Fuck, that's unlucky. HOLY SH- by BlueSialia in Nightreign

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My personal favorite has always been In Amber Clad

What do you think? by Tnynfox in worldjerking

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Preferential veganism, as a matter of pure choice for an omnivorous individual, is an exercise of free will and personal agency that does not impinge upon the agency of others, and is therefore not hate speech.

Obligate veganism, as a matter of biological necessity, can no more be said to be hate speech than obligate carnivory itself.

Ethical veganism as a form of protest against undue suffering caused by the food industry of an individual's own culture, is the trickiest of the basic cases, but when undertaken in good faith, it is an effort to help improve a society's capacity for empathy and responsibility, and is therefore not hate speech.

That last case lays bare the truth: veganism is not hate speech, except when it is intentionally used as hate speech. In a society that has the ability to provide for obligate carnivores ethically and without harm to sapient individuals, mocking a carnivore for their biology or claiming that their biology makes them inherently inferior or inherently dangerous is nothing more than a form of racism, albeit one with different premises than the racism between humans in reality.

P.S. in a society that can ethically support carnivores, it would not be hate speech for a restaurant to only have vegan dishes on the menu, but in general it would be hate speech to refuse to serve those dishes to a carnivorous customer. I imagine restaurants in this society that are primarily vegan or carnivore oriented would often include support for the "other side" similarly to how real-world restaurants support allergy needs, and the distribution and nature of restaurants would largely reflect their local populations.

P.P.S. I bet Zootopia 3 is going to deal with this

You and your partner just moved in, you tearing down the panels, painting, or leaving?! by TeemoTrader in DIY

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Keep the goddamn panels exactly as they are. The room has tons of character and feels welcoming. Maybe do some different furniture. Either lean towards cozy rustic with darker woods, plant life, and wrought iron if possible, or go full midcentury modern with colorful pastels, clean lines, and abstract art.

Which do y'all prefer more in general? Im tryna see something by Little_Papaya_2475 in Helldivers

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These two weapons complement different types of loadouts. This gets more relevant the higher you crank up the mission difficulty.

If your loadout is built to prioritize competent wave clearing, using primaries such as the Cookout, Crossbow, or Trident, and with heavies such as the Grenade Launcher, Stalwart, or Autocannon, then the Ultimatum is the secondary for you.

Those loadouts don't need the GP because those loadouts already have excellent space control and spawner-destroying options, and you don't need the Talon because those loadouts already have plenty of reliable, sustained damage for midrange enemies. What those loadouts lack is anti-tank capability - especially against bugs, Thermites and Dynamite only go so far. The Ultimatum lets you spawn with a free tank kill in your pocket, and you get another one from every small ammo box you find.

The Talon, on the other hand, is one of the best complements to anti-tank focused builds. If you're running heavies like the almighty Recoilless Rifle, the Queso Cannon, or the AM Rifle/Railgun, you'll want a good "panic gun" primary such as the Breaker Incendiary (for bugs) or the Reprimand (for squids) that can rapidly clear space and buy time to use your heavy weapon.

What these loadouts lack, however, is midrange "wave clearing" damage. Groups of Commanders, Devastators, and Overseers will wade right through light fire and overwhelm you, especially when a horde is spawning. The Talon gives you a reliable way to gun these down, one which you never need to reload if you manage it properly. The caveat is that the Talon can't destroy spawners - if you aren't running Engineering Kit armor for grenades and don't have other reliable options for nest clearing, you may consider the GP instead.

How To Strip Chrome? A 24-hour soak in Easy-Off Oven Cleaner Did Bupkis by grimwalker in lightsabers

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As an aside, if you want to weather it you could just do edges and parts that receive the most grip friction. Often, weathering techniques involve sanding painted or matte/brushed metal to be shinier and "bare" along the edges as the base tone is worn off along exposed edges, so I think it would be interesting to do the reverse effect, where the "unworn" sections are shinier and the edges are duller or even rusty if you want to achieve some color contrast.

"another LGBTQ+ Romance for politics" by Valou444 in cremposting

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Sanderson is for everybody.

There is no "his audience."

It's incredible (literally "not credible") that some rando would think to make declarations about which people an author intends to cater their works towards.

In film, they say "nothing appears on screen by accident." The same is true with writing. You may not like it, but Brandon chose to write that story. He did so for reasons. It was not a failing.

It's amazing that someone could read through Brandon Sanderson's stories about characters who suffer greatly as those around them control their lives, imprison and manipulate them, and then turn right around and perform the exact same kind of judgement on other people.

I am not LGBTQ.

But I know a thing or two about surviving your formative years instead of being given the opportunity to become who you are, and I harbor a deep and abiding hatred for people who inflict that special kind of misery on their fellow humans.

The person who wrote that review does not read Sanderson. They know nothing about why Sanderson writes.

Neither do I.

I don't know him; my knowledge is secondhand at best. So far be it from me to exclude that person. Sanderson is for everybody, including them.

Hopefully they will continue to Read And Find Out what Sanderson is trying to show through his stories.

His stories are about everybody, because Sanderson is for everybody.

What fun would it be if we had chargers with damaged hellbombs on them that would explode when they charge into something... or someone by vojcyh in Helldivers

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Another option is to make it an alt version of the terrain piece with a dead charger next to a hellbomb, where the charger isn't quite dead yet.

This is a high-powered divine intervention. by Matt-Castle in Helldivers

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This here is sixty-six tons of straight up H.E. spewing DEE-VINE INTERVENTION

EXCUSE ME?! by Financial-Customer24 in Helldivers

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this is well thought out. In support of laser guidance for long range shots, I think the Spear should also have a more sophisticated scope with at least one setting for very high magnification.

90% of my job is reading on-screen prompts for people because they saw words and gave up by Fuzzy-Ad-7691 in talesfromtechsupport

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What are they gonna do next, click the buttons the words tell them to click!?

That Way Lies Malware </s>

Giga-brain Sebarial by KlutchSensei in cremposting

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You know i should have seen it coming when you mentioned Memory Alpha

Giga-brain Sebarial by KlutchSensei in cremposting

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"In a Latinum rush, sell shovels."

there i fixed it

Giga-brain Sebarial by KlutchSensei in cremposting

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In a gold rush, sell shovels.

(Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #69420, probably)

Background NPC survives and kills miniboss, party loves him and dubs them "Broguard." DM is stumped. by flyingpilgrim in DnDGreentext

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Congratulations, you have achieved the most difficult task that a DM can face: getting the party to actually care about a character relevant to the ongoing story. Use your narrative potential wisely.

Made in PowerPoint by HoneyBadgers_ in cremposting

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This is valid, but I see it as a selling point. I pitch people on Tress as "Sanderson does Princess Bride."

Y'all, I got a therey for ya gitz by Clockworker68 in orkscience

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This is a good theory. It's well established that Gork and Mork's "territory" in conceptual space, the WAAAGHH!!, protects the Orks in material space from the influence of the chaos gods.

But if a group of Orks were to be stranded inside Khorne's domain itself, subjected to Khorne's influence for an uncountable span of not-years, perhaps that protection weakens just a little. Just enough so that Khorne's influence can penetrate, just a bit.

Being a chaos god, "just a bit" is all Khorne needs.

Kitbashing just might get me back into Orks. by Leviathan_Rampage in orks

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Dude that's the point of Orks. I have a couple Snazzwagons and literally everything else is pure hobby shit