Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
8mo ago
When you fought Nere, did you have the aid of the duergar that wanted him dead? I found that to be a huge help - especially in that it seemed the duergar I was still fighting preferred to try to kill my new "allies" instead of my party.
Mantergeistmann
8mo ago
I remember wanting to be a ski patrol ranger. Now I just want to shift from technical project manager into something more creative.
Mantergeistmann
9mo ago
Are we talking just D&D, or are other things like Numenera, Wolves of God, The One Ring, and GURPS also on the (virtual) table?
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
I'm game for ditching the FS lore and starting from scratch, from a writing standpoint.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
I honestly have no idea how the Honorverse hasn't been picked up for a ton of licensed movies/games/everything yet.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Hard surfaces maybe; I believe that hot surfaces can do what you described. I think it's normal enough, though.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
You might have seen a Hairy Woodpecker. They're about halfway between Downys and Pileateds in size, but look exactly like Downys in all other aspects.
Woodpeckers in general are just nice. We've also got some red-bellieds, and a Northern Flicker or two, which I believe are adjacent to woodpeckers, but ours just seem to enjoy throwing mulch halfway across the yard as a daily activity.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
I like my local pileated woodpecker. Comes to the feeder and yells.
Recently, I saw a few waxwings. Never seen them before in person, so that was cool.
Bird I know we have locally, but I don't see as much of as I'd like: plover types (killdeer, etc).
Bird we don't have locally that I'd like to see: woodcock.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
I mean, you certainly couldn't play Counter-Strike without someone saying quite an awful lot about your private life. And your mom's private life, too, for that matter.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
the Russian joke about the blank pamphleteer.
I don't think I know that one, but I can kind of guess as to the punchline.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
you pour it over ice
Fascinating. I'm used to that being a Magners-only gimmick.
That said, I dont see ciders becoming popular with the bud lite crowd. They're either too sweet (like Angry Orchard's mainline stuff, owned by Sam Adams I believe) or a bit on the dry, non-crushable side.
You'd also need an ad campaign to make them seem manly and tough rather than the softer alternative to beer, at least in the states. Although you could possibly manage that by invoking the rural spirit of the UK's West Country and focusing on "scrumpy". Or hell, cider used to be the Colonial drink of choice (what, you don't think Johnny Appleseed was going around planting apple trees for eating, do you?). A nice patriotic George Washington/frontiersman advert, or something something pre/post prohibition era, would probably do the trick nicely. So now that I think about it, you're right -cider could absolutely be the way to go.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
a game whose entire point is its pointlessness. playoffs are everything now, it didn't use to be this way. the fall classic was the last celebration of the season, not the point of the season. in baseball's greatest eras people were packing stadiums of teams that had no shot at the pennant. they weren't there to feed avarice, they were there to pass time watching summer's mandala.
I'll add a point of agreement to that. I never watch baseball on TV; it's incredibly dull. But I can have a blast at a game with my dad, because it's not about the game. It's a good time hanging out and chatting and drinking, with the occasional impressive/exciting play and interjection of obscure stat from my father.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
Leinenkugel's solid, but i was thinking of something targeting the "cocktail in a can" demographic.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Oh man, I played a ton of Duke Nukem 1 back in the day. Those jumping bipedal robots terrified me when I was a kid.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
My understanding is that people who work in nuclear plants are a lot less worried about them than the general populace. And to a lesser extent, most people who live near them as they are now aren't that worried, either.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
If you start a writing group and are willing to accept randos, I'd be game. I need something to get me to plant my buttocks between the keyboard and the chair and not get distracted by 18 tabs.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I recall reading somewhere that regardless of size, every drug (or just insulin?) company has to contribute the same flat amount of cash to the FDA, which gives a huge competitive disadvantage to new/small companies.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Would you consider it different than the art generators? In some circles, those have been receiving quite a lot of hate recently.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
You have to play it safe. Have to stay on the road, run away from scary things. You're not the Lord of Murder at level 1. Unlike a lot of other games, there is no handholding here.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
You can also change reality (with agreement), which makes it easier to fake genius.
There's also the option to go, "yes, I obviously noticed the conclusion of this intricate riddle/web of deceit, but couldn't be bothered to care because I assumed everyone else did as well, and was busy focused on 'insert esoteric topic/grand unifying theory here'.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
I mean, that's how the saying goes, right? If you're not the paying customer, you're the product. And the users were the product.
Mantergeistmann
28d ago
My 5e group is between games at the moment, and I'm hoping to find/run a group with a different system. 3.5, Pathfinder, Numenera, Traveller, Wolves of God... you name it, just something different from 5e.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
It's going to be interesting to see which way the culture war swings on this one. On the one hand, I've seen a lot of rumblings because Tiktok is (generally) pro-Palestine. On the other hand, Trump.
Mantergeistmann
4mo ago
Israel has dropped white phosphorus on Gaza. Yes, but it's not unique. White phosphorous is too useful to not drop; everybody be dropping white phosphorous. If it lands on you you will die one of the worst deaths imaginable; but armies generally don't directly try to land it on people.
My understanding of WP is that the "warcrimeness" is based entirely on if its being used (nominally) for smokescreens/illumination/whatnot, or if its being used as an offensive burning weapon against enemy forces in a civilian area - the latter being Bad and the former being Eh, Fine Enough.
Fascinating. Are there similar resources for other languages that you're aware of?
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