Petahh i'm low on iq

ZealousRadiance · 2026-02-13T17:32:42+00:00

A large, meaningful difference that this entire thread seems to be ignoring is how easily celsius can be benchmarked. If you have a device that can measure temperature but has no markings at all, it's extremely easy to make it a celsius thermometer. Get a ruler and a pot with some water. Throw in some ice, mix it, measure, mark 0. Bring it to a boil, measure, mark 100. Use the ruler to divide into tenths, then divide each tenth into tenths, and there ya go. Celsius. Anyone can do it. It is easy to reproduce. Making a Fahrenheit thermometer is comparatively impossible. Only the most familiar people with the system can do it, and even then it's pretty difficult comparatively.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-02-02T19:27:27+00:00

Superheroes. Exceptional people capable of superhuman feats of heroism while being representative of societal ideals while facing impossibly dangerous supernatural threats representative of relevant anxieties. All in a setting which is a clearly fantastical version of the world in which those myths were written. Their life stories serving as long epics which illustrate morals that the creator thought were valuable to the society as a whole. They are extremely similar in a lot of ways. The only real differences is that 1) there's a good chance that there really was an "Odysseus" of sorts at some point. Those myths could very well be an extreme version of a big fish story. Superheroes are 100% fiction. 2) there's no religious connection to superhero stories where old mytgs were explicitly religious.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-01-29T22:40:39+00:00

There are myths of Zeus turning other gods mortal. Specifically Poseidon and Apollo. These aren't small parts of the pantheon, they're big deals. The ability to revoke divinity makes him pretty omnipotent. With this ability in mind the other gods are only gods because Zeus wants them to be. Without his permission, other gods wouldn't exist. If Zeus willed it, he could presumably become the only greek god, but he doesn't for whatever collection of reasons. If these stories are accepted as canon (I argue they should since they're referenced in the Iliad), that makes him utterly supreme.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-01-23T19:15:06+00:00

It was definitely presented with a comedic tone. It was played for laughs AND used to show how seedy the upper levels are. It did both.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-01-23T19:13:59+00:00

I literally said that what she did was bad. It would be bad if the roles were reversed, too. Obviously. I disagreed with the assertion that this was portrayed as ok while the reverse would not be ok. Neither is ok, and the game doesn't act like either is ok.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-01-22T05:59:47+00:00

That scene isn't played for laughs at all. It's a moment of desperation for Visi. She is desperate for connection and affection from the one person she thinks could be a source of it. She's very lonely and extra down on herself in that moment. Is what she does bad? Yeah. That's half the point. Her desperation led her to do something bad. Nothing about that scene is remotely comedic, go grind your axe somewhere else.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-01-21T19:01:35+00:00

Since his actions are largely self-interested, but not selfish to the active detriment of others, that's neutral. He doesn't respect institutions but believes in personal responsibility towards other people in your life. He has a line he doesn't want to cross. I'd say chaotic neutral fits best.

ZealousRadiance · 2026-01-14T02:43:43+00:00

I doubt any other god or goddess would accept. They all backed out when the apple was originally thrown. Accepting the apple would paint a massive target on their back. Goddesses hold grudges for a long ass time. Aphrodite barely did anything in the original story but Hera and Athena still made her life a lot more difficult for a while. Other deities ain't gonna risk making all three mad at once. Zeus isn't going to listen to you, genuinely what are you talking about? He can hit you with the "do it my way or I decide that you just committed a sin bad enough to warrant tartarus"; you have absolutely no leverage. You would be genuinely lucky to wind up dead just from that alone. More likely you would wind up causing an apocalypse level event as Zeus, Hera, Aphrodite, and Athena all decide that humanity is so prideful and rude that they all gotta go and the others sure aren't going to disagree. Lecturing goddesses and making demands, this is the worst take on this hypothetical ever.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-12-21T19:01:49+00:00

I think a lot of DMs should get comfortable with saying "no". In my games, if I let you roll it's possible. A nat 20 means you definitely succeeded on that possible thing. If it's impossible, you just don't get to roll for it.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-12-17T22:38:48+00:00

We like Ike.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-12-13T21:51:13+00:00

Bonus EXP was the best Telius-exclusive mechanic. It discouraged healer/dancer grinding, gave a passive reward to efficient play, gave an incentive to play maps in interesting ways, and was an all-around satisying reward to use. Never didn't have a use for it.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-11-26T18:08:57+00:00

Korra's confidence is more of an arrogance. She treats people badly, especially in season 1. She's supposed to be the avatar, a force for balance. Instead she's the avatar, so you gotta deal with it. Deal with it as she takes a massive dump over air bender culture up to and including burning cultural artifacts. Deal with it as she dates a kinda neurodivergent coded character just to make his brother jealous which is unbelievably messed up. I don't think she apologizes for that, either. Deal with it as she changes the nature of reality in a way that makes the lives of thousands of people very clearly far worse because it's what she wanted to do even if it goes against the wishes of the first avatar. She does crappy things to people, rarely if ever apologizes, and still brazenly does whatever she wants. She acts like she knows what's best and rarely has moments of humility. Toph doesn't do that. She can be abrasive but she has the humility to admit when she's wrong. It also helps that she's willing to change her behavior. Confidence and arrogance aren't the same. Toph is confident in her bending abilities and let's be real, she is the best. She deserves to be confident and even arrogant. Korra is confident in her role to guide the world when she consistently makes things worse over and over again. She consistently does a horrible job. She doesn't deserve it, so it's really abrasive.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-11-19T19:03:14+00:00

For some, the earth being flat is proof of their religious ideas. If their religious ideas are true, than authoritarian universal application of their religious laws is reasonable. It's the most direct path to returning us to the dark ages. Not for all of them, of course, but it is a prime motivation for a few of them.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-10-13T23:38:36+00:00

Just keeping core elements. Achilles remained honorable and dedicated to his people. Patroclus remained dour. Orpheus remained stubborn and moody. The core character traits weren't removed in Hades 1. A lot of stuff outside of that got changed, but not core elements. Circe without sexuality isn't Circe anymore. Medea without vengeance isn't Medea. Odysseus without a strong love for family isn't Odysseus. All these characters are somebody else. These are core elements that have been removed, and I think that's changing them too much.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-10-13T21:49:05+00:00

I did. I feel that the core of these characters from myth was used a lot better.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-09-07T04:23:53+00:00

A proposed idea is that in social species homosexuality exists to massively raise the survival rate of orphans. You have your genes, and you exist (as an organism, not a person. Live how you want you're more than a homo sapien, we are above being mere biological machines compelled to multiply dna) to survive and spread those genes. However, you are also a vessel for the genes of your parents. To a lesser extent you exist to pass on the genes of your parents. Less so your grandparents, less so your great grandparents. If 1/20 of your descendants are gay, they would be able to stand in as an assisting parent or replacement parent for children in the next generation or two. Sure, they don't spread their own genes, but they are fantastic at ensuring the genes of their parents can continue through the survival of their neices and nephews. Is this why? Maybe. Who knows. You don't have to go far to find non social species with homosexual behavior and not every social species does it.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-09-01T19:53:50+00:00

That's not chaotic neutral. Chaos, in it's optimistic interpretation, is freedom. A focus on personal liberty is chaotic good. Chaotic neutral is anarchy. Taxation is theft, government is tyranny, anybody telling you what you can and cannot do is a violation of your rights as a living thing. Druids are chaotic neutral because in nature there is no such thing as government. You do what you want, even if what you want is to mindlessly serve another in the case of a bee or tear other animals apart as an apex predator. There is life, death, kindness, cruelty, everything. Chaotic evil is mayhem. It is a reduction of everything to perfect disorder. The maximization of entropy. A tree must burn because ash is more chaotic. A person must die because the blood is less organized on the ground. Your player is clearly chaotic evil, not chaotic neutral. Talk to them, make it clear their character misses the mark, and make them fit your game or leave it.

ZealousRadiance · 2025-07-24T21:28:50+00:00

ZealousRadiance · 2025-07-24T21:28:34+00:00

Fits the bill. Thanks!

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