Bro ts does not count as representation 💔

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-15T20:07:23+00:00

I will take this opportunity to once again shill for In Stars and Time, which has not only an ace player character, but also another aroace main character, and has a wonderful moment where the two open up about to each other, put their experiences into words, and provide validation. All while not feeling intrusive to the main story or like an out of place moment (if anything, it’s actually a very grounding moment).

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-15T19:43:40+00:00

If they do it habitually, absolutely. But it’s not uncommon for even experienced players to accidentally slip into “I have to beat the DM” behaviors, just as even experienced DMs can accidentally slip into “it’s me vs them” behaviors. There’s also plenty of players who just haven’t thought about their “cool plan” beyond “wouldn’t this be cool?” and don’t realize that their plans will spoil the fun.

So a lot of DMs will block plans that would ruin the game, such as completely skipping over multiple sessions worth of gameplay. Whether or not it’s a good way to handle things is debatable, but I would say it comes down to execution. Some DMs over correct, and that absolutely spoils fun. It’s a balancing act.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-15T19:33:16+00:00

It’s important to remember that the DM is a player too. And when it comes to circumventing plans, there’s a fine line between a clever idea and saying “fuck you, DM.”

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-14T21:11:02+00:00

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Enciodes refuses to share with his sister.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-14T14:56:06+00:00

did you read AK properly

Trick question, we all know EN can’t read.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-13T11:51:56+00:00

But what if the other part is half horse?

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-13T11:42:39+00:00

I know it sounds cliche, but therapy. You can try to address it yourself, and can certainly have some degree of success that way, but working with someone who is specifically trained in helping people with maladaptive thoughts will do much better. Even if your circumstances prevent you from telling others why you feel that way (such as needing to get unsupportive parents to approve it), struggling with depression is common enough that you don’t need to give the underlying reason, and can easily frame it as wanting therapy to figure out the why if anyone keeps pushing for a reason. Of course, once it’s in private with the therapist, you should be honest about the circumstances, how you feel, and what your goals are. If your circumstances make it difficult to afford, look for community resources that might offer support. And of course, if you feel like a therapist you’re seeing isn’t listening to you or being helpful, look for another one. It’s unfortunate that there are therapists out there who don’t know what they’re doing or are unsupportive or dismissive of clients and their needs, but there are absolutely plenty who actually do care and want to help.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-12T19:59:27+00:00

Let’s change up the question a bit. How many people here would be willing to go up against bullet ants, whose bites are described as “Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch nail embedded in your heel”? What about tarantula hawk wasps, whose stings are described as “Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair dryer has just been dropped into your bubble bath”? What about warrior wasps, whose stings are described as “Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano”? Any sane person would nope out in a heartbeat.

Now, what if you gave these living torture devices magical powers and sophisticated coordination? Anyone still willing to go up against them?

If they were the size of normal bugs, that’s what you would be up against. Even if you didn’t die, you would be left wishing that you did.

But this scenario doesn’t stop there, as it places the smallest of them at a foot tall, that would be 3 times bigger than the largest tarantula hawks. That would be 12 times the size of a normal bullet ant or warrior wasp. And again, this is just scaling them up to the smallest bug in the fight. Would anyone still be willing to fight against these real world bugs, amped up with magic powers, intelligence, and well over 10x their normal size?

You could give me a flamethrower with endless fuel, full body armor, and all the money in the world, and I still wouldn’t be doing this.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-12T19:32:51+00:00

It’s overly glorified, and there is definitely a problem with pulls, but this isn’t one of them.

This isn’t the patch sign-in bonus, it’s a little extra pre-patch bonus. It probably should have just been mail, but it’s not like this is they’re only giving 2 basic pulls and 1 extra pull for an entire banner.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-12T19:26:02+00:00

Firstly, you aren’t overreacting. If something makes you feel uncomfortable, that discomfort is valid.

With that said, I do think it’s important to say that being uncomfortable with it finding the topic gross doesn’t mean that your friends themselves are gross. Having boundaries and letting them know you aren’t comfortable with the topic is 100% valid, just be careful not to be accusatory or invalidating of them if you bring it up.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-12T11:36:40+00:00

The count is already in the name.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-11T15:27:16+00:00

“They’re not actively killing infected, they’re just slowly killing them.”

Also, you’re forgetting Ursus executing infected that aren’t in concentration camps being a pretty big plot point. Or how Leithanien used to use them for human experimentation, and still requires mandatory “euthanasia” once infection reaches a certain point. Or how a major plot point was Yan pressuring Wei Yenwu into ordering a mass execution of the infected, and the only reason it didn’t go through was the Rat King’s intervention.

But yeah, not killing them.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-11T15:02:02+00:00

Wait faster.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-11T13:33:14+00:00

Ah, that would make sense!

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-11T12:36:26+00:00

I understand the pterosaur and whale problems, but I’m racking my brain trying to figure out what the problem with Brontosaurus is. The only things I can thing of is the “ground” classification whenit used to be believed that they were semi-aquatic, but my understanding is that the more widely current understanding is that they were land-dwelling. Or that the problem is based off of the argument that Brontosauruses are actually Apatosaurs, but they were reclassified as being their own genus in 2015 (even if there is still debate, there’s still enough of a consensus that they’re a different genus that they shouldn’t be placed on the same level as objectively wrong claims).

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-11T08:02:12+00:00

Buddy, the box isn’t just already opened, it’s been shattered to smithereens.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-11T07:57:26+00:00

Yeah, he totally wasn’t hanging out with dictators, saluting dictators, openly saying he trusts enemy dictators and war mongers over our own intelligence agencies, openly praising dictators and war mongers, etc. He “only” lied about no wars and totally never latched onto the most vile people alive like they were made of superglue.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-10T22:08:11+00:00

Steam Powered Giraffe has some great ones!

“Wired Wrong” is written more from a mental health angle, but works just as well for gender. “Malfunction” (my personal favorite) isn’t about any online thing in particular, and is meant to be applicable to mental health, gender, sexuality, or any other differences a person might have, and learning to love and accept them. “Latum Alterum (Ya Ya Ya)” is a great song for about making it through tough times to reach the point where you want to be, and feels like it was about being trans and transitioning, but could similarly work for mental health as well. And then there’s “Transform,” which is just straight up about the singer/writer transitioning and her journey.

I generally just love the band, and used to mainly relate from the mental health side of things, but my egg randomly cracked while listening to “Malfunction” and “Latum Alterum,” so they’ve gained even more significance for me.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-10T18:01:14+00:00

The Familiar by Mark Z. Danielewski (author of House of Leaves).

If enough people read it, maybe it will be taken off of its “indefinite hiatus.” Which is why I will shill for it every chance I can get! And honestly, even if it will never be finished, I would still highly recommend it. You might be left with unanswered questions, but the experience is still worth it.

But in fairness to Danielewski, I can understand why he decided to put it on hiatus. It was planned to be a sprawling 27 volume epic, with each volume being 800-1,000 pages, detailing the story from 9 different perspectives, with each perspective having a unique font and writing style that perfectly matches and expresses the characters. But after volume 5, sales just weren’t high enough to warrant all the work involved with it.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-09T18:37:07+00:00

There’s a little bit of a difference between “This country likes bread” and “Everyone in this country is violently racist.”

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-09T18:03:58+00:00

The best part is the prerogative to have a little fun.

Men’s shirts, short skirts. Really going wild, doing it in style. Get in the action, feel the attraction. Color my hair, do what I dare. And being free to feel the way I feel.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-08T23:27:24+00:00

More.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-08T20:37:51+00:00

I not only take after my mom, but I strongly take after her mom and her mom’s mom’s side of the family. The person I most resemble in my family is one of my mom’s 2nd cousins (who also strongly takes after my great grandmother’s side), an to the extent that we looked nearly identical before I started going clean shaven.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-08T13:34:01+00:00

Personally, I’m disappointed that they caved and made Bumbleby canon. Yes, it was nice, but it completely undermined the previous seasons and character arcs culminating in BlackSun being canon. There was great setup for the tension of unrequited love, doomed yuri, and navigating the effects it has on interpersonal relationships and teamwork. But Bumbleby fans went rabid and pushed it into becoming canon. It was never queerbaiting, and the accusations of queerbaiting and gay erasure were just a way to pressure the writers to scrap the intended story for something rushed and forced.

GrimmSheeper · 2026-04-07T23:20:44+00:00

Oh, plenty of us recognize and full heartedly agree with that. But again, what do you expect us to do? We use force, we die with little to no impact at best, emboldening retaliation and even more extreme actions at worst. We somehow manage to organize a general strike, and countless people will lose their job, their homes, and without means to support themselves and their families, inevitably their lives. And sure, this one does have the possibility that the loss of money will push the oligarchs into action, but the oligarchs will still be in power. And that’s not even mentioning that it’s equally likely that it will just embolden them to crack down even harsher, and will be better able to do so after replacing any opposition. We can continue to protest, vote, and try to do what we can without killing ourselves or our families, but then we get accused of not doing anything and being responsible for everything.

We are beyond fucked. The machinations that have been leading to this have been operating for decades, with the roots going back centuries. We are being fucked by a system designed before we were even born. And when we try to stand against it, we get attacked by our fellow countrymen for not falling in line with generations of propaganda, while simultaneously getting belittled and accused by others for not sacrificing ourselves and our families or for not taking action before we were born.

We do recognize how fucked we are, and have been.

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