Mantergeistmann
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Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
So they cast an actress who is an entire foot shorter than the character. Well, that's diversity for you, I guess!
I mean, Elendil's actor is also significantly shorter than the character, but in his case, that would have significantly limited the pool of options.
Still wish they'd done something with the occasional perspective trick as at least a nod to "Elendil the Tall".
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
The most popular women's sport by far is tennis, but even there, a quick perusal of the world rankings reveals no household names.
I mean, isn't that more that the very well known Williams sisters didn't really have any obvious successors for the public eye?
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
Given all the various craft beer gimmicks out there, you'd think someone would make it (although you can't tout the health benefits anymore - "A Guinness for health" would have to have a footnote that there are no health claims proved by the FDA). I know Dogfish Head had their "Ancient Ales" series, where they tried to reconstruct some beers, but I've heard nothing about the health equivalent.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
How does your 100IQ player or GM portray an INT 25 Psychic super genius?
Hah. That's easy. You cheat (within the rules of the game). The DM might not be able to predict the actions the players are going to take... But the genius villain would have, so the DM makes up some bullshit and throws in an extra trap or minions or defensive spell or escape route or whatever.
Mantergeistmann
1mo ago
The "I can't be trusted alone in a room with a woman that isn't my wife" mike pence?
Wasn't that about avoiding spurious accusations?
Mantergeistmann
6mo ago
TF2. 24/7 Insta-Respawn 2Fort only.
Mantergeistmann
8mo ago
I think if the game (a) removed the "nat 1/20 is an auto-fail/success on skill checks" and possibly gave you the option to "take 10" 3e style on a bog-standard check (or take 20 outside of conversation at the cost of a short rest), that'd go a long way to solving the problem.
Mantergeistmann
9mo ago
I'll bite: what is it that makes you think Trump supporters are worse in this regard (turning brother against brother) than other political factions/subfactions?
Mantergeistmann
9mo ago
I mean, has there ever been a gaming boycott that has worked? I'm not even sure the limited "no pre-orders" campaigns have ever worked.
Mantergeistmann
9mo ago
There's been something weird about writing in media (and gaming) for a while now, and i wonder how much of it has to do with graphics and effects. As they become more and more of a budget, and the writer therefore becomes a smaller percentage, people start thinking that the writing doesn't matter (rather than seeing it as a high return place to spend your money, since doubling the salary and getting a better writer would be a small percentage of the overall cost).
Mantergeistmann
9mo ago
I mostly agree, but Plato's death seemed to me to be a righteous way to go.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
The only thing inaccurate about the scene in Down Periscope where the guy stretches a string across the engine room, and it sags as they dive? He states that you wouldn't see it on a nuclear sub, which is wrong. I'm pretty sure every submarine is designed to compress under water pressure, and combat subs don't dive nearly as deep as exploratory subs.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
I have a bit of a weird stance on vigilantism. I think it's morally justified... as long as the vigilante immediately turns themselves in, pleads guilty, and accepts the punishment meted out by the court. That allows for redress of extreme injustice by someone with sufficient conviction to accept the result of their actions, but prevents an endless cycle of retaliatory extrajudicial violence.
In theory, at least. I'm sure it's a terrible idea in real life.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
It's also based on a play, and reimaginings of plays in different settings/aesthetics/cultures is a time-honored tradition... as is (sometimes) colorblind casting.
Maybe related: nobody had an issue with Boromir being black in the LotR musical.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
What makes my blood boil is when all the same people who came up with concept of appropriation and wrote articles like the above turn around and carefully, deliberately do exactly the same thing. And now it’s okay because it’s the right people being erased.
For instance, suppose they made a set of Marvel tie-in MtG cards, and Nick Fury (notably played by Samuel L Jackson) was white. I have a hunch there'd be a ton of outrage... despite my understanding being that there's precedent for Nick Fury to be white.
Management isn't for everyone - I've known a few engineers who thought they wanted to be managers and then noped out and went back to being an IC, and are far happier for it.
Personally, I'm not management, but I've been in a position to be responsible for everything but salary, and have good visibility/insight to my management, and I found W. J. King's "Unwritten Laws of Engineering" helpful - particularly, in this regard, the section on management.
As far as I can tell, the biggest difficulty most technical managers I know have (aside from no time due to meetings) is hiring the right people, and enough of them. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that hiring and personnel development is their top priority... even if they have to fight tooth and nail against their own HR departments.
I will be brutally honest here, though: based on what you've written, I don't think you're the sort of manager I'd be interested in working for.
Mantergeistmann
10mo ago
Was it a permanent hiatus ending, or an actual plot conclusion ending?
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
11mo ago
Leinenkugel's solid, but i was thinking of something targeting the "cocktail in a can" demographic.
Mantergeistmann
11mo ago
the hard times were going to create strong men
I'm pretty sure that's been fairly strongly debunked.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
It's interesting that you bring up energy density, but don't mention nuclear, which blows everything else out of the water.
If you're talking about energy density of transportable power (i.e. oil as a fuel for vehicles rather than electricity creation), I'm willing to assume batteries arent an option due to energy density/materials required, but you should probably addresss why hydrogen and ammonia *aren't * valid options as an oil/gasoline replacement (other than the cost of replacing infrastructure, but if that's the argument, it's a separate one).
At least, that's my thought process on the matter.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
They exist in America in a "you can't use that term anymore" way, but America really doesn't have an alternate term for them (since "Romani" or similar is imprecise), so there's not really much to work with. There was a recent D&D dust-up where a group of fantasy knock-offs (the Vistani, I believe) were referred to as drunkards and a few other negative terms, which apparently are negative gypsy stereotypes, and therefore had to be removed.
I personally had no idea that "drunkard" was a stereotype associated with gypsies prior to the kerfluffle, but you learn something every day, I suppose.
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
We liked that Holga is the bruiser that does the dirty work for Edgin, and he doesn't like to get his hands dirty. We also love emasculating leading men."
The thing is... it didn't have to be this way. Bards (from at least 3E onwards, I can't recall if AD&D 2E was where they were badass or not) are inherently funny. You're down there in a dungeon, playing a whistle or something, while everyone else is stabbing things! You don't have to make it "haha men".
Also, isn't there a male paladin in the upcoming movie? I'm pretty sure they're frontliners (except, you know, for Paladins of Murlynd, but I'm pretty sure WotC doesn't really care about Greyhawk anymore).
We like our male heroes to be challenged and not simply heroic," Goldstein explained
That... implies that female heroines shouldn't be challenged, which is just bad writing. Even the pulpiest of pulp heroes, such as Solomon Kane or John Carter of Mars, are challenged. All the damn time! Even Aragorn, who's already completed his character arc, is challenged during the events of the Lord of the Rings!
Mantergeistmann
1yr ago
So could your question be rephrased as "why do Dune-licensed games have more impactful/genre-defining mechanics than LotR-licensed games"?
Didn't the Sisters get de-disinvited?
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