What I'm saying is that forward thinking or intelligence* is not a tranny's strong suite. They are easily manipulated and parted with funds. They are the ripest, juiciest paypigs with zero standards beyond "pats my ass and plays along with my delusions no matter how outlandish". So of course corporations love them.
While I concur with the sentiment it does seem to be a running theme that trannies don't actually buy the shit that panders to them, at least, not to such an extent that it actually helps the bottom line more than it hurts.
While I concur with the sentiment it does seem to be a running theme that trannies don't actually buy the shit that panders to them, at least, not to such an extent that it actually helps the bottom line more than it hurts.
When it comes to products at least the woke (and I include trannies here) are infamous for crowdfunding and preordering like mad, but not actually purchasing product once it's already out. It's an indication that they're not really interested in the product, they're interested in the message and in appearing enlightened by supporting it during its most "vulnerable" period.
It happens all the time, too: you see those wildly successful kickstarters with hundreds of thousands of dollars and tens of thousands of donations... and when the product comes out there's not even a peep about it. They get their book in the mail long after their interest in the subject has waned, flip through it once (if that), then throw it on the shelf never to be seen again except as part of the background when they want to record a video showing how progressive they are.
It's also important to note that Wizards of the Coast is not it's own company, it's owned by Hasbro. D&D isn't their flagship product either, it's Magic the Gathering which might as well be them printing their own money. They can just operate D&D at a loss if they need to just to make sure Hasbro doesn't get canceled which might force them to ditch the IP.
I'm also not convinced they're losing any money at all. People can be upset about them shitting on lore all they want but I'm pretty sure 5e and the books they sell has been more profitable than any other edition aside from maybe when TSR was in it's hay day. I think they're doing fine.
Speaking of TSR in its hay day, they were absolutely retarded with the kind of shit they tried to pull. There was an instance where they tried to buy a train and a rail line so people could play D&D while riding on the train. People who manage role playing games tend not to have the best business acumen.
In this case it's because tabletop RPGs are so small customer pool wise, much like the dead and gay comics industry, that even minimal astroturfing by idiots funding it does banger results.
Horseshit like this only works if you just need capital and don't actually need a product. Hence why it works in here and in comics. Sure they don't play the horseshit they fund, but it don't matter.
I’ve had players whose response to to a child running away from danger is to use them as a improvised weapon, I kind of want to run one of the new books out of morbid curiosity just to see what they do with some characters.
While I concur with the sentiment it does seem to be a running theme that trannies don't actually buy the shit that panders to them, at least, not to such an extent that it actually helps the bottom line more than it hurts.
To add to @Corn Flakes who nailed it: the product is messaging, not the product itself.
Troons are gullible, fat, lazy, stupid narcissists. They have been told their whole lives how they can be anything, and now they are fat, lazy, feeling unfulfilled. Rather than look inside to find a solution, they are told the reason they are unhappy is because all this time they were actually women.
Trooning out becomes a goal. A Goal with a social support network. The first time you steal your sister's underwear and wear it and talk about it on reddit, instead of being told you are sick freak like you should have been, instead you get asspats and YAS QWEEN. This puts troons on a feedback loop where WORKING towards being an (ugly) woman feels great, but when they get there they discover they never actually fixed the problem: Themselves. That's disappointing, and rather than think "Hmm, maybe that's because this isn't a good idea that makes me happy, I should sit back, really think about why I'm unhappy and get to the root cause, probably have some therapy that is interested in helping me fix my problem instead of massaging my ego and telling me I'm a brave, beautiful woman" they just determine its because they haven't trooned out enough and double down, chasing the next mirage - that one will have the water that makes me happy.
They don't want to actually read new, Transgender Black Thor - that's a committment that isn't as good as they imagine reading Black Tranny Thor and it owns all xtians and people in red states. They want to tweet how much they support it, post pictures of them pre-ordering TrannyThor #1, and have their framed #1 Black Tranny Thor.... and then move on to the next thing that gets them clout. Black Tranny Thor is actually really awful and the writing terrible, but they don't care. They got their clout, who cares about Black Tranny Thor #2?
They will never actually play Dragon Lance Inversion Surgery. They will just yas queen the book, and keep watching Critical Role. The closest they'll get to playing it is liking some tranny figure head's tweeting telling Critical Role to have their next season in the setting and that Laura Baily should be a trooned out kinder catgirls.
My friend's ex almost got into a fist fight at a party because someone called her Korean. She is 2nd generation Chinese, as in never been to china. As she was being held back, she yelled at the person "I'M NOT NO DOG EATER, BITCH!".
Ain't no one as racist as a chinaman's racist.
I don't think she was being racist as much as she was just being honest lol. Also, the Koreans use to eat dogs too, I think. They just stopped doing that when they met Westerners and were told "yeah, that's kind of fucked up." But the chinks have no shame in killing and eating every kind of living creature.
I don't think she was being racist as much as she was just being honest lol. Also, the Koreans use to eat dogs too, I think. They just stopped doing that when they met Westerners and were told "yeah, that's kind of fucked up." But the chinks have no shame in killing and eating every kind of living creature.
tl;dr: Koreans have dealt with lots of famine, so eating dog (or any form of protein) was more a matter of survival. The average Korean isn't looking at the Westminster Dog Show drooling, but there is not the big taboo against doing so there is in the west. There are also a few korean subgroups and the mountain koreans will still eat dog as will some of the island koreans, but it is not in favor anymore.
The Koreans Eat dogs! thing though was a mainly Korean war thing where the country, especially at the front lines, was devoid of resources so they were eating whatever they could find. (People also don't realize that Korea before the 1970s had a GDP less than Nigeria. It wasn't until the post war quasi-military dictatorship took over in the 1960s that their quality of life started to go from "Shittiest part of africa" to "Actually Reasonable + good internet".)
Mainly I just found it hilarious that a girl who was born and raised in the US nearly got into a brawl because someone said she was wrong flavor of chink, and in addition threw down such a wonderful Rockwell-level insult to the ethnic group.
I don't think she was being racist as much as she was just being honest lol. Also, the Koreans use to eat dogs too, I think. They just stopped doing that when they met Westerners and were told "yeah, that's kind of fucked up." But the chinks have no shame in killing and eating every kind of living creature.
Actually, many older Koreans do, in fact, still eat dogs. The thing is, the Chinese eat dogs too, and in fact have an entire festival dedicated to doing such.
Actually, many older Koreans do, in fact, still eat dogs. The thing is, the Chinese eat dogs too, and in fact have an entire festival dedicated to doing such.
And in fact are where most of the dogs to be eaten are sold. Older, mostly inland, Koreans still eat dog but its pretty uncommon and its very much a DIY affair. But Southern China is where you'll find the stacks of caged dogs sold specifically for food.
tl;dr: Koreans have dealt with lots of famine, so eating dog (or any form of protein) was more a matter of survival. The average Korean isn't looking at the Westminster Dog Show drooling, but there is not the big taboo against doing so there is in the west. There are also a few korean subgroups and the mountain koreans will still eat dog as will some of the island koreans, but it is not in favor anymore.
The Koreans Eat dogs! thing though was a mainly Korean war thing where the country, especially at the front lines, was devoid of resources so they were eating whatever they could find. (People also don't realize that Korea before the 1970s had a GDP less than Nigeria. It wasn't until the post war quasi-military dictatorship took over in the 1960s that their quality of life started to go from "Shittiest part of africa" to "Actually Reasonable + good internet".)
Mainly I just found it hilarious that a girl who was born and raised in the US nearly got into a brawl because someone said she was wrong flavor of chink, and in addition threw down such a wonderful Rockwell-level insult to the ethnic group.
Yeah. Iranians/Persians come from Aryan stock and hate Arabs for what they did to Iran and for just being sand niggers in general. Never call a Persian an Arab lol. If a lot of Persians move into your city you don't have to worry about gang violence or grooming gang shit as much with almost every other middle eastern group.
I know this is a meme but this is actually a interesting warlock patron that seems fairly balanced, I like billionaires blessing as a main feature and the others are really nice complementaries to warlock as a whole, I also like how bailout relieves one of the big issues with the kind of expensive spells that use materials at high level the patron feats encourage. If someone could role play it without being cringy as fuck I would 100% allow this in one of my campaigns.
I know this is a meme but this is actually a interesting warlock patron that seems fairly balanced, I like billionaires blessing as a main feature and the others are really nice complementaries to warlock as a whole, I also like how bailout relieves one of the big issues with the kind of expensive spells that use materials at high level the patron feats encourage. If someone could role play it without being cringy as fuck I would 100% allow this in one of my campaigns.
>implying anyone gives a shit about tracking spellcasting components and/or V/S/C
I think the only time any of the DMs I've seen care is when someone is trying to resurrect another character.
RE: koreans and dog eating:
in my first hand experience anyone under the age of 50 in Korea is deeply, deeply embarrassed by the dog eaters and will disavow the behaviour as quick as they will go red in the face if you bring up anything positive about Japan. It's truly fucked up and the worst part is there's this gooky logic to inflicting severe pain on the animal before killing it because it makes the meat taste better according to the retarded, protein deprived, war-ravaged mindset of the ajummas and ajeossis that still think it's cool. There's a lot sickening shit in Korea but this is the one that I think I try to memoryhole because I find it so abhorrent. Rate me MOTI idgaf
If you just took out the cringy shit, this would be pretty fucking good.
Hell, I might adapt it to PF1. My players will probably stomp my ass with it though.
Speaking of PF1, I had something hilarious happen recently.
So the "NO SLAVERY!" thing is really taking off in some circles apparently. I picked up a new player because an old player had to drop because of a promotion at work mandating shift change. (We had an in-game party for him and his character because we are geeks) So I get a new roll20 player, tell them everything going on (City is still dealing with the influx of war refugees from 'The War(TM)', elves are largely restricted to their own quarter, kobolds have taken over a partially repaired slum that was damaged in The War(TM) and are now PC capable.) and let them know they need to make a 4th level character with an eye toward urban adventures and a few other oddities, basic the Street Rulez.
Gangs of New York and other stuff was an inspiration for parts of it, as well as The Warriors. The city is divided up by "gangs" that include noble house guards, city guards (split into about six factions), regular street gangs, organized crime (mafia/tong/yakuza) gangs, shit like that. Street rules are:
If they run, let them run.
No killing them in their own home in front of their kids
Killings have to be authorized by at least a neighborhood leader
Yesterday's fight was yesterday, drink beer with him today and do a job with him tonight
Don't assault guardsmen. You can run from the cops but don't resist arrest, Auntie will bail you out if you're connected
Don't kill nobles or public workers
Don't steal from your neighbor, he's starving too
This translates into some game stuff. At 0-4 HP you can stagger away and nobody will strike at you, but you're out of the fight. If you drink a potion and come back into the same fight, you don't have that protection, so there's been a couple fights where a PC was sprawled out in the garbage of the alleyway staunching their wounds while the fight continued.
There's some daily buffs you can get, like "Momma's Good Child", which means 50% or more of your take you gave to your mom, giving you a +1 luck bonus on charisma based skills and all saves or "Too High to Die", which means blowing at least 60% of your daily haul on coingirls, joyboys, booze, and drugs, which means you have damage reduction with a minor debuff to Int and Wis skills. "Donates to the Elderly Guard Fund" means that you can Bluff or Diplomacy your way out of the guards rousting you if you donate at least 10% of your haul to the local guard Sergeant or Captain.
Contacts are everything. Money spent on bribes, gifts, stuff like that, earn you favor with important people in the city. These people can help you out to the point where someone will take your place in the cell and do a week or two in the mines for you while you run around and act like an asshole as long as 40% of your take is given to that person's family.
(Can you tell it's an evil campaign?)
Anyway, we needed a new player. We've got a LE Orcish Paladin of Gruumsh, who's considered a local hero and uses their lay on hands a lot on the poor and sick. (She follows Gruumsh the Progressive, who basically says "Stop living and shitting in the woods and move to the cities where real power is and convince people to worship me, since I'm the best God. Oh, and check out these guns baby, BAM!" There's a secondary requirement of a Strength score of at least 16) We've got a NE kobold Alchemist who makes drugs and is in charge of about 40 street kids who run bags of dope who has the feat "I've got a cousin!" which means any time they need help from a City Worker or something like that, they can make a roll and see if they have a cousin who works for that section. Our rogue is a halfling who specializes in pickpocketing, shadowing someone, and went from doing crooked card games on the street to running a casino in the basement of a burnt out bank on the side who's mother lords it over the other halfling women with "My baby runs a casino and yours is just a broke ass dust head!" We've also got a NE half-elf witch who runs the typical scams, but is kind of integral to our play sessions. We've got a tarot deck that she can pull 5 cards from each day in a pyramid and the players pretty much try to figure out it out. (Oh, the nine of swords, the fountain, and the three of cups! That means if we hang out at the fountain and the intersection of Sword Street and Goblet Boulevard, we'll have good luck today! -- Cue something that they can come out ahead on)
We kind of lean heavily into reputation, there's stealth feats on the character's sheets here and there, and my steady four players keep a log on who they have had more than a couple of interactions with.
The new player had their first like 10 ideas for class thrown out (Gunslinger, Inquisitor, stuff that didn't really fit with the party, the city, or our kind of nebulous setting) then kept being told "This is an evil party, your lawful good sorcerer isn't going to cut it" and other stuff. It took like 3 hours to just get their character on paper. A quick description of the city's current state (Riots in the East Merchant Quarter again over elves being allowed to shop in that district, stuff like that) along with the fact that their elf lives in a crappy apartment in an Isela (which is basically an Ancient Rome apartment building) that's pretty run down.
They sounded like they were getting more and more annoyed. They asked "Is that really necessary?" when the Paladin was all "I'll do these two rails of iron fire off this coin girl's ass, kick open the door of the flophouse, wave at my friends, and yell out 'Let's convert some heretics!" and then "Hi, Mom!" before I go over to the group" so they could stack Momma's Good Girl on top of Too High to Die for the morning. The kobold AND the witch warned the character to pull up their hood as they were waiting around, drinking beer, waiting to go through one of the inner city gates (There's multiple walls inside the city) so they could head to the wharf and make a deal for Uncle Leo for eight casks of peanut butter to 'fall off the cart' later.
Of course the fucking player refused saying "My character isn't ashamed of being an elf."
Cue the fucking DM's of the other four players going "I'm gonna let a few people get between me and the Elven dumbass" because I explained it carefully that the elves in the city that don't live in the noble quarter are all war refugees who have moved to the city during the last six years because of The War(TM).
They get through the gate although the player messaged me like three times with "Is all this racism necessary?" when the guards demanded to see their character's pass to be allowed out of the Elven Quarter, then patted them down taking three rounds to do so. Then the kobold sidles up with "Harv, my man, bro, how's the wife?" and shakes hands with him, passing him a packet of "unicorn dreams" in the handshake, and is just waved through without a search. The orc gets waved through after she goes "Is it strip search saturday, I'm hungry for pink meat." and the player states her character is going to leer at the skinniest guard and lick her tusks. Waved through. The witch just glides through while the guards pretend like she doesn't exist because... umm... witch! She might curse your dong! (Yes, she has a spell 'cause impotence' as well as 'shrink peener' in her spell list, because it's a fucking urban game with repeating NPC's)
I was still hoping they'd get with it. The group gets paid off for a previous job by a baker's son coming up to them while they're sitting at the dock drinking beer and waiting for their contact, handing them wrapped biscuits stuffed with chicken and ground beef and gravy along with a cold six-pack of pepper beer and thanking them for helping his dad find out who was forging his baker's mark. One of the guards come by, cue random roll, then BS's with the rogue asking if the rogue wants a couple small casks of wine from the 'lost and found' for the casino (group arranges pickup for that later that night).
The new player had a problem with the fact that everyone is corrupt.
The group knows that their contact won't show up until two more ships offload at the docks, so there's a bit where the Orc and the halfling chase down a pickpocket who stabbed a merchant's wife in the ass, culminating in tackling the thief into a fountain and the Orc 'baptizing' the thief until they repent and give back the coin purse. Another bit where the party intimidates one of the smaller kid gangs into fucking off so they can do their stuff because it's actually another, larger gang's territory. The witch warning a woman that the milk she's about to buy will go sour before she gets home then getting in an argument with the merchant before intimidating them with the threat of the Evil Eye.
Basically, little opportunities that let each character do something that plays to their skills, with a couple group things tossed in. None of them take longer than like 10-15 minutes to resolve.
I DM the new player, ask why they haven't responded to any of the NPC's trying to talk to them or any of the leads. Was I being too subtle?
Their response is that their elf doesn't like dealing with criminals. I let them know that their character IS a criminal, with a forged pass, a forged mage permit, a forged blade permit, and the smuggler background trait. I get the reply of "My elf is trying to better themselves" which starts REALLY ringing alarm bells.
But, I forgot about the new thing from Pathfinder and Wizards is that slavery never existed ever in the RPG universes.
When I send a message to the kobold, who's keeping watch from where the kobold's who catch rats on unloaded ships are sitting eating lunch, that it looks like their contact's ship is going to be offloaded next since the slave ship is being off-loaded now, the player tells everyone "After the slaver offloads the orchard elves, it's our guy's turn." (In the game, slaves end up working at the city farms, ranches, orchards, mines for 1-4 years before being given money and city-state citizenship or being an indentured servant instead of a slave. Easy way to bring in new characters, that and the refugee camps on the south side of the city)
The other three are all "About time" and "Finally."
TL;DR above: Slavery and crime and corruption are rampant in the city and the group is Evil-Lite. New player is playing an elf, which is a second-class citizen like the rest of the PC's. Player hears there's a slave ship docked and offloading slaves.
Then I hear. "Uh, slavery isn't supposed to be in RPG's any more."
"It is here," was my basic answer.
The next 5 or 6 minutes can be characterized as "REEEEEEEEEE!" about how slavery isn't allowed in tabletop games any more and it's been retconned out and games aren't supposed to show slavery. I try the "it isn't shown in a good light, it's a shitty circumstance in a shitty place in a shitty time" but that doesn't matter.
When they say they're going to report me to roll20 for having slavery in my game, I did what I should have done from the first syllable.
Delete their player access from the campaign, then kick them from the discord.
Which means I'm going to have to tighten my player recruiting even harder. If they aren't good with slavery, drug deals, theft, smuggling, murder, massive gang fights in the squares, breaking and entering, and acting like corrupt assholes then they might not be a fit for the game.
I mean, is it really too much to ask to have elven slaves picking fruit in the orchards or dwarven slaves doing street repair and other stuff? Hell, every player character has done at least a month in the mines or orchards (except the witch, they just carried her to the end of the dock and threw her in the bay, but luckily she's dropped a few ranks in swimming to offset her Swim penalty for being a witch)
I wish that Wizard and Paizo would shut the fuck up about everyone else's campaigns and stick to fagging up their own stuff. We're happy with our shitty city-state where the characters are so fucking ignorant they don't even know the name of the kingdom the city used to be part of and get lost if they're more than a district away from their home ward. We're fine with our PC's gang-banging and running scams and moving up from street thugs to Made Men.
I told you niggers. I goddamned warned you all and everyone was just "Well, not at my table". You didn't listen to me when I said you'd need to replace a player or find a new group and about what was waiting.
I know this is a meme but this is actually a interesting warlock patron that seems fairly balanced, I like billionaires blessing as a main feature and the others are really nice complementaries to warlock as a whole, I also like how bailout relieves one of the big issues with the kind of expensive spells that use materials at high level the patron feats encourage. If someone could role play it without being cringy as fuck I would 100% allow this in one of my campaigns.
Its not mad except the writer is way too mad about daddy Elon going to Mars. I also really like the idea of magical twitter, but I'd expand it to say your comments are public to anyone with a magic twitter account.
And maybe do something wacky like say magic twitter has a 24-character limit.
Yeah. Iranians/Persians come from Aryan stock and hate Arabs for what they did to Iran and for just being sand niggers in general. Never call a Persian an Arab lol. If a lot of Persians move into your city you don't have to worry about gang violence or grooming gang shit as much with almost every other middle eastern group.
You do. Sort of. Persians are more about organized crime and being smart enough to not criminalize their back yards. They also do stereotypical sandnigger sex crime shit, but it mainly kept inside the community.
The reason you don't see that much in the 80s/90s was the people coming over were all wealthy Iranians buying their way out of the Islamic hellhole. Goatfucking scrubs need not apply, only the sheep-fucking elite.
Semi-related but has anyone ever had Drive-Thru RPG make a print copy of something? Curious if it's any good or I should just accept that outside of finding a deal I'm resigned to using PDFs to read OOP content?
Also lol at the fucking Parental Advisory Warning:
"We (Wizards) recognize that some of the legacy content available on this website does not reflect the values of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise today. Some older content may reflect ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice that were commonplace in American society at that time. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. This content is presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is a strength, and we strive to make our D&D products as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This part of our work will never end."
Curious what triggers that advisory or if it's a blanket statement on anything not made in the past 6 months. Also what the fuck does "American society" mean in this context? Is the implication that back in the 70s and onwards Americans (are Canadians and other residents of the North and South included in that?) were bigoted monsters, which is why Gygax et al always had modules about lynching blacks?
Semi-related but has anyone ever had Drive-Thru RPG make a print copy of something? Curious if it's any good or I should just accept that outside of finding a deal I'm resigned to using PDFs to read OOP content?
Also lol at the fucking Parental Advisory Warning: View attachment 3230400
"We (Wizards) recognize that some of the legacy content available on this website does not reflect the values of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise today. Some older content may reflect ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice that were commonplace in American society at that time. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. This content is presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is a strength, and we strive to make our D&D products as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This part of our work will never end."
Curious what triggers that advisory or if it's a blanket statement on anything not made in the past 6 months. Also what the fuck does "American society" mean in this context? Is the implication that back in the 70s and onwards Americans (are Canadians and other residents of the North and South included in that?) were bigoted monsters, which is why Gygax et al always had modules about lynching blacks?
Its a blanket statement on everything on anything WOTC through DTRPG.
Honestly I'll take that statement over letting Trannies badly edit the legacy material or having Oriental Adventure get Song-of-the-South'd.
The statement is also pretty tame. Someone here recommended some RP ruleset called QAGS, when I checked it out their updated version had added really cringe groveling apology to the beginning, apologizing for being white and male. It was only missing a picture of them being double teamed by black tranny cock holding a "I'm So Sorry" sign.
Semi-related but has anyone ever had Drive-Thru RPG make a print copy of something? Curious if it's any good or I should just accept that outside of finding a deal I'm resigned to using PDFs to read OOP content?
Also lol at the fucking Parental Advisory Warning: View attachment 3230400
"We (Wizards) recognize that some of the legacy content available on this website does not reflect the values of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise today. Some older content may reflect ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice that were commonplace in American society at that time. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today. This content is presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed. Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is a strength, and we strive to make our D&D products as welcoming and inclusive as possible. This part of our work will never end."
Curious what triggers that advisory or if it's a blanket statement on anything not made in the past 6 months. Also what the fuck does "American society" mean in this context? Is the implication that back in the 70s and onwards Americans (are Canadians and other residents of the North and South included in that?) were bigoted monsters, which is why Gygax et al always had modules about lynching blacks?
Christ, did that person really think WotC's statements were divine commands from on high or some shit? If I want to run a Prince of Egypt style free the slaves campaign, then I'll damn well do it. I feel like this is kind of the logical conclusion of consoomers that take the word of the IP owner as God. Like they cannot comprehend people might not care that whatever stupid thing recently added to Star Wars or some shit is canon according to some big corporation.
And here we see WotC saying there is no slavery in their games now, so every GM must be following that rule and they cannot comprehend that people might not want to follow canon or policy 100%. In the future I guess you could try screening for people with actually flexible thinking, like avoid people that sperg about the "canon" of DnD when you're running a homebrew setting, or people with twitter brain.
Also on an unrelated note, I feel like my greatest weakness as a DM is that I'm too nice to my players. I ran a homebrew system I made and I basically said yes to everything they wanted to do and I feel like that'll be a problem if my players want a more hardcore experience. My group is currently being DMed by a friend of mine running Only War game and it was refreshing to see a game set in a properly deadly world. Is there a way I can make myself more assertive as a DM?
