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[ SECRET POST #4434 ]

⌈ Secret Post #4434 ⌋

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[The Good Place]

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[Taskmaster]

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[The Umbrella Academy, "We Only See Each Other at Weddings and Funerals"]

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[Criminal Minds S04E15, "Zoe's Reprise"]

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[FBI (2018)]

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[Cameron Britton playing Ed Kemper in Mindhunter]

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Ask complex questions of anonymous strangers on the internet!!! :D

If you could be uploaded and become an artificial intelligence, would you do it, or no?

Nah, the intelligence bit would be pushing it.

Re: Question thread

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-25 07:24 (UTC) - Expand

assuming its a totally safe process and all, sure

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Re: Question thread

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-24 22:19 (UTC) - Expand

Sounds like a prison.

I'm planning on it. It's one of my life's goals.

Why in hell is my 'converting' of a movie DVD to an mp4 on VLC only successful up to a point? The *same* point? About 3/4s of the way into the converted movie file, suddenly the audio just vanishes. So frustrating.

Why do people drink and drive? Seriously? I get that drinking lowers your inhabitions. But I would never go near my car after even one drink. And I just genuinely don't understand the mindset of people who would.

My sister was hit by a drunk driver a couple days ago. She's fine other than bruises, but her car is totaled. Drunk drivers are the worst.

They do it because they think THEY are the one person who can drink and not be impaired. Or, they just don't give a shit.

Avoiding drink driving requires a level of awareness and planning. Once you realize it, obviously, it's not that difficult and becomes second nature. But some people don't realize it or just don't care enough.

I assume it's a form of arrogance combined with denial. The people who do it think they're good to go, and they don't see the need to doubt their own judgment even though yeah, their judgment is impaired. Then you have the people who have a legit drinking problem and they're in denial about it... so therefore they're NOT that drunk because then it'd mean admitting they have a problem.

Glad your sister is all right.

They don't think they're drunk.
Especially when people get older, "I'm good enough to drive." becomes, "I know I used to be good enough to drive after this many drinks." It's mostly denial, and a disregard for reality.

It's the lowering of inhibitions itself which is the problem. They don't think they should leave their vehicles/they weren't planning to drink so much/planned to drive home anyway- it combines to a total where they then convince themselves it's all going to be fine, that it's a defeat if they don't drive home themselves...
My mother's a chronic alcoholic, who both relies and demeans my father (a social alcoholic) to never drive drunk, unless it's to bring the both of them home.
Despite making a point that I didn't get my license to drive their drunk asses around, I mostly act as their carpool with it. As much as I hate it, I keep doing it because I know they'll be driving anyways...

I found some of my old floppy disks while cleaning today, but obviously I no longer have a desktop that has a floppy disk drive (though my desktop does still run on VISTA because I'ma lazy ho), but is there an attachment or something I can use to see what's on them? A couple of the labels say 'word docs' and as a writer it's killing me not to know what's on them.

Yeah you need an external floppy drive/reader. Or you might be able to mail them to a service.

Re: Question thread

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-25 00:54 (UTC) - Expand

Your local library might have one. Mine does.

I really hope it works out for you!

I wonder how old your desktop is, since it runs vista? (kudos to that btw, I still wish my I had my XP, tbh;;) I guess it's obvious it doesn't run floppy disk- I'd recommend going to a computer specialist maybe?? There's always a risk they won't find a solution, but it might be your best bet to find someone who can get the content off of your disk without corrupting the data?

How do other people define Chaotic Neutral? Because the people I've been playing with pretty much define it as "Exactly as prone to evil deeds as Chaotic Evil, but without the awareness of it being evil". We got into an argument about it yesterday, with me pointing out that 'Evil but really stupid' doesn't actually sound like a moral alignment, and that it seems unlikely to me that cultists who want to sacrifice slaves to their subterranean spider goddess honestly believe they are doing the wrong thing, so by that reasoning, they're not evil - but the rules book would disagree!

Really, I just want my "neutral" co-players to stop doing evil shit and going "BuT iT's WhAt My ChArAcTeR wOuLd Do!!!1!"

I think I'm with you? It's been a long time since I played, but when I think of Chaotic Neutral it's more like Bugs Bunny or the Animaniacs. Trickster characters, or hedonists who aren't doing evil things, just whatever the heck they want.

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Re: D&D Question

(Anonymous) - 2019-02-25 02:51 (UTC) - Expand

Chaotic Neutral is not evil at all to me. They just do whatever suits them best in the moment but they aren't actively looking to screw people over or harm anyone. Someone could get hurt as a result of their choices but it's not usually their intention. They're also totally fine with breaking laws and/or lying or stealing. Basically, they're really self-centered but they're not evil.

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Re: D&D Question

unspeakablyevil - 2019-02-25 05:19 (UTC) - Expand

So, part of the problem here is that the alignment system in D&D doesn't really make sense, and never really has, especially as some kind of moral guidance for what PC-level characters are likely to do. Law and chaos, good and evil, make sense as broad cosmic principles for characters and factions to choose to align to - and that's how they're used in the fiction that D&D is largely drawing on. But as personal motivations and psychological types, they make almost no sense at all.

So with that said, my personal interpretation - if you're trying to make them work on an individual level - is that a chaotic neutral character has no particular inclination towards being especially selfish or selfless, but has a strong inclination towards their own personal freedom and desires, and against any restrictions or any code or any ideology that would place limitations on that desire. They may do evil and selfish things incidentally, in pursuit of those desires. But the desires themselves aren't necessarily selfish, harmful, or evil; they're just unrestrained.

Also, most editions of Dungeons & Dragons are not necessarily great game systems from a design point of view, and there's a good chance that some other game system would result in a better game. In particular, 13th Age, Dungeon World, Shadow of the Demon Lord, and Torchbearer are some pretty good D&D-alikes that are generally pretty easy to pick up. And that don't force you to do things like interact with alignment systems.

-didn't read any other comment/knows nothing about D&D/character/world building in general-

The point I'm seeing is that by using a graph to pinpoint a character, they've kinda done all that they could in order to establish that point. As in you take in all their traits/deeds before putting them into any sort of category??...;;
So in a game like D&D, naming your specific character to a stereotype/ideal/graph is just an excuse to input themselves and pretend it's just their character trying to stir shit up, or attempting to get as many rewards/whatever as possible...
I realise people do this every time- but aside from troll standards, using 'chaotic neutral' as a base just might be an excuse to act like an ass...? It's the most vague and bullshitable of them all, from what I imagine...
But like, is it the promise of a 'chaotic neutral' character what you're finding so offensive?

I really have no idea what I'm talking about, obviously. But my opinion of chaotic neutral is that they have no opinion either way. They have their own set of judgments, good, or evil... They'll do their best against the law if they believe it's right, or use their knowlege, even if in the most lawless of ways to support it.../etc...
But everybody has a different opinion, and I say just kick them out if they're just ruining everyone elses fun??

Who has more privilege in America: a straight black man or a gay white woman?

Assume they're the same social class, no disabilities or anything, and the woman isn't in the closet.

Asking for a couple of friends.

Depends on the location some, but I'd say the black man overall. The woman might get more shit if she's butch, but she's not gonna get pulled over or followed in a store for being gay.

Though, I think a lot of people overlook how male stereotypes can compound with black stereotypes.

It depends so much on the specific context and also comparing privilege like it's a contest isn't necessarily a useful exercise.

If I had to give an answer, though, I would say that generally there are probably many more situations where the woman is privileged.

If they're well off, I would say the straight black man. If they're quite poor, I would probably lean towards the gay white woman. Hard to say for sure, though. There are a lot of factors to consider.

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