Phonzy

40, white cishet male, definitely ADD (back in my day, we didn't have the H), possibly Autistic (my mom says so, and she's a bona fide psychologist, but obviously she's not MY psychologist that would be a conflict of interest), night auditor at a hotel

[nitpickrider]

I want them to have to define ONE thing about this fucking character.

His stance, his powers, his morals, whether he prefers left or right twix bars, SOMETHING.

Amazing Spiderman 401

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"Perhaps I don't care

Perhaps I care more than you imagine!

Who is to say?

Certainly not the writers because they know less about my character motivations than even you do!"

[nitpickrider]

A fun neat trick! Avoid having to make a character by having him undercut every sentence he speaks!

The only side effect is instantly pissing off the audience

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

"My goals are beyond your understanding

because I do not understand them either!"

[prokopetz]

I haven't read as many TTRPG system books as you, so I wanted to ask: What is the most absurd or exaggerated things you ever read in a system book? for example, there is this brazilian system called 3D&T and in the page giving examples of "what each level on each stat can do" they go from the usual 5 max starter points to over to over a 1000 points in one stat saying "you can destroy a star in one attack with this value"

The basic problem with this question is that the high end of what player characters can do in high-powered tabletop RPGs very rapidly becomes too big to powerscale. If you push things far enough, shit goes all conceptual in a way that defies direct comparison.

For example, a starting player character in Jenna Moran's Nobilis can work transformative miracles upon their domain which affect the entire observable universe; how do you powerscale the ability to shatter planets with your bare hands against the ability to transform truths into lies or become immanently embodied in every instance of the colour blue? Sarah Newton's Mindjammer uses a fractal character creation system which allows entities to be given stats at nearly any scale, with lower-scale entities able to "borrow" the stats of higher-scale entities within specific domains; how do you powerscale the ability to fly faster than light against the ability to act "as" an entire galaxy-spanning civilisation? What does that measuring stick look like?

[rlyehtaxidermist]

the most absurd or exaggerated thing I have ever read in a system book is the phrase "Generic Universal Role Playing System"

[dizzyghoast]

brain, heart: idiot bitches who never know what they want

stomach, genitals: idiot bitches who know exactly what they want and never shut up about it

lungs, kidneys, liver: pretty chill organs, all told. if these ones are complaining then i'm usually the one who fucked up

[ankle-beez]

Would you rather have a Phineas and Ferb summer or a Gravity Falls summer?

would you rather have endless fun forever or have satan attack you every day

[depsidase]

[xipiti]

Former Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell hospitalized

A spokesman for former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the Kentucky republican was admitted to a hospital on Sunday.

[shittyidea]

A super long audio book with just silence and an “oh, out loud?” at the end

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[zigdirty]

We're not leaving this gem to languish in the comments:

[okthatsgreat]

i don’t have any other followers it’s actually just you and me here

[literary-sparks]

“Why don’t you use ai” idk man beyond the obvious environmental and “this machine causes psychosis and encourages people to kill themselves” thing I think asking the equivalent of a solid D student who is also a pathological liar if they can answer my question/do the work for me seems pretty fucking stupid

[prokopetz]

Stephen King rightly gets a lot of shit for frequently having his characters think and speak in pop culture references that only make sense if you spent your formative years in 1970s Maine, but I feel like articulating that particular criticism on Tumblr is something of a glass-houses situation.

[ritualday]

we're getting closer to 2030 and what are we supposed to do then. that's not a number for a year to be

[thisrobothasnosoul]

I know that the situation for the midterms right know is Really Fucking Dire, but DON'T STAY HOME if you're eligible to vote please, especially if you're in a swing/purple state.

Trump cheated in the 2020 election but he still lost because enough people turned out against him. Unfortunately he cheated AGAIN in the 2024 election and won but we cannot repeat that scenario again.

Even if you live in a solid red or blue state don't stay home. You have no idea what might happen. They could flip. It's never hopeless.

Republicans are gerrymandering the shit out of us. Don't let them win.

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[nitpickspot]

The midterms are gonna go bad for them and they know it. Make it worse.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 ITS TRUE AND SHE SHOULD SAY IT <3

[gamerphonzy]

[nitpickrider]

Can it be true? Who the FUCK knows, the WRITERS will go back and forth on it at least six times.

Amazing Spiderman 399

[dappercat123]

If I was Peter I’d be suck if thus shit by now and gave stopped caring if I was a clone or not.

[nitpickrider]

This storyline only gets all the more obnoxious if you have like. A philosphically complete adult's vision of how identity works

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Like

There's all this "Ahhhhh I'm a clone MY LIFE IS RUINED" angst in this era and I'm just like

WHO CARES IF YOU ARE A CLONE OR NOT?

You're a sentient being with free will my dude

It doesn't matter if you came out of a pod or a vagina, it doesn't change anything

But they act like being a clone means that actually they're Not A Person Anymore

They basically treat being a clone as if they were a robot and like...that's not what cloning is

I could get a sentient and self aware robot grappling with questions of "Am I a real person or am I just programmed to think I am??? Am I truly alive or just programmed to act like I am?" but a flesh and blood human being who was cloned is just like...a person who got born a different way

To quote one of the finest pieces of cinema of our time...The Pokemon Movie: "I see now that the circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant; it is what you do with the gift of life that determines who you are."

[dappercat123]

“Look I was conceived in the backseat of a packard you were conceived in a tank, so what?”~ben, venture bros

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ EXACTLY

[marxistgnome]

Vetinari: everything I do is a carefully calculated move to keep the city running efficiently

also Vetinari: Yo drumknott I sent Vimes to uberwald this is going to be so fucking funny

[thestuffedalligator]

To be fair, you can’t carefully calculate Vimes. Vimes is a shotgun solution that you point in the general direction of a problem, and he’ll solve the problem and anything in the blast radius of that problem

The upshot of this is that he winds up getting way more done than you were expecting - “Ah, Commander. Back in one piece, I see. How did the coronation go?”

“The Low King has publicly advocated for the rights of trolls and female dwarfs, the guards of Bonk have restructured into a proper watch force, the power of the werewolf clans has been divided, and we have an excellent trade deal on fat with Uberwald.”

“…Commander?”

“Sir?”

“What the fuck”

[datsderbunnyblog]

That’s an interesting one, the parallels between Detritus’s crossbow and Vimes himself are not something I’d ever have considered otherwise. The Piecemaker/Keeper Of Thee Kinge’s Piece. Both known for leaving holes in walls.

And, most importantly, it’s Vimes who sets the boundaries on when Detritus is allowed to use the crossbow, and the same goes for his own anger. He takes responsibility for both, because he won’t allow collateral damage. I’m not sure where I’m going with this train of thought but it’s just something to think about.

[persephonbee]

Vimes has canonically forbidden Detritus from using the Piecemaker on people (and presumably also dwarves, trolls, etc). That means it’s a weapon against property, which often translates to being a weapon against power.

Sound familiar to anyone?

[whetstonefires]

i’m fairly certain the utterance ‘people and also dwarves and trolls’ would get you into some serious hot water in the late-game Ankh Morpork City Watch

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[stronglychromatictroll]

I love discworld so fucking much