How much did I like that one guy really.

No a man is a miserable little pile of secrets

Or it's a plucked chicken

I get annoyed when people say things like "big deal, just do xyz yourself, why are you complaining?" . Because making a clear and comprehensive game is WOTC's job they are being paid for with our money!

If the system has a flaw, it's their job to fix it, if they don't they're doing a bad job.

That being said, 5.5e has been pretty cleaned up in this aspect. I'm honestly shocked at how they both added new fun systems and codified a lot of vague mechanics.

I get the logic was sound at the time but the logic seems to assume that this is all a game with predefined rules and strategy.

Like yeah, incumbents typically won before, but would that hold up when everyone had an audible groan about voting for Biden?

I feel like most of political strategy could be replaced by just trying to understand the people voting, rather than bundling up correlations into strategy and blindly following them.

Like I feel like if you talked to most random average people, they'd have told you about the oppressive hopelessness they're feeling. Maybe they don't know why they feel that, but the general mood from everyone is that nothing's actively good is going to happens.

So of course getting a new candidate with a hope themed campaign will reawaken our passion, incumbent be damned.

Eeeeeh maybe not "CP settings"...

It's not like these societies were completely disconnected from each other (except Japan). Remember even people in the past borrowed things from their history for their beliefs. The entirety of Hermeticism is the fusion of Greek and Egyptian beliefs for example (Hermes and Thoth specifically).

I'm just gonna repost a comment I made on a thread about YouTubers you don't watch anymore:

Oh it gets worse with Shadiversity. Huge AI art guy, his brother's an actual artist too so it's hard seeing Shad brag to him. Very "anti-woke" and paints his conservative Mormon beliefs on everything.

The worst unforgivable part is the end of his book has impregnated rape victims step up to defend the rapist protagonist because he "gave them" a child, while the ones that didn't get pregnant were jealous.

He loves to bring up that the book is supposed to explore this immoral character. But this isn't the protagonist's viewpoint this is just how Shad thinks the world works. This is how Shad believes rape victims think.

Very sad to see, I followed him for swords and castles but Jesus Christ.

To add on the point of helium being expensive and valuable, it's also extremely important for supercooling MRI's and supercomputers.

I'd rather have more MRI's than zeppelins.

The gender thing is creepy, but if they could predict age groups then in a perfect world they could analyze adult users talking to children and shut that down.

In a perfect world though, I doubt they'd put effort into making their app safer, heavens no.

I dunno, Are We Cool Yet? has done some top tier trolling and shitposting to the SCP Foundation.

David Attenborough: "Ok these mating rituals are getting ridiculous"

Then on Linux you have a sleep deprived goblin warlock who performs forbidden rituals that deletes the desktop and you have to fix your mistakes without fixing the original error.

It's me, I'm the sleep deprived goblin warlock.