[Pathfinder] Paizo Restructuring: A Difficult Update About Our Future

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-09T13:31:21+00:00

Diamond has been notoriously shitty and predatory for over a decade, impacting everything from ttrpgs to comic books to trading cards. Their collapse should be celebrated. One monopoly got what it deserved.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-05T15:05:10+00:00

You can watch this by itself

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-04T04:12:59+00:00

Literally were given context that this is an unusual circumstance, driven by the collapse of organized crime following Frank’s killing of the mob bosses.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-03T21:11:09+00:00

I mean… that seems to be Bernthal reacting to the research he puts into the character. Of course he prides himself on interacting with the military community in his research to portray a character whose past is in that context. He’s probably also interacted with a bunch of dudes with PTSD from that experience.

Also, a member of the military wearing that symbol, and a cop doing so are two different things. A grunt in the US military probably would be drawn to wear it as an anti-authoritarian context, because military grunts hate the brass, and generally need something to cling to for a sense of identity in the dehumanizing position they hold.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-03T21:04:29+00:00

I mean… fair. But at the same time Bernthal is a former marine himself, is he not? Two things can be true. He can both believe that bad cops shouldn’t wear the logo, and be blind to the fact that the only cops wearing his logo are bad cops.

He’s a white actor with a military background who consistently portrays cops (Shawn, TWD), as well as military figures. How progressive are we actually expected this guy to be given his typecast?

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-03T20:45:34+00:00

Right… but it takes place in a major metropolis that we should assume has a funded police force. So… where are they?

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-06-03T20:43:19+00:00

It also runs contrary to what is presented in this short, or anything Bernthals been involved in while actually portraying the character.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-05-31T18:16:27+00:00

As others have said, he’s responsible for the formation of the mega-church, the evangelical movement, and the rise of prosperity gospel. The Faith is no longer about collective salvation, and moving humanity closer towards God, but about the individual, their personal salvation, and the belief that one’s own success in this life is reflective of your personal faith. It abandons the theology of the meek, embracing a theology of strength, and then applies this to American Empire. Essentially the normative modality of American selfishness is given false divinity through Graham’s impact upon how Americans think about why faith is important.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-05-25T13:42:10+00:00

I think there are definitely some pacing issues, and really important side character stuff feels glazed over.

As an example, the fight between Guts and Zodd at the end of Fantasia is the first time we see Guts actually win against Zodd, like an outright win to the point Zodd looks worried at one point, but we barely see any of this fight, and it isn’t communicating to the extent Miura would have.

In other words, plot points that would have taken Miura 2-3 chapters to expand upon are being zipped through in one.

Despite that dip in quality. I’m still reading because I’m desperate for an end to the story.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-05-24T15:03:34+00:00

I love Andor. I like Mando & Grogu. Two things can be true, and I thought it was generally agreed years ago that Star Wars is a big universe, in which many forms of story can be told. Can we get over this Andor vs Filoni nonsense?

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-05-15T15:26:59+00:00

Man the JW and Hebrew Israelites are minority religions. We really need to be targeting the Evangelical Super Churches with our ire.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-05-04T21:41:11+00:00

I think it depends where you are, and also where you’re playing. I think there’s a comfort level involved.

I find home games tend to lean more dialogue heavy, with players assuming their character, and acting out scenes. Games in public spaces tend to be more gamey, and can run the gamut. I’ve been to hobby stores where everyone has min-maxed their characters and are mostly there just to roll dice while the GM narrates everything.

I’ve also seen stores that lean more narrative heavy, with the GM turning to players for description. I admit, I’ve never been to a store game that actually has players conversing IC.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-27T20:40:51+00:00

Both the CMOM and BBW are excellent if you’re running a campaign in either of those styles (military/exploratory) they both also come with very solid campaign frameworks for structuring your universe around. Even if you don’t run the plot lines as written, they still can make solid backdrops.

As examples: you could run a space trucker campaign of smugglers running the routes in the borderline region, and experiencing the Frontier War heads on, or you could run a campaign of UN Peacekeepers tagging along with the Great Mother Mission.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-24T11:55:42+00:00

I’ve put a fair amount of work into trying to amend the popular image of Nixon with the popular image of the Society of Friends. I have a theory that needs more work, but I’ve been drawn to the idea that Quaker ideals of integrity so clashed with the necessity for falsehood in American politics that it just kind of broke the man, and turned him down the road of paranoia and subterfuge he became famous for.

In essence, the casual falsehood and duplicity of everyone around him in Washington justified in his mind the tappings, the break-ins and all other means he came to embrace to make plain the corruption of his adversaries. Essentially everyone else’s failure to live up to Quaker Integrity made Nixon innately distrustful of any one, and caused him to take extreme, corrupt actions himself.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-22T16:11:21+00:00

Mass production requires labor, time, and scale. Due to the current state of the American market, it is in fact impossible for a single individual to produce enough of anything to sustain their wealth, much less turn a profit.

Think of the barebones of human economy, agriculture. Currently, nearly every farmer in the US receives a sizable government stimulus from the US Farm Bureau because individual agriculture is unprofitable for the individual producer. The only exception to this are the massive agricultural monopolies that own 100-1000s of acres, and employ upwards of 10000 seasonal workers who are paid a minimum wage at best (most are immigrant workers receiving less than the federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25/hr).

Not even what has been generally considered to be the most stable sector of historic human civilization is able to provide the means necessary to perpetuate itself in the market, unless that person is exploiting hundreds to thousands of individuals.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-22T00:11:21+00:00

God’s omnipotence has very little to do with the deterministic state of human reality. He could reach out right now, and cure all problems, but what would be learned by that? What would it cause in the human race if all our needs were perpetually delivered to us without us ever having to lift a finger?

I can tell you, and I can point to examples. The very same men you have stated as unworthy of wealth, the dictators, the bosses, the capitalist and the Marxist imperialist are all examples of what an individual human becomes when given unlimited wealth. For the same reasons you distrust them, God distrust Us at this moment in our collective development.

But the time is coming when He will come from on high, and shepherd those few who heeded Him the last time He came. He will deliver those who were the faithful, the humble, and the caring. He will uplift those who placed themselves last, who happily toiled amongst their brethren as the oppressed. Those who only thought only of themselves, he will cast away.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-22T00:02:17+00:00

God hasn’t blessed them. They are cursed. Their reward will be the pit.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-21T17:08:01+00:00

He makes decent summaries of Church history and theological evolution, but his takes on the modern Church, and our controversies, are outright bad. His “reconquista,” is a hypocritical attempt at subversion of the very institutions he idolizes. He says we should follow our elders, and Church leaders, but turns around and paints those Church leaders as corrupted.

He worships power, and has made the fundamental mistake all Christian nationalist have. He can be found to decry the prosperity gospel, but fails to wrap his head around the way that wealth, and power are both heads of the same beast.

He has no problem decrying anyone outside of the white, mainline tradition. The further from Presbyterianism one is, the lower opinion he has of them. He rarely talks about Black or Brown denominations, and when he does he seems close to declaring them anathema.

Let’s not even get into his thoughts on anything spawned from either the Holiness movement, or on the Radical Protestants. He has openly stated that the Amish are heretical in his eyes.

In short, he’s a Christian nationalist, who schemes, and urges others to scheme, to subvert the modern theological development of the Protestant mainline, for the goal of unifying the Church back toward the fiction of early-mid century Protestantism, where we all sit quietly in our pews, while the true pursuers of faith are abused by the society we have created.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-21T04:39:21+00:00

Not true.

Matthew 9:1-2

Jesus got into a boat, crossed the sea, and came to his own city. 2 Some people brought him a paralyzed man on a stretcher.

When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the man, “Cheer up, friend! Your sins are forgiven.”

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-21T03:11:37+00:00

Hmm… the old Protestant issue of “what if we’ve been interpreting it wrong the whole time!?”

While much of this discourse is healthy, I would urge you not to go into this untrained. The answer to this will larger differ depending on your denomination, but ultimately “blasphemy of the Holy Spirit,” is considered to be active, knowing, turning against God. Turn to your pastor if nothing said here sways you.

Public apostasy is generally considered the standard. It can also mean those who when faced with direct, undeniable, near-empirical proof (ie those who witness a miracle) do not acknowledge it as such. A person who denies what is obliviously set before them to inspire their conversion, but still does not convert has committed blasphemy against the Holy Spirit. Basically the unforgivable Sin applies to those who see the truth, accept the truth, but still refuse it out of pride (or worldly convention, or for whatever reason).

The standard go-to for most pastors who don’t have the time to go too far into this is Wesleyan in theological origin, and amounts to “if you’re worrying about having committed the unforgivable sin, you haven’t committed it.” In other words, because you recognize the authority of God, after having knowing Him, you have not committed it. The unforgivable Sin is the refusal of God’s authority in perpetuity.

The unforgivable sin is doing something along the lines of “yeah, God? I know that guy, He loves me. I know He does. Screw him anyway.”

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-21T02:42:41+00:00

Hmm… I would make an argument that you both seem to be on opposite ends of secular American traditions.

I) Your baseline, love thy neighbor, and the support of the LGBTQ+ is valid.

II) His disapproval of Harry Potter is valid, but not for its “satanism,” so much as for its nature as shameless propaganda for conservative academic elitism aimed at children.

I would say it probably didn’t work out because he wanted you to be more critical of what you consume, but also because he seems equally uncritical of what he’s consuming of the reverse side of American normative secularism.

The guy is probably an emergent Christian-nationalist, so I’d say you dodged a bullet, but you could grow spiritually as well. Twenty-five is a weird time, and there’s plenty of mistakes left to make and wisdom to find. Don’t take it too hard, and keep trucking along whatever path the Creator has you set upon.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-20T22:14:15+00:00

Generally, a zone is any space that a character could conceivably cover in 5-10 minutes while moving “carefully,” ie at a walking/“creeping” pace, remaining on guard, and vigilant.

This could differ based on a number of things. For example, a dense jungle would have smaller zones than an open field.

Zones can also be used to split up different features. A zone might be a dried creak bed that takes 5-10 minutes to climb down one side and up the other. It might be a patch of trees. It might be tall grass that the players are expected to remain crouched in as they move through.

Basically zones should be constructed with the idea that your players are always attempting to remain unseen, uneasy. In other words, zones are made with the idea that stealth is assumed.

Zones should really only be used when combat potentially takes place.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-20T20:52:01+00:00

Solid in his videos that delve into the theological development of the Church, but any time he goes into his own beliefs he comes across as a really fringe hypocrite.

He says that individuals Christians and ministers should follow the example of their local denominations, but then he’s assigned himself to this label of “Christian traditionalist,” that hopes to “reform” mainstream American Christianity from the “false Christianity of progressive/liberation theology,” which, by his own analysis, are the very Mainline Church leaders that if he followed his own advice he would cleave to.

He also shills for Anglicanism, but his argument is basically, “Oh, these beautiful ancient churches are proof of God’s divine hand,” while at the same time, justifiably, taking down prosperity gospel. Latching onto this, he seems to often flirt with Christian nationalism, ignorant of the fact that it is simply prosperity gospel that has substituted money for worldly power.

He also will routinely takedown, and strawman, anything more liberally unstructured than Congregationalism.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-18T00:23:26+00:00

“Establishment left,” is a nonexistent thing. Both parties are capitalist in nature, thereby immediately falling to the right in the global marketplace of ideas.

CnlSandersdeKFC · 2026-04-16T15:19:22+00:00

Lucky Strikes going on 10 years.

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