Alright, but I’ll skip the bread!
Don’t try this with a bowl of soup (unless your bread is a bread bowl)!
Sure, hunter gatherer societies the world over tended to be more peaceful because they weren’t tied down to defending a piece of land and the food they worked so hard to grow.
The beauty of being a hunter gatherer is that when you get into conflict over a resource, you can just move to another area. Populations tend to stay low as everyone spreads out and develops large territories.
The hard part is figuring out how to get along after the agricultural revolution when people are living in cities, specialized into different roles, with larger populations (way above Dunbar’s number) forced to live in close proximity.
Natural disasters are fine as a metaphor once you realize that we never left the jungle. Other people might be friendly or they might be tigers waiting for you to turn your back before they pounce.
Every utopian makes the same mistake: they see the sleight of hand we call technology and think that makes us different from the warriors who would bash each other’s brains out with clubs, steal all the women, and burn down the village. We’re not. We’re the same damn upright-walking, (mostly) hairless primates we’ve been for the past 300,000 years.
Oh no, I was along before Flash and ActiveX. Before Windows 95 even.
If it gets people to eat less fast food I’m all for it!
Gravity supplies more than enough power to reach dangerous speeds even on unpowered devices. If all the governor did was remove applied power once walking speed was reached, that would be enough to get kids to the top of a hill without effort, and then they’d go rocketing down to their doom.
The danger of these scooters is that they’re scooters: they’re unstable and unsafe at speed. Bicycles are much more stable and thus safer at those same speeds.
To max out their speed you’d need a governor that applies the brakes automatically. This in itself can be very dangerous in many situations, such as when you’re going down a steep hill. I would imagine that’s also the situation children are most likely to get hurt.
If you are getting this, you’re probably applying to the wrong jobs. You want to look for entry level jobs, which still exist though they’re becoming rarer.
Most websites from when I was a kid did not need JavaScript. Heck, they didn’t even have any JavaScript on many of them! No CSS either, just HTML and images (which were very slow to load on dialup).
Roads pre-date automobiles by thousands of years. The original claim wasn’t about automobiles, it was about roads.
I built these bleachers from recycled pallets. I use them for container gardening (tomatoes and eggplants this year).
Today was very hot (30C) and this bun was laying down back there when I got back from work. I set out a tray of fresh water just in case bun’s feeling a bit dehydrated.
Currently Unstable Spellbook draws random scrolls from a list of 10 eligible scrolls with replacement. My suggestion is to change this so that scrolls are drawn without replacement.
This idea came to me after someone on Reddit claimed to have drawn a bunch of strings (a string of 4 and a string of 6) of the same scroll in a row, all within the same game. Generally when this happens it gets people out of the game and has them thinking there’s something wrong with how scrolls are chosen.
My suggestion, to draw the scrolls without replacement, would make longer strings of duplicates like this impossible. It would also make the Unstable Spellbook more strategic in its use because you could keep track of which scrolls you get and then be able to make plans for potential upcoming scrolls. To make this less tedious, you might consider allowing the player to see some of the potential upcoming scrolls, similar to how some versions of Tetris show you the upcoming pieces (though not necessarily in exact order like Tetris).
Some further notes and thoughts:
Anyway, thoughts, opinions, suggestions? I personally love the Unstable Spellbook in its current form but I have talked to others who don’t like it at all. My thoughts around this suggestion are to attempt to bridge this gap and make the item feel less random while still preserving its random flavour. The tradeoff is that this suggestion would make the item a bit more complex, though I don’t see think it’s an unreasonable amount of added complexity.
Alchemy is quite a complex system in the game and many players don’t engage with it at all. Even at the most tricked-out “deck builder” version of this suggestion, it’s still quite a lot less complex than alchemy because the choices are much more straightforward: want to see more of a scroll? Add another copy to the spellbook!
I love the variety and strategy trinkets are bringing to the game in 2.4! They do add to early game inventory pressure, which for me is the most frustrating part of the game (juggling a full inventory, throwing stuff down pits, running back and forth).
If trinkets were stored in the velvet pouch instead of the main inventory it would at least keep inventory pressure the same as it is now, without adding to it.
It’s the rule of 3! For both Star Wars / Trek, I only like 3 movies / series!