EssentialCoffee

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[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 35 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What is this even trying to say? Are they stealing? Are they cheating on a diet? Like, it's be your best, not be perfect at everything. Some days your best is just what it is and some days that's something else.

There's not enough context in this.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So grey and white?

It's a lot easier for me to scoop 1/2 teaspoon of two spices, one tablespoon of another, and 2 teaspoons of a fourth than to measure 1.8 grams of one, 2.2 grams of one, 5.2 grams of one, and 3.8 grams of a fourth. The scoops I can put in the container and level off the top using the same container. The other way, I have to gently sprinkle or slowly scoop and sprinkle so it doesn't go over the required amount.

Way faster for me to scoop, level, dump.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some people just want to complain about anything.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The Family Dollar is the closest store with basic essential groceries (bread, milk, etc) to where a friend's parent lives. The actual grocery stores are 30+ minutes away.

This just contributes to the increase of food deserts in some areas.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well, then you have folks like my brother who was Kid B, but doesn't have ADHD and was just a lazy fuck who didn't see the point of schoolwork. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The average school is going to be built for the average kid to pass. That means more points are going to be in the day-to-day work rather than the big tests. So if your class has 500 points available and only 100 of those are tests, then yeah, you're going to fail when you only get 100/500 points.

However, if you have a kid B, then it's worth looking into if your area has alternate programs from the average curriculum and seeing if they would work for your kid.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You just take your shoes off at the door and put them back on when you leave.

Well, I wouldn't say that plastic surgery is intended to make you look beautiful. It's intended to alter your looks in the way that you prefer. All that matters is that the person getting it done is happy with the result. Not some other random person who isn't them.

Also, beauty standards change a lot. Just look at how fashion changed from the middle ages through the Renaissance and after. You can tell what features were important by how garments were designed.

I'm not a fan of duck lips either, but I also don't have to get them.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 15 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Someone that is wildly happy with their life is not thinking how life is so terrible and evil.

This isn't a zero sum game.

You can be happy and recognize that life is also terrible and evil.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The GI Joe movie was fantastic though and the height of the show. Not a jump the shark moment.

People like to find meaning in all sorts of things.

[–] EssentialCoffee@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's not like back in the day when an artist got big by their own merit

Back in what day? Small tribes where there was no collaboration with outside sources before the written word?

 

So I play an Ancients Paladin in one of my games and have the 7th lvl feature, which is resistance to magic damage caused by spells. Sounds great on paper.

The issue is that in the 2+ years I've had this feature, I've never once gotten to use it because any damage that we've taken is from a creature feature, not a spell, even if it functions like a spell. As we all know with Monsters of the Multiverse, this is going to be becoming the standard way of stat blocking monsters in the future, so the situation is just going to be exacerbated in the coming years of playing the character.

I've talked with my DM and we both agree that this is an issue as anyone having a character feature that's essentially dead is a problem. However, we don't really know what to do to fix it in a way that makes it satisfying and not overpowered or pandering (ie: artificially adding in spellcasters and say they're casting spells just so I get to use the feature). And since this isn't the main paladin subclass, we likely won't see if WotC decided to address it until next year when PHB 2024 comes out.. which is another year of feeling like there's a dead feature in my character.

Now, it is possible that the feature only exists to deal with friendly fire. Fortunately or unfortunately, my group is very good at avoiding friendly fire by having an evoker wizard who negates all AOE damage for us, a Bearbarian as the other front liner, and good tactical positioning of spells from the other spellcasters (one of whom is a moon druid and often in melee). If this is the case, it still feels bad as it just isn't something that occurs in our game.

I have tried doing some searching, but most discussion on this topic tends to be about what the feature actually affects (just damage from spells). Does anyone have any thoughts on how to adjust the feature so that it can actually be utilized against creatures going forward, but not be so overpowered that it just turns into resistance against magic damage.

Thanks in advance for any help. We're quite stumped on this one.

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