Rad O'Brien, Chief Engineer 🔵

escapism takes many forms

YouTube video by Zee Bashew AD&D WHY!? (Animated Spellbook) #adnd #dnd #dndmemes

learned today that the older editions of the dnd handbooks had a short list of historical figures with high charisma but low physical attractiveness: Caesar, Napoleon, and for some fucking reason Hitler

my friends playing DND: "wait is this just the plot of My Big Fat Greek Wedding?"
me, the DM: *smiles evilly*

Seeing Satine Phoenix pop up in any old ttrpg stuff is always a fucking jump scare now lmao

Surprisingly in Baldurs Gate 3 there is not a "fuck your way out of it" option for every problem, so you're not REALLY getting the full DND experience, but it's pretty close

baldurs gate 3 needs a mod that drops all of the juiciest Ed Greenwood Faerun Facts into the loading screens, like all the breastmilk facts!

my biggest issue with dnd's Keys to the Golden Vault is that there's no instructions on how to level up the encounters. The level 1 heist is a museum heist, which is cool, but who the hell wants to play a level 1 character

I'm a half elf, but just the bottom half 😏

a cartoon of grinch with a blue background Alt: a cartoon of grinch smiling evilly

me when my players attack the weary traveler and ignore the seven gold canaries fluttering around him #dnd #ttrpg

page of monsters called hootbears, which are not dungeons and dragons owlbears

ʰᵒᵒᵗᵇᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃʳᵉ ˡᵉᵍᵃˡˡʸ ᵈᶦˢᵗᶦⁿᶜᵗ ᶠʳᵒᵐ ᵒʷˡᵇᵉᵃʳˢ. ʰᵒᵒᵗᵇᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃʳᵉ ᶦⁿ ⁿᵒ ʷᵃʸ ʳᵉˡᵃᵗᵉᵈ ᵗᵒ ᵒʷˡᵇᵉᵃʳˢ. ᵃⁿʸ ˢᶦᵐᶦˡᵃʳᶦᵗᶦᵉˢ ᵇᵉᵗʷᵉᵉⁿ ʰᵒᵒᵗᵇᵉᵃʳˢ ᵃⁿᵈ ᵒʷˡᵇᵉᵃʳˢ ᶦˢ ᵖᵘʳᵉˡʸ ᶜᵒᶦⁿᶜᶦᵈᵉⁿᵗᵃˡ.

Modrons from dungeons and dragons planescape

Don't ask me why but I think all Modrons are from Wisconsin. Look at the little guys

There's no buildings on the moon and we want a reactor up there? Also presumably wouldnt solar be better and more efficient with no atmosphere?

I DONT KNOW.

NASA: We're building a nuclear reactor on the moon!
Also NASA: fires 20% of staff, loses most of top scientists, hands powers over to Musk

"Lewandowski remains a special government employee. He isn’t paid by DHS and doesn’t receive federal government benefits.

“He’s the de facto chief of staff in the department. Everyone is terrified of him because he has almost singular authority to fire people""

As we all know, Asians famously didn't wear masks outdoors until COVID

Oh this one fucking hurts

r/ChatGPTPro u/vurto • 28d If ChatGPT is not consistently dependable, how are we suppose to use it for actual work? Discussion It's behavior and results can randomly change due to some OpenAl tweaking that's opaque. On some days it can't even keep track of a fresh chat, it can't do calculations, it can't sort through a chat to extract relevant information, and when it's suppose to refer to source material in a PDF, it doesn't. All because OpenAl trained it for fluency and basically to simulate whatever it can for user satisfaction. I can use it for general chats, philosophical stuff, therapy, but nothing serious. I'm pro Al, but I approach it with skepticism knowing it's undependable (as I do with anything I read). And prompts can be interpreted/executed differently across users' own interaction with their Als so it's not truly scalable. How does the business world / leaders expect staff to adopt Al if it's not consistently dependable? It doesn't even calculate like a calculator. If the internet start claiming 2+2=5, that's what it'll answer with. I'd use it for hobbies and pet projects but I can't imagine using it for anything "mission critical".

You're so close

you know how you deal with this? you put them in prison. if you unfurled a MAGA flag on the floor of congress, youre in prison now. hope that helps. thats seditious behavior. marcos de val escaped to the US using a visa given to US collaborators despite not having a passport. PRISON.

Yes, you absolutely should make fun of people who willingly use ChatGPT.

up thinking about Pam Poovey

Black Resistance to Quaker Enslavement A moral reckoning.

For too long, the story of Quaker abolition has been told as one of conscience, but it was Black resistance that forced the Religious Society of Friends to confront its deepest contradictions.

“The draft order also criticizes the role that some banks played in an investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the U.S. Capitol.”

Nuclear reactor on the Moon? Sure, why not.

This particular group of people in charge of trying to put a nuclear reactor on the Moon? <sucking air through teeth noise>

I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝

I often say that reporting on sex testing in sports is like reporting on a really twisted, 100 year game of wack-a-mole where we see the same things happen over and over. This is a great example. (A short thread, if you'll indulge me.)

Tech literacy is plummeting and it's not an accident. Big Tech thrives in low-information environments.

We need to compete with China, they have the world’s largest parliament at 2,900+ seats.

i propose each Congressional district shall not exceed 100,000 (+\- 1000) pop, giving us instantly 3,000+ seats, we win.

I call it, HellCongress

Alex on twitter writes: "Someone on Twitter writes: "You’re a menswear writer. You don’t know anything about manufacturing in America, or steel mills, or metallurgy, or CNC machining, or how anything is produced from raw material into a finished product in this country or anywhere. Stick to writing about “men’s fashion."" I reply: "i actually had a career in knifemaking before this. the reason why you can't avoid tariffs in knifemaking is because everyone relies on Gobelin machinery. are you aware of this?" Alex replies: "Gobelin machinery? What exactly are you referring to?" I reply: "you Gobelin DEEZ NUTS!"

"stick to menswear"

going to get a shirt with a qr code that goes to sissy hypno video and walk into a conservative convention just to see how many of them i can activate like a sleeper agent