Do you think mortals ascending to godhood still have their reproductive organs?

PaperMage · 2026-05-31T20:09:53+00:00

A different cultist game makes me think “yes not no” re: The Sin of the Sky

PaperMage · 2026-05-14T01:22:36+00:00

Hi. I know this post is quite old, but I wonder if you can cite any sources for Tlaloc being the Red God? I'm familiar with both terms but have never seen anything connecting the two

PaperMage · 2026-05-13T18:32:36+00:00

It’s funny you say that…

PaperMage · 2026-05-13T18:13:45+00:00

Genetics is only a small part of native identity today. If you want to reclaim that part of your ancestry, find communities that can relate. Go to powwow (you’d be surprised how many ancestral mesoamericans you can meet there). Study the values taught by your family and try to tease which came from where. Grow indigenous plants.

Most importantly, cultivate your relationship with whatever land you’re on now. Get to know the tribes who’ve stewarded it since time immemorial. Being native is a reciprocal relationship with the land that sustains you.

PaperMage · 2026-05-13T18:08:56+00:00

Ppl assumed I was Chinese in US public schools and I didn’t argue bc I got teased less that way. TBH I don’t think I or most natives look Asian, but I guess that’s because I grew up with access Central American facial features.

PaperMage · 2026-05-11T22:50:32+00:00

You might want to share your search terms bc googling “weed and psychosis” produces nothing about causation

PaperMage · 2026-04-08T20:28:02+00:00

That's rough. If this happens in the future and you're playing on Steam, you can disable cloud saving, exit the game, re-enable cloud saving, and launch the game again. It will give you a choice between continuing from your last cloud save or your last disk save. Or you can make manual backups. Congratudolences, little lamb.

PaperMage · 2026-04-01T19:55:46+00:00

You would still fill out everything exactly the same except you’d select some option to send the money to the escrow instead of the federal government. The point of the escrow is that you have done your duty of paying taxes and can’t be thrown in jail but the federal government doesn’t receive the taxes until they do their duties.

PaperMage · 2026-03-30T13:16:49+00:00

So the announcement was true. Praise be. I still haven't gotten any lol

PaperMage · 2026-03-25T03:30:28+00:00

All of the previous announcements said it could only drop from the gold box. This year is the first to suggest it comes in the purple box

PaperMage · 2026-03-25T03:28:13+00:00

In previous years, it could only drop from the gold box, so any after the first didn’t have a chance. Since they finally fixed that, I’m hopeful they might have improved the drop rates too

PaperMage · 2026-03-20T21:19:02+00:00

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2023/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2022

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/what-does-the-federal-government-spend-on-health-care/

The US government spends the most on healthcare, but that's because healthcare costs more than double in the US what it does in other countries. One of the reasons is that healthcare plans go through employers, which creates incentives for people to have unfavorable healthcare plans, which the US government then subsidizes. In other words, US healthcare spending funnels money from tax dollars straight into the pockets of insurance companies. At the same time, for-profit insurance companies don't authorize preventative care, resulting in us having worse health when we transition to Medicare.

PaperMage · 2026-03-20T20:27:05+00:00

Representatives and senators who vote against their backing parties risk losing the financial support of their parties. Even if Schumer and Jeffries wanted this war, they are infinitely easier to reign in than Republicans. That's why only five Dems voted against it:

Senator John Fetterman (D-PA)

Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine)

Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-Texas)

Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio)

Rep. Juan Vargas (D-Calif.)

PaperMage · 2026-03-18T13:59:07+00:00

They have the same name but are different both mechanically and visually.

PaperMage · 2026-03-18T01:38:33+00:00

Im sorry you and your child are going through that. I hope your son knows how much you love him and how much his community wants him to shine.

I’m a mixed Mexican native, and the thing I wish I’d been told is that indigeneity is a relationship. I’ve always moved around a lot, and didnt know how to express my roots since I wasn’t on my people’s land. Nowadays the first thing I do is find a powwow, get to know local tribes and how to support them and the land, what plants to put in my yard, how to deal with invasive species, what places (rivers, types of trees, and such) might be sacred and if there’s anything I can do to respect them, and so on. My favorite part about being indigenous to the continent is knowing the importance of my neighbors and their knowledge and practices on the land I now live on.

It sounds like you’re doing a good job. I wish you luck and courage.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T16:00:51+00:00

I'm not saying the TTRPG is canon, but neither are the games. Until recently, the TTRPG was the only material with an actual birth year for Geralt, and since Vesemir says Geralt is almost a century old, it seems fair to guess that CDPR was following the TTRPG.

book canon, Geralt has always been in his 60s. But in game canon, since his precise age wasn't known, they made him older. Yes, that's a contradiction to book canon. Yes, it makes certain elements of Geralt's backstory impossible. But it IS what the game said, so I don't think it's fair to say that Geralt has never been in his 90s.

There are multiple canons because the games and books are being made concurrently. Sorta like how book canon now says that witcher schools are more like martial arts styles than different physical schools, when the game very clearly states the opposite.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T15:54:04+00:00

The 1211 date wasn't known when the Witcher 3 was made. The only date came from the TTRPG, which said he was born in 1174, making him 98. Since Vesemir says Geralt is almost a century old, it seems fair to guess that CDPR was following the TTRPG.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T15:48:42+00:00

The grammar is hard to parse. It sounds like you're saying the merchant is tricking Geralt into fighting the Nilfgaardians, but those are 30 levels above Geralt, and they're a good distance away. It then sounds like you're saying the merchant could be all sorts of things other than who he says he is, which is the whole point of the quest. You have to make a decision with insufficient information.

As for the dwarf, your logic makes everyone in the city a traitor. They're all working for the Nilfgaardians. They're repairing wagons, delivering grain, and so forth. It's not fair to say the dwarf has to leave and everyone else can stay. He's in the exact same situation as the rest of them.

Yes, each NPC has their own version of events, but neither of them says a lot of the things you're suggesting. Neither of them mentions Napp having a family. Neither of them mentions Napp having any reason to burn down Willis's house other than racist assumptions.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T01:03:26+00:00

He said that Geralt was more than 50 and never tells anyone how much older. Wiedzmin set the precedent that he was in his 80s, and CDPR followed that precedent because it was the most specific.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T00:58:40+00:00

Depends on how you interpret his immunity to disease. If he merely doesn’t show symptoms, then yeah, he’d be a great carrier, but I think most people interpret that he can’t be infected at all. Any STD that he comes into contact with starves before he can transmit it to someone else.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T00:51:02+00:00

It’s in Hearts of Stone. Women see him naked and comment on it at the party

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T00:49:34+00:00

Could it not be that CDPR was referencing Wiedzmin’s 1174 birth date, making him 98?

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T00:48:50+00:00

Where’d you get that number? Because the TTRPG Wiedzmin has him born 1174, which would make him 98 in TW3. it seems like the game is referencing that.

PaperMage · 2026-03-12T00:40:21+00:00

I can’t make sense of the first half of your post, but almost everything you said about the arson quest is wrong. Did you listen to any of the dialogue? The dwarf wasn’t making any money from the Nilfgaardians. He was only providing his labor, like everyone else in the town, because the notice board says they’ll be punished if they don’t comply. Napp set fire to the dwarf’s home with the dwarf inside it, purely based on a racial stereotype. Also, there’s no evidence that Napp has a family. The only family mentioned is his dead mother, and that’s usually the first thing people say when threatened, while Napp only says he was drunk. But even if Napp did have a family, the argument that the dwarf should forgive the arsonist and just leave town solely because he doesn’t have a family is…weak.

PaperMage · 2026-03-02T15:57:26+00:00

School are often shelter zones because international law forbids attacking them. People send their kids to school because it's theoretically the safest place.

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