laffytaffer

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[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

What does the G stand for tho? Edit: oh grandparent?

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I understand what it means in context here, but what does GP stand for? Figure it's not a typo of OP.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Was about to make a post of my own asking about this feature. Would be a really useful option to have, especially for viewing stuff by hexbear users for example, where I believe including pronouns is mandatory.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

I understand why Harry Potter found a place in everyone's hearts. But with the behavior of the author, the books are in hindsight a lot more mean spirited than I remembered. That hatred for me and my loved ones bled into the books quite a lot now that I can recognize it.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 57 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Not necessarily. Nonbinary covers a broad range of gender identities that don't all exclusively use they/them.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Changing the url to sh.reddit.com lets you get around it. Been using that when I've needed to look up a reddit thread at work.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I do this too. Instead of minis, I tape a drawing onto a Starburst and whoever kills the monster gets to eat the Starburst. I'm gonna have to get something like a donut for the boss fight at the end of the adventure I'm running rn.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

We can clown on the dude without using that kind of language in a demeaning way.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago

Absolutely, there's a lot of stories that would have been better received as their own original IPs. Unfortunately, it's a lot safer to make a sequel so you can count on sales from the pre-established fanbase. Another good example I always go to is the Thief video games, where I got my username. The reboot dramatically changed all the mechanics and ditched a lot of what made the first games so engaging, very little aside from a few proper nouns has any resemblance to the original. It could have been a decent stealth game if it sold itself on its own merits(it certainly wasn't terrible) but as a Thief game, it justifiably got fans upset.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It could have been an acceptably decent movie if it wasn't trying to be part of the GitS franchise. As a GitS fan I hated it, but I wonder if it could have been more fun to watch if I was unfamiliar with the series. I remember thinking the same with a lot of movies based on books I hadn't read like Percy Jackson, the movie became a lot worse after reading the source material.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 23 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Oh so Señor Chang in the D&D episode of Community.

[–] laffytaffer@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

what if the world was made of pudding

 

For most of act 1, fights felt reasonably difficult. There were only a few points where I had a tpk. However, between early access and now, that last fight felt like a sharp spike in difficulty.

My first time through, it took me and my wife 2 days to finally cheese it. This time around it still took us 3 or 4 reloads and something I'll talk about in the spoiler section before we made it.

It seems like you suddenly need to get good at really strategizing or find some extra wrinkle to make it possible. But I'm curious to hear how other folks managed to get through the fight.

Spoilers

I had no idea until today on our third reload that you could recruit the duergar rebels to fight with you against Nere. Suddenly having an entire army of allies to help out really feels like how the fight was intended. It was only through abusing running away to long rest and have Withers res folks that we managed to take everyone on by ourselves before.

I had always figured there was some weirdness in encounter balance and not that I had missed the way the fight is supposed to play out. If someone here managed to take down Nere, his followers, AND the rebels, please let me know how you pulled that insanity off. I can already tell that Act 2 is going to force me to step up my game on the strategy end of things.

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