#and also a gaming pc set

[mongeese]

I saw a few people after the FHJY finale talking about how the season failed because of the limitations to d&d mechanics. And that takes on a whole different tone for me after having played d&d because like, it simply isn't true that the only possible conflict resolution d&d offers is killing. Literally the first encounter my party had in a pre-written official WoTC campaign, we were strongly encouraged to barter our way out, not use violence. If you have a good DM, you can get out of most encounters with sentient creatures without killing them. I would argue instead that it is a failure of specifically the dimension 20 format; as much as I adore the battle sets, they do create a necessity to resolve conflicts through violence. Which means in a season like junior year, where the supposed theme was the corruptive nature of rage and how inflicting your will on others through violence is bad, there's an inherent conflict, because there has to be battle scenes which involve the bad kids inflicting their will on others through violence. And who knows, maybe Brennan would have actually had the rat grinders join the bad kids fighting Porter on that battle set if the intrepid heroes had tried that route, but idk. Fig tried really hard to reach Ruben and sure, she went about it in a totally batshit way, but it didn't lead literally anywhere at all. I think Brennan (& the whole cast, to a lesser extent) just fucked up with this one, tbh. Like they just didn't think about the implications of the rat grinders as villains or about how the PCs violent rage toward them would completely undermine any thematic coherency. It was just a bad season conclusion :// but anyway you can do nonviolent conflict resolution in d&d it's like normal. Live your roleplaying dreams

[starzgaze]

do u tjink yhat maybe jinwoo is good at online games

I'd go berserk if someone named shad0w.m0n4rch beats me in dress to impress

[fairmerthefarmer]

So far Blackmoor Manor is still the top Nancy game for both my sister and I. Other games have better characters I think and even better plots maybe, (or better culprit reveals) but the vibes and music are STRONG. (Both TRT and CUR made us feel nostalgic for the game even though we never played it before. But like, it felt like to both of us as if we had memories of playing it before it was magic)

I think being fans of the Secret Garden and stuff like that as a kid is why we like that vibe so much.

I’ve always wanted to explore a giant old mysterious house. Books like that and even the beginning part of the lion the witch and the wardrobe make it seem so fun.

Also loulou. Love loulou so much.

[cimicherrychanga]

i wanna draaaaawwwwww

[hoppinkiss]

I've been really in the mood to play games I played a lot in like 5th grade or so, and it's making me so mad that fa.ble 3 and vi.va piñata both USED TO be available on pc but AREN'T anymore >:/

[giantkillerjack]

Don't Starve is a great game if you played Stardew Valley and had the thought, "this is fun, but I hate how it relaxes and comforts me!"

[sapienthouse]

as someone currently watching tng for the first time (only in season 4), it is a little odd when i see fans say that "no one ever recognizes data having emotions." like data denies it, but so often the moments when he's explicitly denying them are when he's talking with a character who's like. "yeah the thing ur experiencing is normal humans often (mourn/doubt themselves/whatever)" and WHEN data denies it they just kindof. give him a look tht to ME reads like his emotions are just an open secret for everyone else and theyre not gonna fight him on it. theyre not generally acknowledged, but like, i dont think ive seen a bridge member outright deny it except for deanna before the beard bit (tho idr her exact wording), and tht was early on.

[kathrynmjaneway]

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[du-hjarta-skulblaka]

Stuck on the first few eps of Farscape after finishing up Fantasy High s2 and maybe its the whole most recently consumed bias but I'm really struck by how much it feels like a dnd game??? Bunch of weird lil renegades slapped together and put in weird situations, honestly it would make a really interesting starting point for a game

Anyway John Crichton is a bard/wizard; he does a lot of persuasion as performance and that scene of him collapsing to the floor to write slingshot equations is THE most wizard shit- perhaps Artificer would be more accurate to him but it's not a class I'm familiar with.

[vilnan]

the way i still haven't finished baldur's gate three <3

[thunderboltfire]

I've tried to run BG2 again (I need to finish my modded playthrough) and my laptop is in such a bad state it prectically lags BG2. BG2, which could be run on a determined microwave, on a laptop that has 8GB of RAM! It is heavily used and it has a lot of apps, but I've uninstalled everything I didn't use and cleaned the registry awhile ago. I suspected the antivirus, but the system manager shows it actually doesn't consume a lot of resources. It's not the disk space, since it's got plenty. It turns out it uses 100% of its disk all the time, and the main culprits seems to be.... *drum roll* system and Windows telemetry service! I now have to spend the evening elbows deep in frankly confusing system settings to find a way to turn the telemetry service off, and it may or may not improve the situation.

Once I finish this playthough, I'm definitely switching the laptop to Unix.

[kirstielol]

i'm upgrading my gaming pc today!! so excited! my bf surprised me by ordering the parts for me.. he's able to upgrade his pc through work and get reimbursed, so he just ordered doubles of everything he got for his computer.. so we can basically upgrade both our pc's for the price of 1. i'm so happy, he's so sweet.. he definitely didn't have to upgrade my computer too 🥺

[blujayonthewing]

so grateful to be alive in the era of RGB LEDs on things

[littlemouserat]

Man I'd love to play Arkham Asylum... if it'd stop fucking crashing every 10 minutes :)

[pstelwitchcraft]

You know, don't get me wrong, I love BG3 and I have played this game three times already with many more to go but I'll never understand why they didn't voice Tav. I, for one, would 100% take not seeing every pore on every NPC's faces so that my characters don't stare blankly while making weird faces every time I ask a question.

[gekken]

does anyone have any good recommendations for online retailers for movies/tv shows? Been working on building up my bluray collection, and I don't like using amazon, so I'm hoping there's a good alternative.