An idea i had that i imagine would turn out pretty well is Japanese speaking forums for westerners specifically. It’d have a buy in that no one interested in only trolling would go in for (learning a language, especially one far from English).
Some pirate coves protect themselves by requiring an invite from someone already in the community, that could work really well too.
Generally, just requiring a little work to get someplace would make communities a lot nicer.
Wishing for the death of verifiably evil people is perfectly fine, healthy, and normal.
I mean, legally yeah, but otherwise it seems pretty good to me
Lots of people just can’t or don’t get laid for plenty of reasons, shyness or some kind of disinterest does not an incel make. An incel is mostly synonymous with what you probably think of when you hear basement dweller, but inverse the elitism and with an added sexual element. extreme misogyny, extreme entitlement towards women, extreme resentment towards the sexually active, occasionally fixated on the idea of masculinity, and overwhelming self hatred.
Cultivate your community or become the nazi bar. Removing people well known for being bad is a good thing. All those other reddit alternatives failed because the dregs decided to make those places their new home and no one kicked them out, so no one that could keep those sites healthy ever came into the communities. The only time it doesn’t go down this way is when there is no other alternatives.
Side note: based entirely on that single sentence i wouldn’t let your friend into any bar of mine either, anyone who says that is either way too much of a childish edgelord or an actual horrible person.
Big cats have hunting instincts that are hard to turn off even if they like you (see: any news story of a big cat eating their owner), humans have instincts relating to forming communities. every single species has some instincts they follow and they aren’t the same as ours, they’ll deeply shape how a species’ cultures/morals/etc develop. Just saying goblins are little green humans is deeply boring and hurts world building.
I came in one day, told my players this game sucks and everyone immediately started searching for their own game of choice, never looking back at 5e. we’ve settled on WoD as the game we go to, but we’ve got a Pathfinder and starfinder game going, we’ve played cyberpunk RED, shadowrun, cthulhutech, the witcher rpg, besm, exalted, CoD, wrath & glory, and we’re planning a final fantasy d20 game. It’s down right sad that some people won’t move on from 5e tbh.
I’ve come to fear most people are idiots, seems even addition can confuse the average person.
It’s one of the hardest to learn, imo. 5e is very inconsistent and has a lot of rules even if they suck. Heck, if i had more confidence in wotc I’d say they deliberately designed 5e to make people feel this way, Pathfinder is far more consistent and WoD takes all of five minutes to learn how to play!
I could cast heal on the warrior, but i could instead cast elemental assessor on the demon cultist.
Paizo ain’t wizards, they give you lots of information about how to run a game, even down to the general amount of money they should have or the amount of events they should fight in a day.
The experience can be useful for a type of campaign you haven’t run before i suppose, I’m doing sevenfold conspiracy and it has lots advice on running an investigatory whodunit. Although i wouldn’t look to the paths for hard balancing advice, the wrath game I’m in is exceptionally easy (until it suddenly isn’t) and the game I’m running is pretty easy too (but it’s not based around combat).
It’s a very simple matter 2 and maybe mind 3 effect, for simple commands and routines. No ghosts involved!
Everyone knows a bite attack’s damage is just strength + successes rolled lethal damage. Agg if you are some kinda freak.
Wizards really doesn’t care about anything they’ve actually done well. Their mostly abandoned settings are by far their best, the forgotten realms (and the sword coast specifically) are barely even mid.
You are the reason I’m going to say I’m Canadian if i ever get to visit a better country
A consequence free environment (boatloads of money) simply let’s people be who they are. Unfortunately bad people come into money more often.
Fighting an archmage of the akashic brotherhood. Or an exalt. Either way, that’s death coming at you.
In spaces that are both liberal and political (or adjacent to politics) I’d say he’s correct, but generally I’d say a cult of toxic positivity would be a bit more broadly applicable.