jjjalljs

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago) (1 children)

Well, yeah. YouTube is a trash platform and pre-recorded video is a dubious medium for teaching.

The platform is trash because the incentives are not aligned with noble goals like "teach people things" or "spread the truth". It's "Get engagement" and "get ad impressions". They also don't moderate it much, so there's a ton of slop and lies.

Video is passive. it's easy to space out or just let it go in one ear and out the other. Most people learn in other ways. An actual lecture can have some back and forth, and a good teacher can engage a class. Books require more concentration. Doing exercises of some sort also force you to practice, and retain it. You could maybe do okay with video if you took notes (by hand I'm told is better), or otherwise engaged with the material in an active manner.

Also, dozens of videos a day? Go do something else. Read a book. Exercise. Play chess. Write something. Sign up for a class and attend. That's so much passive intake you're going to turn into a potato.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 points 33 minutes ago (1 children)

Well, technically there's Vampire: The Requiem. It's very similar, but not in the exact same universe. Some of the names are reused, but there's no canon metaplot, and many details are changed. I personally liked it a lot, but I think it's less popular than Masquerade.

If you want to roll your own setting, I bet there are generic systems that would work. Fate is my go-to, and I can see how it would work. (Probably a stress track for hunger, some consequence boxes for becoming a monster)

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

try to talk them out of the idea of “Leveling” they get scared and run back to the system they’re familiar with.

I still think about the time in college I tried to get a D&D friend to consider Mage. I was telling him about how you can just do magic, and the real limitation is paradox and hubris. Like, it's often not about 'can you?' but rather "should you?"

He couldn't get over "you can just cast whatever you want? Fireballs every turn?"

"Yes, but that's probably going to make a lot of paradox, and probably isn't the best way to solve your problem"

"Sounds broken," he said, and lost interest.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I wish they continued to follow them in a different show

"Middle Decks" ?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 points 4 hours ago

I think it's kind of a cold start, bootstrap, problem. I don't want to pay for journalism when I don't have faith it'll be good, but since no one's paying for it it's not good

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I started using recently. No complaints.

Does anyone know what you can put for the "suggestions API url" in Firefox? It's optional so I left it blank.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Well, for one, they know they're lying but they don't care. It's a tactical advantage for them to lie because a lot of people aren't going to know.

If you're pretty smart, imagine being drunk. All the time. Just moderately sloshed. That's what I think it's like for an average , kind of stupid , person. Poor memory, surges of emotions, incoherent thought. And they can't ever sober up.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 points 5 hours ago

Everything Bethesda does is kind of bad. I'll probably get them when they're on sale, but I don't expect anything good.

Get Larian to make a fallout game

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 36 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Feels like we're going backwards now with like anti-vax stuff. A lot of tech seems to be getting worse for users, too, like IoT gadgets that stop working for remote reasons

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 6 hours ago

This person is a disgrace.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

All of those fox news hosts should ... what happened go Joseph Goebbels, again?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 18 points 23 hours ago

It's just emotions. The words conservatives pick are just to satisfy their emotions. Facts don't matter. They are like children. Failures of people. They shouldn't be allowed to make decisions of import.

 

I tried it a bit with my reaper in pve and it seemed okay, but I wasn't doing anything challenging that really put it to the test. I haven't tried the others classes yet.

 

I'm looking for players for a weekly game of Fate. I'm thinking something like a mix of Shadowrun and World of Darkness, where the players are vigilantes looking to make the world better. It would start (and maybe stay) at the street level, rather than global or cosmic.

I've been playing and running games for 20+ years.

LGBT friendly. New players okay. Unreliable players less so.

Message me if you're interested. Include a blurb about yourself, your experience with games, with fate specifically, and a joke of your choosing.

 

Like I saw one that was titled "I wonder why rule" and had a picture about overpaid CEOs or something.

Why "rule"? What's the origin of this format?

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