Spuddaccino

The specific interpretation is how I use it: if it's bread bits cooked inside something, it's stuffing, and if it's bread bits cooked outside something, it's dressing. If it's bread bits cooked on its own, it's croutons and is now reserved for salads.

The best part is, while researching that rupture point, I found an academic paper comparing the relative squishiness of various animal eyeballs. Science!

Well, the human eye ruptures at around 50 PSI. I'll spare you the math, but if you can throw it at a wall so it hits over 45 mph, it'll splat. Otherwise, it'll bounce.

I think it's mostly an unintended benefit. These scams are usually run out of countries with English as a second language, so you get some grammatical errors in translation. It does increase the conversion rate, though, so they don't bother spending extra money getting a native English speaker to copy edit.

The dude could probably take out your lungs and heart with his eyes closed.

To be fair, so could I.

I just make sure there are some consequences, even if it's something like "There are other things that live in this dungeon you're camping in, and they just found the pile of bodies you've left strewn about and have raised the alarm."

I, personally, think this is a totally valid tactic, and wouldn't be upset if a player used it in my game. One of the first things we go over in Session Zero, though, is that your characters, while unusual, are not unique. Any BBEG worth his stuff is capable of scrying on your tactics and hiring a hit squad that can copy or counter your tactics.

If a player started doing this repeatedly and trivialized many encounters, maybe the next group has his own sorcerer that can do that, or knows disintegrate, or can teleport the big stompy guy into the obvious spellcaster's face. Cheese isn't an arms race the players can win.

When you cast a leveled spell using a bonus action, the only other spells you can cast with your action on that turn is a cantrip.

I, personally, think it's confusing and doesn't really add much in the way of balance to the game. Let the wizard burn all his spells twice as fast and be useless for the rest of the adventuring day. If your adventures have meaningful consequences for taking too long clearing a dungeon, it'll work itself out.

I had actually never made the connection that Hermes was the weirdo Ascian that hung out in Garlemald with Zenos in the Shadoebringers cutscenes, and that now makes more sense to me.

I really liked Elpis as a zone, but I think the game explicitly saying that Hermes wasn't Fandaniel yet during that zone made me mostly disregard it as a possibility for the future, so I was mostly just following around a guy and a bird lady I'd never met before. I honestly couldn't even tell you if he took the job after we kicked his teeth in, I was so done with that guy.

I appreciate you mentioning this, though, and I wish that I could see the zone for the first time again with that understanding. =/

I felt like the main villain came out of nowhere, and completely dumpstered everything I was looking forward to story-wise.

I was excited that we could finally take the fight to Garlemand, only to find out that it's been wiped out already.

I was excited to kick Zodiark's ass, only to find out that it's actually the last thing that was keeping the actual super secret bad guy in check this whole time.

I wanted to finally deal with the Ascians once and for all, not learn about a little bird girl in the penultimate chapter of the third act that flies off into space and throws a tantrum.

I was expecting Zodiark to be the final boss. It would have been AWESOME if Hydaelyn was. Instead we had to learn about some character that's never been referenced before, that we spend 1 zone learning about her entire back story before having to go fly off and slap her around. There wasn't enough time to even care about this character, let alone feel bad about putting it down like we were supposed to.

At that point, the main story was over, and the patches were starting a lead up into whatever new story arc is happening next, so I've been on a break ever since.

From the other side: I'm pro-union, but at my workplace I'm management.

One of the guys on my crew is terrible at his job. Just awful. Everyone hates working with him, he doesn't get anything done on time, he's either stupid or willfully ignorant, the list goes on and on.

The union, however, has negotiated that I can't action for productivity. It literally doesn't matter how badly he does his job, as long as he's in his spot and something is happening, I can't do anything. On top of that, this guy has seniority over most of the other guys on the crew, so I can't even give him less hours without cutting the people who actually get shit done.

It's incredibly frustrating, and the only thing I can do is watch his attendance like a hawk in the hopes I can get rid of him for being late one too many times.

For union dues, I'll sometimes bring up strikes. People know that when unions strike, they aren't working, and when they aren't working, they aren't getting paid. What they don't realize is that most unions pay the employees during strikes, and that money has to come from somewhere.