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Borderlands players - what is your opinion about the new movie trailer?
  • I feel like they just completely missed on this. They tried to capture the cel-shaded style of the games but everything looks low-budget as a result. Pandora is a backwater, if you’re going to do it live action everything needs to look like it’s been sandblasted and sun-bleached for a decade and repurposed at least twice. Everything just seems too clean.

    The dialogue is bad. Can’t really blame the actors for that, but I also struggle with all of them in their roles except Jack Black (I actually don’t mind that casting).

    Also, unless this is set between 1 and 2, I’m not sure how Krieg and Tiny Tina ended up on an adventure with Roland and Lilith.

  • Americans, mostly women, are becoming more liberal: Gallup
  • There’s been recent studies that show Millennials (my generation) aren’t getting more conservative as they get into middle age. And while I don’t think I’m getting much more conservative, if at all, part of me wonders if it’s more that the party of conservatives is just outpacing us in their mad dash to the right.

    Like, I definitely have some further-left ideals and some more moderate-left ones, but damn if the conservatives aren’t going full auth-right faster than I can moderate my views to even see where they’re coming from.

  • Tesla Cybertruck Owners Who Drove 10,000 Miles Say Range Is 164 To 206 Miles
  • The early 90s was mostly a perfect storm for fuel economy.

    You had the computing power available to make use of CAD and develop more aerodynamic designs with less significant overhead (i.e., doing it by hand).

    EFI technology had matured and carburetors were broadly defunct, allowing more efficient operation in a broader range of environments.

    The US had updated its archaic lighting regulations to allow for more aerodynamic headlight shapes.

    A lot of the safety technology that adds weight to modern cars either hadn’t been developed yet or hadn’t trickled down to the average vehicle.

    So you had a confluence of more efficient engines, more aerodynamic vehicles, and cars that were still small and relatively lightweight.

  • Trump Calls for ‘Giant Dome’ to Protect the US ‘From a Hostile Source’
  • Religion is probably part of it. A lot of the more conservative sects of Christianity emphasize both uncritical conformity and a fear of punishment.

    It’s why some don’t understand how you can be a good, moral person without religion. Their morality is based on that fear of punishment.

  • The real goat of the session
  • At this table you have:

    -DM (OP)

    -Player 1 (DM’s friend, inexperienced)

    -Player 2 (P1’s gf, experienced)

    -Player 3 (P1 and P2’s bf - it’s a polycule, experienced)

    -Player 4 (P3’s sister)

  • What has Biden done to make Republicans hate him so much? Besides being a Democrat
  • I think the important points from both are salient here. Everything in that quote is true, but it’s important to include that the groups, both in and out, are nebulous and subject to change because they must always exist even as dynamics change.

  • Breaker normal or faulty?
  • Thanks! I thought it might be, but I was unable to find anything on the internet to confirm.

    Breakers are just one of those things I'd rather not be like "it's probably fine" and then find out it's not, y'know?

  • Breaker normal or faulty?

    I’m in the process of refinishing my basement, and I’ve installed the breakers. My panel uses Square D QO breakers that have a window that shows red when the breaker is in the tripped position. Breakers are then reset by turning fully off and then on.

    One of the new breakers shows just a tiny bit of red in the window when it’s in the “on” position. It doesn’t instantly trip when turned on. It does this even with the breaker removed from the panel. The breaker switch moves fully to both on and off positions.

    Is this something to be concerned about?

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    Also, no blue or purple Tieflings
  • RAW = “Rules As Written”

    RAI = “Rules As Interpreted”

    Sometimes there’s a difference between the way a rule is worded and the way it’s played at a table.

    Critical fails/successes on skill checks would be house rules/homebrew, though.

  • Trump’s Idiot Lawyers Just Shared Faulty Evidence in Fraud Trial
  • If this ever gets made into like a docuseries or movie, future generations aren’t going to believe that the legal team of a former President in a civil case was this incompetent.

    Like there’s no way to make said movie and not have it be a comedy of errors.

  • Chair of Party That Lost Big on Abortion Says 'We Can Win' on Abortion
  • Well, to be fair…

    A lot of the people that reliably vote for them are (willfully) fucking dumb.

    When you’ve built your “platform” on the basis that the people who vote for you are just going to take whatever you say at face value, you might be surprised that only a minority of people work that way.

  • Hillary Clinton warns against Trump 2024 win: ‘Hitler was duly elected’
  • They…literally can, though? The primaries are not part of the election process outlined in the Constitution. They don’t have to have primaries at all.

    The DNC and RNC are not government entities, they’re private organizations.

  • Our barbarian’s plan (spoilers for Waterdeep: Dragon Heist)

    Not the plan we ended up executing, but she definitely favors the direct approach.

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    I did an art of my party - 8-bit-style!

    !

    Felt creative so I decided to try my hand at some 8-bit-style art of our party in our favorite location - the sewers of Waterdeep.

    From left to right: Jin, the human Sorcerer Tahlen the wood elf Rogue Neige the tiefling Druid Stig the verdan Cleric Thalia, the aasimar Barbarian

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    This is what I get for trying

    Hey all, I wasn’t really a contributor over at r/dndmemes, but I was there at the end. Yikes. Anyway, here’s a small contribution to help this place grow.

    Context (possible spoilers for Waterdeep: Dragon Heist):

    Our party was trying to get information out of a locksmith about the installation locations of some extremely elaborate locks and generally not getting anywhere. Locksmith says something to the effect of making locks that “his type” (gestures to my Rogue) can’t get past.

    I’m an introvert at a table with multiple extroverts that normally dominate the role play. I’m generally okay with it, but this is my moment and I’m taking it!

    “Wanna bet?” I ask.

    Locksmith looks at me.

    “Bring me your best lock. If I can pick it, you tell us what we want to know. If I can’t, I’ll give you 10 gold”.

    Challenge accepted! My Rogue has 20 DEX and proficiency in Thieves’ Tools, so I’m sitting at a comfy +8 to lockpicking challenges.

    Natural. 1. FML.

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