This place really loves slop from random garbage sources, we’ll share anything with a URL.

Read your quote and my comment again, genius.

Yeah okay, so it sounds like he’s the kind of guy who’ll build a framework, or most of it, and won’t ever really become capable of hosting a lot of videos at a watchable quality.

Technically he’ll probably have built something basically functional the community could rally behind and get going. But that won’t happen, because the people who care about the Fediverse are few, insufficiently resourceful, and most importantly don’t care about shorts.

Have them roll a perception check just prior to the ritual.

Surprise, they’re the villains and a party of heroes shows up to fight them. If they don’t spot the ambushing party of heroes, they’ll be hit by some serious AoE spell and an assassination attempt on one of them a turn or so later.

If they win the fight and successfully summon the elder god, they have to start rolling wisdom saves or something to resist mind control, and the ones that fail and have to roll every 1-3 turns or something to try to get control again. All the while they become surrounded by not just the massive elder god but a swarm of enemies that won’t hesitate to attack any party member that disobeys the elder god’s orders. It’ll be up to the other players whether to enter combat to try to defend their friend against the hopelessly large assault.

But what does the elder god tell them to do? Go backwards and ravage every single place the players have visited during the campaign, and maybe some random villages along the way if you need filler.

Maybe you start impromptu adding a d4 or d6 psychic damage to their attack rolls as an unconventional way to empower them. Maybe play favorites, maybe add 2d6 to the weakest member’s main attack to boost them and their ego.

If it goes far and long enough maybe you start having them war against empire, do something unconventional and treat legions as single units with one health pool and doing an arrow barrage or a ‘charge’ that does some damage and then becomes more of a sustained melee that essentially becomes a DoT effect as far as the combat system is concerned. Like an insect swarm.

Should they successfully destroy the army and seize the seat of power, find some messed up way to do a “game over”, or come here and ask again. These players want to see the game go in dramatic and strange directions.

I don’t play DnD so I guess a lot of this might not be doable/practical.

Also after reading some other responses, particularly the one about how this kind of ritual is usually portrayed as requiring a bit more than a few friends, some magic words and a wish, it may or may not work better if you have a bit of backlash, scarring, and some aberrations respond to the attempt, instead of the elder god. Maybe have them run around a town or two recruiting cultists for a second attempt, something like 15-30 of them. There could also be some drama where the cultists question who is the authority as a few other cultists move to take the lead.

Yeah I don’t get the drama with this one. Unless you’re some disappointed investor.

For me, with no stake in this, it’s fun. A bit weird and bad, but I’ve seen worse stuff. I feel like someone tried to do something interesting with that “Bird that wants to be a Plane” video.

In my mind I pictured the bird as Sora/GPT and the plane as the theorized incredible and perfect general AI behemoth.

Imagining the current AI as dumb, incapable and small. Not really able to understand the plane, only sort of, in it’s little bird way.

1TB is incredibly low, wow.

You see, some NATO members have been known to use the internet. Artifacts of that usage may have been archived, like their statements and voting choices. For example, if IA stored a page where Jens Stoltenberg called a polandball comic “funny and accurate” in 2019. That would be bad for Gaza.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQTn1QxCZ2s

621 is more or less the site they go to for seeing the illustrations of dog dicks that they’re so fond of.

That’s not even in the scene.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX-m7UsCp3I

Here’s what Walter actually says:

How are you doing?

…mumbling…

How are you doing?

You did the only thing that you could, I hope you understand that.

Any thoughts on what our next move might be?

Our next move. Our next move. Given the fact that at the first opportunity, Gus will kill us.

No, no, we bought ourselves some time, yes, but… The question is how much. He will be looking for another chemist.

Are you sure you’re…

What do you mean?

What page is that?

Personally I’ve always wanted a game where I can talk to the raiders in the forest, tell them to stop raiding the nearby villages, then leave and come back later to find burnt ruins where a village used to be.

But this’ll do.

I’m sure the coffee pirates are good pirates who respect other people’s property. Coffee merchants in pirate costume.

I don’t know, I don’t think anyone would come up with something like this.

Frankly, it sounds plausible.

Business majors just get more authority than they ought to. They should be treated more like secretaries and advisors in most cases, not bosses.

Why do we give companies the power to do things we don’t agree with?

Because business majors only know how to exploit good things that would be better off without them.

If the good thing is left to just be better off without them – while they fuck around with a separate thing – then people will never be interested in the business majors’ product.

Nursing/Kindergarten or something? Isn’t that about that high?

I mean it still works for getting attention, but it’s not exactly respectable and there are some people who really don’t like them.

Have you ever seen a furry mention the word “knotted”? Have you ever had the misfortune of learning what that means?

They’re more than welcome to what, exactly? Put it to words.

I’m sure you think it’s the same thing with the furries.

“It’s not the ones who dress up in animal costumes for going to orgies and make porn of it that are into bestiality, it’s the peiple who think furries are freaky that are into bestiality.”