Fang is a typical 18-year-old dinosaur: they’re more concerned about their band going viral than they are about what happens after graduation. But they’re about to have much bigger problems. Will they find time to figure themselves out? Can they balance a potential apocalypse and a budding romance? During hard times, what do we owe each other?
Fang is a typical 18-year-old dinosaur: they’re more concerned about their band going viral than they are about what happens after graduation. But they’re about to have much bigger problems. Will they find time to figure themselves out? Can they balance a potential apocalypse and a budding romance? During hard times, what do we owe each other?
When the synopsis starts with "a typical 18-year-old dinosaur", you know you're in for something.
dem fucking teenage dinosaurs, always getting on my lawn.
Dungeons & Dragons teaches that diversity is strength, for only a diverse group of adventurers can overcome the many challenges a D&D story presents. In that spirit, making D&D as welcoming and inclusive as possible has moved to the forefront of our priorities over the last six years. We’d like to share with you what we’ve been doing, and what we plan to do in the future to address legacy D&D content that does not reflect who we are today. We recognize that doing this isn’t about getting to a place where we can rest on our laurels but continuing to head in the right direction. We feel that being transparent about it is the best way to let our community help us to continue to calibrate our efforts.
One of the explicit design goals of 5th edition D&D is to depict humanity in all its beautiful diversity by depicting characters who represent an array of ethnicities, gender identities, sexual orientations, and beliefs. We want everyone to feel at home around the game table and to see positive reflections of themselves within our products. “Human” in D&D means everyone, not just fantasy versions of northern Europeans, and the D&D community is now more diverse than it’s ever been.
Throughout the 50-year history of D&D, some of the peoples in the game—orcs and drow being two of the prime examples—have been characterized as monstrous and evil, using descriptions that are painfully reminiscent of how real-world ethnic groups have been and continue to be denigrated. That’s just not right, and it’s not something we believe in. Despite our conscious efforts to the contrary, we have allowed some of those old descriptions to reappear in the game. We recognize that to live our values, we have to do an even better job in handling these issues. If we make mistakes, our priority is to make things right.
Here’s what we’re doing to improve:
We present orcs and drow in a new light in two of our most recent books, Eberron: Rising from the Last War and Explorer's Guide to Wildemount. In those books, orcs and drow are just as morally and culturally complex as other peoples. We will continue that approach in future books, portraying all the peoples of D&D in relatable ways and making it clear that they are as free as humans to decide who they are and what they do.
When every D&D book is reprinted, we have an opportunity to correct errors that we or the broader D&D community discovered in that book. Each year, we use those opportunities to fix a variety of things, including errors in judgment. In recent reprintings of Tomb of Annihilation and Curse of Strahd, for example, we changed text that was racially insensitive. Those reprints have already been printed and will be available in the months ahead. We will continue this process, reviewing each book as it comes up for a reprint and fixing such errors where they are present.
Later this year, we will release a product (not yet announced) that offers a way for a player to customize their character’s origin, including the option to change the ability score increases that come from being an elf, a dwarf, or one of D&D's many other playable folk. This option emphasizes that each person in the game is an individual with capabilities all their own.
Curse of Strahd included a people known as the Vistani and featured the Vistani heroine Ezmerelda. Regrettably, their depiction echoes some stereotypes associated with the Romani people in the real world. To rectify that, we’ve not only made changes to Curse of Strahd, but in two upcoming books, we will also show—working with a Romani consultant—the Vistani in a way that doesn’t rely on reductive tropes.
We've received valuable insights from sensitivity readers on two of our recent books. We are incorporating sensitivity readers into our creative process, and we will continue to reach out to experts in various fields to help us identify our blind spots.
We're proactively seeking new, diverse talent to join our staff and our pool of freelance writers and artists. We’ve brought in contributors who reflect the beautiful diversity of the D&D community to work on books coming out in 2021. We're going to invest even more in this approach and add a broad range of new voices to join the chorus of D&D storytelling.
TL:DR = we think black people are like savage fantasy orcs and, since we're totally not racist, we're going to make every race just human. "Diversity", ho!
I don't believe Vavra is a racist or a nazi, however, quickly glancing at his Tweeter feed, all I see is political shit. That or flamebait "opinions" about all sorts of cultural products, with a focus on a certain category of them.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Seems to me that it's only a small vocal minority that cares about this shit, even on the Resetera thread it's an overwhelming majority who doesn't give a fuck about it. Why bother ? I don't get it.
I don't believe Vavra is a racist or a nazi, however, quickly glancing at his Tweeter feed, all I see is political shit. That or flamebait "opinions" about all sorts of cultural products, with a focus on a certain category of them.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes Seems to me that it's only a small vocal minority that cares about this shit, even on the Resetera thread it's an overwhelming majority who doesn't give a fuck about it. Why bother ? I don't get it.
jaiks, just rewatched mad men season 1 (2007?) , in one episode a clever girl who comes up with a add slogan, is joked about by the impressed men and compare her to a dog playing the piano
Turns out that the transgender murder simulator isn't going to be released later this year by some kurwas, but that it's already out for almost 7 years now
What a load of bullshit... it's a videogame, retards
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
"I've small penis will design a skyscraper", erectile disfunction why not build a draw bridge.
sar·casm | \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \
1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual
b: the use or language of sarcasm
Leslie and I are safe My keyboard had water poured all over it and no longer works properly which makes this statement much harder to do but besides that it seems like my personal belongings are also safe. This is my statement.
Sky and i go way back to the Brawl days, I've known him since 2008. I left the smash scene and didn't talk to him very much at all after my departure but I still had fond memories of him going to smash tournaments together and whatnot. We barely talked up until 2017 which is when he messaged me out of the blue saying he's in serious debt to the IRS. He told me he would go to prison and his career would be over unless he received a significant amount of money. After several back and forth messages I eventually agreed to lend him 55,000 dollars.
Instead of taking the money I lent him to pay off his debts he decided to use it to rent out the infamous Sky Mansion. That place only exists because I funded it not knowing the kind of person he had become.
We had an agreement that he would pay me back 1,000 dollars a month after an initial 3 month grace period. This was so he could get himself organized to make content again. It turned out to be the biggest mistake I have ever made in my life. Nobody has called me an idiot or a moron more than myself for the mess I got into. It was a terrible investment and I don't consider myself a victim for lending him the money, it was a mistake I made and I have to live with that.
To this day he hasn't paid me back a single penny. If you think that's bad, keep reading, it's about to get much worse.
Back in the Brawl days I would often house Sky and other norcal smashers for tournaments. My mom and Sky ended up having a really great relationship and of course that made me like Sky even more. During this time my mom was battling breast cancer and eventually died in 2016 after battling the illness for nearly a decade. Sky was very aware of my moms condition and knew I came from a family blessed with financial privilege.
When he messaged me asking for money he told me the reason he went broke is because he spent all his money helping his dad pay for his cancer treatment. This struck am emotional chord with me because I have personally sacrificed lots of my own time and even money helping my mom during her time of sickness. Here is the worst part that I don't think I will ever get over.
HIS DAD NEVER HAD CANCER! I repeat, he made up the story about his dad having cancer as a way to manipulate someone he calls a good friend into giving him money. The excuse he has told me is that his dad lied to him about having cancer and instead used the money on a cosmetic surgery for his penis. I am not joking, this is the excuse he has used several times. I know it's hilarious but it just makes it harder to take my situation seriously when he turns it into such a joke like that.
I can confirm everything Melissa has said about the Sky Mansion when it comes to social hierarchy. I spoke out against Sky several times about many of the problematic situations that arose while at the house. These problems include the power dynamic, favoritism, manipulation, alcoholism, and the shady ways he was making money to pay for rent. He would very often ask people for money and there is at least one other person (who I won't name) that Sky owes even more money to than me. Every time I confronted him it only made my living situation there worse. He never allowed guests to know how this mansion came to be and instead would take full credit. Sometimes even as I was standing right there in front of him.
Instead of paying me back he would treat his roommates to free dinners, free video games and even free trips to Vegas which included him buying a couple roommates prostitutes and hotel rooms. He literally took my money and gambled it at Vegas and a local casino. I was horrified by what I was witnessing. This is a friend I trusted, one who laid out a bogus plan to pay me back which seemed like a guarantee.
He has told me that I'm a walking reminder of his guilt and has subtly threatened to kick me out on several occasions. Keep in mind, I am the main reason why this mansion exists. He made almost no content during the entire time he lived there and would still find ways to blame his struggle on me and other housemates that lived with him at the time. He would do this despite all the obvious help and support he had been receiving from everybody at the house. We all wanted to see him succeed.
I never wanted to make a statement like this and it deeply saddens me that I have to. It will take a long time to heal from this.
dafuq
boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:
i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then
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Seems to me that it's only a small vocal minority that cares about this shit, even on the Resetera thread it's an overwhelming majority who doesn't give a fuck about it. Why bother ? I don't get it.
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