BewitchedBargain

joined 1 year ago

I recall donationware being claimed to only provide a trickle amount - usually due to people being greedy and wanting to keep as much money as possible. Perhaps that was just that one person, but it's still unreliable income source for the Dos shareware era.

Asking for donations doesn't even solve the symptom of important software needing a team to scrounge funding. No publicly-important infrastructure should require begging.

Conspiracy theorists don't even recommend what to put in chemtrails. How about Cyanoacrylate, to help the country stick together?

Otherwise, Chemtrail = 🚩

[–] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Tarrasque is a flawed creature in all editions. In case of 1e/2e, it's not immune to being stunned or being paralyzed (e.g. Hold Person), giving the party a good chance to exploit its vulnerable period. Later editions have other flaws, most of which can be fixed by giving the Tarrasque a ranged attack (similar to Godzilla, etc.)

The flaws in 3.5e actually involve power scale. There's combinations of abilities that are incredibly powerful, resulting in characters that are pre-planned rather than organically grown - and also meant that some classes were inherently better than others. At the same time, there were feat taxes that were essential for almost any character, which would be cutting into abilities that would be normal.

However, I'd be comparing 3.5e to Basic D&D. In this case, I'd most likely prefer 3.5e, simply because it's more flexible compared to the rigid use of Basic's weapons, but I instead skipped past that and went to both 4e and/or Pathfinder.

[–] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 54 points 6 months ago

WWJD: Love thy brother. Nuke thy neighbor.

Not only that, but nuke the region that was the home to Jesus.

[–] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 4 points 8 months ago

A surprise only to those who think it's a good idea to allow large companies to corner the market.

Plus there are already existing concepts that prevent this. Simply tax massive profits made from the labour of others, having a non-profit competitor, laws against profiteering during a crises, a maximum CEO/worker pay ratio, etc. Actually applying those concepts ahead of time would help a lot more than a reactive code of conduct.

But that's Communism™.

[–] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 26 points 10 months ago (10 children)

I've seen them somewhat often in RPGs and related material. There's those who are blind, frail, deaf, weak or lacking a skill to do something necessary. Even Basic D&D had notable penalties for rolling INT 3-5, being illiterate to start with.

NPCs in fantasy settings still have hinderances, and they're expected. Maybe they can be neutralized by healing magic in D&D, or there may be equipment that works around them. The wrong part is shutting down the concept, as that's contempt for the weak (technically a symptom of fascism.)