The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government....
if it was just him quitting, that would be terrible; it would be an anti-war person giving up their power to legally obstruct the war.
It's "his opposition National Unity party will withdraw from the coalition government". Unless this article is missing something, wouldn't breaking up the coalition just basically completely paralyse Israel??
Oh you must not have seen Vex's memes! I might not be as funny as them but I do my best; they're a Lancer (Mech RPG) memelord pretty well known for making memes about the game that were good enough to actually get a significant amount of players into it.
If you have advice for how to reword it so that it's
-Easily comprehensible
-Does not have loopholes that rules lawyers will exploit
Then I'd be happy to correct any flaws you identify!
And you're not the first to bring up the Wyrmling point, however tying the power of a player character to their age is a terrible idea because that would make it exceedingly difficult to level up during a campaign.
Holy fuck. I knew that AI did use above average amounts of power, but THIRTY FUCKING PERCENT added to the total emissions of a data giant like Microsoft????? That's absurd! How the hell did they create something so inefficient??
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Yeah, I love my local pizza place and I'm on good terms with the owner, but the prices have gone up enough that I've set a hard limit of only going there once a month, and there are some menu items that I explicitly just will not buy because they're so overpriced.
Cost frankly does define my dietary habits. The number one reason that I don't decide to grab the odd piece of vegan chicken to put in a bagel is because it costs 50% more than regular chicken.
I mean, even as a DnD player, I appreciate that you DO need to turn a profit as a company, and I enjoy my favourite hobby getting wider attention. I'm actually not opposed to them making this into a bigger franchise because I think that it IS suitable to fill that sort of Marvel role, contrary to the article. It has clearly defined heroes and villains, iconic designs, and very flexible storytelling, all of which CAN be compared to a more mature Marvel. Making a handful of recognisible heroes and villains and promoting them honestly seems like a perfectly sensible and legitimate business tactic.
HOWEVER.
As a DnD player, I also actively dislike the story design in most official content because it's painfully generic. Everything is made to be very comfortably within the realm of mass appeal and staying within the realms of conventional fantasy. They have unspoken rules and tropes that they simply Do Not Violate and as a result they struggle to craft stories that aren't predictable. They are noticeably complete shit at having any idea how to make a force for good that's more powerful than the players that isn't used as a punching bag to make the players feel like they're in danger. And my point is that they COULD and should take more risks when doing storywriting and character design, because the nature of DnD is that even if you totally fuck something up, because everyone runs their own worlds a retcon isn't going to destroy everything- and more than that, writing out a story, while time-consuming and requiring effort, is nowhere near the money sink that a movie is. It's fine to take risks! Defying conventions is OK! It's completely fine if not everyone likes each product, so long as it's well-made on the whole!
Otherwise the game is also super unbalanced (I know this because I have extremely extensively created homebrew for it, I can tell you EXACTLY how and where it is unbalanced), although this isn't as bad as it would be in a lot of other games because you won't really notice the balance issues if you're just playing a casual game with your friends. If one of your friends is trying to play the game optimally though, then they can rapidly make the game unplayable by taking advantage of especially unbalanced parts of the game.
And this is to say nothing of the fact that the absolute greatest strength of DnD is the fact that players can do whatever they want. So trying to make stuff that tells players they need to act a certain way is only going to diminish that strength.
While you make fundamentally good points, I think there is a core reason that balance is important to me: DnD is a multiplayer game, not a singleplayer game.
I actually think it's fine that different classes are strong at different levels! The entire premise of Wizard is that they're a squishy who will die if they're sneezed on at level 1, who grows into a reality-warping god by level 20. Having someone that needs to be looked after at low levels and can then look after the team at high levels encourages teamwork!
The reason that I say DnD is so badly unbalanced is because once level 5 comes around? Casters very, VERY firmly become way better than non-casters for two reasons. Casters have AoE damage, and casters have utility. Non-casters have no utility, and because they also really struggle to increase AC, they can't function in any role except for single-target damage. A good level 5 caster can make the rest of the party feel really lackluster because they can do in one turn what the rest of the party needs 4 or 5 turns to do (HP and AC are much less of an issue at this point too). And this gap only gets wider and wider with every passing level, which rapidly makes it less and less fun to play a non-caster.
Once level 13 hits, anyone who isn't a full caster is completely irrelevant. That is not fun for anyone who isn't a full caster. Hell, it's SO badly broken at this level that it's almost certainly the reason why Baldur's Gate 3 only goes up to level 12- and that game already does a huge amount of buffing martials and nerfing casters. A 13th level caster can instantly beat pretty much any encounter not explicitly designed to bully them, and even then there's a good chance they find a way to solo the encounter on turn 1 anyways.
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
Have a win 7 mouseless laptop I'd like to put a game on and play for funs. Typically my go to game for olden computers is Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or maybe Civ 4. Any recommendations?...
Nevermind I just noticed that you don't have a mouse. Uhhhhhhhhh. You could always grab a gameboy-advance emulator and enjoy some pokemon or Pacman Collection or Beyblade V-Force or Sonic Advance 3. Loads of classics that don't have overly complicated buttons. I bet you could emulate other old consoles too, the Sega genesis had a phenomenal library that should all be easy enough to play on a keyboard.
I mean, I'm not a lawyer, but the basic premise seems solid. US has that whole 'corporations are people' shtick going on, and... well, guess now it's time for that ruling to become inconvenient for the government.
Pretty good article. And it does make a lot of sense, too. I may not work in the supply chain and logistics, but I know enough guys who do to confirm that if you don't have a good company-level relationship with all the other companies in your supply chain, then you are setting yourself up for HUGE production issues. And that issue has got to be ten times worse when you're not just buying copies of an existing component, but trying to design a completely new one that will need to be repeatedly iterated and tested.
Couple that up with asking your management team to learn something as fundamental yet technically demanding and experience-based as DEALING WITH LIMITED MONEY (how the fuck did this happen. How did you get used to Blank Cheques of all things), and you've got a recipe for disaster even before we get into the upper management corruption.
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won't be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's "desperation"....
Ah yes, the crime of trying to keep your nation free and alive through appropriate defensive measures. How truly dastardly (/s)
Honestly this might be the single most pathetic threat that I've seen in a long time. Is it even a threat? Publicity stunt? Honestly I don't know or care, because we all know this statement means about as much as a Trump tweet.
Holy shit, there's a decent vegan cheese? I like my meat but I understand that the current status quo isn't sustainable, and cheese is the number two thing the vegan industry has been struggling with making a good substitute for (number one being bacon.)
Blue cheese is a bit strong for most people, I can respect that, I'm one of those people. The trick is knowing what to pair with blue cheese to help balance it out a bit.
You want my recommendation for how to enjoy some store-bought blue cheese? Try it on a burger, with some sliced avocado instead of lettuce. The meat and the dense fruit balance out the blue beautifully, you get all the nice taste of a blue cheese without feeling like your mouth got nuked from orbit by smelly cheese.
I feel he's right. Youtube alone completely exhausted my patience to be advertised to in 2021, and when you're fed up with something and it keeps getting shoved down your throat at every corner then you get annoyed at first, and then you really start to actively despise it, and then it becomes completely unbearable. I absolutely cannot stand adverts anymore, including video sponsors. If I see a particularly obnoxious advert I'll go out of my way to AVOID the products in question, if I couldn't avoid paying attention to it. I'd like to go on record and say, absolutely fuck the electronic billboard outside my workplace, that piece of shit makes it dangerous to drive at night because it's so bright and I hope to god it gets vandalized beyond repair.
Most games that I try these days were recommended to me by people who I know personally. BG3 was one of very few exceptions, and honestly? You know what sold me on BG3 and made me think 'this is going to be a really high-quality game?' It was when there was a news article discussing the controversies after they confirmed that you could get railed by a druid. Not even something I'm interested in, but that design choice actively showed they were including niche options that not many people would pick into their RPG. That was what made me go 'Oh shit, if you can do that, you can probably do a lot of other things! It's an RPG with actual impactful dialog choices! They weren't just throwing that out as an advertising buzz!'
There will be zombies in my #ttrpg book, Dungeons of Galora and I can prove it! I'm working towards delivering a #soloRPG
filled with references from Latin America and illustrations I inked analogically and colored digitally!
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders have applauded the US for passing a vital €89 billion aid bill which has been struggling to make it through the House of Representatives for months....
Can you imagine pulling this shit over $8,000?? That amount of money isn’t the sort of money that’s nothing to a business owner, but in the face of this sort of thing??? There are people that could have been a million dollars deep in the hole and had enough of a brain and a heart to go ‘this is stupid, morally bankrupt, and not even worth the risk’
Once upon a time, there seemed like there were quite a few users who would post to yiffit and at least some amount of general activity. These days it seems like there are only a few posters. So what happened to everyone?
I mean, honestly it’s just hard to come up with things to post, especially consistently. I’m still around, just don’t have too much to say, and never will
Oh that sounds pretty awesome! HotDQ/RoT was the first experience I had with DnD and I was the DM, I couldn’t escape constant thoughts that
-There were no dragonborn in the module
-There were barely any dragons in the dragon cult
But that said the module does still have some good concepts! Your cleric, were they helping Tiamat achieve her goals? I’d love to hear more, if they were a pro-dragon adventurer.
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs...
Can confirm, not going into higher education and getting an apprenticeship was the bar none best decision that I EVER made.
All my friends who took the college/university path are trapped under crushing debt and struggling to find jobs that pay anything, let alone pay decently. College isn’t the be-all and end-all it used to be.
Aerospace manufacturing; the apprenticeship paid for me to do exactly the courses and qualifications that I’d need for the manufacturing (instead of me having to pay to do those things) and had a guaranteed job at the end so long as I passed said courses. Way easier than a full college or university degree and I was making money the whole way through.
The +16 Persuasion Silver Dragoness one of my players made (+6 cha, Expertise, level 13 total. Playable dragon template) is extremely funny because there’s an entire evil organization trying to convert her to working for them and she’s convinced 2 of their 5 top brass that instead of her defecting to them, THEY should defect to HER. The others are more firmly evil but honestly it’s by far the funniest way to deal with the mafia I’ve ever seen
Gotta say, I’m a blue collar who also builds sensitive machinery, have been doing so for six years now.
There is a VERY sharp divide in how well I consider myself to have mastered certain aspects of the job.
Someone fucking kill me: I’m doing this job for the first time and I’m having to spend ages sifting through our processes that may not be documented in enough detail to do the job perfectly. The job is legally safe because I’m following the rules but god I don’t like it. Takes about three times as long as a ‘normal’ task.
This is fine: I’ve done the job enough to know how everything goes together, what torque to use where, and if there’s anything I should really be doing that isn’t in the instructions, or if there’s an instruction mismatch.
Mastery: I can not only do the job, I actually understand the explicit purpose and function of everything I’m putting together on an intimate level, and can use my knowledge of that purpose and function to make god damn sure that what I’m putting out is top quality. As probably the least sensitive example of this, this is stuff like knowing that the particular brand of no-mixing-needed paint we use can sometimes develop a sediment layer of its’ pigments on the bottom that requires you to mix it with a stick for the paint to perform properly, and that you can tell when the paint is experiencing this issue because it’ll be off-colour due to the lack of pigment; and if you don’t resolve this issue the paint won’t adhere to surfaces correctly and is liable to flake off.
I’ve been doing this for six years and there are only a handful of aspects of my job I consider myself to have complete mastery over. I don’t think I’m the best worker out there, not by a long shot, but to me the idea that you can just lose and replace your workforce when dealing with complicated machinery is about as stupid as the notion that AI can replicate the human mind (It can’t unless you abandon the von-neumann computer design).
Hot damn. So I kind of understand why the Russians would dismiss this as a lie or a threat because yknow. War in Ukraine, Trump, etc, relations are bad to put it politely.
But can we talk about what kind of terrifying flex of power that is from US Intelligence? It’s one thing to predict a terror attack on your own soil- sure your citizens quite rightfully won’t like the privacy violations, but the national authorities are going to help you; so if your intelligence agency is worth the name it should stop most attacks.
But can you imagine having information access that’s so damn good you can not only predict a terror attack in a nation that has an extremely vested interest in not letting you know what they’re doing because they’re running a war that you (and everyone else) don’t like, but you feel completely confident TELLING THEM, which could risk your information sources if they’re not properly hidden. This is like the Foreign Intelligence equivalent of being so far ahead of your opponent in a game that you start giving them sincere advice on how to play so that they don’t get thrashed too badly.
For quality, I think it would be quite sensible to include figures from a few other countries. These findings mean very little when they lack context; we need to know how they compare to other big economies like the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, China (if you can get accurate data on Russia and China), and Japan.
Of all extremely important life lessons to have had firmly pointed out to me, I would never have expected something this grounded and helpful to have come from a minecraft youtuber, but such is life. (Technoblade’s three videos on the Potato War)
I know it’s an unpopular opinion given current circumstances, but I’ve always been a huge nerd about Russia. The history, the geography, the music, etc. And as an American, I’ve always found it fascinating how U.S.-Russian relations have fluctuated over time. We’ve gone from allies, to enemies, to frenemies. This...
It’s got to be DnD- I don’t just play it, I don’t just DM it, I’ve actively studied how it’s designed and balanced in order to make content that is better than the official stuff. I’ve found and ironed out critical flaws in how the game is set up and I’ve made pieces of homebrew content that are larger than entire books.
This is a hell of a bold claim to make, but I believe that I have come to understand the game better than its own Dev Team.
Honestly, treating 'Evil' as just self-interested to the point of being willing to place your own desires above the wellbeing of others is actually one of my favourite takes on it, because
A) It makes it legitimately challenging but also very rewarding to be Good (I mean, what NPC isn't going to like someone that actually successfully respects their wishes and needs when helping them?)
B) It opens up Evil as a legitimate option for party members that isn't an instant dealbreaker
C) It allows you to run creatures meant to be 'inherently evil' (devils and chromatic dragons in particular) as assholes but not completely unthinking and unreasonable, which makes them a LOT scarier- these are intelligent creatures that should be just as witty and dangerous to hold a conversation with as they are to fight. A dragon that's undeniably a selfish bastard but can make compelling cases to try and out-RP the players and get them to fall into traps or hesitate to fight them, or a Devil that knows just how to play the role of a corruptor, someone who tempts the party and plays to win the big game.
If you see an artstyle you like, some of those artists are actually dead cheap to hire ($10 a piece, though the bigger names can easily climb up to $500), and literally all of them will be more than happy to draw pure SFW.
Israeli minister vows to quit war cabinet if PM fails to agree new Gaza plan ( www.theguardian.com )
The Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz has threatened to resign if Benjamin Netanyahu fails to adopt an agreed plan for Gaza, calling into question the future of the Israeli government....
Look man I just wanted to play an actual dragon ( pawb.social )
Meme based on this homebrew...
Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI ( www.theregister.com )
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Stop trying to turn Dungeons & Dragons into a Marvel-esque cash cow – it won’t work ( www.theguardian.com )
Russia Victory Day parade: Only one tank on display as Vladimir Putin says country is going through 'difficult period' ( news.sky.com )
On 9 May every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, putting on a large parade in honour of the country's victory over Nazi Germany 79 years ago - in what remains an important symbol of the country's national identity....
Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip ( arstechnica.com )
The first invasive brain chip that Neuralink embedded into a human brain has malfunctioned, with neuron-surveilling threads appearing to have become dislodged from the participant's brain, the company revealed in a blog post Wednesday....
17 Days In Incubator Longest Time Premature Baby Will Go Without Being Exposed To Advertising ( www.theonion.com )
Have win7 laptop. What to play on it?
Have a win 7 mouseless laptop I'd like to put a game on and play for funs. Typically my go to game for olden computers is Heroes of Might and Magic 3 or maybe Civ 4. Any recommendations?...
TikTok sues U.S. government, says ban violates First Amendment ( www.cnbc.com )
The surprise is not that Boeing lost commercial crew but that it finished at all | Ars Technica ( arstechnica.com )
5e has an advantage of not requiring doctorate in quantum physics to run ( ttrpg.network )
I would usually be sad to see another original RPG go 5e compatible but Neuroshima was infamously poorly designed ruleset, possibly worse than Shadowrun. I probably won't be running it, but may steal statblocks for my 5e game if I need weird stuff again.
Russia puts Ukraine's Zelenskiy on wanted list ( www.reuters.com )
Russia has opened a criminal case against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and put him on a wanted list, the state news agency TASS reported on Saturday, an announcement Ukraine dismissed as evidence of Moscow's "desperation"....
After a vegan blue cheese won the Good Food Award, panicked dairy cheese makers forced the foundation to disqualify it ( boingboing.net )
'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled' ( www.pcgamer.com )
How do *you* cast Mighty Fortress? ( ttrpg.network )
Zelenskyy thanks US after House passes aid bill ( www.euronews.com )
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders have applauded the US for passing a vital €89 billion aid bill which has been struggling to make it through the House of Representatives for months....
Sportswear owner fired employees after they vote to join union, ordered to reinstate employees and pay back wages, instead shut down business and reopened same business under new name ( wisconsinexaminer.com )
where did all the people that post here go?
Once upon a time, there seemed like there were quite a few users who would post to yiffit and at least some amount of general activity. These days it seems like there are only a few posters. So what happened to everyone?
Due to a lack of content I will be pushing the Tiamat Agenda, I will not apologize ( yiffit.net )
The vibes are different ( lemmy.world )
How Gen Z Is Becoming the Toolbelt Generation ( www.wsj.com )
More young workers are going into trades as disenchantment with the college track continues, and rising pay and new technologies shine up plumbing and electrical jobs...
European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches ( www.politico.eu )
Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....
I believe the term is "get rekt noob" ( ttrpg.network )
My rogue uses her performer persona while traveling. Innkeepers love her.
What Boeing did to all the guys who remember how to build a plane ( prospect.org )
How To Be A Dragon – Dealing with wyrm infestations (@fishtrouts) ( 64.media.tumblr.com )
Dealing with wyrm infestations 1...
Putin dismissed US warnings about a potential terror incident as 'blackmail' just 3 days before concert hall attack ( www.businessinsider.com )
Gunmen stormed a concert hall in Moscow on Friday, killing at least 60 people and injuring more than 100....
Rich Indians Own 40% of Wealth in Extreme Inequality Under Modi ( www.bloomberg.com )
More people should treat homebrew the same way a lot treats published modules. ( ttrpg.network )
Btw, feel free to share any good homebrews I could pillage.
Rooster Teeth Shut Down By Warner Bros. Discovery, The Roost Podcast Network To Continue ( deadline.com )
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How to be a success ( lemmus.org )
Bob the Angry Flower for March 1, 2024
The future is now, old woman. ( lemmy.world )
Everyone's a nerd about something. What are you a nerd about?
I know it’s an unpopular opinion given current circumstances, but I’ve always been a huge nerd about Russia. The history, the geography, the music, etc. And as an American, I’ve always found it fascinating how U.S.-Russian relations have fluctuated over time. We’ve gone from allies, to enemies, to frenemies. This...
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Tasha's alignment ( startrek.website )
I'm not exactly complaining but jesus ( lemmy.world )
"Is it possible to learn this power?" "Not from WotC." ( yiffit.net )
I offer you this meme. It isn’t much but it’s mine....
I like Dragons ( yiffit.net )
For the uninitiated, here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBLdQ1a4-JI