Vraylle

joined 1 year ago
[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago

Toss up between Warhammer Fantasy RP and Pendragon. WFRP has a reputation for grimdarkness and brutality (fair). Pendragon has a lovely system that plays fast and really encourages actual roleplaying in Arthurian Britain.

And the most brutal thing I've ever seen happen in a RPG was in Pendragon. The standard start includes some training exercises with your squire characters, including a joust with practice lances (break easily, no points or metal heads). You get to this within 10 minutes of starting, after 30-60 minutes of character creation.

One of the players suffered a critical hit to the face with a "safety lance" and was killed instantly. Had to roll up a new character, but was laughing the entire time.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 1 points 2 weeks ago

True, but you can take that line of thought to some frightening extremes. How far do we go to protect people from themselves and their own ignorance? I tend to be a bit libertarian on this...as long as you're not harming someone else, do what you want. For that to have any chance to work, people have to be informed, which would require orgs/companies to publish and label with much more information than they do now, and certainly more than they want to do.

Anyway, it all gets complicated pretty fast, which is why I list it as a "wish" instead of a concrete proposal.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 5 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I wish we had a graduated approval system, going from "limited data, but a possibility it could really help some people" up to "lots of data, massive peer reviews, effective and completely safe". Let people willing to take personal risk do so, just make it informed.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago

Whew, switched to Linux just in the nick of time!

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 1 points 1 month ago

I haven't been, but am looking at it after your post.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I made the switch in January, and it's been great. The only game I've had trouble with is a fully-kitted Skyrim with a bajillion external apps/runtimes, but I've managed to get even that working fine. Every other game is just Install/Play from Steam with no tweaks.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago

Nah, just someone trying to position an image in a Word doc.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 4 points 2 months ago

I did that just before the tariffs were announced. Kept the old PC (Win 10) but haven't turned it on since except to copy some files. Games, .NET development, everything I need working just fine. Can't see any reason to ever go back.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

No, so long as the bread and circuses continue to flow.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 32 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Am I an oddball in that as a developer, that QA answer is the sort of answer I give? It annoys management to no end.

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 8 points 4 months ago

Danny Trejo!

[–] Vraylle@fedia.io 1 points 4 months ago

If I worked there, I'd be tempted to write a program that would scan and replace some characters with Unicode/international similar characters. So for example, instead of "DEI" it would become "DẸI".

"No sir, 'DEI' isn't anywhere on site."

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