Or don’t, and just pick what sounds fun!

I’ve been sitting pretty with both uBlock Origin and uMatrix stopping both the ads and the delay from YouTube. Not sure what exactly is doing which, but it’s been working for me

The only thing stopping them is their own incompetency. Truly a thin wall, but as their older generations start dying off we’ll see that wall broken down.

Would it be pronounced “sh-it” or “z-it”?

Quick, tell him that on Twitter! Maybe he’ll actually do it and we’ll finally be rid of his godawful grandstanding.

They did. It’s called the Vita and it’s still amazing even after Sony dumped it. I have one a friend cracked for me, and any game I could possibly want to play runs at a crisp 50 fps with no fluctuation. If only they had marketed it better.

My suggestion for balancing encounters? Don’t. There’s a couple reasons for this. One, your players will escape or beat situations in ways that you could never have imagined, and; two, if things get too hard and everyone’s really struggling, you can scale back the encounter and even fudge dice rolls if it makes narrative sense to do so. Deus Ex Machina is not off the table either, for D&D at least. Remember, your players are heroes: something saving them right as all hope was lost is par for the course. The only time characters should die permanently imo is when it makes for a compelling story.

And I’ve already reported it as misinformation. Nice when a website lets you report stuff without having an account.

The people who would use a Meta variant will use it, and people like us will not. This reminds me of the interview with the Mexican restaurant that spawned Taco Bell. The lady who owned it essentially said, “I’m glad he (the founder of Taco Bell) was able to take our teachings and turn it into something. Good for him.” If they build proprietary code, that’s nice. ActivityPub will still be the same open-source code it’s always been, and all of the Fediverse stuff will still exist. It kinda sucks that Meta is trying to make it seem like they’re the good guys, but in the end there isn’t much they can do to the already established stuff beyond make their own.

Edit: also, if they do try anything, we at least have previous data and most of the people who care about freedom to privacy here that I’m sure we could come up with something. We’re not getting blindsided like with Google and XMPP back in the day.

Life always finds a way. At least until the moon has drifted so far from our orbit that our atmosphere is no longer sustainable and the oceans boil off the surface of the planet.

Same. It’s also helpful in remembering the plot later if there’s a sequel or two. The only time I don’t do this is when I know I’ll want to re-read the book later, so I will actively try to forget parts of the book. That way, it’s a fresh (well, fresher) read when I get back to it.

My favorites are Blades in the Dark, Savage Worlds, and Wushu.

Blades’ setting is extremely fun to mess around in, think Dishonored. It’s a Powered by the Apocalypse game, so if you know that style it’s pretty simple to pick up.

Savage Worlds lets you make up a lot of your own settings, abilities, races, etc. much easier than D&D, and includes a unique upgrading dice system for stats. It also houses Deadlands, which is one of my favorite settings of all time.

Wushu is essentially just old Chinese/Japanese martial arts films boiled down into a game. Super fun, extremely fast, and limited only by your imagination. It is really rules-light so keep that in mind. I think the entire rules are about 18 pages long, and the rest of the book is optional rules and settings.

Honorable mentions go to Call of Cthulhu because Eldritch horror is my jam and Vampire: the Masquerade because sometimes I want to get political with my urban fantasy! Oh, and Fucked-Up Little Man because one-page Dark Souls RPG funny.

I like the name and premise! I just got through Volume 7 of Wandering Inn, so if you’ve gotten that far you can see why I might want to take a break for a bit 😔 Currently reading Cradle, which is definitely as good as people are saying

Huh, maybe I haven’t? I could have sworn I had Cradle on my previously-read list, but now I can’t find any of the books from the series. Well, I guess I may have a series to dive into!

As much as I hate to say it, adequate prose is really important to me. I find it hard to read around lines, and thus have missed out on a lot of great stories. If they have an official translation though, I’d love to check it out!

If you’ve tried reading Wandering Inn you’ll get a sense of how long I’m willing to let a story burn if I think it’s good. I’ve read a lot of manwha with cultivators and reincarnators, is this similar?

I’ve tried Dungeon Crawler Carl, it was almost too gamified for me. I have read Cradle, but haven’t touched the other two. I’ll give 'em a whirl!

Edit: looking at my read-list again, I actually don’t see Cradle on there. I think I’ll start with that since I could have sworn I’d read it already.

I’ve heard of A Practical Guide to Evil! I thought it was part of the Evil Genius series, but I’ll take a look now.

Currently reading The Wandering Inn: Volume 7 by Pirateaba.