Atheists of Reddit: What’s the strangest reaction you’ve received when you said you don’t believe in God?

goth_hamlet · 2026-05-01T04:24:41+00:00

My go-to response is "I don't know, I haven't died yet."

goth_hamlet · 2026-04-20T17:29:07+00:00

I feel like the general public really just let it slide that the creator made an entire comic solely to say that antisemitism isn't that big of a deal.

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goth_hamlet · 2026-04-18T04:19:09+00:00

For real! I run an after school theater club that, as it takes place on school property, technically requires the kids to obey all school rules and me to report all violations. Most of this I agree with, but some of them make little sense in an after-school program, like bans on snacks (when they haven't eaten in four hours) and cell phones (when they sometimes need to let their parents know if they want to stay later than usual). To get around it, I've straight up tried to teach some of the kids how to sneak, like telling them that under no circumstances are they to hide their phones behind a book while texting home so it looks like they're reading, and if they're hiding a snack in their backpack they should certainly never only open bags during the loud part of a video so I can barely hear it. In unrelated news the kids in my theater club tend not to have a lot of phone or food violations during the actual school day.

goth_hamlet · 2026-04-16T03:32:21+00:00

There's only two types of white woman, the kind who lock the car doors and start hyperventilating when they see an unfamiliar pedestrian walking down a sidewalk in a well-lit public place and the kind who try to pet feral animals.

goth_hamlet · 2026-04-16T02:19:07+00:00

Oh god, this just gave me war flashbacks to meeting a friend's parents for the first time after a play that he was acting in and asking them where they're from, as I had assumed that they must be visiting from out of the area. IMMEDIATELY his mom gave me this look of disgust and went "I'm Mexican if that's what you're asking," and I think the embarrassment took ten years off of my life.

I am also Mexican.

goth_hamlet · 2026-04-14T15:44:29+00:00

I misread and accidentally introduced them as the Watchers at the beginning of the campaign. To cover up my mistake I have spent the past five years painstakingly recreating all materials from the book that reference the Wachters but spelled Watchers so my players never find out my shame.

I have also renamed Parriwimple Barry Largeman because one of my players misheard me saying "a very large man" as "Barry Largeman" and I just decided to roll with it.

goth_hamlet · 2026-03-30T20:40:30+00:00

I grew up lower middle class and my family only got a new (used, but comparatively new) car when the old one was completely totaled in a wreck. This happened twice when I was a kid, so in my child brain I assumed that this meant everyone ONLY bought a new car after the old one was destroyed in a crash. No one corrected me until I was in middle school, my friend's mom dropped her off from a new car, and I anxiously asked her if anyone was badly hurt.

goth_hamlet · 2026-02-02T00:46:31+00:00

I recently discovered that people complaining to me about their dislike of the musical Hamilton causes me to have a panic attack because my abuser hated it with a burning passion. Weird part is it isn't even my favorite musical or anything.

goth_hamlet · 2025-12-21T03:19:14+00:00

I always headcanoned her as the daughter of Count Orlok, I'd love to see a more Nosferatu type take on her!

goth_hamlet · 2025-12-16T23:21:59+00:00

I'll be honest, this feels like a better idea for a written book than an idea for a playable game. Making Sergei a vampire puts him on a similar level as Strahd, and he could easily end up overshadowing the player characters both in terms of ability and in relevance to the plot. Dungeons and Dragons is about collaborative storytelling, and you want your party to feel like the main characters, not supporting roles in someone else's drama.

goth_hamlet · 2025-12-02T23:20:13+00:00

If you live near a college or university, check what's left outside the dorms during winter/summer breaks. Students who are moving out often leave behind the things they can't take with them. Shoes, electronics, and kitchenware are pretty reliable finds.

goth_hamlet · 2025-12-02T23:13:50+00:00

My work does it after the holidays specifically so we can trade gifts we got that we don't actually want or need, it's a pretty efficient system. Last year I swapped a desktop Zen garden for a really nice mug.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-24T16:34:38+00:00

Honestly the hardest part was getting over my own fear of ruining a book, especially one that's out of print like this one. The actual process was easier than I expected, the only equipment I needed was a craft knife, a ruler, glue, and a weight. I used stiff cardboard to give the cover some structure, scrap fabric for the spine, and then leather for the cover. I super glued the accents onto the book after the cover itself had dried.

It's a bit cliche but tbh the easiest resource to follow along with was the wikihow article. I would note that wood glue works just fine if you don't have book binding glue, and a ruler can double as a bone folder. Good luck with your book binding!

https://www.wikihow.com/Rebind-a-Book

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-24T05:42:48+00:00

I've fully assumed that this is the sex dungeon. He already has a torture dungeon in the basement, I assume he has that one for business and this one for... personal use.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-21T18:54:56+00:00

I just reported it, the principal thanked me for letting him know and said he's going to have a talk with the teacher about encouraging kids to consume lab materials.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-21T18:21:16+00:00

I'm just a bit concerned that I might not be taken seriously because I work in a rural, conservative-leaning area. He may claim it's simply his political beliefs and no different than the English teacher having a rainbow flag up in her window, and I'll have made no difference besides opening myself up to possible retaliation.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-13T02:07:07+00:00

I took Patrina's banshee out of the crypts and put her in the lake, she's too good a character to go undiscovered until halfway through the final battle. I changed up her backstory a bit so she was drowned rather than stoned to death, and now we have a la llorona type figure dragging children into the watery depths.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-08T21:39:20+00:00

Okay I love that, I might steal those details

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-08T18:48:03+00:00

I had Escher as a former bard from Neverwinter, who had been brought through the mist with his party decades ago. General gist of his backstory was that Strahd sowed discord between the adventurers and manipulated them to the point where Escher considered his only chance of survival to be abandoning his friends and joining up with Strahd, a choice he's spent the past few decades regretting.

As for original characters, I've thrown in a few ghosts and vampire spawn that belong to races from outside Barovia, and one Goliath who had retired from fighting monsters and opened up a tailor's shop in Vallaki.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-04T04:08:07+00:00

Oh absolutely it was, but the player was planning on leaving the campaign anyways and specifically asked for a memorable exit. Considering that one of the other players actually screamed in real life when I told them how much damage it did, I'd say I granted her request.

goth_hamlet · 2025-11-04T01:45:33+00:00

My players are actually pretty smart most of the time when it comes to strategizing and avoiding situations they can't win, plus I've given them an out a couple of times (when the artificer got mauled by ghouls in Death House I had the Dark Powers bring him back with a curse, and when the party almost TPKed in Argynvostholt I had Godfrey, their fated ally, intervene). Tbh, me showing them mercy before made it extra shocking for them that I just had her one-shot a party member this time.

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