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I am curious about the reactions in the thread linked in the OP, but I can’t access it. I don’t know if the thread is deleted either since I can’t access even the server.

Are they temporarily down?

This! The only time I had my bard perform (use performance) is when I was trying to solicit help from someone, but telling the plain truth (as my character has been doing so far) would put the party at risk, so I told the DM:

I will tell the story as if it were an epic tale told across generations of bards. Can I use performance for this?

The DM allowed it. I rolled the die and got a fairly high roll. The person I was asking help from was so moved they swore they’d help the party with the utmost of their abilities.

Besides, the DM has just told the table the same story (targeted to my character, but the rest of the table had a listen), and it’s just annoying hearing me recite that same story they just heard from the DM (who is far better than me at telling stories).

The only time I acted out in character (in the main story in that campaign, and that other time was debatable, as it’s more of a caricature than in-character) was in a fairly impromptu scene between me and another character. The rest of the table, including the DM, was just too shocked at the impromptu act. In hindsight, it played out like one of those romcom anime scenes. And I came out of it all: “wtf was that?!”

We’ve had a Color Coding Scheme here for years, and no one bats an eyelid at those words even though it could be horrifying for someone in the US.

That’s a great idea! Probably stealing it for when I next play a wizard-like spellcaster.

There was one time I had to play double-duty as utility and party healer. I thought it was a good idea to keep track of everyone’s health. In my head, it makes for deciding when to “switch to healing” far easier. So I had this sheet of paper keeping track of everyone’s total HP and current HP. At some point, I’ll switch to being the medic and physically pull out a card that says “Beacon of Hope” with a description of what it does (full HP dealt with healing spells and potions, among other things), and start doling out healing spells.

Aside from keeping track of everyone’s HP (which, in hindsight, shouldn’t be my job anyways), it was kinda simple. Even before my turn, I already have an idea what to do, usually trying to keep some idiot in the party alive. It’s just a matter which idiot I would try to save first (and for most situations, I just go for the one with the least current HP).

I used to print out spell sheets and put them into some sort of a spell booklet for reasons like this. It also helps that I played a bard when I did that and so there wasn’t a whole lot of spells that I needed to keep track of.

The last time I played a wizard, I just relied on a similar tactic (one-spell sheets compiled into some sort of a booklet), but instead of printing it out, they just stayed as files that I move to a directory on my phone called “prepared spells”.

I always thought “PM” stands for “Personal Message”, which is more or less an okay description. You send a message to someone “personally”, not in-person, but close enough, I suppose.

I remember coming across a study that has a fairly different conclusion. Of course, not having any caloric intake is a sure-fire way to lose weight, poverty limits people to cheap and calorie-rich (but not nutritionally rich) foods.

Not the article I remember reading, but here’s a writeup by the WHO about poverty and obesity: https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/23-05-2024-the-inequality-epidemic--low-income-teens-face-higher-risks-of-obesity--inactivity-and-poor-diet

Dr Martin Weber, Team Lead for Quality of Care and Programme Manager of Child and Adolescent Health at WHO/Europe, said, “The affordability and accessibility of healthy food options are often limited for families with lower incomes, leading to a higher reliance on processed and sugary foods, which can have detrimental effects on adolescent health.”

In my part of the world, poverty food has for the past few decades been instant noodles, on rice. Carbs on carbs. In my worst days, I managed to get by with just crushed junk food (think, the cheapest doritos-like chips I can afford) on rice (one serving for 0.10 USD).

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/evacuate#Verb

2. To cause (or help) to leave or withdraw from.

   “The firefighters decided to evacuate all the inhabitants from the street.”

Hence: “Passenger plane catches fire at South Korean airport. All 176 on board evacuated” → “[A] passenger plane catches fire at a South Korean airport. All 176 people on board [were] evacuated [from the plane]. ”

Note that in the linked Wiktionary entry, there is an attested usage from 1943. It isn’t exactly youth slang. It is, however, the sense with the most recent attested usage among all of those listed.

Full-blown Musk off, huh?

They’re out and out being Proud Boys™, good for them, I guess? Bad for everyone deemed undesirable, of course.

I used to ask people to tell me if they need healing, but I found it easier to just keep track of it all myself so that I can plan when to switch roles from buff to heal.

Combat encounters usually have me bringing out a calculator and a sheet of paper where everyone’s hp is being tracked.

I don’t think they have ever left. They’re probably not as influential and as powerful as the South Korean Chaebols, but they pretty much never left.

EDIT:

Clarified confusing double negative.

Oh! Forgot which event happened after which other event in that long cutscene after the final boss battle.

EDIT: failed my spoiler formatting

That last sentence in the first spoiler is more or less my take on her situation.

I don’t think it counts under what I understood the prompt in the OP is all about. But then again, it’s been a while since I last played that game, and I hardly paid much attention to the story (got too icked out by the love story). Cool game mechanics tho.

I am from Manila, so I have been careful not to brush the area off as “backswoodsy and poor”. But yeah, that’s why I was prepared to explain things off as “yeah, they’re poor and desperate”. But then again, it feels wrong, IDK, lol~

I missed the word “indigenous” even though it’s mentioned not just in the article, but also in the news report I saw. With a possible few exceptions, the indigenous peoples in the Philippines have been neglected and marginalized, and their communities been poor because of that.

I think it’s still a sought-for delicacy, and they would have probably sold its meat if it weren’t for the environmental regulations making such a trade difficult.

Also, something is gnawing me about how the article said lots of other seafood are available in the area. So I am thinking the sea turtle crawled its way to where the victims are, and the victims thinking “it’s a waste if we let this delicacy go to waste, let’s cook it!” I don’t know.

Definitely not a bunch of rich dudes gorging themselves on a rare delicacy and getting their comeuppance tho.

I had to double-check the location where the incident happened, prepared to write paragraphs on how the area is poor and undeveloped and so environmental protections are ignored when literal hunger is the more important consideration… but I am not too sure now.

The overall area is poor, not entirely remote, but still remote in comparison to places like Manila or Davao. I was under the impression that this event happened on a remote island municipality where sourcing food is an issue, but maybe it’s just poverty?

Not excusing the act nor gloating over the deaths though, just trying to understand (and failing) how this came to be. Not to mention why they ignored the glaring signs before they slaughtered and cooked the creature. In the news report I saw here locally, and I am recalling from memory, it is said that the victims found the turtle’s shell to be discolored, but still proceeded anyways.

Yeah, I get that. Watching the drama from the sidelines would have been entertaining if it weren’t for the effects such an infighting would result.

But hey, the voters wanted that shit. Let the popcorn flow!

It’s an open secret that the Marcos Jr.-Daughterte (son of a former dictator, daughter of Duterte, a wannabe-dictator and former mayor and president) tandem has been a marriage of convenience, and will break at some point, so yeah, no surprises there.

No surprises on Daughterte’s words either, given her father. If all you have is a gun…

If I am understanding it correctly…

• They eat tuna often.
• They never noticed anyone that cannot draw (separate) conclusions that:
  • [were] baseless
  • made little sense
• Evidence of heavy metal (features) resembled natural pathways.
• Worrying about high lead or cadmium [in food products? doesn’t make sense].

Even laid out like that, it is still confusing. However, I think their gist is that:

1. they think heavy metals’ effects [on humans] are indistinguishable from what happens normally
2. no one can draw conclusions about heavy metals’ [effects on humans] that have basis
3. they think worrying about heavy metal contamination in food is stupid and people shouldn’t worry about it