I’m looking forward to running a Shadow of the Weird Wizard game at some point.
Also working on a campaign of “no thank you evil” for my kids.

While I have no doubt that the EU has corrupt politicians, It’s no where as visibly bad as it is in the US. Most of the people who could bring this forward get something out of what he is doing or contributing to them, and they would rather turn a blind eye than risk losing whatever he is giving them.
For some it’s helping out their base, for others its something more monetary.
There are mechanisms there, but they only work when the people watching them are invested in helping the citizens.

That’s definitely a part of it. All of the MS web platforms rely heavily on first and third party cookies. You can’t even log in properly to Teams if your browser is in incognito/private mode.

As someone who is not LGBTQ+ but is trying to understand it myself, the biggest key to “getting it” is separating sex and gender. Sex would be your biological make up, regardless of genital configuration. That’s your classic XX vs XY vs the rare “non-standard”. It’s important to note that there are multiple types of different physical configurations that are “male or female” - Anatomical, Hormonal, Chromosomal, and Cellular - and they frequently do not line up 100%.

Gender is separate from this as a mental construct/thought pattern. For most people, these two things line up, and that is your standard Cis person. A Trans person is where their mental configuration does not match their physical configuration. When this causes significant mental distress we call it gender dysphoria. For the rest, we call it being Trans, non-Binary or something else.

Isn’t that where they would receive the best treatment for themselves? Aren’t gender pronouns useful when distinguishing between biological differences in the medical field?

Why would there be a difference between gendered wards in the quality of the care? Health care is tailored to the patient, where in the hospital they are located shouldn’t affect it.

Aside from the standard dark patterns and extraneous, feature-forcing bloat, I really dislike that flat-design trend. Not just does it look kinda bad, but everything is so physically bloated to try to separate it from everything else that you get notably less usable screen space resulting in annoyingly little information density.

Because the majority of them are elected by the community that they serve. The rest are assigned by the current sitting state government. While this does result in politically aligned judges, in theory it ensures that the judges align with the current desires of the population. In practice, the whole thing is so twisted, convoluted and corrupted that it’s just a nightmare.

Back a long time ago when I worked as a cashier, it was store policy for us to bag everything for the customer. They could offer to bag, but we were expected to just start bagging automatically unless they interjected.

I’m pretty sure that is his point, the microblogging on kbin was not a draw to make him choose it over lemmy.

While I do use a USB-C phone, the thing I miss most about the audio jack is a wired audio connection that doesn’t remove charging or require a separately purchased dongle.

not just sent through, but indefinitely stored on the cloud server, despite advertising that it was not cloud-connected. It also generated facial-recognition based IDs for people which was also stored, and every single device could be connected to through an non-authorized connection request from VLC player.

DnD classes will fall into 1 of 2 categories when it comes to stats - SAD and MAD. These stand for Single- or Multiple-Attribute-Dependant - and the Paladin is very much MAD. For SAD characters, you throw everything into getting that primary attribute to max out, and the rest is just gravy. A MAD character will focus differently. It’s better to have multiple mid-high stats than maxing out a single stat.

As a melee character, you’ll need high Strength and Constitution, and as a paladin, a decent Cha. Getting these all to mid-high will mean you neglect your Dex, Int and Wis.

Most people play with significantly higher stats than the standard array, which the monsters are balanced for, but since I don’t know what stat arrays or generation method you will be using, we’ll look at the standard array. 15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8

Realistically, you’ll want CON as your highest stat. Staying power will be more important than pure DPS as you are the tank and healer. Smite will help with your damage output.

That being said, you still need to be able to hit things. 14 goes to Str.
Cha will be prioritized next, as this directly affects your spell saves, how frequently you can use some class abilities, and later on how strong the saving throws of you and your party are. 13 here.

Generally, I’ll prefer WIS > DEX > INT here, but you can adjust it based on what saves you think will be targeted most. WIS tends to be the save targeted by mind control most often, Dex for AOEs, and INT is super rare, but also very deadly. There are arguments to be made for each one to be prioritized. Pick your poison.

For Races,
Aasimar is pretty strong. Volos versions will have +2 Cha and either +1 Con, Wis or Str. MotM Aasimar is even stronger, with a “you choose” spread of +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1 and all of them have a good doubling up of free healing if you want to ensure that your party never stays down.
Bugbears are also a strong choice. +2 Str and 10ft reach are pretty compelling options.
Dragonborn have good stat distribution too - +2 Str, +1 Cha. These pair nicely with Paladins, and the energy resistance is really nice. However don’t put too much stock in the breath weapon. It’s low damage, and 1/short rest.
Volo’s Goliath is a strong choice if you want to lean into the tank options. +2 Str, +1 Con, and proficiency times / long rest, you can reaction to reduce incoming damage from an attack by 1d12+CON.

Finally, you can’t discount Variant Human or Custom Lineage for the free feat. These things can pack so much power into you that it’s worth the loss of stats. War Caster will let you tank up with a shield from day 1 without it impacting your spell casting, and give you advantage on Concentration checks which you will probably be making a lot of. Paladins don’t get a lot of offensive spell options, but have good concentration-based buffs. Resilient Con for +1 con and proficiency bonus to Con saves is really strong.

If you want to lean into pure high damage numbers, the bonus feat is the way to go. Variant Human Paladin of Vengence, pick up Pole-Arm Mastery and use a glaive or halberd. As soon as you can, grab Great Weapon Master. At level 5, you get your boss-killing option in Vow of Enmity, which gives you advantage on all attacks against something for 10 rounds, with 2-3 attacks per round (2 on the round you activate it, 3 every other round). A Glaive attack would be either +5, 1d10+2 when you don’t expect to hit easily, or +0 1d10+12 when you have advantage or when you do. The math has been run, and it’s essentially always worth it, in a damage per round calculation, to do this when you have advantage, and if you crit it goes Nova.
2d10+12+6d8 (lvl2 smite) = 49 average damage, 72 damage max. Higher if you have a magic weapon, or better stat spread.
And you still get your Heavy Armor AC of 17 or 18.

you can easily get higher numbers with multi-classing shenanigans, but these are almost always 1 trick ponies, and often once a day things. A solid paladin can keep trucking for much longer, and if you have any support-oriented party members who will buff you (Haste, Bless, etc), then you’ll be a juggernaut.

Those are Rookie numbers. Got 67 tabs on mobile, and 6ish windows with 30-50 on my laptop. Not sure how many are on my desktop, but it’s spread across 3 browsers.

No, those are the exceptions I think. I suspect that removing them would have caused too much trouble for the main campaigns, because they would have had to explain that there is missing content and why for anyone who would be watching them for the first time.

While there is speculation that him leaving was related to this, there’s no confirmation, and chances are it was a different reason. Personally I suspect it was related to his substance abuse issues and his frequency of lashing out at trolls online. The breakup and restraining order were both this year, and DV is VERY often hidden in plain sight. Most people who interact with DV victims are completely unaware, because most people who commit DV are very good at being charming when they want to be and the victims are usually too afraid to let the people around them know.

Considering one of the things they are removing is a talk show that he hosted that lasted for multiple seasons, yeah. kinda.

This is very well done in Dimension 20’s Fantasy High live-play games. One of their dieties hates part of itself because they have 2 different worship bases, and one base REALLY hates the other base and ended up nearly wiping out the original worshipers. This has resulted in the god having the personality worshiped by the second base, with traces of the first personality still coming through, and hating itself for when that happens.

Something like would probably require the Gods to be very active in the world, just to protect themselves, since it enables the option of a hostile takeover or pseudo-mind-control of a greater power. With how easily cults are formed here, a world where the Gods are demonstrably real and mind control actually exists would just make it that much easier to create offshoots and true believers.

Haven’t got the diamonds yet to start the clones, but I’ve got a nice set up so far and I should be able to get the clones started at the end of the next session.
I’ve got multiple vessels set up on a Demiplane for extra insurance, a homunculus to monitor them and help me wake up, as well as Drawmij’s Instant Summons cast on my spell book with the sapphire next to my clone case so I can retrieve my spell book if I do die, and a stockpile of preserved, dry food and extra clothes to keep me for a few days while I reorient.

Goo-B-Gone or Goo-Gone, plus steel wool like SOS pads or Scotch-Guard. Razors would work if it was a flat surface, but on a curved one like a bottle or glass, you want the flexibility of the steel wool.

My current campaign has Me: Halfling Divination Wizard who is really wanted to be a Necromancer, a Human Paladin who is staunchly anti-religion, a Human Rogue(Homebrew Alchemist subclass)/Wizard whose alignment is Chaotic/Asshole and who has a tendency to be receptive of Devil deals, a Half-Orc Barbarian/Druid who has a phobia of Orcs, and a Kalashtar Eldritch Knight.

We just hit level 14, and my Wizard has started looking into how to make himself immortal.

The GOP accusations were a tonne of child porn and conspiracied themselves into proof of murder, pedophilia rings and all sorts of crime. The laptop likely didn’t exist, and if it did, certainly wasn’t his.