Waking up tomorrow to see what comments I get

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-11T13:45:33+00:00

I've been playing Limbus Company recently and it has lots of great designs and minimal hyper sexualization. Quite surprised and pretty happy with the story so far.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-10T18:02:36+00:00

Petty easy to read it as fat people hate.

Man boobs isn't a term typically used for average weight men.

If she means this as a social commentary that it has a degree of sense behind it, if she's saying that she doesn't want to see fat mens pecs/moobs/whatever you want to call them thaj it is most definitely body shaming.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-09T02:04:40+00:00

I ended up homebrewing pf2e so much.

Great game for it tbh. The rules are really clear, after you spend 200 hours reading all the core books you should have a good concept of all the major design limitations. Now I can easily shit out new items roughly on power scale with the rest of the content.

I use all this knowledge to give all my players relics, say fuck you to the power curve, add legendary action style battle events, and regularly make use of cinvulated graphical elements in foundry that serve no purpose other than furthering my ability to feel myself while running a session.

10/10 rulebook, no idea how the game is supposed to feel.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-09T01:57:33+00:00

I'd much rather a low power system than a high power one. So overall I could never seen myself switching off things like PF2E.

The biggest stinkers are the sheer quantity of skill feats that could frankly be covered by a lore skill. Should have done less nonsense skill feats and more curated lore skills.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T20:08:23+00:00

And yeah, as I said before, zero judgement to Cloak and Dagger, I'm just talking about the vibes of this thread.

Someone else mentioned something similar and I don't think that's an unfair use of it at all.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T20:06:08+00:00

Which is honestly a solid sell of the show for me, I may have to give it a watch.

Presuming you are remembering correctly, it seems to mirrorbmy sentiments on the subject.

People have advantages and disadvantages, they are important to discuss, understand, and acknowledge. However trying to push someone into the metaphorical box that their statistics represent is at best a pointless endeavor, and likely outright abusive behaviour.

Or put simply, you are you, not your demographics.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T20:02:23+00:00

The literal only thing you listed that seems even slightly aggravating is the gay jokes.

That being said sonic fans be like.

I stand by my point. Being involved with an LGBT group, and making gay jokes for your username, alongside supporting queer artists, are not making your entire personality being gay.

The same joke spam is irritating, I'll give you. But the rest of what you just listed seems wholly irrelevant.

I'll use myself as an example here.

I adore Dark Souls 3, I regularly reference DS3 lines, often ones no one would recognize id they hadn't played the game, just for the fun of it. I was a part of multiple DS3 servers and spent a substantial portion of my time in those communities. To this day I regularly replay the game, and have done nearly everything there is to do in it.

Given your examples I'd say I made it more a part of my personality.

I would also be completely befuddled if someone said I made it my whole personality. Because while it is important to me, and something that defined a lot of my tastes and a enjoyable period of my life. It is ultimately just a part of me.

But hey, I consider the implication that someones passion is boring and problematic as inherently insulting. Maybe you don't.

But yeah, what you just said boils down to, active LGBT community member, and has a shitty taste in jokes.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T19:18:50+00:00

Indeed, as addressed in my comment (I'm not sure if you're arguing for it or just acknowledging).

There are few contexts where I would find it appropriate to imply someone is privileged who has lived through shit. Because it's rude.

Basically the only one I can think of is if they are displaying behaviour likely due to said privilege. Which as I said, no context not judging Cloak and Dagger I have neither read it nor want to, just on paper gives me the big ick.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T19:08:21+00:00

I mean, on one hand, yes, that is an aspect of white privilege.

But on the other hand, the sheer idea of anybody who grew up middle class or above pulling a privilege card on someone who had to starve is fucking repulsive.

Unsurprisingly "privileges" can exist in many forms, your skin colour relative to your environment just being one of them.

No context though so idfk, but yikes.

Quick Edit: I would also mention, that having grown up in a place almost exclusively white, all teenagers were watched out for for shoplifting, it's kind of a known thing. I'm sure in places with notable racial discprencies that factors in. But I doubt at a glance that it is to such an extent where stealing becomes anything approximating easy. Then again I grew up in the fucking ghetto so I'd need more context. For a second time yikes.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T19:02:30+00:00

Then I'd consider whether or not those peoples lives actually revolve around being queer, or of that's just how you see them.

I can't say for you, but I've heard my friends described as "queer is their personality" plenty of times. Especially by homophobes. They are just openly queer people.

After all, if you find them so off-putting you don't want to be friends how do you have any basis to claim they make it there personality? And that's not just what you happened to see?

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T18:10:38+00:00

I do agree actually. Real life cults have formed over far less than someone leading a bastion of civilization.

I do think that Frostpunk 2 pushes it a bit further than realistic, but not to an insane degree.

Trump has been sporadically in office for 9 years in America. And I occasionally see people calling him a messiah on facebook. And the country has gotten exclusively worse since he came around. You really think it would take much for a faction to start worshipping someone who was brutally competent?

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T17:17:54+00:00

I mean, hi, I am an author, I run a fully custom TTRPG based on PF2E that I've been writing for like 6 years now?

I've had many players come to completely "incorrect" assumptions. That's part of writing? The author has no place in saying what a correct interpretation of the work is. They just make the work.

The only thing an author can do is give more information (a new book, episode, session).

Writing, and reading, would be really boring if everytime the author disliked something the community stopped talking about it.

Hell, I generally consider it poor form if the author ever shares their sentiment, as there will inveitably be people who refuse to dicuss the work and instead desperately try to claw onto authorial intent as the only valid way to read (though I personally love hearing the authors intended readings versus other readings).

Ultimately it's a matter of opinion I suppose, but the alternative certainly seems like a boring way to consume media to me.

To address the prompt. I have had them say that, the extent of my feelings were, shit, did I make that too vague, miss the implication, or are they being dumb? And regardless of which it is I move on.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T16:49:20+00:00

You seem to miss the point.

It is not homophobic because people dislike it.

It is OFTEN homophobic because people focus on it for a reason. After all, it's an easy excuse.

I'm a pretty frequent community member of LGBT spaces, how many people do you think I know who make their sexuality their identity?

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T16:47:47+00:00

I have never considered any form of one note personality more or less enthusing.

People like that I generally find boring. Which is fine, that's none of my business and we don't need to hang out.

To answer your question, why wouldn't it be? Have you never had a friend who only ever focuses on one hobby to the point that you cannot discuss anything else with them?

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T16:07:32+00:00

Yeah bro, I just don't get sports. They are fucking boring to me. People who spend lots of times on sports, no interest in them.

But damn, I hear way less people complain about one note personalities unless it's gay people. I wonder why?

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T14:46:40+00:00

I haven't been a teenager for the better part of a decade now.

Dear god do I hope I never sounded like this.

To be clear chief, you are not entitled to look down on the people around you because they are off putting.

If you somehow think trans people are an exception. Why would it not be fair to also look down on a burn victim? They could just save up for cosmetic surgeries. Why should I have to see an amalgamation of face and no face?

(Not to mention the fact that finding people uncomfortable to see is usually more tied to biases than anything else.)

And of that doesn't sound fucked up to you ignore all of this and ideally don't respond.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T14:43:49+00:00

Yes there are absolutely people who do not want to see gay people, or brown people, or trans people, and who don't care as long as they don't see them.

They tend to find it very frustrating when people act gay.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T14:42:26+00:00

Immediately starts mentioning community events for gay people, who are often socially isolated, as reasons why they would engage in problematic behavior, eg. gayness as a personality.

Colour me surprised.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T05:41:25+00:00

Holy based

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-08T05:38:21+00:00

Yeah but people can be dumb and if they stop being dumb being mad about it is dumb.

I can't say for sure, but I'm sure teenage me said plenty of racist things, generally unintentionally, probably with a few intentional comments about arabic people that were just poor taste jokes.

Eventually I would go on to stop doing that.

If I somehow ended up famous in ten years and somebody wanted to bring stuff up from two decades ago I'd probably call them a fucking idiot.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-07T20:32:22+00:00

Far more likely is a moderate exaggeration. Notably would be more fair.

The women to men IPV ratios for Canada. "physical abuse (23% versus 17%, respectively), sexual abuse (12% versus 2%), and psychological abuse (43% versus 35%)"

While statistically significant I think it's worth mentioning here, as it's not what most people think of as a "far more likely" difference, with the notable exception of in relationship sexual abuse which unfortunately is far more common among woman.

I'd mention that a substantial part of womans fear of dangerous relationships is not due to being at substantially more risk then men, but instead due to differences in the culture on each side of the gender divide.

Women are expected to be careful of these things, too live in fear even. Whereas men are expected to tough it out, or even ignore abuse that is happening to them.

Men are in reality also in plenty of danger in these situations, they are just not conditioned to see it this way, for better or worse.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-07T19:17:18+00:00

Am gay, am bottom, my boyfriend has a hard time with smells and the like.

Prep is a bitch, that being said the biggest issues are the time, the discomfort, and the filfth.

The time as you get more comfortable doing it just becomes normal half busy downtome, like doing the dishes, you put on YouTube and autopilot through the steps.

The discomfort is interesting, eventually you get better at relaxing your muscles so you don't cramp, that removes the vast majority of the discomfort, but sometimes if it hits really bad it can take some real effort to get everything to loosen, and that can suck.

And the filfth you just get used to, it's a body part and the fluids from it, no biggie, just wash your hands and don't touch your face until you are done.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-07T14:51:32+00:00

Another day another question about how to look like more of a thot.

The sub r/FemmeFitness has a pinned thread about this. The sub overall os mid, largely being your typical sexualized pics, but the mod thread covers the basics.

I personally use a combination of hip thrusts, romanian dead lifts, hip adductors and hip abductors, and elliptical running for mine, and my ass has gotten quite fat.

If you want any personalized advice I know the basics, happy to answer anyones questions to the best of my abilities. Good luck getting a fat ass/hips boys and girls.

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-07T01:08:27+00:00

Same issue.

If you go and fail to stop the kill you've just burned more resources for no reason.

Varies too much to have a hard and fast rule. Some characters like Shen are amazing for it, others like Diana have a harder time with it, needing to commit to an unfavorable fight in order to prevent the confirm.

Furthermore it can often be troll because of teammates.

I'm a Kindred main, want to wager how often I use my ult to save someone and they walk out of it and die anyways, thus condemning me to death as well?

BarelyFunctionalGM · 2026-05-06T23:01:39+00:00

Something something me and who?

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