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Okay, the problem here isn't the immovable rod, or the cleverness. It's him making rulings like "if I make two hits they're immobilized". That's not a feature the rod has. The rod just stops moving. You can't use it to immobilize something most of the time. It's just gonna sit there. It doesn't...

It seems to me that "pay attention to diversity" is an exceedingly vague phrase. Consider the difference between "GM decides that the tavern owner in this small town is gay, because why not" and "GM declares that at least three PCs must be gay". One of these is "including some diversity in the...

In my experience, people who do not pay attention to "diversity" are usually functionally exclusive even when they are very sure they are not being exclusive. If you have the option of not paying attention to diversity, then you are probably not going to notice the ways in which people are...

That's often the case, yeah. But if people like a thing, they like it.

But "anecdata" is a useful concept. Obviously the game wasn't inherently and always non-inclusive previously, or I wouldn't have been around to have this conversation. My point is, there exist people who are reporting that they experienced the paragraph as affecting them or their environment...

I've seen it used a lot for things that affect subsets of users, like adding non-color cues for colorblind users. So it radically alters the way the game plays for those people. Sometimes it's for everyone, sometimes not so much. It's more a statement about scope of impact than anything else; a...

This definition is unfamiliar to me. I'm used to it as a description of how much the game is changed for a given person, not as a general claim that everyone must be affected.

And it does. For some people. That's a game changer for those people.

There are a lot of people for whom even a complete stranger sending them a death threat is indeed hugely upsetting. So far as I can tell, they're the majority. I see your problem here. People generally assume they are much more typical and representative than they actually are. You're on the...

There's a large gap between "need X" and "might benefit from X". What I don't get is: If some people report that it has been a game changer for them or people they know, and other people say it hasn't been a game changer for them or people they know... How on earth do you get to the...

That is simply not how human social processing works. They've never been explicitly barred from playing, but they've absolutely been explicitly barred from being characters in games, and that has been quite reasonably taken as a hint. If you can sincerely say that you've never seen any...

The issue isn't the likelihood of anything happening. It's that someone being that mad at you is in and of itself hugely upsetting to people. I mean. "Block". Why would you block them? Because it's unpleasant to most people. I don't block them, I respond mocking them in the hopes that they'll...

(fixed typo) I would point out, there are exceptions. They're just... pretty rare, and not usually regarded as healthy. ASPD is not usually adaptive.

That might happen among the people who go out of their way to tell others. But it's not the majority of the reaction. Mostly people panic and freak out. Gosh, you're right. There's never been a civil rights march of any kind, Pride parades never happened, and there was no movement for women's...

Your characterization of the fears as "self-imposed" is, I think, rather significantly misrepresenting the way fear works. If you frequently have the experience that other people react with hostility upon finding something out about you, being afraid that new groups of people may do the same if...

I am not inclined to believe that "just gets giggles when receiving death threats" is actually a common trait, so I think I'll stick with my theory that the people who can actually be hurt emotionally by other people are probably the overwhelming majority.

The second would have seemed controversial to me not that long ago. I grew up with, roughly, two words both spelled "he" in my lexicon, and one was gendered and the other was gender-neutral. But over time I became convinced that this wasn't really how the language worked. (I think the one that...

"Frail" is a relative term. It's unreasonably hard to offend me. I can identify the occasions on which it's happened. There's been maybe three in the last five years. Hurting my feelings is significantly harder. And I absolutely would agree that, in general, people who are distressed by feeling...

I wouldn't say so. If they're sincere, they're not trolling, even if they're being really disruptive. Trolling has to be about other people's reactions, not about your own. I would definitely agree. Yup.

I've seen people from basically every demographic who are not trolls, but who are actively seeking to take offense, because they get addicted to feeling angry. It's not a huge percentage or anything, but it's out there and always has been. People get into the thrill of feeling angry and not...