@obscurestar it is actual patriotism to want your country - your community just writ large - to be an okay place to live. What's not patriotic are people who see said community-writ-large as an opportunity for unfettered profiteering, no matter how much they've always controlled the rhetoric about anthems, pledges, flags, guns and crosses.
Idk about you but that juxtaposition feels really weird.
So something pressed the "you won't be missed" buttons over on Twitter and I deactivated my account.
This was probably too much heat of the moment and not enough thinking in long term.
I think I am going to wait until at least tomorrow morning to decide if I'll reactivate the account or not. I've *got* 30 days.
I had to do some paperwork for an agency, so I broke out the scanner, and getting it to print then having my old Photoshop crash after really cleaning up an elaborate image, was so frustrating that I decided okay, that's it for scanning tonight. I'm getting better at realizing the tunnel vision I get when angry or stressed doesn't reflect a permanent unchanging state.
re: Clarence Thomas opinion
@chimerror And yet there will always be chucklefucks like Thomas, because the downside of everyone being basically the same is that greed is universal and there isn't a minority free of people who will gladly see us all go to the camps as long as they get a healthy tax break out of the deal.
And that's the thing with conservative double standards; if one of THEIR Master Race gets caught corrupt as fuck, then clearly it's due to notorious leftists like the FBI, or w/e, but as soon as anyone marginalized pulls the same shit, it's an excuse to point fingers and go "oh, isn't that just like a [slur]."
coyote sing along hour, pissed the fuck off
We all want to be more real than all the others
Wanted all of us to be more real than all of the rest
But it wasn't
Always starts with Galaga in a bar
And ends in a broken heart
Last cock you sucked, to the last cunt you fucked
I'm forever your girl
Please, please, please, say that you love me.
When you think about it Ravenloft is weird. An AD&D game with a bland vampire inspired creating a cool vampire focused adventure and people wanted more… so now a Hammer/Universal Film horror setting is integral to a game about colorful epic heroes potentially saving the world. It’s a little like saying since REH wrote Lovecraft inspired fiction, Red Nails or Tower of the Elephant translate best to Call of Cthulhu adventures..
two things in the history of D&D/generic fantasy settings which I think might be fun games;
* the heyday of elves and dwarves. Maybe our heroes travel far from their homelands to look for trading partners, or foil their slaver kin, which is about to rip elf society apart. Whatever the case, they find themselves among humans, this new growing power whose bronze technology and hero-led warbands seem so unlike home. I'm imagining something like Sinuhe, traveling among Mycenaeans.
* the coming of adventurers. For centuries, wizards and armored knights were how society fought back big, physically powerful adversaries like giants and dragons. But with the expansion of towns and the middle class came the rise of professional adventurers. Your party is one of those first attempts to prove to local lords that this, not the old system, is the way of the future - and you probably face very angry nobles as well as the monsters.
I'm now realizing that alignment in D&D is one of those gameable compromises which steps on toes.
Lumping together "this sentient consistently has no problem harming others for their own gain," "this sentient will defend and believes wholeheartedly in cultural ideals, but which create incredible harm" and "this unworldly creature is literally a personification of wilful harm" is an ethical equivalent to AC, potentially a profoundly useful game widget.
But when a lot of people in the game have been labeled evil, come from a family history of being the official evil people, or the evildoers conveniently line up with old prejudiced stereotypes, then there's a lot less utility to it.
@Canageek Good luck!
Images, fantasy creatures, undead, eye contact
#drawings this morning, fight between human with jian and some sorta orc/ogre/etc with lian dao, and three undead (spiked zombie, stitched flesh familiar, exploding skeleton).
pol adjacent gender opinion
I really wish it got made clear from the get-go that grade/high school anything isn't meant to be a complete guide to whatever; it's a shallow sampler, meant to give you a *basic* understanding, and if you want to get more into whatever there are other opportunities to do so. That's the best case scenario; anyone who's studied say, the Cold War or Reconstruction knows they've been actively lied to.
Why would what's at best a simplified version of gender, at worst pushed for someone else's convenience, be a definitive understanding of biology?
@zebratron2084 true love IS a salable object, you've seen enough commercials to know that?
@Lumin_esc it’s just really out of the ordinary, and Zeppelin’s ordinary is usually pretty good.
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