INeedMana

Well, it is the state the hobby is in general, not only Lemmy.

Thanks for letting me know about Fully Automated, I'll check it out

I haven't played Cyberpunk but I've been the GM when we transitioned from Warhammer to Shadowrun. This is what I'd say to myself back then:

• This is not a game about resource management. Don't view combat as "we should do X combats of such and such difficulty between rests". Focus on obstacles like "if they get inside with guns blazing, the elevators might be blocked" and leave to the players to decide how to approach them
• Don't plan how will the gameplay progress, focus on who (meaning NPCs) does what, why, what are their obstacles
• Don't try to get all the mechanics right from the beginning. Try to get a grip on general flow of the rules and when you meet a situation for the first time, make a ruling on the spot. Look it up after the game
• If you know which flavour you are going after (black trenchcoat vs pink mohawk) describe it to your players so you're on the same page
• Completely abandon "don't split the party"

Regarding Shadowrun itself, I'm interested in Lore discussions, GM discussions not about the mechanics (i e. "how do I portray Johnny Spinrad hiring our group? Tee Hee turned out wrong"), reviews of campaign/mission books, etc

I'm also interested in general GMing content like the "onion plots", "lazy gm" approach or "how to do combat like a dolphin"

Since you chose that comment to ask your question, I'll expand on what I'm complaining about. Content I have problem with is a title that sounds like it might be the general advice but then suddenly "this monster has the following stats, so that's how you put it against your players in a smart way". It's great that it exists and I'm sure anyone playing D&D can take a lot from articles like this. But it's of no use for me and from my perspective there's a lot of content like this.
Hence in general I tend to avoid the "general RPG" spaces because most of the links I find there turn out to be not for me, and only after I start reading. And I get it that it might sound over the top that I complain about needlessly reading a paragraph or two. But with the amount of backlog that I have, the proportions of what topics interest me vs those which don't and the rate at which unread content grows - yes, every click counts for me

Yes, you're right. As a GM I'd accept my players simply blowing it up, because mimicking eco-terrorists' MO perfectly is not why they were given that heist. Fortunately they came to similar conclusion themselves and plan to break the drilling part

Watch out what you type when you want to come back! Who knows how the showers look like in Triangulum Galaxy

I think you might be hitting something else besides the shower

Eaten by the feeling of responsibility

brb, soup

Thank you for the offer but I don't think it's a good idea for me to become a moderator. Let's see what time brings

I don't use flatpak but I didn't have to configure Lutris or Steam in any way for that.

If you look around goverlay you'll find that there are two ENVs that you can set up in X/wayland service to have MangoHud automatically in every context it can render in.

So first try running with MANGOHUD=1 env exported. If that doesn't help, try mangohud steam.
If I understand correctly, flatpack run in some kind of container, so it's possible that you might need to set the env or the command, so it happens inside the container

Everything that travels via a wave (wifi, gsm, radio, tv, etc) travels in more or less planar dimension. in order to stop it, you'd have to have some kind of wave blocking shutter (physical requirements for such a block would depend on the length of the waves you want to block) around the whole planet. Blocking waves is not feasible as long as we want to have sun

https://xkcd.com/273/

will TerraFist be ok with a shooting match with mtc and likely losing those operatives?

I agree with Ziggurat that they should be the punk side of the setting. So underfunded good guys, who should rather go with "hit and run" modus operandi. Not a show of force like that.
Unless they really take orders from the Sea Dragon and the rucus grabbed her attention? Food for thought

“The eco terrorists aren’t the ones who took over the oil trig after all? But then they showed up anyways? What the hell is going on?"

Exactly what I had in mind ;)