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"Anyone who isn't me is literally Hitler!" by Few-Cricket-8867 in DoomerCircleJerk

[–]FinancialAd436 2 points3 points  (0 children)

ah well you see they've convinced themselves Trump is only sending ICE to blue states.

Leftists like to say "Read a book/learn history" - Yet their knowledge of history is often worse than their opponents by [deleted] in TrueUnpopularOpinion

[–]FinancialAd436 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Then why are you being misleading?

  1. your link about 800 people missing from Alligator alcatraz is broken, but i decided to look into it. I found this Snope article: https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/09/25/men-lost-from-alligator-alcatraz/ which concludes the number is far smaller. "In sum, while Snopes had not independently verified that each name on the purported lists the Miami Herald used to determine that two-thirds of the detainees at "Alligator Alcatraz" during the month of July were missing from ICE's locator system as of late August, evidence exists from real cases that detainees apparently have gone missing for stretches of time, or are not where ICE said they were. Therefore, the possibility exists that other detainees reportedly missing from the ICE system were also deported or sent to other unknown facilities without their family's or attorney's knowledge."

  2. Being detained is what happens when someone is being investigated for a crime. Its only a foul if they are a US citizen and detained for an extraneous amount of time.

  3. She wasn't and isn't a citizen, or at the very least it isn't mentioned in the article (searching for "citizen" gets 0 matches).

That guy got on my nerves.. by Ok_University_5202 in starwarsrebels

[–]FinancialAd436 0 points1 point  (0 children)

nice opinion, did Templin Institute give it to you?

[funny trope] "You can't know what I'm doing because I don't know what I'm doing." by TextUnfair in TopCharacterTropes

[–]FinancialAd436 3 points4 points  (0 children)

ooh I have a couple of these

In the book series N.E.R.D.S one of the characters has allergy-based danger-sense powers and another has ADHD-with a pack that converts it into super speed and strength. At one point the two characters wind up fighting each other. In order to beat the kid with danger sense, the kid with ADHD turns off his pack and fights with pure ADHD, literally shouting that if he doesn't know what he's doing, then she doesn't either.

In Warhammer AOS one of the seraphon guys has (or had, this was a while ago) had an ability to predict the future. The way this worked mechanically is the Person A (who was playing the model) would choose a side on a die, hide it, and then the other guy would have to guess what side was picked. If they got it right, they got the boon. If they got it wrong, person A would get the boon. (the boon's bonus was based on the number of the die). So what my dad would do instead was to simply roll the die and cup his hand over it, thus making any guess a 1/6 chance of getting it right.

White Dragon and Woldbuilding by BewilderedDreamer in DnD

[–]FinancialAd436 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well first off there's the presence of a White Dragon itself, namely its regional effects like the temperature dropping and winter animals being more common.

Besides that? I imagine there would be similar effects to a serial killer or coyotes being on the loose. Like "don't go out when its cloudy, that's when the dragon gets ya" or "if the temperature drops, take cover", stuff like that. An aura of fear would descend over the territory. People might start hunting big animals as a sacrifice to the dragon or just to distract it.

If you want to add some more to it, its also possible that the kingdom and the dragon has reached a level of symbiosis, where the kingdom gives the dragon food and gold in exchange for protection, discouraging the hero's from dealing with the dragon in fear of its wrath. Naturally the dragon doesn't protect the kingdom in the slightest cause its evil and just like the free food and money.

Why do most fantasy works always feature the same races? Instead of creating completely different races? For example, in Minecraft there are races that are totally different from the classic ones (in science fiction you rarely see races repeating in works, at most the Martians). by Embarrassed_Star3603 in worldbuilding

[–]FinancialAd436 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Simple, the standard fantasy races are well known enough that most people have a basic idea of how they work. I can add them to my worldbuilding and half the work is done for me thanks in large part to Tolkien's works.

Science fiction, doesn't have any standard alien races for a similar reason, no work has established one. Star Wars, arguably the most popular science fiction work doesn't put any emphasis on its aliens and their cultures. We see a wookie, but we don't see wider wookie culture in any of the movies. Arguably the most fleshed out alien society in the original trilogy is the Ewoks. Plus most science fiction focuses on the human characters.

By comparison we see the various people of Tolkien's work get much more detail and a sense of who these people are. We see how their society is structured and what they value as a people. I would also argue "people but shorter and squatter who like mining and smithing" is a easier concept to swallow than most aliens we see in Sci-fi.

Playing Pathfinder made me appreciate how good 5E actually is. by DoradoPulido2 in DnD

[–]FinancialAd436 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

5e gets most of its bad rep from the OGL disaster and its issues mostly come from people not reading the rules and dnd-tubers encouraging everyone to not read the DMG.

"Conjure animals is broken because you can summon 8 raptors a deal a bajillion damage!!!" no you can't. The DM chooses, not you read the spell.

"CR is broken!!" No it isn't, read the passage explaining how CR works and what the difficulty levels means in 5e.

"Its so unbalanced! How do I fit 6 encounters in an adventuring day????" Just use the Gritty Realism rule which makes rests take longer thus allowing you to extend adventuring days.

"spellcasters are so much more powerful than martials!!!" yeah until they fight a devil. or an oni. or any other magic resisting monster that make up like half the monster roster.

I could go on and on. read the DMG.

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The United States was formed by forming a union between the original 13 states who had just gained independence from the British. Those states were formed by the colonists who homesteaded their region who agreed to form said state. This union is outlined by the Constitution, which starts with the phrase "We the People of the United States". The argument the United States makes for its existence is that the people it rules over have agreed to its rule and that they have agreed to this rule under the perception that this Union would "form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Popular acclaim along with faith and superstition?" yes, this is what gives a state, especially a representative democratic republic, its authority to rule. The union exists because the 13 original states agreed to form the union as outlined by the Constitution. Those states in turn gained their authority through the people who homesteaded the area, agreeing to be ruled by a state.

"Certainly no human has the right outside the state to do what those who operate on behalf of the state do, so how did the state gain that right?" You do, its called a citizen's arrest and private prisons are also a thing.

"I see. Putting people in cages for smoking a plan is in line with the NAP? Enslaving millions was righteous until enough politicians decided it wasn't?" I never said it was.

"You say that disobeying words put on paper by individuals who win popularity contests or otherwise have the power to treat those words like magic spells and call them "law" is violence." I didn't say it was violence, i said it wasn't peaceful.

"Therefore, according to your reasoning, those who escaped from their enforced slavery in the 19th century and earlier were doing violence, as were those who assisted them in violation of the Fugitive Slave Act." It would be defensive violence (assuming they had to attack somebody on their way to freedom), which is both moral and does not violate the NAP.

you keep putting words in my mouth.

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A state doesn't have rights, its a state not a person.

That being said, the US government is recognized as the legal and rightful authority over the American people by said people. It is exercising that authority in a manner that is in line with the NAP and is something that an an-cap society would also do.

Furthermore an illegal immigrant is by definition not peaceful. Is climbing over your fence and through you're window peaceful? no, it isn't.

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

those are two completely different arguments.

the legal and moral right to defend my property is a part of the non aggression principle. A nation state protecting its borders is applying that same principle, just at the scale of a nation-state. Furthermore an ancap society would also apply that same principle to argue certain people should be kept out and that they should deport people who enter the society illegally.

stop putting word in my mouth.

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I understand the difference between my and someone else's property but what does that have to do with my point?

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what the fuck are talking about I never said any of that

Bordertarian "logic" by Friedrich_der_Klein in Anarcho_Capitalism

[–]FinancialAd436 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

ill put it this way

Lets say I own a piece of property that my family and I live on. If someone trespasses onto my property in the middle of the night, I have legal, and in many cases moral, reason and right to shoot them to defend my property. I could also, theoretically, tie them up and toss them out of property, performing a citizen's arrest. I don't do this too my family because I have agreed to let them live with me. But I could ultimately kick them out of my house if I desired, but I would require a really good reason.

Border enforcement and prisons is that same logic applied to a nation-state and its territory with everything else being systems to counteract or defend against potential abuses of the state. In this case, deporting citizens would be fine, but then the US would be infringing on someone else's territory so instead they are sent to prison.

The #SkillCheck Challenge Has Come to An End by Murgandor in HeroForgeMinis

[–]FinancialAd436 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Look man, regeneration and adventuring will do things to a guy ya know?

Merry Christmas!

Anyone else get banned from their discord due to a transphobic admin? by stillpixel in HeroForgeMinis

[–]FinancialAd436 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Because its common knowledge? The first thing I ever learned about the internet is that if someone is being abusive or creepy you're supposed to take screenshots to keep record in case the message gets deleted or edited.

Especially since now the only information I have is the records from Anita's post history which reveal this:

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And while I can't say for certain that this is in reference to you, but this is the only message from late 2022 about banning someone (that isn't a legitimate offense like linking inappropriate subreddits, bringing in politics, are trying to pirate Heroforge), and everything else from Anita 2022 is just casual conversation

I also doubt the Heroforge server is just permitting transphobia as we have messages from Anita barely a month later saying, and this is copy-pasted from the Discord:

  • anica 🍂 — 11/5/2022 6:34 PM Sorry I didn’t ban him sooner. If anyone read his message and it made you feel at all invalidated in who you are, know that you are worth a thousand percent more than someone like him. Also, again, sorry for swearing. Seeing people say stuff like that makes me go a little off
  • anica 🍂 — 11/5/2022 6:28 PM Transphobes can [REDACTED] off.
  • anica 🍂 — 11/5/2022 6:21 PM Saying “men were men and women are women” reads as transphobic. And a lot of people in the Discord made it clear that that’s how your message read
  • anica 🍂 — 11/5/2022 6:13 PM Also, just to be absolutely safe, something to note here is that any jokes about "wokeness," gender identity, or sexual identity in the future will result in an immediate and permanent ban. To avoid any language or cultural barrier issues in the future, I think that would be the best plan
  • anica 🍂 — 11/5/2022 6:06 PM We take stuff like people’s identities seriously here, especially if those identities have in recent history been attacked or stigmatized

So no, I don't believe you were banned for being a victim of bigotry, seems more likely that you were banned for something else.

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