2026-04-08T02:14:33Z https://yabu.me Mads "Y**i Advocate" Viande https://yabu.me/npub1ekkmaustkyavd84802vcrh3lfh2kpjrgz8g46ug7r390slj26fgqfd4mj0 https://media.monads.online/monads-online-mastodon/accounts/avatars/106/693/802/975/996/188/original/c64b322b92228e44.png https://media.monads.online/monads-online-mastodon/accounts/avatars/106/693/802/975/996/188/original/c64b322b92228e44.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0lujjyu243hvultkwww50ju98ptpwcd34l75u5ttfazl5s359yzczyrx6m0hjpwcn43575aafnqw78axa2cxgdqgazht3rcwy47r7ftf9qauj2tn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdm88axqq6hu564sx8nzdtyj5qpydhugzwsjlhef5adyczylz22tgr6dajk'>nevent1q…dajk</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>anyway, this is about Dimension 20: Fantasy High, the Rumble Road episode. why did you steal those guys&#39; car and then brutally murder all of them for trying to get their car back? 2026-01-21T21:43:15Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdm88axqq6hu564sx8nzdtyj5qpydhugzwsjlhef5adyczylz22tgzyrx6m0hjpwcn43575aafnqw78axa2cxgdqgazht3rcwy47r7ftf9qzw4j47 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdzr038vrelmg0ha557p4sknkdks60vm7qwhmgld965vd0daxdzdqm7432q'>nevent1q…432q</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think this is literally not one of The Problems With D&amp;D if you are sitting down to play D&amp;D because you like D&amp;D, is the thing? qua play, there is nothing wrong with an extended, fun mechanical execution on an interestingly-unwise decision<br/><br/>but **qua narrative experience for a watcher,** I don&#39;t really get to have the fun the players are having and it&#39;s flattened down to &#34;bad pacing&#34; 2026-01-21T21:08:48Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsdzr038vrelmg0ha557p4sknkdks60vm7qwhmgld965vd0daxdzdqzyrx6m0hjpwcn43575aafnqw78axa2cxgdqgazht3rcwy47r7ftf9q2hj7ah the problem with D&amp;D actual play shows, qua narrative experience for the watcher, is that combat takes forever whether it feels meaningful to the story or not.<br/><br/>so sometimes the PCs make what, to me, feels like a clear mistake from a story perspective — starting a fight to the death with NPCs it would probably have been better to talk to, for example —<br/><br/>and the process of executing on that mistake takes literally an hour in which nothing meaningfully happens besides &#34;they continue doubling down&#34; 2026-01-21T21:05:13Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgagfemmvklwp6tr2dzkwezllh3epzsfuxpl2tp0fk3rzkk42xndczyrx6m0hjpwcn43575aafnqw78axa2cxgdqgazht3rcwy47r7ftf9qawe4kj the main thing I&#39;m mad about re: the tariffs (I never did have any financial plans to ruin) is that I&#39;ve been calling it for years that the AI bubble popping was gonna tank the whole economy. and then it looks like maybe tanking the whole economy (manually) is going to pop the AI bubble instead. what the hell 2025-04-09T20:49:56Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0qstyfzaj6ranw75hkdr5wq6weky2793pzu3gq69ca76g7g0fa6gzyrx6m0hjpwcn43575aafnqw78axa2cxgdqgazht3rcwy47r7ftf9q6lmrcl There is love between pedestrians<br/>at a crosswalk, though we do not<br/>hold hands, embrace, or kiss; love<br/>between the walkers is a silent,<br/>invisible pact cobwebbing across<br/>the intersection: *I have put my body<br/>before your body, should the car come.<br/>Your peril is our peril, my safety your<br/>safety. My life is our life. If the car<br/>would take you he must take us all.* 2024-09-30T21:16:03Z