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I've been talking about patterns for reason. One red flag is cause for notice, but not necessarily alarm. Lord knows I've said enough ignorant nonsense in my time. Enough of them happen though and the brush, unfortunately, fits just fine. Hypothetically, if one cared enough to want to be...

Listen to people and they'll tell you who they are

Oh, you're certainly going to come to the wrong conclusions from time to time. Nobody is infallible. But you'll be right far more often than not, and you'll be doing Life(tm) right.

Unfortunately for... well, everyone, really; there are plenty of places on the internet where "modern elements" is explicitly used as a stand-in for "multiculturalism" amongst people who very much don't care for multiculturalism. Someone in this very thread indicated they specifically didn't...

Wasn't this clickbait debunked a while ago?

Evolutionarily speaking, there's a reason why humans won out in the end. It wasn't opposable thumbs or tools that did it. It was pattern recognition. Never apologize for recognizing patterns when you see them.

I don't like to do it either; I'm much happier giving people the benefit of the doubt. For some of us, though, identifying red flags and listening to people when they tell you who they are is literally a survival tactic. Edit: This, basically

I mean, hell, if it worked for the NFL of all things it can work for D&D

No joke, if WotC finally caved that would immediately be my next PC

Me trying to find where I or anyone else said that: Less glibly, no someone who doesn't like high heels in D&D doesn't necessarily hate women; and I wouldn't call this in a vacuum evidence of the sort. I can't say I find this strawman particularly compelling; Oh, I love to give people the...

Re: Inspiration: I think it's a mistake to say that 5e (and the original PHB especially) wore its pop cultural inspirations pretty heavily on their sleeve. I mean, you had two Cleric domains that were essentially "Be Thor" and "Be Loki" -the subclass. Way of Four Elements was an obvious Avatar...

But the answer to any question about it should just simply be "no"

Depending on the basis of that opinion, this idea is actually false. Especially when said basis in founded in animus regarding particular groups of people. Now, generally speaking, in the absence of people outright speaking their point of view, figuring this out is primarily speculation. But in...

Also, unrelated to the above, but can someone please explain to me how that game somehow still manages to get discussed on this forum?

I dunno, Dr. Phil was technically a real mental health professional until '07, and he's always been awful to people

Well, to be fair, one of these was created a man who claimed he was taught how to do it by a ghost from the "other world", and the other deals with nutirition.

Our local "big city" has half the population of Manhattan, KS

Quite sadly, where I live the local pizza joints mostly barely rise above Little Caesar's level. The tandoori pizza place whips but everything else is just sad, and sometimes I want a traditional pizza, and Domino's has an awesome stuffed crust all-meat that would make my doctor weep. Especially...

The problem I have is that I simply cannot accept a judgment about several different pizza chains when all they're trying is the thin crust. Why judge a chain on their worst pizza? Domino's has a stuffed crust that blows Papa John's out of the water, no matter how far removed they may be from...