Balerion

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For reference, some feline coat patterns require XX chromosomes.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

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.

 

I started off with DND 5E and still enjoy it, but I started playing Pathfinder 2E a few months ago and just adore it. I think it's a better system overall and would highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys TTRPGs. It's complicated, probably more so than DND, but it's worth it imo. The three-action economy, four degrees of success, and sheer amount of character customization are my favorite features.

I've played a pretty broad variety of characters. Mechanically, my favorite was my first ever character--a draconic sorcerer. I like blowing stuff up, what can I say. Roleplay-wise, it's a tie between my swashbuckler rogue and my celestial warlock. All of those were in DND, since I haven't been playing PF for very long. I've liked every character I've played, but I tend to enjoy characters with high CHA the most.

Right now, I'm playing a DND campaign and two PF campaigns. My characters are a grave domain cleric, a barbarian with the titan wrestler archetype, and a champion with the sorcerer archetype.

I've also played a little Dungeon World and a tiny one-shot called (iirc) The Witch Is Dead. One of my DMs is getting into Daggerheart, so I may be picking up a game in that system soon. I think I may play a rogue.

Tell me about your TTRPG experiences!

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 days ago

That is also wrong.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The major difference is the feelings involved. It's very hard to describe how romantic affection feels different from platonic affection, but it does.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Both are unjustifiable. Governments should never get to decide who's allowed to reproduce.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 4 days ago

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].

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

"I have too much to do, so I'm going to take a nap." Galaxy brain logic there, self.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're so willing to die on the hill of invalidating others' relationships.

 

I may have gone a little overboard with the redactions, but you can't be too careful.

When I showed this picture to him, my dad pointed out that my great-grandfather was demobilized a week after the end of WWI.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Balerion@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago (3 children)

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.

 

I once heard someone describe their gender as "none gender with left girl." (For the uninitiated, it's a reference to this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/None_Pizza_with_Left_Beef) It's lived rent-free in my hear ever since. Incidentally, it's pretty similar to how I feel about my own gender.

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