Tank: Behold my impenetrable armor! None can hurt me!

Enemy: *ignores tank and stabs wizard and cleric wandering around in glorified bathrobes*

Tank: I didn’t mean you weren’t supposed to try!

But, ChatGPT… I got this code from chatGPT.

I have a suspicion there’s an element of marketing over time involved. Companies in the olden days would advertise brighter, harsher light as ‘really seeing.’ It sucks because this idea has made vehicle headlights into glare producing crap.

It’s not really hypocrisy so much as a different form of speech. Telling a story doesn’t require you to believe in it. Edward Norton, for example, isn’t suicidally anti-consumerist any more than he is a recovered white nationalist. (American History X) It’s technically possible to have a movie created entirely through cynical pandering, where absolutely no one involved believed in the message of the film. It’s less likely the more people involved but it is possible. Heck, it’s possible to have a film in which no one even really seems to consider what the message might be.

From what I can tell, Lemmy started as wildly left but if you avoid the .ml areas, you’re going to get a much broader mix of views.

I’ve always liked the idea of the opposite. I have a character sheet somewhere for a concept of a warlock who thinks she’s a paladin, but now I think it’d be funny to do a warlock who thinks they are a sorcerer with a patron who is also unaware of them. No one knows how anything is working but it is so we’re going with it.

'Hey, guys! Check it out. You guys always made fun of my finger guns but I had this wicked-crazy dream last night and now they started actually firing for some reason.'

• INT: 5
• WIS:5
• CHA:*pew pew*

More like becoming aware that a single bacteria in your gut is using a piece of your humanity, like it applied for a library card in your name or something. Even if you aren’t worried about it doing something to harm you, you’re still going to have a powerful WTF moment.

Re: lesson two

Long time ago, one of my teachers showed the class the data from a survey of managers. It asked them to prioritize a list of things that could lead to a firing. Number one was punctuality/attendance. Number four was theft. This suggested to him that you could be stealing from the company, but if you showed up every day on time you’d be less likely to be fired than if you were always MIA but not a thief. Years in the workplace has only served to confirm this for me.

Diminishing is, I admit, a rough word choice. I actually tried thinking of something else but couldn’t quite find the right word. It’s… Perhaps denormalizing? Demoralizing? Diminutizing? Denaturing? I’m still trying but can’t quite land it.

Perhaps I can find a way to talk you around the perimeter and you can get an idea what I mean. Complaining serves a purpose in making a problem known so that it can be addressed. Complaining about others complaining doesn’t directly diminish their ability to complain in that they haven’t been physically or coercively stopped from complaining, but it does delegitimate their complaints, which is not inherently bad (some complaints are dumb) but when the delegitimation is carried out based on some broad class like ethnicity/nationality/etc. rather than the legitimacy of the particular complaint, that reads like prejudice, of which I’m generally not in favor.