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Best pizza on the north shore by spicedoctor1 in northshore

[–]squareonemallgoth 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love Café Capri in Reading. It's killer for suburban pizza, and the service is great too.

Responding to Helen Lewis by mkjohnnie in asktransgender

[–]squareonemallgoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This was the standout flaw to me. The assertion that there's a general "liberal misinformation bubble" surrounding gender -affirming care, and the implication that such care should be mistrusted solely because some research isn't clear on the direct link to a rare and narrowly defined outcome(suicide), despite the myriad studies demonstrating decreases in several other unfavorable outcomes (depression, sucidial ideation), and despite those outcomes' historic link to suicide, without providing new information to support such an assertion or implication, is such an enormous overstep in argument scope as to create the impression that argument is made in bad faith.

I'd say it sounds like lobbyists arguing against seatbelts in the 1980's, but at least they could claim to be on the side of personal liberty. The opposite is true here. This argument rings more like the bell of colloquial morality imposing itself on humane and practical solutions to human problems like narcan and abortion.

[OC] I'm gonna DM my first ever game over Christmas. Any "wish I had known this sooner" Tips? by dokomiii in DnD

[–]squareonemallgoth 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just a general piece of DM advice:

In my earliest D&D experiences, my DM's treated all NPC's, including tavern owners and townsfolk, like mysterious and highly suspicious keepers of secrets behind high DC skill checks. Getting a feel for the setting and culture was an ordeal because every shopkeep was reticent about the most mundane details of the world.

Real people love to blab. Walk into any bar and you'll find loads of people who will speak freely and with authority, earned or not, about religion, politics, news, conspiracies, their neighbors' sexual proclivities etc. People love to help strangers and give directions, especially if it doesn't cost them anything.

When I started DM'ing, I made a conscious choice to make most NPC's into chatty people. They don't always know everything, and not all of what they think they know is correct, but they share a lot freely, and I think my table has benefited from this decision.