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Thanks for this. Its been quite a while since I've played, so I was going off of fuzzy memory. I do still have all the books, but haven't opened them in a long time.

That's exactly it. You choose what you want your character to do and be within the GM's world type. Then you have one or two sessions really setting everything up for world, characters, story, progression, etc. After that you're done with the hard part. Heck, even the GM is done with it. They may need to reference material occasionally, but the game almost plays itself.

It's much, much more casual and focuses more on story and narrative. Its like if Choose Your Own Adventure was a game, the rolls only being there to add flavor and excitement to your adventures.

This is true... that might not be worth the risk at that point.

Oh yeah, my sister and my mother already have one of those. I was thinking that the chair would just be so overkill that it'd go right past funny straight into "a personal slight upon my honor" territory.

You should check out GURPS. Its a simpler system with universal campaigns (modern, fantasy, mech, dimension hopping, steampunk). The system is super easy. You start with 100 points to make your character. You can spend them on stats, skills, spells, and perks. You can even gain more points by taking quirks.

You roll 3d6 for everything. Your goal is to get under your skill number. Fireball of 13 needs to roll under 13. If its raining or something, your GM can choose to put a -4 on that. So now you need to roll under 9. Just simple addition and subtraction, but it works really well.

D&D players aren't satanists. They're much worse. They're math addicts.

I mean, I didn't expect to, but boy was I upset I couldn't find this. Would have been a great gift to finally get me disowned from my mom's side of the family.

Make one where you put in grapes and just sit and lay on it all day to make wine starter, aka grape juice.

I usually try to opt for Vivaldi for anything I need for Chromium. I know Microsoft too well at this point (since Windows 3.14). Like, Swiftkey is my favorite android keyboard and I forced myself to learn how to use Thumbkey. That's how much I just can't trust them anymore.

I only use Chrome if I'm going to be doing web development. That being said, I have heard decent things about Edge's performance lately. I could have dealt with MS shoving AI down my throat, but pics of my screen and ads in my start bar was the last straw.

Too bad I enjoy Github and Minecraft... otherwise I'd avoid their software altogether.

I actually trust Apple's security. They make bank on high end devices for high prices, enough where they don't need to rely on collecting and selling user data. Iirc, the only thing that really collects your data is Apple Music and Apple TV, but every paid sub streaming platform does that.

There's nothing wrong with Safari at all. I have my irks with Apple tech, but honestly they're probably one of the safer big corporations imo. I do love Airpods, though. I have a pair of Max and I can't get by with any other headphones now, lol. I just can't get used to mac and iOS, especially since I love open source android apps.

Makes sense about Orion. Its still brand new. Zen and Vivaldi are two of my absolute favorites, as well. I just switched back to Zen. I felt that Zen was weirdly more sluggish than Floorp for some reason. I mulled on it a bit and figured it out. mousewheel.default.delta_multiplier_y is set to 300 in Floorp and 200 in Zen. I set it to 300 and it feels so much better.

That's why I don't have any subscription services as well (aside from VPN and Debrid). I'm now less legally bound than those who use "legal" services (if you count extortion as legal).

Ngl, I'm going to bookmark this reply and see if I can get something similar set up. However, I will still have to look around for when communities open registration. The closest thing I was in back in the day was Demonoid when it first launched. I got in early through a friend who was a trusted member. Yes, it was torrents, but it was a completely private torrent economy.

That being said, torrents are still a security risk. I've just been using them for so long that I know the right channels and uploaders to go through in the public scene. I haven't had a single malicious file fot my last 8 years on Windows. Now that I'm on Linux, the risk is a bit less. There's still risk, but not as bad.

Zen Browser keeps me from going back to Vivaldi (I do love Vivaldi, don't get me wrong). They added the best of Vivaldi to Firefox. Workspaces, essential tabs, tiled tab windows, and side toolbars. There's a mod that reorganizes the theming to work with Firefox themes, but you can also right click the tab bar and pick any color under the sun, even multicolor gradients (I think up to 5 colors).

lmao Fair enough. Have you tried the Orion Browser yet? I was curious about it.