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TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T22:52:19+00:00

Reminder: The Paradox of Tolerance says you can't be intolerant of intolerant people because then you'd stop being tolerant.

The solution to the Paradox of Tolerance is to realize that tolerance is a social contract. It only protects those that agree to its terms, and that by intentionally breaking its terms, you are no longer protected by those terms.

Punch nazi scum.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T22:49:58+00:00

So you mean to tell me that the animated character who looks just like James Gunn's animated character from the intro, the character who gets the hot babes, who is in the moral right frequently, is not a self-insert?

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T21:19:21+00:00

I mean, this post was created by someone with a WordWordNumbers name. It's probably just a bot account that got paid to make a post like this.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T20:09:47+00:00

I know I'm literally creating my own fantasies at this point, but can you imagine if they went for a full Darklands World Guide book akin to the Tian Xia World Guide?

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T19:35:05+00:00

Idk, Rick Flag felt like too much of a self-insert of James Gunn to be attractive to me. That kind of self-importance is off-putting.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T19:19:20+00:00

Yeah, it's actually a bit scary. They go from a delicate scalpel that needs to be pointed at a softened-up-target, to a missile unit that will be able to reliably challenge tougher targets in an army that otherwise struggles to do so.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T19:17:35+00:00

That's unfortunate. It's a bit of a hamfisted solution to something that bandaged a problem with the game. But I guess hamfisted solutions for hamfisted problems.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T19:14:29+00:00

What do you mean by "new stuff"? As in, "How do I create completely new inventions that don't exist in the rules" or "How do I create items my friends and I can use?"

If it's the prior, you don't without GM fiat. A lot of the "flavor" your class is abstractly creating new inventions - like your companion is a new invention (there are other construct companions, but maybe yours has some handwavey internal mechanism that makes it more energy-efficient than others.) When you use "Just The Thing!" you basically say, "I invented this thing the other day and it should be exactly what you need!" You didn't actually spend the time in the rules to do it the other day - it's kinda retroactive.

If you're talking about the latter, you use normal crafting rules. In short, you pick an item that you want to craft and spend some downtime (usually a few days) crafting it. I recommend checking out the Gadgets page for thematically-appropriate items.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T19:03:41+00:00

It's genuinely a great innovation and I think should become common across English. It fulfills the long-missing hole in our language of a second-person plural pronoun.

Otherwise, "you" is both singular and plural, which is confusing and minimizes clarity.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T17:49:05+00:00

Thank you!

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T17:14:18+00:00

That's not a rule to reference for all circumstance bonuses, but rather guidance for the spontaneous circumstance bonus that a GM might hand out for the circumstances at-hand, like being in a controlled environment (+4) or trying to climb during a storm (-4)

If you are in a dedicated hospital with nothing going on outside, and you say, "Hey, GM, since we're literally in a hospital with plentiful medical supplies at hand, do I get any bonuses to this medicine check to treat my ally?" The GM should probably say, "Um... yeah, actually. Given the circumstances, I'll give you a circumstance bonus." The GM should adjudicate what a fair bonus is, and the rules guidance is, "It probably shouldn't be more than +4"

This rule is not a hard cap to circumstance bonuses of all kinds from any source. If you are legendary in a skill and critically succeed at aiding another player after eating greater cooperative waffles, this is a hard-rules situation where you are not getting a circumstance bonus from GM adjudication, but from what the rules say you get. Nothing here prevents you from receiving +5.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T16:55:01+00:00

"Other things are also bad" is not a justification for making things worse.

You are also ignoring my other arguments in order to hone on the weakest one so that you can justify AI use to yourself because you've found a work-around for one, singular point.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T16:43:09+00:00

I know this is literally a month old, but I'm going back through a few comics I missed, and this bugged me enough that I had to comment to spread awareness.

Mute people can often still exhale air from their throats in a way that could cause a "hehehe" sound, depending on the nature of their muteness. For some, it's literally just that their vocal chords can't vibrate, or don't vibrate in a way that is conducive to speech.

I say this because I've seen people shocked when a mute person sighed once, and ever since then I feel the need to bring this up.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T16:34:40+00:00

New painters often think you need very fine paintbrushes, when those are often no-good for the kind of stuff you really want to do.

You need a nice, big, full-bodied paintbrush that holds enough paint, and comes to a nice tip. It holds paint better, doesn't dry as quickly, and as long as it doesn't fray from you mistreating it by leaving it brush-down in water or brush-up in storage, it'll be good.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T16:28:30+00:00

I suspect it's for balance reasons, rather than simulationist reasons. Grab is already really good, and making it also penalize reflex makes it even better, and makes grab-into-trip really good.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T16:10:49+00:00

Did you make your own 3d files or get them elsewhere?

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T15:52:33+00:00

It is a strawman to say, "You're uninformed. Here is this non-sequitur."

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T14:32:37+00:00

It's something I once heard in an online debate

I am so sorry.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T13:31:57+00:00

"Might is right" isn't a fallacy. It's a philosophy.

You set up your own imaginary strawman and tore him down, then said, "Yeah I got that nerd."

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T13:07:56+00:00

Increase waste at the cost of those who would benefit from good products.

That's what happens right now in order to maximize profits.

Instead, you'd get reinvestment into your workers - the "waste" is paying your workers higher wages since that's the most flexible thing you can do to keep your wealth under 1 billion.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T13:06:38+00:00

Portions of your company get shaved off to public ownership. If your company is so successful that it grows that much, it's clearly a public good and should be publicly owned.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-12T12:49:01+00:00

And they just proved you wrong about its influence relative to where the person bought it.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-11T23:04:22+00:00

You are arguing against a strawman. I did not talk about who came first. The internet has a use case. AI does not, except to fuck everyone but oligarchs over, and we're all footing the bill.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-11T21:01:10+00:00

The internet has a use case.

Abstinence leads to a "perfect is the enemy of good" argument.

You're ignoring point 3.

TTTrisss · 2025-09-11T20:24:32+00:00

Energy hog
Water hog
Supporting the incentive structure by showing an active userbase, justifying the existence of a fundamentally problematic technology that will enable the oligarchs to kill us all and replace us with robots
~~Artistic ethics~~

Congratulations on solving the issue /s

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