How long till DOGE sues Meta to drop the ‘book’ part…

Eat the rich, bury their bones, grow a better world

How about the 43% of us who are somehow PROUD about never reading a book

I will never argue against this, Sigil is my true home but there’s no way that WoTC made that a main setting

I’m old

And if you’ve seen long form LLM output, you know why publishers aren’t ditching human writers for the foreseeable future

Let me save you some time: There is literally nothing you can post that will cause me to doubt my writing skill, though I invite you to try.

Writing’s just my hobby side hustle and I doubt anyone is going to waste processing power on my particular niche

In all fairness, the focus on Forgotten Realms meant a ton of more resources went into developing modules and merchandise for that patchwork mess than the primary setting the actual developers played in

Can you IMAGINE if Greyhawk had HALF the budget of Forgotten Realms…

I disagree, Forgotten Realms got its push in the 3.0 era, and was fully established by supplement count in 3.5.

Largely due to Neverwinter Nights and as you mentioned Icewind Dale, and how many of you it brought to the fandom, guaranteeing Greyhawk a sad capitalist death

And I have never forgiven any of you for it

That’s nice you can do that

I can’t, at least without medication with life crippling side effects

But go you I guess

And I’ve had a lot more setbacks than successes, my aunt isn’t the only one I’ve been working on but she’s the only one to make progress.

Don’t give up! There is a hopeful future at the end of all of this if we can just get 10% of them to understand

Ok I gotta admit Athas is an amazing fucking setting but in NO WAY could be considered the ‘core’ setting

I have had some struggle trying to find a Greyhawk campaign to join, it’s kind of fueled this post

I’ve had small success with my aunt by focusing on her love of children, explaining how many are dying under the needlessly cruel boot of Israel

From what I have figured out:

1. They need to already respect you in some way, this does not work on random strangers unless you are a top tier communicator or public figure

2. You need to identify the levers, for my aunt it is babies in danger. It will be different for different people, you need to do your homework

3. INFINITE PATIENCE and consistently reiterating your own genuine respect for them (this can be hard, you may need to dig deep), you need to show them that they aren’t your enemy and that they have been lied to by people they have trusted for nefarious purposes

4. Play on the rights inherent distrust for the elite, Muskrat and co ARE the elite! Look at what he’s doing to medicare!

5. It will take many, many sessions and you CANNOT falter or get impatient or it gives them an excuse to dismiss everything before

It’s not easy, it takes time and effort, though it is doable

we entered our ‘death throes’ when Nixon was pardoned, it’s just taken some time to start rotting from within

We live on a cultural whale-fall and we’re eating ourselves now

That’s so 2000’s, my vote is ultrasonics

Magnesium supplements, but be careful a lot of them give you barely 10% USDA a pill and cost tons

Better to find bulk magnesium gluconate on amazon in powder form and mix it into a drink daily. Has a pleasant taste unlike Magnesium Citrate but if you are desperate you can get that now in the form of No-salt salt substitutes in any grocery spice aisle but it is really bitter and nasty but will do the job.

I was the same way for the last 10+ years, and after a week of daily magnesium I was able to fall asleep in minutes and woke up more rested. I still have other stress in my life but being able to get a consistent full 6 hours after so many years of 2 and 4 that makes all the difference

It’s been a profound game changer for me

Oh look another entitled artist to block

I wonder how many of you whined when paintbrushes were invented

I love fingerpainting so much and it’s taken years to get to a point where I’m satisfied enough to share my paintings. Only thing is now there’s Brushes and I’m disturbed by the fact there’s so many people who prefer Brush generated art and will feel no remorse using it since it is basically an art theft machine.

Anyone comfortable in this growing fascist nation is either deluded or an active enemy

That’s why I spend as much time as I can high and playing video games

Can’t change the outer world and don’t want to live in it

So I’ll make my own a dozen times over