LordFishFinger

I just bought this game (one day before it went on sale lmao) and I'm liking the music, the sprites, and the gameplay design so far.

But boy, am I not impressed with how this game runs. I had to disable shadows and reduce graphics to low, and I still get the occasional stutter or framerate drop.

My laptop isn't anything to write home about, but it is not a relic, either. (AMD Ryzen 5 4600H with Radeon Graphics, 8 GB RAM). It runs Noita (!!!) fine. It shouldn't struggle with a low resolution 2D turn-based game!

It seems to me that this is the result of subpar coding. Or maybe I just don't understand how game programming works. Am I wrong?

I think this post violates the letter of the ban on culture war topics, but not the spirit. Delete If Not Allowed.

If you like your steak well done, does that mark you as Blue Tribe or Red Tribe?

I've seen two Red examples: Donald Trump and Tim, the "confused redneck at a restaurant" recurring character from Drew Talbert's Bistro Huddy series.

But then there's also Hank Hill from King of the Hill, who is quite Red, but considers well-done steak unacceptable.

All three of the above examples seem to be trying to gesture

Shrinfklation is when a packaged product's price stays similar over time, but the price is reduced. e.g. a bag of chips still costs $2.50 just as before, but now contains 130 g of chips instead of 150 g like it used to. See r/shrinkflation for specific examples.

(I hope this doesn't qualify as a food post - this kind of thing applies to both food and nonfood products)

Obviously I'm not happy to be paying more for the same amount of product, I'm not that contrarian. Shrinkflation can sure be deceptive (e.g. when the size of the box doesn't change, but the contents become more empty). And I guess it's less environmentally friendly, since you use up more packaging? I'm not sure about the lat

D&D, Mage and Call of Cthulhu are all quite different games, but what they all have in common is that their spellcasters can do a wide variety of things. Fireballs AND teleportation AND necromancy AND healing AND mind control.

I get that this adds flexibility to the game, but I also wonder if it might sometimes lead to some blandness.

Are there any games that don't do this? E.g. a game where there is teleportation and mind control, but fire magic straight up does not exist.

I imagine The One Ring does something of the sort (I haven't played it) but presumably that's because very strong magic is not available to mortals in that setting. What about games where player character magic is str

What are some RPGs whose intro adventures aren't railroads?

To make this thread more specific:

• by railroad, I mean adventures that have a story with an expected beginning, middle and end that the player characters are intended to go through. Even if there are some choices to be made along the way, or if there are multiple endings, it is still a railroad according to this definition.
• by intro adventure, I mean an adventure included in the main book, or some sort of starter set. Adventures that might work well for introductory purposes but are not intended as such by the designers do not count.

A good example of what I'm talking about is Into the Odd's Iron Coral. The adventure contains

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• I posted this question in the discussion thread and it got a handful of upvotes but no responses, which I interpret as meaning that others also don't know the answer but are interested in learning. I decided to make a thread about it.

The Russian liberal opposition-in-exile is currently debating (to put it super mildly) whether they should call on anti-Putin Russians to vote against him in the upcoming elections.

Both sides agree that Putin's current rule is not legitimate, and that he will use massive fraud and other dirty tactics to ensure reelection. The anti-vote camp therefore claims that voting would only serve to legitimize his regime. But the pro-vote camp thinks that voting migh

I have an idea for a new villager that would work like this:

1. The gift shop clerk villager operates the gift shop. He sells souvenirs - unique decorative items or food that cannot be crafted.
2. The clerk only sells souvenirs unique to his village type. Desert clerks sell woven rugs, savanna clerks sell wooden masks, plains villagers sell fermented grape juice, etc.
3. The clerk only buys souvenirs from other village types for a premium.
4. This encourages players to search for other villages, and to build trade routes!

What do you think? Obviously souvenirs can be rethemed to important trade goods, or something.

Not slidey at all.

I've been using the pan for over a month now and it was working well before. Yesterday I fried some frozen vegetables there and they stuck to the bottom, but I assumed that was just me leaving them there for too long. But today the same happened with my eggs!

I may or may not have not wiped the pan thoroughly enough at one point over the last few days.

Did I ruin the seasoning or is it more likely a fluke? (I know I didn't permanently ruin the pan, but will I have to go to square one seasoning-wise?)

Whenever I try to buy something expensive (e.g. a laptop), and I ask friends or the internet for advice, the first question I get is "well, what's your budget?"

You tell me! I have no idea how much I'm supposed to be okay with spending on a thing. It gives me huge analysis paralysis.

I mean, I can "afford" a $2000 laptop in the sense that buying one would not bankrupt me or put me on the street. If there were no cheaper laptops, I would (very reluctantly) hand over the money, but not otherwise.

Some guidelines that I have used that are a little helpful, but not a lot:

• "don't pay for extra features you don't need!" - I'm not sure whether I need them! Most of the extra stuff is not usele

(please note: this question is purely about visuals, not noise or other criticisms of wind power)

A commonly heard criticism about wind farms is that they are an "eyesore". Personally, I don't see it at all. I think windmills have a very simple design, and it's satisfying to watch them slowly spin. They definitely look better than thermal power stations.

Maybe they "ruin" the pristine look of nature? Idk, maybe in a way. But they also kind of complement it in a way? Meaning that they let you "see" the wind.

What do you think?

I see a lot of games on itch and DTRPG that look nice, but I get the feeling that they might have been published without ever having been played before at a real table. This raises suspicions about quality.

Doubly so for games that claim broad applicability. "This system has been designed for fantasy, but is just as good at running Western or horror campaigns!" Really? Do you know this from experience, or are you just being optimistic?

A solution would be to have those platforms require authors to indicate playtesting. Maybe some tags like "thoroughly playtested", "partially playtested" and "not playtested". The criteria for what constitutes playtesting would not have to be very high (for