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One approach would be to tell them.

Not everything that the GM says to the player necessarily needs to be character information.

Of course, you don’t want to ruin their suspense by telling them too early or too directly, but something along the lines of “as you hear the sound of many footsteps closing in, you remember that you thought you heard a “click-thunk” back in the mansion, but brushed it off as your nerves back then … maybe you did trigger that silent alarm after all.”

I don’t see any mention of hot-swappability and I doubt you’d find many HE switches for it anyway …

Das Keyboard have a few keyboards that provide 1, 2 and 3 (thought #3 sometimes with a hub instead of passthrough).

But they are not hot-swappable and possibly not considered “custom keyboards”, as they are close to the “main stream” and don’t focus on customizability.

The K8 Pro and K10 Pro are in fact different designs (not just the layout) and the K10 Pro has the frame as you mention.

The K10 (non-Pro) is closer to the K8 Pro design if you leave out the Aluminum frame: https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k10-wireless-mechanical-keyboard?variant=39426668298329 (the frame obviously doesn’t shroud all keys individually but just creates a single frame around the whole thing which you may or may not want).

I’ve got the K8 Pro (for work) and the Q3 (at home) and I’m quite happy (but the Q3 has the frame as well).

Or at least honor the ancients by using Impact font with a black outline. There’s a reason why that was/is that is used heavily.

You know that you too are writing in a script, right?

The secret is to do everything as improvisation. If there is no preparation, then there’s no lost time!

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Who am I kidding? I’ve not played in months and haven’t GMed in years …

So you’re saying that not even a D4 likes to use itself for a damage die?

Realistically most adventure parties leave many disabled people (and beasts) in their wake…

I always assumed that “lawful” is relative to the society one lives in/comes from. And if that’s the case then the Punisher is anything but. He’s living by some law, alright, but not law of others around him.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilLaugh

Have you heard of TV tropes? It’s a wiki of … well, tropes in story telling (warning: for some people following a single link to https://tvtropes.org/ means they find themselves half a day later with 32 tabs open and having read up on all kind of story tropes while having forgotten what time is).

On the one hand it will help you recognize the tropes and figure out how many of them are used in all story telling (yes, even the good ones), but on the other hand it can help appreciate that it’s not the tropes or the broad strokes that make up a story, but how well it’s told.

There’s a reason there are so many movies/stories/plays that are just re-tellings of some Shakespear play or another: it doesn’t matter that the outcome is known from the start. The journey and how well it’s told is what’s important.

So basically: “Oh yeah, that guy’s gonna betray me. I wonder how and why exactly!”

“Oh no! This situation would be almost trivial if it wasn’t for this one obscure handicap that we all acquired 5 sessions ago in that short in-between adventure. How will we manage to get out of this?”

You only need to follow this advice if you (the player) have an antagonistic relationship with your DM.

Your character might suffer from the ideas you give them, but the player should get enjoyment from the situations you got.

More often than not the best answer to “Wouldn’t it be hilarious if X happened?” is “Would it? Let’s see! …”

I was answering under the assumption/the context of of “Amazon wants to release an Android-based OS that doesn’t contact any of Googles services”.

So, when I said “easy enough to remove” that was relative to releasing any commercial OS based on AOSP, as in: this will be one of the smallest tasks involved in this whole venture.

They will need an (at least semi-automated) way to keep up with changes from upstream and still apply their own code-changes on top of that anyway and once that is set up, a small set of 10-ish 3-line patches is not a lot of effort. For an individual getting started and trying to keep that all up to do date individually it’s a bit more of an effort, granted.

The list you linked is very interesting, but I suspect that much of that isn’t in AOSP, my suspicion is that at most the things up to and excluding the Updater even exist in AOSP.

A cop out or a coping mechanism. Employers steal so much from employees: time, wages, sense of purpose, sometimes even health. And most of us don’t have good ways to stop them (because socienty). So stealing a bit back might actually help feeling less hopeless.

Yes, but those minor traces are easy enough to remove, especially if you don’t care about being “ceritified” by Google (i.e. are not planning to run the Google services).

Most memes are reusing images or screen caps out of context.

This one is from a video on pretty much this same topic, though: https://youtu.be/gNGa-ydu7z4

Not to diminish what Valve has achieved there (it’s an amazing PC/console hybrid, love mine).

But a smooth experience without any hitches is much easier to achieve when your hardware variation basically boils down to “how big is the SSD”. The fact that all Steamdecks run the same hardware helps keep things simple.

I guess that’s also the reason why they are not (yet?) pushing the new SteamOS as a general-purpose distribution for everyone to use. Doing that would/will require much more manpower.

Not OP, but as someone using Ubuntu LTS releases on several systems, I can answer my reason: Having the latest & greatest release of all software available is neat, but sometimes the stability of knowing “nothing on my system changes in any significant way until I ask it to upgrade to the next LTS” is just more valuable.

My primary example is my work laptop: I use a fairly fixed set of tools and for the few places where I need up-to-date ones I can install them manually (they are often proprietary and/or not-quite established tools that aren’t available in most distros anyway).

A similar situation exists on my primary homelab server: it’s running Debian because all the “services” are running in docker containers anyway, so the primary job of the OS is to do its job and stay out of my way. Upgrading various system components at essentially random times runs counter to that goal.