I had more than a couple fights where crit ignition's persistent fire dmg ended up doing the most dmg of the whole party. xD
I also had blessed one, and using my familiar to use Lay on Hand at range to be the party's in-combat healer while my 1 action sustain was doing the offense... xD

I played a wizard in a semi-long homebrew campaign... I always had a TON of things to do. I had a spellslime familiar, and for a long time, it had more HP than me, so I was often using it as the source of my spells, getting the "aggro". xD But I also had lot of sustain spells. And persistent dmg.

So people demand "AI" sycophancy, refuse to interact w/ *less* sycophantic "AI", & then get increasingly ill-disposed toward interacting w/ other human beings, preferring, again, an "AI" system that is actively locking them into a loop of skills dependency, bias confirmation, & hostility.

SEEMS BAD

They are seeing all the people that were groveling to him STILL getting thrown under the bus left and right... They are realizing even them are not safe whether they comply or not, depending solely on the petty king's very chaotic daily whims.

o-o
If they don't, they have no soul. xD

In one game I worked on, the artist hid "wanted" posters all over the place with hightly "filtered" photos of the other devs with dumb crimes like "slept on the job" (that were all things we had actually done at one point. To note, that one wasn't me, I don't remember mine). xD

You should definitely sell your house to a speculator that will never live in it! To boost the economy! The kind speculator will then definitely rent it back to you for twice the price! Win-win! He gains more money, and you spend more money! (Ugh...)

Would one of the "fiction" tag been good to have on this blog? xD

And this was always the case. Read about anyone playing the old Eye of the Beholder and other D&D 1 & 2 video games that had randomly rolled stats, and NO ONE ever kept the first result. They (we, really) were always hitting that "reroll" button until we had ridiculous stats. xD

And that's not even counting the people save scumming ANYWAY until they get the result they wanted... xD
(I am one of these, I can't lie... but it's a single player video game. I thouroughly enjoy figuring how to roleplay failures in actual TTRPGs.)

Yeah, as a video game dev, I have learned that when a designer ask for "true random", they never actually mean "true random", but "carefully gated random that prevent repeats, specific patterns, and cases were some results take too long to happen... xD

And here I am, having introduced players to PF2 by making them play a custom adventure I made, starting them as level 0 awakened animals with 0 items in cages in a circus. :P
(And they REALLY loved it.)
(And I doubt it would have worked that well in PF1... if at all.)

When I asked what was wrong, he said: "I dunno, it *feel wrong*, and I failed half my rolls because of that." Me: "Yeah, half your rolls rolled below 10. And you rolled mostly checks you needed 10 or more... That's actually near perfect distribution!" He was SO ANGRY at me. (I was another player.)

I have once seen a player make a graph of his rolls for a session, complaining that the dice roller was broken. He rolled about 40 times. The distributions was near perfect. Only one number had rolled 3 times, one had been rolled only once, and all the rest had been rolled twice. Near perfect.

To his defense, and to contrast him to the ones currently discussed, we have his late life private letters of him saying he was horrified at how much of a bigot he was, and how it got sick when reading his old stories. He realized too late. But he did. To me, that count for something. A lil' bit.

(And yeah, agree on the last sentence. Everytime I see an HP ad, I hit feedback and tell them that. xD )

Even Lovecraft himself, in his late life, was horrified at his own bigotry, and we can read in some letters that he regretted it all, and how much he missed out on people and things by holding these beliefs.

And yeah, the time since help, as a lot of the mythos we have now wasn't written by him.

Luis Loza have been pushing for it for years, and he's quickly climbing the corporate ladder... :P

Yeah. The Diamond bankruptcy really threw a stick in lots of wheels, mostly in TTRPGs companies trying to trade with big retailers (Amazon here being one of these major retailers). :X It will take some time before these big ships (the retailers) manage to turn around and find new distributors.