Opportunity cost is a pretty well understood concept.
Like, inagine you have 100 gallons of water. You could use all of them to water a single water intensive plant that will feed one person, or you could use them to water a whole farm that will feed a community, and also let people drink and bathe and stuff.
The resource is limited.
Sure, we could try to get more of the resource and make it less expensive, but we should also not squander what we have.
Summons a surprisingly strong (ie: hard) familiar (ie: aid) in the form of a lemon.
Sort of a variation on this old joke: https://starecat.com/how-to-summon-demon-lemon-man-i-hate-cursive-wizard-fail/
Been seriously thinking of switching to linux for my desktop. I mostly use it for games. Today I was looking at mods for Mass Effect, and the mod manager says in all caps - LINUX IS NOT SUPPORTED :(
There's probably going to be a lot of that sort of annoyance for years.
If its free, then you are the product
Right. I get that. But I'd like to just pay once. I don't like subscriptions. But since file storage has ongoing costs, it seems unlikely anyone would offer a pay-once-and-we'll-host-your-files.
I want to get off Google photos, but I also don't want to pay a subscription. And I don't really want to self host. A pay once service I'd accept, but I haven't seen one with an extremely cursory search. I don't need any fancy features. Just store the photos, let me see them online, and let me put them in albums.
It was a gift from an old partner. I think she bought a nice bathrobe and then put all the stars on it herself.
T-shirt. Boxers. Sometimes a wizard robe. I work from home.
You can buy music from Bandcamp. You get it drm free. There may be other sites that sell music too, but Bandcamp is the one I've been using.
You can also still buy CD/vinyl and rip it yourself.
This sounds accurate.
As someone who liked CofD 2e a lot, I'm bummed they didn't continue with it. I also think the heavy meta narrative stuff was kind of bad, and I preferred not having a strong canon.
I should probably read the new new WoD rules to see if I like them, but I haven't had the heart. I actually bought print editions of CofD stuff.
Not to be confused with its cousin, Mage: The Ascension. For complicated and stupid reasons, there's both versions. Ascension was first, then there was a reboot of all the games. That gave us awakening. There was awakening 2nd edition. That's my favorite. But then for some reason, another company went back and restarted publishing the old lines, and made new versions of them?
Gods, it's like some people never passed 10th grade English. Sometimes the important part of the text isn't the literal meaning. There's like metaphor and hyperbole and shit.
Play a system that accounts for this.
Fate gives you fate points to spend when you do t like a roll. It also gives you "succeed at a cost" if your fate points are exhausted or not enough.
You can still just roll with it (pun intended) and die to a random goblin if that's fun. But you also have agreed upon procedure for not doing that. "It looks like the goblin is going to gut me, but (slides fate point across the table) as it says on my sheet I'm a Battle Tested Bodyguard, so I twist at the last second and he misses (because the fate point bumps my defense roll high enough)"
This is pretty easy to import into DND, too, if you like the other parts of it