I scold the skinwalker for wasting his talents trying to get a subpar meal instead of taking up acting. He internalizes this advice, and after eating me travels to Hollywood, where his shapeshifting and perfect mimicry ignite a legal and ethical firestorm around stolen roles that makes the current arguments about AI look tame.

Depression nap? No, it’s a variable-length coma that expands to suck up any and all free time.

This reminds me of a story someone posted about learning Japanese while playing the Yakuza games, only to be told by a native speaker that while their pronunciation was great, they spoke like a thug/delinquent.

It makes me wonder if any foreign speakers learned English from Mafia movies and speak with a stereotypical mob accent as a result.

Unless you have allergies, in which case it could be as deadly as iocaine powder.

Isn’t that because they got rid of the dedicated QA teams? We’re the testers now!

Just FYI that’s fanfiction, not canon to the universe.

“That’s not flying, that’s falling with style!”

The problem is how few games make playing as a necromancer villain viable or even fun. Playing as a villain is usually just being a dick for absolutely no benefit, and almost no game lets you play a proper necromancer creating an army of the dead.

The Pathfinder CRPGs (especially Wrath of the Righteous) are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head to do it right. You can turn the entire country into an undead hellscape, and even turn the good advisors into undead to ensure their loyalty rather than missing out on a bunch of content.

One of our players ran a gnome Diviner with the Lucky feat, letting him reroll a bunch of times per day. He claimed to have invented a new school of magic, retconjuration.

No, but if it travels fast enough it would disintegrate and you could argue the resulting plasma blast would be what actually damages the target.

Relevant XKCD (in video form).

Cathy’s Baby Shower? Also believe it or not, rail gun.

Handing out gifts at the speed of sound.

Yeah, but there’s only one ninja present, meaning he’ll somehow be a hundred times more effective.

Sounds you don’t want to hear coming from her bedroom.

Reminds me of a certain emulation site that was hit by Nintendo’s lawyers and removed the download links for all of their games.

Except that’s all they did. The files are still there, the game pages are still up, all that’s missing is the big shiny download button. A simple userscript can add them back and let you download the “removed” games.

I’m getting flashbacks to Kangaxx in Baldur’s Gate 2. What do you mean I’m not supposed to fight the optional hidden boss right after completing the tutorial? I don’t care if four out of the six members of my party can’t even scratch him, I’m assembling and fighting that demilich the first second I can!

It’s a self-inflicted hell that I put myself through every. Single. Time. Just like fighting the ancient red dragon Firkraag when he’s introduced instead of coming back much later as intended.

Isn’t that the same thing the studios they acquired said? And we all know how that inevitably turned out.

It’s all in how he communicates, not what. He’s an old-school con man, a confidence trickster. That whole style relies on the fact that people are really bad at judging character, and someone who lies with a straight face and never shows an iota of guilt will be believed to be innocent and truthful no matter what evidence is presented against them.

Combine that with a heavy dose of sunk cost fallacy and an increasingly uneducated and desperate electorate, and it’s easy to see why many follow him despite his near complete lack of articulateness.

Terry Goodkind is a terrible author and even worse human being, but his “First Rule” was pretty accurate. To wit: “people will believe anything if they want it to be true, or if they’re afraid of it being true.”

There’s a reason a lot of propaganda is either saying how great things are under a group (even when they clearly aren’t), or fear-mongering about their opponents.

Pour one out for their dearly departed lovechild, roflmao.