Yeah I’m not sure I see myself running Bastions. Obviously I’ll wait to see the actual rules, but in too many campaigns I find the party wandering far far away.

I’d like to run one more city focused, so maybe then, but then again the idea that each PC has their own just seems like A LOT of overhead. Maybe in a more downtime heavy campaign?

Do you feel the same way about Mastadon?

Yes.

I’m not sure that’s my reason, but I’ve never understood Twitter/Mastodon. It’s just shouting into a void.

The article mentions that the fine will stand and likely be doubled, but I feel like for arguments that are especially stupid, like this one, it should be doubled again.

There are enough corporate loopholes as it is, I can only imagine the chaos if this were allowed.

You just pick something obvious and over elaborate on it. Big glasses, bright blue hat, etc also kids are mean, so pick a flaw, same idea.

It’s exactly what Twitter did too. Start off all open and friendly, here is our simple API, have fun, and people did. Then one day Twitter decided the API was too open and started to restrict it, limit tokens and users, charge out the ass. (And that was all long before Muskrat took over.)

In fact that’s true for a lot of tech companies.

One of the things that gives me hope for Lemmy is the speed at which it got great apps using that open API.

You know what’s a funny one? Flag pins. Every politician in America, take a look, they will ALL be wearing a little American Flag pin, always.

I have to assume other politicians in other countries don’t always wear a pin of their country.

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I just found it interesting that the thing you were looking for, most Americans wouldn’t have heard of. It makes me wonder why America has at least 3 milks.

If we ignore the 3.5% v 4% distinction and assume what we call Whole Milk, you just call Milk; what do you call Skim Milk? Or 2% Milk? And if you don’t have them, why do we?

As for the money question, I was curious to see if other non-Americans felt the same. I agree that there is a subset of people who believe that. That subset may be quite large, but I’m not sure how it’s perceived from an outsiders perspective. If you ask me, I don’t think it’s common, but I imagine some loud folks may make it appear that way. But I also acknowledge I’m an American in America, so maybe I don’t notice it.

it turns out, I wanted “4% milk”

As a lifelong American, I don’t think we have 4% milk (reliably). Growing up we had Skim, 2% and Whole. Looking it up Whole is defined as 3.5%

I did look up a local store online and I was able to find it, but not universally at every store.

On the one hand I agree, but also just because it can be fixed over the air doesn’t mean it’s not a major problem.

Plus imagine if a car manufacturer put VERY shitty software into their cars. If a manufacturer has 100 recalls a year, I want to know why. If they have 1, I want to know why.

Just because they are more easily fixed, doesn’t mean the recall isn’t important.

I had no idea he had a YouTube channel! I’ve got a year of content to catch up on. I’m so excited.

https://youtube.com/@edgreenwoodofficial

That episode was far too short.

I have lots of positive things to say, but really I just want more.

Oh my God! I had no idea they developed a 30 min musical. It looks like there are recordings on YouTube so I’ll have to give it a watch.

Yes, although BG2s starter dungeon is a whole act instead of a few rooms/battles.

But this mod is starting with the opening area, Waukeen’s Promenade, where the game opens up, (similar to act 1 in BG3).

Also technically BG2 has the tutorial area with Xan that is similar to BG3 in the sense of being a quick few rooms and battles to teach the basics.

I can only assume they produced (and ran for several years) the entirety of Rogers the Musical and just played the one part in the show.

But seriously I have no idea.

Legally you’re not allowed to skip the intro song. Please turn yourself in at the nearest Starbase.

The budget for most MCU films is ~$200 million, so most of these are a little bit less (ok $50 million less), but importantly this aligns with all the talk about the TV shows being treated like films.

I’m also curious how a film budget vs a TV budget breakdown.

I can only guess a shit ton of money was wasted unnecessarily. Like, if you have a $200 million dollar budget, you spend $200 million.

Weirdly enough the monkey selfie probably establishes some precedence here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_dispute

Is my $5 down preorder still valid?

I’m not changing your stats, you still have a 14 wisdom.

You are however definitely turned into gray dust and I’m applying the rules as written about gray dust. The gray dust is restricted to the current room and can only form the shapes of various humanoids.

The spell specifies you turn into gray dust. Unfortunately gray dust has no listed stat block.

Luckily it is mentioned in “Tales from the Yawning Portal”, “The floor of this room is covered with a layer of fine gray dust and ash, three inches deep.”

Based on the rest of the description you are restricted to the room in which you turned to dust and the only action you may take is casting " Minor Illusion", with the added restriction of all illusions must be humanoid.