He’s got a CRISPR formula that will grown you a nice prehensile tail (not one of those nasty rodent ones) and/or body fur. These features are for life, not just for Christmas. If you want paying — how much? He’s almost certain it will work as advertised – it certainly works on hamsters. But he’s a bit evasive about why he hasn’t tested it on himself.
The lycanthropy rules have always seemed a bit rubbish so I’ve just checked out the latest Monster Manual and they seem to have taken a silver coated axe to them.
They seem to have dropped the damage immunity and hence the silver thing and there’s much less chance of PCs getting infected. If they do it’s brutal and uncomplicated. You turn into a werewolf and lose all autonomy. It says nothing about fixing that. There’s no alignment stuff.
The trouble has always been that, especially at low levels, damage immunity is such a huge buff (realistically a competent man with a weapon is more dangerous than a single wolf). And it’s so easy to become a lycanthrope. So why wouldn’t everyone? Why aren’t the general population lining up to be bitten? Hence all the curse stuff which, in game terms, mandates the loss of player agency. Forces alignment change. Not good.
The new rules would seem to debuff lycanthropy very strongly. And simplify the loss of player agency, though not eliminate it.
I think they are confusing lycanthropy with rabies. I think it runs in families, rather than being infectious.
I’d rather make it a bit more shamanistic. Someone has an animal spirit in addition to a human soul and they have a timeshare arrangement, amicable or not. When a lycanthrope dies the animal spirit looks for a new host, usually a close kin to the dead person. Perhaps a person whose blood the dying creature can taste.
Maybe this could happen when a beast master companion dies. The companion animal’s spirit comes scratching at the door of the ranger’s mind.
What do people think? Is something along these lines workable.
I order something which turns out to be coming from the states. Initially I get a delivery time two or three weeks away. But then suddenly it’s to be delivered today.
The strange thing is that tracking has shown the package as being in the UK since several days, but the estimated delivery date doesn’t get updated. This morning the package went from an estimate a week ahead to out for delivery.
Alexa still had the old estimate.
I’ve seen this several times.
I’m a man, no handbag. I tried keeping my glasses on a cord. They kept getting crushed against my chest. I’m currently keeping them in a case but it won’t really fit in a trouser pocket. The case tends to fall out.
There’s endless talk about the possibility, but without any convincing consensus on what it means and what difference it would make. Consciousness is, it seems to me something experienced, not detected.
What’s a good word for a plastic drinking glass? I don’t want to call it a glass when it isn’t
Ever since my father died a few decades ago my greatest fear has been having to abandon m own life and becoming Mum’s full time career. She’s fought hide to maintain her independence but nature seems to have other ideas.
So here I am again sleeping in her flat and spending each day visiting her in hospital. Wondering when I can get home.
I’m not allowed resent this, of course
We people worry about AI reducing jobs but, lately, people are worrying about declining birth rates, and not just in the developed world.
Now declining population in many ways is clearly a good thing. Maybe humans will leave some resources for the other inhabitants of the planet. But there’s the problem of the demographic transition. Who will do the work with an aging population?
So, are robots and AI generally the answer to the demographic transition?
I tried Waze for about a year. The problem that made me abandon it was excessive power use. On a long trip my iPhone was getting so hot that it stopped charging and would shut down even when it was being charged by the car. The phone would get almost too hot to hold
With IOS apps battery management is crucial and Waze seemed to have the worst power control of all the apps I’ve used.
Otherwise I like the app, and might re-install if the battery management has been sorted. I’ve upgraded my phone since the last time I tried to use it.
The guy you’ve getting drunk with in a bar turns off his hologram when nobody else is looking and shows you he (or maybe it) is an alien. He says “I’m not here for long, but I want to play a prank on your lot before I leave. We’re not a particularly practical race, but we’re _way_ ahead of you technologically. What would be a good practical joke?”