TwistedFox

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[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

I seem to remember many more references in there than that video shows.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago

I'm looking forward to running a Shadow of the Weird Wizard game at some point.
Also working on a campaign of "no thank you evil" for my kids.

 

How do you guys normally start your campaigns? Classic tavern, or something unique each time?

I've been thinking of starting my next one with a surprise DMPC.
He'll be mid-high level and over the top, inducting the players into his party because despite his power, the contract he has specifies it must be accepted by a party. He'll want them to do nothing but stay out of his way. I'm thinking the contract will either be a bounty or goblin clearing task. The target either way will be in a small fort with only a rope bridge for access. He'll tell them to stay with the horses, go off on his own and promptly have the bridge cut out from under him, dieing to the fall.
If the party want the payout, they'll have to both get the contract from his corpse and then complete it on their own.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 10 points 10 months ago

While I have no doubt that the EU has corrupt politicians, It's no where as visibly bad as it is in the US. Most of the people who could bring this forward get something out of what he is doing or contributing to them, and they would rather turn a blind eye than risk losing whatever he is giving them.
For some it's helping out their base, for others its something more monetary.
There are mechanisms there, but they only work when the people watching them are invested in helping the citizens.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Based on the actual article, I think I can clarify what they were trying to title this.
Portland's Voter-approved Ballot initiative (which was to install a Police accountability board with oversight), has the police oversight board (Which was tasked with implementing the law) suggesting scale-backs and reduced anti-corruption measures.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That's definitely a part of it. All of the MS web platforms rely heavily on first and third party cookies. You can't even log in properly to Teams if your browser is in incognito/private mode.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)

As someone who is not LGBTQ+ but is trying to understand it myself, the biggest key to "getting it" is separating sex and gender. Sex would be your biological make up, regardless of genital configuration. That's your classic XX vs XY vs the rare "non-standard". It's important to note that there are multiple types of different physical configurations that are "male or female" - Anatomical, Hormonal, Chromosomal, and Cellular - and they frequently do not line up 100%.

Gender is separate from this as a mental construct/thought pattern. For most people, these two things line up, and that is your standard Cis person. A Trans person is where their mental configuration does not match their physical configuration. When this causes significant mental distress we call it gender dysphoria. For the rest, we call it being Trans, non-Binary or something else.

Isn’t that where they would receive the best treatment for themselves? Aren’t gender pronouns useful when distinguishing between biological differences in the medical field?

Why would there be a difference between gendered wards in the quality of the care? Health care is tailored to the patient, where in the hospital they are located shouldn't affect it.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Aside from the standard dark patterns and extraneous, feature-forcing bloat, I really dislike that flat-design trend. Not just does it look kinda bad, but everything is so physically bloated to try to separate it from everything else that you get notably less usable screen space resulting in annoyingly little information density.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Because the majority of them are elected by the community that they serve. The rest are assigned by the current sitting state government. While this does result in politically aligned judges, in theory it ensures that the judges align with the current desires of the population. In practice, the whole thing is so twisted, convoluted and corrupted that it's just a nightmare.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Back a long time ago when I worked as a cashier, it was store policy for us to bag everything for the customer. They could offer to bag, but we were expected to just start bagging automatically unless they interjected.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

I'm pretty sure that is his point, the microblogging on kbin was not a draw to make him choose it over lemmy.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago

While I do use a USB-C phone, the thing I miss most about the audio jack is a wired audio connection that doesn't remove charging or require a separately purchased dongle.

[–] TwistedFox@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At least in my games, finding objects tend to be under as much a time crunch as combat. Especially since locate object has a 1000ft range so if you wait too long the thief/bad guy will get away. Divination and scrying seems more reliable to me. But I agree for other utility spells. The wizard does get many more spells known than they can actually prep, so choosing them is not as painful for a wizard as it is for spontaneous casters.
Sadly, there is not a good way, that I know of, for getting those circumstancial scrolls without DM buy-in. It does help later in the game when teleporting to major metropolitan areas is viable.

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