Legit, I don’t fudge rolls because it’s not fun for me.
If a roll would fuck up the session/adventure/campaign, I just straight up tell the players I’m making a call and override the results. It doesn’t happen often, and it’s really only when rng just screws things, like when you get multiple nat 1s in a session, way out of line with what makes sense without some kind of gymnastics to explain things in game.
Because it takes longer to roll up a new one than a table really needs as an interruption.
Purely practical imo. You don’t want things derailed that early. Later on, a death can be worked with, made part of a story. In the first three sessions? It’s just a pain in the ass
Legit, in the real world, wolverine’s healing factor is the most useful. Other stuff is about tricks. His kind of healing means no cancer, no Alzheimer’s, no strokes, no heart attacks, nada. A long, healthy life free of disease of almost any kind.
The only drawback is the semi-immortality. A long life watching others die would suck hard. It’s already bad enough with a regular life span.
Point A: never, ever whine about votes. It’s lame as fuck. You take the downs and the ups and whining about the downs, or crowing about the ups is just bullshit.
PointB: I agree with the basics of what you said, but you miss a huge factor. Read on if interested.
I agree wholeheartedly that any commer product throwing vegan in front of a word for another food is bullshit. I even agree that the path to good vegan foods is abandoning the idea that meat needs replacing when there’s entire cuisines that offer amazing food built around non meat, non animal sources.
It is also important to note that not only am I not vegan, I troll vegans occasionally by calling them religious zealots (because the ones that you run into are lol. The nice ones just live their lives and don’t bother anyone.)
However, unless a person is raised without exposure to meat based foods, the truth is that meat is yummy, and a lot of foods that we take for granted and love are either meat based, or contain animal products.
This means that new vegans are trying to figure out how to change their entire life, and need help getting there. And, even as they learn more about plant based diets, they’ll be having people they love that still eat meat, and substitutes become a form of good manners. Having substitutes isn’t a bad thing. Again, I make fun of the jerk vegans, but being able to choose what kind of ingredients go into what I’m eating is a huge plus.
But how is anyone supposed to run searches for recipes without the word vegan being involved? “Non animal product sausages” is going to bring back wildly different hits than “vegan hotdogs”.
The vegans I know (and cook vegan food for) did eventually transition away from a reliance on “replacement” dishes. But it’s a process and it’s one that means they’ll miss some of their old favorites unless they do make these kind of things.
Point C: dude, don’t rub your pet peeves on other people. It’s rude.
I know this is kind of random. I’ve got a black necklace with a long round pendant on it, and I think I look better topless when I wear it. I’m not sure why.
One of the purposes of jewelry is to enhance looks. It can serve to draw attention to specific features.
Now, there is a disclaimer needed here. I’m hetero. So I have no sexual attraction to the male form. However, I’ve dabbled in multiple forms of art, and used to jang around weight rooms with some bodybuilders among the mix. So you either learn to appreciate the male form or you GTFO of both of those PDQ.
Necklaces can very much enhance a chest/torso. It’s all about the kind of necklace. Understated is usually best. A single pendant, with the chain/string/whatever being are the right length is going to pull the eyes to the center of the chest most of the time. This can be a very good thing. You adjust the length to match where you think that extra attention is going to give the best visual, and you’ve succeeded in jewelry.
Even a very fine chain can also give a visual break. Depending on the hair situation, chests can actually be boring to look at. A lot of hair, and it’s a visual sameness just like a total shave is. You need light and shadows, variances in tone. If you don’t have that naturally, you can supply it with jewelry (works with piercings too, btw). I’m a fucking sasquatch, and there’s more visual interest when I’m wearing even something utilitarian (a keychain sized flashlight is damn handy on a chain) rather than jewelry.
So I’m not surprised you prefer the looks when wearing your necklace. Makes total sense.
Now, sexy is as sexy does. If someone is into necklaces as a paraphilia, or just as a mild nicety, you can’t really judge whether the jewelry makes you look better or not. Most people I’ve ever heard talk about male jewelry at all leaned towards a little being enough, rather than any specific type.
But, yeah, I’ve seen enough dudes shirtless to have the opinion that a tasteful piece hanging somewhere on the sternum is sexier than without, most of the time. Doesn’t turn me on, but that’s not necessary to have an opinion about sexiness per se.
I would like to buy new earbuds (for android), I’ve got 2 before a xiaomi one and the Donner dobuds one, the two broke after 6 months… Does someone has any recommandations? My budget is maximum $50 Thank you
I found some by klim that have been very durable so far. Something like five years and no issues. Well built, come with their own case. Wired buds. Sound can be a bit muddy for music, but not unbearable. In calls, they’re great.
Bluetooth wise, check out tozo. They do respectable buds on a budget. Not the best sound, but acceptable, and their mics pick up decently. Battery life is decent.
Back to wired, if you can find a sale, the tin t2 model is damn good sound for the price range. You usually have to be patient to get the 50 price point, or go used. But they really do sound great on a phone with a decent DAC. But that’s sound only, no mic.
I wanted to make a joke about that actually being seven tiny furries in a dog suit, but that may be the cutest chihuahua (mix or otherwise) I’ve ever seen, so I can’t joke about it. That’s cute taken to the level of absurdity lol.
I do wish that media coverage would stop calling it a regrowth drug. It might get there eventually, but that’s not what it is, and it causes issues with people misunderstanding medical science.
Remember, you asked for it lol. It is long, so wall of text warning.
Aight, I enjoy the joke too.
However! I encourage people to remember that grandpa joe is not a faker in the world he’s from!
Since the movie is what most peeps remember, and where the memes usually come from, the first thing to remember is that it’s a musical.
Musicals, by the established rules of the overall genre, do not reflect reality at all times. Even mostly dramatic musicals like Man of LaMancha break some reality in order to function as musicals. Take the scene with the ruffians and “Dulcinea” as an example.
Second, the movie. Willy Wonka and the chocolate factory is essentially a fantasy piece. You’ve got the Oompa Loompas as prime evidence of that. Orange skinned humanoids that do not exist in the real world (jokes aside). Many things in the chocolate factory break the laws of physics or otherwise bend reality. There’s geese laying golden eggs, ffs.
Third, the theme of the movie isn’t actually torturing children. The theme of the movie is the redemptive and uplifting power of dreams. That’s achieved by the journey of Charlie getting his golden ticket and everything in his life getting better.
Grandpa Joe hasn’t been laying there in bed faking it (though, in movie, there’s never anything about the grandparents being unable to move or walk at all, they’re just frail and weak).
He is in his eighties or nineties.
What gets him up and dancing isn’t that he was faking and forgot to, it’s joy.
GJ is transformed by joy, by happiness. His grandson has, through luck or destiny, gotten the golden ticket to a brighter, better life! This doesn’t trick Joe into forgetting his infirmity. It gives him the joy to overcome it.
Joe’s transformation, rejuvenation, is because he is so filled with joy that his grandson will have a new life, that it changes him into the grandfather he wished he could be. Don’t forget that he had sacrificed his one real pleasure to give Charlie a chance at that.
But, look, I know that the grandpajoehate is ostensibly a meme. It’s a joke poking fun at the very musical rules that allow a bed-bound person to magically be cured in the first place. But it never acknowledges the fact that his spontaneous rejuvenation is magic, and that the magic is the magic of love.
In a cynical world, we believe that love is not transformative because the real world grinds us down. But love can be transformative for us too. We just have to be willing to let it work.
Eh, it isn’t about the quality of the work, it’s about disposable income vs desire for a modified thing. It’s going to be a hard sell. The form factor limits who will want it as an item for use, and the price is way above what most people would pay for that kind of thing for use.
It’s also very difficult to mount or display, so someone into the art itself would be less interested vs a more conventional form factor for that kind of art.
Like others have said, build a portfolio and try for commissions. The time and effort involved to modify something like this without a buyer lined up is better spent elsewhere if you aren’t doing it for your own pleasure as the primary goal.
Yeah, I used to know cooks there. Back as recently as the early 2ks, they were doing real cooking for the majority of the menu. But that stopped; the last cook I talked to from the place said that except for breakfast, most things were pre cooked and frozen without anyone using more than a microwave. Kinda like most chains tbh, but you can’t do that with some dishes and expect quality.
But holy crap, the ev station idea is brilliant for most restaurants right now. The ones that jump on it early are going to have an edge until others start doing it. Waffle house, Denny’s, all of the ones that like to be right near an exit ramp. Whoever gets there first and gets known for it is going to etch into public memory as the first option.
You know, it actually could, but it never will because pandering is safer, and that’s essentially what it does.
Switch the menu up for more updated country cooking. Keep the vibe by leaning hard into americana music playing, and converting most of the bullshit store space into something you could fit a small bluegrass ensemble in. Have live music on weekends, and use the rest of the store space to promote local music as well as products that support local crafts rather than the mass produced shit they usually cram in.
Maybe do a weekly country cooking lesson, or maybe stories and history, again leaning hard into local lore over general, but not skipping general american bits entirely.
And, ffs, don’t be douchey about employees. Fucking treat them with respect. There’s worse chains to work for, but it ain’t great as it is.
You’d still pull some of the older crowd that comes for the kitschy bullshit, but if the food is good and the atmosphere welcoming, you’ll also bring in more than just the Sunday school crowd. Because, damn. Good southern/country food is hard to come by sometimes. And they’ve stopped doing that kind of food right. They actually used to have good food. But somewhere about fifteen years ago, it changed. Don’t know what happened behind the scenes, but the food went to shit.
Yup, that’s the main problem. The chain gave up on quality so long ago that the only reason they still have any customers is habit and a rapidly fading reputation as the only chain doing that style of food.
Eh, it doesn’t start out about looks, based on my experience and talking with the serious lifters I used to lift with.
A lot of the guys that end up roided out like that don’t start with that look as the goal. Some do, yeah. The ones that do tend to come from a place of wanting to look like their fictional heroes (wrestlers lol), or from having looked up to previous body builders.
But a lot of them start out ranging low wanting to get strong. It starts because you can feel and see the progression from being a fairly normal strength to being the person people call when a fridge needs moved.
But you always hit a wall. How far you can go is mostly genetic, with nutrition being the next biggest factor. The way over that wall is hormones. You bypass your genetics and push.
Along the path of getting strong you end up seeing so much change in your body. And you’re getting all those move chemicals from pushing your body harder and harder. It turns into a form of addiction and part of the “fix” is seeing your work in your body.
So lifters start out getting strong and getting natural big as the goal. This kind of extreme, steroid driven body is what happens when that becomes an obsession.
Now, my ass was not willing to use steroids, so I didn’t get to this extreme. But I know guys, and a few gals, that did. I’ve never actually met anyone that started out wanting to go this far, but plenty that ended up there. But I can tell you from my personal experience that once you start feeling your body develop, the thought of maybe trying to go there is an easy one to have.
No bullshit, once I hit my personal wall power lifting, it was disappointing to not really be able to make major gains the way I could the first few years. And I was never into the bodybuilding side of things, and definitely wasn’t competitive.
Now, body dysmorphia also factors in. Can’t say otherwise because it’s a massive thing with the folks that go to this extreme. This guy might not see himself in the mirror the same way other people do. Tbh, at my peak, I sure as hell didn’t see myself accurately. There was still that kid inside my brain that was never strong enough, never big enough. I had to have my suits custom made, but I never saw myself as being as big as I was. My personal self view wasn’t as skewed as it gets with some of the serious guys that go to this extreme.
It isn’t that you don’t look in the mirror and see a lot of muscle, you do. It’s just that it never looks right. Again, my version of this was mild as hell, but you can’t imagine how often you’d see a dude like this, flexing into a mirror and saying something like “man, I just can’t get my pecs big. They’re so flat.” It can be so extreme a disconnection between self image and external reality that this dude could possibly think he’s too small still, that he needs to get bigger. I don’t know this guy, so please don’t think I’m speaking for him in specific, I’m coming from a general place.
Fudging rolls is the path to the dark side... (startrek.website)
You get to choose one super power you see on fictional media, What do you choose ?
Vegan hotdogs // Veggie "Completo Italiano" (aggregatet.org)
Although it does not mention any vegan variation, there is a wikipedia article about the “completos”.
What do you spend most of your time on lemmy doing?
People who are attracted to male bodies: Do you think necklaces/chains on men are sexy?
I know this is kind of random. I’ve got a black necklace with a long round pendant on it, and I think I look better topless when I wear it. I’m not sure why.
Earbuds recommendations?
I would like to buy new earbuds (for android), I’ve got 2 before a xiaomi one and the Donner dobuds one, the two broke after 6 months… Does someone has any recommandations? My budget is maximum $50 Thank you
"Impossible" soup sandwich (aggregatet.org)
While the controversy about the vegan hotdog is still goin on, I introduce you guys this beautiful “soup sandwich”.
Origin Story (lemmy.zip)
World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September (newatlas.com)
Baldur’s Gate 3 Is Getting Official Modding Support (store.steampowered.com)
It’s the gift that keeps on giving.
Walmart is under criticism for selling Pride merchandise. But the company is not backing down. (www.lgbtqnation.com)
Grandpa Joe Hate: The Next Generation (lemmy.world)
Is $140 for this folder I painted too much? It did take me 7 hours to paint (The inside is also painted but just speckled pink) (lemmy.world)
I never sell anything or get commissions, maybe I am still not good enough? I don’t know anymore
If they were a little higher in quality or a little lower priced I would have gotten them, but at least I can share... (lemmy.world)
Cracker Barrel wants to become hip. Can it? (www.salon.com)
Every day is lower back day (lemmy.world)
Head cheese (en.wikipedia.org)
Nigel Farage Milkshook - "Milkshaking season has started." (antifainternational.tumblr.com)