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    How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?

    But isn't cash green in your part of the woods... ;)
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    You would be able to kick those privacy ending devices out of orbit and into the sun... Superman moves at Mach 9+, do you expect the high resolution systems to be able to track that? Superman has been known to fly faster then light...
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    How Does AI Affect Your Online Shopping?

    Maybe start off by using the right terms and the right context in the description. I doubt that anyone would decline their lifesaving medicine that were developed with AI. Or all the decades old software tools for the disabled. AI is a very broad and old field in computer science, the more...
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    Unless of course you go Roger "Verbal" Kint on your 'normal' persona... Move totally different from you superpower persona to your normal persona. And you can avoid the cameras with the earlier mentioned IR LEDs, so there is no movement to analyze. I think that hiding your voice might be more...
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    That's SIR Idris Elba

    In Britain they get equipped with sporks... ;)
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    Maintaining your secret identity

    But part of the Superman powers set is that they turn any pair of glasses into a hat of disguise... ;) We also have an issue in modern times, where to change? All the phone booths have disappeared or is that also part of the Superman powers set? Manifest phone booth... Instead of reporter, I...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    I would advise that only if everyone agrees unconditionally. As that opens the door to all kinds of shenanigans.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    The problem isn't D&D, the problem is overly hostile people when your propose something to 'improve' the game. And apparently the game wasn't perfect already because someone thought it was a good idea to propose... As for 'forcing' combat in D&D, I would say that it's traditionally been very...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    I've seen that too, and trying to 'educate' that player during the game and out of the game didn't help. What did help was a session 0 with pretty clear rules and the group together building the party. The party group has never worked as well together, efficiency. Very occasionally there are...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    I'm not saying everyone should be the same, I'm saying they each have an active and useful role in whatever situation. A useless goal keeper is still going to frustrate everyone. One player uses melee combat to deal damage, another ranged combat to deal damage, someone else uses spells to...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    Look, it's like a ball sport where everyone is very competent and one isn't. While that might be fun for a while, eventually the strong players will get annoyed by the weak player, and the weak player gets annoyed because they don't really contribute like the rest does (and don't get the ball)...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    I think that's based on assumptions, randomness, not understanding the system, and a certain level of unintentional min/maxing. In D&D 3e the issue was worse, partly due to how the system was implemented, partly due to how much choice there was with all the official books and people assumed...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    That thus depends fully on the DM/group style if that works or not, and imho that's not balanced! In the social setting the the combat person is useless, and in the combat the social person is useless. You're essentially playing different games, with different people, and the rest of the people...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Where Are All The New Books In 2026 (D&Dfans article)

    They made certain choices, some love it, some hate it. I'm one of the later, I wasn't even able to watch beyond the first 10min when it was on one of the streaming services I subscribe to (I almost never go to the theater). And if anyone expected some blockbuster from a D&D movie, they were...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    I would even go so far as to say that individually optimized characters will be a LOT less effective then a good group build. And that's not just about min-maxing, but playing characters that mesh well with each other. OR an imbalance in the party where both started with the same resources, one...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Is Point Buy Balanced?

    Nope. Not in the least. How unbalanced depends on the specific build, the player, the DM, the adventure, the style, the group, the mood, and the phase of the moon. As long as the whole group uses the same generating method, everyone starts equal and the end result depends on the specific...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Where Are All The New Books In 2026 (D&Dfans article)

    Sure, sure... 'Evidence'... :ROFLMAO: If every management shakeup would collapse your plans for the complete next year, businesses would be in trouble and WotC would not have survived for so long. What's having a far bigger impact is probably the US tariff shenanigans, at the end of 2024...
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    D&D 5E (2024) Unconfirmed Dark Sun World Book

    I actively disliked the Planescape one, the Eberron one I found dense in a bad way, and the previous FR books were Meh!(tm) at best. Only the newest FR duo did a good job imho, not that I liked everything, but it was a well organized, but still dense book, with lots of easily accessible...
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    Kickstarter Bloatware

    Depends on the patches, I spend WAY too much money on the Battletech patches, pins, and dice sets. Stickers and post cards are generally very cheap and easy to produce and won't delay the KS delivery much or at all. It still gives the feeling to most people that they are getting 'more' for...
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    D&D 3.x [Let's Read] The Frank & K Tomes

    That was never proven or admitted, they mixed company and private funds, something that happens often with small companies. And don't get me wrong, CGL has had 'issues' paying their freelancers since that drama as well. CGL isn't a good company to work for imho. But so are so many other small...
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