I dunno all life today is an example of an unbroken lineage back to the begining of all life in existence (on earth), yes most branches wither and die but there’s also no such thing as a ‘new’ species, just the latest permutation or branch of one that was there before.

At this point that picture should be multiple layers of precariously stacked tiny pillars making up the entire base.

I would guess because it has awkward rules interactions so its another layer of crap to deal with.

Guess I can go Fighter (with my usual GM at least), or Wizard.

Nah I’m just bad at undirected tasks, get everyone organized, code a physics engine from scratch, those I can get motivated for. Tell people what to do once they’re organized or actually build a game out of those functioning mechanics? No clue.

Levels of letting the players fuck the monsters:

• No
• Yes but you just get mauled/eaten because that’s a bulette
• Yes and everythings romantic and great for a dozen sessions until it turns out the monster has been manipulating your feelings this entire time and breaks your heart and possibly some other organs in the process of betraying you.

I’ve learned that I’m apparently pretty decent at ciris management and completely awful at non-crisis managament.

So, current issue I’m trying to solve.

• Discord is kind if innately de-annonymized because I’ve talked about where I live for the purposes of visiting people.
• Discord cannot make voice calls through VPNs.

Should I try and find a workaround for that or just use discord from the desktop app and keep it segregated from my other traffic while accepting its compromised without even the minor protection of a VPN.

Or go full paranoid and make a brand new account and re-grab my old friends which creates an identifiable but not immediately obvious link to an old account (and then just self censor my own speech from then on out to avoid self doxing)

Honestly a pretty sunshine idea.

Their absence is why the idiots look so happy.

Reminds me of a half-orc I once played called Sword. Sword wielded a big sword; Swords only word was sword; Swords solution to all problems in some way involved Swords or sword.

Got a surprising amount of mileage out of using the word sword combined with different tones and gestures, as well as some fun non-violent but still sword based solutions.

2e ended up a lot more aproachable, you can no longer accidentally create a completely useless character.

I am precisely in the middle of this chart.

Aren’t like half of those bullet points positives? Also in addition to what you said once you got a tree you got a tree, those tanks need constant maintenence and cycling which I doubt anyone is going to bother with for more than a year after installing them.

Virgin Silverhand: Sets off a nuke and barely anyone even remembers him or his band, gets soul killed.
Chad random rockerboy: Restarts his own brain with pure willpower and immediately talks a decades long Arasaka supersoldier into helping him.

I always liked the messed up backstories, all you gotta do is make an edgey one but remove the part where you get some great destiny or power. My god gave me this task, I have no idea why and it sucks, I miss my family.

The worst being that one incident where they left an entire universe in a state where every single particle is governed by the uncertainty principle but only when no one is looking.

Tor was always comrpomised, the point has never been to be uncrackable, the point is that tracking down an induvidual user is enough effort that it can’t just be done on mass like with normal internet traffic. If you draw direct attention to yourself then it isn’t going to save you.

Nah this is hands drawn correctly but not well, AI draws hands well but incorrectly.
(relatively speaking, its still hands drawn better than I can)

Edit: Then again the ears are odd and the black thing vanishing under the clothes is confusing. Normally AI can’t understand that objects going behind another object have to come out the other side and this passes that test but it also just looks weird in a way a human wouldn’t do.

Not to mention googles push for an identification standard that would effectively ban any non chromium browser from all major websites.