Well, the goal of rent seeking is to collect money, without giving any products or services in return. And without a product, you don’t need a Product team.

“Selectively simulationist” is a great way to put it. I think everyone falls victim to that from time to time and I’m definitely stealing your turn of phrase.

Disco lost me when I got to the episode where everyone is going to die unless the main character cAn tAlK tO a bOy aT tHe dAnCe!

Lower Decks was fun though. And I’ve watched like, 1 episode of SNW but it was a good pilot. Haven’t plumbed the depths of the rest of nutrek yet.

I was too lazy to make it but I was thinking earlier today of doing a “I hate nutrek because it’s derivative and centrist, you hate it because you are a nazi, we are not the same” meme. (Not that I’m calling you a nazi, this was just an idea I had, not directed at you)

Yes

Ohhhh they hate nutrek, got it.

Some have figured out how to eliminate Product. It’s called rent-seeking behavior or more recently neo-feudalism. The short version is you organize society such that everyone is required to give you all their money all the time or die. See for example the health insurance industry.

People are asking for RICK BERMAN back!? Is this a mirrorverse thing?

Nah, no one here likes that show.

Specialization is good, because when everybody in the party is good at one narrow field we all get to take turns doing cool things. If you make a character that’s good at everything, nobody else gets to do anything.

Wow, they really don’t let you have fun in 5e do they?

Lets be real here, Mutiny is like a 200-level course at the Academy

There are some formats where inventory management becomes interesting again. We tried doing a Hexcrawl earlier this year and there was a lot of interesting gameplay to be had in the risk/reward management of how many supplies they wanted to carry vs how much they wanted to invest in pack animals, limiting their ability to carry loot back, carrying this vs that, guessing how much they’ll use before they can resupply or where future resupplies might be, gambling on whether to press forward and risk running out or turn back, that kind of thing. It’s just the more currently popular adventure structures right now (eg linear or branching narratives) where inventory tracking is superfluous.

You can always just have a penalty to will saves.

Pretty normal for us over here

I used to only have one (seemingly) female friend, and then that friend transitioned, and I started to worry what it said about me that I only had male friends. Fortunately, a year or two later most of my other friends transitioned in the other direction and balance was restored.

Had to invoke our Data Transmission policy’s AI clause for the first time

Understandably so, because some vulcans also lie constantly and claim they don’t experience those emotions.

Do you? You’re just casting a spell like magic missile or anything else. Perhaps the credulous fools that wrote it thought it consumed souls, but you don’t care about their ignorant opinions.

Atheist lich that wants to live forever because he doesn’t believe in an afterlife and isn’t bothered by eating souls because he doesn’t believe they exist.