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- Comment on Anon plays DnD 5 days ago:
There’s definitely a balance to be struck, and it depends on the table. I would only do this on a table where the rules are actually just guidelines.
For many others, a world needs to make sense internally. It doesn’t need to make real-world sense, but within the world with its different reality, things kinda need to be consistent. For example, if it is easily possible for a wizard to circumvent your will save by asking a trick question, the whole world would look completely different. Almost everyone who interacts with any kind of wizard would be extremely guarded around giving consent for anything since it might just be a ploy to remove their resistances.
A resourceful/logical player would now try to trick an NPC into agreeing first, and well, if it doesn’t work, you can still cast the spell normally, nothing lost. You could ask them to stop, or they could recognize themselves that doing it like that wouldn’t be fun, but if you act in the world you usually always try to make the best decisions. If you artificially limit that in a fourth-wall-breaking way, the game actually starts to lose its appeal.
If you allow stuff like this all the time, eventually the alternate reality of your characters will just become a random clown show. Problem solving will just be about who comes up with the most ridiculous thing that makes everyone laugh about its absurdity. There will be no logic or rational thought involved anymore, it’ll be no simulation anymore, just a sandbox. Which again, might be fine for certain tables, but many want to be able to immerse themselves in a different world that they can accept as at least possible, which is the actual fun for them.
So no, you aren’t necessarily “not fun” if you don’t allow this as a DM. You’re just playing a different kind of game with a different kind of fun.
- Comment on Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole 1 week ago:
It depends entirely on the maturity of the parties involved, it’s not really an “older/younger” thing.
But generally, the less mature you are, the more a relationship is selfish, i.e. you want to be in a relationship for your personal advantage, i.e. “i get sex when I have a girlfriend”. The more mature you get, the more relationships go into the direction of “I want to make the other person happy”. You still get your sex or whatever other advantage of course, but it’s much more fulfilling if you can actually give the other person what they need, and temporarily losing your personal benefit of the relationship doesn’t cause immediate breakups.
- Comment on Anon browses r/AmITheAsshole 1 week ago:
They don’t really. They are often learned the hard way, because no one attempts to explain them or just acts like they know.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 1 week ago:
What to do with it is to act understanding and empathetic with people like that instead of standoffish and hostile. You still insist on the better way of doing things, but there’s no actual need to attack anyone that doesn’t support the better way of doing things, even if their reasons aren’t rational.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 1 week ago:
Funny how you made exactly the comment the article predicted within itself xD
- Comment on Calling in healthy 1 week ago:
Why would you ask questions when it’s the same day? Like, don’t all sicknesses start being noticed one specific day and thus you take sick leave starting that day? That’s literally the only way it makes sense at all
- Comment on Calling in healthy 1 week ago:
Maybe you should explain your intention instead of making cryptic belittling remarks.
- Comment on Calling in healthy 1 week ago:
No one insulted you. They commented on the fact that you don’t understand reality for most people. Most jobs are so easily replaceable and have so little protections that if you start citing laws and taking sick leave like it’s rightfully yours, you’ll be fired a bit later for “unrelated” reasons.
Thus while you are right that you would be able to get your sick leave by communicating the law, you will not really get them because you’ll be out of work in a few weeks. If you want to keep your job, you don’t communicate the law and don’t take your sick leave.
Btw, unionize to prevent all this.
- Comment on Calling in healthy 1 week ago:
I mean the only thing it does is if you’re a minute late, you might as well go get a coffee and sit down in a park and be 59 minutes late.
- Comment on I just finish to see all TNG movies. 2 weeks ago:
Semi-unrelated question: I’ve watched Star Trek Voyager with my gf, she doesn’t know any other Trek. I don’t think we want to watch TOS, but will probably continue with TNG and DS9 next.
Do you need to know the TOS characters like Kirk, Spock etc before watching the movies, or are they adequately introduced in the movies so you can watch them as someone completely ignorant?
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 weeks ago:
But it’s absolutely clear that the first definition is meant by the person that is being responded to.
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 weeks ago:
Well that depends on your definition of curved… If I look at this image from a 3 dimensional coordinate system that includes the sphere, the edges are definitely curved. Of course, if you look at this from the coordinate system “surface of the sphere” then I would agree with you. There are 2 ways to look at this and decide if it is a triangle.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
I agree. But is a statement like “everyone in hexbear is insane” helpful in any way at all? The only thing it serves is to further any divide and cause more hostility.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
The times I went there with differing opinions I never got insulted. They think their views are right and (sometimes) mine wrong. They also shared their reasons and tried in their way to educate me. They have their own culture over there that is more rude/direct than normal, but it’s certainly possible to speak normally to them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
I think all people deserve respect by default. Only through someone’s actions may the respect for them be rescinded. Calling a whole bunch of people something is just almost never correct and only furthers any already existing divide.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
You can do these things while talking face-to-face with somebody.
Calling a whole bunch of different people with different opinions than you, that you don’t all know, “insane”, seems to me like you feel you are smarter/better than them.
- Comment on Is it me or is everyone in hexbear insane? 3 weeks ago:
They’re not insane, they’re just victims of tribal thinking like the rest of us. Very narrow worldview reinforced by the others around them, bashing outsiders, thinking “they” are smarter than everyone else. Mostly, they see themselves as good and everyone else as bad, which isn’t very unique among humans either.
- Comment on If you have sex with a clone of yourself, is it incest? 3 weeks ago:
It is about morals in the age of contraception.
- Comment on I think I am socially ostrasized, what should I do? 3 weeks ago:
If you’re autistic: social settings have a plethora of unwritten rules that you have to follow to not seem weird to non-autistic people. Without knowing exactly why anyone would be badmouthing you, it’s likely that you already violated dozens of them without knowing it.
It’s possible to learn it though, I did it through reading about it and carefully observing soap operas scene-by-scene, watching every movement they make, every way they express themselves, guessing the purpose and seeing the effects.
The quickest way to learn is by having someone with the necessary skills observe you and giving you pointers, but this is hard to do apparently since you have no one you can trust?
I could help, but to help you, one really needs much more and much more specific information about your situation.
- Comment on Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site? 4 weeks ago:
Providing both a clearnet and a onion domain is not to protect the website’s privacy, but to protect the user’s privacy.
- Comment on Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site? 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Are there any differences between hosting a .onion site and a “normal” site? 4 weeks ago:
You simply follow the steps for both. But when it says in the steps to set up a webserver, instead of using 2 different webservers, you use 1.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
I mean the specifics like who you hate, in what way, is learned, but the hate itself is basic. You can’t tell me hate isn’t one of the most basic human emotions.
- Comment on How do people in this day in age become nazis/neonazies sexist or even incels when there is so much knowledge against it? Do they get anything out of being that way? 4 weeks ago:
Short answer: it’s basic human nature if you don’t specifically work against it. Many people work against it, but not everyone, mostly because of an environment they grew up in that doesn’t do this.
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 5 weeks ago:
Kids are the best observers, better than adults, untainted by any preconceived notions. The daughter almost surely knows that something is going on and is watching very closely how her parents handle everything, that’s exactly what children do.
- Comment on I feel like a flashbang went off in my head, so the only question that I can think of is, "What now?" (Details in body.) 5 weeks ago:
The only thing therapy is supposed to do is allow you to be happy/content with your decisions. It doesn’t suddenly make you stop caring about your wife or your daughter. It should allow you to find the best decisions. You’re still your own person with your own decisions that nothing will take from you.
If you don’t want to end the marriage, then therapy will never mean you’ll suddenly want to end your marriage.
- Comment on Crystals 1 month ago:
I mean crystals definitely have gravity pulling you towards them.
I understand your reasoning and even the appeal, however I personally just wonder if all of these effects wouldn’t be possible by any other means. Why does it need to be crystals, intentionally overpriced at that. Theoretically, couldn’t you just go out into nature, find a rock you like, and it’d have the same effect?
- Comment on Crystals 1 month ago:
I’m pretty sure you’re seriously responding to satire :)
- Comment on Anon's gf is unfulfilled 1 month ago:
She won’t let a licensed therapist help her, so no, they also can’t do anything.
- Comment on What kind of laptop should I get? 1 month ago:
Well… Why don’t you do it then :D this is what the thread is about, you don’t need to state your credentials