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sexybenfranklin

@sexybenfranklin@smores.town

#MovieBowl 2021 Bracket Champion 🥇

Originally Joined March 2018 on mastodon.social

I hate D&D 5E

I'm the comedy equivalent of the small bird that picks food out of the mouth of a crocodile.

"This is brazen, inexcusable, beyond the pale, horrific, I hate this bullshit so much I'm boosting it." - @unlofl

"I'm your number one fan forever." - @deneb

"I knew somebody would say this and I should have guessed you." - @touk (@touk)

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sexybenfranklin , to random
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I got that dog in me

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Just read about the sauna game dev, and I hated saunas enough as is.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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What https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/games/horizon-adventures

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots Sure, it just seems weird that it's going to be a retelling of zero dawn but in Lego.

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots Couch co-op is huge though so I'm sure I'll get this to play with my wife.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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@saddestrobots My man, why the fuck is Julia Ogden so smart but so fucking dumb? Confronting this porter alone, accusing him of killing someone, and just assuming he won't hurt her?

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Buying a huge centrifuge so I can more easily separate the art from the artist.

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check out this team of supergeniuses that can't even proofread their bios on the landing page to see they fucked up the copy/paste

sexybenfranklin ,
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@ryan Blas Moros sounds like a star wars character.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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This is probably a skill issue, but I actually think Hades, the boss, sucks ass. Doing the "Oh you got my health bar down, now let me show you my true power" shit is hackey. The rest of the game is fun, but when I roll up with two uses of death's defiance and a skelly tooth left, and still get my ass handed to me, this just is not fun.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Em Dashes can suck my left nut, fuck Em Dashes, all my homies hate Em Dashes.

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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Real talk, I only hate them because Microsoft loves changing " - " to an em dash, except my job involves a lot of matching data up, and so that fucking sucks.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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sexybenfranklin , to random
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Me, driving: I am respecting this cyclist, I am sharing the road, I am giving a wide berth when passing.

Me, walking: Fuck you, two wheeled devil. Ring your bell at me? I'm walking here!

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road dents

sexybenfranklin ,
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@loren not anymore, they filled it in

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help im bogged down with onions

sexybenfranklin ,
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@loren Bog? Onions? We get it, you're in Chicago.

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hot take:

every time i watch a video of people playing rpgs i conclude i'd be happier if it was some kind of post-hoc highlight reel / summary instead

a lot of the negotiation, decision-making, and reference lookup takes forever, in ways that are very boring when you're not involved in the outcome yourself

even people who play quickly and communicate very clearly can't fully counteract that

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots this is why I don't watch or listen to let's plays

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citrus snails

sexybenfranklin ,
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@loren and puppy dog tails

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"i swear, it was THIS big"

sexybenfranklin ,
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@loren this is such a great photo, I love it

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I downloaded Ghostrunner 2 because it was one of the PS+ monthly games for May. This game feels like it really wants to be a rhythm game but it is exceedingly bad at it.

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots yeah exactly, if it was in 3rd person or isometric or something, it'd probably be a blast, but moving that quickly in 1st person is a recipe for getting disoriented. I uninstalled it after I beat the first boss.

Also the dialogue feels so stilted. It's just awkward

sexybenfranklin , to random
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I got VS Code and a compiler for C set up and was able to run some programs. Might be cool? Might learn C?

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots my friend told me I should learn a compiled language after I said I liked python, and suggested C. I mostly realized I'm kind of lacking growth at my current job and I don't want to stay in data analytics.

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K-pop Haderach

sexybenfranklin ,
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@touk Quiznos Haderach

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Another Deadpool & Wolverine trailer, another post where I have to inform you all this movie looks like it's going to rule 😔

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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This is also a very funny easter egg.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Squish face

saddestrobots , to random
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if you showed a 2010s kid aeon flux they would die even faster than a victorian orphan tasting a cheeto

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots The cartoon or the live action?

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots yeah that could kill a Gen Alpha from 50 yards

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If you put in the buttons right, the moon will punch a hole right through the sun, leaving nothing but that corona and then "Totality" will ring out in the Mortal Kombat voice

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my friend at work got a steam deck so now he's playing lies of p

(what's your excuse for not having played lies of p yet)

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots I don't like souls games and it looked just as boring and generic as every other entry in the genre

loren , to random
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friendship over with every other musical artist i only listen to jethro tull now

sexybenfranklin ,
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@loren Crescent fresh

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Yeah true

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Frank Herbert's Spicemas Vacation

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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Actually this should have been Frank Herbert's Kwitzmas Vacation.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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@saddestrobots

I'm Attorney Jacob Edward James

saddestrobots , to random
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ever stop to appreciate an old joke?

this is "a softer magic" https://asoftermagic.tumblr.com/

a parody of the hit 2000s webcomic "a softer world," with magic cards instead of the fried-looking photos; all the text is cribbed directly, which is a core part of the joke

welcome to… the 2012 zeitgeist

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots Lol, I saw the second one first and thought "A Softer World sure has changed." Fucking hated that comic.

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots You summed it up so well with "performative jadedness". It's like a comic form of "Dear Diary Mood: Apathetic"

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there's a crypto currency that's supposed to help people support open-source projects

to use it you put a little yaml file with your wallet id in your github repo

so of course there's hundreds and hundreds of spam PRs right now trying to sneak these things into projects

…with text written by LLMs

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots PR is Puerto Rico. YAML stands for You're-A the Man now dawg L

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i like how youtube has like 100 sword guys but the one who's unabashedly got decent politics is also the hottest by a mile, and has the hottest friends

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots Honestly amazed that the guy with that many runes has good politics

sexybenfranklin , to random
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True to my form, the only sports jersey I want is for a fictional arena football team in Langley Falls, VA.

'Zooka Sharks!

saddestrobots , to random
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(this hot take brought to you by a decade worth of various people's unsatisfying attempts to make a system for armor/weapons in Fate)

two easy ways to avoid zero-sum / everyone-beeline-for-the-biggest number weapons & armor rules in your lightweight rpg:

  1. makes accessing the big thing legitimately costly — in money, training, social resources, and "suiting up" effort

  2. make the bonuses contextual or rock-paper-scissors type shit

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots I can't remember if you and I have discussed Blades in the Dark, but I think it handles this really well.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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Murdoch Mysteries is a very good show.

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots I think Belly Speaker is my favorite from the first season. We're watching Annoying Red Planet at the moment.

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots George Crabtree is a treasure.

sexybenfranklin , to random
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The first episode of this mystery show is about the AC DC wars. Hell yeah

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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Holy shit this show has been on for 17 seasons, Canadians must fucking love late 19th century murder mysteries

sexybenfranklin OP ,
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@saddestrobots staring down the barrel of 270+ episodes, I'm glad it's good

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🔥 game design hot take:

every PBTA game that only defines the "10+" and "7-9" results for moves (but leaves "6-" blank, making it a GM thing) is catastrophically misshapen

sexybenfranklin ,
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@saddestrobots well, I think that the people that are going to run a PbtA game are probably, by and large, more adept at improvisation in that realm than the people that they are statistically most likely to be running a PbtA game for, people who only play 5e but want to check out that Avatar game their friend kickstarted. For that reason, I understand weighting the writing towards fleshing out successful outcomes, which are more player involved.

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