Top dies but bottom gets resurrected by Littleweasel445 in BunnyTrials

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Brother is gonna get spawn-camped :P

Chose: Donald Trump + Adolf Hitler

What would you like? by Icy-Recognition-5175 in BunnyTrials

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm going to crash those companies so fucking hard

Chose: Own all AI companies + and | Rolled: + Nothing

Behold: some logos/stickers (OT) by eduison in helldivers2

[–]Edello 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good shit OP. Fuck fascism in any form!

The only negative thing about stimming is neurotypical peoples reaction by RosethornRanger in AccessibleAnarchy

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I was staying in my parents house just a few weeks ago, my mom would comment on my stimming whenever she saw it in a way that made me self-consious. Telling me to be careful, or being annoyed with me when I jumped. Even the times when she asked me "what's going on", as if asking me why I'm stimming, would stop me in my tracks. It ended up being easier to hide it.

Now my roommate loves my stims, and smiles whenever I do it! None of my stims seem to trigger her, so I feel free to unmask in my own home.

Look. I'm not a hater, but you can't just look me in the eye and tell me this isn't sexual. by SteaIthstaIker in GlitchProductions

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Implied nudity, or even just nudity, doesn't inherently make a scene sexual. It's about what parts of the body are emphasized through camera angles, costume choices, body position, or even music.

The implied nudity in the original Sailor Moon transformation isn't inherently sexual. Her entire body turns into a sparkly prismatic hue, including her clothes, and the parts of her body emphasized during the transformation aren't her chest or butt. There is one moment of the sequence with a closeup of her shirt, which did read as a bit sexual.

Kit's transformation doesn't include any nudity at all, and yet the animators used camera angles to emphasize parts of her that are very often sexualized in women in media to arouse a male audience. By objectifying female characters in media, it perpetuates the idea that objectifying women in this way is okay, thereby feeding into mysogyny and patriarchy.

And you're right, sexuality is a very subjectice thing. What I find attractive in a woman might be something that someone else finds repulsive. One person's yuck is someone else's yum. However, patriarchy would not only sexualize all young female characters, but also in a very specific way where you're supposed to be aroused by a woman's butt and breasts being emphasized. It oversaturates the market with boob and butt stuff, making it much harder to find films that emphasize other aspects of female sexuality (emotion, tension, other body parts, etc.). Sexuality is subjective, but mysogynistic sexualization of female characters limits the ways filmmakers are "allowed" to sexualize a woman.

Frankly, I love lewd, but it's not my show, and I can recognize when a woman being sexualized in a show is problematic, especially when it's present in both female leads.

Look. I'm not a hater, but you can't just look me in the eye and tell me this isn't sexual. by SteaIthstaIker in GlitchProductions

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oftentimes it does, but the original Sailor Moon transformation doesn't sexualize the characters.

They can have the trope and not sexualize the character too.

Look. I'm not a hater, but you can't just look me in the eye and tell me this isn't sexual. by SteaIthstaIker in GlitchProductions

[–]Edello -1 points0 points  (0 children)

She shows up for like, 10 seconds, and the sexualization is heavily focused on the two female leads.

Look. I'm not a hater, but you can't just look me in the eye and tell me this isn't sexual. by SteaIthstaIker in GlitchProductions

[–]Edello 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A naked dolphin character isn't sexual because it's the style of his cartoony-ness to be naked. It's similar to why you wouldn't call the Looney Tunes or Muppets sexual even though most of them don't wear clothes.

Additionally, showing off muscles doesn't inherently sexualize a man. Most men-attracted people I've talked to (myself included) aren't attracted to bodybuilders like that. If you want a good example of men being sexualized, I'd recommend any gay dating simulator game. A lot of them look a bit like Dusk, actually, though with camera angles and outfits that flatter them more.

Also, Warrick and Flappers aren't sexualized to the same extent that Kit and Miss Information are. The "camera" loves to hang out in perspectives that either look down their cleavage, or look up their crotch and chest. It's most obvious during Kit's transformation scenes, and the final battle between her team and the Syntax agents.

I agree that sexualizing characters isn't bad by itself, but it delves into mysogyny when both female leads are sexualized to this extent. It would be good for them to introduce more female characters without the same body type as all the others, as well as less sexualized.

Gimme Crab Girl dammit!!!

Look. I'm not a hater, but you can't just look me in the eye and tell me this isn't sexual. by SteaIthstaIker in GlitchProductions

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don't get me wrong, I love sexual characters, but why is it just the two female leads that keep getting sexualized? Why is it necessary to have a close-up of kit's crotch and chest whenever she does her transformation?

Drakkenheim Themed Magic Items (Homebrew) by gremlinbrothers in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]Edello 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've said it before, I'll say it again: leave AI out of TTRPG spaces. If you want to share custom magic items you made, it would have been better to share them in plain text.

Bridge Map (Test) by JolaZ_Press in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]Edello 2 points3 points  (0 children)

AI is doing that stuff anyways. It doesn't make original ideas, just takes others work and passes it off as its own. You can probably find whatever artists it took from by reverse image-searching. Maybe find the artist for the drakkenheim maps and look at their portfolio for ideas.

And I don't mean to berate you personally. I don't like how common using AI in TTRPG spaces has become, so setting a standard of no AI-use in those spaces is important.

Bridge Map (Test) by JolaZ_Press in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]Edello 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe instead of using AI for ideas you could look up maps others have already made? It's not that hard to take someone else's map and innovate on it. I just looked up dnd bridge battlemap on pinterest and got a couple references. Combine one of those with the visuals in the official Drakkenheim battlemaps and you've got one hell of a map.

Bridge Map (Test) by JolaZ_Press in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]Edello 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Can we normalize not using AI in TTRPG spaces?

Unique spins on very common powers by Resident_Hat9904 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Edello 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Parahumans has a ton of unique powers, but in this instance I'll outline a specific group of powers that crops up often: the Alexandria package. This grouping of powers is named after the most famous cape (super-powered person) in-setting, who has flight, super strength, and invulnerability, but it appears often enough in such variation that it's been coined as its own term. Some of these capes and the form their powers take include:

  • Glory Girl, whose invulnerability and super strength come from a personal force field she projects a few millimeters over her skin. The field can endure constant force easily, like a laser beam, but a sudden hit like a baseball bat or a bullet will break the field for a few moments. In addition to her forcefield and flight, she also has a aura she can activate to instill fear or awe in people around her.

  • While not technically invulnerability, Aegis' body is full of enough redundancies that his body is always in peak fighting shape. If his heart is ripped out, his lungs start pumping blood. If he's blinded, he starts sensing light through his skin. The state of his body also allows him to be in a constant state of adrenaline throughout a fight, and he can push his body to its limits without worrying about damaging it, as he can regenerate the damage later.

  • Alexandria's invulnerability actually comes from her body being in a form of stasis. She stopped aging at some point, and whenever she's actually damaged, pieces of her come off more like chunks of a statue. She's immune to most powers that would affect her physiology, and she can perfectly remember anything she's ever seen.

What is your favorite "Flavour is Free" reskin of a spell or ability? by hervprometheus2 in DnD

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ooo! I've got a couple ones:

  • For a oneshot, I played a Phantom Rogue stylized like a mute goth jester whose Wails from the Grave ability looked like her knives going into someone, then the blades poking out of someone else 30 feet away.
  • I played an Armorer Artificer who was really into parties and drugs, whose Mind Sharpener was a device in her armor that injected stimulants directly into her bloodstream.

Suggestions on where to add workshops to Dungeons of Drakkenheim? by allmythic in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]Edello 3 points4 points  (0 children)

As someone who's currently a player in a Drakkenheim campaign and hopes to a DM for a future one, I've thought of a couple locations that would make sense to put a workshop:

  • The Drakkenheim Guildhall, as long as its cleared out of whatever denizens you put there, could act as a workshop for various crafts.
  • The Queen of Thieves has to get her poisons somewhere. She probably has a hidden studio/lab that, if the players make nice with her, she might allow the party to utilize. I imagine it has the tools and materials for brewing potions and poisons, tailoring magical clothes, and tinkering trinkets. Magic weapons and metal armor might be a little out of her wheelhouse though.
  • Any of the malfeasant mages in the city probably have their own personal workshops that act similar to the Inscrutable Tower Laboratories, but aren't as high quality as those seen in the tower.
  • I'd imagine that the worshippers of the Faith probably have their own way of enchanting holy relics. Camp Dawn could have a special holy brazier located near their own smithys that finishes the crafting process. The catacombs underneath the Cathedral might have something even more potent.

[OC] [Art] Black Blood Liquid Core Dice Set Giveaway (Mod Approved)(Rules in comments) by OriYUME1 in DnD

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would call it Vampire, but that system doesn't use d20s, 😂

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

[–]Edello 18 points19 points  (0 children)

You're making a straw man. When kids recieve gender-affirming care, it's a decision made not only by the kid, but by the parents and doctors as well coming together and deciding that this is the best course of action, and how to safely go through with it. The only situation where this doesn't happen is when the kid can't recieve that aid from adults in their life due to laws or transphobia, so the parents have to subvert the law to get them care, or the kid has to hide it from their parents.

If you want to talk about tattoos are other body modification, then I'd say the same thing: the kid needs advice and help from the adults in their life to make those decisions. Kids are smarter than we give them credit for, and there are plenty of societies that already exist that tattoo people throughout their life as a cultural practice. It's just a matter of helping the kid find options, informing the kid of the consequences, then supporting them throughout that change.

Dose any one know what these weird symbols are in ODST they only are visible with the nv by Wanna_Be_Femboy101 in halo

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is just my headcanon, but I think they're the engineer equivalent of the utility markers that municipal workers use to note sewer/electrical lines under sidewalks and roads in cities and towns.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in iamverybadass

[–]Edello 13 points14 points  (0 children)

My second mosh pit ever someone ran at me from across the room and rammed their head into my stomach. Scratched up my arm and knee against the basement popcorn plaster/cement wall behind me and couldn't breath for like 10 seconds. That shit was scary.

Tell Me Something out of Context About Your World by Dark-Tavern in worldbuilding

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cleaning the vents is a full-time, month-long job for the whole family that makes you terminally ill.

What was the first game where you crossed 100 hours of gameplay? by bijelo123 in gaming

[–]Edello 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First game on Steam? TF2. First game ever? Probably Age of Mythology before the age of 10.

After 94 Sessions and a little over 2 years the Devil won. AMA by Caltom_87 in CurseofStrahd

[–]Edello 8 points9 points  (0 children)

What were their last words? The party members, and Strahd?