I want to try GMing someday, but I'm so intimidated. It seems like a lot of responsibility. I might try GMing a one-shot or two at some point to test it out.
Also, same re: Having a huge backlog of characters. I love coming up with characters, especially in PF2E.
Today has been okay for me. Had a doctor's appointment, which went fine. I've been sleepy all day, though, and suspect I accidentally took a sleeping pill instead of an antidepressant this morning.
That is also wrong.
The major difference is the feelings involved. It's very hard to describe how romantic affection feels different from platonic affection, but it does.
Honestly? Nothing except a lot of pointless suffering. Eugenics isn't just immoral; it literally does not work. The nazis did their damnedest to kill all people with schizophrenia during the Holocaust. Schizophrenia numbers were back up to normal within a couple decades.
See this video (linked to the correct timestamp) for more on why eugenics doesn't actually do anything.
Both are unjustifiable. Governments should never get to decide who's allowed to reproduce.
OP, you're a nazi. I would advise you to [redacted because I'm not sure how much disgust I can express before I risk being banned].
"I have too much to do, so I'm going to take a nap." Galaxy brain logic there, self.
I don't know why you're so willing to die on the hill of invalidating others' relationships.
Right, but there are degrees of abusable. There's a difference between "yes, you could abuse this thing" and "this thing will inevitably be abused." In my opinion, hate speech laws fall into the latter category. I know of too many cases of them being abused... and worse, they don't even seem to do much to prevent hatred. See this article.
Say what you like, but I just can't think of any way to write hate speech laws that isn't incredibly abusable. Handing the government an excuse to punish to people is inherently dangerous. While it's certainly necessary in some instances, I think we should be very, very careful about adding to the list of things you can get thrown in prison for.
No need to apologize for the rant! I enjoyed it.
I LOVE the concept of being cursed/blessed with earth magic in that way. And I love that you're playing her as a fucking idiot who hides that shit, haha. (Fingers crossed she and her village get cured.) Incidentally, two of my characters were/are hiding things from the party as well, though nothing of that magnitude. My cleric is hiding that she's literally haunted--her childhood friend's ghost, who blames my cleric for her death, is hanging around and pestering her. (The players know as of recently, but iirc their characters don't.) And my champion is hiding her ancestry. She wears a magical scarf that makes her look like a human, but she's secretly a ~~fucken furry~~ kitsune. No big dramatic reason for that; she just dislikes the attention it draws in an area where kitsune are relatively uncommon.
I really want to try playing a kineticist sometime, and not just because I've always wanted to be a firebender haha.