Quote from: HappyDaze on May 04, 2024, 03:06:41 AMI saw Fall Guy and thought it was great with a good mix of action and humor.

Another movie remake of an old TV show? Why? Hollywood truly is bankrupt of new ideas.

Quote from: Chris24601 on March 03, 2024, 01:05:45 PMBecause, in other related news, barring some quantum leap in computer technology, Moore's Law has nearly or is already at its expiration date. The circuits can't be made any smaller and still have electrons move through them. Basically, from here on out barring a few marginal improvements, the only way to get more processing is going to be building bigger.

Theres also the problem that building so small makes the electronics highly vulnerable to cosmic ray impacts that can and do flip bits and cause unforeseen glitches. Rare it seems. But its going to happen.

GW has been trash since at least the 2000s and was showing signs of trouble by the late 90s

Quote from: Jason Coplen on March 25, 2024, 07:40:09 AMYes, sir, I've been doing it wrong forever in that case, but I started with Basic, which has the new HD added to current HP as shown with my copy paste below.

ROLLING HIT POINTS: Each time a character earns enough ex- perience points to gain a new level, the character gets to roll for more hit points. When starting out, each character rolls one hit die, using the type of die given for the character class. Upon reaching second level, the character rolls the same type of die a second time and adds the result to the first roll. This process is repeated for each new level. The result of each new hit die roll is always added to the total of the other hit die rolls.

What BX says as well.

This whole "Gary really meant you were supposed to reroll your HP EVERY LEVEL!" is just stupid.

performative
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disapproving : made or done for show (as to bolster one's own image or make a positive impression on others)

Straw Man Fallacy
A straw man fallacy occurs when someone distorts or exaggerates another person's argument, and then attacks the distorted version of the argument instead of refuting the original point. By using a straw man, someone can give the appearance of refuting an argument when they have not actually engaged with the original ideas.

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Quote from: Monero on May 02, 2024, 10:03:18 AMThe TTRPG community has ALWAYS been about kindness and human dignity. It's just older creators/players didn't have to do performative nonsense in order to gain social media dopamine hits.

It does suck that you have to do that. But for whatever reason, there are a lot of people on this site who seem to feel they have to keep congratulating each other for saying the same tired and basically baseless things.

I was definitely queer before social media existed at all, so honestly I have no idea what you are going on about.

I hadn't even gone through puberty yet, when I started playing characters that explored the frontiers of gender. I didn't even have a clear understanding in my mind of what it meant. I just knew that I didn't fit the rules of gender presentation as they were taught to me, and eventually, it became a vehicle of self-exploration.

I had dated men and women before the Player's Options books ever saw print.

I played in an all-Hispanic adult game of D&D under the 3.0 rules-set, before 3.5 was ever printed.

I never jumped on any bandwagon. I was very much a part of the generation that brought RPGs into the mainstream, and I brought all these personal characteristics with me.

You say "performative nonsense," I say, I'm sorry it hurts your feelings that I exist. Go hug a teddy bear.

Bolding mine.

Why does gender have a frontier?

Quote from: Monero on May 02, 2024, 10:03:18 AMThe TTRPG community has ALWAYS been about kindness and human dignity. It's just older creators/players didn't have to do performative nonsense in order to gain social media dopamine hits.

It does suck that you have to do that. But for whatever reason, there are a lot of people on this site who seem to feel they have to keep congratulating each other for saying the same tired and basically baseless things.

I was definitely queer before social media existed at all, so honestly I have no idea what you are going on about.

I hadn't even gone through puberty yet, when I started playing characters that explored the frontiers of gender. I didn't even have a clear understanding in my mind of what it meant. I just knew that I didn't fit the rules of gender presentation as they were taught to me, and eventually, it became a vehicle of self-exploration.

I had dated men and women before the Player's Options books ever saw print.

I played in an all-Hispanic adult game of D&D under the 3.0 rules-set, before 3.5 was ever printed.

I never jumped on any bandwagon. I was very much a part of the generation that brought RPGs into the mainstream, and I brought all these personal characteristics with me.

You say "performative nonsense," I say, I'm sorry it hurts your feelings that I exist. Go hug a teddy bear.

I'm assuming this image was included because it's fucking rad.

Off the top of my head, I'd say the best SW art would have to go to either Totems of the Dead or Beasts & Barbarians. Strangely enough, they're both sword and sorcery games with black and white art. Even with them, though, there are some pieces which are just okay at best.

Also Low Life, of course, but then the art there is actually very key to the setting given how the artist is also the game's creator.

To be honest, SW's art has always been adequate at best, so it's tricky to tell if them making Red kinda fugly here and there was for social brownie points or just because they didn't hire a very good artist.  When it comes to dressing women in a setting, I follow the 'good for the goose' rule: If they're gonna dress up a guy in a furry diaper and some boots and maybe a helmet with horns on it and zilch else, then chainmail bikinis are on the table.  If men are dressed conservatively, women should be similar.  It's not difficult.