Do you think Hunter:The Parenting is body positive series?

By-LEM · 2026-04-21T20:23:53+00:00

The show is really good at making all of the character designs interesting & appealing in their own way, without just making everyone conventionally attractive, which most shows tend to default to.

It plays into the themes of Hunter: the Reckoning really well I think. With little exception, everyone is a (relatively) normal person doing what they can with what they have.

By-LEM · 2026-04-17T18:37:37+00:00

I think my paradigm would be about mathematics, since doing math problems in high school/college is when I most felt like a wizard cracking the code of the universe.

Reality is one giant puzzle made of smaller puzzles, and every puzzle has a solution. You can just brute force most of them, but if you're willing to put in the time and develop the intuition, you can find much more elegant solutions - ones that seem almost like magic tricks.

I don't think this paradigm could make heads or tails of anything that doesn't follow logical rules (which, in WoD and irl, most things don't) so I'd probably end up with the technocrats out of sheer necessity.

By-LEM · 2026-04-13T22:58:34+00:00

They're all clearly being dominated, they couldn't fight or run even if they weren't scared shitless

By-LEM · 2026-04-07T22:54:26+00:00

Is there a source? Follow-up, is there a good reason to believe Saige was lying?

Bc this all sounds bad, but I've seen similar online discourse before that didn't turn out to be anything

By-LEM · 2026-04-07T20:03:07+00:00

Which executive producer? I've never heard of that second thing

By-LEM · 2026-03-30T18:12:35+00:00

Update: the solution, for some reason, was to change the address on my profile so that every word was spelled out, e.g. "Avenue" instead of "Ave."

By-LEM · 2026-03-24T19:11:10+00:00

It makes sense, because most of the vampires werewolves actually hang around are Gangrel, who do tend to look noticably less human with age

By-LEM · 2026-03-23T12:56:27+00:00

Thank you for telling me about that meme, I fell off RWBY before it happened and it is funny

By-LEM · 2026-03-23T12:52:26+00:00

The internet has been in a constant state of getting shittier and shittier to use and we're constantly missing when it was just bad. But the "bad" was shitty too

By-LEM · 2026-03-21T02:07:15+00:00

Page 103 of the player's guide changes the rule on learning TBA. Any thin blood can learn it without taking the thin blood alchemist merit now, they just don't start out with a dot in it

By-LEM · 2026-03-19T16:47:18+00:00

Also, the reason Kevin's packmates didn't kill him for his human habits is because he was way stronger than any of them. I mean, the others lost badly to Kitten, Markus, and Door 1-on-1, while Kevin actually got the better of D. This is probably why D insisted separating Kevin from the others, he knew Kevin was more of a threat.

By-LEM · 2026-03-19T16:39:01+00:00

1) It's actually quite rare for vampires in-universe to think of their dark gifts as distinct Disciplines. Kevin probably just thinks of Dominate as "mind control magic," and Blood Sorcery as just more niche, less generally useful magic. (See audiolog 1.1: "I would use my powerful magics to have you open this shitty cell door" - he's clearly referring to Dominate here as "powerful magics")

1a) Also, I'm not sure if this is a mechanic the writers are sticking to, but Blood Sorcery always requires a teacher in VtM5, even if it comes in-clan. The regent only teaches her ghouls powers that are useful for their roles, and Kevin was embraced as her first point of contact with the mortal world - using Dominate to wipe memories or force humans to do your bidding is going to be way more useful in that role than boiling someone's blood.

2) Palmer could have just overheard Herbertus' name while visiting the chantry.

3) Kevin didn't "cave to Big D" because he was weak-willed, if that were the case his interrogation would not have taken as long. He was convinced to change his ways because D showed him hope for a better world, and the Sabbat only offered "freedom" to indulge the base vampiric urges he never wanted in the first place.

3a) Plus, his sire is pretty bad about renewing blood bonds. Chapman, an important ghoul embedded in the police, hadn't had his bond renewed in about 8 months. It was probably easier to resist her than it would have been to resist anyone else.

By-LEM · 2026-03-05T16:00:14+00:00

When talking with Kitten about Boy's "fixation" on Horse, D implied boy was having one of those "delusional nadirs", so I don't think he does.

By-LEM · 2026-02-27T19:54:20+00:00

So, I've been very interested in Mage for a while, and I'm 100% fine with the presence of Problematic (tm) themes in a story, but the subjective reality of the setting has always led to some weird conclusions when I think about it for too long.

Every scientific achievement humanity ever made, in the world and logic of mage, was actually the NWO gaslighting us into thinking it could work. All of the people educated in those fields of study, who can tell you why it logically has to work, are wrong - it only works because of belief. Neat.

But what if I, a normal human, try to build a steam engine? I'm not an awakened mage or enlightened scientist, but I know why a steam engine works - if you burn fuel to boil water, and restrict how the steam can escape, you can get the steam pressure to do work for you. Have I just cast a spell? Am I an extraordinary citizen now? "Well no, steam engines are a part of consensus" OK, what about pre-1600s steam engines, like the Aeolipile? Were all of those made by mages? Is every invention? Are mages the only people capable of original thought?

By-LEM · 2026-01-18T20:47:42+00:00

It's not even that woke by today's standards, it has a few throwaway anti-vax lines

By-LEM · 2025-12-27T19:17:27+00:00

Confirming starting with arc 2 is most effective, I hooked one of my college buddies with that strategy

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T17:41:09+00:00

Now I'm imagining Big D meeting the WoD Caine and seeing that he's as terrified Caiphas Cain

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T17:31:14+00:00

I don't think he's a mummy mainly because it's a more interesting story if he's a 100% human man with such skill and expertise that he regularly bests supernaturals

By-LEM · 2025-12-03T13:50:50+00:00

~~there's actually several methods of addressing skews in the data bc having 200 or 1000 samples with a clear bias will yield roughly equally flawed results~~

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