AlataOrange

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AlataOrange, (edited )

Is it better to starve for scraps in a dead world of dwindling resources or to strive to find a new one?

Realistically irl, it’s way easier to teraform a mostly fine planet with a working magneto sphere and liquid water as opposed to going to another planet where you’d have to do all that yourself, but sci-fi likes to pretend there are thousands of lush green worlds out in the endless black waiting to be colonized.

The larger issue would be the lack of easily available fuel to rebuild earth with, an issue only made infinitely harder by being light-years away from home and starting on a new dead rock instead of a mostly dead one.

AlataOrange, (edited )

Democrats are a right wing party. Republicans are a far right party. Neither are left of center.

AlataOrange,

They wore the guise of one for longer than many live. In that time he would have been treated and lived as one with mortals who wouldn’t know enough to think otherwise. If this is how he choose to live I see no reason to question it.

AlataOrange, (edited )

I am not defending this practice at all, but I do think that they have sending written on them in black that the camera and compression have hidden. You don’t want to give the plebs a black and white reason to revolt.

Edit: zoomed in on the hi res version, they are holiday off.

AlataOrange,

Wasn’t windows xp PC2

AlataOrange,

Is your philosophy really defeated by…

Checks notes

Men holding hands?

AlataOrange,

… So yes?

AlataOrange,

Counterpoint there has been a measurable decrease in quality of most forms of media as more and more stuff are soulless cash grabs. It used to be that games shipped completed, now they ship broken cost more and expect you to pump even more money into them on top of that. The last move I saw that I cared about was Dune. Many of the restaurants near me have reduced their quality of ingredients and staff, now when going to the nearby sandwich shop my order is wrong more often than it is correct.

What do we do when the world is measurably becoming worse?

AlataOrange,
  1. What movies would you recommend that have come out since Dune as that is the last movie I have been able to care about at all? This isn’t meant to be read as sarcastic, I’m being completely sincere I would like recommendations.
  2. I’m not going to lie I just don’t trust non-indie series any more. I can’t trust them to not be arbitrarily cancelled part way through, or to be ruined after one or two seasons. There are too many burnt bridges and broken promises.
AlataOrange,

We currently aren’t running a trial campaign in it yet, however if you would like a look around I’d be happy to give you one after the holidays, feel free to DM me for details.

AlataOrange,

I can’t believe it… THE AUSTRALIANS ARE STEALING OUR LAND!!! AMERICA IT IS TIME TO LIBERATE AUSTRALIA!!!

AlataOrange,

Do you mean sapient? Because plants are also sentient; all sentience is is the ability to react to senses. Sapience on the other hand is the ability to have higher thought, like tool use, teaching, recognizing yourself in a mirror, etc… Finally there is the ability to feel pain which I do not think has a word. Plants from what we can tell cannot process pain, but can process negative stimuli.

AlataOrange,

I have done so for you

AlataOrange,

That’s rough aswell. I don’t know what’s worse, having it happen fast cutting the time you have together short, or having it go slow and long.

Either way you have my best of wishes for yourself and your furry family.

AlataOrange,

It is done.

Question regarding campaign direction

I’m running a homebrew of Monster Hunter as a first time DM, with sort-of first time players. They treat it like a Disneyland ride where they “go here do X” and so I set them up for the first major boss fight with Teostra (cr13) against their group (lv4) with the inte t that they do 1/4 to 1/2 it’s health to drive it...

AlataOrange,

How would you react if a group of ants managed to in perfect English ask you to pretty please just take walk nominally further to go around their ant hill instead of stepping on it, and they they would feed you if you did?

You’ve made a boss with no actual motive to destroy the town other than that the monster is lazy and can’t be bothered to walk about three extra miles on it’s trek.

I personally would argue that this is a no roles required sort of event. Probably have them roll to make the food, they seem to already be proficient with Cook’s tools so it’s just whatever the highest attribute that they can justify + proficiency is. Then just have them talk.

You don’t need to make them roll diplomacy or anything if you don’t want to or if it would bog down the scene. Let them beg for the life of their village, try to make their case to something that could kill them without a second thought that they are worth allowing to exist in this world. If their arguments are bad or drive the monster to anger the fight starts now. If their arguments are good and would sway an apathetic beast and have the monster walk what is to it a trivial amount of extra distance.

Some important things to think about are why does this monster refuse to move its path. Did arrogant and believes all life weaker than it is worthless intrinsically. Is it simply lazy and doesn’t care about anyone but itself. Is it actively spiteful and hates that other things exist on principle. Does it itself feel trapped governed by forces out of its control. Etc.

AlataOrange,

I played this game around when it came out as a kid at a family members house we were visiting while sick.

My only memory was beating it and about an afternoon, that it’s story was completely nonsensical, and that it was basically just a mediocre call of duty clone but achieved my goal of killing an afternoon quite well.

AlataOrange,

Brave or foolish?

AlataOrange,

I can’t say I’ve ever done anything as a wrestler, but I have been a game master for over 7 years and I can tell you it is a lot easier and a lot funner to play as a villain than as a hero.

AlataOrange,

Please do not abduct wild woodland critters and shove them into an apartment that has none of the natural environment they are supposed to live in. You do not have a river in your flat.

AlataOrange,

The creation of a thing gives you no special power over how the rest of the world treats it.

AlataOrange,

Question: “I shouldn’t be expected to assume that. Furthermore, when they tell me and my natural response is “Huh?” I shouldn’t be vilified for not knowing what they mean”

Who has ever done this to you. Ever. Who have you met that asked you to address them in a specific way then got pissy at you over it? I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but neither me nor anyone I know nor anyone who knows a person I know has ever had this happen to them.

Also: “and that should be taken into consideration, but that doesn’t mean everything they say is right.”

How can someone be wrong about the courtesy title that they choose to use? Like the entire concept and name ‘courtesy title’ make it pretty clear what they are about.

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