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New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

nextlevelwizard — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:05:55 +0000

It really just depends on do you play D&D or something else. It is perfect fine if you don’t want to play by the rules, but then you aren’t playing the game and we might as well just stop pretending and pick a better system

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:53:49 +0000

Eh, I don’t find it fun because if you can break the combat then you either decide not to play “optimally” or GM has to purposefully create situations to fuck with you specially which is just antagonistic

I don’t know how you go to difficulty curve

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:51:28 +0000

When most of the games rules are about a thing that thing becomes the focal point. 5e also assumes pretty high amount of combat encounters per day to keep all classes in balance, if you are having less then it will make some classes just bad picks which can feel bad

Personally I don’t like it when people don’t play by the rules of the game we have decided to play together, so definitely things should work as the rules say and then ambiguous things are sorted with GMs world’s logic as “rulings”.

If you start by ignoring the rules and only consulting them when there is a dispute then I want to play another game with less rules to begin with

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:47:27 +0000

First one is pretty easy. The player is just trying to do RAW instead of intention. Intent obviously is that while dragging every feet of actual movement costs two of your characters movement allowance, so dropping the burden doesn’t give you more movement.

Countering a counterspell feels like a waste since for one you have to have another caster with counter spell and now they are wasting their reaction plus a slot instead of just going another round. I guess there are situations where that makes sense, but somehow feels bad

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

nextlevelwizard — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:43:14 +0000

Yeah, both players were either rogues or tabaxi (although feline swiftness isn’t dashing)

This is also directly why I don’t like D&D. It is way too combat focused and video gamey. If your combat system is so complex that people find (or even feel that they need to find) “exploits” in it then your system probably sucks. So many class features are purely combat focused completely ignoring the actual roleplaying part of role playing games.

Also the “counter chaining” feels odd to me, is this something that actually happens? Like people waste spellslots counterspelling a counterspell?

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:16:44 +0000

These are actually fun to run. Just checked from work who makes most commits and found I have as many commits in past 2 years as 3 next people.

That probably isn’t a good sign

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:02:52 +0000

"If I don't destroy humanity someone far worse will do it" -Sam Altman

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:11:13 +0000

70-90 seems reasonable, 90 is already over my comfort which is around 80, but the post talked about >90 degrees which just seems stupidly hot

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:09:40 +0000

Since when has Finnish sauna been dry? As a Finn I have never been in a dry sauna. We always throw water on the stones.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

nextlevelwizard — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:06:52 +0000

Yeah, so the latter as I suspected

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

nextlevelwizard — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:05:45 +0000

Is this actual stat? Or do you mean “have access to” instead of actually “at their home” i.e. a private sauna they can use at any time 24/7, because from my lived experience I doubt the latter.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

nextlevelwizard — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:03:36 +0000

Who doesn’t have 30 minutes per week to do nothing? I am genuinely asking.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Finnish sauna heat exposure induces stronger immune cell than cytokine responses"

nextlevelwizard — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:01:46 +0000

90+ sauna sounds painful. Are you actually throwing water? Because even with 80 the steam is pretty hot

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "GitHub has DMCA'd nearly all forks of the official Claude-code repo"

nextlevelwizard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:43:32 +0000

C’mon bro. It isn’t like all AI companies haven’t pirated all research papers, books, magazines, and pay walled content on the Internet.

Either you are being naive AF or you are actively trying to spread discontent. I hope it is the former.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

nextlevelwizard — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:52:29 +0000

Point is to kill or at least hinder AI progress

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

nextlevelwizard — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 06:24:36 +0000

If I have seen them, I guess my internal ad block is just too strong.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:54:10 +0000

I am not. I don't even have Apple ID.

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:49:34 +0000

I don't know what that first one means. You mean the glass design?

Yeah, spotlight has been rough for years, I grant you that.

I haven't seen a single ad in my system. Where do you see them?

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Microsoft's "Fix" for Windows 11: Flowers After the Beating"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:40:09 +0000

In what way?

New comment by nextlevelwizard in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

nextlevelwizard — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:36:23 +0000

Beating is a normal English idiom. While I do sympathize with anyone suffering from abuse, I highly doubt anyone is actually suffering from use of the word.