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I have like three ideas for a Sherlock Holmes thing but 2/3 end up with Holmes and Watson making out at some point.
ayeseaturtles
#48 Honey bees are just darling! Especially the foragers!
ElGatoMx
#22 This is literally the story arc in the TV show Hannibal.
Noughmad
#6 What do you mean Mark isn't in this photo, he's right there! Twice!
Garmin7
pritolus
#41 this can't be real
LtRooney
#14 "Attention all hands, this is the Captain." <- Inclusive, establishes authority.
ImSilverTongue
#50 The Pre-Med Post Mortem
NoeyElle
#36 I just imagined a dragon grooming itself one leg in the air like a cat, and it did not seem menacing or powerful. My cats never present menacing or powerful poses, just goofy babies.
LittleIrishTurnip
#10 bro is slobbing a knob.
UltraLincoln
#8 yo, it's Seaman!
LjubljanaJeNajlepseMestoNaSvetu
#9 use a made up name
Littledirtybirdyfeet
#12 as a bi, I have compared myself to Danny Davito before
pocsaclypse
#14
HamburgerTelephone
#31
AIisAbutnotI
#19 The people who don't give a fuck are the A in LGBTQIA2+
Elliem77
#10 I would have taken the cat over Edward Hopper. His work is beautiful but there’s evidence of him not being a good husband or person…
SmoeAhsolse
The depths that the cat drove him to... We can't all be John Arbuckle.
localsurfer
For any Americans wondering about the 'mother' thing when pouring tea, it is absolutely a thing, but only with tea made in a teapot that you are sharing.
pritolus
#40
varonicaED
#14 Hmm, "to all those not yet my enemies," friendly, but threatening as that status could clearly change at any time!
busterfixxitt
#8 "The Emperor has dissolved the Senate. The last vestiges of the Old Republic have been swept away. Fear will keep the local populace* under control; fear of this battle station**!"
*employees
**cancelling their work visas
keys79
#50
acidburn1415
"My screenplay!"
GeraltofIndiana
#50 https://i.imgur.com/AJqyvbQ.null
kruug
Sneemaster
#35 or your balding and if you grow your hair out, you'll look like Gallagher.
StTriniansHeadBoy
#22 there’s an episode of house where they’re talking to a psychologist. She’s talking to Wilson and says “you seem a lot nicer than house yet your best friends” and he says “makes you think he’s nicer than he seems” to which she replies “makes me think you’re not as nice as you seem”
NiceSave
#40 Guess you'd prefer we go back to using mediocre which is definitely completely unaffected by this dynamic
haveanupvotegif
WillTheFifth
#1 Tiber Septim is that you? “OH GODS, you’re gonna make me CHIM!” -Talos, probably
Shaodyn
#49 Selling the check marks makes them useless. The entire point is so that you can tell, at a glance, that this really is the person they're claiming to be. If everybody can be verified as Spartacus, then you have to act as if nobody is Spartacus.
dasklaus
Afaik it was never a verification of identity. It's more like a trademark. If you get famous under one name, that name is reserved for you now. Anyone pretending to be that famous twitter account (no matter whether the name is a person's name or something else) by using a similar username or the same displayed name now doesn't have the checkmark, so for professional accounts of famous people you know to look for the checkmark.
Shaodyn
Yeah, that's my point. It verifies that they actually are the famous person. Now anybody with $8 can get a checkmark and impersonate, IDK, Keanu Reeves.
dasklaus
You're phrasing it ambiguously again. We probably mean the same but people could impersonate Keanu Reeves before. Like, pick a celebrity not on twitter, start believably posting as them, get verified. They don't ask you to prove whether you really are Keanu Reeves.
Shaodyn
I'm not sure how to phrase this in a way you'll accept. The purpose of the blue checkmark was to show who was actually Keanu Reeves and not just some troll pretending to be him. But now the identity verification is for sale.
Shaodyn
There is no longer any way to tell whether someone is the person they're claiming to be, since that's what the blue checkmark was for. Remember how some troll tanked a pharmaceutical company's stock by making an account pretending to be them and Tweeting that insulin was free? No one can tell who's the real one in a sea of fakes.
dasklaus
I'm not sure why you're explaining all this to me. I'm pointing out that the superficial (and intended) purpose is subtly different from the actual process, in a way I think matters, and you seem to not disagree on facts but still double down on the simplified way, and then you explain it to me like I'm five. Like, thanks, but what do you think I didn't get? You're the one not getting why I disagree with your phrasing.
agentmcgee
#41 I'm Welsh (technically British) I've lived in Wales my entire life. I can track my ancestry back 12 generations to all be British. I have not once heard this ever.
tidepool
Maybe you’re not spending enough time around British people who have haunted dolls at home.
agentmcgee
They're probably dead on account of the haunted dolls murdering them.
Sumdumguy42
#31 this is dumb. The whole idea of an RPG is to be someone I’m not. Like, y‘know - suave, athletic, perceptive. Replacing dice rolls with fortune cookie texts, however…
Lucallia
replace it with drawing a tarot card from the major arcana.
PineappleIsDeliciousOnPizzaFightMe
Tarot cards are surprisingly great for thia
hoopyhoop
You don't need dice for RPG. Players role play and whatever moves the story along best is what happens.
Ruffox3000
I just assumed it was going to use cards for number generation instead.
MrsMeltingCrayons
Oooh I love that. Or inspirobot messages or something else that generates random-but-coherent sentences.
Sumdumguy42
We‘ll try that on non-combat rolls in 2 weeks. Ordered a box of 72 fortune cookies.
MisterValiant
What bugs me is that many tables will still absolutely do this for Charisma checks. "Can I use Diplomacy to reason with them? I got a 15." "Okay but what do you say?" I don't fucking know, I'm not Gastere the Half-Elven of the Patchwork Scarf! I'm Dave from accounting!
hawkesnightmare
I like my players to at least try and say something witty when doing a charisma check. They get to roll regardless, but it also helps drive the actual conversation that was happening. If the player's line is particularly good or bad, I'll give them a bonus of a penalty.
Salticido
I think it's right to ask "what sort of thing do you say" without asking for a word-for-word fully acted scene. Just a vague angle of what you're going for. Something like "I reason with them by pointing out our kingdoms have been friends for centuries. I'm hoping to shame them." That way it gives the DM something to work with (and maybe helps set the difficulty/DC) but still doesn't require you to be good at executing that skill. Otherwise they're just roleplaying your character for you.
MisterValiant
Yup. This is what I do. The gist and the vibe are just fine, we can work as a table to figure out what's happening. We're all creating this story together.
Salticido
I think tables should be okay with spitballing too. Like if you can't or don't wanna think up an angle to reason with a PC, turn to other players or the DM and ask "Guys, I think my character would wanna reason with this person but how? What should I do?" Your character, your choice, but a lot of the fun in roleplaying games is collaborating and planning together, and it takes some pressure off of making character decisions.
MisterValiant
Spidey209
Except you are Gastere the Half-Elven of the Patchwork Scarf! Nobody else is Gastere the Half-Elven of the Patchwork Scarf! Who do you think is Gastere the Half-Elven of the Patchwork Scarf is? This is ROLE PLAYING, now do some ROLE PLAYING for my amusement and then you can roll the dice and see if it works.
PTKrieg
That's something I've caught myself doing, and try to work against it. It's easier to avoid if you more or less freestyle the NPCs, so it's easier to adjust them on the fly. Player rolls a nat 20 but can't come up with anything better than "so... um... do you like... cloth"? Surprise, the NPC is a craft hound and is super pumped to talk about this sweet bolt of damask they scored on a visit to the city, and the character "yeah, uh huh, tell me more"'s their way into Friendly status.
MisterValiant
Yup. Working with your players is so very important
SometimesISayHistoryStuff
In fairness, a lot of the mental stats are like that. You don't just get to role Int and suddenly have a good plan, the players actually have to come up with a plan. And we all have examples of players definitely not acting wise. Now, ultimately how this is implemented is different at each table, and I think that's good. Personally, I enjoy getting players actively into their roles and acting a bit. But other tables will certainly find that trying. TTRPGs are really a dozen different games
MisterValiant
I agree with that last part. I run my table differently. I recognize that we don't necessarily share attributes with our characters. I don't ask for a speech with a Diplomacy check or a full plan with an Int check for the exact same reason I'd never ask a player to lift a dumbbell for a Str check. Make the roll, tell me what you intend, we'll figure it out together.
ADDGirl
I have my players roll a wisdom check when they're about to do something unwise that I don't think their character would do.
Ok by "players" I mean one specific player. Ok, I mean my son, he's new to the game.
Sumdumguy42
It just feels very weird to pull out my pickup lines to my friend. For one I don’t want them to steal them, for two I <3 them as a friend.
BraveStrawberry
I say we replace dice rolls with shaking a magic 8 ball for skill checks.
menemyr
And if the player is doing something really dumb, the DM hands them a literal 8 ball and insists they shake that one and read the answer instead.
Denvercoder09
"Outlook not so good" would be a 1
MrsMeltingCrayons
This is so amazing. Much more straightforward and easier to implement too! Would landing on a corner be a nat 20, a nat 0, or a reshake? 🤔
JesaraB
Depends on the context (argue for validity) for example, Balance or Stealth lots of ways to make that fit as a nat 20 "So skilled the result is invisible" etc.
MrsMeltingCrayons
That's amazing! So an edge or corner is like a real-world charisma check. 😂 I love that it adds a little bit of skill - anyone can roll a die and the number is the number. But it takes effort to convince the DM "look how sharp the corner is, that would be SO intimidating" or "the edge is showing the edges of the wound and how well I bandaged it" or "the dot is the spark of insight, it was too complex for words" etc.
smashpro1
Still technically a die roll.
BraveStrawberry
Not really a die roll. More of a die float.
SerinSymphony
Ah, but you must consider these are not mutually exclusive. Jets can float and also roll.
BraveStrawberry
Yeah but while the die inside is roll-able, it’s is not being rolled. It is being shaken, much like dice traditionally are, but it is not tossed and rolled, it is flipped and floated. While capable of both, only one is happening inside the 8 ball. Thank you for coming to my TedTalk.