Look at the girth of that dude’s index finger. No wonder it works for him.

I knew I shouldn’t have mentioned sausage on Lemmy. Some of y’all are too weird for me

You sound like you’ve never eaten sausage while engaged in physical combat

This is only a problem because people imagine a potion has to have certain traits. Afaik, none of the rules as written specify that potions have to be more than a mouthful.

It isn’t like potions are medicine, where you have to have a specific quantity to be effective. They’re liquid magic. A single drop could carry whatever it does, though that would be less than useful because getting that single drop out of a bottle would be just as time consuming as chugging a bottle.

If you don’t think of potions as being in a half pint sized bottle, the problem takes care of itself. A vial about two inches long and an inch in diameter, made of earthenware or even glass would hold enough of whatever to fill your mouth, be just as portable, and only take three to five seconds to use.

If you ignore having to swallow, it’s even faster. It’s magic, it could activate and affect you as soon as it’s inside your body. Which also means rectal intake would work tbh.

There’s plenty of fictional reference for potions being contact based, where the first drops start whatever change occurs. And there’s basis good healing positions being able to be used topically, though that won’t always apply to every injury.

But think about that for a second. If the potion has to be swallowed, that’s pretty badly planned magic. The healing spells that healing potions are made from are contact based depending on the system. Touch ranged healing is fairly common. So, why can the healing potions not work if poured onto a wound? Why would you have to wait while you swallow, then let the magic burst from the stomach?

And, we know potions can be used on unconscious targets. Unconscious people can’t always swallow anyway. So the full draught being swallowed is obviously preconception rather than something that is inherent to potion use.

The reason potion making in our world (hey, there’s recipes for them, and people think they work, don’t blame me) supposedly requires drinking the entire thing is that the ingredients are part of the magic, and the use of heat to reduce the potion beyond the initial making is “magically” going to break down what would work. Mind you, that’s what people have claimed when the question is posed to them.

Working with real magic, you could reduce the liquid part, or hand wave it and say that the ingredients are consumed in making the potion, and thus don’t require the same end volume.

And yes, I’ve thought about this way too much lol

I think you’re right for most groups tbh. My group just happens to enjoy metagaming, rules lawyering etc, with some roleplay mixed in ofc. And since most people play DnD, you only have to learn it once a new edition gets popular.

Maybe some of us like it that way. I didn’t sign up for improv night, I signed up for UTTERLY ANNIHILATING GOBLINS with THE BOYS

Google’s Mysterious Proprietary Algorithm shows different results to different people. Why are you pretending that other people are pretending?

Yes, but I’d prefer incompetence rather than being deliberately anti-developer.

Jail ≠ prison, this just means he’s going to have a worse time waiting for trial.

As a js dev, I will gymnastically take that as a compliment

That’s good to hear, but I wouldn’t choose to use a language that took 5 years to get that right, when most languages have it from day 1.

You have to manually provide a seed every time you want a random number. Gophers will defend this with their dying breath.

The thing is, I don’t actually disagree with it. I don’t care what other people do if it doesn’t affect me, I just understand why and I’m willing to say it out loud.

“It’s so easy for me everyone, look how much better I am than you.” Proving my point but go on.

Ignore the reasons they give you. It’s literally 100% ego. They think it’s harder so doing it makes them better than everyone else.

Edit: They hated him because he spoke the truth.

The sources are… A bunch of tankie newsletters, a Medium article, and official Chinese reports? LOL talk about bias.

If you’re worried about real harm this person should not be your partner. It doesn’t matter what they think about a movie.

Being manipulative is a good alternative compared to just being direct and asking your partner what they think? I’m sure someone who is going to throw a fit about the Barbie movie will be happy to tell you what they think about feminism if you just ask.

Not sure why this is such a common perception. Most of the software devs I know are pretty average people other than being computer nerds. I met one trans CS student in college but that was it.

This game really makes you feel like you’re being stabbed with a knife.