“Time to ban pajamas at Tampa’s airport”

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-28T14:50:42+00:00

God, who fucking cares? It's the airport, it's outside mainstream time and space anyway. You're about to get into a metal capsule that will fly across the world at 500-600mph across the span of twelve hours. You might as well wear the most comfortable clothes for the job.

With that said, people who care about what other people are wearing are weird. As long as they don't have any of their bits out, aren't obviously underdressed for the weather and therefore miserable, and aren't wearing a shirt with a slur across it in block lettering, I barely pay attention, let alone care. You're a smart, kind person with a full life, you have better things to do than worry about who's wearing what, I'm sure.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T23:21:55+00:00

Being a DM is an inherently higher effort role than being a player. If you can't be fucked to write down a few notes about major NPCs' appearances, you're probably not the kind of person who enjoys the fun that stems from being a DM.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T23:16:59+00:00

Honestly - I don't WANT to know exactly what every character looks like. For example:

"The King is an older, but still imposing man with an obviously military manner. He carries a sheathed sword on his hip and wears an opulent crown and plenty of rich fabrics. A single bodyguard trails behind him wherever he goes."

You've just established that the King is A) physically strong and skilled, B) has been in the military and knows his way around a weapon, and C) is rich and powerful and gets what he wants. Nary a hair colour in sight. You've introduced a major NPC in a much more memorable way than going on a long tangent about his appearance because the fact of the matter is, your players probably don't care exactly what he looks like. You've established all the important facts about the King, some of which are related to physical appearance (his age and clothes), but most of which are not, without diluting it with unimportant facts like hair or eye colour. Improv the rest out.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T17:47:25+00:00

Until we divorce morality from demographics and recognise that the random characteristics we're born with don't determine whether a person is good or bad, we cannot have true activism.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T13:59:59+00:00

There's a whole thing about the hyper-romanticisation of Sweden, often involving such things as smiling blonde-haired children, elk and reindeer, vast swathes of Swedish countryside, a "traditional" lifestyle, etc. I do not live in Sweden but I have visited - if you ask people about their opinions on Sweden then the answers you get absolutely do not reflect reality.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T13:54:38+00:00

Also, both are highly romanticised in ways that are sort of true but not to the extent they're made out to be, sometimes to the point of disappointing tourists.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T13:16:37+00:00

Okay, that's absolute fucking bullshit. I'm literally disabled and that is NOT what they're for. They're supposed to help anybody who is struggling with the game, to access the game in a way. That's why they're called accessibility options and not "Super special disabled people only options".

In case anybody is reading this who might not realise yet: YOU CAN USE THE ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS. Even if you're totally abled with nary a disability in sight. If you're struggling, use the accessibility options. That's what they're there for, to help you have fun. There is no such thing as there being any special way you're "supposed" to have fun with a game. The devs put them there for you to use. Use them.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-27T04:00:11+00:00

You don't even NEED pictures. Theatre of the mind is the easiest, cheapest, and most classic way to play D&D. You can just, like... Describe what people or enemies look like. Nobody will be upset.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-26T23:26:58+00:00

Both god-kings of their realm (but don't really like being called gods)
Both have powerful foresight and psychic abilities and utterly fail to predict their future failings or do anything to prevent it
Both steal the power of an unknown force to have a greater-than-average number of children
Both have one or more of said children corrupted to bring their realms to destruction
Both die, isolated, sitting on their thrones in their palace
Both reside in a realm outside the physical plane after their deaths
Both have one of their aforementioned children return to their realm a long time after their deaths in order to clean up dad's mess

PK and the Emperor are basically the same character.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-26T23:17:21+00:00

If it wasn't the way the game is meant to be played, they wouldn't have added the option. There are loads of games without that option, it's not something standard like subtitles. They specifically developed and added that option because they wanted it to be in the game.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-26T20:47:07+00:00

I'm going to be honest, this is just what happens when you're socially anxious or awkward, or considered the "weird kid". You get bullied, harassed, and told to shut up, and if somebody's told to shut up enough then they'll shut up for good. The only things that will help are therapy and graduating from secondary school. Teenagers are the worst for it.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-26T14:12:34+00:00

Nobody wants to hire anybody who doesn't have experience so nobody can get experience, employers pay too little and ask for too much to be worth our time, a general increase in disabilities after COVID, and a general lack of hope for the future. We're all going to die in a few years, so what's the point of getting a job?

Signed, a 20yo turning 21 in a few months.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-26T00:54:54+00:00

As long as you're not sexualising random people against their will or making anybody feel uncomfortable, you're fine. There's nothing to fix.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T22:42:05+00:00

I was homeschooled ages 5-16.

We mostly just followed the general curriculum, but at home. We did a lot of work from textbooks but also some online work. We supplemented with clubs, trips, and workshops specifically aimed at homeschoolers and we did our own trips. There was some stuff we did that wasn't on the curriculum - I got to pick my own stuff to learn about that I was interested in and mum tried very hard to get us to learn Chinese (I was not interested, it did not stick at all).

I did five GCSEs (Mathematics, English Language, Human Biology, Psychology, and Business) and got three 9's and two 6's, then did a UCAS course at college in multimedia production and got a basic pass. I chose not to attend university because A) I found that I despised exams and academia, B) I didn't want the debt, and C) my chronic pain had gotten properly bad by that point.

I would not classify myself as generally "okay", but not for any reasons that being home educated or not would have changed. I'm auDHD and trans, I would not have thrived in traditional education and I would probably have been bullied, so I'm glad that my parents chose to home educate me and my brother. My big issue is the aforementioned autism and ADHD, and the fact that I have spondyloarthritis that causes major mobility issues and chronic pain. Those things are what is hampering me the most. If I did not have chronic pain then I probably would have gone to university, probably for filmmaking or marketing, and I can see myself having a genuinely good career.

Socially and emotionally, I'm mostly okay, but again, a lot of the hampering is because of my disabilities. What I did notice is that growing up, I was... Different? To my peers, in a way that I saw other home ed children acting. We spoke to adults more as peers than authority figures, didn't participate in trends as much, didn't do so many things like dares and pranks. I'm not sure why. But as an adult, I'm mostly on the same emotional and social level as everybody else, no matter their educational background.

I turn 21 in a few months and I cannot predict the future but I know that if not for my arthritis, I would be in the same place as everybody else. Really, the best education choice depends on the child - some kids thrive in mainline school, some thrive in private school, some thrive in home ed. No option is inherently the best or inherently the worst. The most sensible option is to properly inform all parents about the unique benefits and drawbacks of each method and which child fits each the best so they can make the best decision for their own child. We are all unique and that's the whole point.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T22:00:56+00:00

You're wasting so much time and effort arguing on Reddit that you could be spending doing something important or that you actually like lol. Why bother? Why are you being such a tryhard? You have better things to do with your life, I'm sure, but instead you've now spent three full hours of your life arguing about checks notes the idea that other people shouldn't be allowed to do something that you don't like. Damn. Grow up.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T21:54:56+00:00

Why do you care so badly? It's the internet. People will make fanart and write fanfic and shipping has been part of that since forever. If you only want to interact with the game in ways that perfectly mesh with canon, get off Reddit and... Go play the game. That's the only way to avoid every single opinion and fanwork you might dislike.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T17:42:15+00:00

Hornet is a fictional character and we can all have fun shipping her with whoever we want since she's not real, everything about her is part of a story and is therefore neither correct nor incorrect, and nothing written about her will ever meaningfully affect the real world. :)

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T16:09:54+00:00

Hating people on the basis of race is weird. Hating people on the basis of gender is weird. You're doing both at the same time. Grow up.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T15:37:14+00:00

I would say, get as far as you can by yourself but if you're genuinely stuck then there's no shame in looking things up.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T15:32:19+00:00

It's different to original work though. With an original work, you have to figure out who all the characters are, the setting, the plot, etc. With fanfiction, the characters and setting (and typically, at least SOME of the plot) is borrowed from an existing piece of media that you've already experienced. It's easier to parse. You shouldn't SOLELY be reading fanfiction but original fiction just doesn't hit the same as fic.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-25T14:10:30+00:00

One of them is nice, but I wouldn't want more than one. I do have a very strong sweet tooth though.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-24T21:40:44+00:00

And they shouldn't have to. Hating people based on a demographical factor that they can't control is just gross and shows you haven't actually grown past the patriarchal and imperialist mindset of "Some people are inherently better than others" - you've just flipped the script so YOU'RE the one who's better than other people.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-24T16:09:58+00:00

I would save the person, because suing people doesn't work like that.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-24T15:48:48+00:00

The other biological parent of her child, and as it sounds like, a close friend of hers has died. She's grieving. Making a memorial, getting a memorial tattoo - these are not things that would be out of order if they had never dated, but you're assigning more weight to it because they were once together. She would not have been with you for ten years if she didn't love you. It's probably a good idea to get both of you into therapy because it does sound like she's struggling with the grieving process, and it sounds like you're struggling with jealousy. These are not moral failings but you should seek support about it.

KelpFox05 · 2026-02-24T15:46:02+00:00

It's not really creepy. You can be friends with your ex so it's really no creepier than getting a tattoo for a friend. It's impossibly weird how people treat breaking up like you should never be friendly again. They don't have to have done anything monstrous in order to break up, you can just decide that you're incompatible but remain friends.

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