I'm pretty sure it's from Our Man Bashir.
When it comes to company, Bashir accepts no substitutes for his favorite tailor.
"Everyone knows Romulan children's bodies look best in a bath of blood, and before you say that sounds weird I mean alive or dead!"
All too true. It hurts to see. It's also worth mentioning the sabotage/blockade of aid by Israeli protesters and that the UN says it's out of stockpiled supplies.
There's also the LoTR version.
I'm glad they included lyrics, because it clears up some tricky verses.
As much as the "hurt with one hand, help with the other" approach bothers me, I really hope this enables sufficient aid to safely reach the civilians who so desperately need it.
"You say it was a 12-foot bear with a screaming, toothed sword? How much of what are you drinking on your shift?"
I know it's a silly picture, that chainsaws don't exist in most IP's, and most shapeshifters couldn't use them regardless. But it's the first thing I thought of when I saw the template.
I like that a lot - it makes the crits feel more epic and unique.
Perhaps you'll enjoy this gem from way back - The Count Censored.
Done, I subbed, and if I come up with more I'll try to contribute :)
I'd say it's sometimes ok, sometimes necessary for brevity, and sometimes accurate. Accurate = "All people need oxygen, water, and calories to survive." Brevity = "Generally speaking, people enjoy good food and good company so those situations work well for forming relationships."
Consequences of generalizations have a lot to do with how tolerable they are. If I say, "most people like pizza" there's not much harm if several million people don't. If I say, "all or most people of this gender/ethnicity/religion/whatever have X problem" that's a lot more problematic because it can easily lead to a consequence of harmful prejudice. When it comes to matters of ethics, beliefs, accusations etc. it becomes very important to handle cases individually as much as humanly possible.
I hope reality turns out to be an incredibly immersive sequel to Idiocracy or something similar that I can wake up from and criticize for being dumb, if occasionally amusing. It's the only way I can make peace with things like this story.
your weird ass bug and vampire kink bait
What? No. Usually I don't answer or downvote criticism because not everyone has to like my/anyone's content and criticism can absolutely be valid. If you're serious though then I'd say sexualizing this image to that degree is quite a leap. I mean, the vampire is Sesame Street's The Count for starters. There's nothing sexually explicit or even implied in either the image or the text.
This showed up in my Lemmy feed just above a story from the BBC about how Biden is planning to send 1 billion in arms to Israel. I felt these two stories next to each other was a fitting symbol of how wrong things are going.
That damage amount is freaky. Player sold their soul to roll the most damage anyone will ever see lol.
That looks hilarious. It's like the TTRPG of ridiculous anime.
I've never played a TTRPG where I got to play around with 9th level spells or the equivalent and now I'm jealous. That's insane!
Orcas have been such bros to humanity (no wild orcas have ever been recorded intentionally attacking humans) that if they're hitting boats I'm starting with the assumption that it's the humans fucking up. There's a lot more history of humans being cruel/stupid to wildlife than there is of orcas doing the same to us.
Orcas have rarely injured and in one case killed their trainers when held captive, but that's essentially them fighting being held hostage. “No one is sure what causes the animals to react in this way, but boredom, frustration and ill health, both physical and mental, have all been implicated,” says Rob. “These incidents have resulted in serious injuries to trainers and, in one case at least, proved to be fatal.”
All the little math rocks bringing their 30 hp of damage.
Now that you mention it, that's probably one of the best ways to teach the basics. It's so much more fun when it's roasting baddies as opposed to counting apples.
Even better if the foe was already almost dead. When you slap something for huge numbers it's also fun having the DM describe the wreckage that's left of your opponents.
I feel like some Table Top games are more prone to this than others, just based off watching some different IP's being played.
It's an episode where Picard is conducting the mission to explore as usual when Q shows up and essentially says, "So you think you're hot shit huh? Prepared for whatever you're about to stumble into?" Picard philosophizes and argues so Q tosses the Enterprise across the galaxy and into the face of a Borg Cube, which promptly sets about showing Picard et al. exactly how bad things can be out in the galactic wild. I won't spoil the ending in case you want to watch, but needless to say Picard ends the episode with a new perspective about what awaits in the unexplored galaxy.
Rep. Andy Ogles desperately wants to punish protesting students.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15286301
> "A group of Republican lawmakers introduced a bill on Wednesday which would send “any person convicted of unlawful activity” at a college or university, to do community service in Gaza for six months." > > "Strangely, the bill appears to refer to any “unlawful activity on the campus of an institution of higher education beginning on and after October 7, 2023” but does not specifically mention the ongoing student protests, rendering it stupidly broad." > > "Ogles spoke with Fox News about the bill, saying that, “If you support a terrorist organization, and you participate in unlawful activity on campuses, you should get a taste of your own medicine. I am going to bet that these pro-Hamas supporters wouldn’t last a day, but let’s give them the opportunity.”
Regulations be damned. This is coffee you're hiding from me!
I didn't change Picard's face because I love the original too much. You can almost see his soul leaving his body.
The DM's pitch was to roll characters that were the local problem-solvers. Level 5, been adventuring in the same rural area for years, handled bandits/goblins/unruly wildlife. It was an opportunity to play odd/misfit characters for a while if we wanted to.
What we didn't know at the time was that our merry band of Goonies were meant to die to amp up the emotional investment for the rest of the campaign. Tragedy in the 1st act, then the movie starts for real. It's one thing to hear about the Big Bad hurting people, it's another to care because you lost a party to them.
So the 1st party played for 2 sessions, made it to the boss fight, and started dropping. The wizard realized he wasn't killing the Big Bad by himself so he fled, left the rural area for the local city, and explained what happened at the adventurer's guild/tavern. Of course the players, whose characters had just died, signed up for revenge this time with "professional" properly built characters.
Returning with proper characters and the wizard sharing knowledge of traps, layout, tactics etc. we barely managed to win. The DM let the Big Bad (who was never supposed to die) be killed but he talked about "his master's revenge" - the DM simply moved his plans for a villain "one step up". It was still a hard fight - two died and I retired the character I had re-rolled saying it was injury. The wizard went on to be the grizzled sole survivor for the rest of the campaign and it was kind of a cool backstory for that player to work with.
