When your party doesn’t have a Cleric, but you don’t want to be a religious fruitcake to support your party, so you just roll up a Circle of the Shepherd druid and get the side bonus of being able to talk to all the beasts, all the time, no need to fw spell slots. And then take Message as a cantrip because you rolled High Elf lineage. Become the single greatest reconnaissance member your party has ever seen.

Oh, right, I need to finish Vox Machina S1

Great, then, now we have another kind of hand bag.

I mean, in my own case, I’m such a bloody mess I couldn’t really recommend someone be in a long term relationship with me. Or nothing too deep, anyway. I’d feel like I’d drag them down. But all that aside, the biggest reason I can think of to be hesitant about commitment is that, in commiting, you will find yourself having to give up control of your life at times and making comprises for the other person’s sake. Where as if you are non-comittant, you will have more autonomy to lead your life how you wish.

This is dumb and nerd enough for me to contribute to

Sure, this is dumb and nerd enough for me to contribute to

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This is a movie I’m definitely going to stream once the high seas get a hold of it, but it’s definitely every monster that’s not Predator that I’m interested in seeing on screen.

Truthfully, the white collar bit has me more interested than anything given such a world is much more removed and distant from my life than the NSFW stuff.

1. You got a kid or kids, how much do you intend to help them with money? Like, would you take care of them without question even if they didn’t or couldn’t work? Or do you demand of them to go out into the world and make their own fortunes with limited help? No help? Etc.

2. I guess in rolling with the NSFW theme here, as someone who can live the white collar life and presumably socialize within it, how often do you think men are really banging their maids versus the porn trope it’s made out to be?

3. What is your single most expensive possession that isn’t a vehicle, house, or kid?

I have seen nothing of particular note in person, despite going to an inner-city big block party event. Because, honestly, most costumes are lazy or assembled with a “can’t be bothered” attitude. So I’ll just be super shallow and say I saw a really cute, short asian girl dressed as a kitten, and that’s honestly all that stuck in my mind.

Nothing much new to say, just reiteration. A big or huge or gigantic map is fine, so long as it’s populated by meaningful content.

Really wish Forspoken had been more populated. It’s a huge world, and combat/abilty wise it’s a great pure-mage action game, which I really really loved about it, that’s not a very common thing. But my god, the world is so empty despite being so big, and most side objectives are just collectothons. There’s some more difficult endgame content, but no real reason to grind up for it.

S’like a baby owlbear, but a rat. Too cute. I’m sure if these things were real there’d be people trying to domesticate them in a heartbeat.

Can you give me any more details? That’s a little vague in and of itself. Mage: The Accension, a TTRPG, is what first comes up when I google it, but really, there’s a number of things it could be.

https://lemmy.world/comment/20286340

This little thread chain. It’s a Zen thing. If, for whatever reason, you want to understand it a little more, look up what a koan is.

While it’s cool the major online retailers have delisted the items, somewhere out there, the group that is the actual third party shop that makes the items is still out there. These major online retailers are just distributors. It’s possible the producers may just give up and pack up, but they also may just seek other, less seen avenues of sale through websites that aren’t so pulicly at large.

I’m not, but a friend is. With a couple, actually. He’d inevitably wind up sleeping with them now and again, and at this point one has just become a fuck buddy with no real relationship attached. But really, it’s your own dynamics that matter here, and that’s between you and that person. So how anything winds up going, well, the one’s most qualified to make best guesses are you and them.

I can’t help but think of how the original Deus Ex existed in a world where crackpot conspiracy theories like this were just the reality. And this sounds like it would make a great setting itself as some agent works their way through a conspiracy, going on a small world tour of levels in various major powers of the world before finally ending in a boss battle in some hidden hi-tech but occultish basement of the Vatican where we find the Anti-Christ is preparing to unleash whatever high-tech equivalent is for the Mark of the Beast, and it’s our final big job to take him down to stall his coming to power for the next millenia or some nonsense.

Sorry if you take your theories seriously, I just can’t. But I’d bet they’d make a cool story.

The news on this keeps popping up. Couple other articles that were tossed up yesterday from here: https://lemmy.world/post/38217297

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gjjyvg1nqo

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-26/child-sex-dolls-sold-on-temu-and-shein/105636720?future=true

Setting aside whatever morals about this, it seems rather unwise to just up and publicly declare. Like, “Ayo, yo, cartels! We’ll be coming to get you! Eventually! But definitely! So you better be ready for us!”

“I’m free! I’m freeeee!” Cries the bottomost crab, high on a dab.