Which is absolutely terrible for everyone, because if we can't make longterm plans, then we can't do things that improve our lives as a whole. We're perpetually Boots Theory'ng our way through life, because a job can just decide tomorrow you're out on your ass. Its total bullshit.

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Yeah....after I got laid off, I didn't have a steady job for years, and my first several years at my current job I was like 'wait, better not make longterm plans, they may not renew me'

Its amazing how much I realized keeping my parents in my life was a ton of effort on my end, and when they basically said our relationship was 'a bonus' and I dropped it entirely, how many braincycles that freed up.

An actual Power Rangers RPG I feel would be best as a mixup of Daisy Chainsaw with some team-up mechanics ala ChromaSquad. MegaZord stuff would be like Rogue Trader's ship combat, where everyone has a 'post' with abilities to contribute to the fight.

A very skilled bender, but also a child facing against foes with experience and skill who might have less 'power' but know how to use it better. Of course translate that into a TTRPG and you have people playing him as a pile of stats instead of a character.

"I want to play a character of my own design in this universe" tends to be fanTTRPG ethos, and "I want to play Licensed Character™ going on Canon Adjacent Adventure™" tends to officially licensed thought process, broadly generalizing. Less about the look and feel, and more slapping names on stats.

Which is a total fallacy, if you ask me to review a TTRPG and I know you used LLM-spewed-art, I'm going to give it a big fat zero for exactly that reason, and say so.

Feels like trying to reprise the whole 'you can't criticize the games monetization or the company behind it in the review, you have to focus only on the game!' bullshit

Using a skill you have worked hard to improve in a public setting where it can be acknowledged in friendly competition feels like a perfectly normal way to get some dopamine.

Fucker has PS1 shoes.

I've started to learn I can play a game, know its good, but its not enjoyable enough for my current state to be engaging and I'd rather do something else and that's fine. If my brain is more engaged by my creative projects than a game, its time to do project.

Sounds like a damn fulfilling and awesome one, happy bday!

(They did figure it out though, because the boss would have a new health bar in an alternate form, and the original would regenerate a noticeable amount before it could come back)

...as an entirely new monster, and part of its death effect was to teleport the boss back to the room. Not exactly elegant, but the players couldn't tell unless they looked at the room in that split second between 'spawn alternate form' and 'teleport to other room'

One of the bosses I designed was a vampire lord with alternate forms. There was no code in the game for 'changing an NPCs attributes on the fly', only resistances/health/etc. So the easiest way I found was....to teleport the boss to an inaccessible room, create the alternate form...