beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

@susie @Mr_NutterButter there is a reason why people used to have magazines or books next to the shitter.

honestly i just get in, do my business, and get out. 5 minutes tops.

@Mr_NutterButter because you're alone without anything to distract you for once

@coded_artist i forgot to post this lol, so fuckin funny. never thought i'd see some of the most popular streamers doing shit like this xD

never before have i had players derail a campaign so hard. in the other group i ran this campaign for, they accepted the city was closed and moved on. they also had no magic users, so that might have been part of it. still, man they are hellbent on getting themselves killed and i noticed with the last two groups i ran they also had similar ideas at times. just ignore all the warning signs, ignore the heavily guarded area, and do whatever the hell you were going to do anyway. this time around it was much more reasonable, and they just got really damn lucky, but still. i'm both impressed and stupefied.

if i get a total party wipe here, i'll probably just ask if they want to go back to a certain point in time so we don't have to go through all the trouble of new characters and stuff. it would be kind of interesting to do that, but also pretty hard.

@gav @Terry @Some_German_Guy i guess we have really progressed in render capability since then too lol. i can crank out a one hour video relatively quickly and that's without GPU acceleration.

last week's d&d session, my players completely derailed the entire campaign and i'm trying desperately to get it back on track. they were hell bent on getting into a city that was under lockdown, and they managed to get past 3 roadblocks i put in the way to prevent them from getting somewhere. they had an encounter with one of the BBEGs, didn't think he was actually a BBEG and wanted to attack him, but ultimately decided to leave THANK NEPTUNE. however, then they decided they were going to rally up a bunch of the town guard to go and fight this big group of evil mages. now they are legitimately going to try killing this dude and his entire group of mages and i can't think of really any way to prevent them from doing that besides things that would completely flip the campaign up on its head.

so my idea is going to be that him and a bunch of the other mages actually leave the castle, but not before doing some damage to the town and killing one of the old heroes (from my game) that they had captured. hopefully that dissuades them from pressing further. if they do, they have also already been warned that there are things in this castle that caused people to go mad... intellect devourers. they're easy to kill, but little dudes can literally just OHKO a party member.

in today's session, there could very easily be one or two character deaths. it's gonna' be real spicy. on one hand i feel bad because they did do a great job with getting around all these road blocks, and they had the assumption that this was balanced to their level despite me really trying to dance around the issue of dissuading them from progression further. on the other hand, i did try to dissuade them without outright telling them they'd lose... i had NPCs saying they thought the roadblocks were too strong and they'd never seen anything like them before, i had a magic lock with a DC of 28 that was only opened with a 5% chance on a magic item everyone forgot a guy had, and i even told them straight up "sometimes you might not have the intended way to do something and it's better to come back later" as well as "these people have magic strong enough to cast massive force fields, it's safe to say they might be very powerful." yet still, they persist.

@gav @Terry @Some_German_Guy it's always baffled me how people will go like 3 months without updating their PC lol. there can be security risks involved. but like, do these people never turn their computers off? there is an option to install updates upon shutdown. that's always what i do.

plus, you'd think someone who was so angry about automatic updates would actually find a way to turn them off. because you can, and it's pretty easy, just not directly in the settings menu. you can even just receive security updates and not feature updates if that's what you want.

maybe this was way worse back in the win7 days, as it appears this dude is using (damn this is an old video, skype and fraps lmao). i don't really see people complaining about automatic updates anymore. i really only got into computers with windows 8.1 and it wasn't ever really a problem for me. the main issue i have is that fuckin action center and notifications, always the first things i get rid of on windows installs.

@Need_More_Soma @Terry @Shlomo @Some_German_Guy people have tried porting new directx stuff to windows 7 for gaming purposes, but it doesn't work super well. windows 10 and even windows 11 are really good if you run a couple of very simple debloating scripts. shouldn't have to do that in the first place, but it's really nice that the option is there.

@Terry funny enough, pso2 seems to be working fine despite using MS servers lol. this is what centralization does to a motherfucker though.

@Some_German_Guy @Terry probably just means that people can't use onedrive or their ms office license can't validate or something lol. it's not like their entire computer dies.

@Terry probably only used a single roll of duct tape for each color, impressive

@bronze no lie, i saw a mexican dude wearing a shirt with an american flag that said "viva mexico"

that's just cruel

Lots of reports that DEI is "going away" but I can't help but think it's just going to be replaced by something else.