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Finnish baby box [chat]
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IT'S A BOX FROM FINLAND!!!
My Finnish cousins sent it to me because they are super awesome. This box was given to them as they are expecting their second child. Sending it on to us was VERY GENEROUS because it is filled with great things.
Every expecting mom in Finland gets these if they attend a basic level of prenatal medical care. Article about history of the box: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415
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IT'S THE BEST I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT IT
My Finnish cousins sent it to me because they are super awesome. This box was given to them as they are expecting their second child. Sending it on to us was VERY GENEROUS because it is filled with great things.
Every expecting mom in Finland gets these if they attend a basic level of prenatal medical care. Article about history of the box: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-22751415
Pics:
IT'S THE BEST I'M SO EXCITED ABOUT IT
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It's a little sleeping bag!
Eberron put a unique spin on all of D&D's standard fantasy races, some of whom came out kinda unique and interesting (Halflings are dinosaur-riding plains nomads, for example)
Drow... eesh.
So, the Eberron setting has this southern continent, called Xen'Drik, that's basically the Dark Continent full of jungles and disease and ancient Elven ruins and giant scorpions and shit like that. It's a place adventurer parties can go on expeditions to have very pulpy, 1930's style "Darkest Africa" style adventures (Eberron, in general, has a very pulp 1930's tone to it)
And that's... that's neat, right?
Except Xen'Drik is also inhabited. The natives are the Drow, the black-skinned evil elves that are in almost all other D&D settings. Usually Drow are subterranean and spider-worshippers, but in keeping with Eberron's remixing theme, in Eberron, Drow instead revere scorpions, live above ground in the jungles, are cannibals, and they look like this:
Eberron took the black-skinned elves and made them cannibal jungle savages for the setting's fantasy analog of darkest africa
oof
fuck up once and you break your thumb / if you're happy at all then you're god damn dumb
that's right we're on a fucked up cruise / God is dead but at least we have booze
bad things happen, no one knows why / the sun burns out and everyone dies
Got this far and immediately thought "oh god how racist is this going to be".
Real racist as it turns out.
hahah holy shit
Behold the terrors of socialism
Owlllllllls :biggrin:
Not entirely. You still need, like, twelve million diapers.
I live in a country where death panels decide who lives and who dies in a dystopian free national healthcare service
I am well acquainted with the dark terrors of socialism...
but im newish to this D&D tabletop thing and I haven't read any Drizzt books
Pathfinder also has a country for the pulpy darkest africa (which is not too surprising since a number of WotC who did Eberron work with Keith Baker went on to Paizo) but they at least didn't do that.
(their drow tend to look a bit like WoW's night elves. Purple and blue skin)
Harsh, but fair.
a real asshole, that guy
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
*hefts up his three dogs like a wriggly blanket*
Then i can go home, eat a BLT, go in my attic, figure out how fucked my roof is, produce necessary paperwork for that, call my insurance / a roofer, etc
At least the water heater is running again
I swear to fuck at some point I'll get a run in and nobody will bother me for as long as my broken arches can stand it
And we'll try again tomorrow
My cousin had a thing called a diaper party.
Everyone come party, and bring a box of diapers with you!
Fucking genius.
how the
But this is one of the few bits that was really tone deaf and awful. Similarly, the orcs are an indigenous people's analog, and their treatment varies from plains-dwelling spiritual tribes that are being forced out of their way of life due to manifest destiny or savage empires of evil savages (the orc equivalent of the Aztec empire, essentially), similar to Drow.
I was 50/50 on a [chat] vacation.