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can you believe that you used to know who i was when i was 14 and making racist jokes for shock value??? now i'm 26 and marching with blm isn't that crazy
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drunk af ama
about 6 hours ago from web -
<Insert yearly post on how annoying fireworks is>
about 13 hours ago from web -
Glass fiber internet! It's a mild shock to handle the glass fiber cable and a CAT7 cable at the same time. In the one hand is a long thing with the consistency of a noodle and in the other hand something thick and hard. Definitely not gay.
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This track from Judgment just slaps https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqcDtgqosiY
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finally starting Judgement
about 2 days ago from web-
@zeldatra You'll going to have a good time. The cast and the story is great. The substories are as wacky as usual.
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AI image generation is dangerously addicting. It's like a loot box where one hope to get a good image or the perfect image. I've spent too much time yesterday generating portrait images for preparing to my D&D adventure. Also Bing's Dall-E has a content filter that makes it a little bit more tricky to make grotesque images. For example I wanted to create a fleshy and bloody amalgam of unicorn body parts that assemble into one giant and colossal unicorn. The background is that the heroes have defeated the wizard that used unicorns and their blood to fuse animals together. However the remnants of that magic and unicorn blood and the disposed bodies were tossed into the sewers and spread through the rivers. Now they have to "clean up" the whole mess and be some kind of Ghostbusters but with bloody unicorn blobs with veiny tendrils instead of ghosts.
about 3 days ago from web-
@scribus Of course. The sewers will have gelatinous cubes with unicorn giblets and ordinary slimes. I also take a monster called "Malleable" from Tome of Beasts 2 from Kobold Press. This monster is somewhat a slime but it can merge from smaller parts to a bigger and more powerful monster. The smaller ones will foreshadow the gigantic one. It is also psychic has the urge to grow bigger and merge with other flesh. It'll be a good challenge for my hyper-efficient D&D group.
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@adiwan Oh heck, you always see the slime that divides when attacked; not sure how often I've seen slimes combine!
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@scribus Yeah. That's why I immediately gravitated towards that. I wanted to use them in my last adventure but my players avoided getting into the sewers. The Malleables can also be split voluntarily or upon receiving 20hp of damage from a single attack. https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-moderate/ https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-major/ https://www.5esrd.com/database/creature/malleable-minor/
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Oh expression! Formula post, by accident? Emergent speech patterns?? Ha-hA!
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Oh boy petsitting gets exciting when the cats decide to start a fight ON YOUR LAP O_O
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Finding good images of Giff is practically impossible.
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I'm not a big fan of AI-generated images but it is real handy when it comes to digital virtual tabletop as it enables me to create character portraits of characters that I imagine. Before I had to "hunt" for images that resemble my idea. Or the workflow was just that I had to develop a character from an image I found. Both valid. The next D&D adventure I plan has a ton of Giff. Giff are practically anthropomorphic hippos with a colonial British attitude, as they like to conquer and hunt. I want them to invade the unicorn world I used last time.
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Changed my avatar because I got bored with Komi, from the manga "Komi Can't Communicate". I AI-generated a cartoony image of a character from my last one-shot D&D adventure. https://i.imgur.com/v5QhrYZ.jpg
about 5 days ago from web -
In that case buying boardgames for half or third the price is a no-brainer.
about 7 days ago from web -
Also I have bought so many boardgames that I have gifts for the next year.
about 7 days ago from web- Scribus likes this.
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It's easy to have boardgame loving relatives, even easier when most of the games were bought for dirt cheap on sale for 15€ a piece and have a decent rating.
about 7 days ago from web -
Only slightly sad this holiday season that I won't be at the horse races on the day after Xmas, but they need to stop killing so damn many racehorses!!
about 7 days ago from web -
I listened to Iji Sakura from LAD Ishin way too often https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ESM0ckHSBY I like how it gets more intense with each repeat.
about 8 days ago from web -
Almost forgot that the newest Marvel's What If season started. It was a cool cyberpunk-ish, noire detective story with Nebula. For 25 minutes it was good enough to be fun.
about 10 days ago from web -
The composer John Powell never disappoints.
about 10 days ago from web -
Finished LAD Ishin! in 48 hours with 95% of all side stories finished. The last few ones were basically friendship missions. Also the battle dungeon stuff I ignored mostly. It is a pure grind for crafting materials in the most boring hallways imaginable. I would say that it's the barest of the bare minimum of level design. It's not even randomly generated but looks like it as I recognize the same handful of repeated hall segments and junctions. Also the troop card mechanic is asinine. The plan is that one can assemble special modifiers and attacks to augment the combat but it ended up for me as a big dud. Getting those cards is random and the actual abilities are either broken or the minor ones recharge too slowly. I used a slow health regeneration ability and an "unblockable" spin attack (bosses somehow were able to block...).
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Also Unreal Engine 4 irks me a lot, especially loading scenes. There is so much texture loading delay that I'm not used to with the Dragon Engine. Also animations on load behave weirdly: A sitting person stands for a frame and snaps into a sitting position with physics-driven secondary animation wiggling wildly. In rarer occasions distant scenery also flash white.
about 12 days ago from web-
@adiwan It seems to actually be the Yakuza 5/0/Kiwami engine with an Unreal Engine wrapper over top which i think is part of why the game is so jank. Not sure what the game played like in Japan originally, but I imagine it wasn't very different.
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@zeldatra Makes sense that it is based on 5, as I found out that quite a few characters were in the original Japanese version. In the Unreal Engine remaster they were replaced by from 7. It's strange but I get it that Zhao is more popular than Baba.
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Like a Dragon Ishin starts to feel good to play after 5 chapters, similar to Yakuza 3. Once enough skills are unlocked combat the combat is suddenly fluid and doesn't feel like brakes are applied all the time. The only things I don't really appreciate is that there are soooo many money sinks everywhere. I get it that they don't want to make the player accumulate too much money like in the other games. Fine... But progression is also somewhat tied to money like the crafting and enhancing of weapons. I'm constantly low on money. Also seeing familiar faces with different names is discomforting, like Majima being called Ogita and Kiryu called Ryoma/Saito. It just f-up what I've learned in 9 games. It gets better with time in that regard.
about 12 days ago from web
