I didn’t like the first McGriddle I had but this fourth one of the weekend is hitting the spot
yeah the parasites from the sausage patties need some time to take root in your brain
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
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
Paladins in 5E don't have to be diety based depending on their oath, they are literally powered by how right they believe they are - so it doesn't even matter if they're wrong as long as they believe they aren't
some god somewhere all thirsty enough to hand out divine power to a nonbeliever
all getting made fun of at the god meetings when he talks about all his 'faithful' acolytes
The poor god of atheism is always laughed at.
there's an atheist you get as a party member in Mask of the Betrayer and he maintains it even when you're literally in the city of judgement and talking to the god of the dead
I guess it’s that any statement about values a person has is simply performance for social advancement. That isn’t a new concept in sociology and even queer theory. But now it basically means discarding any moral statement as performance or something??
My brother has been posting about virtue signaling. Like where does this poison come from?
Wha?
I’m not even sure how to explain the concept.
Does it mean something different than it used to? I thought it meant doing or writing things while primarily meaning to broadcast political or cultural allegiance, rather than writing/acting from a place of genuine feelings.
I’m not sure (ironically) what political affiliation is usually being broadcast by people who complain about virtue signaling.
Virtue signaling is a real thing and not new, but the mainstream right is starting to dig the idea as it's useful to reject any identity politics at all
Paladins in 5E don't have to be diety based depending on their oath, they are literally powered by how right they believe they are - so it doesn't even matter if they're wrong as long as they believe they aren't
some god somewhere all thirsty enough to hand out divine power to a nonbeliever
all getting made fun of at the god meetings when he talks about all his 'faithful' acolytes
The poor god of atheism is always laughed at.
there's an atheist you get as a party member in Mask of the Betrayer and he maintains it even when you're literally in the city of judgement and talking to the god of the dead
Was Mask the best NWN2? Still I would like to finish the original game.
Paladins in 5E don't have to be diety based depending on their oath, they are literally powered by how right they believe they are - so it doesn't even matter if they're wrong as long as they believe they aren't
some god somewhere all thirsty enough to hand out divine power to a nonbeliever
all getting made fun of at the god meetings when he talks about all his 'faithful' acolytes
The poor god of atheism is always laughed at.
there's an atheist you get as a party member in Mask of the Betrayer and he maintains it even when you're literally in the city of judgement and talking to the god of the dead
Was Mask the best NWN2? Still I would like to finish the original game.
I really liked Hordes of the Underdark
But Mask of the Betrayer is probably the best one overall.
They should remake NWN with better graphics and like, 5e mechanics.
I mean, given how much rpg designers all absorbed Michael Moorcock, the alignment system makes sense for worlds where your professed belief might have really concrete repercussions from a divine plane of existence
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@Arch I want the bugs but I don’t know I I have it in me to 50k anymore
but I didn't play Mask of the Betrayer in a timely fashion and it's pretty hard to jump back into that world and create a new high-level character rather than importing my old one (lost to time)
I wonder if it's on GoG; avoiding setup issues would be nice...
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Paladins in 5E don't have to be diety based depending on their oath, they are literally powered by how right they believe they are - so it doesn't even matter if they're wrong as long as they believe they aren't
some god somewhere all thirsty enough to hand out divine power to a nonbeliever
all getting made fun of at the god meetings when he talks about all his 'faithful' acolytes
The poor god of atheism is always laughed at.
there's an atheist you get as a party member in Mask of the Betrayer and he maintains it even when you're literally in the city of judgement and talking to the god of the dead
It's like Sanya in the The Dresden Files
"A literal Archangel came down and handed you a sword of the cross"
Sanya: "I don't know what that was, it could have been an alien or a hallucination"
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So apparently the FBI arrested Papadopoulos in July and kept it a secret till now. I assume there are a bunch of people in the White House who are confused at the idea of anyone keeping a secret that long.
Alignment rules are dumb and caring about them is silly. At best if there's an alignment limited class you should reflavor stuff to fit the new alignment (e.g. a Lawful barbarian has cold fury, or a Chaotic Neutral Paladin only cares about some libertarian ideal of self-freedom)
Unearth Arcana had rules for CG, LE and CE Paladins
Virtue signaling is a real thing and not new, but the mainstream right is starting to dig the idea as it's useful to reject any identity politics at all
Much like the concept of political correctness"
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I mean, given how much rpg designers all absorbed Michael Moorcock, the alignment system makes sense for worlds where your professed belief might have really concrete repercussions from a divine plane of existence
that's the thing. "alignment is dumb" is probably too reductive. a lot of the zany shit in D&D basically makes sense in the context of how it was originally made as a game about heisting loot from under monsters' noses in a world influenced by Jack Vance and Moorcock but people keep wanting to use it for everything or treat its really super specific conceits as like, absolute ways to play games or look at characters or whatever and under those conditions it breaks down fast
Virtue Signalling is basically used as a catchall term to imply that anybody who cares about certain policies or issues is only doing so out of a desire to appear morally superior to other people in their crowd, without a genuine belief the issues are real or that solving them would help. Essentially, it is not just an argument that e.g. systemic racism is not a problem, but that the people who say it is don't even believe it and if you do, you're a mark. Or to put it another way, it's trying to paint the entirety of the left as, basically, being equivalent to the kind of memetic, extravagent handwringing you see on probably-fake Tumblr accounts.
I mean, given how much rpg designers all absorbed Michael Moorcock, the alignment system makes sense for worlds where your professed belief might have really concrete repercussions from a divine plane of existence
that's the thing. "alignment is dumb" is probably too reductive. a lot of the zany shit in D&D basically makes sense in the context of how it was originally made as a game about heisting loot from under monsters' noses in a world influenced by Jack Vance and Moorcock but people keep wanting to use it for everything or treat its really super specific conceits as like, absolute ways to play games or look at characters or whatever and under those conditions it breaks down fast
*shoplifts a candy bar*
*a diseased tentacle sprouts from face*
*voice is suddenly a chorus of damned souls, speaking to party paladin* "here I stole you a Snickers bar"
"Sir my uh alignment forbids all of this situation right here"
I mean, given how much rpg designers all absorbed Michael Moorcock, the alignment system makes sense for worlds where your professed belief might have really concrete repercussions from a divine plane of existence
that's the thing. "alignment is dumb" is probably too reductive. a lot of the zany shit in D&D basically makes sense in the context of how it was originally made as a game about heisting loot from under monsters' noses in a world influenced by Jack Vance and Moorcock but people keep wanting to use it for everything or treat its really super specific conceits as like, absolute ways to play games or look at characters or whatever and under those conditions it breaks down fast
*shoplifts a candy bar*
*a diseased tentacle sprouts from face*
*voice is suddenly a chorus of damned souls, speaking to party paladin* "here I stole you a Snickers bar"
"Sir my uh alignment forbids all of this situation right here"
huh I've never heard that specific connotation attached to virtue signaling
like everyone is virtue signaling all the time, and class signalling, and any other kind of group signaling you can think of
seems like such a weird corruption of the concept to claim everyone doing it is being facetious
plus like... it's not like conservative politics is free from its own virtue signaling
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
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
ok, sounds like complaining about virtue signaling is itself a signal of rightwing affiliation at this point.
I feel like a few years ago this wasn't true, but now I'm not sure....
complaining about virtue signalling is literally conservative virtue signalling
I'm dying
life's a game that you're bound to lose / like using a hammer to pound in screws
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
In another dimension, all of their actual news events are satire and they have a fake news website called The Garlic that posts 100% true and factual things that are happening in our dimension.
ok, sounds like complaining about virtue signaling is itself a signal of rightwing affiliation at this point.
I feel like a few years ago this wasn't true, but now I'm not sure....
It's a valid concept for analysis that got coopted and redefined as a code word for "everyone who points out my flagrant racism is faking it and besides I'm just saying what we're all thinking everyone else is racist too"
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ok, sounds like complaining about virtue signaling is itself a signal of rightwing affiliation at this point.
I feel like a few years ago this wasn't true, but now I'm not sure....
The way I look at it is basically this:
there are absolutely left-liberal people who are hypocritical about this or that, or who employ fuzzy reasoning, or are just unpleasant ooverwrought moralizing scolds. This isn't made-up. It can absolutely be a problem, particularly in real life day-to-day interactions. I have absolutely known people who fell down a hole of trying to find politically-flavored fault in everyone around them until they've built up their own little paranoid Fortress of Solitude to live in and it's not...okay. It's no bueno.
BUT compared to institutionalized racism or sexism or the fact that people get routinely murdered for certain facts about their biology or sexuality it's not even a blip on the fucking radar and someone who makes a personal crusade out of hunting down leftist hypocrisy or treating dumb tumblr kids like an existential menace gets a serious sideeye from me because they are either cripplingly detached from what actually matters or are actively providing cover to legitimate evil.
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yeah the parasites from the sausage patties need some time to take root in your brain
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
there's an atheist you get as a party member in Mask of the Betrayer and he maintains it even when you're literally in the city of judgement and talking to the god of the dead
Does it mean something different than it used to? I thought it meant doing or writing things while primarily meaning to broadcast political or cultural allegiance, rather than writing/acting from a place of genuine feelings.
I’m not sure (ironically) what political affiliation is usually being broadcast by people who complain about virtue signaling.
That means the eggs have hatched
Yeah the only motivation I have to play AC2 is that I've been to Florence, and I know the view from the top of the duomo.
Walking at about a 45 degree angle while wedged inside the inner and outer dome is fuckin' cool.
Was Mask the best NWN2? Still I would like to finish the original game.
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I really liked Hordes of the Underdark
But Mask of the Betrayer is probably the best one overall.
They should remake NWN with better graphics and like, 5e mechanics.
but I didn't play Mask of the Betrayer in a timely fashion and it's pretty hard to jump back into that world and create a new high-level character rather than importing my old one (lost to time)
I wonder if it's on GoG; avoiding setup issues would be nice...
It's like Sanya in the The Dresden Files
"A literal Archangel came down and handed you a sword of the cross"
Sanya: "I don't know what that was, it could have been an alien or a hallucination"
So apparently the FBI arrested Papadopoulos in July and kept it a secret till now. I assume there are a bunch of people in the White House who are confused at the idea of anyone keeping a secret that long.
Unearth Arcana had rules for CG, LE and CE Paladins
Much like the concept of political correctness"
that's the thing. "alignment is dumb" is probably too reductive. a lot of the zany shit in D&D basically makes sense in the context of how it was originally made as a game about heisting loot from under monsters' noses in a world influenced by Jack Vance and Moorcock but people keep wanting to use it for everything or treat its really super specific conceits as like, absolute ways to play games or look at characters or whatever and under those conditions it breaks down fast
*shoplifts a candy bar*
*a diseased tentacle sprouts from face*
*voice is suddenly a chorus of damned souls, speaking to party paladin* "here I stole you a Snickers bar"
"Sir my uh alignment forbids all of this situation right here"
I feel like a few years ago this wasn't true, but now I'm not sure....
this is the future Tharizdun cultists want
like everyone is virtue signaling all the time, and class signalling, and any other kind of group signaling you can think of
seems like such a weird corruption of the concept to claim everyone doing it is being facetious
plus like... it's not like conservative politics is free from its own virtue signaling
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
"Notice me, senpai!!!"
"Eat a dick"
so tsundere
complaining about virtue signalling is literally conservative virtue signalling
I'm dying
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
~~~ you saw nothing ~~~
We are in the Onion.
Fully expecting water to start shooting everywhere any moment now.
It's a valid concept for analysis that got coopted and redefined as a code word for "everyone who points out my flagrant racism is faking it and besides I'm just saying what we're all thinking everyone else is racist too"
The way I look at it is basically this:
there are absolutely left-liberal people who are hypocritical about this or that, or who employ fuzzy reasoning, or are just unpleasant ooverwrought moralizing scolds. This isn't made-up. It can absolutely be a problem, particularly in real life day-to-day interactions. I have absolutely known people who fell down a hole of trying to find politically-flavored fault in everyone around them until they've built up their own little paranoid Fortress of Solitude to live in and it's not...okay. It's no bueno.
BUT compared to institutionalized racism or sexism or the fact that people get routinely murdered for certain facts about their biology or sexuality it's not even a blip on the fucking radar and someone who makes a personal crusade out of hunting down leftist hypocrisy or treating dumb tumblr kids like an existential menace gets a serious sideeye from me because they are either cripplingly detached from what actually matters or are actively providing cover to legitimate evil.
No but libtards something something something something