Right, I can see that. I was actually hyper-careful initially to set up sets that were flexible enough that you could use the tokens for a bunch of different encounters (that was the whole idea behind the “abstract” enemy tokens, just make colors and numbers so the battlefield is clear and organized instead of people having to match the token to the monster.)

I can’t imagine that a library of specific tokens is all that useful on VTT, no. When I was setting all this up, I observed people who were attempting to make available “digital token packs” with hundreds of “tokens” for some small number of dollars, and I formed a theory that this was born more out of hope that people would buy it than any realistic interest in the product. For that reason, I made zips of the artworks to these tokens available for free, and based on the number of people I’ve observed being at all interested in the things when they cost nothing, I think my theory was correct.

Yeah, I don’t think any political viewpoint is free from people who just like their prejudices and attack anything that doesn’t match their prejudices. I wish it was different on the left, but sadly not.

FWIW, I’ve had a lengthy argument and said some plenty unpopular things in a tankie forum on Lemmy and didn’t get banned, so we’re still quite a ways away from the conservative ethos. I feel like as long as there’s freedom of speech about it, the problem is self-correcting in the long run. Maybe.

(I literally had someone on /r/walkaway tell me that I could say whatever I wanted, that they believe in free speech absolutism and exchange of ideas etc etc, and then when I went to reply to them, I couldn’t because I was banned. 😃)

If you are one of the people downvoting this comment - you really need to reexamine your way of thinking.

The dude is just trying to correct the factual record. If you look at that, and those facts are unfriendly to your collection of how you like to feel about the situation and so you downvote him/her or start a protracted argument with him/her about it – that means biases are more important to you than factual accuracy.

I think, like any sensible person, that what happened to Breonna Taylor was a heinous crime and the cops involved should be punished. But, I also think the facts of the situation are important. She wasn’t shot while she was sleeping.

Again, if you’re downvoting, it means supporting your own biases is more important to you than the facts, and that’s dangerous. That is exactly what the MAGA crowd does and part of what makes them so dangerous and so difficult to communicate with. So please don’t do the same from “the other side.”

Hm, maybe big rectangles for the vehicles? Whenever I did boats I would usually draw them on the map and have them as terrain… I could see tokens for it being really useful as long as they’re big enough to fit everything yes. Maybe 10’ by 15’ for the carriage (two spaces up in front and 2x2 in the back) and boat, and 5’ by 10’ for a simple cart? Rectangular or odd-shaped tokens make everything more complex, but there are a bunch of great use cases for them so maybe it’s worth doing…

Also, why hasn’t he updated the story yet, and why are people upvoting the nonexistent story… I am being 100% sincere when I say that seeing a community of people upvote a story, when the actual link to the story is broken so you can’t read it, makes me rethink what type of people make up that community and whether I want to be a part of it.

IDK, maybe it’s some federation thing where he updated the story a while ago and the change just doesn’t propagate properly or quickly or something.

Edit: Nope, not a federation thing, as of T plus 9 hours. What are y’all upvoting?

Yeah sure, you can edit post titles, but you have to remember that we don’t yet have an unusable chat or a very limited selection of mascot-themed avatars. CHRIST WHAT WERE WE THINKING

All good, you can still go back and edit it to fix it.

Hm, that’s a good thought… like just multicolored bases of some sort, and you can decide what different colors mean however makes it make more sense. I know you can get different colored plastic rings on Etsy and etc that are designed to snap around a mini / token and indicate different things about the creature, also.

I just recently started doing brass bases for some of the player tokens; in my mind they were going to be super popular and it would solve the problem automatically, because the creature tokens would have a totally different construction so it would be immediately apparent, but it seems like people are still into the wooden tokens for whatever reason 🙂.

One other idea which I think I might incorporate at some point is Sly Flourish’s using letters for creatures and incorporating damage with the letter – maybe I’m not explaining it well, but I really liked the idea:

During the game, when a character damages a monster, ask the player to identify an interesting physical characteristic of the monster they hit that starts with the letter of the token. Thus, the ghoul represented by the skull A token becomes the “ghoul with an arrow in her head”. This way you have an in-game narrative that connects the story of the monster with the token. Skull A is a ghoul with an arrow in her head. Skull B is the ghoul with the bones sticking out of his back. Skull C is the ghoul with the caved-in chest, and so on. This is far better than fighting “ghoul A”.

I actually have some vague plans to switch over to using letters for groups of creatures for exactly this reason – this might be an idea that makes it easier to keep track of which creatures are badly damaged also (because the players have a lot more vivid conceptual reference of which one is which in their minds).

Article? It’s just the image

Oh, I agree clearly it’s a creature – I’m just talking about how to categorize it in order to give it an art style. It’s useful for a visual hierarchy if the player tokens on the battlefield are heavily distinct from the creature tokens so you can look quickly and say “blue = me, red and orange = other players, tokens with complex graphics = monsters” or something like that.

I think what I’m going to settle on is that the default style is that anything that’s player related (players, horses, healing potions, etc) gets a white background, and anything that’s monster related gets fully colored (either a solid color background or graphics all the way to the edge of the token). And mastiffs are “monster related” even though if you’re hip you’re going to be a halfling riding one. 🙂

This commentary is reminiscent of the radical right’s reactions to the Ruby Ridge incident of 1992, an 11-day standoff in Idaho between federal agents and the family of Randy Weaver, a Christian fundamentalist affiliated with the far-right white separatist movement. The standoff resulted in the deaths of Weaver’s wife, son, and a federal marshal.

Dude… Ruby Ridge was a big deal because the FBI shot Randy Weaver in the back while he was lifting the latch to his shed to see his son’s body, and then kept shooting at him as he and his family was running back to his cabin, hitting and killing his wife while she was holding their baby. It was a huge deal for a lot of people, Randy Weaver was found not guilty of any “siege-related charges” and awarded $3 million in damages, and the DOJ extensively revised their policies as a result.

Craig Deleeuw threatened to kill the president, and then according to the FBI and I see no reason to doubt them, was pointing his weapon at the FBI when they shot him. Whatever Randy Weaver did to create the Ruby Ridge confrontation, I don’t think it’s fair to compare the reaction to that to the reaction to this.

Rght, this is really useful, thank you… a little falcon statue as the universal McGuffin token is funny to me, but I feel like that be immersion-breaking i.e. better to have various little object icon tokens and let people pick out their McGuffins individually.

Also, that actually just made me realize – probably the object tokens should be sized consistent with the other tokens, e.g. healing potions and amulets and such should be considered tiny and get ½" tokens, chests and swords on the ground should be considered small and get ¾" tokens, etc.

(Also I’m still wrestling with the eternal question of whether a horse is a player token, a creature token, or an object token (since those categories have different color schemes / art styles to keep the battlefield visually organized). Currently horses are themed as objects, with mastiffs themed as creatures, but that’s always bothered me slightly and I can’t come up with a system for it that makes me happy.)

It’s a fascinating topic, but my dude is holding up people making $2k per month as examples of how you can make real money writing poop songs. In “dubiously-earned income doing weird things on the internet” terms, that’s a lot more of a mostly-unsmoked cigarette you found in the ashtray than it is a goldrush.

It was the second notable disruption of a Republican presidential candidate by the left in Iowa this week, after a Democrat on Thursday asked Mike Pence at the Iowa State Fair, “Why did you commit treason on Jan. 6?”

Bro what the heck, Pence out of anybody (and very unexpectedly) was pretty instrumental in stopping treason on Jan. 6th.

Does anyone have a translation / context? I don’t know the situation, but I have a hard time constructing a scenario where dealing with the police this way is a good strategy for anything.

Yah it’s worthless dude, sorry to tell you. I can take it off your hands for you though, just DM me, I’ll pay shipping.

“[T]he average user must recognize that YouTube content, unlike media content on other websites, cannot be downloaded with a simple right-click

Accurate

and must be aware that this is achieved using technology on YouTube

Accurate

and that youtube-dl ‘overrides’ this protection.

Accurate

It is therefore to be assumed that the average user acts in bad faith,” the Hamburg Court wrote.

If by “in bad faith,” you mean, “with mostly benevolent intent but sadly in contradiction to the impotent dictates of the bad-faith-est of bad-faith actors in the music creation community for the last fifty years,” then, accurate.

So I think things like this, and like the one about harvesting knee fluid from patients to resell on the black market, are actually a feature of the conspiracy theories.

If you start buying into something pretty plausible, and then later you come to your senses, it’s not that painful to just let it go and admit you were wrong. If, on the other hand, you buy into something that’s clearly batshit insane, then you can’t admit you were wrong and that any toddler could have seen that it didn’t make sense. Because at that point it’s tantamount to admitting that you’re a helpless gullible moron whom no one should ever listen to again.

And presto, you’re in deep, and you can’t let go, or you pay a terrible cost.

At least on paper, they suspended her not directly for being a loony, but for being actively hostile to their attempts to investigate what she was saying and why.

Conspiracy theorists take note: They never attempted to “silence” her; they actually asked her to indicate in detail why she believed these things, and she twice refused to show up and explain. After the second time, they then suspended her license.

While board members emphasized the punishment is connected to the procedural issues and not the bunk health claims, the medical board’s staff makes clear the basis for its inquiry in their formal report. They asked Tenpenny what evidence she had that vaccines make people magnetic or interface with cell towers, and for more information about the claim that major metro areas are “liquifying dead bodies and pouring them into the water supply.”

Tenpenny failed to attend either of her two hearings before board staff. Her attorneys even failed to show up to the second. Forcing protracted litigation every time the board wants to interview physicians it regulates, he said, would render the body unable in practice to carry out its duties.

“And now we need to mix in the ammonia…”

SAVEY MEAL-BOT NOOOOOO

They haven’t fully nerfed it, either; earlier today it gave me an entertaining recipe for chicken and confetti.