*chanting* boi-led head. boi-led head.

\o/

Please tell me you've tried Sanctuary on Netflix?

Also, stumbling onto sumo clips brings endless joy whenever I end up mindlessly scrolling. I should try watching directly.

My arms hurt /SO MUCH/ when i woke up this morning, too. I can barely close my right hand.

At least you're not alone!

YET ANOTHER "unprecedented times" we get to survive through.

seriously, these are fantastic. Thanks for sharing them.

Again, very aptly put.

Maybe it is because many millennials grew up making friends on chatrooms and pouring through forums, we saw the advent of the video chat in real time, there's nostalgia to it. Like seeing a strip of road from your childhood town covered in billboards and nail salons now.

Very succinctly put: the insincerity grates.

It's also hard being able to spot the "link in bio" affiliate marketing ploys and engagement farms? I can't turn my brain off enough to just enjoy the reposted movie clip, I know it's just there to crank out engagement bate with IMDB descriptions. Ugh.

@chromaheart.bsky.social

It's not just you.

Patreon, onlyfans, ko-fi, twitch, fanly, etc - almost everyone is experiencing a drought, and it's entirely not creators' fault.

The world is financially and socially crushing folks in a juice press. I'm sorry you're feeling down, though - you're not alone there. 🧡

Ah, i honestly didn't expect that. I just assumed it'd be player-facing.

Players should be rewarded for embracing those dice outcomes. "The door could be barred, let me scale up to a higher window." "This place is near collapse, another kick could send it crashing down - maybe the cellar could lead us inside?

The same workload as "degrees of success" but more divergent.

It's often a failure of the GM (sorry) to follow through on those reasons - largely GMs would tell GOLGON, THE BRUTAL "You kick it and hurt your foot because you rolled low" instead of accepting the prompt given by the die roll - something is wrong with this door.

Same for PCs. 🧵4

When GOLGON, THE BRUTAL fails to kick the door in, it begs the question: why is the door so strong? Locked so securely? Has someone barricaded themselves in? Is the door enchanted? Does it sap his strength? Is the roof unstable or wall swollen, ready to collapse?

The system prompts this thinking
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In a "degrees of success" you're far more likely for the very first idea applied to a problem to be the solution, as 3 of the 4 result states supply a positive outcome.

But in a more binary pass/fail, players are prompted to engage with the failure and attempt to bypass it.

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I avoided DND24 because I was working on ToV by Kobold Press and didn't want any cross pollination, so this is my first real look at it.

This does seems like a shortsighted design idea, reliant on "if you don't like it, change it."

Farmer/Soldiers everywhere. I also don't see a custom option?

as for validation - there's even a trend on TikTok i think? in which people make videos titled "How long it actually took" where they finally do something they've been putting off for weeks/months/years and showing it takes like... 40 minutes... but only when the brain chemicals get just right.