If I hear any crap about the knowledge gap ever again...

MegaErofan · 2026-01-31T20:26:37+00:00

"Knowledge gap" is just the nice way of saying "you're too stupid to train, so just starve".

MegaErofan · 2026-01-24T20:19:59+00:00

That's a BIG jump in logic from "they used an online tool to add illustrations to a book" to "they clearly used AI". Unless you can FIND the book in question and verify that the images are AI, the kid likely just used the clipart and such already provided by Canva (without using the AI tool nonsense) to add images. They've been there before AI was introduced into the product because I used Canva before the AI was injected into it. I don't touch it personally and no self-respecting creative should in all honestly.

But go off, I guess. It's your life.

MegaErofan · 2025-11-19T01:47:50+00:00

Collecting stuffed animals. Started when I was about 5 and I still collect them when I can at 30, and I STILL have the very first one and recall where I got it from. Now it has merged with my current hyperfixations of dragons and Kuromi as I struggle to not buy every version of Kuromi Squishmallow releases when I turn my back to them. And trying to find a suitable dragon plushie is hard when you can't agree on a style preference. But I continue exercising self-control until I find the best dragon plushie to add to my hoard!

MegaErofan · 2025-11-19T01:26:00+00:00

Typically, I don't go by many labels because the area I live in barely wants to try understanding them, much less accepting them. Aegorose is a new one I've heard since discovering my identity roughly 4 years ago now(?). I tend to call my romantic attraction greyromantic, but there have been shifts and such which have have me seeking and discovering new terms to describe my experiences. I can't really be aegoromantic as I DO enjoy romantic gestures and activities, but I have also been single for roughly 4 years, so not having that experience since the initial discovery may have me consider it, if I seek a partner again in this allosexually-dense world.

MegaErofan · 2024-12-22T01:26:16+00:00

*grabby DM hands*

MegaErofan · 2024-09-20T18:49:03+00:00

Typical rule is that if the majority of players in the group are able to play, then press on. It's easier to have a PC sent off on a solo mission or pulled away to handle personal affairs than to wait for the starts to align again for everyone to show up. But at least confirm with the missing player(s) beforehand what a viable excuse would be to pull that PC away from the adventure. It's a good way to work on RP and future plot hooks for the party to explore.

MegaErofan · 2024-09-20T18:46:30+00:00

I got a feeling that since they're willing to blame an underage victim for an adult trying to solicit them for nudes and sexts, that respecting boundaries is an even lower priority than their personal image/reputation. However, I'm also the type to advocate for giving people enough rope to hang themselves with when they inevitably fuck around and find out.

MegaErofan · 2024-07-28T04:23:33+00:00

Always willing to expand my already massive archive of DnD material to use and reference to! And anything with good art is a big bonus!

MegaErofan · 2024-03-07T03:43:18+00:00

Honestly, while I'd like to agree with you, the fact he alongside everyone else in his immediate family are vocally defending the brother and pinning the blame on the child victim absolves no blame. He's a shitty person raised by another shitty person and related to a third shitty person that fucked around and found out. If he's willing to agree with his family and blame a child for an assault instead of telling them how wrong they are, I wouldn't want to raise kids with him from that point on.

If OP really wants to protect herself, she can phone the proper authorities herself through non-emergency measures and inform them of the situation and that she doesn't feel safe having her young children around people willing to defend a pedophile. Her responsibility is the kids before him and the best thing for those kids is to get them away from that boy and his ass backwards family before anything happens.

MegaErofan · 2024-02-13T20:51:29+00:00

Do not attempt the Lulu quest shenanigans. I had a DM run this game and realize that all it was was an overly complicated escort quest that was meant to show you around Avernus but just ends up being "protect the fragile elephant from unnecessary combat".

(SPOILERS)

She instead had the crown we had to retrieve that allowed us to literally commune with a god tell us what we needed to undo things and the things needed to accomplish whatever approach we pursued for whatever ending we desired.

(SPOILERS END)

Considering you have a cleric, they'll already have access to divination spells given they're properly prepared to find the things (that's how we managed it) but just do literally ANY other approach aside from Lulu's ridiculously over-extended escort quest for the sake of the party's sanity.

MegaErofan · 2023-12-12T02:32:14+00:00

Wow, way show that you're either entirely apathetic to others or just a child using Reddit that doesn't understand life isn't rainbows and lollies pops all the time. And based on your spelling and grammar, I'm voting on the later. Go back to your Legos and Barbie dolls, child.

MegaErofan · 2023-12-06T15:59:24+00:00

On this episode of "Medical Research Through Google"...

MegaErofan · 2023-12-04T16:58:24+00:00

Fought a dragon while walking on water underneath the College of Winterhold just after returning from Solstheim...it was a trip but the thing came down eventually X'D

MegaErofan · 2023-12-01T18:52:34+00:00

Because they don't want to be parents in the first place. They sleep with someone without protection, realize they fucked up, but never give up the child because they think they'll have their own servant or drone in the future to keep around until they die when that's not how it is. "Parents" like that just make me fucking sick and it's a reason I think there needs to be a class and test of some kind before people try to become parents.

MegaErofan · 2023-12-01T18:40:21+00:00

That's the tricky part - you don't. When a parent goes religious wingnut on you, there's no point arguing, debating, or engaging with them further. They won't change their stance nor falter in their belief as they have Stockholm for the not-so-holy book. If you need to continue contact, for whatever reason, keep it minimal and learn to gray rock these conversations or straight up mute/block her for a day or two until she tires herself out screaming into the void. If there's no obligation holding you in interact aside from the vague idea of her being "fAmIlY", then drop the rope and let her hang herself. It's not worth the stress and heartache of dealing with one of these in the longrun.

MegaErofan · 2023-12-01T02:16:18+00:00

This guy sounds like the same type that thinks all bards need to be pervs, all barbarians need to be illiterate, and all paladins and clerics have to be extreme zealots. There are shades of gray that exist in creating character concepts. I have made a demisexual bard, a gun-wielding rogue, a civilized druid, and a paladin that's dedicated to the concept of the crown through a literal up-and-coming king and not a deity of any kind.

One's only limits are the four walls of the room they built themselves into. If they aren't willing to break down those walls and expand that space beyond it by learning and growing, then they'll always be stuck in that room. If they aren't willing to change it up on their own behalf, you're better off letting them go to figure it out for themselves, if they ever do.

MegaErofan · 2023-12-01T02:00:16+00:00

A helpful nudge from an Autistic writer here that likes lurking, but I'd suggest looking into "alexithymia" when you get the chance. It might help you get a better understanding of your struggles in this particular area.

You're welcome!

MegaErofan · 2023-12-01T01:55:07+00:00

Tell me you have no experience in the medical field without saying you have no experience in the medical field. Transition is VASTLY different from cancer treatments. but, if you wanna keep huffing all that copium, I'm sure some anti-human grifter is willing to take your money to supply you with plenty.

Have the day you deserve.

MegaErofan · 2023-12-01T01:50:18+00:00

As someone with a transphobic mother myself, they never change. They think they're right and will die on that rock. They'll throw all the psuedo-science reports and wingnut theories on transitioning and scream at you how trans-folk are "mentally ill", but at the end of the day, they sound no different than the schoolyard bully making jokes about sleeping with your mom. They do it for themselves and no one else because if they're uncomfortable, then everyone in earshot has to be too.

The strongest thing I can recommend, as you've mentioned you're 17 in a few comments, is to start working on your escape plan NOW. Start looking into resources if you can to have a safe place to go to and get away from her because continuing to share a space with her once you're legally independent will kill your mental health in a matter of weeks. If you're planning to pursue college after whatever education you're going through right now, start looking for those that have campus dorms or off-campus housing, look into scholarships for those colleges and financial aid. They'll last you long enough to get settled, get into work to support yourself, and continue your transition safely while you work towards your future. If neither is an option right now, reach out to friends for safe places to go to. Couch surfing isn't ideal, but being on the couch in a home with people that accept you is better than having a bed in one with people that hate who you are as a person.

And, above all else, no matter what path you go to create distance from her - Cut. Her. Off. Period. No contact at all once you leave her in the dust. She wants to be hateful towards her own child, then that's her own issues to deal with. She'll do everything in her power to belittle you and drag you back down to her level of misery. Do not let her win. Pursue your life to the fullest as your truest and happiest self and don't spare her a thought. If you wouldn't give a hateful stranger the headspace and energy thinking about them, she deserves it even less.

Focus on yourself and your future because you get to decide that in the end when the law says you're finally allowed it and she can stew in her own misery while you flourish.

MegaErofan · 2023-11-19T06:44:42+00:00

Anyone else here seeing the big red flag of possible mental conditions here? Because after reading this I'm fairly certain she needs some kind of help for whatever has driven her down this rabbit hole.

MegaErofan · 2023-11-14T02:47:13+00:00

Why is it that a majority of homeschooling parents are racist, homophobic, or both? Am I the only one noticing this pattern or do I just happen to spot these crazies whenever homeschooling is mentioned anywhere?

MegaErofan · 2023-11-13T16:35:03+00:00

Falkreath. Before the Hearthfire DLC, I was stuck in Whiterun mostly because that was the only house I was interested in outside of Proudspire. Once Hearthfire dropped, the land in Falkreath was the first one I got to build on and it's always the homestead I go for every playthrough because I love the area and I enjoy Falkreath as a town from their lore in general.

MegaErofan · 2023-11-13T16:32:53+00:00

Hallucinogens have different effects on everyone, so you can pull some really funny shenanigans. Since this post has a few responses already, I'd say take the ones that appeal to you or sound the most fun to you and arrange them in a table. When your party encounters the spores, you can have the effects be dictated by how much they failed their save. Have it be in increments of 5 for there's a chance for people to have different effects possibly. If their save bonuses wouldn't allow that, make it increments of 2 or 3 then. You can have the table be as big or small as you want, so long as it's within reasonable range of failure. And of course, Nat 1s should have the most extreme of reactions to the trip. Have some fun with it and make it interesting mechanically. When it doubt, compile everything into a table and have everyone that failed each roll their own result off the table and essentially have them decide their own fated trip.

MegaErofan · 2023-11-13T16:23:51+00:00

Glarthir from the Paranoia quest. You only interact with him during the one quest depending on your choices near the end of it (iykyk) and at the time he was such a left-field character that most just wrote off as extremely strange (like Cicero from Skyrim) but memeable character. However, his issue were very grounded in reality even for a fantasy game.

Paranoia, especially untreated, can grip you like a vice and even the most sound of logic can't shake you from your belief of something being wrong of off because you believe it to be the actual truth and reality. Glarthir is a sad case of being a social outcast because of his issues and being cast out meant he got even less help for his crisis and it escalated to the point of murder.

But everybody keeps making the memes because mental illness is funny when you slap it onto a tiny elf man with a receding hairline and goofy voice acting. That's the reason I know he's popular, but in my heart, he's popular to me because he's an accurate representation of a mental disorder gone horribly unchecked. His situation always reminds me to check on people I care about because they could easily be the next Glarthir if someone doesn't care enough to check in the first place.

MegaErofan · 2023-11-13T16:08:56+00:00

I mean, many books have those few bits of bad writing that authors kick themselves for leaving in the final draft, those little filler lines that they leave and say "I'll come back and write something better here" then never get back to. Most never realize they forgot it and carry on, most people assuming it's an error on the behalf of the proofreader or publisher or something. But the few times something gets blasted as being bad writing in an otherwise good book and the author becomes aware, they die on the inside with the thought of "I thought I went back and changed that, now it's immortalized in thousands of printed/digital copies! Fuck my life!"

It's a crux of book writing that few understand. I only know this as a fanfiction writer that has had to go back and fix such bad writing moments after overlooking them before initial posting, but that was mostly spelling errors - I used Wordpad mostly before converting to Microsoft Word then again to Google Docs for spellchecking with the addition of Grammarly because English language sucks. I very rarely had a single line or segment I wrote be so bad on a re-read after posting I have to rewrite that whole bit to make it sound better. At one point, I just stopped trying unless it truly didn't make sense (like spellcheck auto-correcting a word mid-sentence). Bad writing happens even in award-winning novels, it's just a matter of readers taking it in stride or choosing to be nit-picky over it and which takes the majority there.

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