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I've been having a solid time watching Inuyasha of all the shows ...
  • My wife and I stalled out on a rewatch recently and during one of the movies we played a drinking game and drank any time Inuyasha shouted Kagome's name.

    Dangerous game

  • Bulletins and News Discussion from August 14th to August 20th, 2023 - America's War On Pipelines
  • I thought the blog posts with the Taliban guy whining about the boring life of an office drone were funny as hell, idk if that counts

    EDIT: also as others have pointed out, we need to give their money back, people are starving over there.

  • Lemmy since the reddit collapse
  • What a tantrum, asking someone a question then insulting and blocking them so they can't answer it and you get to have the last word.

    You know that if you just ask us to disengage without a little snipe thrown in, we will? It's literally part of our instance rules.

    Instead you post this childish nonsense.

  • Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico
  • Tulsi Gabbard is actually a member of a fringe cult that schismed of off the Hare Krishnas, she and her weird cultist dad have switched parties a few times to try to maneuver themselves into positions of political power to advance the cults material interests and ideology. They're super anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim.

    She's also an intelligence officer in the US military.

    An incredibly untrustworthy person.

  • Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico
  • I'd never considered this, but of course it came down to economics- weird how often massive crimes against humanity come down to some bourgeois thief wanting to take more for themselves and willing to do anything to do it.

    Just did a little reading on it, they stole 400 million (1942) dollars worth of farmland from Japanese-Americans, which is like 7 billion adjusted for inflation, and basically just gave them to agribusiness corporations.

    amerikkka

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD
  • You know what, it's not even apparent, you explicitly stated it:

    China's red-blue man owns US's red and blue men anyway.

    disgost

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD
  • God could the point go over your head harder. That user wasn't engaging in a conspiracy theory that Jews on all the banks movies and government, they were comparing your apparent belief that the Chinese government controls the American government to those antisemitic conspiracy theories.

    Also zero points in an argument with a bunch of people who can't downvote farquaad-point

  • China courts Germany's far-right populist AfD
  • We used to allow downvoting, we just got rid of it to stop trolls from making multiple accounts to downvote every comment from people they disliked (specifically trans users were getting their comments brigaded like this) and it turned out to be a great choice because it encouraged discussion if you disagreed with someone.

    Also we're definitely not "Russian or CCP farmed trolls" why would they have paid people to talk amongst themselves for three years? I mean I could really use the supplemental income so I wish, been putting off car repairs for months due to finances.

  • What's the deal with Hexbear?
  • Yeah, I lurk their tg boards to read tongue in cheek white wolf rpg reviews and I can think of at least one fairly prolific poster who is definitely some kind of socialist, probably a communist.

    I know literally nothing about the non-elfgames parts of the site though.

  • What's the deal with Hexbear?
  • I actually didn't know this, that absolutely rules, /r/FC rocked

  • Is it possible to block an entire instance?
  • You could go to an instance that blocks us, like Lemmy.world if you are that scared of communists.

    Alternatively this third party app Pretty Private Browsing has instance blocking features I think, but I don't care for the UI personally.

    Final option I guess is to cry about it?

  • Biden calls China a 'ticking time bomb' due to economic troubles
  • "Yes, but if they invite allied troops into their country it stills counts as an invasion of Ukraine. What do you mean that isn't independence? "

  • The Ukrainian Counteroffensive Has Ended
  • I joked yesterday about how I'm not getting the simulated liberalism I was promised but like, I remember someone the other day saying it was simulated too well and to please stop and you said on.

    Are you just using this as your normal account now?

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week
  • You keep saying that you support it and then adding caveats that prove that you actually don't.

    "I support Tom's claim that he owns this house and would only want brief jail time for Susan's breaking and entering through the unlocked front door when he invited her over to help protect him from his neighbors Steve, who keeps shooting at him. That said, Susan went way too far when she also did a breaking and entering into Steve's yard to attack him while he continued to shoot at Tom while shouting 'That house is rightful Steve property and Tom the cockroach can scurry back to Susan's house.'"

    If someone said this, the only logical conclusion is that they actually fully support Steve and are lying about supporting Tom.

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week
  • Are you suggesting that the majority of Uyghurs support ETIM. Furthermore, ARE you stating that you personally support the self determination of the ETIM movement?

  • Taiwan reports second large-scale China air force incursion this week
  • You're literally mad at me for NOT reading between the lines and assuming you meant something other than what you said, asshole.

  • The Witch is Dead session report

    Ran The Witch is Dead for my wife and SILs recently.

    They played an Owl with Create Fire (Othello), a Crow with Make Book Read Itself Aloud (Cawthorn) and a Cat with (Tidy Clean and Mend).

    If I'm honest, Create Fire was definitely an MVP.

    Spoilers, session report, includes arson, a murder and some eye stuff

    spoiler

    They went to investigate the cult controlled village, which was centered around a wizard college full of old men in pointy hats and star covered clothes.

    They made a beeline to the wizard tower, Sylvia tried to enter as a student did, got underfoot and he magically burned down a tapestry when startled. Othello eavesdropped through some open windows and learned that some pranksters got another student expelled by framing him for a prank and interrupted an old man's spell causing him to accidentally blast her out of the sky with a torrent of water. Cawthorn made a cork notice board read itself aloud and heard some of the available classes, the honor roll and a notice about the expulsion.

    They then fled the tower and went to the market to listen to some human gossip and heard some guys talking about how Steven had killed his first target and had eyes on another. They had weird symbols stitched into their cloaks which tipped the familiars off to them being cultists and of course they decided these guys were probably connected to the witch murderer.

    They followed them to a farmhouse where they got confirmation of this so they used Create Fire to burn it down. They followed the fleeing cultists to the inn/tavern and the birds went down an unlit chimney but got soot in their eyes and became tangled up during the fall. The crow hid in the soot when the patrons came to investigate and the owl but someone's finger off when they tried to grab him. The cat used the resulting commotion to sneak in the back when someone ran into the kitchen from outside and the the familiars met up near the main room to kitchen doorway while everyone was trying to help the fingerless guy. Sylvia followed the cultist upstairs and listened through the door as he talked to gasp Steven! Steven explained that his friends at the school got another student expelled and he'd be killing him as well soon. He dropped a bit of info that the student was the cobblers grandfather (all wizard students are bearded old men). Around this time Othello decided this tavern needed to go also and caught some oily kitchen rags on fire.

    At this point Cawthorn flies back to the witch's cottage and rips the spellbook page out explaining witch resurrection. Othello and Sylvia lurk near the market and try to listen to conversations to find out what a cobbler is. Eventually they do make out that it's a shoe repairperson and so when Cawthorn gets back they all head to the nearby building with a shoe painted on the sign out front and find the disgraced wizard student there. He's in tears and arguing with his cobbler grandson and they get his attention by making the spellbook page read itself. He quickly surmised that they're familiars and that the witch has been murdered and they scratch crude diagrams in the dirt implying that he's next.

    Steven arrives at this point and Garamulus the not-quite-a-wizard flees into the wheatfields. Steven makes chase and Sylvia repeatedly trips him by getting underfoot. The birds claw at his eyes and throat until in a moment when he's particularly distracted, Othello bites his trachea out and watches as Steven dies in owl-terror, but not before accidentally injuring his wing with Steven's dropped knife in an attempt to stab Steven with it. In the distance, Garamulus can still be heard screaming and running away through the wheat. As required for the resurrection ritual Cawthorn takes Steven's eyes.

    Sylvia carries the grounded Othello back to the cottage on her back while Cawthorn flies overhead. They do the resurrection and their beloved witch wakes up and heals Othello's wounded wing.

    Below are some pictures of character sheets, the village map and some notes I took during the session (most of them are the names the players came up with for the expelled wizard when they couldn't remember his actual name).

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    Overall we had a great time, good way to spend what would have been the time for our normal game when a few players were out of town.

    Edit: also we used these little plastic ducks to track danger and also the location in the village our intrepid heroes were at.

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