I really felt like these ghouls were invincible. I was waiting on the old fucks like Kissinger to die, but Kirk and his fellow fascists have gotten away with it for so long that I felt like I would never see them assassinated.

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He doesn’t even look green screened, he looks like someone photoshopped him into the screenshot

“Mental health support” is largely a way for people who are damaged by capitalism and fascism to simply cope with capitalism and fascism. I have personally benefitted greatly from therapy and anti-depressants, it’s saved my life. But it’s only brought me to the stage where I recognize I have to fight capitalism to be happy, rather than living under capitalism.

The goal of these institutions is to get workers back to work instead of killing themselves and others or more seriously questioning their environment. Beyond that, it alienates people from communities. Instead of talking with your friends and family and neighbors and strangers about your mental health, you pay someone to listen to you. These institutions break down communities by making mental health a commodity, sold by therapists and bought by people struggling under capitalism.

Sounds interesting, but yeah bloat is another thing I’m worried about. Combat already grinds everything to a halt when you have to roll dice and add modifiers and check ACs and DCs and change HP and keep track of spell slots.

Deadlands has a similar system where you can declare a multi-action at the start of the turn, and take penalties to each action you do. Seems like an interesting concept, but if it just amounts to a player missing twice in one turn instead of once, then it doesn’t add much.

That’s another big problem I have a with combat, a failed roll just does nothing. You miss, try again next round. It’s boring for the DM and so frustrating for the player.

Hi nerds, I have heard many times that dnd players should switch to Pathfinder. I’ve played DND 5e for about five years and have come to dislike some things about it.

So I looked at Pathfinder, only the first couple of sections of the rulebook, and it looks like character creation is a lot more limited then 5e. Languages, ability scores, lots of proficiencies are based on race, and for some reason races can only learn certain limited languages. I saw that there seems to be a lot of choices for class abilities, which is cool, but i dont like the way races are handled.

The main thing I want to change about DND is that I think combat sucks. There are no interesting decisions to make beyond attacking the enemy. Progress is made by making a number go down, and the fight is exactly the same until the number hits 0. Healing is done completely after an 8 hour rest, so fights feel very inconsequential.

Does Pathfinder have a much better combat system? That’s the main thing I want to get out of this. I don’t have time to read it all rn

Quitting weed has made me so much more interesting. Now when I’m bored, I think “what should I do? I could write, I could read, I could go for a walk, I could drive somewhere new, I could bake something, I could draw, I could meet up with friends, I could do a workout.” When I was addicted, the answer was always “I’ll get high and watch things I’ve already watched and eat a massive amount of food.” I actually do things now. It’s so much better

The Bible guy was right. Oprah DIDN’T die for your sins, as evidenced by the fact that she’s still alive

Hi computer nerds! I am now going about buying parts to build my first PC. Can anyone recommend some good guides for how to actually build it? I don’t really wanna watch Linus

Yeah I came back to this thread and hour later. I thought of anothwr joke. What are you gonna do about it

China discovers awesome dinosaur… But at what cost?

So this 39+foot dinosaur was just walking around china and no one noticed until now?

Ah, no, actually I’m ambreassed. My ass smells like resin

Yeah I’m pretty emberassed (my ass is sunburned)

I wanna quit my job so bad. No way iw as put on this earth so that I could get yelled at for minimum wage

Oh one other thing! I finished the first act of my fantasy novel, coming in at 22,000 words. It’s the most I’ve ever written, the most I’ve ever committed to a project. The first bit is very sloppy and I already want to go back and edit, but I just want to have one complete, first draft.

I don’t know if I’ll ever publish it, since it’s ballooned in my head to a six novel series, and I’ve never even entered a writing program or won any contests or anything. Publishers won’t look twice at me, but I don’t really care. I might just post it online once it’s in a condition I’m happy with

I’ve not posted on here in a while, I’ve been kinda spinning my wheels for a bit. But I do have some things to share

I quit weed at the start of summer, and relapsed about a month in for a couple weeks. Then I quit again and for over a month have been weed free. It doesn’t feel amazing, it just feels normal. I’m sober most of the time now, I don’t drink much and I’m able to think about who I want to be. My mind feels sharper - not that it feels better than average, but I felt a lot stupider when I was on weed. I had barely any capacity to control myself or make long term plans or socialize. I’m not opposed to having weed again some day, but I think if I don’t get high for the rest of the year I’ll be just fine.

I have to start looking for a new job, and I really, really don’t want to. I finished college, but about three years in I realized I didn’t want to work in the field I studied. Now I have a degree that I don’t know what to do with that doesn’t actually qualify me for much. I’m planning on working in a kitchen if I can, hopefully getting an apprenticeship for cooking. But my parents are expecting me to orient my entire life around building a career and becoming a middle class professional, and I can’t think of anything that appeals to me less. I want my work to support my life, not the other way around. I’d like to flex my creative muscles with work too, but I haven’t had any opportunities.

Speaking of flexing muscles, I started running and absolutely hated it. It made my teeth hurt for some reason. I’ve only done one run because I got covid the day after I started and the weather has been shit since I recovered. I want to improve my cardio and have a skinnier body shape but I hate running so much, it feels awful. I’ve lost about 8 kilos this summer, which is less than I was hoping but a significant amount nonetheless. Most of it came from May and June, when I was on a regular workout schedule for my core. Then I finished that schedule and haven’t bought a gym membership yet so my only exercise has been walking my dog. I also have two very ingrown toenails and a sore shoulder so I haven’t been able to go building, but I really want to.

Recently the biggest thing for me is that I’ve been reading. I’ve read six books this summer, the Return of the King as well as the five serialized Witcher novels. The Witcher books are overall like a 6 or 7 out of ten, if you want some fantasy genre fiction they’re nice, but they’re nothing mind blowing.

No more sequels. If someone wants to make a sequel we should kill them immediately

I finally found the motivation to shave my body today. It only came because I was procrastinating doing a workout. I can’t do one productive thing unless I’m putting off some other productive thing.

Ooo eee ooo I look just like Buddy Holly

Oh oh and I hate my job