Heating on reentry is actually due to compressing the air in front of you, not friction. Falling from orbitall height will absolutely cause you to heat up the air in front of you, even as the air paassing you by is doing you no harm.

Though, if you smash into the atmosphere at orbital speeds, it’s probably going to do you some harm as it tries to force you back down to TV.

100%. They were sloppy as hell. I just know where all of the attention is right now, and didn’t want to give it any more.

I’m not going to lie: I purposefully chose not to talk about baserunning, because the baserunning that everyone wants to talk about right now is IKF’s in the 9th, and I don’t think there’s any issue with what he did there. He could have taken a slightly longer leadoff. He could have tried running through the plate (though, I’m not at all convinced that sliding is actually slower, since you still need to get your foot down on the plate, not just over it, and there isn’t strong evidence that running through is faster). But these were not mental mistakes, they were hedges that didn’t pay off.

Bo, Springer, and possibly Barger (it’s not clear to me whether Kike faked Barger out by starting deeper in the field and inching in or not) made some incredibly embarrassing mental mistakes on the bases, but IKF’s been getting all of the hate, and I don’t think he deserves it.

That was a tough loss. They were so close so many times. They were two outs away. They were one fly ball away. They were one swing away.

If they had just lost, I’d be disappointed, but it’d mostly be nothing. The fact that they had it within their grasp multiple times last night, though, just absolutely burned out my adrenal system.

TTRPGs are games where you create stories, and sometimes those stories are “we did something we shouldn’ta, and someone got ganked”. What you’re describing is someone reading you a story book.

Shohei’s been scuffling the last few games. He didn’t pitch a stellar game 4, and he’s seemed a little beat up at the plate. There’s a real opportunity to continue the pressure from the late innings yesterday in the early game today.

I hope they’re patient at the plate today, and ready to jump on mistakes, not just high fastballs and cutters in the dirt.

I reallly thought George was going to wall it off. I thought Giminez had hit a bloop single. I thought we were going to see 1st and 3rd with one out, amd I thought George was completing the season of his life.

I really, really thought it was happening.

Now I’m just exhausted.

Great start to the game! Gaus’s pitches are moving!

Well, not every game has Heroic Inspiration, but it still has people that gripe about secret rolls. And of those games that have metacurrencies for rerolls and the like, they’re not intended to be used in those situations.

So many people hate secret rolls. So many people feel like they remove agency from them.

But that’s what the dice do. They’re agency-revoking machines.

Yamomoto is really tough. Real final boss of the playoffs energy. But they’ve seen 9 innings worth of him already, which is something none of his other playoff opponents had the opportunity to do.

They have the tools to beat him.

One of my favourite parts about Pathfinder 2e is that items – magic or otherwise – are leveled. I can hand out Level 6 weapons to Level 2 characters, and they will feel absolutely legendary.

Until about Level 5, where they start to feel really good.

Until Level 8, where they just feel OK.

This means, yes, I can take the effort to rebalance fights to account for the party’s toys, or I can just let them feel like fucking bosses for a few levels, and the challenges they take on catch up to them.

The good news, this is their second time seeing Yamamoto this series. Being untouchable for 18 innings is much harder than being untouchable for 9.

The key is going to be keeping Ohtani down and holding back the Dodger’s offense.

And he was right not to. But he couldn’t trust Snell any longer, either.

Having Barger score from 1st on 3 wild pitches was amazing TV viewing.

A significant part of the culture that has formed around 5e is about “having it all”. And usually by ignoring the (admittedly weak) rules that do exist, rather than exploiting actual gaps. So, you can frankenstein together a caster that has martial proficiency in armour (or even melee weapons), with the only compromise being your capstone abilities (which often are very expendable). And then you can metagame away your shitty social abilities by “roleplaying”.

I’m not going to defend 5e – I genuinely think it’s a poorly made game, and place the blame for that entirely on the execuitives – but the reason why so many people refuse to try something else is because they like the exploits that they believe exist, even though they are totally socially constructed.

Spent all night at the ER for what turned out to be a pedestrian inner ear issue. Not going to make it even to the first pitch tonight, I don’t think. But Go Jays Go! Give me a higihlight reel to watch in the morning!

I work in gaming, and I can say with some confidence that, at least at the big publishers, it doesn’t actually work this way. The C-suite, in particular, isn’t talking to developers at all, and aren’t making decisions about products beyond which IPs that they have in their catalogue that they want to put a bunch of money into.

Where the problem is is in the marketing and editorial departments. Most of the big publishers have a department whose job it is is to assess whether unannounced games in development have a viable market, and how to better appeal to that market. The problem is, the people in those deparments don’t use anything but what’s trending right now to determine this, and so you get studios being told that their current game a) should be shoehorned into franchise X or Y, and b) should adopt this mechanic, tone, or aesthetic that doesn’t really fit with the core idea, amd that will be dated by the time the game launches in 2 years.

These are deeply conservative, risk-averse departments, and they gatekeep all of the major development and launch milestones.

I’ve been listening to the Narrative Declaration playthrough of Kingmaker, and they don’t seem to be anywhere near making anyone a king! They seem to have some sort of council-based thaumocracy going, instead!

My players have yet to discover any paths. They just keep following the ones that are readily visible on the map!

Yes! Exactly! And some of the aliens in those caves might be somewhat monstrous!