If you’re wondering how it is that I sing three part harmony…

Oddly reminiscent of Steven Universe. Is his own mother, who was some kind of (evil?) god, has an orb in his belly button, launches friendship based attacks.

Obligatory link to the song.

I’m in this photo and I don’t like it.

Companies attacking security researchers always goes so well for them.

But… why?

A DM once attacked our party with wargs in an arctic tundra in the dead of night.

I discovered an offensive use of Create Water.

I’m actually running an old west horror / conspiracies game I wouldn’t have thought of if you hadn’t shared that magic bullet. I have my players organized and everything. I adapted the healing bullet you described. I wanted to share these magic bullets I created for it (GURPS rules).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O5G-D_WOAMRNq1f3Ev2Ytz4HxTYQXS7SaPlzgIJVZYk/edit?usp=sharing

He’s got tons of ferrets, you just can’t see them right now. When he reaches the far shore and engages the enemies, the ferrets will all jump out, getting a surprise round.

• Githzarai: Embraced logic and the teachings of Surak.
• Githyanki: Rejected logic and embraced violence, left Vulcan and journeyed out into the stars to seek a new home.

Wait… I’m getting my canon’s confused again…

23 years ago, I actually had a good friend come out in the middle of a campaign, as part of the campaign. They were playing a basilisk that had been shapeshifted to a human by an evil wizard and their character arc was just about getting their real body back.

It was extremely awesome.

I run my own instance that has just two users. I Federate with who I want (including most instances you named). I subscribe to low drama instances like startrek.website and mander.xyz. I subscribe to communities from MOST of the instances you mentioned, but not a single one has drama (for example, no one on the lemmy.ml cybersecurity or selfhosting communities argues about politics… they just post and talk about those things).

I experience almost no drama. Two years ago, it was different, but I left those communities (but not even those instances) and just avoid engaging with those users (and it was honestly only a few very vocal users).

In my daily life, I’m involved with a number of protest and mutual aid organizations and I can tell you, the whole left is full of very vocal “my leftism is better than your leftism” people. But MOST people aren’t actually like that… just the loud ones. If you challenge them in their spaces, not only will you end up on the receiving end, they’ll turn you into one of them (I have been down that road a couple times). Not that they’ll convert your politics, necessarily, but they’ll convert your behavior. They create and feed off drama triangles and “I escalate, you double down, you escalate, I double down” feedback loops. This isn’t unique to Lemmy. You can experience the same thing in your local hacker space co-op (ask me how I know).

Historically, leftist political and social discourse has always been like this, for all of history. It’s not something special about Lemmy, it’s in the nature of collective groups of humans interested in free expression, positive social change and social justice. We’re angry, we’re trapped in an abusive relationship with the Right and we all think we have the answers. The Left’s greatest strengths and values (diversity, creativity, expression) are its greatest weaknesses. Same is true of the Right (conformity, hierarchy, rigidity).

Truth.

I feel like Calvin can probably be placated with Minecraft.

I would definitely let you play that in my campaign. Also reminds me of that bad guy from One Piece.

If my PCs responded to the clowns this way, I would absolutely make the clowns demons and the “bag of holding” a portal to a circus themed layer of the Abyss. And that’s the campaign now.

It turns out the ruler of this layer of the abyss appreciates your lust for violence and mass murder. That’s probably not actually… good? For you?

That bullet of healing is awesome. Would be great for a supernatural Wild West game. Which, is I think what I want to run next now.

Exactly this. Also, one of the clowns will have a trombone to play sad trombone noises at you.

Hammer of Striking. Social bonuses when organizing labor. Combat bonuses only when near many allies.

Pair this with the Sickle of Means. Does double damage and gives Ranger favored enemy bonuses against employers, nobility, land owners and clerics, so long as the wielder forswears ever becoming any of those things. When used to harvest grain, doubles the speed at which grain can be harvested and magically doubles the final yield of the harvest as well. However, if the grain is not freely and equitably distributed (especially if the wielder charges for it), the next time they use the sickle they will immediately fumble and critically hit themselves for max damage.

Wrong. Fuck printers. Fuck everything about them, from the tree death camps, to the overpriced proprietary ink to the way manufacturers have done fuck-all about fixing their known wifi glitches for literally 30 years. Thank god I’m at a point in my career where the only people who want me to troubleshoot printers are my family, and what I charge them for it is having to listen to me scornfully rant that if you figure out how to work without a printer, Hewlett-Packard has a problem but if you don’t YOU have a problem. A bunch of problems, given how frequently my dad and sister beg for support. My wife got sick enough of the rant that she finally stopped using hers, it’s been sitting on a shelf in our garage for the last two years. I think she’s frustrated about not being able to print sometimes, but oh well, she can go to Kinko’s or walk over to my dad’s house and use his (which will result in me getting a phone call “Hey @thebard, your wife is here trying to print something and the printer’s not working, we tried turning it off and on, but it still won’t print, can you…”