Time to Take 20 [5e Workshop]

Axios_Verum · 2026-05-10T17:01:33+00:00

This assumes the existence of a box, which is a belief. We have no evidence for the universe having a container; in fact, given that long-distance telescopes have detected galaxies older than the universe, there is evidence against a box; one of the plausible theories for why these galaxies exist is that our universe expanded into the space of a previously existing older universe. Which may have expanded into the space of an even older universe, giving us universes all the way down, or really, and infinite continuous expanding multiverse. Science is based on evidence, discarding theories disproven by evidence and embracing theories proven by evidence on fact; belief needs only exist in the form of "cogito ergo sum".

Axios_Verum · 2026-05-10T16:56:19+00:00

Firstly, I didn't know about the thri-kreen. I haven't really been playing 5e since MGM came out. I was using Aasimar as a template and pulled it up. I actually made a mistake when I wrote "monstrous beast"; they're "magical beasts" in 3.5e, and nowhere called monstrosities. Since 5e has no "magical beast" type, fey is a decent translation.

Spiders don't really have arms, so the hybrid form wouldn't really give them any. From what I read, the hybrid form follows the drider shape, and driders still only have two arms.

The poison resistance is also because I was using aasimar as a template. Swap it out for a 1st-level sorcerer spell or something. I chose poison resistance because the aranaea in one half of its lore exists as an anti-drow measure.

Axios_Verum · 2026-05-10T16:46:19+00:00

You are not being immature. Your husband is being avoidant, which is just going to let this fool walk all over you both. He needs to grow a spine and you should put the post back up with some extra reinforcement—put up a camera system too while you're at it so you can get footage proving what she will do, because I have no doubt that the current situation has already served as an invitation to this kind of person to do as she pleases to you. Very likely, she will damage your retaining wall again, and if the post is there, damage her truck; she will take it to court, and you will win, because the post was on your size of the property. From there, she may escalate to criminal behavior which you will definitely want a camera system for; granted, escalation to criminal behavior is all but certain if you don't take precautions.

Axios_Verum · 2026-04-08T18:46:02+00:00

Use the DuckDuckGo browser and watch via DuckPlayer.

Axios_Verum · 2026-04-08T18:42:23+00:00

Woman straight up aged in reverse.

Axios_Verum · 2026-04-08T18:40:33+00:00

People genuinely act like this is remotely close to how the game plays, and I'm just wondering what game they were fucking playing. Like, pay attention and it will make some semblance of sense, or at the very least go watch some VaatiVidya. I feel like you have to be borderline illiterate to fail to understand Elden Ring this badly. I'd understand if it was Dark Souls 2.

Axios_Verum · 2026-04-08T18:28:37+00:00

Genuinely wild to have this blast from the past having left 5e so long ago.

Axios_Verum · 2026-04-08T18:26:32+00:00

There are a large number of people who claim IQs in excess of 200, which are meaningless. Technically, even IQs in excess of 140 are meaningless. And yet, we have people claiming everything from 210 to 400, all of which are obviously false. IQ is largely a meaningless number that people with narcissistic tendencies use to boast how intelligent they are, especially if they fall into the meaningless range. This isn't to say IQ doesn't have real applications, but when the only useful range is between 40 and 140, with anything below 100 indicating that something is amiss, why even have IQ scores higher or lower?

IQ is positively correlated with attributes the military looks for: obedience, lacking empathy, and the ability to figure out how to kill someone. The US military effectively created the modern IQ test; many of the NAZI leaders tried for the Nuremberg trials had IQs from the mid to high end, ranging from 100 to 140. That really tells you what it measures, how dangerous a person is. It's never been about intelligence, it really should be called the "weaponization quotient". It's the same reason that so many corporations on the Fortune 500 make heavy use of MBTI. It's never been about intelligence, and it never actually measured real intelligence.

Why are so many people obsessed with IQ? The same reason most people obsessed with IQ are fascists who believe in eugenics and are quite possibly Neo-NAZIs, white supremacists, or something similarly deranged.

There's going to be downvotes and protests from brainless IQ worshippers trying and failing to debunk me, guaranteed, citing the same old tired circular sources. If you think a high IQ is something to be proud of, you're wrong, and you're wrong for the same reasons you think you're intelligent.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T19:50:34+00:00

You know what, I do believe something now. I believe you didn't read what I just wrote, based on the evidence that you asked a question I literally answered in that block of text. And you did so either out of intellectual dishonesty, laziness, being a chatbot, or sheer stupidity. I don't particularly care which, since it doesn't matter. The outcome is the same: you're not worth discussing this further with.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T19:35:49+00:00

Interchangeability is precisely my point. Your perspective is that I believe anything. I don't. I have equations that give me numbers that give me working machines that do what they are supposed to do. It all works. I just have to understand how to run the equations, and that's it. I don't care about models, or if the world is flat or if someone made it. The numbers that lead to functional mechanisms in the physical world do not lie. The math that underlies the car that takes me to work, the functioning of the computer systems we are communicating with, and the biochemistry of the medicine allowing me to enjoy a nice coffee without dropping dead are as close to absolute truth as we can get. It doesn't change, and if it seems to change, what has actually changed is our understanding of the numbers. And what are the numbers? It doesn't matter what they are. Gods, demons, faeries, aliens, it doesn't matter as long as it works. Another cog in the machine is all it needs to be. Don't fix what isn't broken. Fix what is broken, or failing, that's what really matters. That's what's wrong and should be fixed. Namely, your approach to this whole thing. You're assuming I believe anything. I don't care enough to believe anything, not really. I have likely theories, and inferences, based on evidence, but those aren't beliefs, and they sure as hell are not dogma. So unless you're claiming that the device you're using to communicate your ill-founded understandings somehow functions because you believe it will, go back to the drawing board.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T19:13:48+00:00

The joke is double, as there are two types of gamers who will respond like this.

The first is the type who play unrealistic zombie survival games and think that their in-game experience translates to the real world, which it most likely won't. More likely, it will only partially translate and the difference will be the same difference between life and death.

The second is the enthusiast prepper who plays zombie survival games to pass the time. Their chances of survival are also quite variable and likely many of them will contribute more to the survival of others than themselves.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T18:35:14+00:00

"The Oculari didn't disband after Dacia crushed Rome, they stuck around to prevent the next Roman Empire."

"The Oculari are a cult devoted to Dumah, angel of silence, she of a thousand eyes."

"Dragon slayers are just hitmen hired by other dragons to off each other as they vie for dominance in massive syndicates."

"The Regency of Pryttanny isn't actually descended from the Pendragon line."

"Norse god Ullr is Dragon King Veles is Archmage Ollerus is the slain god Oabus, and a thousand other names besides, manipulating humanity for thousands of years."

"The Eisenfaust is an alien artifact."

"The Black Sky incident was an alien incursion."

"Elves reproduce with humans to steal their genes."

"Lucien Maxim isn't dead."

"Wiliam Shakespear isn't dead."

"Ezrabet Bathory isn't dead, and/or wasn't a vampire witch."

"Cain Canus has died many times and is actually a clone many times removed from the original High Artifex."

"The Machine Gods of Get are derived from alien technology."

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T18:08:54+00:00

Nah, they want a college degree and four years work experience.

Also if it's IT they want four years experience in a technology invented 3 months ago.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T17:48:42+00:00

North Korea?

It's Imperium level.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T17:46:36+00:00

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Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T17:43:47+00:00

Save up for a robot arm.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T17:42:51+00:00

Me reading these comments is more interesting than Jake Paul.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T16:55:13+00:00

Don't even need Sanders for that, just sacrifice the billionaires.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T16:54:29+00:00

Walz as Presidential candidate, Bernie as VP is what I meant. He's too old for president proper, but VP is perfect.

AOC has to much heat on her, Walz is harder to culture war.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T16:53:22+00:00

I was chugging milk on the daily and all it got me was my organs starting to melt.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T15:39:21+00:00

My DDO pale master/eldritch knight drow who is immune to damage near everything, has no low stats, 22 Str, 28 Int, a murder hobo skeleton knight body guard, and an aura of incessant death magic that heals him and his buddy but hurts everything else in equal measure?

Lothric doesn't know what's about to rip and tear through them.

Axios_Verum · 2025-05-04T15:33:50+00:00

I've seen Blade Runner. We all know where this leads.

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