I liked when Karl talked about speed runs and showcased great moments in gaming. But, I guess he learned from the Billy Mitchell saga that drama gets way more views. 🤷♂️
I hate group checks for this kind of thing. I mainly only use them for perception or knowledge checks (always fun when one person is oblivious). For group tests like stealth or athletics for a chase it’s probably better to either build a challenge out of it so other skills can apply and more checks balance the luck factor, or just let one player be skill leader and make the check with appropriate penalties if part of their challenge is managing the clanky loud orc in plate.
And frankincense, one of two other gifts of the magi. The third is unaromatic gold, of course. Here’s some jewelry and a bunch of funeral scents kid, hope your step-dad got you a toy.
Just recently, Xbox boss Phil Spencer said he hopes Starfield will be a 12-year hit, just like Skyrim.
Yeah no fucking shit Phil, the fans would have loved a generation-defining megahit as well! Maybe you should have told Todd to try making the game good as well as marketable?
When I was your age, a family size bag fed the entire family. Now I can barely keep one toddler in crispy fried potatoes! What kind of world is this to raise a child in?!
Since there’s only one bathroom, I’ve been assuming that engineering just teleports all the bodily waste out of the crew and directly into the replicators’ matter feeds, Hogwarts-style. Saves time, keeps the crew light and active, keeps the transport operators sharp while between planets.
I think that this is canonically untrue. Federation vessels do have multiple bathrooms or “heads” in military jargon, including personal ones attached to officer quarters.
However, Memory Alpha does corroborate the version I remember, which is Frakes talking on some behind the scenes special about how there’s only one bathroom on the entire Enterprise-D. Scroll down a bit to the “Background” section. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bathroom
(And if you’re surprised there’s a MA page for just this topic, I am too, and probably shouldn’t be.)
Seems like a technicality: she legally* couldn’t hold a job but was obviously doing the work. (fingersnaps, yassssss nagus)
Likewise, Garak has a job (tailor, salesperson) and also, allegedly, has real power and influence within the Cardassian spy-network/government.
The Prophets though, legit, those trans-corporeal bums can go get a real job. “We exist beyond linear time” yeah buddy, I like to get high and sit on the couch too but we all need to eat.
Reminds me of D&D how the party can have a full strategy session between rounds like the Lich King can’t hear them and also took a 10 minute breather between spells. I do occasionally as DM remind people that they’re in the middle of a fight, especially when analysis paralysis sets in.
A lot of comics and cartoons stretch time a bit for talking. Jojo really abuses the concept though, they’ll pause mid-punch for a legit science lecture!
Car Talk with Martok is off this week for Thanksgiving and because I have COVID and am embracing the sweet release of death. Come back from my break and a day later get fucked. Come on....
Feel better Stamets! I too have a case of Thanksgiving covid. Seems to be spreading very badly this season, i know many people who also caught it this week.
We used to play with the house rule that draws stack and transfer until the player is unable to play some kind of deflection. Nothing like sending grandma packing with a Draw 16 stack! (Who am I kidding, granny was the one always whipping our asses at cards! 😭)
“Masking” is a thing neurodivergent people talk about a lot, but it’s comparable to comparing “normal clothes” and costumes or drag. There is no “normal.” When you get dressed for the day, you’re putting on a costume. Maybe it’s a business suit or a uniform, but maybe it’s just “your look” for the day.
The thing is that “you” don’t exist. There’s memory continuity of the consciousness that drives your body each day, but how you act to other people, the beliefs you have, and the clothes you wear are all part of a complex construction that you think of as yourself. But none of that is individually “you.” If you put on a costume, you would probably act different: you’d be “in-character” but you probably don’t think about this as being a different you, you still feel like yourself, just wearing a costume.
But if you changed your clothes, changed your interactions with others, changed your beliefs, then people would say “you’ve changed” as though you had shifted into a different person.
Everyone puts on masks for different groups of people. You wear a professional mask at work, an extrovert mask when out with friends, an intimate mask (which maybe feels like no mask at all) with family. Social media puts social pressure and often monetary pressure behind maintenance of a particular mask/identity. The fact that so many people are aware of the artiface of it is what you’re seeing.
It used to be that most people’s days were split up into a home period, a work period, a recreational period, etc. With the modern “always online, always available” world, our masks have become fluid and a constant part of us. Instead of putting on your work face in the morning and taking it off after a long day, you have to constantly be ready to break out the correct persona at any time, depending on who is contacting you on the phone. This leads to more “cracks” in the masks. People aren’t “more fake,” they’re revealing more of themselves than intended because the masks keep slipping. This doesn’t necessarily reveal any “true self” either because there is no such thing. Rather it let’s the common parts slip out more (most people hide a lot of their personal selves from work colleagues) and reveals the contradictions in the other parts that normally can embe kept seperate.
I’ve dealt with depression for most of my life, but with a lot of work and medicine and care, it’s possible to get past self loathing and pity. And then, you can stretch “staring into the abyss” into an all day activity as you reflect on how good personal mental health doesn’t make the world less of a nightmare!
“Come on everyone, we have to solve this riddle! What if the missing Scepter of Glorificon is in there?”
“No we have to turn back! The lich ghost of the octo-king could be waiting for us, seeking revenge after we defeated him in his aquatic lair beyond time!”
“GM, I ask the old sage NPC if they know what’s past the riddle.”
Me, furiously scribbling notes and scratching things out: “Oh uh, they laugh heartily at your comments about the lich ghost. ‘Hohoho, the octo-king back so soon, that’s just ridiculous! But I know not what is beyond the door, the ancient prophicies say it is both what you most fear and desire…’”
Activision promises to solve issue by giving CEO a 3 billion dollar bonus, adding more fees and microtransactions, and firing the entire QA and dev staff.
The “Kubrick Stare” is one of Stanley Kubrick‘s most recognizable directorial techniques, a method of shot composition where a character stares at the camera with a forward tilt, to convey to the audience that the character in question is at the peak of their derangement.
Yes, in Children of Dune, Leto 2 undergoes the water rite or something like that, and the concentrated spice in him makes sand trout (baby worms) cling to his skin and form an armor over his entire body except the face. And then 4000 years later in God Emperor, him big worm.
The worm armor makes him super strong and fast, but i don’t remember him doing a lot with that in the books.
LONDON (AP) — Four men were charged Monday over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born.
I like how the headline mentions the toilet is “satirical” as if they were worried people might think they had a non-ironic 18k solid golden toilet. I’m sure the thieves were only stealing the toilet as a parody of crime.
Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...
I’m not trying to be pedantic, but I want to draw your attention to what you said about being unsure about the person’s motives. If a person says something like “they (a group of people) are bred different” then that’s racist. It doesn’t matter if the person is a bigot or openly hates people for their skin color or not; that kind of belief is eugenics and is a racist belief.
Good people, well-intentioned people, can be and are racists, because they are raised with certain ideas and beliefs that are rooted in racism. The things that pop into heir head are racist because they haven’t taken time to look into their own beliefs and understand where they come from, to de-racialize their thinking.
Or, you know, they’re bigots and like having racist thoughts because it serves the bigotry, but that’s a different problem.
This reminds me of when Jared left Wisecrack, or when literally everyone left Cracked. I felt it coming too, same pattern as many before: the ZP videos started pushing for premium subs with more ads and censoring Yahtzee, and there were more shows with Yatz and a cohost. They always start by pushing the video stars to do stuff with new (cheaper, unknown, less interesting) people because The Company thinks all people are replaceable gears.
Good for the entire video team just quiting, the writing has clearly been on the wall for a while. Maybe he can do work with Stephanie Sterling again? I used to love their team ups!
Earthworm Jim and several Sonic games also had really difficult underwater sections with traumatizing drowning music and timers. They really wanted our generation to stay out of the water, huh?
Also, I learned to give up on games from the infamous Atari ET game, which was one of the like 3 games at grandma’s house. Even understanding what’s happening on screen is difficult, let alone figuring out what you’re supposed to do.
I was just thinking he hadn’t released a video in a long time. Now I know why! It’s crazy to think that Eve is still going, can’t wait to see what’s been happening with it!
I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6...
It can, yeah. You have to be careful to press gently in the center of the blade and not put pressure on the corners which will gouge huge scratches into glass. I have one of these for cleaning my paint pallette and get double-duty out of it on oven cleaning day.
They make cleaning kits for these stove tops that typically come with a cheaper plastic version of the tool with a weaker metal razor. Still does the job well, but less scratching chance. Also usually comes with a fine-grain polishing cream and sponges to apply it with. The cream helps to buff out lighter scratches and remove some of the cooked on stuff.
I often wonder how the general population will react when they truly realize the impacts of climate change. I’d imagine there could be three reactions:...
[Karl Jobst] The Completionist's Response Is The Worst Thing Ever (www.youtube.com)
Star Trek Resurgence Giveaway (startrek.website)
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Struggling strategy game [Godus] from Fable creator Peter Molyneux pulled from Steam (www.pcgamesn.com)
Your partner/mom/cat has been kidnapped, and the only way to save them is to "write a comment that is guaranteed to get downvoted on Lemmy." What do you comment?
Looking at you Ionic, Tauri, ... (lemmy.kde.social)
That damn armor (lemmy.world)
The cockpit? What is it? (lemmy.world)
Too much detail in this error message from EA (lemmy.ml)
'Tis the Season rule (lemmy.world)
Dev behind massive Skyrim multiplayer mod turns their hands to Starfield, gives up because "this game is f***ing trash," uploads everything for someone else to finish (www.gamesradar.com)
The joys of parenthood (lemmy.zip)
unpleasant ruledient (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Time is cruel (startrek.website)
coitus rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Tis the Season (lemmy.world)
Something something Beverly, something something ghosts
The Turbo Lift is broken (pxscdn.com)
Batman's secret identity [Pictures in Boxes] (startrek.website)
gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss (startrek.website)
Simply must have (lemmy.world)
Time-stop [Chris Hallbeck] (startrek.website)
It's Capt Gregg (lemmy.world)
Darth Vader vs Wolverine [deliberatelyburied] (startrek.website)
Thanksgiving Pondering (startrek.website)
Car Talk with Martok is off this week for Thanksgiving and because I have COVID and am embracing the sweet release of death. Come back from my break and a day later get fucked. Come on....
piss rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Well deserved (lemmy.world)
Is society becoming more fake ?
It feels like social media fakeness is seeping through into real life more and more. and every one is working harder on perfecting their façade ?...
blast! (lemmy.world)
I'm booked! (lemmy.world)
Sound advice... that I regularly ignore. (ttrpg.network)
Undiscovered country music (startrek.website)
Modern Warfare 3 is on track to be the lowest-rated Call of Duty ever (www.videogameschronicle.com)
Same energy (mujico.org)
Ambos se las dan de pobres y de gente de pueblo pero lo que ansian es el PODEEEERRRRR!
Frank Herbert: Children of Rule (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
It is what it is [Rule] (files.catbox.moe)
4 men charged in theft of satirical golden toilet titled ‘America,’ at Churchill’s birthplace (apnews.com)
LONDON (AP) — Four men were charged Monday over the theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, the sprawling English country mansion where British wartime leader Winston Churchill was born.
Layers of KETR (lemmy.world)
This old meme format popped into my head, but honestly I was lost on what the best punchline would be.
Did racist use the "biological advantage" argument when Black athletes started competing alongside white athletes?
Given that racists and slavers used the “natural physical strength” of black people to justify putting them on hard labor and some medics still think that blacks has higher resistance to pain, I wonder if when black athletes started to join mixed race sport teams, some racist would have used the same “biological...
Starring Locutus as Edward Scissor Hands (pixelfed.social)
Yahtzee Croshaw: Today, I formally resigned from The Escapist and Gamurs. I don't have the rights to Zero Punctuation, but whatever happens you'll be hearing my voice again soon, in a new place. (twitter.com)
This level is when 80s kids learned for the first time that it's ok to give up. (lemmy.zip)
[Fredrik Knudsen] EVE Online | Down the Rabbit Hole (www.youtube.com)
All you ever need (startrek.website)
TIL about this tool, the *Reinigungsschaber* ! (lemmy.world)
I had lost hope with my electric cooking plates. The white circles where completely hidden under a layer of diamond-grade burn residue that no amount of scrubbing with chemicals could even begin to remove. I found this 3€ scrapping tool and it’s amazing !!! Sorry, but I don’t have the before picture, believe me after 6...
What is going to happen when people realize the true consequences of climate change?
I often wonder how the general population will react when they truly realize the impacts of climate change. I’d imagine there could be three reactions:...