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In my setting I dropped darkvision for dwarves because I wanted to make it scarce, but even the dwarves that don't study light or dancing lights use their many lighting inventions that were developed for underground exploration such as flairs and glow sticks, and gas lighting for their main settlements.

I also gave them all spiderclimb just because I like the way that fucks up how they'd build those settlements as down is only a necessary direction to know when you drop something, even their tankards work at all orientations and are basically sippy cups.

They were the first culture to have accurate timekeeping just for cooking.

Gnomes would make those folding fabric camping chairs with the cupholder in the arm

They used :-) instead of 😁 is what the actual post shows.

In case internet sarcasm is sneaking past, the entire thing is a joke centered on the fact that Tom yells out after saying xnopyt. In the original video this is just to say the second word but people typically make edits and jokes that somehow it's some pain or fear caused by saying xnopyt.

https://youtu.be/aMgCBYgVwsI?si=K5tC1hTGN6AlBK-U

I've noticed this too, I can manage it but I am definitely holding my phone much closer to my face than the rest of the time on the app. It's the same size as the rest of the comment text but feels smaller, maybe because I can compare it to the keyboard size?

My 980ti is still a toss up between amazing or mediocre performance. The big issue is that I bought it for £600 which is a lot of money to me, and new GPUs are 3 times that, or more.

One thing I don't really ever coming across in the harry potter books were people being exhausted by powerful spells, perhaps I just can't remember a case where that happens.

It's always portrayed that you need a base magical ability and then from then all it's all knowhow.

I remember my brother Googleing something on my laptop and the first thing that came up after pressing f was "Female scout TF2", we looked at eachother and said nothing.

I mean a merged service wouldn't be an issue. If I could pay once for one big thing including Disney+, Paramount+ and HBO Max, I'd actually consider it to have enough content to be worth people signing up, instead of it all being scattered like now.

I'd still not pay for it but I don't pay for shit no matter how much content and convenience the service offers, it's a miracle i haven't started shoplifting.

I'm not really a fan of the writing of Harry Potter, it often falls into a trap of being a mystery adventure where the puzzles are then trivialised by magic which seems forgotten next time it would be applicable, and I like to try to race the characters to solutions which you can't really do in this format.

I'd love to write a TV show in the harry potter universe starring a squib (someone incapable of having magical powers who knows if the wizarding world) running a mundane repair shop for wizards in London near Diagon Alley. They'd basically be losing their minds at the regular cast of wizards being upsettingly inefficient and naive with their magical potential, while also running this repair shop for them that looks more like an antiques shop. It would definitely explore these questions as the protagonist pins down their wizard friends and makes them do multiple wand tests etc. The whole show would lovingly poke fun at the unanswered questions and plot holes of the Harry Potter universe and consistently paint the wizards as lovable but arrogant goofs who never had a proper education past 11 years old.

I think the punchline is showing how obviously connected the two things are, not what the final one is.

This is probably the real biggest one. Even if they walked back on it, it came close to crippling the games industry being that unity is absolutely the number one engine for indie games.

I think one thing Russell T Davies has cemented in returning is that the show is ok to be fun and casual. The past several years have often lost this core element.

Doctor Who is inherently a little silly, and it's on a smaller TV show budget than the expensive shows of HBO etc, and if it takes things too seriously, everything becomes hard to like because the cracks show very clearly. When the show is being fun and casual, it can still have serious moments which hit hard because it's almost unexpected for the genre. The past decade of who has been serious way more than necessary and honestly I'm glad we get a goblin musical episode.

I have blindspots behind me too, and although I can see ahead of myself, I can't see what's beside me.

This could quickly be explained away as a contingent spell that specifically stops common muggle weapons.

The one moment that really irks me in the concept of wizard wars is a moment in deathly hallows. The gang are captured in Malfoy Manor and Harry manages to grab 3 wands from Draco Malfoy's hand, and casts stupify on Fenrir Greyback, who is hit with thrice the intensity and fucking basically dies.

If this works why aren't wizards rocking bundles of wands, let's see Harry use expeliarmus to counter Voldie's wizard wand Gatling gun of avada kedavra, or a bundle of wands casting sectumsempura and fucking turning a wizard to mince.

Wanna hit me with the torture curse you wizard nerd? I'll just use my bundle of sticks, my wand strap to Wingardium Leviosa you straight into the sun.

A lot of people have read this question to mean the accurate scientific implications of everyday superpowers which isn't really in the spirit of superpowers. I'll try to say powers that feel generally altruistic or built for cute characters that have cruel implications.

Healing us the classic cute superpower, but if the user of the power chooses to overheal somebody they could probably cause basically mega cancer.

It's pretty easy to imagine the the implications of controlling animals, and it's a pretty good power to sit in the background as a utility power until the user decides to have every insect, rat and pigeon in the city bombard somebody.

The ability to share memories is hard to be used villainously but two fucked applications would be to beam somebody's traumatic experience I to somebody else's head (or an experience that happened to one person that could trigger someone else's PTSD), or if the user has trained themselves to be able to alter their memories to fictional events on demand, turning what is basically a truth finding superpower into an abuse of perceived honesty.

Finally the superpower of using Reddit and Lemmy your whole life and generating a very standard way if responding but having the cruel and unusual twist of always sounding like fucking ChatGPT.

As a counterpoint, combining Cyclops's power with x-ray vision is a fun power combination, and it's an interesting take to imagine his power as just cooking everything with radiation.