This is like watching the family from the Conjuring make Tiktok videos every time the murder ghosts appear.

Imagine thinking that because no one who's not also an extremely online weirdo is willing to talk to you anymore, you now represent the middle.

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NEVER FORGET

This is because Texas has been the natural enemy of New Mexico since Texas was a thing.

The reverse holds equally true.

Cats: "It's clearly a social creature and interaction excites it. Let's make pspsps noises and see what it does."

Prehab was the biggest reason other than good fortune I played roller derby for eight years and got away with no lingering injuries.

It ain't no country club either.

So far I've played a straight male human rogue, an asexual male cleric, a bisexual female rogue/barbarian lycanthrope, a straight female leonin artificer/fighter, a female gnoll barbarian who is probably straight but it's moot with no gnolls around...

ROLE PLAYING game.

At the end of the day these people are pissed off that they can't walk into any group and take it for granted they'll all be straight dudes who only want to play vaguely Tolkienish high fantasy.

What just fucking astounds me is that there is no hobby where you have more control over the experience you have. Don't want gay stuff or furries at your table? Don't play at a table like that, or better yet start your own table of "traditionalists".

The Knight Rider theme just started playing unbidden in my head.

Do we not have a lecture series on this yet? If not, why not?

Someone has very little exposure to nuclear history and The Reasons No One Wants To Give Army Nukes.

So I don't drive through the desert alone late at night if I can help it and if I have to I'll probably set something on the front passenger seat, I GTFO when the forest or swamp goes silent, and I if I get that "I shouldn't be here" lizard feeling? I shortly won't be.

4. I believe that the locals in a place I'm unfamiliar with know the hazards in their environment better than I do.

5. I don't mind being or doing things that are silly.

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3. I believe the brain is exquisitely well designed to detect changes, dangers, and general "off-ness" in its immediate environment and that this ability is so old in our evolution understanding is not required and usually not involved.

2/

....duty, truth, and "objective beauty standards"? I can't read the context for myself, but is that actually "duty, truth, and no fat chicks"?