Yes, just not these young-uns. The young-uns he made these for are adults now.
ThisIsAManWhoKnowsHowToGling
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Irrational fear of happiness
Not a chance, it didn't have a hint of Red Vs Blue
That's it! I just poked at the first episode and I sure damn did forget a lot.
Yeah, I thought that was standard? Maybe I'm in a bubble IRL.
I mean, in another comment I whine about people whining about orcs
I love him
Oh no
Very strong agree on this.
Sorry if my answer was off-topic. I thought you were asking about personhood in your personal games, because you made the statement that if a critter acts like a person that indicates you should treat it as a person. I personally agree, but I wanted to point out the fuzziness of personhood.
Looking back over my comment, I think I ended up rambling and only mostly saying anything. These are the points I wanted to express:
- Personhood isn't objective fact, and every person at your gaming table has a different idea of what a person is.
- Since only people count when making moral decisions, personhood is a bit of a touchy subject and doesn't get examined much. As a result, pretty much everyone thinks all the good people they know agree with their personal definition of personhood because disagreeing on that means you are Evil and Bad.
- Because this is such a touchy subject, people are really sensitive to it. It's hard to make a work that interrogate personhood without it coming across as preachy, so if you want to interrogate it it's best to present them with a nuanced situation and let them make up their own mind without non-diagetic criticism nudging them in a direction
- i also wanted to repeatedly emphasize that our fantasy tropes can be traced back to colonialist, imperialist, and often very racist tropes that were common in the 19th century, and a lot of more modernized fantasy tropes stemming from those old tropes can still be pretty yikes if you think about it for any period of time. Not something most players think about, but I think trying to improve on them is worthwhile.
Also, I should point out that in 2e, 1e, and ODnD, the phrasing was usually "Orcs tend towards chaotic evil due to the Rage of Gruumsh inclining them to solve all problems with violence" or "Elves are generally chaotic and will react to a party with suspicion or hostility". Back then, alignment was more about external relationships than your character, but this wasn't communicated well. The widespread misconception that alignment was about your internal character got enshrined in 3rd edition and then just got carried forward from then into later editions, which is really unfortunate. The point of alignment was supposed to be that good characters and evil characters don't get along, and the same with Lawful and Chaotic characters, even if their individual ethics don't actually overlap much. But that's not how most players see it, so now WotC has reacted to this with a full walkback on creature alignment in a way that kinda erases the little nuance that was left.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/17887359
Rule
cross-posted from: https://dice.camp/users/Shkshkshk/statuses/113331620545269965
My favorite pastime is telling people all about skinny pigs.
"Here's a picture of a scrotum with a mustache. He will never know what warmth feels like. If you want him, you're going to have to pick between his happiness and safety. If you want him to be happy and get him a friend to live with, when they argue his friend will bite him in the rump and sides, and he's going to be constantly sick and tired from all the shivering. If you want him to be safe, just get him, but he might actually die of loneliness. Also, he only exists for one of two reasons. Either he is going to have drugs tested on him in a lab (no fur means easy access to the skin) or a breeder was using him to store the genes of a recessive coloration pattern they like. If you still want one, get a heating pad for him to to stand on and some blankets for him to tunnel under, and hope he doesn't pee on the heating pads too much."
I must remind my potatoes of how good they would be in a stew. They are so cute and chubby!
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Trying to come up with a list of vague words for different "kinds of animals". Help?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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one day i'll have a house with a lawn and there's gonna be so much damn native grass...
(beehaw.org)
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/11787771
[alt text: Text that says, "People [say] 'I never see butterflies or lightning bugs in my yard. Their yard: (colon)". Below the text is a photo of a birds-eye view of a large house with an equally large yard. The lawn is covered in standard turfgrass (probably Kentucky bluegrass) that has been recently mowed.]
Unrealistic, labs use skinny pigs for more efficient sampling