Friend, I came here to say just this.
Siege of the Tower by the White Rose and it’s just absolute nightmare fuel. Man and Woman slaughtering one another by day only gives way to wizards trying to find the most creative ways to slaughter them all by night.
Bro these are so cool. Why the heck did they switch to the star wars ripoffs?
I absolutely loathed the existence of Nynaeve for the longest time. Always wanting to play the parent, bound to the hierarchy of the two rivers and tradition, cold as ice and hard as stone.
Then she starts to change, the children she helped raise start firing back. People smarter or more experienced than her knock her down a peg. She tugs her braid and you truly know someone got to her. She starts to lecture, then someone gives her a look and she stops.
You can’t help but smile or laugh at this matronly figure realising the world is bigger than her influence and yet she remains an immovable object stuck in the wake of the Dragon Reborn. Always standing up for what’s right no matter the cost.
She went from my least like character to one of my favourites.
My man needs a tirfor jack or a mechanical winch. Of course, the dull gentleman uses the tools at hand though.
Fr. Moose wouldn’t be the only remaining megafauna in North America if they were the size of our deer.
We usually can see it but only once it’s too late. If you’re fast you can usually get rid of all the brood comb and pray it doesn’t continue to spread but usually the hive is a goner.
It’s spotted by discoloured larva, a bad smell and poke tests. It’s one of those diseases you can’t really manage. It contributes to hive collapse syndrome along with varoa mites which we’re still studying.
A big reason this disease gets to spread along with Varoa is because of factory farming of honey and the global transportation of colonies for annual pollination cycles. Especially barley and other grain.
Capitalism is literally at fault for hive collapse syndrome.
People who write their skill modifier in the big box weren’t raised right. Big box for big number. Little circle for little number.
Yes, I’m a nerd. Fight me, you’ll probably win.
I experience this daily. I believe in this iintrinsically.
It doesn’t recommend using reddit. It recommends moving from reddit to lemmy.
I think it’s that Dragon Quest was pretty Genre defining. Not really first of its kind but one of the greats of its time.
Ah, shit. I forgot where I was…
Kind philosopher, certain citizens of this democracy have associated social hierarchy to the order of the alphabet.
This is related to the observed hierarchy of wolves. Those enjoyers of fables such as Homer’s writings have taken a liking to comparing themselves to famous heroes in these fables.
One may see Zeus as an Alpha. The leader of the pack who lays with all women.
Or the enlightened mind may see Hephaestus as a Sigma for, despite being ugly and disliked he still lays with the goddess of beauty and sexuality.
Further, one may consider Odysseus a Beta/Cuckold because he does not take the advice of Ariadne and becomes lost within the labyrinth (of his mind?).
Memes may be portrayed as art on urns or as murals in bath houses depicting such stories of victory, lust and woe. Many people enjoy sharing these for a quick chuckle.
It’s a derivation of the cultish manosphere philosophy. Further related to the idea that wolves and humans are organised in packs by social status.
Alpha: The typical macho leader
Beta/Beta-cuck: The nobody that lets the alpha fuck his girl
Sigma: The far evolved thinking man. Leads from the shadows, could take all the girls but doesn’t cause they’re too busy in the pursuit of knowledge. Basically the line wolf.
This is again an extension of the Cool Chad/Slut Stacy/Nerd trope but with the addition of a Sigma.
Nowadays you call someone a Sigma to basically say they’re a Chad/cool.
Then there’s also a meme where you just ask people “Hey, What’s a Sigma?”
Here’s a KYM page about it. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sigma-males
I typically play female characters in games too. Always have. They’re something outside my world experience, I can experience the story through a lense I may not have seen otherwise.
It’s nice to see yourself represented but like… Shiiiiiiit dude. I’m reading a book or playing a game to be immersed in the story. Why people put so much stock into who or what a character is; it’s beyond me.
I just want some good stories with good characters. I can’t fucking wait to kick ass as Cirilla in the Witcher. I loved being Girlboss V in Cyberpunk, Senua was stellar.
Open world RPG? Bet your ass I wanna be goth mommy in plate armour ripping out a dragon’s throat.
Also sometimes games had smaller hitboxes for women and little me fucked with that more than anything.
Oh no! A bigot doesn’t wanna talk to me.
Do you think people can do that? Just go on the internet and lie?
People of colour aren’t a thing anywhere? Damn, gotta inform like… 6.5 billion people they don’t exist.
Do you fail to see how people of certain socioeconomic backgrounds and racial backgrounds may have different values and viewpoints thus making them worthy of inclusion by virtue of having different values and viewpoints?
Like… I feel like you’re focused on the racial background of this while ignoring the fact that -to paraphrase you- Poor little Mayo kids will also benefit from DEI practices that admit people based on personal experience over “qualification”.
Isn’t part of the American dream that anyone, of any make and model can find opportunity if they talk to the right person?
The gays vs Gays
The blacks vs Blacks
The poors vs the poor
Coloured People vs People of Colour
Okay, so since you don’t recognise that people of colour are a thing outside of America…
Is it not a DEI program to provide Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive school admissions to the poor.
Overheard two ladies in Cambodian Tire talking about how the election was stolen and clearly a fraud because “The liberals got themselves over 26 million votes!”
Lady, there are only 28 million eligible electors in Canada. If we had 93% voter turnout just for the liberals… I mean, shit.
Bible belt region Onterrible btw.