Personally, I view CR like the pirate code; they’re more like guidelines than rules.

I look for how much damage a monster can deal in one round. I try to simulate a planned combat encounter well before I throw it at my players to make sure it’s survivable if they’re smart.

Probability is just probability. What separates D&D from a video game is the flexibility of the players and the DM. Lateral thinking wins the day!

My advice? Review your players’ backstories and add in an unexpected ally who shows up just in time to deliver the solution, but at the cost of needing their help with something conveniently related to the main quest. Alternatively, encounter an NPC who, likewise, conveniently assists them out of a sticky spot in exchange for pursuing the main quest.

Any dolt with half a brain

Can see that humankind has gone insane

To the point where I don’t know

If I’ll upset the status quo

If I throw poison in the water main

A hydrophobic horse? Huh. Poor baby.

The original and prequel Star Wars films and shows: The Clone Wars in particular.

The 90s X-men

X-Men Evolution

The 90s Spider-Man

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003-2012)

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (OG and 2002)

Avatar the Last Airbender

The Dark Crystal

Fern Gully

The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1990s)

Phineas and Ferb

George Shrinks

SUPERJUMP is nonprofit, and they cover a lot of indie games.

So, the prior comment about the woman who raised a pet beaver… lemme guess, every time she takes a shower, by the time she opens the door, every non-stationary object in the house has been dragged in front of the bathroom door.

Brothers, I am AFAB, and this picture still reminds me of one of my most infuriating roommates.

Trust me, in this hypothetical, she’d annoy me a little too.

What is ‘woke’? Forgive me, I’ve been on the internet for years, but I still haven’t met someone who can succinctly define what it means. I keep getting these conflicting, confusing definitions.

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Seriously?? That’s the price of FIFA’s bribe? Not, idk, “Call off your ICE ghouls at the next match, because we need to sell tickets?”

You know… there’s a Space Hippies AI Personality mod on Steam. It’s actually really funny.

Stellaris players: How it feels to have a Spiritualist empire on one side of your border and a Materialist empire on the other.

Bastard in a Pasture

Fair point.

I was vegan as a health necessity for a few years. I still prefer eating veggies wherever possible, but when I’m living in someone else’s home and have to adhere to someone else’s diet, it’s not always possible.

Hi. I was born in Utah.

The statistics presented here likely primarily include Mormons. Mormons, granted, tend to experience higher rates of senses of well-being due to thorough, lifelong conditioning into a religion that (to put it very very lightly) trains and encourages wishful thinking and group conformity to levels that would make a tankie blush.

Those who leave this religion (cult that has the all-time gold medal championship title in doublethink and mental gymnastics in archeology) tend to experience significantly higher rates of suicide, mortality, and depression. The youth suicide rate alone shot up 192% from 2009 to 2014. https://www.rationalfaiths.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/LGBTQStats-2.pdf

Speaking from personal experience, Utah is a theocracy, straight up. The church controls everything from the state congress to the real estate. They have loopholes in the department of education that allow ecclesiastical education at public schools. I’d know, I graduated from one.

Fuck Utah.

10 years old. When I saw The Rocketeer, when Jenny found Neville Sinclair’s secret radio room to talk to his Nazi handlers.

Sent this to a friend. Xe laughed and said, “If they have an issue with it, they can come find me and tell me. Good luck, BTW, we make up less than 1% of the population. If people that rare are pissing you off, find a fucking hobby.”

Piratebay.

I mean, you’re not alone. I got so fed up with ads because it was always junk I needed but couldn’t afford, or shit I already knew existed and had otherwise already acquired with satisfactory results. Not to mention ads following me around. I hated being haunted by a pair of sneakers across four websites.

It’s not paranoia if you’re right, dammit.