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M A R M

@virtualmarmalade.bsky.social

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32, FL, USA any pronouns are ok 👍 amateur ttrpg writer, online opinion haver/shitposter, sonic/zelda/pokemon fan, cute dog haver rip cohost eggbug forver 🫡 pfp: vrkatz by http://kazooeybloo.carrd.co

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

me pogging up when i get to choose one of three things

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

this video is gonna change my life. i just broke down two chickens for the first time and it was so easy and cheap. i had no idea whole chickens were so much less expensive! it's honestly astonishing!

youtu.be/Dw9vRSVUZgs?...

Stop Wasting Money on Chicken

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

bro i'm feeling gruntled af rn. absolutely chuffed

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

this is the plot of naruto i'm pretty sure

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

this is why whenever someone asks me to run d&d i am compelled to make up my own shit instead bc some of this stuff is just stale and sauceless now after having been reheated and served over and over

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

and like you said all of that is built on the foundation of like "the product" they bought 25 years ago or whatever. Beholders and Drow and 10 flavors of Dragon that all fell out of a toy chest in the 70s and now it's "The World's Greatest Roleplaying Game" or whatever the core books say now

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

100% i agree. once it was acquired by wizards it was a done deal basically. not that the tsr era was, like, more "creatively pure" or whatever but now all of the Official Lore and shit is so suffocating. wizards (and now hasbro) wants to turn d&d into a walled garden so bad

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

and now what 40, 50 years later we're still rocking with this, huh? i feel like i'm being sniped by the world's most annoying and boring nerd from across time and space. this is maddening

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

i've heard of the toys thing and tbh that is a fun origin for some of those monsters. but c'mon gary you couldn't go at least bronze and *iron*? like the bronze age/iron age? or hell bronze and steel for two different alloys used to make weaponry? no we needed copper, bronze AND brass? sigh

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

IT'S DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS OK YOU COULD AT LEAST PUT MORE EFFORT INTO THE DRAGONS PART

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

also why the fuck do brass and gold have the same breath weapon?? and there's no poison breath metallic dragon??

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

iron! steel! tungsten! platinum! tin is right there! aluminum! i would even take nickel or zinc for god's sake!

BRASS AND BRONZE ARE LITERALLY COPPER ALLOYS SO CLOSE THAT THEY SHARE AN EYMYLOGICAL ROOT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

really? you got through the precious metals and went aww fuck uhhh we already have copper how bout uhhh brass and bronze, too shit we can't name another metal??

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 2d

so when they were making the titular dragons for dungeons and dragons

what the hell possessed them to make 5 differently colored chromatic dragons (reasonable, cool even) and 5 metallic dragons but three of them are THE SAME FUCKING METAL

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

finally we found the illegal alien votes

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

check out this cool lizard i found outside

a small lizard clinging to the side of a tree, trying to blend in. it has a frill along its neck and back.

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

oh yeah purple stake btw so rebate, ticket, and constellation were all eternal lol

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

LEVEL 70 PAIRS

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

i was even making red steel i just needed ectoplasm and mime and i was going naneinf i just know it..... oh man that smarts that's gonna haunt me..... a balatro run to make drspectered proud....

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

i was making so much money,,,, so many points,,,, i flew too close to the sun... i could have gone so much farther but i lost focus for a second and played my last hand without realizing it... i was trying to dig for money/purple seals and i threw completely 😭

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M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

omfg i just threw away an incredible endless run with blueprint, brainstorm, golden ticket, and mail-in rebate with a constellation up to like x15

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

also a lot of powerpoints in this show too. tbh once you've seen hxh you notice how fundamental it is to modern shonen

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

LIKELY??? PROBABLY?????

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

catching up on my hero academia and now having seen hxh every time someone says "probably" or "most likely" i think of gon and killua talking about pitou 🥲

M A R M @virtualmarmalade.bsky.social · 3d

youtube working fine for me on mobile at least skill issue i guess