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YouTube video by Alexandros Goulas Sigur Rós - Sæglópur (High Quality)

also by far their most poppy stuff is on the 2005 album so it's not a linear progression youtu.be/vmD-9_ZifB8?...

AND THEY'RE BOTH GOOD in different ways

1997 Sigur Rós: [doing unspeakable things to a guitar for 5 minutes, 30 seconds of a baby crying in reverse, then 4 full minutes of silence]

2023 Sigur Rós: a soundtrack for the ending credits of a sad movie

Tweet by @bog_chaser "1997 Daft Punk: [sounds of an old betamax eating a tape mixed with a german porn soundtrack for 9:08] 2013 Daft Punk: 🎶it’s the soul of the boogie🎶"

I need to bring this tweet over here because i STILL think about it every couple months

workin on a Sunday (there's 2 of us here with about of 1hr of work each in a 8hr shift)

greater is 3/day and that's a LOT already. in my campaign more than 2-3 encounters per day is extremely rare

one time at the zoo (my 6th bday party), some of my dad's friends got rly drunk and started throwing their kids in the fountains

This is not too far from actual things that happened with my parents' friends, in childhood birthdays in Russia

Eating 2lbs of indian food before attending a birthday party with a bouncy house to teach some children about aging and hubris

I'm 99% certain I was the one who told you to buy it so that's fully on me lol

In all srsness, I think our campaign has a lot of character complexity (13 with Ancestry Paragon, Pirate Training, and tons of items), but just too few encounters for you to actually get a rhythm and learn everything lol

I mean it's what, an avg of probably 3-4 rounds of combat per week

(who did also forget he took Quickened Casting and get Warp Step wrong twice in the same fight)

no i was specifically calling out PHAZIUS, NAAMS, and LUCY, you're a little golden angel who can do no wrong 😊😌

lmfao it really was just that easy all along

humans have a 3min CD "Heart of the Lion" rhat gives 15% crit, for example

mainline WoW spent almost 20 years trying to solve this problem (i.e. ignoring it until Alliance raiding almost withered and died)

baguette for like $0.25 is insane. I've never seen sales like that of any kind

i wonder if there's more laws over there against throwing food out or something

scaling by 1d12+1d4 is 9 damage per rank, which is way better than most spells Heighten (usually like 1d10 or 2d6)

So Thunderstrike quite literally holds its own against things like Execute and Disintegrate (!), has a solid range that's good at all levels, and even extra upsides vs metal armor 🤔🤔🤔

>build a really cool 7th-rank spell for the Gozreh cleric in my campaign

>check the damage: it's barely more than a 7th-rank Thunderstrike. I must have undertuned it

>check the damage against other 7th-ranks: nope it's pretty much on par with them

is Thunderstrike actually sleeper OP??? 🤔

Oh!!! I should probably learn how to read. I'll remove it from our Barbarian lol

and your first strike next turn (or even your Reactive Strike) gets off-guard automatically!!

Invis runes are like Active Camo, they should be being spammed constantly in tough combats

a really coordinated party could even ALL go invisible at once, then spend several turns healing and buffing

the classic suggestion for a melee martial is "Strike - Strike - move away to waste the enemy's action"

but hey what if instead of moving away you functionally DISAPPEARED from the battlefield, requiring a Seek + DC11 Flat check to hit you with anything. for one action! with no manipulate or move!

my players (but also the whole pf2e community at large) are sleeping on how broken the pf2e Invisibility rune is I think 🤫

this isn't just good, it should imo be mandatory once you have a property rune slot on armor and 500g to spend

politics is about exponents. it's about integrals. it's about 2nd-order nonlinear differential equations

true, and that's a good one for tech issues. though sometimes I need an even dumber one for roommates and coworkers. like "you did something I've done neatly 500 times, and you immediately fucked it up and spilled something and made a mess. incredible."

I firmly believe that not every encounter should be a fair "beat up the bad guys (who are present in numbers just slightly smaller than you, to be moderately challenging)" and I think I really succeeded at that today 👌

In the end, the Cleric, though frustrated by failing 3 checks to cast spells, succeeded 5 (!) consecutive Escapes to break his own wrist and activate the Token of Recall 👏

A badass moment for the PC even if he didn't get to cast anything or "win" the encounter

and others would escape, maybe they would even lose items and have to go on a rampage of revenge to get them back. It was the ending of a chapter and I was ok with the consequences.

So the cleric was handcuffed in the surprise round (basically couldn't cast spells), and immediately had his super-magical sacred trident disarmed by the cops too

I was willing to let this be a big inflection point in the campaign. Maybe the PCs would win the fight, maybe some would be arrested

but two hard encounters later, barely at half HP and almost out of spell slots, they just walked out of the hideout and started discussing their plans 🙂

when the Inquisitor and Major revealed that the PCs would be getting arrested and framed for the very conspiracy they'd just uncovered

There was obvious story foreshadowing to the ambush (PCs all agreed that it's not a question of *if* they got betrayed, but *when*)

and some Perception checks or spells could have totally picked up the Inquisitor, invisibly hiding outside as they entered the cultists' hideout

Step 1: give your PCs the Final Fantasy Endwalker macguffin to teleport (once) out of any situation

Step 2: Design a completely unfair ambush which they are mathematically disadvantaged against, and see if they fall for it 🤷‍♂️