If it’s still 2e there is just no reason to make you plan a whole turn for the non-spellcasters every time. 90% of the time you want them to keep attacking the guy you told them to attack last turn. Carefully selecting your auto-pause options should give you full control almost every time that you need to actually make a decision.

If they’re reimagining the whole game with the modern rules, then obviously having units take one turn at a time makes more sense, because otherwise it’s not clear what you’d do with things like bonus actions.

There are quite a few of them for learning languages. For example, Learn Japanese RPG: Hiragana Forbidden Speech is a game focused on learning to read hiragana.

I can understand that. I’m 5’9" with an average build, and it’s really convenient that everything is made in exactly my size. Being much taller or shorter would just be annoying.

Perhaps she hit her head on the edge of the canal as she fell? Possibly her foot missed the edge and went into the canal, she fell forward, hit her face on the edge and fell into the water, was stunned, and started drowning before she could recover.

You’re probably thinking of Life by You, which was being developed by Paradox and was canceled in 2024.

I suspect the claimed “99.98% accuracy” is counting out of all faces scanned, which is a bullshit way to make the tech look good. Most faces are not marked as shoplifters in the database. A system that literally does nothing would probably still have greater than 99% accuracy.

What we really want to know is what percentage of reported matches are accurate, and I bet it isn’t anywhere near 99%.

Pokémon Infinite Fusion is really great! It’s Pokémon but you can fuse two monsters together to make a new one. A lot of the fusions have custom art! (The other ones are like that old Pokémon fusion creator that pastes one monster’s face over the other one, lol.)

Look for their Discord if you want to download it. All websites that profess to have download links are unofficial and may be malicious.

BIRDBRAIN feat. Kasane Teto, by Jaime Page and OK Glass

Moon denialists

I know what they mean, but moon denialism would be much funnier than moon mission denialism. I want to start a counter-conspiracy theory that the Artemis II mission was real, but they had to edit the moon into all of the footage because the moon doesn’t exist.

Isn’t that his other brother? That’s Louis Prevost who lives in Florida. The brother who lives in Illinois must be John.

I licked several of the Switch 1 carts and I can’t taste whatever they’re using on them at all. I feel like I’m missing out!

The Culture seems like the obvious choice. You can be whoever you want, do whatever you want (or not do much of anything, if you prefer), live as long (or as short) as you want… There are no downsides, really, unless you object to living in a society where the Minds are so vastly more intelligent than humans that you’re functionally their pet. I can see how some people might find that unsettling.

Maybe. It’s because “weapon attack” is the verbiage they settled on for hitting somebody with something that isn’t a spell (spells make “spell attacks”). They could call them “weapon or unarmed attacks” but that seems unnecessarily verbose when 95% of them are going to be made with a weapon. You might think that for hand-to-hand combat you could simply refer to “melee attacks,” but “melee” is a specifier that can be applied to spell attacks too, so it’s out.

So the current situation is this: a rule can simply refer to all “attacks,” or it can refer to “melee” or “ranged” attacks, or it can refer to “weapon” or “spell” attacks, or it can use both specifiers (as in “ranged weapon attack”).

So if you want to fix it, you need a word to replace “weapon” that could include unarmed combat but excludes all spells. “Physical” might be good, but has some edge case problems: if I have a psychic “blade” that attacks your mind, it makes “physical attacks” despite being a non-physical object. If I have a spell that physically throws a boulder at you, it’s pretty easy for me to remember that I should make a spell attack roll, but if you have a feature that defends against “physical attacks” you might think it should apply against the boulder when it doesn’t. “Martial attack” might be getting at the right thing, but it sounds strange, and for new players who might be new to RPGs “martial” and “melee” are both uncommon words that kind of sound similar, and that might cause confusion. (Also “martial melee attack” sounds more natural than “melee martial attack,” but then it has the opposite word order from “melee spell attack” and that’s weird.)

There may be a perfect word out there, but in the end they decided “weapon” was the least confusing, despite requiring the caveat that attacking unarmed is a “weapon attack.” And so everywhere that the rules say “attack with a weapon” instead, it is to specifically exclude unarmed attacks, although I admit that it’s not always obvious why they want to do that.

The ones that say “when you hit a creature with an attack using a weapon”? Your DM is following the intended rules. In 5e, your empty hand can make “melee weapon attacks,” but that attack is not an “attack with a melee weapon” or an “attack using a weapon.” Unless that changed in the recent update, I haven’t read the 5.5 books.

the obligation to retain the original product logo (Section 7(b));

the denial of any rights to use the copyright holder’s trademarks (Section 7(e)).

Uhhh is it just me or is it impossible to follow the first requirement without violating the second one? The logo requirement seems engineered to make sure that you can’t actually fork the project: if you include the original logo, they can hit you for trademark violation, and if you don’t include the logo they can say you violated their license terms.

I wash graphic tees and other printed clothing inside out because I was told it does less damage to the image. No idea if it actually helps.

Low function day. I am supposed to be finishing cleaning my room, but by the time I did laundry and went shopping and made lunch I ran out of energy and had to lie down, and that was the end of that plan.

This is bad because my roommate is very unhappy about the state of my room, which is abysmal (the mice that live in my walls shit on everything and it stinks), and I would like to fix it so that he feels better about it. I tried to hire a maid service to come clean the apartment, but the one I contacted said they wouldn’t come out if we had mouse droppings, I guess because of the risk of sickness. So the plan is to get things clean enough that I can tell them the mouse droppings are cleaned up so that they can come out, but obviously I struggle to clean which is why I needed help in the first place… I wanted to get it done over the weekend but the weekend has now ended, so we’ll have to see if I can get it done tomorrow.

Let’s see… when I was 4 I got a Sega Genesis for my birthday. It came with Sonic the Hedgehog 2, and Granddad took me shopping to pick out two other games for it. I picked Sonic the Hedgehog and Ms. Pac-Man, and both were bangers. The Genesis port of Ms. Pac-Man had a bunch of alternate modes with different mazes.

I became a big fan of the Sonic the Hedgehog games. I got Sonic 3 for my next(?) birthday, and Sonic and Knuckles the Christmas after that(?). I was convinced that Lock-On Technology was going to be the future of video games!

Also my recollection is that Sonic 2 wasn’t actually packed in with the system, Granddad had to fill out like a rebate form to claim it from the retailer and it came in the mail. It had a NOT FOR RESALE sticker on it which I now understand meant “only for use in the promotion, don’t put this on the shelf” but as a kid I was very confused about what peril would befall me if I sold it to someone else.

Not particularly, no. Unless doing the things I want to do, and not doing things I don’t want to do, counts as principle.

From NPR:

Over the years, Webber learned how to write, fish and hunt. Videos on a YouTube account believed to belong to Webber show him firing guns using his upper arms. He wrote in a 2023 Today piece that he “even taught myself how to drive by racing go-karts.”