[–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Generally speaking, it's almost always a bad idea to fudge things to make it worse, but acceptable to fudge things to make it better.

If your players are rolling well, good for them! Sometimes players want to feel really lucky and like their investments paid off. If that makes your campaign too easy there are lots of ways to address it, and an easy fight will rarely if ever cause a campaign to crumble

But a series of bad rolls? That can absolutely melt a campaign. It can suck the soul out of a party and make things feel unfair or too difficult even when it's just a string of bad luck. Preventing a TPK or allowing a PC to narrowly escape certain doom can be the difference between a player losing interest and them learning how to mitigate risk.

GMs should all spend some time reading up on the psychology of games and player behavior. Stress and frustration exist in the strangest, most illogical places because our brains are strange and illogical.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I hear what you're trying to say, but the old "if it's not true then why do you care" line is honestly bullshit. Like, we live in a world where money can buy airtime and airtime can drastically influence the ignorant. It's why FOX News is such a problem.

    Don't get me wrong, Drake is a total pedophile and deserves to lose this. And he should've known better than to bring the suit because it's so obvious he was gonna lose.

    But that doesn't make your argument accurate.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Eh I would point out that fascism doesn't need to be racist to be evil, AND that there's a reason why fascism is the preferred form of government for racists.

    So, like, you're not technically wrong but I think the point you're making is bordering on moot.

    Fascism is bad. Racism is bad. Most racists are fascists. Many fascists are racists.

    The venn diagram of fascists and bigots of one type or another is damn close to a perfect circle

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

    Tbh it would be absolutely fantastic if a game pulled this off today.

    "Did....did this game just burn itself to a DVD-R before wiping itself from my drive? Where did it even get a DVD-R from??? Wait a sec, my PC didn't even have a DVD drive before today! Why is there a charge to PCRepairGuy on my credit card?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?"

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Fuck JK Rowling

    Fuck the Israeli government

    Fuck the hasidics and their colonization of the West Bank

    Fuck Western leaders who fund the Israeli war machine

    But if you don't realize that "globalize the intifada" has been used as a slogan backing suicide bombings in civilian areas, indiscriminate rocket attacks against civilians, and unadulterated antisemitism, then fuck you too.

    Even our boi Zohran Mamdani has figured this one out.

    Sincerely, a far-left American Jew who is really sick of having to explain that dog-whistles and protest signs saying "death to Jews" are still antisemitic even now.

    P.S. if you can't describe the events of the second intifada then you may want to consider looking it up before you use that phrase

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

    Yeah I hate the state of politics in the US as much as the next leftist right now but this is very fake. Not "doctored photo" fake, but "someone fabricated this document for clout" fake

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago

    Good job projecting your personal preferences and dating strategy onto every other person in the world 👍

    Also, good job failing to empathize with people who are regularly lied to and intentionally misled by people with negative intent, because "not all men" or what the fuck ever logical equivalent

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