I can believe that he wrote this more than I can believe that some MAGA-loyal handler wrote praise be to Allah

Oh damn, that’s a hell of a dinner. Nice work

Tunic, absolutely! But I posted about that relatively recently here, so I’ll suggest another that I like. I think Hellblade counts? I really haven’t played many things that qualify as soulslite, but it has the tone and it’s a third person action game with dodge-and-stamina combat. I’ve actually not played all of it, as my old laptop could only barely run it and I hadn’t thought about it since building a PC. I will perhaps need to go see the rest of it, because I did enjoy what I played

Poetry is one of those things that I want to be better at, but I have so little reference of actually reading poetry. I mostly want to learn about it so that I can write decent song lyrics, but that then puts me a lot of separate steps away from my goal. Guitar is indeed where I went, though! Got a good filthy tone on my 7 string and figured out the synth part of a Carpenter Brut song

Great news! Ember is a great service where I am, it’s allowing me to get rid of my car completely. More of that is what I want to see

Is that not just the article reflecting the study it’s talking about? It has users either accept or override the chatbot’s answer

They don’t, but they also don’t seem to be great at recognising spicy until it is in their mouth and causing them pain

Also, though, it’s tikka masala. It’s a British curry and it’s certainly not disproving any of the stereotypes about our spice tolerance

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Incredible emoji work, I hate it

It doesn’t, though. It’s drawing a contrast between the two and explaining the context behind remarks made by the military president of Burkina Faso. It’s the BBC, it’s the state-funded news of a country that has universal healthcare

How the fuck is it Friday already. I feel like I’ve done nothing

Getting together woth folks for an Easter lunch regardless of the fact that none of us actually observe Easter. Besides being sous-chef, I’m making some lao gan ma monkey bread to bring along

I want to find some time and energy for something creative this weekend. It’ll have to be Saturday given that Sunday is booked up, so I’d better start thinking of what I want to do to give myself the best chance

Also I am going to post something on the Gàidhlig community this evening, because I have failed to do so in the rest of the week

I’m standing in the aisle and loudly insisting that neither game needs a remaster because we can just put the good bits in Nightreign. I’ll be fine, I definitely levelled my ADP in real life

Basically an automatically-guided MANPAD turret that goes on top of any regular-sized truck? That sounds absolutely ideal for Ukraine

or alternatively they are just that rich

It’s this one. They do tax highly - not necessarily the highest, but up there - but they’re also ranked near the top of GDP per capita and labour productivity. Oil definitely does give Norway specifically an extra leg up, but the broader picture is similar across all of the Nordic countries (although I’m not so sure on the Faroe Islands, and Greenland is quite different)

I’m decent with numbers generally and have an education in mechanical engineering, but I’ve not studied statistics outside of rudimentary stuff in service of that engineering. I can indeed do a proof-read if I’m the best option available, though!

I don’t normally engage with the multiplayer aspects of FromSoft games, but I’d be happy to help out if I can in some manner

Okay well I had to see the big version of it. Flag of the they/them imperial Japanese army or something I guess

(more seriously, nice design!)

Sounds like a fantastic weekend!

I would personally recommend keeping to a system that everyone is familiar with for a one-shot when the point is to play the one-shot rather than to try out a system. Learning new rules always leads to some friction, and that can easily slow a one-shot down enough to make it no longer a one-shot. You can absolutely say beforehand that you’ll be playing relatively loose with the rules, letting more things than usual just happen without rolls or just letting the players narrate the end of a combat that they’ve clearly won

actually having a Paladin as a simple class compared to PF

Isn’t PF2’s champion essentially just a paladin? I haven’t played one so I can’t say for sure, but on the surface it looks like the same idea. That said, if D&D simplifies character creation and everyone’s on board that’s totally reasonable

If you have any potentially funny ideas, be it bits, custom spells, “combat scenarios” or puzzles please share!

I’m just gonna spout out whatever comes to mind with no particular quality control here:

• Start the adventure by having it be one of those “haunted” hotels that offers you a free night if you stay in the haunted room. Naturally, this one actually is extremely haunted

• If you’re using D&D 5E, guardian portraits from Curse of Strahd are horrible extremely funny to use as a GM (and could probably be adapted to other systems easily enough)

• Make the first encounter be all of the furniture in their rooms. It’s all animated, and they need to scramble for their equipment because they were in bed

• A social challenge in which the ballroom is full of dancing ghosts while some kind of horrid thing plays the organ. The challenge is to dance your way across the hall to get to the organ and break it, letting the ghosts rest. Make it apparent that they’re not meant to fight their way through by having an NPC beg them to let the spirits rest without dsestroying them or something. Failure to properly blend in results in being forcefully swept into a waltz (grapples/restraints with saves against a steady hp drain)

• I’m not 100% sure how to execute this one, but an Escherian room like the one from Labyrinth could be a fun puzzle

Little guy’s brain is gonna be floating in the astral plane after that

Ò, sgoinneil, tapadh leat! Smaoinichidh mi cia a’ gabhail pàirt ann