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Cake day: August 16th, 2023

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  • A Google search (ai response, so take it with a grain of salt) suggested a 5 person party could take a dragon with 136 hp and 18 a at levels 8-9 comfortably. 7-8 would be hard, 5-6 would be very difficult but possible. Depends on the DM too.

    Note I don’t play much 5e, and my experience in TTRPGs outside a few single session stuff is mostly one Pathfinder 2e campaign currently at level 6.





  • Ah, I’m not arguing against having a gun as a progressive or anything, but part of me doesn’t trust me with a gun. I probably won’t have an issue, but I play with stuff a little too much. I have stabbed myself and slashed myself with knives. Not in a suicidal way; in both cases it was curiosity but I made sure to use somewhere safe (slash was not near any major veins or vessels and was light, stab was less intentional and was testing a safety function of the knife but went in a small bit on my leg).

    I feel like I’ll be careful enough, but 5% of me worries I’ll play with the gun inappropriately somehow. My current roommate(one of my sisters) is also uncomfortable with guns, so that somewhat affects my decision too.

    That said, I’m in agreement with a lot of what you said, and I’ve been moving more to the side of maybe I should. As for where I am, I’m in Decatur, fairly close to ATL, and quite a few of my friends do have guns so I do have people I can talk to about practice.




  • I mean, I’m a black American living in Georgia. Acceleration would mean my death, probably faster than most. To me you sound like exactly what you’re accusing me of. I’m not specifically defending this politician, but your accusations are wild and you act like you’re certain. While I did compare your statement to the like of conspiracy theory, you’re also saying I’m Republican, then militant left. While I can have some things I agree with those further left than I, I stand only to have negative repercussions for being accelerationist, and I do truly wish we can survive without collapse. Whether it can actually happen at this point is a point of doubt, but I’m nowhere to to point of wanting a collapse.

    I’ve never owned a gun, never fired one, and am rather hesitant to hurt people, even if they’re reprehensible. I honestly don’t know how I’d survive collapse. It’s a self serving position for me to not want collapse, and I also believe people can change. I don’t know if this guy has, but I’d rather not make up role for him to hang himself; if he’s a problem he should be judged by not imagined faults, but confirmed ones. You still have the right to not choose him, just be careful that you don’t let preconceived opinions dictate how you judge everyone.



  • Haha, not at all. You can review my comments if you want. I’m a person who is interested in having proof and facts instead of assumptions. I am of course worried about fake progressives and people like Fetterman, but deciding the conclusion and molding to facts to match it is exactly how we get people believing in nonsense.

    I listen fairly often to a debunk/analyzing show of Alex Jones called Knowledge Fight. They also sometimes review others. I also listen to Know Rogan, which is a similar show critically analyzing Joe Rogan, as well as several other skeptical podcasts etc. Something they all and I as well agree on is we shouldn’t work off of preconceived notions like the subjects of their shows do, but instead make sure our assertions are backed up with evidence and truth. As I said, you have every right to be worried; that isn’t my criticism.

    However, if you just do the same thing the worst right wing influencers do by making a decision and then making any minor difference to how you assume they should respond mean your preconceived notion is correct, how do you convince people that when the ring wing does it, it’s wrong, but when you do it, it’s right?



  • I know this isn’t the point, but I do like to carry a set of portable cutlery around and often use it eating out. It’s usually a smallish case with metal straw(s), chopsticks, a knife, spoon, fork. Which one time lead to me forgetting my metal straw at the restaurant of course…




  • In regards to eugenics, some may have some parts where they disagree on the definition of terms. I’m not talking about people believing Idiocracy was right on the premise,nor those who say there should be licenses to be a parent. Those are both eugenics or eugenics lite imo.

    However, you can get genetic testing to see if your child might have a debilitating condition. Now first to lay out my … Bias? I don’t plan to have kids and therefore don’t feel pressured to have a firm opinion on genetic testing. I do support abortion rights. However, some may define choosing to abort because you learn your child may have a debilitating disease or a very painful life to be eugenics, while others may not agree.

    There’s also people who believe in gene editing before birth, like the (disgraced iirc) Chinese scientist who tried to use CRISPR to prevent AIDS transferring from mother to daughter (nevermind the fact we have drugs to do that anyway). I think broadly speaking editing gene sequences could be considered eugenics, but some may disagree.