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Remember, if you can't use your own imagination, store-bought will get you crucified by artists who already aren't making all that much money, and really can't deal with technology trying to replace them right now.

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They prefer the term "traditional Christian values."

Cock & mind torture

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THIS is how I find out? D:

Team Rocket Reunited

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Ah I love my low notes. It means I stay in my lane. :3

I mean, all I need are my moots, and never the impending doom of some popular blog's followers deciding they like me. I would be terrified

But like I'd still post because like I ain't getting offline anytime soon

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Harvey Danger gave us Flagpole Sitta.

Justice for Harvey Danger.

Having just spent a week in Seattle...Lord Birthday is entirely correct. Yes, it's a lovely city, yes, it has everything. No, I have zero desire to live there: that monorail is a fucking joke. Get your shit together.

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So, you know that post about not punishing the behaviour you want to see? Do people still remember that?

It was about not pushing away people with poor social skills when they finally open up, but the same principle applies here. These people are taking a step. Treat them like shit, and they are going to decide that was a mistake. You can disagree with the views they still cling to without being an asshole about it. You can encourage them to question those beliefs without berating them.

You want to encourage them to question more of the narrative they've been fed, not show them that you're just as much their enemy as they've been taught to believe. The ones who go, "Hey, wait, what the fuck?" are the ones you can reason with.

This is an interesting thing. Looks like testimonies of people who left the MAGA movement- how they got into it and why.

Leaving a cult is really hard, so I really respect the people who are speaking from this place.

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Class Feature Friday: Fencer Style (Pathfinder Second Edition Swashbuckler Style)

(art by Mikezzzzz on DeviantArt)

We’ve seen swashbucklers that fight in a deadly dance, and those that brag and intimidate, but today we’re looking at a style that focuses pretty much entirely on swordplay, or should I say weaponplay, since it doesn’t actually require a sword of any kind.

Now, all swashbucklers are known for their skill with their weapons of choice, but those that follow the fencer style are very no-frills, focusing on mastering their combat techniques above all else. Not to say they don’t banter with their opponents, but I imagine such things would be more direct commentaries on their opponent’s own skill, complementing genuine matches for their prowess and mocking rookie mistakes.

Whether they are masters of the blade or some other weapon and fighting style, these fencers have mastered not just all the practical aspects of the style, but also how to make it look really good, with all the flourishes and graceful follow-ups. Make no mistake though, though impressive and flashy, they are much more than all for show.

So let’s delve into it, shall we?

Fencers are all about creating openings and exploiting them, so they gain their panache from distracting foes and feinting them in combat, the latter of which is just good synergy because that’s what most swashbucklers are going to be doing in the first place.

Their exemplary finisher taps into this as well, with their various finisher moves opening up more gaps in a foe’s defenses to be subsequently exploited.

Of course, plenty of feats prove thematically useful to these swashbucklers, such as Disarming Flair, Elegant Buckler, Extravagant Parry, Goading Feint, Brandishing Draw, Finishing Follow-Through, Even the Odds, Impaling Finisher, Combination Finisher, Precise Finisher, Bleeding Finisher, Dual Finisher, Stunning Finisher, Reflexive Riposte, Stumbling Finisher, Targeting Finisher, Impossible Riposte, Perfect Finisher, Parry and Riposte, Illimitable Finisher, Panache Paragon, and any others that suit your build.

While the general combat loop of all swashbucklers is trying to cycle your panache and finishers over and over again, fencers in particular also blend in finding ways to lower the enemy’s guard each time as well, since they can gain panache by feinting and also lower a foe’s guard when they perform finishers opening up foes to plenty of extra easy hits each round. As such, finishers that also add their own debilitating effects are quite rewarding here. Despite this focus on improving on the fundamentals, don’t forget you can do things other than just stab good with a rapier.

Given their focus on weaponplay, it’s an easy assumption to make that the character was formally trained, likely by a mentor figure. However, there is just as much opportunity to be self-taught, which may surprise your peers when you start busting out moves that they’ve been learning plus a few tricks you came up with on your own.

The humble quarterstaff is often thought of as a peasant’s weapon, but it can be just as effective as any blade, as the skilled staff-fighter Borrin Farstrider proves time and time again in various fighting competitions. However, humiliating nobles, while fun, has earned the skilled halfling many enemies, many of which may come to collect on the perceived debt to their pride very soon.

The necromancers of the nation of Kalbran like to test out their creations in the arena against living foes, from novice necromancers sending in zombified snakes or other animals to masters entering horrors which there are no words for. The current champion, Tobra the Blade, wants out. Rare is the undead that has retains the skill to actually give her something interesting to match against.

They say that the Lake of Fears possesses unusual properties that can summon forth the darkest parts of one’s soul so that one might literally face them. Most who seek it for that purpose are mages and psychics seeking to master their own minds. However, today a warrior wielding a rope dart has arrived, saying nothing to the lake’s caretakers. What emerges from the lake to confront them is a shadowed doppelganger of themselves. They take their stances… and the battle is joined.

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Some of the Death Note's rules are really funny if you think of them as clarifications for users, necessary fixes to address exploits, or bugs that the Shinigami king isn't going to fix.

If a Death Note owner accidentally misspells a person's name four times, that person will be free from being killed by the Death Note. -> patch to fix exploit where users would attempt to brute force killing someone by writing every possible name in the Death Note

However, if the Death Note owner intentionally misspells the name four times, the owner will die. -> Patch fix to stop exploit where users would try to grant themselves immunity

The person whose name was misspelled four times on purpose will not be free of death by a Death Note. -> Necessary clarification because users thought they could grant someone else immunity

If the same name is written in two or more Death Notes within 0.06 seconds, the entry is regarded as simultaneous; the Death Notes will not take effect and the individual will not die. -> Rare bug related to When the same name is written in two or more Death Notes, the Note which was used first will take effect, regardless of the time of death. Root cause is server requests first check if the same existing request was already made. Simultaneous requests assume the other request is valid and delete themselves. Will Not Fix. Bug is rare and fixing it could result in new exploits related to repeatedly writing a person's name in the Death Note.

When you write multiple names in the Death Note and then write down one cause of death within 40 seconds of writing the first victim's name, the cause will take effect for all the written names. Also, after writing the cause of death, even if the conditions of death are written within six minutes and 40 seconds in the human world, the conditions will apply only to the victims for whom they are possible. Those for whom the conditions are not possible will simply die from the specified cause. -> Code bug caused by undefined and ambiguous input syntax. Will Not Fix.

Once the victim's name, cause of death, and conditions of death have been written down in the Death Note, the death will take place even if that Death Note, or the part of the note used, is destroyed before the stated time of death. -> Clarification to stop users from pointlessly destroying the Death Note

The Death Note will not affect those less than 780 days old. -> A patch added to get around various cultural arguments related to when something is considered "Human"

You cannot kill humans who are more than 124 years of age with the Death Note. -> Added in reference to a Shinigami meme

You cannot kill humans with less than 12 minutes of life left (in human calculations). -> Patch that addresses undefined behavior from edge cases where the victim dies naturally before the Death Note can normally take effect or during the window the user can write additional details to the cause of death.

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Yay! It's back on my dash!

Stabbed! A short comic

made for an anthology awhile ago

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I am SHOCKED that making Grok "unwoke" literally turned it into, in its own words, Mechahitler.

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Poaching ICE agents for union work is probably the funniest strategy I've seen for this. I hope they find lots of success.

Billy Bragg reminds us all that there is power in a union.

Think how much better it would be to build houses and make custom bookcases than guard death camps and rip families apart. Think how unburdened your soul would feel, how free.

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you think that now, but some day some kid is going to have to hear about how their parents got together

If you got engaged in the DashCon 2 ball pit, please contact us!

We're very excited for you, and the team would love to send you our personal congratulations

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My parents had a ferret that would crawl up people's arms to steal their booze as they were drinking it.

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“We need more complex female characters”

YALL COULDNT HANDLE HER

It’s crazy that her character flaw is thinking that if she ever expresses a negative emotion everyone will dislike her and yall immediately proved her right. Goddamn.

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By all accounts, this is literally what's happening, not just to the letter, but down to the punctuation.

I don't think any US journalist has written as tough (and spot-on) a portrayal of the threat facing us as this Canadian, Andrew Coyne of the Toronto Globe and Mail. If you read to the end, you will be rewarded with the most flattering photograph yet of the convicted-felon-in-chief:

“Nothing mattered, in the end. Not the probable dementia, the unfathomable ignorance, the emotional incontinence; not, certainly, the shambling, hate-filled campaign, or the ludicrously unworkable anti-policies.

The candidate out on bail in four jurisdictions, the convicted fraud artist, the adjudicated rapist and serial sexual predator, the habitual bankrupt, the stooge of Vladimir Putin, the man who tried to overturn the last election and all of his creepy retinue of crooks, ideologues and lunatics: Americans took a long look at all this and said, yes please.

There is no sense in understating the depth of the disaster. This is a crisis like no other in our lifetimes. The government of the United States has been delivered into the hands of a gangster, whose sole purpose in running, besides staying out of jail, is to seek revenge on his enemies. The damage Donald Trump and his nihilist cronies can do – to America, but also to its democratic allies, and to the peace and security of the world – is incalculable. We are living in the time of Nero.

The first six months will be a time of maximum peril. NATO must from this moment be considered effectively obsolete, without the American security guarantee that has always been its bedrock. We may see new incursions by Russia into Europe – the poor Ukrainians are probably done for, but now it is the Baltics and the Poles who must worry – before the Europeans have time to organize an alternative. China may also accelerate its Taiwanese ambitions.

At home, Mr. Trump will be moving swiftly to consolidate his power. Some of this will be institutional – the replacement of tens of thousands of career civil servants with Trumpian loyalists. But some of it will be … atmospheric.

At some point someone – a company whose chief executive has displeased him, a media critic who has gotten under his skin – will find themselves the subject of unwanted attention from the Trump administration. It might not be so crude as a police arrest. It might just be a little regulatory matter, a tax audit, something like that. They will seek the protection of the courts, and find it is not there.

The judges are also Trump loyalists, perhaps, or too scared to confront him. Or they might issue a ruling, and find it has no effect – that the administration has called the basic bluff of liberal democracy: the idea that, in the crunch, people in power agree to be bound by the law, and by its instruments the courts, the same as everyone else. Then everyone will take their cue. Executives will line up to court him. Media organizations, the large ones anyway, will find reasons to be cheerful.

Of course, in reality things will start to fall apart fairly quickly. The huge across-the-board tariffs he imposes will tank the world economy. The massive deficits, fueled by his ill-judged tax policies – he won’t replace the income tax, as he promised, but will fill it with holes – and monetized, at his direction, by the Federal Reserve, will ignite a new round of inflation.

Most of all, the insane project of deporting 12 million undocumented immigrants – finding them, rounding them up and detaining them in hundreds of internment camps around the country, probably for years, before doing so – will consume his administration. But by then it will be too late.

We should not count upon the majority of Americans coming to their senses in any event. They were not able to see Mr. Trump for what he was before: why should that change? Would they not, rather, be further coarsened by the experience of seeing their neighbours dragged off by the police, or the military, further steeled to the necessity of doing “tough things” to “restore order?”

Some won’t, of course. But they will find in time that the democratic levers they might once have pulled to demand change are no longer attached to anything. There are still elections, but the rules have been altered: there are certain obstacles, certain disadvantages if you are not with the party of power. It will seem easier at first to try to change things from within. Then it will be easier not to change things.

All of this will wash over Canada in various ways – some predictable, like the flood of refugees seeking escape from the camps; some less so, like the coarsening of our own politics, the debasement of morals and norms by politicians who have discovered there is no political price to be paid for it. And who will have the backing of their patron in Washington.

All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them.”

Firing a shot from Toronto and hitting Trump square in the ample ass is impressive. I just hope Coyne avoids the US, because you know he's on the disappearance list kept right next to Epstein's not-list.