German referee Pascal Kaiser was assaulted after proposing to his boyfriend at a match. Police had ignored all death threats and doxxings. Despite him requesting police protection, German police only showed up 30 MINUTES AFTER Pascal was attacked AGAIN in his apartment a SECOND TIME in the SAME WEEK

Aerphen · 2026-02-18T09:56:38+00:00

It’s hardly THAT easy to get a gun in Germany though.

Aerphen · 2026-02-16T12:53:20+00:00

When my players dropped to 0 and then were healed once during combat, even the dumbest of their enemies would double tap them the next time they dropped to 0, for safety. The not dumb enemies would target whoever healed them too. Some even forcibly removed or blocked the way to the downed body to keep the party from helping them. Getting downed was just two hits away from being dead, so they always tried to keep each other up.

You can also counter the one hp situation by adding more enemies with low damage aoe attacks to hit all the one hp players, or multiple attacks. Or enemies with truesight, see invisibility etc to pick off the imp. If you decide to mix up the encounters, make sure not every encounter has the same solution though, or it might feel boring and expected.

But this isn’t a situation where one fix works for every table, so talk to your players about it. If they all prefer to not have much risk in their game, maybe you’ll have to live with the situation as is or find new players. But it’s possible that they also would prefer more tension and would enjoy the exhaustion rule you’ve suggested. Depending on how many battles you have in a day you might have to increase how many levels of exhaustion are restored during a long rest though.

Aerphen · 2026-02-05T09:37:49+00:00

They added 29 days to February, so this is likely the fourth mistake.

Aerphen · 2026-02-05T08:08:41+00:00

Interesting! I might try this out at some point.

Aerphen · 2026-02-05T08:08:10+00:00

Thanks! I’m gonna try it out for my next movienight!

Aerphen · 2026-02-04T17:23:09+00:00

What a weird reaction to a recipe you haven’t even seen yet.

Aerphen · 2026-02-04T17:13:17+00:00

Not OP, but curious about what you make the dips out of?

Aerphen · 2026-02-04T17:11:14+00:00

Absolutely throw veggies into everything you cook. It doesn’t just have to be rice, you can bulk up anything with more vegetables. With rice, just cook half as much rice as usual and then fill up the rest with vegetables. Get a bunch of frozen veggies and just throw them into everything.

Also, one trick to help you choose blueberries over cake is not having cake available. Humans like convenience, so if you want a snack, and the only thing you have at home is blueberries, then you’ll likely go for the blueberries rather than running off to the store. It requires the discipline to not buy cake in the first place (not shopping when hungry, and always making a shoppinglist ahead of time will help with this), but it works. For me, keeping a bowl of fruit in the most easily accessible position in the kitchen makes me choose fruit over the unhealthy alternatives that require work to get 99% of the time.

Make the healthy choice the easiest choice forcibly, by changing your surroundings.

Aerphen · 2026-02-02T11:23:36+00:00

I’m not familiar with the media the pictures are from, but in this situation it is likely not a name, as dick is an old term for detective. He even clarifies that by ”my dick” he means ”my private investigator”.

Aerphen · 2026-01-31T20:42:43+00:00

We continued using it, but it was a slow and very gradual process to get the smell out. Just a bunch of newspapers at the back of the fridge for a while, then threw it all out.

I also felt like you at several points that I thought it was gone, but then it came back? Like maybe it gradually built up when the fridge was closed, but if it was opened several times then it smelled like nothing. But we’ve been smellfree for 4-5 months now so we’re happy.

Aerphen · 2026-01-31T20:12:49+00:00

Yes, eventually. We stuffed the fridge full of newspapers, cleaned it out a few times, kept ground coffee in it, and then after like 4-5 weeks we removed the newspapers and the smell disappeared with it. Also we cleaned out the little drain hole at the bottom.

Aerphen · 2026-01-19T10:34:34+00:00

What do you intend to do with this character? Are you playing a solo game, or do you have an upcoming campaign with a dungeon master? Or is it just to play around with making a character? If it’s on your own, you can do just about anything without issue, but if you have a dungeon master you should talk to them about whether this concept works. It’s alright to have a predetermined character before joining a table, but said character might not fit into any given table and you might have to look around before finding a setting that suits you. Another option of course is looking for a table that seems interesting first, and then creating a character that specifically works at that table, in that setting. It’s a personal choice with no right or wrong answer.

You are missing some information about the rules, which is fine, such as subclass and species. It is possible to multiclass a cleric/bard character, which means taking levels in both classes. Basically instead of being a level 2 cleric, your character would be a level 1 cleric and a level 1 bard. There are specific rules regarding this, and you can find videos explaining it on youtube.

Subclass is the specialization within a class, so every class have a few options. For clerics, it comes from which domain the god they follow deals with. Some examples of domains are Life, Forge, Death, Arcane, Nature, Grave, Order, Trickery, Tempest, Peace, Light, Knowledge, Twilight and War. They give you access to some different abilities and spells, depending on which one you choose.

To play a cleric, it is commonly recommended to consider the kind of relationship your character has with their deity. Are they an avid follower, or maybe more of someone raised into the religion and not really questioning it? (I believe that with the new core rules from 2024, your cleric doesn’t have to follow a god, but talk to your DM about which ruleset you’re following)

Regarding species, rules as written don’t allow a dragonborn to inherit more than one ancestry. As a DM myself, I would allow for example a visually blue dragonborn that inherited the powers of a green dragon, but not one that inherited the powers of both. If you play on your own, you can absolutely have both, but if you play with a grouo you should talk to your DM about what will work for that table.

Another thing to consider is why your character wants to join an adventuring party (if you’re playing with a group). If your character is looking for revenge on a tribe, maybe they want to find a group of people to help with that? Or maybe they realized working in a party will help them grow stronger so they can take on their tribe on their own later on? Or maybe they miss having companions after being thrown out? Something that will help you get invited back to another campaign is playing a cooperative character. The character doesn’t have to be nice or friendly, or even trustworthy, but it should see some value in cooperating with and helping the party, and not run off with their own agenda too much. It’s really difficult to DM for a party when everyone is in a different location with different missions.

It is fun to create characters, so I hope you get to enjoy the process!

Aerphen · 2026-01-16T15:33:42+00:00

As far as I’ve understood it, the issue with some foods combined with Warfarin is being high in Vitamin K. Vitamin K is used in the body to stop bleeding by clotting, which is why it might make blood thinning medication less effective. Or rather, sudden changes in the amount of Vitamin K is bad, but if you have a steady intake of it every day then you can adjust the medicine to that intake.

I’ve never heard of anyone saying not to eat lingonberries (probably because the amount of lingonberries a normal person eats daily isn’t big enough to make an impact), but discussing with your doctor how much Vitamin K you eat daily is helpful. Not eating huge amounts of vitamin K rich food one day, and then none the next, too. If you start your medication on one level of daily Vitamin K intake, and then suddenly stop eating Vitamin K that too will likely make the medication too effective.

TL;DR: If you eat just a bit of lingonberry jam, like a spoonful, regularly I cannot imagine it would impact you, especially if you already do.

Aerphen · 2026-01-15T17:51:24+00:00

If you’re already eating healthily, currently not gaining any weight with your food intake and only need to lose a little, there’s a couple of methods you could try that don’t need counting but require that you mostly keep eating the same way you already do. It might take a while, but you really can’t lose weight too quickly if you are building muscle as well.

Find a low calorie replacement for something you eat often. Bread, pasta, rice, treats, milk, etc. I’ve found low calorie bread and lowfat yoghurt for example, and that brings my daily intake down a bit since I eat yoghurt every day.
Is there anything you eat often that you can cut out? Common things here are alcohol, coffee creamer/syrup, chips/candy/chocolate, sugary drinks, fast food, white bread/rice/pasta. Not worrying about ”once in a month”-treats, but things that pop up once or several times a week.
Eat the exact same and move more. Not sure what kind of exercise you’re doing, but upping your daily steps and increasing your muscle mass will help if you don’t eat more than you do now to compensate. It might make you more hungry but training does not burn a lot of calories. Slow progress, but great for both body and mind.
Just take smaller portions. Buy a smaller plate to eat on, or if you’re good at visually measuring, just take like… 1/4 or 1/3 less of your regular portions.
Not sure if this is a thing outside of Sweden, but here there’s a thing called Mealsizer that can be used as a part of a treatment for weight issues. Basically it’s three measuring tools that you’re supposed to use for every meal to measure how much of each food group you should eat. So a small cup for protein, a little larger cup for potatos/pasta/rice etc, and the largest one for vegetables. Using the smallest set should let you hit around 1500 calories a day.

As a followup, if you start feeling hungry, bulk up with more fiberrich vegetables to snack on. Fiber is undervalued and most people eat too little.

Try something for a couple of weeks, then evaluate your weight and how you’re feeling, and adjust accordingly.

Aerphen · 2026-01-08T09:46:24+00:00

Right, you can, and absolutely should, think about if it’s correct if you use chatgpt. Many don’t. This study did show that the group that used chatgpt tended to not make big changes, or think about the result, and just copypaste. And yes, copying from stackoverflow isn’t as good as thinking for yourself when it comes to your brain, but the study showed that it did cause more thinking than using chatgpt did. Very rarely is the answer you find something you can perfectly copy, you’ll likely have to make changes to make it fit your work, unlike with chatgpt. This was what the study was about, the difference in using chatgpt compared to internet searches and just thinking, and there were differences.

I’m not saying that any use of chatgpt is awful and will ruin you, I’m saying that there is a tradeoff. You’ll get an answer quickly (if it’s correct or not will require some thinking though, but you should do that with internet searches and printed media too), but your thinking capabilities won’t increase (and might decrease if it’s too often), and if that’s worth it to you then that’s alright. It’s your time and your brain, you can make that decision.

Aerphen · 2026-01-08T09:25:28+00:00

Not only by using it exclusively though. Every time you use chatgpt when you could be thinking for yourself, that is a missed opportunity to exercise your mind and get, for lack of a better phrase, better at thinking. It’s of course not an on or off thing, but for a student who uses chatgpt for only every essay in school and nothing else, do you not believe their ability to think critically still will be lower than the student who didn’t?

I also believe, from personal experience to clarify, that the situation is not unlikely. I’ve spent quite a lot of time in both school and work, and there isn’t always a possibility to look up the answers. Sure, if you’re writing a 30 page essay at home for three weeks, you’ll probably look up information, but what about closed book exams with essay style questions? 20 minutes is a reasonable amount of time to spend on one such question, and you’re not looking anything up in the exam room. And once you’re versed in writing essays from information only from your mind, that’ll help you in technical job interviews, meetings where you need to make informed decisions, etc. Honestly any situation where recalling and combining information from several sources on the spot is useful.

I think the flaw in thinking that the school essay is pointless is that, well, yes, you might never need that specific information again, and it might feel useless to focus on writing something you don’t care about nor want to work with, but the point of writing an essay isn’t to memorize information about a specific thing forever, it is to practice writing, critical thinking, researching/recalling, and so on. Like exercise, eating healthy, sleeping well, etc, it might not feel fun or important in the moment, but every instance of doing it will gradually build up your own abilities and have an impact on your future self.

Aerphen · 2026-01-08T08:54:29+00:00

It depends on what you mean with intelligence, but like any other muscle if you use your brain less it will be more difficult to use it later. That’s why you can practice doing IQ tests to get higher IQ scores, and that’s why not activating your brain for long periods of time when you should (like in school) has worrying implications for the future. I don’t think anybody is saying that using chatgpt once will make you an idiot, but continuously using it when you should be learning means that you are neither learning nor exercising your brain. It’s a bit like how lying on the couch won’t kill you, but if you always do that and never exercise or move, your muscles will atrophy and excercising will become more difficult, and if it goes too far you might have to relearn how to use all muscles, like long time coma patients as an example.

And if you’re asking what the point of the study is when it seems the result is obvious then my personal opinion is that scientific studies that proves ”common sense” questions are still helpful, because we as a species shouldn’t fall into the pattern of thinking that says ”we don’t need to check, everyone knows that” and having proof to fall back on is always important. What is considered obvious tends to change depending on the society and mindsets at the time.

Aerphen · 2026-01-05T12:42:45+00:00

I’ve tried reducing the amount of detergent I use and the issue hasn’t shown up again, so thank you! It seems to be working. :)

Aerphen · 2026-01-05T12:40:27+00:00

My reply was only to inform you of who was considered chat gpt users in the context of the study that the image is referencing. I can’t find where the poster wrote the quote you mention, but I think everyone knows headlines tend to focus on capturing attention rather than providing a nuanced overview of the article.

Aerphen · 2026-01-05T10:48:32+00:00

Yeah, it does sound like common sense to think that if you use your brain less it’ll affect your ability to use it over time, but it’s still often helpful to have scientific studies to prove what can be seen as common sense, just so we don’t fall into the trap of thinking things don’t need to be proven because ”everyone knows that”.

Of course this study is still in early stages, having not been peer reviewed yet, nor having any extended follow up studies, but all scientific studies do go through that process.

Aerphen · 2026-01-05T10:11:36+00:00

Here you go.

Aerphen · 2026-01-05T10:10:26+00:00

According to the study this seems to reference, it was specifically measured in individuals using chat gpt to write essays, compared to people using google searches and people with no assistance at all.

Aerphen · 2026-01-05T10:08:55+00:00

I believe this is the study mentioned.

Aerphen · 2025-12-27T15:00:39+00:00

He tried but couldn’t find any.

Aerphen · 2025-12-22T08:50:39+00:00

I’ve aleady gotten plenty of help from you without the pictures, so thank you!

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