[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 5 points 3 days ago

The Tarrasque is a flawed creature in all editions. In case of 1e/2e, it's not immune to being stunned or being paralyzed (e.g. Hold Person), giving the party a good chance to exploit its vulnerable period. Later editions have other flaws, most of which can be fixed by giving the Tarrasque a ranged attack (similar to Godzilla, etc.)

The flaws in 3.5e actually involve power scale. There's combinations of abilities that are incredibly powerful, resulting in characters that are pre-planned rather than organically grown - and also meant that some classes were inherently better than others. At the same time, there were feat taxes that were essential for almost any character, which would be cutting into abilities that would be normal.

However, I'd be comparing 3.5e to Basic D&D. In this case, I'd most likely prefer 3.5e, simply because it's more flexible compared to the rigid use of Basic's weapons, but I instead skipped past that and went to both 4e and/or Pathfinder.

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 3 points 4 months ago

As to the auto industry bailout, would you rather have had a major American industry simply collapse?!

There's allegedly 94 American automobile manufacturers, per Wikipedia. If there's a disruption that would collapse all of them, that would be extremely serious - something which should be handled by making sure the industry is not at the whims of the economy.

The simplest quick-fix is having the company give partial ownership to the government in exchange for a bailout, and the alternatives involve arguing about what color to use on the bike shed.

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 54 points 4 months ago

WWJD: Love thy brother. Nuke thy neighbor.

Not only that, but nuke the region that was the home to Jesus.

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 4 points 6 months ago

A surprise only to those who think it's a good idea to allow large companies to corner the market.

Plus there are already existing concepts that prevent this. Simply tax massive profits made from the labour of others, having a non-profit competitor, laws against profiteering during a crises, a maximum CEO/worker pay ratio, etc. Actually applying those concepts ahead of time would help a lot more than a reactive code of conduct.

But that's Communism™.

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 26 points 8 months ago

I've seen them somewhat often in RPGs and related material. There's those who are blind, frail, deaf, weak or lacking a skill to do something necessary. Even Basic D&D had notable penalties for rolling INT 3-5, being illiterate to start with.

NPCs in fantasy settings still have hinderances, and they're expected. Maybe they can be neutralized by healing magic in D&D, or there may be equipment that works around them. The wrong part is shutting down the concept, as that's contempt for the weak (technically a symptom of fascism.)

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 1 points 8 months ago

After checking after some time, nothing seems to stand out. I simply just checked the list at https://join-lemmy.org/instances and joined some if they feel interesting.

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 3 points 9 months ago

I still check reddit, only due to habit. But since then, I've went to a few other social network sites that seem to at least be a bit more distributed.

Some of them are still in control of rich people (e.g. Nextdoor), some are open (e.g. Mastodon), but the usable variety seems to be much better than sticking with things that are receiving #enshittification.

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 2 points 10 months ago

As a bonus, those neo-fascists don't like being criticized either, by claiming they're being affected by the unfair "cancel culture".

[-] BewitchedBargain@reddthat.com 1 points 10 months ago

I noticed this in video games rather than on-screen text scrolling. Some of them had a weapon selection, but instead had mouse-wheel-down "decrease" the weapon slot, and mouse-wheel-up "increase" it. However, the game also used the mouse wheel for other things, thus changing it to my preference had some unexpected side effect.

In any case, mouse-wheel to scroll view works because of the mouse-pointer paradigm. Move both mouse-wheel and mouse in the same direction, and the pointer is further along the content. Move them in opposite directions, and the pointer tends to hold position relative to content.

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