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I've been using exclusively Samsung phones for a long time- is any battery % below 15 being a crapshoot not a normal android thing? I remember it happening a long time ago with my LG phone too, so I kinda just assumed it was difficult to estimate battery capacity once it got low.

Lots of sexual assault allegations. I wasn't a fan even before all of that came out so I didn't follow it too closely.

(for whatever reason, my brain remembered this as, like, a centaur and an elf and, maybe, a goblin underneath but I think this still qualifies for genocidal eugenicism, nonetheless).

You remembered correctly, kinda. The "Magic Is Might" statue was installed later on, but during Order Of The Phoenix in the ministry there's the 'Fountain of Magical Brethren'. It's a wizard and a witch that are being stared up at adoringly by a centaur, goblin, and an elf.

Which I wouldn't call genocidal eugenicism, but it's definitely problematic in a different way. I think I remember Dumbledore pretty explicitly calling the statue a bad thing, but I don't remember exactly how or when.

It's not unique to Japan/Korea, you can definitely get it in the US. Fryaway is at least one brand of it, but I'd be shocked if you couldn't get others.

Yeah, Hexbear cannot be reasoned with. There's a handful of people from that instance that will be polite about it- there were users I didn't mind when we used to be federated with them. The vast majority are going to be incredibly condescending while they post awful reaction images.

I agree. Bullying people is a big portion of what mods are meant to stop. So seeing one join in is... unusual.

It depends? Video can get across an explicit concept easier for me. If I'm learning something that I'll struggle with, I find that video is usually a better bet for me.

For fiction, I prefer books because it can get a lot more across. It's not even just that they cut corners or parts of a book, sometimes a book will have the protagonist basically run an internal monologue, or just notice something in a particular way that conveys a lot of information in a way that a movie or show can't really do as seamlessly, if at all.

Video is better for showing details and small things, but I can fill in the blanks myself- I find it really frustrating when authors don't let me fill in the blanks. I don't need the entire feast described in depth to me, I don't give a shit how the pig is coated in honey and the desserts look delicious unless the reveal is that the pig is poisoned and the desserts went bad last week.

I just went through what's on sale, I didn't verify the release dates or anything.

Kerbal Space Program is a great time. It's the kind of game where it either grabs you and doesn't let go, or you'll drop it pretty fast.

I liked Sunless Sea, but then you really just have to give a game an Eldritch aesthetic and I'll probably be there for it.

The Escapists is a neat game to play with some friends.

Fallout 4 has some flaws, especially if you're a fan of the previous games, but it's a decent game anyways.

Dismissing a source as "ai slop" when it's a wayback snapshot from 2016 is hilarious. Also, the mod joining in to make fun of you is peak Hexbear.

They explain in the post? Just randomly found a comm from it, and didn't realize that Hexbear was.. well, hexbear.

PF2E?

I've only played PF1E and you can definitely make some broken stuff, but that's kinda the fun part of PF1E. If you take fucking sacred geometry you suck, though. And nobody wants to get out the flow chart for grappling.

I never said anything even vaguely approaching that?

What do you even mean by "told me from the beginning what he wants to do"? If I'm prepping a fantasy campaign and one of my players tells me, "I'd kinda prefer we do something sci-fi" then I have no obligation to change my entire campaign because a player isn't happy with it. I might still do it, if I felt interested in running that and the rest of the table does too, but imo I'm well within my rights to tell him no.

If you mean that he wants a plotline of his own then I'd do my best to accommodate that, assuming it doesn't clash with the rest of the campaign horribly. If it does, then I'd just say that and offer alternatives if I can think of any. If I can't, then of course he can still play if he'd like.