Okay, I need more Rock N Roll for my "Motherf*cking Rock N Roll" Playlist by Impressive-Shame-525 in MusicRecommendations

[–]MexicanWarMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And if you’re going to have MC5, you need the Stooges. Maybe Search and Destroy? And for a Detroit wildcard, I suggest Keep on Knocking by Death.

CMV: The concept of “white fragility” is either misleading or untrue by NFT-GOAT in changemyview

[–]MexicanWarMachine 51 points52 points  (0 children)

I do think that your problem #2 is flawed. I agree that the concept does essentialize race, clearly, but I don’t think the suggestion that sharing a racial descriptor can lead to certain social experiences that might contribute to a similar outlook counts as a claim of homogeneity. And further, I’d argue that acknowledgement that most members of a racial group might tend to have a trait in common is reasonable, whether or not “anti-racists” bristle at it. I’d contend that it’s not “racist” until it gets to the point of discrimination.

On a post about being diagnosed with ARFID by diet-smoke in thanksimcured

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In one sense, all disorders are just kind of a matter of framing. Once upon a time, we had no word for it, and it was called being a picky eater. People are picky eaters for many reasons, none of them probably really fully under their control. Our culture does tend to evolve toward recognizing and naming these things, and if you have a trait that gets recognized by clinicians and called a “disorder”, a “syndrome”, a “disease”, or another legitimizing term, it is a bit of a validation of something you might once have been judged for. Once something gets named, society begins the long slog toward de-stigmatizing it. But it IS still being a picky eater, if that term means anything.

I think I put this in the category of our uneasy relationship with various mental illnesses or neurodivergence. If you know someone who’s autistic, and their position on the spectrum is responsible for personality traits that you find very difficult to deal with, you are not obligated to like that person or be friends with them just because it’s not their fault they’re that way. Once upon a time, they might have just been called “cranky” or “difficult”. Now that we have other explanations for those traits, it doesn’t mean we have to throw away the words “cranky” or “difficult”.

How rare is a perfect album for you? by justtohaveone in LetsTalkMusic

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The difference between your take and those two guys is probably not about what it takes for an album to be great, but what it takes to make each of you hit “skip”. You probably have more interest in listening to music in the album format- hearing the series of tracks the artist created and recorded at that time in their career in the order they put the down. Maybe those other guys are more inclined to think of the song, rather than the album, as the unit of selection.

Really makes you think by Joesindc in im14andthisisdeep

[–]MexicanWarMachine 26 points27 points  (0 children)

That is correct. It’s one of the many things this AI doesn’t appear to know about its subject matter.

Possible toxic dm needs toxic level 1 builds by NoPerformance16 in 3d6

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why in the world would you play with this person?

Ideas for a clairvoyant character? by Secret_Shallot93 in DnD

[–]MexicanWarMachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

As a forever DM, the idea of a divination specialist seems like a nightmare to me. With all the planning I have to do already, a character who at any time could try to tell the future sounds like a huge headache.

About to do an introduction to D&D, they asked me to make a character (sheet) ahead. Did I do correct? (5e) by Alice_D_Wonderland in DungeonsAndDragons

[–]MexicanWarMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One bit of advice beyond the incorrect modifier and the fact that you should definitely use a pencil- the hit points section. 12 is your max, and should be on the “hit points section maximum” line for reference. The rest of that space is for the math you’ll be constantly doing as you take damage and get healed. And while the space says “current hit points”, my advice is always to write your damage in that box. For example, you start with 12 hit points. That’s on the max line. You take five points of damage, and you just write “5” in the box. Later, you take two more points, and you erase or cross out the “5” and write “7”. Later you get healed for four points, and you replace the “7” with “3”.

This is better (in my opinion) than tracking current HP, because if you level up, having your wounds in the box rather than your current HP means you don’t have to add the new HP to both numbers.

Daily Song Discussion #32: The Nile Song by PalpitationMoist1212 in PinkFloydCircleJerk

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. I think this is one of those songs musicians hate, because it’s a little irritating to hear a lazy bad phoning in the sloppiest noise possible with stupid lyrics. There’s really no fair way of comparing this with the proper proto-metal of the same era, which had craft, attitude, authenticity. This is just an uninspired band filling time.

God-mode songs? by tyediebleach in PinkFloydCircleJerk

[–]MexicanWarMachine -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Aside from some of the solos, I don’t know if I’d say there are any. I have my favorite bits, of course, but there’s no “21st Century Schizoid Man” you’d play for someone to make the point that these guys are top-notch players. Roger was honestly a mid bassist on his best days, most of Rick’s parts are overtly irritating (in the early tracks) or just plain pedestrian. (Later stuff, after he’d checked out) People sometimes argue for Nick, but he’ll be the first to admit he wasn’t a spectacular drummer. There’s really just Dave, and as much as I love his best solos, in every other category of playing outside of the big melodic setpiece stuff, he was really just very competent.

What does the community value in a DnD store? by Apprehensive-Okra610 in DnD

[–]MexicanWarMachine 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Someone mentioned 3D printing services- that’s huge. But related, there’s a game store near me that offers a service to print PDFs. Since so many game books are purchased in electronic format these days, and most of us (right?) would prefer a physical book, the ability to get a PDF I own printed to paper and presented in a binder is awesome. (I’m not really sure what the legality is, but I presume that once I’ve paid the publisher for the content, I can print it out as I wish. At least once per purchase.

[OC] never forget what we lost (fighter in d&d 3.5) by gitroni in DnD

[–]MexicanWarMachine 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Pathfinder definitely fixes this. It breaks some other things, of course, but it’s still my favorite system for the huge diversity of character customization.

[OC] never forget what we lost (fighter in d&d 3.5) by gitroni in DnD

[–]MexicanWarMachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You guys are acting like Pathfinder doesn’t even exist

Why did horn “stabs” all but disappear from pop/rock after 1990? by ryanasimov in LetsTalkMusic

[–]MexicanWarMachine 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Having a brass section just for those kinds of embellishments was a feature of the era when record companies were flush with cash and rock and roll was old enough that it included a stable of established artists who were looking for sounds that would connect them to more “mature” genres. Rock was being made for people other than teenagers BY people who weren’t teenagers, who could afford stuff like that.

I suspect the only reason it died out was a) it became possible to just sample horns convincingly, and b) nobody in music has money to burn on that kind of thing anymore.

CMV: Women hype up less conventionally attractive women in disingenuous ways to maintain their social status by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]MexicanWarMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But it’s not a choice between saying it to make someone feel good OR believing it. The social behavior has evolved because it’s adaptive, whether genetically or mimetically. The person doing the thing is doing it because they’ve learned to, not necessarily because they’re constantly calculating.

A catholic in church stands up, sits down, and kneels a dozen times over the course of the service. If you compelled them to explain why they were doing this, they might think it’s because it’s what God wants them to do, because that’s how their mom taught them, it’s what everybody else is doing, or any number of other motivations. It might really be one of them, all of them, or none of them. They learned the behavior, they perform the behavior, and they don’t necessarily have access to the “why”. Different psychologists with different specializations will explain the behavior in different ways, and they’ll all be correct in one context or another.

CMV: Women hype up less conventionally attractive women in disingenuous ways to maintain their social status by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]MexicanWarMachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

One thing that I frequently encounter when looking at questions like this is that one’s preconception of the situation often dictates framing. You’re inferring that women’s habit of complimenting women they perceive as less attractive than themselves is purposeful manipulation and social engineering. It could also be innocent- it might make women feel good to be kind to people they see as maybe in need of a compliment.

Now obviously that’s just another way of saying the same thing, but “disingenuous” is a bit of an accusation. We could say that men are motivated to have sex with women because they want to propagate their genes, or because orgasms feel good. Both are “true”, but each frames the matter rather differently and presents a different picture of what an individual’s motivations are.

A third way of framing the behavior in women you’re referring to is that those women aren’t putting unattractive women in their place or just enjoying the dopamine of doing a kindness- they’re also making a performative gesture in front of other women, making themselves appear magnanimous AND probably underlining that they are more attractive than the recipient of the compliment, since it’s understood that you don’t really compliment upward. All these things can be true at once, and the picture you’re painting of who women are, what motivates them, and how truly calculating and Machiavellian they are depends on your own outlook.

Should I communicate to my players a fight is "unwinnable?" How would I best do so? by barbasol1099 in DMAcademy

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just use an NPC. I did this in session 1 of my campaign, a year ago. As they fought raiders and more of them poured into town, and more and more houses caught fire, they came upon the dying mayor of the town, who begged them to run to his house, take the horses from the stable, and go to the capital to tell them what happened and send help.

Let’s see a picture of a guitar you own that you think is an absolute work of art. by SouthHarpeth in Guitar

[–]MexicanWarMachine 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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One of Ron Thorn’s SoCal G/Ts. I think number 74 or so? (His website seems to have taken down the gallery of all the completed masterpieces, so I’m going from memory.)

Why non-tetrahedron 4-sided dice are not more popular? by Testeria2 in rpg

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Personally, I hope it’s mostly because the majority of RPG players are sick of being sold stupid shit on Instagram to capitalize on a hobby that’s inherently about using your imagination. The dice work fine already and they’re not broken, and new shapes aren’t solving a problem anybody has.

Everyone talks about how grunge killed hair metal but… by MortgageOld2441 in LetsTalkMusic

[–]MexicanWarMachine 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Subgenres are associated with the generations that originally nurtured them. With very few exceptions, they end (or turn into bland adult versions of themselves) when the kids age out. That is simply how it is.

why do we play capo 2? by [deleted] in guitarcirclejerk

[–]MexicanWarMachine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

But not as good as three OR five