bad?
Just download a SNES/Genesis/GBA emulator, no need to waste time sifting through the piles of shit that is mobile gaming.
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Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else
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Reddit mods might be a bunch of power hungry assholes, but at least they are still people, not multimillionaires!
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WormGPT Is a ChatGPT Alternative With 'No Ethical Boundaries or Limitations'
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True, but if the LLM was trained on internet data... There are some absolutely stupid and/or unhinged stuff written out there, hell some of them written by me, either because I thought it was funny or because I was a stupid teenager. Mostly because of both.
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ad blocker
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Yeah, but then somebody is going to crack them and make an adblock for real life.
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YSK The difference between equality, justice and equity.
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Better yet, expand universities and allow everybody in.
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What are you reading this week? [July 3-July 9, 2023]
Foundation Trilogy, by Isaac Asimov.
I think it's the first modern science fiction book I've read, I read 19th century ones like Verne and Frankenstein before though.
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ad blocker
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I'm not most people then.
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What is something that sounds 100% false but is actually 100% true?
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Russia is the biggest country on the planet by land area.
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Rage of elements book questions
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The new class, it's about using one or multiple elements. It's not a spellcaster with spellslots though, think of it more in line with an Avatar character.
Multiple reasons to be hyped, some folks liked the kineticist from 1e, others want a "spellcaster" that's not a vancian caster. I just really like the theme of controlling the elements.
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What are your favourite 3rd action abilities?
Feinting or Demoralising as a first action are pretty good, you can only demorilise each enemy once per combat though. Also, you say moving is obvious, but you mean approaching the enemy? Because attacking twice and then moving away can be a good way to not get hit or making a boss waste an action (though beware attacks of opportunity, in which case step exists).
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4chan gets it
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You won't be sedentary after a month of that though!
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Incandescent light bulbs are officially banned in the U.S.
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I remember when I was a kid, it seemed like we had to change the light bulbs every other month. Now I'm annoyed because these things last so long I don't keep any spares and I have to leave my house to buy one when it expires!
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Peter Molyneux teases new project with idea that's "never been seen in a game" before
Here we go again, Peter?
I love the old Bullfrog games, but the man hasn't done anything decent since the Black & White games. And he keeps lying about his projects.
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Random internet people explaining math better then math teacher
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Knowing that no matter how many times you read the theorem, there's no fucking you'll memorize it for the exam. Oh, and also there are at least 20 of them, and you don't know which one they are going to ask.
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What god do you think will die?
Most of the core deities are in Starfinder, so I think we can discard them. Maybe they get revived or Starfinder is an alternate timeline but I'm not going to assume that.
That leaves 9 deities: Erastil, Gorum, Gozreh, Irori, Nethys, Norgorber, Rovagug, Shelyn, Torag.
I think some of those have explanations of why they aren't in Starfinder. Torag I remember reading is guarding Golarion, wherever the planet is. Rovagug is either The Devourer or still inside Golarion. Gozreh is specifically a Golarion deity, so he/she is almost certainly still there. Erastil really doesn't fit Starfinder setting, so I think he is still around, but probably the people that worship him are not traveling in starships. Gorum and Nethys seem to be like weird choises to kill off, I don't think they are part of any current storyline and I can't really see the god of magic that knows everything dying, same with the god of war though he might enjoy that. Similarly with Irori and Norgorber, I don't think they dying would be dramatic enough.
So my bet is on Shelyn, it will probably involve Zon-Kuthon. And we already have the perfect replacement for the deity of art I think, Nocticula.
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What do you think of the "Alternative Scores" variant rule?
I really like the rule in theory, but I haven't got the chance to actually try it. I blame FoundryVTT not having it as an option, but if I really wanted it I could contribute to the project 🤷
I feel that as a martial you really want STR and CON, but both are not a priority for a ranged character, so it makes sense to me to combine them. Also it always bothered me that CON doesn't has any skill attached.
DEX is not the god stat that it is in other D&D systems, but is still pretty strong being both a defensive and offensive stat. I think the alternative rule also makes it so you add DEX to damage? So it's both a nerf and a buff, DEX martials no longer care about STR... Except they do because it now gives HP.
Charisma being the stat for Will makes sense from a "narrative" perspective, since CHA is supposed to be your force of personality ans whatnot. It's a nerf to WIS though, and I don't feel that WIS is that strong... PF2e made Perception it's own thing, which I think was a good change since everybody wanted Perception/Sense Motive anyway, and I always thought it was overcomplicated that there were two skills about detecting stuff (nevermind D&D5e adding Investigation too...). But I think most people value WIS because they value Initiative, and I feel like it's pretty underwhelming. It feels pretty bad for that it basically only matters in the first round of combat, so it can give you what's effectively an extra turn, but that still doesn't feel like a lot to me. I would pair the Alternative Ability Score rule with another homerule that is "roll initiative again each round". To be fair I haven't tried that one either, the concern is that it could make combat a slog, but in my experience PF2e combat rounds can go pretty quickly once the party gets into "rhythm". And in any case, making a macro for that should be pretty easy.
So yeah, I plan to use it whenever I start another campaign, along with basically all the other variant rules (Gradual Ability Scores, Proficiency Without Level, Automatic Bonus Progression, Free Archetype, and Ancestral Paragon. No Dual Class because, while I love it in theory, the campaign where I've tried it is pretty wack with the power level of some PCs).