Used ACKS II to run keep on the borderlands this week
Brilliant system, it felt like oceans of possibility revealed themselves with every twist and turn of the adventure
It's hard to improve on the OG D&D, but leave it to @archon to find a way to add depth unto profundity
Every time I see parents with an obese child I become angry. They are child abusers. They are destroying that kids life. More often than not, being fat starts at childhood. You're setting your child up to be a fat adult. Being obese is a miserable and short existence. Everything in their life will be harder. People will treat them poorly because of it. You are ruining that child's life. You belong in prison with the child abusers.
I don't see you any differently than a parent buying their kid cigarettes. They'll likely somehow live longer smoking than being 400 lbs. I've seen 80 year old smokers and rarely have come across a morbidly obese senior.
You are killing them. They depend on you to feed them, this is you doing it to them. It's your responsibility to feed them correctly. Its your responsibility to force them to be active. You aren't their friend, you're their BOSS. You own them. They do what you tell them to. My toddler has never asked for a dinosaur nugget because he has no clue what a chicken nugget is. You know what he loves? Fish. He loves broccoli. You know why? Because it's what I feed him. He goes ham over steak. You know how many times he's had cake? About four total. He loves blueberries and strawberries though. My berry budget could buy a house. You know why? He doesn't have a car or money to go buy it himself. When he's old enough you know what sport he'll play? All of them until he finds the one he enjoys the most. Glued to a tablet, phone or video games? Nope, go throw a ball, kick a ball, run with a ball, hit a ball or God willing, wrestle.
Stop abusing your kids. Stop feeding them garbage. You buy their food, you cook their food. Stop being lazy and feeding them poison. If your kid cries because you won't shovel 3k calories into his mouth, they'll get over it. You're feeding them processed trash? You're trash. Cook. it's just easier? Stop being a lazy POS. You made a child, now stop acting like one. Their life is your responsibility If they're fat, it's your fault.
Parents who raise their kids on realistic content are performing a kind of soul circumcision without anesthesia, and they do it proudly. they buy the little books about sharing and recycling and how divorce is okay, sensible books, vetted books, books approved by some committee of childless phds who decided that dragons are psychologically destabilizing. and then this denuded little creature grows up and wanders out into a world that is absolutely crawling with dragons, real ones, humans who feed on humiliation, women who collect men like scalps, landlords, banks, algorithms, addictions, each one an ancient monster. and the kid has nothing, no stored narrative of the small weak thing prevailing, no memory of stones becoming bread or dead girls waking up. his parents gave him nutritious facts and he stands there starving in front of his first real giant with a stomach full of information. meanwhile some other kid whose grandmother filled him with absolute garbage, nonsense talking wolves, magic beans, boys made of wood, walks up to the same giant and something old activates in him. he knows somewhere deep in the meat of him that giants are a problem with a known solution, that has been handled before, by smaller people than him, with worse weapons
Why is Acid & Steel taking so long to release, you ask?
Because every time I go to write something, I think about it, then re-write it but like three times bigger
You're welcome
"I want to get a puppy for my kid what should I..." I'll stop you right there. Get a Golden Retriever. Don't look any further, get a Golden. Consider a lab as well, but really, get a Golden Retriever.
Honestly, most people would be well served by getting a Golden. I truly loathe when people become obsessed with a breed that they know nothing about because they look cool. People buying work dogs who require very specific environment and expecting them to just be house dogs. People buying chainsaws with fur like a Belgian Malinois and not putting the hours and hours of training required into them.
There are a lot of breeds that require a true dog person as their owner. Work dogs, protection dogs, etc. Most people love dogs, but most people are not true dog people. To the dog lovers, just get an easy breed. Get a Golden or a similarly tempered dog and enjoy every minute of them.
You can't cure pedophiles. You can't successfully treat them. They will always attempt again, regardless of anything. I don't care why they are the way they are, I don't have interest in rehabilitating them. There is only one answer. Pedophilia needs to be a capital crime and face capital punishment once convicted. That should be the mandatory minimum sentence.
@MildraTheMonk Not to mention that fantasy is a very broad genre and has near endless avenues of appeal to all kinds of people. D&D just casts a really wide net and it, is now, more self-referential than inspired. It is the fast food of RPGs.
"What a privilege to be tired from work you once begged the universe for."
This quote sums up the gratitude I've been feeling to be working on Weepstone. I've honestly never worked harder in my life and I've had many days I'm stretching the stamina bar to 150%, but I truly believe that it doesn't get better than this. I decided I wanted to make games at age 8, banging out a BBS door in BASIC on my Commodore 64C. To be doing it now full time is a dream come true.
(Quote credit: I believe Aryan Sachdeva said this)
O conservative pals, are we going to let these artistic black holes talk trash forever, or are we going to start making beautiful art again?
It ends as soon as we stop complaining that "art is bad" and start supporting the arts again. Let me know when you want me to get to work, I'll be cleaning toilets in the meantime.
How would you feel about someone shooting you in the groin?
Or poisoning you so that you became infertile?
Gentlemen, that’s what your fear of women is doing.
Attack and destroy your fear like the cancer it is.
TALK TO WOMEN
I love this interview @TheBasicExpert1
Managed to deliver on every promise, and all it cost me was several years of my natural life!
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