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ISP actually does believe that legal entitlements and ethics are one and the same, he just doesn't believe that those legal entitlements are the same thing as laws (because natural rights fairies get to say what your legal entitlements are, not governments; governments are just pretending and ruini...

The OP is confused. D&D has and has always had harmful high-level environments. It's just that the bottom of the sea and the Plane of Fire are binary - either you're immune to their primary harmful effect, or you die. It is rather hard to do environments that are high level in the TGD sense, req...

Ikeren wrote: Is he actually a medical doctor? I always thought that was a joke.

I remember his older posts referring to moving to Prague to study medicine and later to how his studies were going.

A bit of rage would be nice. What does everyone think of Bitcoin? We did have some discussions about it. Mostly the takeaway is 1) One of the selling points of bitcoin is that the government can't just declare there's now more or less of it. Anyone who considers it a feature and not a nail in the c...

OgreBattle wrote:I wonder if Hogwarts was involved in british colonialism.

How would that work? How can a school be involved in colonialism? Aside from the staff having large political outreach and thus potentially being involved in anything big in Magical Britain.

Ancient History wrote:The tl;dr version is:

0) The whole thing started because one asshat accused his ex-girlfriend of giving good reviews of the game made by the guy she was currently fucking.

You got that mixed up. The girlfriend made a game and was accused of fucking the reviewers.

They literally employ supernaturals, in that there are a bunch of author insert foundation researchers who have been "victims" of SCP's and kept their jobs. Otherwise, they've mostly expunged (or "resolved") examples in which the foundation made use of SCP's, humanoid or otherwi...

Tangent: if you can learn actual engineering before you graduate, you should do that. That's not a put-down: I also majored in engineering, and was only even exposed to actual engineering by fortunate chance. I don't think I've ever met anyone who learned it as an undergrad. What do you mean by &qu...

Actually, you might be looking for Software Engineer. As someone whose major is actually called software engineering I can tell you that software engineer, software developer, programmer and coder are all valid things to call someone who writes the code, with the last one meaning just that and the ...

What? It's Frank's idea. Humans, and all hominids in D&D-land are hyper-evolved snakes. Not only are Yuan-Ti in the D&D hominid family (along with Elves, Orcs, and Ogres, but not Goblins or Dwarves), but if you hit Humans with "devolution magic" they turn into Ophidians. In the si...

Making me feel sleazy for even considering playing it: Pokegirls. You have stained my search history by making me check that no one has produced a Pokegirls RPG. Mutants: guys (and generally only guys) gotta collect them all... for rape and brainwashing and more rape. You mean "collect them al...

I really don't get the difference between this and After Sundown except you are keeping more of the WW setting (and therefore more of the problems). Unless it's a "Monte Cook's World of Darkness" kind of deal. Prak's After Sundown? That's what it's turning into as problems are pointed out...

I'm reminded of the "elves are bees" thing from the Master Race Handbook.

Lago PARANOIA wrote:I have seen Marid = Water, Dao = Earth, Ifrit = Fire before. Arcana for the SNES most readily springs to mind, but I'm positive that I've seen it in other properties.

Marid = Water, Ifrit = Fire is widespread. In fact, I haven't seen any property where that wasn't the case.

Leress wrote:Why are people trying to use GNS as a base for anything?

The terms seem self-explanatory to people, like they could understand the meaning just by seeing the word. Of course, for each person that "obvious" meaning is different.

I can agree these alternatives are terrible. AgnosTech sounds like a step between TheisTech and AtheisTech, ElderCraft like Minecraft mod, Teknosorcery gives me the impression of opposite implications from Arcanotech - of making technology part of your magic instead of making magic a part of your te...

In what way are "beasts" and "celestials" new? The beast type was in 3.0 (albeit as separate from both animal and magical beast rather than the sum of both), and upper planes outsiders were called celestials ever since we decided "aasimon" was a stupid name.

Yeah Goblins jumped the shark a long time ago, mostly because D&D "morality" is so stupid that any attempt to deconstruct it is just going to be stupid rather than insightful. If you attempt to "deconstruct" it by swapping the goodies and the baddies then certainly. I think ...

Well, milk glands are modified sweat glands. You'd expect them to be in vertical lines down like other mammals, but I guess that's
evolution for you.

That's not entirely true. Most "one time pads" aren't random enough. In fact, most of the mystique of one time pads is just gloss on them getting analyzed as truest randomness, and everything else living with pseudorandomness. What, your text message containing drone instructions is less ...

Shrapnel wrote:Are... are those for real?

The SIS-Barrel uses four high-powered superconducting electromagnets to change
the projectiles trajectory mid-air, as it leaves the weapon, to always hit your target,
even if you’re not on target.

What do you think?

I believe it's the backstory of the Ophidians.

This is definitely a joke, while "Reject Men's Rights" is on the fence between parody and an unfortunately phrased statement of opposition to the Men's Rights movement, "reject gaming culture" can't be anything but a joke on rejecting rape culture. Also, boycotting any game that ...

That's great...except it only works if the DC is 100. So how do you make tasks more difficult? By applying a penalty to your roll? In which case UH OH HERE COMES THE DREADED SUBTRACTION!!! Roll-under does not have task difficulty, so neither does a mathematically identical roll-over version. Just c...

People don't "think it's good". Several critics, some of whom she slept with, said it was good, while word of mouth is mainly negative. It has a 1.2 score on Metacritic. You can play for free on the internet, just Goggle it, it's a text based Flash thing. Also, she admitted to cheating on ...