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This is why PF2e made weapon and armour runes transferrable. It also mitigates the problem of getting a powerful magic weapon that nobody can use - just move the runes onto a weapon you’re already using.

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All our loot goes in the party bag so we can distribute it later, then I forget to distribute it and we pay for everything out of the party loot.

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It’s possible to get really anal about the things that they’ve cut out to keep things moving, but honestly I was blown away by how well they’ve transitioned the feel to live action. Everything about it is slightly hammed up in a way that really helps sell the fantasy, and the cgi really works.

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Anyone can swear an oath to a divine being, it doesn’t make you a paladin. You have to swear an oath so hard you get superpowers to be a paladin.

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Hobbits’ natural lack of ambition protects them from the effects of the ring. All of the hobbits had that power.

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Sam wasn’t any better at resisting the ring than the other hobbits. There’s a reason Frodo carried the ring the whole way, not Sam.

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Genuinely took a few confused minutes of reading the other comments to realise this isn’t about Brexit

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No, the comments.

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No, but this is a common experience across settings. I’ve seen people mistake addresses, interview dates, job descriptions, meeting purposes, operating instructions, basic signage - basically everything, told or read. Unless you’re making regular, personal contact beforehand to make sure everyone’s on the same page you can’t really avoid it.

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You don’t know the difference between a demsoc and a socdem. You’re not any kind of socialist, just a lib who likes the idea of being seen as leftist.

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God, you’re such a big dumb idiot of a lib. That’s the definition of a democratic socialist, not a social democrat - you can tell by the way one of the groups are call socialists and the others are called democrats. Not only did you mix up your definitions, but you never actually managed to define democratic socialist - do you really know what the difference is if you can’t even remember to talk about one of them? The answer, scrolling down your post history to where you called yourself a socdem, is no, you think they’re the exact same thing, because you don’t even have a surface level understanding of leftism. It only takes 5 minutes in leftist spaces to discover that anarchists, socialists, and communists of all flavour hate socdems for exactly your “no really, somehow we’ll manage to vote socialism in this time” attitude, but you’ve never spent a single minute in them, because you’re not a leftist.

My version of leftism is called Marxism and is based in historical reality and current material conditions. Your version is fantastical utopianism that’s convinced the elite are just going to give up the reigns any day now.

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Zephyreks is being sarcastic by highlighting the US’s doublespeak that they employ to wage war without declaring war.

What are some commonly known facts that are too bizarre for you to believe to be true?

For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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Quantum superpositioning. Schrödinger was right, it’s absolutely ridiculous and the cat can’t be alive and dead at the same time, box or not.

The problem is it provably does work that way, or at least in a way that is indistinguishable from it, ridiculous or not, and we don’t really know why. We’ve learnt many of the rules, managed to trap particles in superimposed states, even discovered that plants take advantage of it to transport energy more efficiently, and it’s just a thing that happens, an apparently fundamental rule of existence. And it doesn’t make any fucking sense.

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Observation in quantum physics isn’t about a consciousness being able to see it happen, but about it interacting with the universe in a way that could potentially be measured. There doesn’t need to be a physical observer, just a theoretically measurable result of it interacting with something.

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Ah, I see what you mean - that the superposition is a model of our uncertainty of unobserved actions, rather than the actual state of the particle. While that was my understanding initially too (because it makes sense) our testing, things like the double slit experiment, has shown behaviours that only make sense if they do occupy both states simultaneously. Quantum computing is actually reliant on qubits being in a 0/1 superposition for it to work. It’s what makes the entire thing so maddening, because experimental evidence has disproven every attempt to make it make sense.

First thing my quantum mechanics professor told us was that if you think you understand quantum mechanics you definitely do not understand quantum mechanics. He was at the time one of the world’s leading experts on quantum applications, and had just proven the existence of an additional state of matter that quantum theory predicted, and straight up told us to our faces that he didn’t understand it, he just knew that it works.

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I’d say it’s more of a 5e & PF problem, PF2e is much better about general rules that apply to most cases, with player abilities adding additional things on top.

But yeah, generally if you want to play 5e OSR is a better choice.

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“umm actually I used it as an insult because it’s a good thing!”

How do you people survive the cognitive dissonance necessary to convince yourself you’re not being bigoted?

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Yeah, you people, people who used homophobic insults about dick sucking but insist it’s ok because they’re gay/bi/have an LGBT friend.

I agree that you’re not bigoted because you disagree with our ideology, but you are definitely bigoted for using bigoted insults to point it out.

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Sure, but the evil potato chips are still Cuba, China, Vietnam etc, right?

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If it’s illegal then why didn’t the last 10ish% also say they approve?

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British colonialism killed a whole lot more than that in India, that’s just the figure for the worst 40 years. There’s plenty more millions either side.

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Let’s try a different tack then - if it’s illegal to disapprove of the government and you’ll be locked up for it, and 10% of the population voice disapproval, why are only 0.12% of the population imprisoned? Do you actually understand the logistical undertaking disappearing or imprisoning over 140 million people would be? Do you not think it’s more likely that it’s just not illegal to disapprove, and that they really do generally approve of their government?

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The 90% figure comes from the Harvard Kennedy School ASH Centre for Democratic Governance and Innovation. There is no fucking possible way you are suggesting that Harvard University is distributing CPC propaganda.

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Been quashed? You’re claiming that users could only semi-organically stumble upon this post, when your continual engagement has kept it at a healthy position in the active feed for the past 2 days. If it weren’t for your insistence on being racist none of us would have seen the post at all.

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“I didn’t say there’s any brigading going on, I just said there’s some brigading going on - look, this incredibly popular post has more engagement than any of our other posts!”

The absolute brazen dishonesty you’re engaging in the whole way through this thread is disgusting, and why you get piled on to. The fact is that you’re pretending a racist term isn’t racist (in the same way as calling stealing “jewing” isn’t racist, I suppose (just to make sure you understand, it’s very racist)), and your only real argument is “all the hexbears are piling in and being mean :(”, not some justification for why taking a racist term for improving the look of a car without improving its performance isn’t racist when you apply the exact same term, without altering the concept in any way, to computers.

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