Like, I don't want to be judgy, but the owners of an RPG with a 40yo publishing history, explaining to me why they can't afford good cover art for the latest edition, makes me a little agitated.
@pawsplay@Tim_Eagon Well, its Rolemaster. I didn't realize they were still in business..... I never played, but created a lot of characters quite a few decades ago.
Is it anywhere near as detailed as I remember it being?
I swear its weird how internet tracking works. My wife was telling myself and a mutual friend about the album "I glued my balls to my butthole again". Now a couple of days later, with no searches by me on any device, it shows up in my YouTube suggestions.
In other "news" Tucker Carlson went on "The Rogan Experience" and denied that evolution by means of natural selection explained the diversity & history of living things on earth.
Said there was "no evidence" humans could have evolved "from a single cell organism"
It's impossible to know if he's just saying this for attention.
I've always said science would be next. Tucker is the vanguard of the far right. Give it five years and you'll have congress members wanting this in your schools.
the giant Bolverk tells Skafloc,... “Many heroes have owned this sword, because it brings victory to the wielder. There is naught on which it does not bite, nor does it ever grow dull of edge. Venom is in the steel, and the wounds it gives cannot be healed by leechcraft or magic or prayer. Yet this is the curse on it: that every time it is drawn it must drink blood, and that in the end, somehow, it brings the bane of him who uses it.”
Oh, if you go to youtube and search for "greyhound" zoomies dog park, its amusing. When a greyhound takes off, all the other dogs decide to chase it. And well..... the speed difference is amusing.
Trying to cut the circle there Bud? Let me put on a touch more speed.
@DemocracySpot Yeah, not seen too often. Poplar trees in North Ga. Very pretty flowers. I saw them a few times as a kid, when a poplar tree might fall or be cut down in the right season for it.
Sadly ... no #Mothership today. Maybe tomorrow? It went from arriving Tuesday to arriving Wednesday to "we'll let you know when your package starts moving again."
FATE has been a really easy system for me to slip into as a GM because the idea of treating everything like a "character" through Aspects has finally codified the endless DM notes I would make trying to spice up locations a bit
@zozo Cypher system can do that too.... but Fate is a good system. Solid.
The complaint I've seen most often with it (it doesn't happen with me) is that it can be too predictable...
The Fate dice have a strong bell curve.
Also, that people learn to "play the GM" when it comes to what a GM will allow in terms of Aspects, and what folks can do with them.
Again second hand. I've only played between 10 and 20 sessions of Fate.
Microsoft is bringing more obnoxious "recommendations" (aka ads) to the Windows 11 start menu, but thankfully they're pretty easy to disable. https://youtube.com/shorts/L0ca9iAg-Q4
“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty. We needed to coin a phrase because so many of our patients die of the same thing.”
Excellent essay by a US doctor describing how many of her patients suffer (and die) not from their illnesses but from the wildly precarious economics of their lives
@thomasfuchs Hmm, as someone who used floppy disks (mostly 3.5, but a fair number of 5 inch ones...) I don't think you are right about life expectancy.
Anecdotally I would say its a load of malarky.
@LeviKornelsen Potatoes in Ireland.
Guns for the horseman of the russian steppes. 3 thousand years of being the premier armed forces of the world thanks to horses and shortbows, gone in a decade or two.
