TheLepidopterists

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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I wanna go the opposite direction. All the villains are billionaires now as well, replace Alfred with a Marx to new!Batman's Engels, have Bruce quote lines from Marxist texts while he beats up the Joker for crimes against the Proletariat.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 15 points 11 months ago

Nah it was down

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 20 points 11 months ago (3 children)

My worst customer service experiences were in call centers, and my absolute favorite, which really showcases how fucked up corporations are is this:

A problem caller, would call in every day multiple times a day, asking for a (I'm going to be vague here because I'm not sure how easy this would make it to find me by like, company social media teams or whatever) niche service that we offered that most customers never asked for and almost no customers needed more than once or twice.

We charged a small (low double digits) fee for it and he would have the service 3, 4 times a week, and then call in demanding a credit for the fee and screaming and cursing and using slurs until he got it, multiple times a day, every day. Even on the days when he'd already been credited.

Well we'd been complaining about him to management for months because he was so abusive and scary for the agents to deal with, and then a bomb gets dropped. He was using the service to cover his trail so he could harass his ex wife.

I thought, damn, motherfucker, we've got you now. That's a felony. That is against TOS. You're going to get your whole account shut down.

Told upper management, they didn't give a single solitary shit about him harassing our people or his ex.

Tracked his stuff obsessively for several more months, noticed that due to getting multiple credits for every time he got that service applied, he actually hadn't paid us in over a year. Looked over his address's history and found that he had like 3k in charged off accounts where he'd done the same exact thing and then when people were consistent enough about refusing credit and the bills weren't fully negated, he just didn't pay them.

Sent this information to the same upper management folks, shut down within a week, address marked as forbidden to open a new account for for sales agents.

So I guess the moral is that for a publicly traded company:

blob-sleep: harassing people including our own employees and/or your ex-wife

blob-stabby: you owe me money

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 48 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Look, Yemen's military operation is succeeding completely in its goal of blockading the red sea, in spite of extensive US efforts, but since they didn't blow up every USN ship, they're actually losers you dumb commie

I find it shocking how many of these countries have mostly positive views of the US. Like even the ones who are more favorable towards Russian are mostly pro US. Turkey and Tunisia are basically the only countries where majority sentiment is anti-America.

Are we really that good at keeping our behavior from affecting our reputation?

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You actually passed, it was a trick, when you reported me back for snitching I was going to say I never really reported you so you were the only snitch.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reported for snitching

I understand the reluctance to call them fascists, and you are correct that liberal is a disgusting sort of political position on its own. But, and I know that you tried to preempt this, they are supporting a genocide.

I know that liberal capitalism already imposes barbaric conditions and mass murder on the world, but what is happening in Gaza is different. It's a concentration camp, filled with children, it is being relentlessly bombed. While this happens so much video footage of the horrors is coming out on the internet, that it may as well be happening in my town, may as well be happening in Dagwood's town, in terms of visibility.

It can't be denied, there is no plausible deniability for people supporting Biden at this point. Liberal leaders have always committed atrocities just like fascist leaders. But the rank and file members of liberal parties have always been able to comfort themselves with the illusion that they are morally upright, with Gaza they have abandoned this. They demand that we support, as they do, the genocide that we all see unfolding with our own two eyes.

And yes I did say Nazi and not simply fascist. Nazi calls to mind the death camps that these people have shown themselves to be okay with in a way that fascist doesn't.

People like this are liberals, you're not wrong, but there's a reason that we say scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds. People like Dagwood are thoroughly scratched.

This is a good bit.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

They were in another thread complaining about leftists refusing to vote for Biden over the genocide. They delete all their comments after like 30 minutes so you kind of have to piece the conversation together from responses that other people had.

Yeah my phone is certainly never dead when I'm away from my home. These people are clowns.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 25 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Get off of our instance Nazi

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net to c/ttrpg@hexbear.net
 

Ran The Witch is Dead for my wife and SILs recently.

They played an Owl with Create Fire (Othello), a Crow with Make Book Read Itself Aloud (Cawthorn) and a Cat with (Tidy Clean and Mend).

If I'm honest, Create Fire was definitely an MVP.

Spoilers, session report, includes arson, a murder and some eye stuff

spoilerThey went to investigate the cult controlled village, which was centered around a wizard college full of old men in pointy hats and star covered clothes.

They made a beeline to the wizard tower, Sylvia tried to enter as a student did, got underfoot and he magically burned down a tapestry when startled. Othello eavesdropped through some open windows and learned that some pranksters got another student expelled by framing him for a prank and interrupted an old man's spell causing him to accidentally blast her out of the sky with a torrent of water. Cawthorn made a cork notice board read itself aloud and heard some of the available classes, the honor roll and a notice about the expulsion.

They then fled the tower and went to the market to listen to some human gossip and heard some guys talking about how Steven had killed his first target and had eyes on another. They had weird symbols stitched into their cloaks which tipped the familiars off to them being cultists and of course they decided these guys were probably connected to the witch murderer.

They followed them to a farmhouse where they got confirmation of this so they used Create Fire to burn it down. They followed the fleeing cultists to the inn/tavern and the birds went down an unlit chimney but got soot in their eyes and became tangled up during the fall. The crow hid in the soot when the patrons came to investigate and the owl but someone's finger off when they tried to grab him. The cat used the resulting commotion to sneak in the back when someone ran into the kitchen from outside and the the familiars met up near the main room to kitchen doorway while everyone was trying to help the fingerless guy. Sylvia followed the cultist upstairs and listened through the door as he talked to gasp Steven! Steven explained that his friends at the school got another student expelled and he'd be killing him as well soon. He dropped a bit of info that the student was the cobblers grandfather (all wizard students are bearded old men). Around this time Othello decided this tavern needed to go also and caught some oily kitchen rags on fire.

At this point Cawthorn flies back to the witch's cottage and rips the spellbook page out explaining witch resurrection. Othello and Sylvia lurk near the market and try to listen to conversations to find out what a cobbler is. Eventually they do make out that it's a shoe repairperson and so when Cawthorn gets back they all head to the nearby building with a shoe painted on the sign out front and find the disgraced wizard student there. He's in tears and arguing with his cobbler grandson and they get his attention by making the spellbook page read itself. He quickly surmised that they're familiars and that the witch has been murdered and they scratch crude diagrams in the dirt implying that he's next.

Steven arrives at this point and Garamulus the not-quite-a-wizard flees into the wheatfields. Steven makes chase and Sylvia repeatedly trips him by getting underfoot. The birds claw at his eyes and throat until in a moment when he's particularly distracted, Othello bites his trachea out and watches as Steven dies in owl-terror, but not before accidentally injuring his wing with Steven's dropped knife in an attempt to stab Steven with it. In the distance, Garamulus can still be heard screaming and running away through the wheat. As required for the resurrection ritual Cawthorn takes Steven's eyes.

Sylvia carries the grounded Othello back to the cottage on her back while Cawthorn flies overhead. They do the resurrection and their beloved witch wakes up and heals Othello's wounded wing.

Below are some pictures of character sheets, the village map and some notes I took during the session (most of them are the names the players came up with for the expelled wizard when they couldn't remember his actual name).

Overall we had a great time, good way to spend what would have been the time for our normal game when a few players were out of town.

Edit: also we used these little plastic ducks to track danger and also the location in the village our intrepid heroes were at.

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