The Gaming Den

We're doing something very different when we borrow the language of disability to insult one another than when we borrow the language of identity to do the same. "What are you, a [EDITED]?" is the implication that to be homosexual is to be contemptible bundled alongside an accusation of ho...

Maybe my brain is broken, but I didn't read that image as homophobic or even homoerotic until I GIS'ed it and found it was from 120 Days of Sodom . But shit, the Den's defining meme (outside of the Tomes) is the homophobic as fuck "suck a barrel of cocks". We are/were lefty dirtbags who s...

Based on known cases and the number of deaths, approximately 2% of patients die. This number is probably significantly higher than the actual mortality rate. Many people have probably had the coronavirus WITHOUT symptoms that were serious enough to require hospitalization and confirmation of the vi...

I'll admit that I was with Kaelik and Frank, having put Iran at a distant fourth on my suspect list, behind Boeing, bizarre conspiracy theories involving literally anyone else in the region, and someone on the plane having fed a mogwai. That is certainly not the first fuck-up of its kind. It's not e...

Honestly, nothing shreds my suspension of disbelief faster than someone trying to convince me their take on superpowers is scientifically plausible. It's totally not, and I didn't care until you put the spotlight on a bad explanation and invited me to have opinions on it, but now I can't stop thinki...

You can also click to ignore someone else, which will give you the option to go to the same ignore page linked by Thaluikhain. That's usually the easiest way to do it, if it ever happens again.

I've done this more than once, if you can't tell.

Huh. I'm watching a dick and an asshole stir up shit together and it's exactly as pleasant as the imagery implies. Seriously, Count, Almanac, move your two awkward, bitter old asses along. Fuckin' weirdest, pettiest exchange I've ever seen on here. Merry Christmas, and my condolences to whoever the ...

1) The Voluntaryists wear uniforms that declare their affiliation. The Statists dress in unique outfits. Should be the other way around. All right-wing political philosophy is fascism-adjacent, and in fascism individuality is not a personal liberty to be protected but the principle cause of the dec...

So, it's worth remembering that the original plan was to give the whole trilogy to Abrams and let him turn them into unambitious, uncontroversial nostalgia-fueled popcorn flicks. Abrams declined to do all three movies, but he agreed to do the first and document what he was setting up for the second ...

Term limits are bad and it's probably okay to remove them, but if you run again after term limits are removed that's definitely the slippery slope to authoritarianism, and Bolivia proves that because Morales won a democratic election and now authoritarians run the government. Case closed. What do yo...

Hey, guess what, the "Dear Leader / President For Life" thing is a stupid bullshit bait-and-switch Frank is playing because it is the last bastion standing for his shittiness. Evo Morales ran in an election without any credible evidence of results tampering and won by over a 10pt margin an...

Frank has nothing left except to point out that Xi Jinping declared himself president for life and that's bad and that's kind-of-sort-of-not-really-please-don't-think-about-it-too-hard like the Bolivian Supreme Court arguing that term limits are unconstitutional and then a socialist winning a fourth...

Re: DSM: 1) Technically the Constitutional Tribunal decision had nothing to do with the Referendum since it wasn't about adding them and they were added, but was about removing them, so the decision was only about the existing constitution. It also of course, is at least equally if not more suscept...

To be clear, I do want to say that Morales did make an actual political mistake that cost him his presidency and the Bolivian people their democracy - the mistake of believing that the right-wing would ever follow democratic norms. He and his party had control over Bolivia long enough that they had ...

Frank, your argument is that duly appointed Supreme Court justices have no authority to make rulings on the constitutionality of referendums. It's a ridiculous fucking argument. Your definition of constitutional in this instance is just "the parts of the constitution that don't make me wrong&qu...

Right. And at level 9 you're showing up with the eight meanest things you've beaten in the past week (courtesy of your double-team of fomorian taskmasters) or 40 gargantuan animated iron statues (courtesy of your double team of ravids) or an eight headed pyrohydra (with 16 heads, because you're obv...

There's a tome class that gets expert sphere access at level 4. There are multiple spheres that are just straight up lists of 'you lose good day sir' spells. Generally, you can assume that a tome character will have a level appropriate action to perform every round. The monster tamer is no exception...

I get that "Kaelik is an asshole" is such a Den meme that his signature is literally a quote of me joking about it, but Kaelik did fuck all this time. Frank put his foot in his mouth on a topic he knew fairly little about in order to blame a fascist military coup on the dirty irresponsible...

I suppose it's a relatively harmless failsafe against overstatted caster monsters. I have no idea how many of those there are, but if you're a PC who dumpster dives the MM for powers you'll find them if they exist. There are generally way more crazy things caster monsters let you do than have slight...

If you care about the action economy, then either 1) the pokemon have to use the trainer's actions, or 2) the trainer can never have any decent actions. 1 is very easy. 2 is kind of hard when UMD exists. Wands can usually guarantee at least moderately useful actions. If you care about the fact that ...

And hearing that makes me feel relatively young.

A change in results that would have been the difference between Morales' first round victory and a run-off, to be clear. And the OAS had already formally adopted the position, before any results were announced (preliminary or otherwise), that the election should be forced to go to a run-off regardle...

The Bolivian presidential line of succession: 1.) President Evo Morales, political party MAS, whose legitimacy was in question as a result of the conflict between a 2016 constitutional referendum and a 2017 Supreme Court ruling. 2.) Vice President, political party MAS, whose legitimacy would also ha...

Logic is descriptive, not prescriptive. I am not saying this for AC0's benefit, he believes in natural rights fairies or whatever and is a lost cause, but it is something of a pet peeve of mine. The universe is not a "problem" to be solved. It asks nothing, wants nothing, prefers nothing -...

Lindy Beige's holocaust video did not make me overly uncomfortable, if only because I was too busy being relieved it didn't somehow go in the exact opposite direction. His general point that definitions of the Holocaust often exclude the non-Jewish victims is actually completely fair. It is a genuin...