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Shkshkshk

@Shkshkshk@dice.camp

A #ttrpg nerd and a #rodent lover.

Pfp is my #hamster, Mister Peanut Butter, looking shocked at me taking a picture of him while he's busy grooming himself. Banner picture is of my two #cavy boars, Oreo (right) and Coffecake (left), who are claiming that I have never fed them once and will soon starve to death, despite the full food bowl behind them.

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Shkshkshk,
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@mindbleach @Thisfox but didn't he also train the rats to do his bidding while in his own dungeon, and then reveal at the end of the book that he actually had a secret escape tunnel built into those dungeons when he made them (meaning he simply stayed in his dungeon because he chose to)

hosford42, to actuallyautistic
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I'm interested to get my fellow folks' takes on this.

Neuroscience News: Is Inflammation in Childhood A Mechanistic Link to Neurodevelopmental Disorders?
https://neurosciencenews.com/neurodevelopment-inflammation-24941/

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Shkshkshk,
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@hosford42 @actuallyautistic @neurodivergence

This sounds very much like the "research" put forward by Wakefield that started the anti-vaxx nonsense. I don't trust this.

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Shkshkshk,
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@spika @actuallyautistic Absolutely agree. I don't think should kick all the humans out. Any sort if complex interaction is really best handled by a human who knows the process.

For example, phone trees are frustrating. Navigating the tree takes 5-30 minutes, when a human operator could connect me to whoever I am looking for in less than a minute.

Shkshkshk,
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@spika @matt

Honestly, reasonable. Ever since I've started using I've noticed that I mess up something important on a nearly monthly basis. It's a lot less stressful when I know I have backups and can just reinstall my OS, but it's still super stressful. Back when I used Windows, accidentally bricking my computer would start a meltdown for sure

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Shkshkshk,
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@Golett03 hot take: cantrips ruined spellcasting. Spells should take spell slots unless they are a ritual or granted by a magic item. If I could go back in time and make cantrips not a thing, I would

Shkshkshk,
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@Cethin pretty much every centripetal worth taking either deals damage, give combat advantages, or has a very useful effect like Light.

Essentially my hot take is that even Prestidigitation and Light should be a 1st level spell. Especially Light.

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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So, in the Poetic Edda, there are "The Sayings of Hár." Lots are about stuff you'd expect from vikings - comporting yourself in a meadhall, fighting, not being a fool. But there are also like... dinner party tips? From the Hollander translation:

An early meal ay, a man should get him
lest famished he come to the feast:
he sits and stuffs, as though starved he were
and naught he says to his neighbors

Shkshkshk,
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@Ertain @ZachWeinersmith If I'm reading it correctly, I think it was giving an example of a disgusting person and telling us not to be like him

Shkshkshk, (edited ) to dnd
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The Riddle of Steel

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I have an idea for a get-rich-quick scheme: using the Bessemer process to create massive amounts of high-quality steel. However, I'm sure my has not given a single thought to this (because I know her) so I'm worried that this might give God fun ideas to fuck with our party. How do I tell my group my plan, without having the industrialized slave company I know is on the other side of the map spontaneously develop a similar process?

Shkshkshk,
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@H1jAcK
Oh, just attack the evil changeling slavers, that's going to go so well for us. We won't have any problems with random npcs turning out to be changeling assassins in disguise /s

Just for reference, we are level 3 and the median person we come across seems to be level 1 or 2 in one class or other.

Shkshkshk,
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@GrimSheeper My backstory gives me an excuse. Essentially, my warlock has a pact with the embodiment of the big bang. This pact was made after he spent four years squatting in its library on the astral plane reading all the books it had. The whole point of this character is to inflict science on the setting and see what happens. The dm knows this.

On a side note, I'm starting to think it wants to be incarnated in the mortal world. I'm not sure having the big bang happen again is a good thing.

Shkshkshk,
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@neptune depends on the campaign. But tbh most dms don't want to reinvent the wheel.

I'm fairly certain she hasn't changed this because we've had conversations in-game about genetics and inbreeding, which implies DNA exists. We've also interacted with NPCs who have genetic disorders like Down Syndrome and hemophilia, which wouldn't exist without DNA.

Shkshkshk,
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Konsi wouldn't do that because she isnt a rogue

Shkshkshk,
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Honestly, the lack of stuff makes me feel like I actually know this platform

Shkshkshk,
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The "nobody ever uses the bathroom in fiction unless something is sus" trope popped up in a Trail of Cthulhu campaign I ran back in high school. One of the PCs realized in a moment of Mythos-inflicted hysteria that he hadn't used the bathroom in 9 months, which led to him slowly realizing that he was in an episodic work of fiction and would stop existing when the story was over

Shkshkshk,
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@Afterpants It led to some very chaotic behavior from that character since

  1. Player was mature rper who valued the experience of the other people at the table and very much wanted to see how everything tied together

  2. Character was suddenly very aware that if the story ended, he would stop existing.

  3. Player decided that the character's moment of gnosis also allowed him to possess his irl body while in-character

bedirthan, to DnD
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Is there a correlation between fans that don't get to play regularly and those that want extensive multi-generational multi-book meta plots?

Shkshkshk,
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@bedirthan I'm also curious about this. I play regularly so I am very annoyed that WotC doesn't put out loads of modular content (except for adventurers league, which I never found fulfilling btw)

I wonder if the people who want a whole precon campaign with a complex plot play less frequently than I do?

Shkshkshk,
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@bedirthan honestly the more I , the less info I need to keep the campaign going. Took me a while to realize that my players really don't need to know the political web of my setting, it's just there so I know how the world will react to my party.

Shkshkshk,
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I always love it when religious characters put the social good above their own personal power. It makes me feel hopeful.

Shkshkshk,
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I actually never thought of the Dream spell as a communication tool. I wonder if I can implement a version of the Sending stone for the Dream spell in my DnD campaign. Inflicting terrible nightmares on people for fun seems like something my artificer would do

Shkshkshk,
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It surely will never be used for the naughties

Shkshkshk,
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What happened in the fun times?

Shkshkshk,
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Hentai? Oh no! Where?

Shkshkshk,
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Aw man. Thought maybe the fun times were on here. I think I've started to forget about Reddit entirely

Shkshkshk,
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How do you live like this

Shkshkshk,
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That makes a lot of sense. Totally respect that.

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