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because you want a thinking thrall, not something you have to all but manually puppet.

But I wanted to share my experience. You can see your doctor and may need to have some tests to see if it is safe for you. Even if you are approved to take it you might react poorly to it. It's expensive and not covered by most insurance. However, for some people it works really well and if I could go back in time and take it from a younger age I'd do that in a heartbeat. And that makes me sad that's it so inaccessible and clouded by moral controversy.

@johnefrancis "Did that bush move, Harold?""No! Don't be silly!"

So very often, these types of questions remain fully mired in the realm of naked mechanics, but I find it helpful to imagine what's actually happening in the fiction. The mechanics are there to aid the fiction at the table, after all. So, what's taking place during Stay Down!? How is the creature keeping the target down? To me, this has real "stomp" energy, where the user is putting their foot on the target's back, or dropping a knee on them, or something, while yelling at them to stay down. The target tries to get up, but is forced back down to the ground before they can really move -- after all, if the prone creature can get up into a plank position, or up onto their hands and knees, it becomes significantly harder to force them back into a prone position. That is to say, it happens very early. Reactive Strike, on the other hand, is about looking for openings to strike, where the target has let their guard slip (or abandoned it altogether). This is why it applies when the target is trying to stand -- it's very hard to defend yourself from a determined attacker when you're transitioning from lying prone to getting into almost any other position. But when the first creature uses Stay Down, they are functionally putting themselves between the target and anyone else who might want to strike. An ally might not want to take the chance in this situation, particularly since the fiction is not "attacking someone who's being held down", but "attacking at the same time that your ally is getting in the way". Topple Foe, on the other hand, is entirely about taking advantage of a distracted or staggered target and trying to sweep or tackle them to the ground. And unlike Stay Down! and Reactive Strike in the first example, it doesn't even have the same mechanical trigger as the reaction you're trying to pair it with. This is just a pure tag team shine spot.

Weird, I don’t know how that happened, but it should be fixed now. And I’ve had a few projects now where someone just did a thorough proofreading and it’s been awesome every time. The helpers of the internet don’t get nearly enough credit, so it’s the least I can do!

@mynameistillian Online groups can make it easier for people to be fooled by this stuff. But normally Black guys who end up in these places are usually just extraordinarily sexist in my experience. Too sexist for regular folks. But also without the self awareness to realize when they are being laughed at. But they also do the flashing of left wing stuff just to sow confusion. They are all in with the "blame the left" game.

@JoelBarr @book my ass sits in a chair thats about it brah

i'm really good at parallel processing so i have a little binder full of (oh shit i gotta think) situations. Roll a die for the page, roll a die for the event, adlib. let my lizard brain talk while i look stuff up in the binder of (what we're actually supposed to be doing). sometimes it's just the party walking by people getting scammed and choosing whether or not to get involved. sometimes they stumble upon an enchanted hair salon. you never know.

@secretsloth You were being chosen by The Great Ant

I used to invert x and y. But at some point I realized that all modern games seem to support non-inverted, but only some support inverted on both axes, so I just learned to play non-inverted to save myself the hassle.

@hypolite @benfulton To the extent that addressing the climate crisis looks anything like austerity the richest must go first and take the biggest hit. That's just ... fair.

Sounds like you might need to explain that NPCs in TTRPGs aren't like NPCs in video games. They're not ambulatory signboards, but non-player *characters*, emphasis on character.

Oh, it was SoE. That's... interesting. Wonder if true. Btw, it is quite serious how you handle dev kits. Generally they're held on premises for this reason (and SoA does a good enough job of it), so it's a pretty wild mistake to dispose of them. It was really, really under lock and key prior to Switch 2 release! There are exceptions, though, like demos at major events. I wonder if there was something like that recently.

@yuki2501 I was looking for some examples of stingless bee nest entrances to show you but instead I found another paper I need to read. Stingless bees have very interesting nest entrances designs ... mostly to keep out ants at night. But this paper is about ants and bees living together for some reason. https://agris.fao.org/search/en/providers/122535/records/65de4af27c7033e84bea8851

@FolksVelo I think it's mostly become nicer without really ever gentrifying since I've been here for the past 18 years or so. It's still very poor, but there are more people than ever, but it's also very friendly and safe all things considered. Like most of NYC everyone is very ambitious and always up to something "big"

> AMD announced they were released earlier than planned. I understand but that's still not a leak.

When I ran with NYRR for years and years I complained that they didn't have enough races in the Bronx. The NYC Marathon has its roots in the Bronx with the work of Ted Corbitt who changed the world of running. But the Marathon route hardly touches the Bronx at all. I always thought it was disrespectful. But it seems they have added a new 10 mile race in the Bronx!I wish I could still run, maybe I could walk it next year. It goes right down the Concourse a very pleasant run!

"Oh, yeah, safety tools are an absolute must. And that's regardless of intensity. I'm pretty brutal when I'm in the zone, and I've hurt people to the brink of tears time and time again, but I always check in to make sure they're okay with that. And the same goes with something gentler. Remember, even if you're in control, it's not just about what you want."

@jakobtougaard Yeah, no frames, I have a punch to make holes for the stitches so they will be aligned, then we just sewed a single signature. When they have a few signatures we'll bind them together.

If you try to make a system that generalizes to any context, it will never be deep enough to truly embrace any context.