Skin cancer?

While the subject is connected to your game, you’re not really asking about your game you’re asking about some culture war shit that has nothing to do with D&D. Please leave this type of conversation out of this community.

Beandog is a single word.

I saw Bladerunner as a teenager and it affected me so much I’m now a grown-ass man living in a cyberpunk dystopia. Follow your dreams.

Raises stamina recovery.

He’s come for your Tomacco.

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Should we examine our consciences and outlaw women’s healthcare in case people like this take offense and start a civil war?

This seems like a super confused take. Are you saying that killing healthcare CEOs shouldn’t be illegal?!

C’mon man, sure you can use a specific semantic definition of “political” to make your point, but in the real world politics bleeds into almost everything.

The healthcare system in the US is incredibly political, through direct government policy but also the government’s influence on capitalist systems that drive profit over people.

But also, the people who “cheered” Luigi’s actions are generally seen as left aligned politically, its viewed in the broader context of anti-capitalism. So if right wingers see what they believe to be leftists assassinating capitalists, many of them are going to view it as a political act. It doesn’t matter that you don’t agree with their assessment, and it doesn’t matter what Luigi’s original intent was, if that’s how they see it.

If it is perceived as political by a faction, then it is political.

FYI, saying “full stop” out loud doesn’t automatically make a statement true.

I don’t think you understand OP’s point. They aren’t saying that the motivations are equally valid, they are saying that political violence of any kind will always escalate into further and wider violence.

I think OP has amalgamated this scene with the Fighting Dukaki from Futurama in their memory.

I’ve worked as a developer in government software and it is a fucking shitshow from top to bottom. I would not trust any piece of government built software with anything remotely important. Which is terrifying.

I mean, it is a hype bubble, just like the dotcom bubble. That doesn’t mean there’s nothing to it, just that a lot of the claims people are making about it are unrealistic.

Yeah exactly, the people on there are both weird enough to make it up and also weird enough to be actually doing this shit irl.

The beauty of this shit is that it’s equally hilarious whether it’s real or made up.

For graphic novels:

I can’t avoid bringing up Alan Moore’s Watchmen. Probably the most influential graphic novel ever written, it is a masterpiece on every level. Even if you’re not into superhero comics (which this is kind of a deconstruction of) the story stands on its own.

The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. Feel free to pirate these considering Gaiman has turned out to be a piece of human garbage. But you can’t deny the mastery of this series. Gothic, romantic fantasy with incredible depth, beauty and power.

Saga by Brian K. Vaughan is a popular space opera series by one of the best writers in comics. Just really charismatic and engaging, great art, great characters and a narrative that effortlessly carries you along for the ride.

Sweet Tooth by Jeff Lemire is a strange, unique post apocalypse story. Great writing and characters but very dark and the overarching plot is kind of weird (but not really the point of the story).

Preacher by Garth Ennis is a modern fantasy with some of the sharpest writing in comics and a brilliant concept. I’d compare it to a Tarantino film where the overarching story is just an excuse for razor sharp dialogue and ultra-stylish characters and scenes (but the overarching story is great, too). Be warned that Ennis loves over the top shock and gross outs, which I personally find tedious but put up with because the rest is so good. Note that I think the second half of the series (there’s a major event and small time skip at this point) is kind of dull and self-indulgent and can essentially be avoided.

In conversations I’ve had around this I’ve found that women get this immediately, even if they hadn’t considered it before. But men tend to be very resistant to the idea.

“Men are victims of the patriarchy too” is an incredibly powerful message that I wish more men understood.