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"If they make a sequel to Honor Among Thieves, I hope they have the same cast playing all new characters!" Ok don't take this the wrong way? But I don't.

Like, yeah, ha ha, I get it. Joke about players making new characters. Cute. But realistically, no.

Honor Among Thieves is a story of a specific cast of characters, who, while they did go through some very good character development, there is still plenty to be done, such as Simon and Doric figuring out how to relationship, Edgin mending bridges with his daughter, and of course the overarching threat of Szass Tam returning. The movie does a wonderful job of emulating the D&D experience, but it is still a movie, and they have their own rules. A new cast might get a brief chuckle out of players, but would lose momentum fast.

Also, it implies the stereotype about players losing characters all the time. While that is true of a LOT of games, it's not true for everyone. I've been playing D&D for eight years, and in all that time, none of the games I've been in have had a permanent PC death. I played my replacement character for the one character I've played that died for all of one session, before she got resurrected. Hell, not even Critical Role had a major character permadeath until campaign 2! The Killer DM jokes can be funny but I think it's also nice to normalize that many games end with the same cast of characters they started with.

And if they wanted it to be a new campaign with the same cast of actors? That still doesn't feel right to me, if only because: Honor Among Thieves is a game that is explicitly in its own universe. If it was the kind of movie that breaks the fourth wall and takes us to the game table itself, THEN new characters might be a funny gag if done right. But then...we already have that movie. It's called The Gamers. I don't know if they actually made that joke, but the movie about fourth wall D&D jokes DOES exist already, and Honor Among Thieves is what I actually wanted from a D&D movie; an isolated story set in the world, with clear nods to the audience about what playing D&D is like without saying 'btw this is a game.' It takes itself just seriously enough to be exactly the story I play D&D for, while being goofy enough that you can see the dice rolls. And a throwaway 'ha ha player had to roll a new character' joke would break that for me.

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Ok but why am I imagining her purring like a kitten 😭😭😭

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Dear dice gods

I have done nothing wrong to upset you. I do not understand why you have made me roll so horribly during this session, I haven't gotten a single hit in at all

Please don't let my character die. Thank you. Amen

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PSA

Just a heads up, there are bots going around on AO3 accusing people of using AI. Considering the timing, this is likely AI bros' retaliation for AO3 users calling them out for scraping their work. Examples of what you might be sent:

Screenshots from here.

If you get a comment like this, just report for spam and delete.

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PSA

Please don't use 'trailer park' or 'trailer trash' to mock people. Not all of them are the stereotype of stupid, bigoted, redneck, etc. Some of them live there because they have nowhere else to go.

I spent the first three or four years of my life living in a trailer. My mom is the smartest, most compassionate woman I know. We were there because we were living on $3 of food a week (reminder this was the late 80s/early 90s). Both of my parents worked at a pizza place for minimum wage. And the whole reason we survived was because our neighbors would 'accidentally' make too much food and give us their leftovers. But none of us are stupid. We're not trailer trash just because we lived in a trailer. And some stupid bigoted people live in wealthy apartments or even suburban homes.

So just. Don't. Because if you insult trailer living, you're insulting my family. And I will not abide by that.

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i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.

as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."

NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING

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a writing competition i was going to participate in again this year has announced that they now allow AI generated content to be submitted

their reasoning being that "we couldn't ban it even if we wanted to, every writer already uses it anyway"

"Every writer"?

come on

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GET YOUR BODY OUT OF SURVIVAL MODE SO YOU CAN CREATE FROM YOUR HEART

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I haven’t platonicposted in a while

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bay windows appreciation post. i love bay windows

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This is my favorite post

Yall I went to a rennaisance festival yesterday, got totally lost, and met a guy in full Wyll Ravengard cosplay while I was wandering about. we talked for a while then he asked where I was headed, then offered to escort me there. He held out his arm and we linked hands and he literally walked with me and chatted about bg3 and my other hobbies and it was an absolute delight

I mightve just straight up met Wyll lmaooo

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Happy flat fuck Friday specifically to this car.

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And parents.

ppl who don’t make an effort to listen to their partner(s) abt their interests bc they “don’t like it” scare me

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In all seriousness I struggle with this balance. I know in theory that I don’t have to make a commitment to playing games, but I also know like. I do WANT to play them. But if I don’t make a conscious effort to set up to play them then I probably won’t, just because of my executive function and my struggle to pull away from timesink games like Stardew Valley. So it’s not a job but because my desire to actually play them is stronger than my will to play them, it DOES feel like a job.

Friend said he doesn't like saying he has a "backlog" of games and at the time I was like "lol yeah" but the more I think about it I'm like. Yeah I don't like that, what the scallop. I dont have a """backlog""" it's not my Job to go through this shit. It's a hobby for Funsies let's have funsies