Recent content by Charlaquin

  1. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    As with most of the problems facing humanity today, the technology itself is not inherently harmful, but it is extremely dangerous when turned towards reckless pursuit of profit and centralization of power above all other priorities.
  2. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    Oh, I do agree that the internet has never been a worse place than it is now, with the centralization, the automation of moderation, the algorithmically driven direction of traffic, the proliferation of AI-generated content… it has all come together to turn the internet into a giant...
  3. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    Social media is certainly bad for people’s mental health. I’m not convinced the pre-social media internet was all that much better though. Plenty of us wandered into some truly horrific content in those Wild West days… Faces of Death, the pain sequence, rotten.org… not to mention the...
  4. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    It really isn’t. It’s an aesthetic that is waning in popularity, because newer audiences find it uncomfortably reminiscent of real-life bigoted rhetoric. Since WotC is in the business of making money, they have made changes to their product to accommodate the aesthetic preferences of the...
  5. Charlaquin

    D&D General Adventurers a distasteful necessity

    Big fan of this take. This also helps give an explanation to the “Mos Eisely Cantina effect.” No one wants to be an adventurer; it’s dangerous, thankless, and drives people away. But if the common folk already distrust you anyway because you’re a drow, or an orc, or a Tabaxi, or some other type...
  6. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    In the first season the bullies tried to literally murder Mike
  7. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    like I said, I didn’t care when they called Erica’s character a “rogue” instead of a “thief” in season 4, because it’s a different name for the same class, so whatever. But, this bit in particular bothers me because if they’re bringing up classes that didn’t exist at all yet, then they picked...
  8. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    And you responded with a bunch of completely unrelated rambling, defending against an accusation I never made - namely, that you dislike when media changes - and immediately went on to… complain about the ways D&D changed. I think in tennis they call that an unforced error.
  9. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    To be fair, the exaggerated degrees of bullying are partly coming from the show’s influences - Steven Spielberg, Stephen King… possibly other artists with different spellings of the same first name… anyway, murderous bullies were a staple feature of the entertainment that Stranger Things is...
  10. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    That sounds awesome!
  11. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    I didn’t? Looks like a question to me. Who’s the one making assumptions here?
  12. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    This is a fascinating way to answer the question “are edgy kids saying Blue Sky Platform instead of woke now?”
  13. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    The Blue Sky community is literally just the Twitter community who were tired of all the nazis there. Not hard to go further left of “I would prefer not to talk to nazis.”
  14. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    Is “Blue Sky Platform” what the edgy kids are saying instead of “Woke” these days?
  15. Charlaquin

    Penguin Random House Announces New D&D Romantasy Book

    The thread is about a romance book. Maybe you’re not familiar with the genre, but sex is like… the point of romance books. They have lots of other stuff in them, and they don’t always have actual “on camera” sex, but they’re still fundamentally and primarily about sex.
Top