#our party consists of ...

[delarpix]

Some moments from DND campaign

[variousqueerthings]

it's so important to me that johnny lawrence was basically in tears when he handed daniel the trophy, that boy had been keeping in all emotions except for rage for so long and daniel gave him permission to feel everything all at once (and then kreese almost killed him for it)

[amidnightqueery]

I don't hate my job or anything, but man, being a float educator is so fucking thankless

[arthur-lesters-spinal-cord]

Some dnd themed cats I painted as Christmas cards for my friends

[origami-butterfly]

Ok but sometimes the most infuriating political stance a person can have is point blank refusing to discuss social issues with you when you bring it up because they "don't want to get political". Don't open the tags unless you want to read a rant

[nikkiissleepy]

coin situation so bad im attending guild party again

[guiltyonsundays]

Incredible sequence of posts on the dash just now

[culmaer]

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[is-sni-ovg]

sometimes i think about the fact that when we started curse of strahd our dm decided not to have ismark travel with us, in-character because he has, like, a job and a responsibility to the village of barovia as the new burgomaster and out of character because they didn't want to have too many npcs with the party all the time

and now several months later we're collecting npcs like they're fucking pokemon

[lotusliasart]

I've been busy with work and had a bit of an art block, but I did manage to finish this big "draw your squad" piece with our Witcher ttrpg party (including characters we've swapped out for new ones along the way)

This is the longest campaign I've ever taken part in (both storywise and irl), and I love our characters a lot! We have my sorceress, a witcher, bard, druid, "legitimate merchant", mercenary, and two doctors, though not all are in play at once. And a companion wolf!

[gin-no-yuki]

shout out to my DM for making the funniest possible call of having these specific CoS NPCs be into each other

bonus that im going to use every session from here on out:

[b0nelessdoodles]

y'all i'm feral for goblins lemme tell ya

[wahbegan]

This is real, btw. The version of Project 2025 i'm looking at rn, it's on a different page, but it's in Chapter 4: Department of Defense, Section DOD Personnel, Subsection Needed Reforms: Recruitment and Retention, Item 3.

And this is just one of the horrifying things these dudes are proposing, the list goes on and on and on and on and on.

Now, this is run by The Heritage Foundation, which is a Conservative think-tank, not Trump himself. The Project has actually been publicly disavowed by Trump, and they can't officially back him, but many theorize he's publicly distancing himself from it because of one of its authors openly espousing a "second American Revolution" and that his remarks ring false when some politicians who are known close allies of Trump were involved in authoring it.

Regardless of whether or not the grifter is involved, though, this is the face of the Conservative Party. They are becoming more and more openly fascist by the day. This is beyond just Trump now, he was just some fucking guy who wanted power and attention, but his influence has been to embolden the Far Right to attempt to seize control and remake America into a militaristic, theocratic, white dictatorship where dissent is not tolerated. I'm not scaremongering, the pdf is available, they couch it in very formal language, but that is their end goal.

So yeah, if it stops the country i live in from going the way of all those poor countries the CIA fucked into a fascist coma during the Cold War, i'm voting for Joe Biden, i don't give a shit if the man is a corpse on a golden throne, i don't give a shit if he is personally signing off on the assassination of Palestinian civilians, i'm still voting for him, because he is still the one that is not going to ruin my fucking life and the lives of everyone i know. I know that's cold and brutal, but so is reality. One term, and the man's Supreme court appointments already overturned Roe v. Wade and his supporters stormed the Capitol. Nobody thinks it's going to happen to you until it does. America is not immune to totalitarianism, and i am not about to let some holier-than-thou internet activists and zoomers who can't be arsed to vote let this country turn into Nazi Germany 2: Electric Boogaloo.

Jesus Christ please vote idc if Biden is in hospice care we cannot let Trump become president again

[probablyasocialecologist]

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it. It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms. The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even basic steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment. At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism. They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

Jason Hickel

[homunculus-argument]

When it comes to high-context and low-context cultures, where one has the expectation of people understanding specific subtle nuances of what someone says, and the other has the expectation that everything needs to be explicitly said to be understood, I've heard plenty of people from low-context cultures ask "why not say what you mean and mean what you say then, why would you have to speak in riddles?" about high-context ones, like people of the latter type are just being cryptic and esoteric on purpose.

But culture does not consist of things you do on purpose, it is just the way things are done where you were raised. And when you were raised in a high-context culture, the thought of needing to explicitly state something instead of using some phrase or expression that you've learned to use comes as a culture shock, too. It's not "fuck you for not correctly understanding my riddles three", but "oh shit, I hadn't occurred to me that I would need to say that out loud."

The first time I went on a business trip to the US, my partner came with me, and we immediately discovered that he does not fare well on long flights. So when my publisher asked me about future trips, inquiring whether my partner would be coming with me, I asked him. He said that he would, if the flights weren't such a problem - he would need to travel in some way where he could get his feet up or lay down during flights, like business class or first class. Being also a finn, I understood what he meant and relayed the message as is to my publisher, not considering that they might not.

To both of our surprise, they started to actually look for first class tickets for us.

Finnish culture is a high-context one, people don't talk much and aren't very confrontational. Being demanding and putting someone else into a position where they're forced to be upfront or demanding is rude. And in finnish, saying "this would only be possible if these entirely absurd/completely impossible conditions were met" is a polite way of saying "no". You are simply explaining why something cannot be done, without either saying an explicit "no" or seeming like you're making up excuses. It offers the other party an opportunity to agree that these conditions cannot be met, so neither party will come off as confrontational or demanding.

Both me and my boyfriend considered it self-evident that the request was absurd, and could not be read as anything but a polite way to decline. It had not occurred to me that an american's natural response to "it would be impossible to do this" is to start figuring out how to do it anyway.

[atticwindowatdawn]

Sooo this year for Spooky Day I wanted to go all out and create my very own set! 🎃 Just like most of us, my love for Simblreen knows no bounds so I wanted to try and turn it into something we can use to clutter up our sims' homes and get them ready for the spookiest night of the year.

My biggest inspiration for this set were vintage Halloween masks and decorations from the '90s, cryptids and a horror movie here and there.

The set consists of (from left to right):

box with spooky decorations (3,265 polys; 3 swatches)

spooky tube (functional tv; 3,578 polys; 3 swatches)

spooky party shelf (1,309 polys; 3 swatches)

DIY cardboard dancing skeleton (1,664 polys; 3 swatches)

bigfoot cardboard cutout (318 polys; 1 swatch)

stuff of nightmares (1,178 polys; 2 swatches)

mothman cardboard cutout (170 polys; 1 swatch)

the dancing skeleton craft box (2,295 polys; 1 swatch)

Most of the textures were hand painted by me and the Bigfoot and Mothman cutouts were inspired by this artwork.

Hope you guys will enjoy this set, put it to good use and Happy Simblreen! 🎃

download set (mediafire)