That seems to be correct!

The original announcement was on their Facebook page, and links to https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com/

Note that they didn’t raise their own prices (they absorbed 100% of the tariffs on products they make), so if you bought directly from them or through their Amazon listing, you didn’t overpay and don’t need a refund. If you bought from a retailer like Wal-Mart or Target, they’ll start by refunding people who have a receipt, and then if there is money left over they’ll try to refund anyone else who thinks they overpaid.

Where do they even get 30 people who can cast 3rd-level spells? That’s like an entire region’s supply of 5th-level characters. Are they in Eberron and using mass-produced wands of counterspell? Maybe they’re the entire high-threat response team of a major empire or planar metropolis.

I’m trying to game out how many of my characters it would take to rescue the player if that’s really 30 5th+ level antimages, and with that many counterspells on the field I think the answer is that they could probably shut down every spellcaster I’ve ever played, at least for long enough to take out the primary target. The only D&D character I’ve played who really has a hope of accomplishing anything is a very high level 4th edition fighter, and even at near-epic levels things still look dicey because I bet those guys are all packing a bunch of other spells like hold person and only one of them has to hit to really mess up his day. Maybe if he teamed up with the high level half-celestial paladin of freedom from 3.5…

Actually I just remembered you have to see your target to counterspell them, so actually some people like the 3.x Sublime Chord would be in the clear as long as they cast improved invisibility while out of sight, but I’m betting the anti-mages are prepared for that too, somehow. It might even things up though!

They are but some clerks are extra suspicious. When I was 24 (coincidentally!) I thought I definitely looked 20-something, but I walked into a liquor store and tried to buy some vodka and the clerk took my real, legitimate ID, squinted at it, accused me of not being the person depicted on the ID, held it under the UV light that reveals the marks that are supposed to make it hard to counterfeit, squinted at it some more, took it in the back and started making a phone call…

I thought she was going to call the cops on me, but eventually she came back and sold me the booze.

I read your comment, thought “Am I dealing with one?” and had to reach into my shirt to check if it had one or not. It turns out it does! So… I guess so. I’m irregular in other ways, though, so I might not be a good point of comparison.

Here’s a much better article that explains the device’s principle of operation, and how it compares to existing technology: This Nobel Prize-winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

“In possession of a tremendous amount of unauthorized materials?” Surely what they’re actually objecting to is distribution of the materials, unless they think he never bought Diablo and those are illicitly acquired .pngs? Also what’s the “unless” part, surely any settlement would require him to remove the material anyway? The tone of this email reads like something I’d find in my spam folder trying to get me to send gift cards to the “IRS.”

It looks like the patch has improvements for the server, so you might look into upgrading!

I have surpassed mere procrastination, and now I simply never do anything.

This reminds me of the bit in Hitchhiker’s Guide where Zaphod unwittingly gets into the torture device that forces you to see exactly how small and short lived you are compared to the vastness of existence, and somehow comes out of it even more convinced that he’s the most important person in the universe.

Am I the only one who’s pro-tipping? I feel the need to apologize for making people do work. If you told me I wasn’t allowed to tip I’d be leaving cash on the counter and running off.

One option:

• Every time an item is unloaded, save the in-game date and time as part of its data.
• Every time an item is loaded that has historical data, check that timestamp.
• Use the time difference between now and then to calculate whether fires have burned out, whether the temperature should have returned to the ambient temperature, etc. You could also assume some kinds of contaminants wear away after a certain time: water dries up, biological substances degrade, etc. If item degradation is ever implemented, potentially you could roll for damage to items that have been unloaded for very long periods of time, although you’d want to know if they were supposed to be exposed to weathering, etc. and you might not have good data on this. Or if food spoilage is ever changed so that items being carried or stored in barrels should still spoil, you can check for rot this way too.

This is how Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead checks if food has rotted or fires have burned out while you were away from an area. There’s a possible edge case here where an unloaded unit acquires an item that should still be dangerous, but then is saved by it taking long enough for them to return that the item becomes safe, but that’s probably okay—it’s hard to imagine how you’d set it up, and even if it happened the player probably wouldn’t notice.

Okay, I’m gonna ask: why is reddit not social media?

Kids these days and their Tiktoks. When I was a kid, I was microwaving toys all on my own, just for the love of the game!

My friend in college had a copy of Demon’s Souls around the time of its release, and I was really impressed with it. It was one of the first games I picked up when I got a PS3 shortly thereafter.

I’m going to be honest, the number one way to get a good rating from me is to put a giant monster in your movie and have it fight other giant monsters OR a giant robot.

My number one complaint about movies with kaiju and/or mecha, which can prevent them from getting five stars, is that there are usually too many scenes with people talking and advancing the plot, and not enough scenes of wanton destruction where the kaiju/mecha are brawling.

So for those of us who don’t speak this language, what’s the trick to being quiet without seeming angry?

Me not that kind of orc!

If you can’t discuss “topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity” are they also planning to eliminate psychology, anthropology, sociology…? It seems difficult to engage in any discipline that studies humans without talking about those things.

Yeah I’m astonished it held up this well over a 3000 year period, it would be more typical for it to look like this:

This is from southwest Greece and a similar age. I wonder if the composition of the bronze plays a big part, or if the well-preserved one was buried under unusual conditions.