Do you think dogs actually like chocolate?
Like, we all know they’re not meant to eat it, but they’ll try. Do you think they enjoy the taste, or do you think it’s just their compulsive instinct to eat anything edible?
Is there a way to know?
It’s fundamentally hypocritical to have a story where people are being oppressed by the law only for the law to then swing in and save the day.
“Oh no! this contract allows the rich man to eat my children, and this is all legally binding!”
“Ah, but if we follow the contract to the exact letter, he actually can’t do that and he’s going to jail.”
“Wow, I guess contracts were the real heroes all along.”
No, bud! The point is that the law allows people with power to exploit and abuse people without power, and moreover that the law creates this imbalance of power to start with.
“son of a gun” is a very funny phrase to me because it does just sound like you took a common phrase with a cuss in it and replaced the cuss with a something significant to the setting.
(Historically it came from children born on naval ships in the 1800s, but no one uses it like that now)
Did game devs forget at some point that when an enemy is charging, the WHOLE FUCKING POINT is that they can’t turn easily. And if there’s a wind up, they need to charge the direction they were already facing.
In fact, that second part applies to any wind ups.
Do you think little red riding hood is related to robin hood?
Very annoying and objectively stupid design that D&D made a monk subclass specifically for focussing on weapons, then still built it to force you to use unarmed strikes all the time.
I think roguelikes and roguelites could benefit from not treating health as a finite resource by default.
not because there’s anything implicitly wrong with it, but because it’s not necessary to the genre and limiting themselves to what everyone else has done isn’t helping.
The idea that strength exclusively represents one’s capacity to exert physical force and not durability is such bullshit.
Do you know what your capacity to exert physical force actually is? You don’t just magically generate kinetic energy from the fucking ether! It’s tissue durability! It’s weight and the durability of your physical body.
The tensile STRENGTH of your muscles to not fucking snap because they’re basically ropes pulling on shit by contracting! They don’t get better by contracting more, they get better at not fucking BREAKING when you contract them.
The structural STRENGTH of your bones, which have no capacity to move under their own fucking power! Do you know what happens if you hit so hard your own bones break? YOU LOOSE IMPACT! You exert LESS FUCKING FORCE because your arm’s crumbling like a fucking accordion!
Ligaments! Do I need to fucking explain ligaments? They’re passive tissue, just like bones. They just fucking sit there! You know what they have? Tensile STRENGTH that stops your bones separating, allowing you to exert physical force!
“If you have super strength but not super durability-” STRENGTH WITHOUT DURABILITY DOESN’T FUCKING EXIST! If you are talking about the physical strength of a body, your are talking about the durability.
Stop trying to act smart when you’re saying the dumbest fucking shit.
D&D 2024 turns the warlock pact boons into invocations, which I suppose is fine. It offers you the option to take multiple pact boons as you level up or never take a pact boon at all, but I was reading over some of the changes and… Your familiar can be a human skeleton.
It’s not an undead skeleton either, as Find Familiar still makes you pick celestial, fey, or fiend. You can make a case that you’re just using the skeleton stats and can flavour it to look however you want, but there’s no getting around the fact that that is a medium-sized humanoid-shaped creature. That’s just a guy.