That's because they hired women to work at the companies producing games, hence women ruined video gaming.
In D&D, it's widely accepted that Sorcerers often (especially as a plot device) tend to have links to some sort of magical being like having Dragon ancestry. A Sorcerer being the distant offspring of a demon and human would suffice.
You ask why she allowed herself to be embarrassed? It's probably because she thought without his first serve she had a chance. I bet she didn't think she'd lose.
I think restrictions in fact breeds better quality roleplaying. Freedom from my experience tends to result in bland same-y characters with no conflict.
I have heard this argument since the beginning and in practice, I've never found it to be true.
Good players are going to be good players regardless of the rules and bad players are going to be bad players regardless of the rules. But when you have more hard-fast restrictions, you (as DM) end up having to play for the bad characters (correct them) because they're just bad. Letting them do whatever they want leading to "same-y characters" is how it was always going to end with bad players regardless of what any book says. You think bad players read through the manuals and especially the lore? You think bad players even know what Forgotten Realms is or have even read one Drizzt Do'Urden book? Even if the 5.5e books described the Drow in intricate details, you'd still get bad players role-playing a Drow in some ridiculous fashion and end up as some "same-y character". That's what happens every time in practice because at the end of the day, a few paragraphs in a book can't dictate the entire person's ability to role-play for the entire adventure. People can only role-play what they know and most bad players hardly know enough to role-play anything.
On the other hand, when you have good role-players, it doesn't matter what the book says because the DM will control the setting. If a good role-player plays a good aligned Drow and doesn't realize Drow are typically evil, he will soon find out because a good DM will incorporate that into the behaviors of NPCs such that the Drow PC will get the hint and adapt around that. As they gain experience, they'll ask those kinds of questions with regards to the setting the DM is creating.
But this is where the freedom actually is useful, IMO, now the DM can create a setting where High Elves are evil and Drow are good if he wants to without having to deal with people who know complain about the races ought to act. PCs telling the DM to do his job better because that Orc was unrealistic or there have been too many good Drow given how Drow are supposed to be, etc... Or PCs that think they understand the races of the setting acting a certain way to gain an advantage but then not gaining such an advantage then complaining to the DM's lack of adherence to the lore. All these behaviors and biased you believe you've lost because of the rule changes aren't lost. In some ways you've actually gained far more with a competent DM and good role-players because now you yourself aren't boxed into the same sorts of biases already set by books or previous lore you know. This is especially true for the new players. I think it gives far more freedom for DMs to be more original with their settings with less conflict between players and DMs.
At the end of the day though a woke LGBTQ+ DM that wants a ONE RACE THE COMMUNE RACE theme because he's woke irl and wants to role-play his activism is never going to create the setting you want even if the 3E rules say Elves are racist and are skeptical of outsiders because those will be the evil fascist elves in his setting.
The new rules are good for new players with little understanding of any of the past "lore" and with a competent DM, they actually are useful to ensure cohesiveness and less "anticipation" in player's expectations of behaviors which leads to a better playing experience with more creative settings, if you have a competent DM and good role-players.
Project 2025 is a natural "knee-jerk" reaction for anyone who has witnessed with understanding the degeneracy that has struck western civilization. Is it well thought out? I would say not. It's reactionary and at a political level, already corrupted.
Technically, anyone who isn't at this moment killing high ranking jews is worthless. You don't win resistance movements by playing D&D. That's what you do to pass the time because you have no effective way to win.
Technically, the rule changes aren't the problem.
The lack of stat bonuses for races actually does allow for more creativity in role-playing and less min/maxing. Same with the changes to alignment.
The more power in the hands of the PCs for creativity in the role-playing game, the better, imo. It ultimately always comes down to the DM, anyhow. A good DM will evaluate the choices players make in real-time (the alignment of decisions) and change the reactions of the story to suite this alignment. A good PC will act "in-character" in the manner that suits his character rather than act how he himself would act while not role-playing. Less restrictions (more freedom and less min/maxing traps) allow for better role-playing in-the-end.
What has truly changed though is the quality of the players. The D&D community isn't all 110-120 IQ nerds (like it once was) who've read and watched tons of fantasy content such that they wish to add to the story. The average member of the community now is some 90 IQ mouth breather who cares more about promoting his LGBTQ+ radicalism in the fantasy world he's role-playing a PC for.
With high quality players and DMs you still have racism, you still have characters making decisions that align with the personality of the character they've decided to role-play as and you still have significant differences in the interactions between PCs, NPCs and monsters, given inherent biases toward certain characteristics such as sex, race, appearance and behaviors.
At the end of the day, the rules don't matter much. You can play any edition and have tons of fun without any "woke" nonsense, given the rules. It's the quality of the players that ultimately matter and that is truly what has gone downhill in the last 20 years.
Ever since 2014 or the dawn of the woke era, all "geek/nerd" spaces were targeted by the woke mob, led by women, until they all submitted to the woke authority. Nerd/geeks communities were especially easy to take-down because of their lack of ability to get laid but strong desire for women. Throw in a few blue haired landwhales who dangled the idea of getting a semblance of their hairy pussies and the neckbeards of the geek communities all bowed down to their new female mistresses. Then the companies that produced all the material for the geeks, including WoTC, all hired woke trans feminists to run the companies. Any holdouts who refused to submit to the new order were censored and barred from the community.
The geek/nerd communities went from a bunch of average guys who make honest jokes about women while trolling their adversaries with nigger nigger nigger to a bunch of faggots. This is especially apparent if you go to any "gaming store" in your city. What once used to be a bunch of chill dudes who loved gaming is now a bunch of gay dudes who'll immediately shun you if you don't bow down to the woke mob (the entire community is basically an average reddit user now).
20 years ago is literally the golden age or even 20-25 years ago. Since then, the geek/nerd community has been mostly destroyed. You're looking at (KIA2) one of the few last places of resistance for the geek/nerd community in the whole world. And I say that as someone who was on LUE, SA and 4chan as an OG 25 years ago.
You're better off trying to convince average non-nerds/geeks to give D&D a try then to participate in the geek/nerd community that aligns itself with D&D. I DM a group right now and the group consists of people you'd never ever suspect play D&D. I cringe anytime I have to go inside a "games store" these days because of the kinds of people it now attracts.
Yeah, this is terrible. I think you worded your post pretty poorly to convey this though.
Society shouldn't treat parents or non-parents any differently, especially with regard to taxes and social programs.
Bachelor taxes are terrible and social programs that are funded by taxpayers that only benefit parents or children are also terrible (as are all social programs).
However, "pro-family" policies that prevent the government from parenting for parents and gives more freedom to parents outside of the government's prying eye or care are a good thing, regardless of how poorly the parents decide to parent.
Your initial post sounds like you're against parental rights because you want a centralized government that knows better than parents to parent for the parents (which is straight out of the communist playbook).
Were you only speaking of handouts? Because then you're right but it sounded like you opposed parents being able to parent how they wish to parent.
Lol, of course you're a communist. Makes sense.
I'm not a Nazi. You can hate jews and not be a Nazi. I hate National Socialism because it's socialism which is inherently degenerate but I can spot an obvious problem when there is one. Jews are a problem. There's no way around it. They, as a whole, are worse than women. It's crazy you can see the women problem but ignore the jewish one. What good have jews done for us? Yet, we can point to the almost unlimited problems they've caused. Any good, one comes up with, will mimic the good one would say about women if asked the same question about women.
Why the fuck do you think I'd want men to get married? Every single man should never ever get married. It's worthless. Only idiots get married. The problem with marriage? The government laws. Fix the laws and make them favor men then marriage stops being an issue.
Spiritual suicide is what I've termed your ideology which is hate women and provide no solutions other than sit at home and jerk off until you die. If every man did that our species would die off in one generation so is that what you want?
You don't think the Catholic Church's dismantling of the Knight Templar which had the most sophisticated banking system at the time, along with its promotion of a ban on urusry while systemically allowing Christians to borrow from jews as "justifiable usury" rather than "sinful usury" which would have applied to notorious Christians were they running lending service didn't help?
How about how the Rothschilds paid the British troops and lent money to the British against Napoleon (who lost because he refused to indebt his people unlike the British), then because of Jewish nature, the Rothschilds used their superior knowledge of the war to manipulate the stock market and created a fire sale where they bought everyone's assets back pennies on the dollar without punishment...
At the end of the day we have jews in power who are wealthy because of past decisions White people made. The jews in power and with money use both their power and money to not only negatively impact White people but to actively work against the interests of White people. The why or how doesn't matter. They are an enemy that must be destroyed for the health of White people no different than how women must have their rights removed and made into nothing more than property of men.
Yet somehow you don't want any of that. You seem to want men to commit spiritual suicide because women are bad.
I mean, when you understand the financial picture, it's hard to deny the jewish question. I'm surprised at you. You're terminally online and can't see it. That means you're either stupid or disingenuous about your motives.
Government and their lackeys in the private sector are likely going to pocket taxpayer money from all this AI stuff at the end of the day. Typical government corruption and scamming of the public.
Not necessarily. I've looked at the financials of these new massive AI data centres (I have a CFA and do financial analysis daily in my job), and they aren't that great at the moment.
The real estate is also not that valuable because where these centres are being built is specifically picked for low priced real estate.
As an investor, BlackRock can potentially lose if the data centres don't take off as some project them to.
I feel BlackRock could lose on these ventures. There's significant risk involved. It's not a guaranteed benefit. A lot is riding on a hope.
These data centres need to generate like 5x the revenue they already are generating by next year or the people who've invested money into these projects are going to lose money.
But yes, ultimately, in a Judeo-Socialist society in which jews control the majority of wealth, you're going to get jews benefiting directly from anything that generates wealth. That's just how it will always go so long as jews control the wealth.
As a former DM, the edition matters not for the adventure. The DM is in full control. If the DM says the Drow is racist then he is. Whatever lore is written in whatever books of whatever edition are irrelevant to what the DM says. That's why I'm fine to play any edition of D&D because the edition is irrelevant to the role-playing experience if the DM is competent. If any player has a problem, they can get fucked because they aren't the DM.
Someone should make a spinoff with similar themes that ends up being better. Then everyone can forget Star Wars.
Menelaus’s armor is noted for its high-value materials, often emphasizing gold and polished bronze to reflect his status as the King of Sparta.
The Cuirass (Thorax): A two-piece bronze breastplate (front and back) that was highly decorated. In the Iliad, it is specifically mentioned that his armor was "double" at the point where his belt fastened, providing extra protection.
The War-Belt (Zoster): A critical piece of his kit, this belt was made of leather and reinforced with golden buckles and bronze plates. It was designed to overlap the bottom of his cuirass.
The "Mitra": Beneath the belt, he wore a mitra, a specialized bronze-reinforced band or "apron" that protected the lower abdomen and groin—a common feature for high-ranking Achaean warriors.
The Helmet (Korus): A bronze helmet with a horsehair crest. While not as famous as Odysseus's boar-tusk helmet, Menelaus’s helmet was polished to a high "gleaming" shine to strike fear on the battlefield.
Greaves (Knēmides): Bronze leg guards fitted with silver ankle-clasps to secure them to his shins.
You know, if they just stuck to the book, it would have looked even better.
The irony is that the only way Star Wars can be saved now is for a new company to come in and say all Disney Star Wars is non-canon then remake everything Disney attempted to do but better.
He doesn't come across as autistic just normal nerd socially inept. Ass burgers at most but that's just the normalcool term for nerd socially inept. The times he acts weird are probably just him high on K.
I got the impression he got his hand slapped pretty bad after he accused Trump of being on the list. Probably a phone call saying to shut the fuck up or every government contract with his companies are immediately pulled.
I heard Musk recently say he regrets getting too involved in politics because of how it impacted his businesses. Musk lacks power and he has been reminded that a few times already. He also seems to completely lack the cunning and social skills (restraint and deception) required for politics, which is why I'm sure he was told a few times to get back in his lane.
That sucks. Looks like he didn't know the road well enough for the speed he was driving.
It's impossible because congress has to do it. You'll never grow the economy faster than the parasitic government because the government grows in proportion to the economy given how taxes work. For the economy to outgrow the government, you have to lower taxes.
Musk simply doesn't have the power to do it.
There's a few tricks up the President's sleave though. The President can appoint a puppet to the IRS and all but encourage tax evasion because the IRS won't go after anyone avoiding taxes. Then the President can suggest a budget with 80% lower taxes and spending even if congress doesn't accept it.
Musk blew up and gave up on DOGE after he felt Trump betrayed him by proposing the BBB which was a terrible budget.
Fentanyl is a legal drug. If Mexico wasn't producing it, it would be India or China or the USA themselves. They are hardly a problem.
The USA only cares about Venezuela because of the country's stance against jews.
I'm more of a let's conquer all the territories with precursors to popular recreational drugs then sell them ourselves for profit all legally and transparently, kind of guy.
The real problem with fentanyl are the hospitals and doctors prescribing it when it isn't needed. Or the drug dealers contaminating stuff they didn't mean to because of their unprofessional micky mouse setup.
In my experience (and I have lots). If a woman isn't fat, does her lips and/or nails and has visible tattoos in her casual clothes, there's like a 90% chance she works in the sex industry or at least did at one point.
Of sex industry workers who are 25yo+, there's like a 75% chance they have herpes-2. When you hear the story of the "reformed slut", which is the girl who was a huge slut who decided she's no longer a slut and wants to settle down, oftentimes it's because they caught herpes-2 and it had a negative impact on their mentality with regard to casual sex. Instead, of just sleeping with everyone they finally realized their mistake and now are embarassed and too self-conscious from the herpes to continue doing it. These are the "good ones" (often the ones without tattoos) since many actually still continue to sleep around despite the herpes and don't give a fuck.
Now, there's tons of fat ugly women on Reddit with tattoos because these women wanted to be like the hot girls in high school (who went on to become sex workers) so these Reddit tier whales emulated what they saw the hot girls who were banging the hot men do (get tattoos) in hopes it would help them snag a bad boy (but it didn't help). Many women have tattoos and the tattoos ultimately mean nothing because these women are failures in other regards but skinny women who're somewhat pretty with visible tattoos who put effort into their look (lips/nails/hair/makeup/fake tits) are almost always run through whores and especially past 25yo. They're ratchet chicks. These are the kinds of girls who work as a waitress, then fuck a sugar daddy before heading back home to their black boyfriend, masturbate on cam for OF then head to the gangbang party. If you don't want to catch herpes, stay away.