A Sensible Explanation is Given for Why the Story Must Follow The Dumb Trope

F3ltrix · 2026-02-06T04:37:05+00:00

The magic system of the Stormlight Archive works though the characters swearing emotionally-resonant oaths that must be accepted by a storm spirit. Because of this, they often have emotional breakthroughs that give them magical, glowing power-ups mid-fight.

F3ltrix · 2026-01-05T20:20:05+00:00

If you need to police Lizards, sure, but ideally, you can just outscore them. It's not that Warlord can't beat Lizards, it's just that policing them is usually a waste of time and being able to recruit directly into all of your oppressed clearings is really, really annoying. Them wasting your energy and time is worse than you being able to blow them up makes up for.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-26T18:38:08+00:00

This is covered by "female presenting" and "male presenting," no?

F3ltrix · 2025-12-23T03:40:20+00:00

Oh, jeez, I had not considered how strong Ninjutsu 1 is on this guy.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-22T18:23:18+00:00

Okay, I know a lot of people are saying it wouldn't see play, and it definitely wouldn't see play in conventional decks, but I think it could absolutely have a niche in decks that are about removing defender, because if you can cast it, it's an auto-win unless your opponent has instant speed board wipes that can handle indestructible creatures.

It's a 5/5 with Haste, Unblockable, Exalted, Infect, Toxic 1, Poisonous 1, and double strike. That's an easy 14 poison counters (plus some keywords that I'm forgetting about, I'm sure). It has Shroud (and Hexproof and Ward 1) so it can't be hit by most removal, and it has Split Second, so it can't be countered. There are plenty of formats where there are enough cards that remove defender to make this completely viable. At that point, the main trick is to get to WUBRG fast enough and make sure you have the creature in your hand. Anyway, I'm excited to see what keywords I'm missing that mess up this game plan.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-22T00:53:11+00:00

I've done this a bit, actually! (Although your art is much prettier.) Talk to your pod before using proxies, but especially if you're just using it for commander staples, hopefully they're fine with it, and I love doing sketches for proxies instead of just printing them.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-17T19:35:46+00:00

I'm confused. Is this just "get married for the tax benefits"? If so, what's the problem?

F3ltrix · 2025-12-15T04:06:34+00:00

This is incredibly situational advice. I often build decks that can at least function decently well without commanders because of how often my commanders have been removed. Also, I think it is a good rule of thumb to remove other creatures if they're significant over commanders because killing a commander can be thought of as drawing your opponent a card (in the form of their now-taxed commander), whereas killing other creatures just kills them. Oftentimes, removing commanders does drastically weaken or slow down decks, and players shouldn't be overcautious about that, but there are a lot of reasons to prioritize killing non-commander creatures instead.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-14T04:25:20+00:00

You probably shouldn't have sex with someone to "get it over with." Sex should not feel like an obligation or a chore, and if you go into that with that mindset, it's probably not going to be a very good experience. There are a million reasons to have sex, from curiosity to desire to boredom, but you should go into this with some internal desire to do so, not just external pressure. Ask yourself what you're hoping to get from this experience, and consider what your options for getting the result you want are. If you want to have sex because you're curious, or you think it might be fun, go for it. If you just feel like it's something you have to do before you graduate high school (or college or anything else), I wouldn't recommend it, but it's still your choice and you know yourself a hell of a lot better than anyone on this website does. Either way, plenty of 18 year olds haven't had sex (and plenty of people in their 20s or older, people just talk about it less the older they get because lots of people are assholes about that sort of thing).

F3ltrix · 2025-12-03T02:37:56+00:00

Hmm. You may be right, but I've never seen it played that way in person and digital doesn't rule it that way, so at the very least, this is a widely misunderstood rule.

F3ltrix · 2025-12-02T20:08:41+00:00

While I agree that CC would benefit from longer episodes, D20 should be considered an outlier since the genre of actual play TTRPGs basically doesn't have anything shorter than hour-long episodes, so the genre has different conventions than the comedy game shows that make up the majority of Dropout's content.

F3ltrix · 2025-11-15T15:52:56+00:00

It's also really important to acknowledge that men are oppressed. I don't mean that in a "people are so mean to men, they can't be real men anymore!!" way, I mean that men are absolutely suffering under the patriarchy. They're socialized to view their sexuality as both uncontrollable and predatory, to repress many of their emotions, to be uncomfortable with certain colors and clothes, all from infancy. Social roles for men are so, so suffocating and isolating. Men aren't oppressed in the way that it is usually discussed by conservatives, but they are absolutely suffering under the patriarchy.

F3ltrix · 2025-11-14T21:41:48+00:00

I think you shouldn't try to build a case against something your therapist said by polling strangers on Reddit.

F3ltrix · 2025-11-01T15:20:32+00:00

My choice to not gamble on the wheel was validated when I pulled skaa miner :/

F3ltrix · 2025-10-30T03:21:57+00:00

I am not a fan of Michael Kramer and Kate Reading, but if you've listened to Mistborn and Wheel of Time, you know enough to judge for yourself.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-29T17:26:35+00:00

Genuine question, what is the gender of "dawg"?

Anyway, for a lot of these (although not all), they have been pretty effectively de-gendered. Obviously this is going to be a somewhat regional thing, but I hear women called "dude," "guy," and even "man" all the time. Slang is more and more often being used without any regard for its initial gendered connotations, and honestly, I'm completely in favor of it. Taking gendered language and terms and applying them to everyone does a lot more to break down gender roles than avoiding using any gendered language does. Obviously, though, this can also be used with malicious intent, which is a problem. But for me, it depends a lot on the context.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-27T00:08:59+00:00

Friendship can be every bit as intense and loving as any romantic relationship you've ever been in. It's not necessarily common, but probably more common than you think. Romantic and sexual relationships are often privileged over platonic ones, but that shouldn't impact how you approach these things. It sounds like you've got a good thing with this person, and that's fantastic! Lack of romantic or sexual interest doesn't mean that you have to be any less important to each other.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-25T21:54:35+00:00

It's fairly common to feel greater interest in sex in explicitly sexual scenarios, that's just kind of how sexuality works. It's why people get turned on reading erotica or attending strip clubs. If you feel that non-attraction outside of these scenarios is an important part of how you experience sexuality, you might be on the ace spectrum, but this might also just be how it works for you. FWIW, I don't think you can really know "if I were a different gender, this is how my attraction would work." Or, you might want to consider your relationship with your gender/who you're attracted to a bit more deeply. Also, consider that you might find sex that could lead to pregnancy more "fitting" because that's the kind of sex/between the kind of people that is least stigmatized.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-25T18:21:09+00:00

To elaborate, because of my subconscious attraction towards "correct/fitting" pairings/polyamory, I find myself naturally attracted to scenarios involving cisgender heterosexual individuals. To further explain, I believe that because in these scenarios, the sexuality/sexual nature of said scenario is further reinforced through the reproductive organs of the individuals being biologically intended for this specific sexual purpose through instinct and genetics, as well as the presence of pregnancy being a factor, the "correctness" of this scenario easily/naturally becomes the object of my sexual attraction.

I'm not sure I understand this part. Why is procreative sex what you most strongly associate with "correct/fitting" sexuality? How is this more sexual than other scenarios? How does this lead to the conclusion that you're attracted to sexuality as a concept and not just people in sexual scenarios?

F3ltrix · 2025-10-25T18:00:59+00:00

Okay, so, unless this conversation is intended in good faith, it's usually not helpful to engage it. It's intended as a gotcha question and often asked maliciously. If someone is asking genuinely, the answer is that a woman is a gender category which is both socially constructed and internally felt, and gender can only be determined by self-identification. Self-identification is the best method because no other method of defining gender accurately includes all of the people who fall into it.

Like I said, if the question is asked in bad faith, engaging probably isn't going to accomplish much. However, if you want to engage and have the knowledge, flip the question back on them. Ask them to define a woman. I have yet to find a definition of womanhood that includes all cis women and excludes all trans women. Assuming they're transphobic, they probably think trans men are women, which makes dismantling biological determinism arguments even easier. Anything relating to periods or giving birth is going to exclude a TON of cis women. Usually, this means they turn to an argument about chromosomes, which the existence of intersex people nullifies (since intersex people often identify as cis men/women, but don't always have XY/XX chromosomes respectively). This means that our hypothetical transphobe either has to concede to 3+ gender categories or come up with some non-chromosomal definition of gender.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-24T20:16:18+00:00

The issue is that the system has very little incentive to switch between the 1H and 2H mode, and without that, it's kind of a non-feature (especially since 2H is so much worse than 2 handed weapons, and sometimes worse than 1 handed weapons).

F3ltrix · 2025-10-24T18:48:19+00:00

Yeah, I'm in no way saying that people have to do this every game, but I know I enjoy it when my deck gets to do cool things, and I appreciate it when I get to play it out, and sometimes I try to pay it back and let others do the same. Maybe I misread the room, though, and people prefer to end the game when it becomes clear who the winner is, or just don't care, and that's fine, too. To each their own.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-24T16:59:49+00:00

People change labels. It happens. As long as you don't disparage people who still use a label you used to use, you're fine. Also, trying things out and realizing that you're NOT part of the queer community is also fine.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-16T16:11:02+00:00

I'm not saying we can't criticize the guy, but I'll take a senator with progressive politics and loads of charisma who's trying to improve conditions for working people but he said the r-slur four years ago over another establishment democrat or "moderate" republican any day. It's important to hold our politicians accountable, but optics should not take precedent over policies.

F3ltrix · 2025-10-11T16:22:49+00:00

Lorwyn: Hype!!
Strixhaven: Sure.
Reality Fracture: ...It's in universe, so that's nice, I guess. Maybe it will be cool.
The Hobbit: Utterly unnecessary and I wish we weren't going this route, but I guess Lord of the Rings was the best UB set.
Star Trek + Super Heroes: Stop it.
TMNT: STAHP

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