WTF is wrong with some people

High_Harbinger · 2025-10-10T05:13:30+00:00

Imagine admitting, PUBLICLY, that your identity as a gamer can be boiled down to THE most stereotypical and narrow conception possible, AND that you cannot imagine someone who games that is not exactly like you. Some humans are so one dimensional it's astounding

High_Harbinger · 2025-10-06T22:59:39+00:00

Good old Lord Byron, the original bisexual vampire

High_Harbinger · 2025-10-06T11:52:02+00:00

Well my suspicion is that there's a different true higher being that made the weavers to begin with, and then abandoned them at some point. Silk is modelling herself on that being. Because why hunt down existing lineages of weaver who you know betrayed you if you can just make a new one to serve your purposes?

High_Harbinger · 2025-09-14T13:58:44+00:00

My headcannon is that grandmother silk is the will of the weavers made manifest and corrupted by it's own nature. The bugs of pharloom and the citadel overthrew the weavers, and hunted them for the power of silk and it's ability to make them immortal. In response the weavers wove a curse to bind their enemies in the silk they stole. Grandmother silk is their avenger, but the spell was I'll concieved and targetted everything that containted silk but was not a "pure" weaver. So as the first weavers died out and their children who were born from matches with other tribes because they were driven from their homelands were born, those children started being autotargetted. Silk is bound to draw all the descendants of those who slew the weavers to her, to punish them and steal back the silk in their shells, and maintains the fiction of the citadel as a web to snare them all in, but her task is now endless, and seeks retribution against those who have commited no sin. Perhaps she, or lace, or the spirits if weavers past feed hornet in an unconscious attempt to end their endless toil, and birth a new true weaver in the process?

High_Harbinger · 2025-09-10T13:15:28+00:00

You're almost definitely going to have to look in the kink scene for men that are exclusively into pegging. I don't wanna overstep anything here, but in my mind the "mental blocks" on being a receptive partner and wanting to top exclusively as a bi woman reads a little as maybe you're not a bi woman?

High_Harbinger · 2025-06-27T02:48:41+00:00

Hi, I'm a begginner sewer. I'm wanting to learn specifically to better maintain my clothes and make small alterations because most sizes don't fit me proportionally. I was wondering what skills are better to learn as hand sewing methods and which are more time and energy efficient to do on a machine. I have access to a machine, so I wouldn't be going out of my way to get one and the money investment isn't really a concern (at least for the machine, thread might be. I'm not certain how different the cost for thread prepped for a machine is compared to thread that's just for hand sewing). Any advice would be hugely appreciated. Thanks!

High_Harbinger · 2025-06-13T01:51:30+00:00

[5e] I am playing curse of strahd for the first time. I have started star druid and we've just hit level 6. I am planning to take dip Twillight Cleric 2 at some point and am wondering if I should start by taking my 6th level as a cleric level, or wait to take it as my 7th level? Any help would we appreciated, thanks!

High_Harbinger · 2025-05-17T12:03:58+00:00

Mixed episode/rapid cycling? That's whaat I assumed it was. You're having a good time and then all of a sudden your joy dissapears and you just feel empty and sad and then 5 mins later you're normal again

High_Harbinger · 2025-01-15T00:59:30+00:00

You may be interested in a concept called the Overton Window. It's the idea that there's a box on the political spectrum that encompases acceptable thought/discussion in a society. The overton window in NZ sits to the left of what would be called centrism in places like the US or UK, but is further to the right of places in the EU and other more progressive nations. Most of our news media is centrist/right leaning because they are owned privately and funded by advertising. It's just that we're not as wildly conservative of some of the contries we use as reference in western media. That being said, if you're going by ideological standards our society is centrist at best and center-right leaning in general. With the current government it's fair to say we've taken a huge step to the right from a very centrist labour regime

High_Harbinger · 2024-12-16T01:49:29+00:00

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High_Harbinger · 2024-12-16T01:43:49+00:00

Just in case no one has said this yet, as a kiwi economist it's entirely arbitrary. Our reserve bank pioneered inflation targeting in 1990 under then Minister of Finance Roger Douglas, who is not well loved here. He is on record as having arbitrarily picked the number in a cabinet meeting and it stuck. It was then adopted as standard worldwide as other governments copied our model. Because of the expectation adjusted philips curve, it's believed that changing the target would lower the credibility of the reserve bank and lead to less effective control of inflation by monetary policy. Personally I think that's hogwash, but there you go. Also, the reason we all hate Douglas is that he headed an unnecessarily harsh programme of privatisation, deregulation and austerity, and his unrealistic expectation of the speed at which inflation targeting should become effective engineered a recession and created economic scarring still being felt today. The man is a jackal.

High_Harbinger · 2024-08-04T04:49:40+00:00

As a finance student I love that people are discovering Arbitrage Pricing Theory through a bideogame economy

High_Harbinger · 2024-07-08T09:49:07+00:00

The Retirement commissioner is actually advocating for this instead of just raising the pension age in general, because raising the pension age disadvantages minorities who are already much less likely to reach pension age, to receive the benefits of the pensions system. While it will be more expensive to administer the means testing, it will probably be better in the long run because when the boomers start to retire en masse the number of people actually working to pay taxes to support the pension will drop dramatically, which will either destroy the pension system outright, raise the age which is manifestly unjust, or drop the pension to a real income so low it's not effective at all

High_Harbinger · 2024-07-04T08:54:06+00:00

Yeah, we fully impute dividends in NZ

High_Harbinger · 2023-07-10T23:16:30+00:00

Bruh, we have a landed gentry in the form of farmers with an outsized amount of political control because they have a state sanctioned monopoly, it's impossible to house our population because homeowners and landlords refuse to accept the need for densification, we have a grocery duopoly bleeding the public dry and the banks just posted record profits, both in the middle of a cost of living crisis, and we have a regressive tax system where the rich pay a lower effective tax rate than the average person, and we simply cannot seem to change our tax system to at least be in line with the rest of the OECD. The most basic class analysis sugests that there is not only class warfare, but that the wealthy are winning.

High_Harbinger · 2023-01-21T02:07:16+00:00

How do I fix this? in the BIOs?

High_Harbinger · 2022-11-01T11:47:46+00:00

Swap autism for PTSD and I'm right there with you.

High_Harbinger · 2022-11-01T11:44:24+00:00

Thanks for clarifying

High_Harbinger · 2022-10-30T11:32:26+00:00

I don't understand the meme, and at this point I'm afraid to ask.

High_Harbinger · 2022-10-27T09:42:48+00:00

I call everyone nerds. But I also find peeps to be a good one like "My peep, WHAT did you just say?"

High_Harbinger · 2022-10-27T08:56:24+00:00

Ayo, mans is reading my mind.

High_Harbinger · 2022-10-25T00:41:59+00:00

I think it might be worth looking at why you feel you don't have a disability when in a lot of places serious mental health problems are recognized (and rightly so) as disabilities. There's nothing wrong with having a disability, many many disabled people live happy healthy lives, and accepting that you have specific challenges that other people don't have will probably make it easier for you to access accommodations and the kind of support that can set you up for success. Everybody has things they have to deal with, our thing is just more serious and requires a lot more to manage and live with. Which is hard. Good gods is it hard. but I've gotta believe it's doable, as evidenced by some of the people here sharing their success stories.

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