NielsBohron

I don’t know; my wrestling coach used to say “you’re never useless; you can always bad a bad example.” So, personally I think putting his charred corpse on display could serve as an effective deterrent on oligarchs that are considering meddling in politics, especially if Musk was loaded into the doomed capsule against his will by a coalition of the proletariat.

Note: I am not advocating for violence. I’m just saying that hypothetically, if Musk was executed by low earth reentry, others might think twice about trying to buy government influence.

that was the tipping point for me, specifically.

Hey, I’m not the one downvoting posts because I don’t like their tone.

Plus, I don’t judge people based on their choice of game (as you seem to); I am simply pointing out that there are other options. Sure, I used “better” as a shorthand for “more complex, more balanced, more inclusive, better written (especially from the GM’s PoV), and more universal,” so I could have done a better job of explaining what I meant. If you think that’s being condescending, I’m happy to give you specific examples of why I think that and you can judge for yourself, or go read/watch any of the many, many side-by-side comparisons.

I play DnD with my good friends because that’s what they want to play, and I don’t judge them or their character choices. I mentioned Pathfinder as an option before session zero, and we agreed to go with DnD due to people’s familiarity. However, in a community dedicated to DnD and TTRPG’s in general, it doesn’t seem out of place to me to talk about other options. And the other people upvoting my original post seen too think it’s a valid contribution as well.

Like I said, you should play whatever game you want. If you don’t like Pathfinder players, then you can just, you know, not play Pathfinder. Feel free to downvote and move on.

You can play whatever you want, but in the comments of a post specifically about one of the very few places that DnD pays lip service the LGBTQ community, it seems appropriate to talk about the primary competitor that absolutely crushes representation and social justice issues.

But you do you.

In addition, you can play Pathfinder 2 which has queer, non-binary, asexual, and trans characters as part of the core rules.

Plus it’s a straight-up better game than DnD

Which is as it should be, as it’s what Conan is.

too goddamn right. I don’t know why I never realized that before.

tell me more…

I’m an AI/comp-sci novice, so forgive me if this is a dumb question, but does running the program locally allow you to better control the information that it trains on? I’m a college chemistry instructor that has to write lots of curriculum, assingments and lab protocols; if I ran deepseeks locally and fed it all my chemistry textbooks and previous syllabi and assignments, would I get better results when asking it to write a lab procedure? And could I then train it to cite specific sources when it does so?

I guess murderhobos gonna murderhobo

This is why you play Pathfinder, where the PC’s can be the traditional “monstrous” races. It seems a lot more like slavery or kidnapping when there are PC’s with the same ancestry

Haha, Mörk Borg go brrrr

Edit: any system that’s described as “a pitch-black, apocalyptic TTRPG” and uses “scum” in place of “player characters” is ok by me.

FFS, the official tagline is “a doom metal album of a game. A spiked flail to the face. Light on rules, heavy on everything else;” what more do you fellow grimdank dorks want?

Aladdin is right up there, too

I can hear this comment.

I agree with everything you said, except I would argue that capitalism is the Sixth Horseman of the Apocalypse, seeing as one of the original four was already replaced during a translation. The original text were interpreted as “Conquest, War, Famine, and Death,” and the story I remember from my New Testament course in college was that in the early 1900’s, it was thought that Conquest was too similar to War, so they used one of the later passages that specified that the horsemen would bring death by “sword, famine, plague, and the wild beasts of the earth” to rebrand Conquest as Pestilence. In fact, now reading up on it from Wikipedia, apparently the first two horsemen were likely both supposed to represent war, with the white rider (Conquest) representing “righteous/justified war” and the red rider (War) supposed to represent “civil war,” which is interesting.

In fact, given how vaccines and modern medicine have dramatically lowered the death by infectious disease in the 20th century, it’s likely time for another rebranding (relevant xkcd), so I’d replace “pestilence” with “capitalism” or even “profit” if I were feeling flowery.

edit: Upon further reading, apparently the third horseman (Famine) could also be interpreted as a form of capitalistic excess, since it’s accompanied by a voice that describes rising market prices for staples such as bread and is carrying market scales. Traditionally, this is thought to indicate Famine as loaves of bread would be weighed during food shortages, but the accompanying voice seems to indicate that luxuries are still available, so I could easily make the argument that the passage is about the rich tending to their own needs while ignoring the needs of the poor (which sounds an awful lot like modern US politics/capitalism).

Edit 2: So I guess I’d rebrand all three of the riders preceding Death so that I’d interpret things as “Imperialism, Extremism, Capitalism, and Death,” or put a little more poetically, “Conquest, Discord, Avarice, and Death”