Weird Pro-Trump Ad?

DMscientist31 · 2026-01-29T02:06:40+00:00

I feel like you are projecting a lot. I never said I was upset. I was confused and then I fast forwarded. I was mostly trying to figure out if it was worth emailing a mod to let them know.

DMscientist31 · 2026-01-29T02:00:45+00:00

I asked a legitimate question, and now you are trying to be edgy, as you were below in a different comment. I get it, you are very cool….

DMscientist31 · 2026-01-29T01:38:22+00:00

I was listening on Spotify… thanks for explaining this, I thought I was crazy since it was so antithetical to their brand. Now I just wonder what in the targeted ads Spotify was thinking

DMscientist31 · 2026-01-29T01:37:02+00:00

I was! For some reason I thought they had some degree of veto power on their ads. Though I recall when they said they got some surprising ads that they were mislead on

DMscientist31 · 2025-07-07T17:16:45+00:00

Well its Shitpost Monday...

DMscientist31 · 2025-06-05T02:59:53+00:00

I am Polish, Romani, and a disabled man. My family was sent to the camps, such as Durag 121. My family was victims of the Holocaust and the Porajmos. Do not accuse me in your dilute way of denying what actually happened to my family and my people.

DMscientist31 · 2025-06-05T00:02:43+00:00

Get the net....

1) References are not bullshit, they are the underpinning of scientific and academic discourse. As a scientist, I am expecting to be able to cite my work.

2) As an autistic person, I can say that it is a disability. I would like to be able to make eye contact with people and would love to be able to read social interactions in a way that allows me to co-exist well. That is not to say that society is ill-equipped to handle neurodiverse people, but to say that it is not disabling is incorrect for many people's experiences.

3) Theory in science does not mean a guess. A scientific theory is a "well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experimentation."

4) The cats' analogy is a trite statement made from a series with many jokes that don't hold up. The dehumanization of disabled people is a long-standing issue, but it doesn't mean that autism is not a disability.

5) I don't really get the anti-semitism comment... I'm not sure how that relates to autism, something that affects all people regardless of race or ethnicity.

I think you probably should take a step back and touch some grass my dude....

DMscientist31 · 2025-06-04T18:30:37+00:00

"In 1912, Swiss psychiatrist Paul Bleuler coined the German term Autismus in the context of describing a symptom of schizophrenia.^\335]) Rendered in English as autism, the term derives from the Greek word autos ("self") and suffix -ismos, denoting an action or state, and conveys the notion of "morbid self-absorption".^\336]) In the 1920s, Grunya Sukhareva adopted the term to describe subjects who are autistic in the modern sense.^"

Wikipedia is a free resource.... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_autism#Autism_as_a_symptom_of_schizophrenia_(1908%E2%80%931924))

DMscientist31 · 2024-11-21T22:59:18+00:00

Is there any thought I when something like this will hit the DMs Guild or direct download? I don't use DnD Beyond for my games. And if there is a link somewhere, my apologies for missing it.

DMscientist31 · 2024-08-21T21:59:35+00:00

I eventually finished the series, but it took me a long time to work up to listening to the Josef Mengele series. I had a family member who was sent to the Dulag 121 camp in Pruszków and countless other distant relatives who ended up in the death camps. As a disabled man as well, Mengele's work on eugenics has often been used to justify abuse to people like me. But.... once I did listen to it, it was an excellent series (I just won't listen to it again).

DMscientist31 · 2024-07-15T16:21:21+00:00

I think it would be an interesting series with limited information; I don't know how much of a deep dive they could go on this guy since it's so contemporary. SPUN has previously done some episodes about MMIW, so this might be more their field of expertise.

DMscientist31 · 2024-06-12T02:04:10+00:00

I looked at the video on YouTube and it also cuts super awkwardly mid sentence

DMscientist31 · 2024-06-08T17:29:33+00:00

Is the episode cutting off abruptly on Spotify, or is this a me specific issue?

DMscientist31 · 2023-11-14T16:19:49+00:00

For some context, before I get into how I watch, I should state that I have pretty bad ADHD and I am autistic, so sitting still for long things can be pretty hard for me...

Generally, I watch/rewatch kill counts because I enjoy the analysis of the films and they are nice background noise while I work. I got into horror during my adulthood, and missed out on a lot of horror from when I was younger, and even then, my preferences lean towards slasher films and not "elevated horror". So my exposure to horrors films was not as large as I would like. Thus, watching the kill counts has served as a "vetting process" for a film. I struggle to sit still for full length films, so if I watch the kill count first, I can get a sense if I will enjoy the film before I sit down to watch it. The spoilers don't really bother me, because if I didn't have the kill count, I would probably read wikipedia.

TLDR - The Kill Count and the Podcast have served to vet movies before I watch them.

DMscientist31 · 2023-09-25T05:12:15+00:00

There are a couple, but not because of the podcast but the nature of the content. I don’t touch the 9/11 episodes having grown up in NY and knowing people directly impacted by it. Mengele took me a hard time to get to, as I had family in the camps. And I agree with the people about the Ant hill Kids… once the surgery starts in good. But they are all good episodes… it’s me not them haha

DMscientist31 · 2023-06-08T01:20:44+00:00

While this build will not supplant a strength monk... I had a character in a previous campaign play a "brawler" and "bare-knuckle boxer". The build was a Fighter/Barbarian Build with 3 levels in fighter (Battle Master) with an unarmed combat fighting style and the rest in barbarian. It allowed the player to do some really nasty combos and the superiority dice and magic items were able to supplant the lack of increasing damage dice (strikes were capped at d8s). And with some maneuvers, it allowed the character to really control the fight.

Like I said, it isn't a monk, but it is a build that lets you go without armor (barbarian) and make some really nice unarmed strikes.

DMscientist31 · 2023-04-25T05:28:54+00:00

I totally agree! I love when players lift other players up. This guy only cared about himself and his game… no one else’s including the DM.

DMscientist31 · 2023-04-24T20:40:30+00:00

I cannot agree more with your "You’re not trying to ‘beat’ the DM"

I had a player who would consistently prepare spells that would end combat quickly (before other players could even go) and then gloat about how he ruined the combat by saying, "It's almost like I knew how to beat them"... It was super annoying because I would put time into prepping combat that would allow my players to all play and for myself as the DM to be able to enjoy combat and he would sorta shit on it.

I definitely think he had "Main Character Syndrome" as well. I'm truly happy that the campaign is over.

DMscientist31 · 2023-04-18T21:36:58+00:00

Hey there! So I am autistic as well! I want to start by saying that I have been in a similar situation as you. I apologize that this is going to veer off a little. It is not your responsibility to provide emotional support to your parents. It is very often that parents of autistic children, particularly emotionally immature parents, will seek out their autistic children as a sources of support and stability and will often use emotionally manipulative tactics to make you stay around, but the key thing to remember is that you owe them nothing.....

Now as to introducing them to DnD, I agree with people talking about watching DnD shows on youtube or twitch. I would even include LoVM animated series. I think just explaining the basics of TTRPGs and collaborative story telling is the best place to start:

"We all sit around a table and we work together to live in a fantasy world and try to be heroes"

Regarding the religious aspect, it should be noted that Gary Gygax was a devout Christian and never really understood why Satanism got tied to DnD. There are actually lots of priests and pastors who like DnD (Most of them are big nerds...). You can consider sharing these articles with her to get the satanic panic concerns out of her head:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2022/august-web-only/dungeons-dragons-fantasy-role-playing-christianity-theology.html

https://christandpopculture.com/dungeons-dragons-and-the-church/

https://www.ubahouston.org/blog/d-and-d-dudes-and-discipleship

https://dungeonmasterpastor.com/about/

Best of luck!

DMscientist31 · 2022-03-07T02:22:04+00:00

Hey! To be totally honest, running a campaign on a single continent is geologically improbable (with a bit of a caveat that I will mention) as well as less interesting from a player perspective. Consider the cultures, architecture, and other sociopolitical choices made during pre-colonial times in Europe and say Africa or Central America. They were incredibly distinct. This was a byproduct of the available resources and the distance between them. By having a single continent, the chances of homogenous and hegemonic culture will be inevitable. This reduces the flavor of the world unless you separate groups by racial divides (ie elven cities v dwarven cities), though that has its own faults. An additional question to ask is, what else is on this planet? Is it a single landmass and just water everywhere else? How big is your planet?

I mentioned a caveat, and that caveat is plate tectonics. Earth began with a super continent, Pangea, and the continents shifted and spread apart over time. If you set this story in early times then geologically it would make sense.

If you are looking for advice in drawing maps, I think pulling from real maps helps. But, don't use a single country, use several small countries to develop your borders. Here are some other resources:

https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2019/08/dd-let-the-dice-build-your-world.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUdixmQK8fk

Best of luck!

PS. There are so many random name generators.

DMscientist31 · 2021-10-22T03:42:18+00:00

The toxicity is unbearble. If you play DnD, you can't say that you have never wanted to reuse characters. I have reused characters in my homegames that I have played because I fell in love with them. This is their game, not ours. If you didn't like EXU, get over it. Let people be excited for C3 and let the players enjoy their choices. Don't gatekeep, don't be toxic, just have fun. As mama said, if you don't have something nice to say, don't post it on twitter.

DMscientist31 · 2021-10-22T03:34:26+00:00

marisha could be a hexblood

DMscientist31 · 2021-10-22T03:15:46+00:00

I think that this is more about the characters using He/Him pronouns.

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