These days? Any writing that doesn’t feel sterilized and robotic gives me faith that it was written by a human being. But there are plenty of ways to achieve that without spelling and grammar errors.

Nice to finally see other Americans waking the fuck up and realizing that this is what we’ve been doing to the rest of the world since the fucking inception.

You can’t have a sequel to Galaxy Quest without Alan Rickman, may he rest in peace. He cannot be replaced.

I think it’s because following some actual principles of art theory is too liberal-coded, so it affirms that the digital equivalent of crayon scribbles by a drunk asshole is superior.

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Personally, I view CR like the pirate code; they’re more like guidelines than rules.

I look for how much damage a monster can deal in one round. I try to simulate a planned combat encounter well before I throw it at my players to make sure it’s survivable if they’re smart.

Probability is just probability. What separates D&D from a video game is the flexibility of the players and the DM. Lateral thinking wins the day!

My advice? Review your players’ backstories and add in an unexpected ally who shows up just in time to deliver the solution, but at the cost of needing their help with something conveniently related to the main quest. Alternatively, encounter an NPC who, likewise, conveniently assists them out of a sticky spot in exchange for pursuing the main quest.

Ugh, god, the graphic design is terrible.

Right?? Fuck, I swear, I will singlehandedly write a mod that finishes his story and gives him a proper actual arc, because he really is the best of us, and he deserves it.

And that is why Wyll is my favorite companion.

Right now, they know that openly ordering a massacre on protesters will result in the military turning on them. And the protesters know that if we push them too far, we’ll be the first casualties in a civil war that could turn literally fire-in-the-sky nuclear overnight.

You do realize we’re trying to fight back against the largest military on planet Earth, right? Carefully calculated risk assessment and lawfare is our option right now. Eventually, it’ll be like two tectonic plates grinding at a fault line. Something will slip. And when it does, it’ll be an earth-shaking catastrophe. All of us are just… waiting. Waiting for the other shoe to finally drop.

Right now, most people I know here are drafting exit and escape plans because we are that scared of our own fucking neighbors. If you know anyone in Eastern Europe, ask them how things worked out for their families when the USSR broke up. And promise me you’ll do something nice for them afterwards, because digging out that PTSD means you owe them for bringing it up at all.

Honestly? Justified assessment. I gave up on making excuses for this empire and its lies a decade ago. We were never the good guys. And if we ever were, it was by accident.

If you see an American flag, I am asking you, as an American, fucking burn it. Cut all ties with every American corporation. Never buy anything made in the US again. Never watch another American movie. The only language that my oppressors can even fucking speak at this point is Corporatese.

Boycott, Divest, Sanction. Starve them out. Those of us at the very bottom will survive, somehow. We’re humans. As a species, we’re cockroaches, just like you; we can survive anything, it’s kinda the story of humankind. If our oppressors run out of cash, they’ll start falling apart. That might be the only way we’ll get a chance to finish them off.

America is too big to govern like an autocracy. It can’t be like North Korea. It’s already cracking under the strain of trying. Don’t be a scab, stick to the boycotts.

Stole my comment.

Yank here. I would rebut by pointing out that Canada has bloodied its hands on Native Canadians and participated in American imperialism as a toady. But honestly? It would nakedly be the pot calling the kettle black. And the kettle’s at least started scrubbing off the char.

I plan to keep fighting my government, any way I can. But I feel so isolated and desperately outmanned and outgunned. Other nations that have successfully overthrown their oppressors didn’t have to battle the surveillance and military industrial complex up close and in its own house. As awful as our abusers-in-chief have been to the world, people tend to forget that the first ones they every abused were us. It’s the difference between growing up next door to the abusive psychotic gun-waving alcoholic father and being their child. He doesn’t even have to get off the couch to beat us.

It feels like suicide to fight back, but the few of us who have humanity left are doing it anyway, even though we know that we don’t have a chance. Not unless a chunk of our military decides to exercise an iota of independent thought and remember that part of their oath and a heap of our national myth was meant to give them permission to shoot the President himself if it came down to it.

Please, save us. I’m begging you, save us however you can. We’re already suffering. It’s going to get worse no matter what we do at this point, so fight them while we have time. Please.

Start by thinking of fictional characters that you’ve admired or feel resonate with who you are. What made this fictional character someone I could relate to? What made this individual’s aesthetic and presentation worth emulating?

Not to be silly, but for me, it was Donatello the Ninja Turtle. I admired his compassion and curiosity. It was a gentler sort of masculinity that I felt was something worth emulating, rather than more toxic representations that are pervasive on that front. Later on, I encountered Raine Whispers from Owl House. I loved their courage and revolutionary spirit, and I just love their actor’s voice. I wish I could steal it. Rosie O’Donnel’s performance of Turk in Tarzan was also something that I wish I could emulate, vocally. Even as a kid, I had no idea Turk was a girl, and couldn’t tell if she was a boy. I had seen so many cartoon characters in drag that seeing Turk in Jane’s dress was funny no matter how you sliced it because it felt hilariously wrong for their gender.

I’m a firm believer in the idea that we learn so much from storytelling as we’re growing up, and the heroes we admire end up becoming a part of who we are. I’m sure there’s one character in a story you know who has roughly the gender you’re looking for.

Seed your torrents.

omg, same. Between weed and tiktok, it absolutely ruined any semblance of functionality I had. Quitting both was the best thing I could do for myself. I’d love to quit caffeine, but given that it’s the only effective and accessible medication I have for my ADHD right now, I can’t risk it.

Same, I’ve found coffee is literally the only thing that tangibly improves my symptoms instead of making them worse.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11032069/

PSA from a cannabis user with ADHD, there is a reason I only use it on holidays and not for treating my mental health issues. It actively makes them worse. If you need to self-medicate for insurance reasons, coffee or caffeine pills and setting timers and alerts on your phone are far more effective.

While experimentation with psychoactive substances is relatively normative for adolescents and young adults, those with ADHD are more likely to experience negative consequences of use compared with neurotypical peers and despite comparable rates of use.21,22 A closer look at the worsening risk of cannabis use problems in ADHD populations is warranted, starting with cannabis use trends, effects on cognition, and motivators for use.

Chronic cannabis users with ADHD may worsen preexisting deficits in working memory and executive function in ways that may not become apparent until later in life, with long-lasting, persistent effects despite discontinuing use

(clears throat)

(holds up abused teddy bear)

Ecce homo

Qui est faba

Ecce homo

Qui est faba

Qui est faba…