Lurker > averagejoel

obviously democracy is a system that theoretically allows us to participate in a bourgeois election every four years, but also intentionally makes it very difficult for certain demographics to vote

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superman in terms of straight-up power and endurance

batman goes at it more strategically, using tongue and hands and toys as needed before giving a strong finish

cyborg is probably somewhere betweeo the two

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got a better source for this?

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

There's more low intelligence men then women and iirc racism is kind of a sign of low intelligence

it's not clear to me that "intelligence", however you define it, has anything to do with racism

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it was fun. that's what I was expecting out of it, and that's what I got

however, I saw Parasite immediately afterwards. so. yeah

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KnightofShikari posted...

would an arakockra swashbuckler rogue be good? thinking of doing my meme darkwing duck build. flying around, sneak attack, bonus attack, fancy footwork to fly away with no opportunity attack. still have a bow in case i need to do ranged attacks. rakish audacity means i'll almost always get a sneak attack, since (as i understand it), i just need no one else within 5 feet of me to get it. wonder if i could even be midair to attack so there's even more chance of sneak attack with rakish audacity. 25 base movement but flying is always double, so take feats to increase movement to really zip around

all this is sounding really OP but i'm not sure if i'm missing something big

it's certainly good. but flying is good no matter what you do

swashbuckler is a powerful class for 1-on-1 fights. you might find yourself in trouble if you get outnumbered though

Swashbuckler can also benefit a lot from some dips: Battlemaster maneuvers, and some specific spells, really augment the class.

probably the strongest dip, mechanically speaking, is Hexblade. Charisma becomes your primary stat for everything, and you can make really good use of some of those spells + medium armour. you also get a really strong ranged option in Eldritch Blast, though you can't get Sneak Attack with it

I'm playing a character right now that's a swashbuckler/genie warlock multiclass. it's a lot of fun.

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mrgoatthief posted...

the cauldron turns the area around you into icy terrain when you are reduced to half HP for the first time in an encounter. Increased forced movement distance and difficult terrain.

the crook lets you cast a 20 foot thorn whip.

the cloak lets you cast misty step once and recharges at dawn.

maybe the summer one lets you cast Absorb Elements a d4 times per day?

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what do the other items do?

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Prestoff posted...

How did Jordan Peterson get popular to begin with?

fear mongering about how a bill to make gender identity a protected class (in the way that race is a protected class) was somehow going to infringe on free speech

this is the bill in question
https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/c-16/first-reading

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I don't believe in an "ultimate crush"

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mattymad posted...

Errr, Bless? I don't think so. Especially at lower levels bless is such a huge improvement to accuracy.

Though that reminds me, one of the early damage spells that is insanely good is a cleric spell: Spirit Guardians. If I remember reading that spell right, it's insane damage.

Spirit Guardians also scales extremely well. it plus Spiritual Weapon make the Cleric an extremely good blaster

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oregano is one of those ingredients that you really have to be careful with. too much can overpower other tastes.

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PMarth2002 posted...

whoops, yeah was just thinking 8 minimum. extremely unlikely though. I don't think i've ever rolled all 1s on a fireball in 20 years of playing D&D before.

if I understand the math correctly, the chance of it happening is 1/(8^6), or 1/262144

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PMarth2002 posted...

So yeah, dead no matter what, unless the DM boosts their HP

Fireball is 8d6, so if you roll a 1 on all the dice and they make their saving throw, they survive with 1 HP

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I like sour cream and I'm... slightly better than neutral on mayo

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it did a real good explosive pushup one time and still hasn't come down from it

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Sackgurl posted...

yes, obviously against small and medium sized groups of powerful monsters, disables are better

my point above was that direct damage against a huge group of kobolds, goblins, orcs, etc is preferable

these monsters continue to be relevant into high levels, just in ever greater numbers.

if your DM only ever runs battles with action economy mostly equivalent to the party, yeah AoE is not needed, but when you're way, way down on actions compared to the enemy

I mean if you're talking enemies like that then it's probably just as effective to use Sleep

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

yea, and I have to assume women feel the same way lol.

if you're looking for some sort of romantic relationship, you need to make your profile as you as it can possibly be. filling it with potentially divisive stuff works.

I always have a homemade meme as one of my pictures because sense of humour is a big deal for me. if someone isn't into interacting with the type of jokes I make, they're probably not someone I would want to date in the first place

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Sackgurl posted...

if the blast isn't fireball, yes true

but any sort of horde fight is benefited more from application of status: dead than status: restrained/incapacitated/frightened

8d6 is good damage at level 5, but think about it this way:

I'm gonna compare Fireball to Hypnotic Pattern and Sleet Storm, other AoE spells

say you have a level 5 party vs a group of, say, 8 trolls. I'm gonna assume for the moment that the trolls are close enough that all the trolls are within the area of effect of all the spells, and that none of the spells have the possibility of friendly fire.

at level 5, the person casting these spells probably has 16 or 18 in their casting stat, so that's a Spell Save DC of 14 or 15. I'll assume it's 14 for all the spells.

Fireball uses a Dex save. Trolls have +1 to their Dex save, so they have a 7/20 chance of making that save. that means ~3 of them make it and take half damage. but then all of the trolls, including the ones that failed that save, can still attack your party (trolls have 8d10+40 HP, which is well beyond the capabilities of a Fireball).

Hypnotic Pattern uses a Wisdom save. Trolls have -1 to their Wisdom save, so they have a 5/20 chance to make it. that means probably 2 of them make it. but the creatures that failed this saving throw are incapacitated and can't move. so by casting this spell, we've reduced the number of creatures attacking the party. the other party members can now focus on the trolls that can move, then pick off the incapacitated trolls one by one

Sleet Storm creates Difficult Terrain regardless of whether or not those trolls make their saving throw, so their movement is halved, meaning that fewer trolls can get to the party in the first place. but the ~3 trolls that fall prone (Dex save again) have their movement halved again, and while the trolls are Prone, the party can attack them with advantage. how effective this is really depends on your party, but this really helps out the damage dealers. Fighters want the extra crit chance; Rogues want that guaranteed Sneak Attack. so if you increase your party's damage by more than 8d6, you've effectively done more damage with this spell than with a Fireball

Fireball also scales very poorly. creatures in higher level encounters have higher HP, meaning that Fireball is proportionately less effective against them. but Hypnotic Pattern and Sleet Storm continue to have the same effect for higher level mob encounters

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

I know I dont just want a list of statuses and identities bundled into one person

well obviously you have to actually talk to and meet people to get that. but dating sites can help with finding someone that's similar to you.

I definitely have a "type" -- or I guess a few "types" -- that I gravitate towards, and for the most part I don't bother trying to match with people who don't seem like they fit that. it's nothing against them personally; just that they're probably not a good fit for me

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KILBOTz posted...

Evictions are necessary. Legalizing squatters is not a good thing by any measure.

people having a roof over their head is more important than landlords turning a profit

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the big deal with a profile is making it as you as it can possibly be.

for pictures, I generally recommend:
1 headshot
1 full body shot (or at least most of your body)
1 group photo (where it's easy to tell which one you are)
1 photo of you doing something you enjoy

and optionally, a funny picture and a homemade meme

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Sackgurl posted...

the big thing that got under my skin was the absurd imbalance of fireball versus lightning bolt versus every other damage spell up until that point

as a spellcaster you're almost always better off using AoE debuffs and party buffs than straight up blasts

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ssj3vegeta_ posted...

I watched da first season and finished da manga last week

Its shit bruh, it felt hella rushed and da MC's powerups are worse den ichigo's lol

I haven't read or watched any demon slayer, but I find it hard to believe that there's any major work being released now that's actually worse (in terms of the writing) than Seven Deadly Sins

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MildEnergy posted...

No even creepier was Gowtherraping Guila and her apolozing to him

yeah that was fucked up too

the closest thing in the show to an actual functional romantic relationship is Escanor and Merlin, which is just like... seriously?

the only other one that even starts down that path is King and Diane, which, while at least not all kinds of rapey and fucked up, is still among the worst writing I've seen in any piece of media

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NoxObscuras posted...

Seriously? How is he grooming her from birth? Because of the curse, she's destined to meet and fall in love with him, no matter what. He literally has no control over it, so how is he grooming her?

it's literally what their relationship is. he raises her literally from the time she's a baby. then when she's like 15 or whatever, he starts sexually assaulting her. she's extremely visibly uncomfortable every time it happens, and it keeps happening.

and believe it or not, her reaction on finding out that he groomed her from birth does not improve the situation

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she's a teenager

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cjs28 posted...

Niiiiiiice!

So they're basically lovers and all this titty groping is just foreplay? Why is everyone bothered by it then? >_>

because he groomed her from birth to be his grope doll and it's never questioned by anyone

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basically all of Haiti's problems now stem from them not killing enough slave owners during and after their revolution

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_Kowalski_ posted...

Oooh, TPK! I've never killed a player or personally seen a party member die YET. What was the cause of the TPK? I love these tales from the graveyard stories. I also appreciate the DM for using it as a plot twist/story continuation.

so earlier in the campaign, each player had a solo mission for their guilds. the premise was that the more effectively we completed the mission, the larger the reward would be.

my character and one other got the maximum possible reward.
the other two characters died.

anyway, the TPK was basically because of a really large army of zombies invading and attacking us.

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I'm in a campaign set in the Magic... uh, multiverse I guess? the entire campaign up until the last session was on Ravnica, but there was just a tpk that resulted in the players becoming planeswalkers. I think we're on Theros now

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it certainly can be a valid response

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Skyrim's writing is extremely inconsistent. the Thieves Guild questline and the Forsworn questline are both among the worst writing in any game I've played

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indifferent

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it depends a lot on who's using the word. usually it means "someone to the left of me" or "someone who approves of the soviet union more than me"

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eston posted...

That's why they put it there

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it's not clear how big any of these pizzas are -- there's nothing for scale

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lol

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dude Eddie Van Halen was one of the best guitarists in the world

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mft1 posted...

this is why I suggested expressing yourself more clearly instead of just being rude to anyone who holds you to your own words

asking bad questions and extrapolating on my answers is not the same as holding me to my own words

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mft1 posted...

I never said you agreed with him, just that you're contradicting himself for the sake of being argumentative.

and you would be incorrect on that count too

I asked if you were disagreeing with the statement "everyone is always going to be racist"

no, you asked:

am i incorrect in reading this as you saying "everyone is always going to be racist" is not true?

in other words, you asked if that was what I was saying. I was not saying that, so the answer to that question is No.

however, I do think that the statement "everyone is always going to be racist" is false. or at least, that there's no reason to believe that it's true

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mft1 posted...

why would you post something but then accuse me of making shit up for assuming you stood by your posts?

I never said that I agreed with him

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