The Gaming Den

deaddmwalking wrote:I actually ended up going to the hospital in an ambulance last night and was admitted from the ER to the hospital proper.

Please be well.

Dunno what crawled up your ass. Just the standard culture shock when people find us and realize we’re not a hugbox. Most forums are absolutely smothered with rules about civility, to the point where you can’t even disagree with a thread’s OP sometimes. I’m here because we can have a forthright conv...

One of the odder forms of either story failure or milquetoast racism, or both, is found when speculative fiction authors wrestle with the fact that the oldest people are black. It’s a thing that crops up a bit in geekdom. It showed up in the Battlestar Galactica reboot series finale after a screamin...

It should be pointed out that the notion that forgiveness of sins in Christianity somehow eliminates corporeal consequences is a heresy — but it’s a heresy that 100% benefits the powerful so it’s the first heresy that gets established anyplace Christianity shows up. You’re supposed to willing head y...

Note that alignment nomenclature utterly obscures these obvious ideas. A: The defendant murdered six children! B: And then he atoned — look, his aura is lawful good! A: Fuck his feelings, he still did it — and two years ago, he murdered three children! B: He atoned after that one, too. Do keep up. ...

So Neutral characters aren't good or evil enough to qualify as one or another, but it's pretty obvious that such people will generally prefer good (and mostly law.) If someone actively prefers chaos or evil it's pretty easy to make the jump, I'm saying. No, it’s not obvious what a neutral person wo...

Stop. Don’t do this. This has been attempted. Constantly. It cannot go well. Nor should it. It can be trivially imploded. Look, what’s already here is utterly self-defeating: [*] So Lawful Good means you are committed to be moral, and committed to be ethical, at the same time. Probably you think it'...