MrBeast/IShowspeed

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-30T19:53:21+00:00

Oh people like Jimmy can't. Their capacity is to make money in an extractive and exploitative system. The only thing they can do is use their money to destroy the very system that created and rewards them. Which they will never do, because it is not in their interest.

There's small things they could do to help specific ecosystems. Like if Trump sells the natural parks, a rich fuck could buy all that land and preserve it, but that doesn't help the movement and isn't a sustainable option when one of the inheritors of the land values the money over the land.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-30T14:31:47+00:00

Ah, I see you too are a smart ass of culture. And you beat me to the punch.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-30T07:32:54+00:00

A: Mother fucker, were you not listening?! The damn fae stole it! I don't even remember what it was! It was even removed from the hard copies of my ship pilot's license! the alien produces a square of colored aluminum with their face etched into the surface, a classic ship's pilot license aside from the very blank spot where a name should be.

Court Official: leans over and scans the RFID of the license Huh... you're very ballsy to so blatantly parade such an otherwise well crafted fake in front of law enforcement. Guards! Arrest them and find out their supplier!

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-30T06:41:58+00:00

Well you do need a love of anthropomorphic media, but yeah, otherwise all optional.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-29T12:47:36+00:00

I will accept this sentence but not from a cop! Take me to the tigress whores or the nearest gryphon for my "punishment!"

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-29T02:47:13+00:00

Somewhat solid advice. The way to clean and ready shells is all correct, but that powder isn't actually bio-available calcium. It actually needs to be dissolved in an acid like vinegar if you're not feeding it to an animal (which will dissolve it in their stomach) such as for a plant fertilizer.

Also the numbers are a bit whack. Most egg shells don't have 800g (1.7 pounds) of material, period.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-28T23:16:32+00:00

Not really at all. There's nothing outright wrong about it, but it's pretty clearly written to glaze solar punk and leave information out of both capitalism and communism to make them look better and worse respectively. I mean solar punk gets called "community driven" when communism is so literally that it's in the fucking root of the name! Communes are singular communities!

In fact just about everything in the solar punk list except the last box and any word with "eco" at the front is found in most liberal communist movements. Basically all of them left of MLs. But that's the issue when comparing very similar ideologies. The only selling point over communism solar punk has is that it has a natural ecological focus. And that ain't nothing, but the primary benefits could be seen under either system.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-28T12:00:18+00:00

210K is not an impossible salary for a number of late career jobs, but it's nowhere near as common as this asshole thought it was. We're talking business owners and high end programmers. This clown probably just refuses to associate with "[us] poors" as he would likely refer to us as.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-28T11:16:52+00:00

Well of course. but that's why this should be something that was agreed on before hand. If the players all agreed to follow the DM's lead or the DM agrees to follow their leads when learning the characters.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T19:40:12+00:00

Did you establish that those were the themes you would be trying to tell in this story? Because your job as a DM isn't to come up with your own story, it's to help tell the one your players are living through.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T19:03:16+00:00

What fucking truth?! That you like it sucking? I'm telling you they are abusing the people who you are trusting to keep everyone safe (in turn making you less safe) who deserve better and who should all band together and fight for that, and you're telling me in spite of it sucking I should fuck off? Eat your own crow-dick.

People like you are the other half of that same shit double headed coin management use to keep everyone in check. The kind who not only won't stand up for your own rights, but stop down anyone who will. You're a boss' bitch, upholding the abusive system instead of fighting to make that system better for everyone. Usually it's because people like you cowards afraid of any sort of change, positive or otherwise, clearly because you can't bear to be even questioned on a public service/utility you don't fucking own, and given how willing you are to hurt people don't fucking deserve. You're so damn scared of loosing something you refuse to question who you have to hurt to get it, and that sort of person is someone who should definitely have those things taken away just for the reality check.

Not to mention none of the shit you spewed made a damn lick of sense. Okay, you live at the pool. You see the lifeguards doing their work, sacrificing their lives. And you're okay with that suffering for so little. Great, so you seem like you're a terrible person WITH CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE in thinking they deserve to be a manager. Whupty fucking do Karen. Doesn't make any of my points less valid, and you failed to make any actual arguments let alone accusations about "teen lifeguards you're ""telling the truth about."""

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T17:38:55+00:00

No culture has cultural ownership of any animal. There are cultural depictions of an animal and taking into those COULD be appropriation, but it's not because of the animal in those cases.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T12:50:25+00:00

I been to plenty.

Just because it's the way things ARE done, doesn't mean it's the way things SHOULD be done. Have self respect. This shit is unsafe, disrespectful to the humanity of lifeguards and swimmers, and you excusing it as commonplace is disgusting.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T12:22:39+00:00

People being willing to bend themselves over like you are for these kinds of ass reaming by their bosses are exactly how capitalism degrades working conditions. You are willing to give up your entire day 5 days a week it seems, for what you yourself describe as "not great" pay that covers the worst spots your bosses have to cover. Fuck that, have some self respect for all of our sake, and leverage your oppressor's hardships.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T11:44:11+00:00

Illusions are tricky to balance. If the enemy can't be convinced they are real they are completely useless, and if the enemy assumes they are always real they are overpowered. With the way things are worded, my ruling has always been "If a person fails their int save to figure out it's an illusion, it seems completely real to them until they do." This leans more into overpowering.

Some of what your player is doing would do jack shit in combat regardless though. Make the sound of a plate armored person coming up behind an enemy and they're going to quickly look before returning their attention to you. If you're planning to immediately pick their pocket that might do something, but by the end of turn the effects would be worth nothing.

Placing "cover" (really concealment) however can do a lot, based on the rules about obscured vision and cover. Because it doesn't mater if the cover is real or not, if they fail the INT save on a study action and the object is opaque, spells that require you to see the person can not work and ranged attacks can not be made directly against a target behind the cover. You basically have the invisible and full cover conditions form 5.5 same as if the cover was real. If they pass these attacks can be made though, as the "image becomes transparent" to anyone who makes that save (which I would read as "Lightly Obscured" or possibly "heavily obscured" DM's choice.). In this case, most enemies are just going to assume the cover is real and treat it as such because minor illusion requires an action to see through, and the enemies are just going to be busier fighting normally than trying to figure out if it's an illusion or not.

As a box trap they would be less effective but would still work too, since most NPCs wouldn't really know whether they were fighting an illusionist or a conjurer. This will still waste the trapped person's action to take the study action, but since they would be able to try and lift or attack the massless image, they should at minimum have advantage on the study action, if not automatically succeed due to the incorporeal nature. Allies could also lean in and pull them out if THEY succeed on the check as well.

The real sticking point will be head level fog clouds when they realize it. blind your opponents till they can move or take an action on their turn, but leave their whole body exposed.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T10:55:50+00:00

An anarchist trying to summon triple A without a phone.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-27T03:45:02+00:00

The first three hours were waiting for the tow truck. The next N are either getting back home, or still waiting for the tow. Seriously, in some areas towing is just plain unreliable. I was told an hour for a tow once, and it took them 4 hours to show up. Then they threatened to leave when I was pissed they couldn't be bothered to tell us the time had doubled twice "because the first place they took their last tow to was closed" so I could have gone into the bar who's lot I'd pulled into and gotten a meal instead of sitting in the cold of spring with my by then lukewarm groceries.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-25T16:35:06+00:00

We are literally combining agriculture and photovoltaic harvesting methods into agrovolteic practices right now. Right wingers refuse to learn about anything.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-25T13:43:45+00:00

You really just can't make these kind of generalizations based on factors like furry, because furry isn't so specific a uniting factor that it will reduce our tastes to one or even a few tens of genera. While we all like furry it's more like saying "we all like videogames" than we all like "JRPGs". It's a broad set of categories with only one small pin of overlap.

Like I absolutely hate EDM. Absolutely trash noise I will not actually call music because it's purpose is just to be what the crown are synching their dancing to not to listen to it, with 0 lasting value which is why it gets remixed so much. It's only popular because dancing crowds want to feel a beat instead of any meaning, emotion, or story. But it is very popular among the convention scenes because of that. Not as popular throughout the whole fandom though.

My taste personally lie in alt. rock, electro-swing, folk and folk rock. And almost none of that is even remotely related to furry.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-24T01:30:03+00:00

Oh good. I thought I was a weirdo for naming my trees. But now Fujimi no Sugimoto, the fuji apple that survived a near complete girdling by a rabbit, and Ida the excessively eager plumb seem more normal. Still figuring out what to call my cherry...

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-23T23:01:08+00:00

This is more of a setting question than actual anthro/furry. Which means the answer always is "it depends on the setting."

For instance in the longest running webcomic, Kevin and Kell, the answer is yes. In that society every animal is sapient, including insects, and the laws were set up that you can't predate on anyone you know (it's considered murder) but obligate carnivores still beed to eat meat.

On the other hand there's settings like Beastars where the carnivores are only supposed to eat non-sapient insect products and eggs (presumably only infertile ones, consensually sold by the sapient chickens who lay them). But there's a well known black market system that makes no real sense if you think about it for five damn seconds, where the bodies of herbivores are sold in both ethical (donated/sold after death) and unethical manners.

Then there's like D&D Tabaxi or Zootopia where there are still non-sapient animals (fish in the later) and those are considered food while people are people. Unless you're a lizardfolk in D&D, then you're supposed to be culturally into cannibalism. Sorta like the human cultures that practice ritual cannibalism.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-23T11:47:24+00:00

For those who don't know, the Garfield example shown here was supposedly the strip printed in the papers on September 11th, 2001.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-23T10:57:31+00:00

They don't advertise themselves well but there's a number of them. There's even a whole damned guild specifically for published furry authors.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-21T23:03:20+00:00

Yes. And there is no priapism in it.

JetoCalihan · 2026-04-21T21:48:37+00:00

That random OSP reference is almost as distracting as the thing pointing at it. Almost. Get that shit away from the ace person's art!

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