Cait meant to save this to his personal drive but wound up forwarding it to AVALANCHE, the Turks, and also some of the guys working the Gold Saucer. Oops.
peeling those sour rainbow gummy strips into long thin strings and putting them into cheap energy drink to create something im calling battery acid spaghetti will update once ive finished it
Oh boy, a bunch of stone spikes standing in a barren wasteland. I'm certain this is a place of honor, and that many highly esteemed deeds are commemorated here. A place of value to be sure!
6 News Australia, run by 16 year old Leonardo Puglisi and his friends in between classes at school, is one of Australia's leading sources of political news.
The news outlet regularly breaks stories, and has previously interviewed many of Australia's leading politicians including the Prime Minister and opposition leader during the last election.
The outlet is currently in beef with the Queensland state government after publishing leaks that they are planning to sack the Premier.
i tthink anyone who has ever gotten in trouble for using a red cross as a medical symbol in their video game should change it back to a red cross until the UN starts actually enforcing the gd geneva convention.
There could littlerly be a huge meteorite about to crash into earth and kill everyone. Yet ya all would just point at it and say "chiken little refrance" or some shit like that
When we were discussing the surgery I'd need for my sleep apnea, the surgeon told me I'd never be able to speak French properly because the French R is a uvular sound and I'd no longer have a uvula.
... that's okay? I'm not French? I don't speak French? I've always thought it was the weirdest thing for him to say!
Here's something I started thinking about recently, inspired by this post by @talenlee:
Ability scores in Dungeons & Dragons are one of the game’s many mechanical systems that float atop a liquid surface of questionable justific
(Talen is one of my favorite writers in the RPG space and y'all should give him a follow if you want to read a bunch of really smart thoughts about games.)
The issue of ability scores trying to somehow model a reality is not unique to 4e. It's present in various degrees in all editions of D&D. As Talen points out, Strength does have something of a simulation attached to it (in terms of carrying capacity), but what a Dexterity of 16 or an Intelligence of 8 represents in the fiction is never really explained. In older editions you would sometimes get something like Intelligence determining how many languages you could speak and also act as a simple measure of your literacy, but it was so rough that it didn't actually represent anything measurable.
An Intelligence of 8 doesn't actually have any direct representation in the fiction beyond a -1 penalty to Intelligence checks. What this means is that when a person of average Intelligence (assuming that an Intelligence modifier of +0 is truly average) has a 55% chance of succeeding at an Intelligence check (DC 10), a person with an Intelligence 8 only has a... 50% chance of succeeding on that check. Looking at it like that it doesn't actually seem like that big of a difference.
Thing is, we don't have any way of measuring what any of these ability scores mean. A Charisma of 18 doesn't mean anything besides "a +4 modifier to Charisma checks." At the end of the day it doesn't matter whether your Monk uses their Dexterity of 18 or their Wisdom of 18 for their unarmed attacks (the latter is possible with the Astral Self), nor is there any functional difference between an Artificer making an attack with a magic sword with their Intelligence of 16 versus a Fighter making an attack with the same sword with their Strength of 16 (of course there is in the sense that the two may have different secondary effects attached to these attacks, but the raw numbers add up just the same).
I think that in a combat heavy game like D&D (any edition) there is value in giving players lots of discrete mechanical choices to make for their character and sometimes ability scores do end up reinforcing character archetype (it makes sense that Wizards would be good at Arcana, Rogues would be good at Stealth, and Bards would be good at Performance, and these are not only functions of their class but also of the ability scores these classes mostly utilize!) but sometimes there is a wide disconnect: Rangers and Druids won't be as good at Nature checks as a trained Wizard, Clerics don't actually benefit from being built towards being good at the Religion skill, and why are Clerics and Monks among the best character classes to build towards Perception?
I do think there is something to making it so that in a combat game a character's combat role is in harmony with their fictional identity, and D&D's classes are for the most part good at this (D&D 4e being a shining example of this type of design imo), but ability scores are a very D&D solution to the problem which often introduces its own set of problems.
it’s sinple from 9 to 5 u just gotta be workpilled you gotta be emailcore focusedwave it’s true a neurotypical told me and they’re normal so I believe tgem
We have to up our productivity to meet our quotas and improve our metrics. We should reach out to our client base with surveys and user feedback. That's not my department, but we need to restate our core values and create an action plan for a strategy that'll greatly synergize our output. But let's circle back to that later. We need to focus on our product. We need to produce content. We have to think outside the box and be proactive with our traditional culture. We've gotta return to the drawing board and address the elephant in the room. Do we have the tools to succeed in our tasks? We need more constructive feedback. This could be a game changer. We need to leverage our influence to really push the envelope and improve our portfolio. No need to reinvent the wheel, let's run this up the flagpole and touch base with management.
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