Poob

Up in Canada (at least my part), McDonald’s coffee is a great affordable coffee. It’s better than Starbucks or (🤮) Tim Hortons. It’s not going to compete with a bespoke artisan coffee shop that squeezes cat butt glands or whatever justifies selling a $5 cup for $10, but it’s better than almost everything else for the price.

I put a screwdriver down beside me and have to take 2 minutes to find it. I couldn’t imagine if the screwdriver had legs.

Please define “bad graphics”

You could argue that folding phones have screens on the back, just not the full thing, and not always the back

I dunno, there some necessary context here. I think Requiem for a Dream is a better movie then Iron Man, but I sure as hell wouldn’t pick it as the only movie I’m ever going to watch again.

They were shoehorning a reference to the game Starfield where it didn’t fit

Wait, y’all really think you were “the most stable democracy in the world” at any point in history?

You had a civil war.

A great way to learn about someone’s values is to ask what their pronouns are

Wow, I didn’t think “Facebook sucks” would be such a controversial statement on a place like Lemmy or kbin

You’re right that you can come up with pretty good ways to challenge players with certain spells. The problem is that it can be pretty difficult to do on the fly. Assuming the party goes in a direction you haven’t really prepped for, they’re are a lot of abilities that can make it trivial if you forget about them.

There’s a really big, tedious, ongoing discussion on exactly how overrated 5e D&D is and what type of game it wants to be, but it’s fair to say the system has a lot of small things that trivialize challenges. Goodberry means you never have to worry about food ever again. Fly means physical distance is not much of a problem. Pass without trace means stealth will almost always work. Leomunds tiny but means sleeping is almost always safe.

All of these examples can be fixed. Goblins can stack a bunch of rocks on leomunds hut for example. The problem is that it gets repetitive and forced to counter everything all the time.

I agree though that the developers have done a really good job trying to handle all the complexity of turning a tabletop RPG into a video game.