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Incorrect. If you had a 55-gallon drum of Vernors ginger ale and you have drunk half of it, you have less pop. If your 55-gallon drum contained some other variety of carbonated flavored beverage, whether you have less soda depends on your region and I will raise no argument.

Don't forget the third option, where the guy holding the door glares at you challengingly like he's waiting for you to give him a feminist lecture, because that is totally a thing that happens in real life and that he wants to feel aggrieved about.

At least in my state, you might be able to do this as an assisted living facility rather than as an actual nursing home/care facility, since aides in an assisted living facility do not need to be licensed the way nurses/nursing assistants must be in a nursing home, thus labor costs are much cheaper.

Sure, but MTG was Baseball Cards as a playable nerd game in addition to collecting and trading them. I guess this makes cigarette packs the original loot boxes, except that the high-end drop was cancer.

I mean, the genius of collectible card games was "what if baseball cards, but a playable nerd game?" (And before baseball cards there were cigarette cards.) The loot-box madness goes back way farther than MTG.

I'm going to skip the tedious 'imply vs. infer' and observe that you've got your back up so far that I don't think productive discourse on this topic is likely, but I'll point to 'bleed' and the discussions about consent/handling subjects like sex in the LARP community as a good reference.

Because I was responding to a comment about how we as players seem more comfortable discussing/playing violence than sexuality. Why the aggro?

I literally have no idea what this means. To elaborate, what I mean is that one reason people may be uncomfortable RP'ing or explicitly discussing sex during a game is to avoid appearing to actually be hitting on another player in the guise of "I'm just RPing". Whereas if Bob the Barbarian...

I suspect it is more the case that there is almost no question that someone at the table might be interested in inflicting real-world violence on another person.

I thought this was the "unpopular opinions" thread and not the "objectively silly opinions" thread?

I’ll see your Dread and raise you a Ten Candles. https://cavalrygames.com/ten-candles

The original poster complained that if you exclude “controversial” elements, you have a sadder and more limited campaign world because you can’t tell stories that depend on those elements. This is fallacious. First, we all exclude and include certain things that mean we can’t tell particular...

When you remove specific colors of crayons from the box, you are also making room for other colors of crayons that your box previously had no room for. And your metaphor also forgets that people were tossing out unwanted colors all along. It’s not until someone suggests they remove a color...

No, but a lot of people would like to believe that, because it's more fun to feel aggrieved about the primary-color-ization of the Official D&D Crayon Set.

Man, crayons are such a terrible analogy, but let's go with it again for a sec. You get a set of Official D&D Crayons from WOTC. Turns out they no longer sell Burnt Umber because it was an unpopular color and a majority of people bought other crayon sets with colors they liked more. But you...

So, people who are interested in the whole TTRPG hobby when they want to complain, but disinterested in anything but D&D/Pathfinder when it means they might not be 100% correct in their complaining? Okay.

Is it? I don't see anyone screaming that Steal Away Jordan is bad and should be taken off the virtual shelves.

Well, yes, one can reasonably expect folks to update their opinions if they receive new information. One can also expect that TTRPGs won't be conflated with D&D only when useful to make a point. "Game publishers are being pressured not to do X!" "Here are game publishers that did X years ago."...

Has anyone actually said that it is "never ok" to publish gaming material that mentions slavery?

Okay, and? The discussion is about TTRPGs broadly (as was the original post, which was made in TTRPG General), not just about D&D and Pathfinder and what the companies publishing those specific games should do in their worldbuilding. Nor does one have to play other games to read those gamebooks...