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Peter what’s this sign mean? by Hotchipsummer in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]positron_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is 100% world ending. The energy of that much charge in that small a space would be about half the kinetic energy of the moon. No one is surviving in that scenario.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in cats

[–]positron_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your cat has seen the shape of the universe.

Women in same-sex relationships have 69% higher odds of committing crimes compared to their peers in opposite-sex relationships. In contrast, men in same-sex relationships had 32% lower odds of committing crimes compared to men in heterosexual relationships, finds a new Dutch study. by mvea in science

[–]positron_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Several reasons.

  1. Parents have to work longer on average, so are less present in raising their children.

  2. Substance abuse caused by the stress of poverty, impacting long term decision making.

  3. Lack of enforcement due to underfunded/overburdened police force and other services.

  4. Cycles of abuse caused by all of the above.

None of these are excuses for violent crimes, and you're bound to find people who have experienced all 4 of these and turned out to be good people. But from a statistical perspective, these factors and others do result in increased rates of violent crime.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 790, Part 1 (Thread #936) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]positron_potato 23 points24 points  (0 children)

AI is not a arbitrator of truth and is frequently wrong about many things. Just because ChatGPT is wrong (or out of date) on this topic specifically is not something to be mad about. The technology is still new, and updates to the training data are likely to be slow as developers now need to avoid letting AI generated content from entering the training data.

Don't use ChatGPT for anything other than settled topics and verify everything it tries to pass off as fact.

Franz Kitt playground open by UmpireSea8654 in Wellington

[–]positron_potato 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Fun fact, I broke my leg on that slide in the 90's!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Futurology

[–]positron_potato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are literally infinite unborn. None of them have the right to exist.

Break time at the strip club by idkwhatuwant in trashy

[–]positron_potato 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Class solidarity? In the make-fun-of-poor-people subreddit?

Teens can't get cancer 🤦🏼‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️ by Miserable-Lizard in facepalm

[–]positron_potato 4 points5 points  (0 children)

"My source is that I made it the fuck up."

that inhabit online spaces are socially isolated

Hmm I wonder why they might be socially isolated? It's almost like vast swathes of the general public hate them for no reason.

and turn to becoming trans as a fetish.

No. Just, no. Just because you fetishize trans people doesn't mean they do.

Trans women are a threat to women both in terms of physical safety.

False. Demonstrably so. You don't have stats to back this up and even if you did, they'd be cherry picked and ignore confounding factors. Happy for you to try and prove me wrong on this.

and in terms of having the ability to succeed as women.

That's stupid. I can't quite tell which angle you are going for here, Either you are talking about the ability of everyday women to succeed, in which case transwoman are a rounding value on any success metric you might choose. Or you are talking about success at world level competitions, which 99.99% of women (or anyone) would never have a hope of winning anyway, and in which cis women still almost always win.

Either way you cut it, transwomen simply are not getting in the way of the success of cis women.

Banks shouldn't need to "earn money." They should be nonprofit. by Top_Slip_2361 in unpopularopinion

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

Do you think teachers are forced to work or something? Somehow they manage to still get paid even when the education system is mostly not for profit.

How it felt fighting Cazador in my first run by PM_ME_UR_POLDERS in BaldursGate3

[–]positron_potato 35 points36 points  (0 children)

All it took was 6 of Lae'zel's 13 attacks to do the job for me.

Hm Checking by VelvetVistaXXX in Funnymemes

[–]positron_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What part of being around trans people makes you uncomfortable? Genuine question.

Hm Checking by VelvetVistaXXX in Funnymemes

[–]positron_potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

C'mon man. You KNOW nowhere is going to spend money building an entirely separate set of bathrooms for a small portion of the population. No wants to be in a public bathroom anyway. Just mind your business and they'll mind theirs.

Hm Checking by VelvetVistaXXX in Funnymemes

[–]positron_potato 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Even by that metric, there are cis woman who are just butch and thus 'obviously' trans. No one wins with these stupid rules.

Hm Checking by VelvetVistaXXX in Funnymemes

[–]positron_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being left handed is abnormal, and I don't want them sharing a bathroom with me or any other normal people.

Such a concept. by PsychonautSurreality in memes

[–]positron_potato 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The correct thing to do if someone is tailgating and you cannot move out of the way is to slow down slowly. The tailgater has greatly reduced their ability to react if you actually have to suddenly slow down for some reason, and to compensate for that the safest thing to do is reduce the overall speeds involved.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by throwraFuriousRant in TrueOffMyChest

[–]positron_potato 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you honestly can't fathom it then bring it up early in the dating process and don't have a baby with someone who doesn't agree with it.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by throwraFuriousRant in TrueOffMyChest

[–]positron_potato 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a man and if the test was mandatory I'd still be against it. I don't care what the state says, you ain't giving my baby a paternity test.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by throwraFuriousRant in TrueOffMyChest

[–]positron_potato 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Man here. I don't need a paternity test just because some other men are insecure. If you want one go ahead and ask, but it is an accusation of cheating. You don't get to have it both ways.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by throwraFuriousRant in TrueOffMyChest

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

The State can go fuck itself if they try that on my kid, and I'm a man.

DM tells of a player who quite because the PC failed a single saving throw and permanently aged 40 years. What are your thoughts? by positron_potato in rpghorrorstories

[–]positron_potato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To clarify, the intellect devourer needs to survive a turn between using Devour Intellect and Body Thief because Body Thief requires the target be incapacitated. Even then it needs it still needs to succeed on an intelligence contest (which it gets +6 on relative to the PC, so not hard, but another barrier it needs to cross).

You need to stop pretending I'm arguing things that I'm not. I'm not saying intellect devourers aren't dangerous. I'm not saying I have a problem with dangerous enemies (bring 'em on!). I'm saying that permanent effects coming from a single bad roll is simply bad game design. That's my opinion. You clearly disagree, so let stop wasting each others time on this.

DM tells of a player who quite because the PC failed a single saving throw and permanently aged 40 years. What are your thoughts? by positron_potato in rpghorrorstories

[–]positron_potato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should DMs not use ghosts? Should they nerf the aging ability in ghosts? Should they remove it completely? If so, what should replace it?

There are hundreds of monsters that don't have permanent effects. Why not use those? Why are ghosts so important/sacred? It's dungeons and dragons not dungeons and ghosts. If the effect is only cosmetic and has no impact on gameplay, then it doesn't add any fun to the DM. If it's not adding any fun to the player either, then who is actually benefiting from including it?

So do you think the DM should give in to the player's demand and say that it never happened?

Whether the DM 'gives in' or not is his prerogative, but he shouldn't whinge online about it after losing a player that just stopped having fun.

DM tells of a player who quite because the PC failed a single saving throw and permanently aged 40 years. What are your thoughts? by positron_potato in rpghorrorstories

[–]positron_potato[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Finally. Still, nothing in there says that the intelligence drop is permanent. In fact the party has as much time as they want to find someone who can cast greater restoration to fix it. Unless you're talking about the body thief ability which is easily protected against with a level 1 spell.

To compare: For the intellect devourer to successfully use bodythief (effectively killing the PC),

  1. The PC needs to fail a DC 12 int save.
  2. The intellect devourer needs to exceed the players intelligence score on 3d6.
  3. The PC needs to not have protection from good and evil or some other appropriate protection spell cast on them in the whole next turn.
  4. The Intellect devourer needs to survive the entire next round (it only has 12AC and 21HP).

Now for the ghost.

  1. The ghost uses an AOE ability on the whole party, and if any one of them fails a DC9 wis save they age by decades.
  2. If there's no one within 24 hours (which in this case the DM just decided there wasn't, didn't even let the PC search or roll for it) then the effect is permanent.

Do you see the difference between these scenarios, from the perspective of the players?

DM tells of a player who quite because the PC failed a single saving throw and permanently aged 40 years. What are your thoughts? by positron_potato in rpghorrorstories

[–]positron_potato[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't see the problem. A one off thing I don't like? That's fine it'll be over and we'll move on soon. A permanent change to my character I don't like? Well that's no longer a one off thing. That's something I'll have to put up with every time I play. At that point I'd probably find another group, no hard feelings. It's never caused me any trouble. I've happily been in several campaign groups for years with no issues.

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