Matthew Haughey @mathowie@xoxo.zone I hate to say it but our canary is now Jimmy Kimmel. If anything happens to him in the next four years, we've hit full blown fascism and need to leave the mine immediately
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[–] 174 points 1 year ago (61 children)

another "let's set some arbitrary line down the road to avoid doing anything today"

you already live under a fascist regime you cowards... DO SOMTHING! take action NOW

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  • [–] 47 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    You decide to take action. Please roll for initiative.

    rolls 1

    You slip and fall on banana peel. You ran out of action points.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    What a strange mix of RPG tropes. I get what you meant but that's like when you see "hacking" on tv.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (5 children)

    I’ll be honest. I never played DND and only know it from memes. I was trying to make a funny. 😔

    Edit: the rpg part probably stems from Baldur Gate 3. 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Heh, that would've been my guess. Nothing to be embarrassed about! Your joke worked. It was just weird to see all those concepts put together in a way they wouldn't go in an actual game. (DND doesn't have action points, for starters)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    But Baldurs does right? I played it for like 2 minutes 😂

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Not in the sense people usually use the phrase "action points".

    In D&D, on your turn, you get one action. That might be hitting someone with a sword, casting a spell, or whatever. You can also move, but that's not typically an "action". Some classes also get what are confusingly called "bonus actions", which are extra things you can do on your turn. Rogues, for example, can try to hide as a bonus action even after they did a normal action like shoot someone. A regular fighter who shot someone with a bow wouldn't be allowed to try to hide on the same turn, but the rogue could.

    Because you only get one action (and bonus actions), no one calls them action points. You might say "you already took your action" or something.

    Compare with a game like the original Fallout. You get a number of action points based on your stats. For an average character, it's 7. Shooting someone typically takes 2, a called shot takes 3. I think movement also takes action points. So on your turn you might shoot someone 3 times (six action points) and move a little (1 action point). Or take a called shot (3 AP) and move a lot (4 AP). Lots of options. Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 also use action points in a similar way.

    This is way more explanation than you probably needed. The key thing is on D&D you typically do one thing on your turn (eg: attack, cast a spell). Pretty much every action has the same "cost" in this sense. You can't really mix and match, and there's not as much tactical depth on your turn. (Pathfinder 2e gives you three actions per turn, but I don't think anyone calls them points there, either.)

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Pathfinder 2e gives you three actions per turn, but I don’t think anyone calls them points there, either

    Yeah, they're just actions. Though the original joke kinda works, because the way Pathfinder frames it is that you gain actions at the start of your turn, so it's more conceivable that something could prevent you from gaining those actions, or could take them away. (Indeed, the "Slowed" condition says that you "When you regain your actions, reduce the number of actions regained by your slowed value", as a similar example.) Even though they're not called points, they do kinda act like that kind of a resource.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago*

    Yes but not in that way.

    Initiative determines the order of action. Usually in combat, but it could theoretically be applied elsewhere, a debate for example, or if a Bard challenges someone to a rap-battle (I guess those are both kinda just verbal combat though).

    Action points are how many actions you can perform per turn of initiative. Usually a movement, an action, and possibly a bonus action.

    Slipping on a banana peel could be done if you rolled acrobatics to leap over the banana peel but failed the skill check. Say you're a Gnome whose lost their legs, taking a -6 modifier to Dexterity. This could cause an acrobatics roll of 12 to fall to 6, which could below the 7 you might contextually need to succeed at leaving over the banana peel.

    "Using your powerful gnome arms you make a mad gorilla dash and leap with all your might, Unfortunately the loose dirt under your right hand gives way and you slip. You manage to catch yourself with your left hand, but before the squelch of the banana peel registers to your ear your arm slips out from under you and you strike your head upon the ground"
    Take 1 Damage and Roll a Con save to see if you're concussed.

    Edit: I brainfarted and described a potential DnD or PF situation, this cannot occur in BG

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Do you crit-fail your players on initiative roles? Brutal 😮

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Do you crit-fail your players on ANYTHING? I can't imagine the dm ideas for how one in twenty swings should send your sword flying into the ether.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I crit fail my players on skill checks if they have a negative with modifiers.

    "Oh you rolled a -1 on your lockpicking roll? Sorry bucko, you broke your pick off deep in the lock because what you thought was a false set was your tensioner slipping"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Pathfinder's four degrees of success system is so good here. A crit is any time you beat the DC by 10. A crit fail is any time you get 10 less than the DC. The system itself then tells you on a bunch of different spells/actions/effects what happens on a crit/success/fail/crit fail. It's handy because often this means a regular fail can still mean something good happens for you. In the case of lockpicking:

    Critical Success You unlock the lock, or you achieve two successes toward opening a lock that requires more than one success. You leave no trace of your tampering.
    Success You open the lock, or you achieve one success toward opening a lock that requires more than one success. You leave behind damage that indicates the lock was picked on close scrutiny.
    Critical Failure You break your toolkit and leave behind obvious damage. Fixing a broken toolkit requires using Crafting to Repair it or else swapping in replacement picks (costing 3 sp, or 3 gp for an infiltrator thieves' toolkit).

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    ^ this is the epitome of the "fuck you, got mine" mentality... you seem to think you have an out so every body else can go fuck themselves... you are not even going to try to spare most of the worst of it, you are happy to let everyone suffer because you think you have an out

    Good luck EU if this is what they are getting from the USA

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The time to do something was back a few decades ago... back in November there was a good chance to buy some time... now it's all uphill but it will only get harder the more you guys keep on "waiting for it"

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's no waiting going on tbh. This is like a group project in college, there is no intent to do anything but hope others will resolve things for you.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Yeap... but nobody is coming to save anyone

    And here is the problem... nothing that Trump is doing could possibly end in a better situation for the USA, so when the shit hits the fan and the inevitable depression hits, the USA will do the only thing it knows how to do (specially under Conservatives): they will blame some other country and go to war with it and this time, hitting Yemen won't do it

    Right now I am basically only hoping WWIII is not fought with nukes... that's my best 10 year scenario

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (24 children)

    And what action would you like to take?

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Long lasting general strikes and boycots would be an effective tool. I realize they would be painful, or even impossible, for people to support themselves through in many cases, whuch is why things like mutual aid and strike funds need to be set up first.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    If the film/tv industry did this alone everything would collapse pretty fast. Cut off everyone's entertainment and they'll get pissed real fast.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Protests, Marches, call for General Strike, Civil Disobedience, etc etc etc

    Trumptard may not care about your opinion but he would have to care if the country stops working...

    And yes, I know it's hard... but this is what you get after decades of apathy and "fuck you, got mine"... you don't like it? you are certainly going to hate living the rest of your life under fascism

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    A couple of days ago someone brought the right tools to the debate😉

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    That really changed things didnt it. Except no... It didnt.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    i don’t know, i feel much better, and those in power now hire more security and canceled plans, which is a good indication they are scared. also talk of assassination is getting normalized. the tone has defenatly changed

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    One of them dies and the rest of us are dealing with the consequences.
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    Look up 'pyrrhic victory.'

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm sure that the same folks who couldn't get Harris elected will be able to create an international pact more powerful than the UN.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The country relies on cars for everything. If you block some roads, you can halt the whole economy.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I believe in direct action in your own life.

    No wonder why the "fuck you, got mine" attitude got you here.

    PS: there isn't really anywhere in the world that is craving to take Muricans right now... specially not ones that are not rich enough to already have an out (this sucks but money talks)...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    well I am not American so my actions are not the same as yours...

    In Spanish they have this saying "cada ladron juzga por su condicion"... which applies here. It basically means "a thief thinks everyone else is also thieving"... it says a lot more about you that your default assumption is that I do nothing even if I am calling for action

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