I think you can refocus the modern aggressive threatening behaviour of young men into either a physical or psychological aspect of masculinity that celebrates being respected and admired for the safety projected by them. A 'real man' is someone who makes sure everyone is heard, everyone is safe, everyone can rely upon, and that no one can get away with shit around. They should be beacons of safety, strength of character, and patience. I believe our ancestors gained this by survival, team bonding through necessity and respect for the danger of nature. Humility needs to come back in a big way.
It does, I think. It powers "lair actions", gives powers like interrupting turn sequence, making multiple moves in sequence. When the GM has a pool of currency players can see, there's an unsaid acknowledgement things are going wrong/badly, which helps fuel collaboration in the storytelling aspect. I can say that someone fails an attack, but on a fail with fear they miss the attack AND leave themselves open to a harsh counterattack, or perhaps lose their weapon. I can do all of this off the cuff in D&D because 'GM said so', but then the players can feel an adversarial relationship instead of collaborative, which is so much more encouraged in Daggerheart.
All entirely subjective, and at its core it's still heroic fantasy same as hundreds of other systems and if you are put off by rolling two dice for metacurrency, it's likely not for you.
Sure, it's not solving anything, but IMO it's fun giving the GM a tokenified response currency even though you pull off a success. I've seen a fair amount of backlash, but just feel portraying the dice mechanic as Star Wars is miles off base, when it adds a narrative prompt for success/failure (D&D does this with nat20/nat1).
I don't think any designer has ever said it is from Star Wars, and it most definitely does not use them as Light Side/Dark Side or imposed morality. It's inspired by the Genesys rpg system of degrees of success/failure and has narrative effects like "Yes, but" and "No, however".
Writing code to process data is absolutely not the same way anesthesiology works 😂 Comparing state specific logic bound systems to the messy biological processes of a nervous system is what gets this misattribution of 'AI' in the first place. Currently it is just glorified auto-correct working off statistical data about human language, I'm still not sure how a written program can have a voodoo spooky black box that does things we don't understand as a core part of it.
I can't quite wrap my head around this, these systems were coded, written by humans to call functions, assign weights, parse data. How do we not know what it's doing?
I keep coming back to this, but why do the evil twisted fucks behind evil PURE evil shit always have comedic "cartoon villain" names like fucking Fink?!
This is an absolute testament that you can back-of-napkin a better story than 99% of the dirge slop swill that studios pump out because they're all money obsessed banker finance fuckheads with a fetish for being seen as creative. There is a DESERT of dry dead writing rooms crushed in spirit by "what if they're sisters??" meddling corpos who can't be told to fuck off because of reprisals. We really are in the scumsuck bullies-in-control-of-the-school timeline where everything has an implicit fate to suck because of the ego and complacency of corporate media.
I simply don't understand how "vote to fund thing A" gets conflated with "also pass ultra-evil rule B". How hard is it to vote on each issue separately and keep shit like this isolated from unrelated legislation?
Thanks for the solid explanation! I think next steps are to look up any potential trip ups with my hardware on just getting Linux running, nvidia cards, m.2 raid, external audio interface yadda yadda...
Who would wilfully mingle with the broken genetics of a narcissist psychopath?