There’s this constant tension with D&D where it wants to be medieval and it wants to have easily-reproducible magic. Follow the magic through to its logical conclusion and you get essentially modern technology with a mystical/medieval aesthetic, ignore it and you get big blatant plot holes.

For decades, Forgotten Realms tried really had to be this “peasants have their minds blown if they see even a level one Magic-User spell being cast; this is a grounded and gritty setting sort of” pretense in the official materials, but then there’s basically a magocracy running most cities (even the fucking Luskan pirates and other “savage frontier” big mean guys!) and maps full of “oh a web spell is on this window at all times” sorts of signs that maybe those peasants should be a lot more familiar with the very special very rare spellcasters that rule over them and make all the important decisions.

This is my long standing hot take and point of contention with rules as written in conventional D&D fantasy rule sets: death, if the rules of the game were actually applied to the setting, is less about finality (except for the lifespan limitation contrivance) and more about health insurance or lack thereof. People who die that have enough money should by all means have family that pay for raises (or resurrections when the body isn’t available) as a matter of course and the material consequences of that would be that premature death from violence, illness, or accident would be mostly a poor people thing. Funerals would be awkward in setting: “sorry you can’t afford a rez. The divines bless the departed I guess, lol.”

ROCK AND STONE FOREVER!

Google […] a privacy disaster

Googles “piracy disaster”

Gets pinged for targeted marketing and also flagged for IP criminal law prosecution

Google… could be a privacy disaster

I loved that movie, so like a good D&D campaign, of course it’s up in the air when it’s happening again.

Stop deliberating, Will. That junior officer might have all the fun if you don’t jump in.

GLORY TO YOU AND YOUR HOUSE PARTY

This is a mood, especially the bottom right panel.

I didnt say anything about trans people in my original comment and deliberately didnt quote the original post as its language disgusts me

So why did you repeat the “mental illness” part?

If you really mean what you’re saying just take the L this one time and move on.

was simply pointing out the silliness of that logic

There are many, many ways you could have done that without repeating the bigoted belief that being trans is supposedly a mental illness.

So do you also think it is a mental illness, or are you just being a middle school edgelord?

Worf as Pigpen checks out

Embrace Chodak thought.

like allowing differences of opinion and anti-authoritarianism

Getting steamrolled by nazis after inviting them to the table under pompous pretenses of “allowing differences of opinion” isn’t even a viable starter for a government. The Weimar Republic comes to mind.

The in-setting excuse for why the Federation survived at all, shaky as it was, is that it employs cryptofascists already and gives them unchecked privileges to surveil, harm, and murder on a whim to maintain the status quo: Section 31. You might be a fan.

Do you have any argument to back that up that isn’t GOMMUNISM VUVULZULA GORILLION DEAD?

I appreciate the clarification. Usually when I hear “they censored something, how dare they” it’s something dire.

Unfortunately nebula has started blacklisting creators they dont agree with

Elaborate. Why were they banned? If it was kiddie creepers or nazi shit or “not fascists but #1 with fascists” shit like I don’t blame them for that.

That was one of the most timelessly funny episodes of that show, ever.

Never forget that Lucille Ball’s personal influence with producers was crucial in allowing Star Trek to get off the ground in the first place.

TFW no buffer time