It’s definitely the real deal, building on past greats rather than watering them down. Combat alone is definitely competing for turn-based GOAT, with clear influences from games like persona, FF, and lost odyssey combined to make something greater than its parts.

Meat powder, maybe, but carcinogenic means it’s definitely American.

When I started playing D&D (3.0) all of my characters were just me with fire powers. Sorcerer, pyrokineticist, whichever class I could find that gave me the most fire. Since then, while I play a very wide range of characters in terms of classes and ancestries, all of them are based on some part of me. Dr Hoots, Owlin Chronurgist, was based on my often deadpan demeanor and tendency to fix things behind the scenes, while Ihrannis V, Fey Paladin, had a lot of my ADHD in him. Bob Peasbody, Human Omdura, was my anxiety, and Robert Thatch, Human Swashbuckler, was my tenuous self preservation.

My favourite was probably when a DM bribed me to play Descent into Avernus by giving me an NPC to play - Lulu is a Hollyphant (small golden flying elephant) that accompanies the party on their adventure, and the DM gave me her backstory and a Hollyphant PC statblock and told me to make what I wanted. Small spoilers for DiA: most of her backstory is amnesia. I came back with the suggestion of a support focused sorcerer build to heal the party, and the DM pulled a face, so I gave him my other suggestion: I wasn’t sure of the specifics, but the backstory suggested the amnesia was down to a series of extremely traumatic events in Hell which could easily cause PTSD, and the progression of the statblock meant she started without most of the magic an NPC hollyphant has but would progress to full power over the adventure. So, the class that would most closely match that - Wild Magic Barbarian. Triggered by devils, her rages see uncontrolled bursts of her suppressed magic manifesting around her as she goes ham on them.
DM loved it and the rest of the table was delighted when they were introduced to the high pitched bundle of excitement, which turned into a mix of horror and confusion when combat started and I soundtracked it with this.

OK remember like 70 years ago when they started saying we were burning the planet? And then like 50 years ago they were like “no guys we’re really burning the planet”? And then 30 years ago they were like “seriously we’re close to our last chance to not burn the planet”? and then in the past few years they’ve been like “the planet is currently burning, species are going extinct, and we are beginning to experience permanent effects that might not snowball into an extinction event if we act right now?”
But sure, AI is really cool and can trick you, personally into thinking it’s conscious. It’s just using nearly as much power as the whole of Japan, but you’re giggling and clapping along, so how bad can it really be? It’s just poisoning the air and water to serve you nearly accurate information, when you could have had accurate information by googling it for a fraction of the energy cost.

I hate AI because I’m a responsible adult.

Why does he look like kier starmer

That sure is a weird one. One thing that comes to mind is lollipops or boiled sweets, being flavouring and a small amount of sugar, but I don’t know if the sugar would be a problem. Someone out there has to specialise in untraditional flavours.

Yet I’m the illiterate one here.

I’m not the one who said you can’t read Chinese. And while 3 isn’t conclusive proof, nobody is claiming it is - it’s just evidence.

You can’t fight people without fighting people. Do you understand? MA is not an exception to this rule

Sorry, do you think the choreographed practice and play sparring of martial arts is real fighting? It’s good exercise, but it’s to a real fight as DDR is to dancing. Like you’re welcome to try your stealthy John wick takedowns but when I’ve been attacked I’ve screamed bloody murder, like my MA instructors told me to do if I need to actually defend myself.

Did you watch the video?

Did you? Not listen, but actually watch what the trainees were doing?

Now all I want to do is promote REAL self defense for comrades, because I don’t want them to get their ass beat.

Real self defense will teach you most of the same stuff, just without the emphasis on acting like a cornered animal. Martial arts are great workouts, and that strength and endurance training definitely helps in a fight, but they’re exhibition sports so every martial arts instructor will tell you that it’s an absolute last resort for self defence and in a real fight even an improvised weapon is better than being unarmed. For REAL self defence carry whatever’s legal in your country to use as a weapon, go for the sensitive bits, and make lots of noise, like he says.

You and a couple others seem pretty upset about that and decided to take personal shots at me instead of rebutting my critiques. Sounds like a personal issue you should investigate.

Nobody has taken any personal shots at you, you’re just mad because your critiques are recieving reasoned rebuttals that actually analyse the material instead of giving a knee jerk dismissal. It sure looks weird and stupid, but it also has something there that seems to be working in its favour, so we’re discussing why that is instead of giving what you feel is appropriate reverence to traditional martial arts. You, on the other hand, have spent your time bragging about your ignorance and calling us fools and children for arguing back while insisting you’re above it all. Obviously you have time to argue, or you wouldn’t be doing it.

“I made you some pasta, babe”

I don’t think so, the issue isn’t really the implementation, but it not dealing with the wider issues of exploitation in the porn industry, and the implications for queer people under a government that is being increasingly hostile towards them. There are also issues with the implementation, like 18 year olds still being young, it not being a complete ban, and the whole… everything technical, but as far as I’ve seen the criticisms here haven’t been centered on the teens.

Heese has also written several other barely passable parodies, including “The Great Gatsby: But Nick has Scoliosis,” “Moby-Kevin,” and “Pride and Prejudice: But Mr. Darcy is a Vape God.”

Might have to read some some of these.

Damn, that sounds great. My parents wouldn’t let me watch it as a child because they assumed it was army propaganda from the title.

3 random articles in a language I can’t read flashing across the screen isn’t exactly hard evidence of this working.

I’m gonna be real with you man, holding up your illiteracy as a shield is a bad look even before we get to how chauvinistic it is. That isn’t investigation.

You need to be able to practice on live opponents.

go ahead and try out his open scissor punch technique on a log,

Are you even listening to yourself

Go ahead and chop down the forest with your badass scissor punches.

Yeah, I definitely don’t believe you watched the video because that’s very literally the opposite of what he’s selling. The entire point is that it cuts out the spiritual woo woo and magic techniques and jumps straight to pragmatic solutions like stabbing an assailant with whatever’s closest to hand. You don’t need to be able to cut down a tree to kick someone in the balls.

I’m not saying this guy is some legit martial arts mastermind, he’s obviously pretty traumatised by his childhood bullying, but I’ve also done plenty of “real” MA and this does cover the bits that were actually relevant to practical self defence - cardio is king, don’t use your fists if you have a weapon, keep moving and attacking to keep a group back, make lots of noise. The few times I’ve ended up in a real fight there sure hasn’t been any art, but there’s been plenty of martial, and that’s what he’s offering.

You might want to actually watch the video before opining (), the entire video is about whether it’s bullshido or legit. The presenter isn’t completely convinced, but the whole giving away the instructions for free, being involved in multiple legal killings in self defence, and being adopted by various Chinese security and military forces definitely gives it actual credence.

Cm00002 is obsessed with the idea of creating a lemmyverse that excludes its actual developers and is unrelated to the communist principles it was developed on. They’re not a rational actor, there’s really no point talking to them.

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Bruh, our nominally left wing government is banning trans people, starving the disabled, failing to ban porn, and supporting an apartheid regime currently in the process of reenacting the holocaust. We have no place criticising other countries as “right wing regimes”.

PF1e archetypes are similar to subclasses - many functionally are - but are more about using one class as a base and replacing the parts you don’t want with parts of other classes you do want. Each archetype is linked to a specific class (which contributed to PF1e’s bloat), but you can stack any that don’t affect the same class features, and most classes have equivalent archetypes - for example, nearly all the non-companion classes have an archetype to replace something with an animal companion, most of the casters have a martial archetype and the martials a caster archetype etc. You can still multiclass on top and add archetypes to the new class(es), but they’re not quite class agnostic so I guess I can see why you wouldn’t like them.

PF2es archetypes/dedication feats are fully class agnostic replacements for PF1e archetypes/3.x prestige classes/multiclassing in general - you take them in place of class feats, and have to take a certain number from the same archetype before you can choose a new one. Medic is very popular because feats like battle medicine and ward medic lets any character replace a dedicated healer. Because of PF2es feat-centric design your initial choice of class gives you quite a loose framework of abilities to choose from, which you can then expand with dedications in more agnostic directions, like healing, duel wielding, archaeology, or becoming a lich.

Yes, prestige classes were one of the things contributing to bloat and power creep, especially as they weren’t even a particularly elegant solution to the problem they were solving - archetypes actually let you do mixed or more specific character ideas in the way prestige classes were meant to, and dedications open that customisation even further. As much as I love 3.x I’m not blind to its many failings.

PF1 was already designed to deal with mistakes like prestige classes, and they’re especially not going to regress back to 3.x design now they’re on a second edition that even further solves the mistakes of WotC.

I missed the PS2 era so I acquired the newest Ratchet and Clank to see if it’s still fun.

It is. Plenty of new and classic weapons, allies, and enemies, a fairly straight forward plot, and an all around polished feel. Its just nice clean goofy fun. Strong recommend for any 30+ year old who needs a dose of nostalgia.