It's important to note that this wouldn't actually work for a number of reasons. Foremost among them is that those in power don't actually care about consistency or adhering to the law, they just want to get their way all the time and usually the law is a convenient blunt instrument to achieve that.
On top of that the wording around indecency regulations is often intentionally vague, full of "you know it when you see it" type language, so that anything and everything can be considered indecent if you squint and get offended easily enough.
Plus regressives can always just fall back on the classic position of trans people just being inherently indecent, so it doesn't matter what they're doing, they're going to stop them from being broadcast regardless.
I don't think the person you're responding to is trying to suggest otherwise. You can be curious about the context even while accepting that no possible context makes this okay.
I too am curious about what, exactly, set this officer off to escalate to such completely deranged behaviour. Not because I think there's a justification, just because I want to know exactly what kind of lunacy this is.
The idea that death is an acceptable outcome from being suspected of any minor infraction underpins the conversation around basically every police killing, with every single person on the side justifying it being tacitly accepting of that premise.
... What I can't grasp is how he still owes $44k on a 3 to 4 year old vehicle that was around $60k to start when his payments are that high. Unless he misspoke and meant $1400 combined and has some long-ass financing term it doesn't make sense.
The intimidate check granting a +2 to hit as a free action
Using Mage Hand to manipulate items that are worn/held by a creature
The damage against the floor is a minor thing, and smashing up the place as a consequence of fighting there is a reasonable bit of extra flavour. I'm not against it.
A free action that grants a skill check to get +2 to hit on your next attack as a reward for missing is wildly disproportionate. There are feats worse than that. If this is a thing people can do why would literally everyone playing not be constantly chewing up the floor in every encounter?
Broadly speaking objects that are worn or held are exempted from automatic manipulation by spells and effects, though this is usually called out in the description of the effect. Telekinesis, which is much stronger than Mage Hand, is one such spell which grants the wearer a save. Then you have things like Catapult, Daylight, or Fireball's ignition effect, from which held or carried items are flatly immune. Personally I'd consider that grounds to extend that same restriction to Mage Hand.
I'd go so far as to say it's not just the DM's prerogative to set DCs for actions the players want to take but literally part of their job as specifically outlined in the core rules on ability checks.
The fact that the DM presumably set a DC for the intimidate check is also not the part here that's in question.
There are also systems much better at this than D&D, which makes calling it out as being the "great" thing here even more out of place.
If you want crunchier rules that have these kind of flavourful interactions you could play PF2e, which literally lets you roll intimidate to debuff your opponent and you have to actions available to do so after swinging your weapon. If you want something looser and more freeform that encourages improvisation maybe take a look at Legend in the Mist or something.
No. These people are welcome to play however they want. They're having a good time and that's great for them.
Pitching this as "d&d is great" when the entire story hinges on multiple table specific rulings makes this both less relatable for players of d&d used to a different tone of play and can set unrealistic expectations for new players who might join a game that plays very differently.
I'm not saying they shouldn't play like this, or that this isn't d&d. It's just a very specific scenario that is quite likely to be non-representative of many games.
I'm glad these people are having fun, but I always feel a bit put off when some random group's homebrew and table rulings are pitched as being typical d&d.
"me at my parents age" is in the future. It's a hypothetical where Elon has a moon palace, something happened to Greta, and an organised resistance has formed.
Needs a third option then. Swipe right for "would watch", left for "wouldn't watch", but also swipe up for "I strongly endorse and believe you'd enjoy it if you give it a chance".
Maybe also a fourth. Swipe down for "absolutely not, I know you really love this movie but I just can't watch more Jason Statham."
You can have sensible tariffs that do the intended job of encouraging a domestic market, but you need to have both supply and demand available domestically.
For example, Canada has an import tariff on milk and other dairy because we produce and consume our own dairy products. If some giant US milk conglomerate could start imprint on the cheap it would legitimately harm the Canadian economy.
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