Our very kind DM: Okay, the Nothic has noticed you, and you feel a terrible dread wash over you. What are you gonna do?
Rogue (ooc): I’m proficient in persuasion, I’m gonna tell it I mean it no harm, I meant to miss that shot, please don’t kill me.
DM: Roll for it
Rogue (ooc): I got a 23
DM: [sigh] You hear a voice in your head telling you “There is no harm done, but I require sustenance. Bring me bodies.”
Fighter (ooc): Wait, he lives in a crevasse in a cave and he eats corpses? He’s the Trash Man! He’s Danny Devito!
For the rest of the session and the next, our whole party (excluding our Wizard) made friends with the Nothic and kept calling him Danny or Mr. Devito, with our DM reluctantly agreeing to let us. In the next session, however, she made the Nothic forget us and our bargain, making us kill Danny Devito.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers not being allowed to sit down for their entire shifts, no matter how dead the traffic flow gets.
Capitalist culture is service industry workers sacrificing their comfort for antagonizing and pervy customers who are “always right”.
Capitalist culture is giving students homework in order to prepare them for their future careers where they’ll inevitably need to “take work home with them” or work extra hours in order to put bread on the table.
Capitalist culture is helping physically/mentally ill people only to the extent that they’re able to generate profitable labor again.
Capitalist culture is destroying food that can’t be sold rather than distributing it to poor people according to need.
Capitalist culture is monetizing knowledge and making it artificially scarce so that owners can profit and laypeople are left in the dark.
cool fact for people who have a problem with looting:
cops in america are legally allowed to take people’s property (including large sums of money) purely because they feel like it. it’s called civil forfeiture and there are literally thousands of cases of pigs taking people’s property. that is looting.
i watched this happen to my roommate after the cops kicked our doors in at 6 AM on a weekday for a no-knock raid that, surprise surprise, didn’t turn out anything. they opened his wallet in front of him, took out about $300 and told him that since they had no record of where it came from on premises, that they’d have to take it from him. they took this man’s rent money right in front of him while he was in cuffs and told him “too bad”.
there was also a friend’s car in our drive way that had broken down so they left it over night. the doors were locked and the windows were up, and since the owner wasn’t there, they decided it’d be cool to just bust in all the windows to perform another fruitless search.
In Philly it’s been a HUGE and MASSIVE problem with cops taking people’s bank accounts, cars, electronics and pretty much anything worth any amount of money under a law that lets the DA seize property they think is related to a crime. “Related’ is a vague term though. They once forced a women and her grandchildren out of her home to sell it at auction because her son was found by police with $20 worth of weed.
(Depending on the property in question it can go under Civil Property Seizure or Seize and Seal, they’re not the same law but they work the same)
They don’t have to prove it’s related to a crime before or after, and even if the person suspected of the crime is cleared at questioning or acquitted at trial, you have to go through a MONTHS long process of court appearances (you can’t miss one or be late or you lose, no rescheduling) in hopes that they MIGHT get their stuff back. Most don’t.
Most people don’t think it’s worth the expense of days missed at work and a lawyer to get back a couple hundred dollars or whatever else the police stole. The city makes MILLIONS of dollars each year off this, around $6-10 (The DA doesn’t provide figures)
If
you want to get super fancy, do a second ring on the outside of 4’ tall
sunflowers then a third outer ring of the 1’ tall teddy bear
sunflowers. If there are any gaps you can interplant with cosmos,
amaranth and nasturtiums or (if there are huge gaps) gourds.
My mom used to do this for me in the backyard as a kid- it really works and I always loved it! Spent so many summer days having tea parties with teddy bears in my sunflower house.
Posted this to twitter, but it seems like a lot of people either didn’t know or wanted to boost it, so posting here too:
Hey hey, yo yo, if you’re gonna draw a kimono, or gi top, or whatever, remember it crosses left over right. Unless your character is dead.
Thanks this has been your weekend PSA
I’m gonna have to add this b/c I just saw another one, but CR S2 Ep1 JUST dropped, and already I’m seeing a number of Beau designs with it crossed the wrong way. PLEASE PLEASE be careful, ppl
Reblogging with a helpful (semi-scribbled) visual. Tagging for Critical Role b/c we need to be mindful if we do Beau in this kind of top ^__^
Still seeing Beau designs with it crossed the wrong way, ‘cmon critters, let’s keep getting this out to the artists.
Also can we not with the “well maybe she’s dead LOL” in responses.
She’s not, & seeing it drawn wrong is VASTLY uncomfortable. Goes hand in hand with don’t leave chopsticks stuck into your rice bowl, & don’t pass food chopstick to chopstick
“My suggestion was quite simple: Put that needed code number in a little capsule, and then implant that capsule right next to the heart of a volunteer. The volunteer would carry with him a big, heavy butcher knife as he accompanied the President. If ever the President wanted to fire nuclear weapons, the only way he could do so would be for him first, with his own hands, to kill one human being. The President says, “George, I’m sorry but tens of millions must die.” He has to look at someone and realize what death is—what an innocent death is. Blood on the White House carpet. It’s reality brought home.” - Richard Fisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (1981)
Never forget that part of the reason this system was never implemented was that when he presented it to his colleagues, their response was IIRC “George, that’s terrible! If he has to take an innocent life, he may never press the button.”
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
