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Fun fact, sperm whales can generate a sonar click at 230dB. Decibels are a logarithmic scale so increasing by only a few dB is basically double the volume.

A sperm whale may swim past you, think you're interesting and give a little click to scan you, and basically stun or kill you instantly.

Wilder option which is definitely hard to mass produce:

A truncated tetrahedron like this but with wireframe corners, so it rolls like a D4 but there is a clear upward face.

D100 with 25 of each option lover right here

I'm British and not that well read on the American Revolution but I was under the impression that he was knows for riding out ahead of his troops? The general tactical decision other US generals kept making was stay in the safety of their forts, but that's ineffective against the British who have the resources to win every war of attrition, and one of the things Washington was known for was basically pushing his troops out of forts by riding out himself?

I'm not super well read on it but that's my understanding, although the flip side, George III and basically every other world leader wouldn't have done the same, that was just one of those unique things Washington did.

This is what I don't understand about people who eat food. Unlimited international access to traditional recipes and exotic vegetables, meat and other ingredients. New combinations of flavors and techniques available everywhere.

So you create the hotdog? I mean how do you even measure success? Perfection would still be a hotdog!

I'm not actually against this decision at all, I kind of liked the idea that he wasn't ready to live up to his potential. A hero in a trilogy needs their journey from farm boy to knight, and I was really ready for focus on the villain actually growing in ability. It would be hard not to like an antagonist with well written drive that we needed to see on screen, and we nearly got this too.

I didn't particularly like the force awakens in cinema but that's mostly because it didn't do anything new, except have a villain who both started as a villain and had a lot of potential to grow without redemption, which would have actually been kinda new for starwars where basically every character arc with growth is a good character corrupted or a bad one redeemed.

I tried to watch the ocean cut of Naruto, which basically edits each arc down, cutting out unnecessary flashbacks and recaps, along with intros and intros, making it into basically a series of films.

It's still 40 films worth of content and 3+ hours per film sometimes (I think, it's been a while), and the pacing is still absolutely fucked which is a symptom of basically every episodic anime when binged.

I should say I'm actively opposed to anyone gaining control of the fediverse but when I started using Lemmy, Masterdon and Peertube, (until about an hour ago) I was unaware that it would be this easy for a big company to just engulf it if they wished to.

If I knew that the fediverse could be controlled and then drained like every other internet community, I would have approached it differently.

I'm don't totally understand the fediverse and how it works. How does meta making one of their options federated harm the rest of the fediverse?

It can just stay where it is for 7 years and then get you when you travel back, or at least to that part of the world.

One of my saddest days was waiting to cross a road and a car stopped Infront of me with it's passenger window open and a big Labrador hopped up and was face to face with me.

I excitedly asked the owner if I could pet the dog, as it was literally delivered to my face and she said no like it was a weird request. Thats stuck with me for half a decade already.

YouTube became weirdly positive and fake a while ago, I actually think the mega cesspit of YouTube comments hasn't been reality for a few years now.

I can't tell if that's because the Gen Z online communication style is to celebrate everything, which is nice, or because there's an algorithm in place somewhere to make the comments more marketable, which is lame.

The biggest thing I'm looking forward to in the fediverse is integration like this, I'm not tech savvy enough to know if it's viable but open source software that's designed to communicate with other instances feels like a perfect place for things like this to develop.

Ikeeo seeing things on Peertube, Lemmy and Masterdon that would suit integration with eachother, particularly when it comes to showing the Lemmy comment system under other parts of the fediverse.

Oh yeah it is but I'm not really counting that as a new edition, just a minor reshuffling of the 2014 rules.

I do feel that slowly, edition by edition, D&D is moving closer to it's recourse management being tied to it's round based action economy which I actually enjoy.

As a player, it's already pretty easy to play this way, before counting subclasses, the rogue has literally no abilities that are limited by anything but once per turn, and if you pick some fun narrative spells as warlock and rely on invocations and eldritch blast, you can be totally effective without any resource management. Both of these exclude hitpoints of course but that is a pretty reasonable resource for a combat focussed fantasy game.

I'm a bag fan of bright effects that disproportionately impact creatures with dark vision. This could be a cool effect for an angels celestial light, basically pushing you to avert your eyes Vs a con save against blindness, with either disadvantage to darkvision creatures or perhaps an alternative effect (change that blindness to disadvantage on ability checks and reserve the blindness for the darkvision having creatures).

I also think the fact that pitch black actually just gives a lot of disadvantage, keeping it to a room or two can be a lot of fun, if used sparingly.

I know it's the video title for clickbait but I'm not a fan of the language Treantmonk uses here by calling it 6e.

The best thing about the RPG scene right now is the fact that so many companies are splitting from WotC's 5e content to make their own successors with a general common view of 'only pick this if you prefer the changes' and nobody is trying to take the stance of The successor to 5e, which is nicely respectful to eachother.

I'm not familiar with the purple dragon, what effect is this?

A very simplified version would be this.

Ring of uncanny defense Rare, requires attunement

Once per long rest, when you are hit by an attack that is not a critical hit while wearing this ring, you may use your reaction to cause that attack to miss and all future attack rolls that are equal to the first roll also miss. This benefit lasts until you finish a long rest.

This is a little stronger as it comes with an automatic damage negation, but it guarantees it will see use once per day if you use it. It also negates rolling dice which consumes a deceptively long amount of time if you introduce a lot of effects that do this

Currently it seems to specify that you roll the 1d10+5 when you attune. If you know that your average enemy has a +5 to hit, the tactically smart choice is to keep re-attuning until you get a 15. However if you move that to be triggered as a reaction, then the tactical playoff is still waiting for a common value to come up but also potentially choosing to negate a dangerous hit on an attack that's unlikely to come back up like a 28 is a alternative tactical option.

I think this is joke that the invention of a new word is an example of the criticisms of the Unabomber's manifesto which was critical of technology and the socio-political ramifications it brings? The word rizz being a word that was quickly made commonplace by the internet being the example.

Rizz may be my favourite new word in a while, the first time I read it I knew it was short of charisma, and the synonyms of charisma like charm don't quite mean the same thing, so having a short fun way to say it is good. I'm probably a bit biased because I think I may have accidentally had a convergent evolution moment where I was also using rizz as short of charisma because I play D&D where two of your stats are Wisdom (shortened to wis) and Charisma (shortened to cha), but I didn't like saying "ka" so I started saying rizz because it rhymes with wis.