Kindness can be learned. The difference between being genuinely kind and just constantly successfully mimicing what a kind person would do is - no difference at all, really.

Ultimately, I think people who started as natural assholes make the best kind people - beacuse we don’t just do what feels kind, but we have to examine the results of our attempts at kindness, and adjust if needed.

It’s been awhile since I finished if, but if I recall correctly,Abzu was about 5 hours.

Thanks!

That’s evil. I love it. I’ve used variants of:

“its-all-caps-AND.all.dash.separated”

Obviously I had to quit it beacuse, done well, it’s completely insufferable.

Nice. That’s a whole tale of joy, adorableness, frustration, and brilliance, all in a Wifi SSID.

I think we should bring back web rings, but nobody else seems to miss them.

Edit: I’m so old, I should probably link to what a web ring is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

I’m bummed that no one in this thread has an exact duplicate post with more upvotes. Can we make it happen to my post, or is that too childish?

It probably wouldn’t work, but I would warn Martin Luther King’s event organizers or security detail.

I’m old enough that I could have lived in a world where Martin Luthor King Jr was still an active activist in my lifetime. It’s heartbreaking to think about what his loss meant not just symbolically, but in terms of how much better the entire world could have been with almost an extra half century of his influence.

I’ve given up huge piles of cash by choosing to not work for megacorps.

It’s worth it to me.

Confronted with the likelihood that we cannot achieve climate goals.

The current trend line sucks, but we’ve seen plenty of times in history what the ultra rich ignoring the plight of everyone else looks like. Someone please pass the “not with them” list to me to sign when it’s time to chop their heads off.

I wish I was joking, but I’m not. Seriously. I’m not with them. I would like to keep my head while we adjust course abruptly.

Edit: To be clear, I am not advocating. What should happen is that our climate, inequality, and injustice trends get fixed through peaceful cooperation. But our current crop of billionaires don’t show a lot of sign of either wanting that, or having any real awareness of where their current path, historically, goes. Which wouldn’t really be material to me, other than beacuse I’m at risk both from the climate, and from how guillotines historically kill a lot of bystanders.

As part of the eternal September myself, we didn’t just use AOL disks as coasters, we used them for awesome pranks like filling eachother’s cars to the brim with them. It was truly astonishing how many of those disks were around.

Underrated answer. Feels like we see a lot of price fixing under that guy’s watch.

Edit: I don’t mean to minimize the damage that guy does. But I think there’s value in remember that he’snobody’s allly.

I like to roll a d4.

4 - Adlib an outcome that is favorable to them, beyond all reason. With my players, sometimes this just means nothing at all happens. In these cases I’ll use anything to make it work out for them, from divine favor, to a key NPC breaking rank “I always loved you guys!”

3 - They achieve what they hoped for, and as many weird (but reasonable) side effects as I can think of also happen.

2 - As little happens as is reasonably possible. Often, with my players, that means just 6d6 fire over a 20ft radius. Often after having whatever they tried misfire first, only to have them try again.

1 - I unpack a nice handful of d12 and roll for blast radius, save DC and damage.

Modified, of course, for the situation.

Specific damage on a 2 or 1 should - like anything they couldn’t reasonably prepare for - be attention grabbing, but unlikely to be lethal. A 2 should as anticlimactic as reasonably possible.

I can’t think of a single time I’ve-

“… They were going to annouce it on Thursday.”

Yeah, I was gonna say “there’s links to reddit?!”. I blocked those so long ago I had forgotten about it.

Narrator: They did not.

12d1 is the way to go.

I’m all for companies participating in open source communities… but this is the company that routinely blocks me from viewing my aunt’s reposts of Russian state sponsored racist propeganda just because I don’t install the incredibly invasive mobile app.

I can imagine a few ways that this could go wrong…

Ooh. This would make a great tradition, here. Count me in.

Edit: LibreOffice. Good call. Done.

In epic scaled games, I work around this with a “reroll at -20”. So the rogue in this case would have had about a 25% chance to recover on a DC10 check.

I also always include an in-game explanation. In this case, I would have made it a huge flashy “boon of insight” from the Paladin’s deity.

Then it’s all the more fun if the rogue actually manages the re-roll. “Dude, I even tricked your god!”

I would also RP right into it. “A voice from on high intones ‘I dunno, seems legit, to me.’”

Similarly if the rogue actually fails:

“A voice from on high intones ‘Seriously, you need to stop falling for this crap. I’m going to send you an amulet of insight or something. What’s your next stop?’”