D&D 5E (2024) Collage of Dance Reveal

[Belen]

I’m sure and others put out great content and they deserve the money they make but I’ll never believe they work as hard as my dad who worked manual labor 9-5 for most of his life. Or heck even me who does endless paperwork all day until I can finally go home and sleep but never feel rested.

I have a visceral dislike of "influencers" as well. A lot of them feel like paid adverts. I have a real issue with the fact that so many young people seem to aspire to this as a lifestyle.

Then again, I have a feeling that once AI really gets going and combines with VR, then most "work" will be in VR where people will be characters etc in a large video game and earning regulated bitcoin.....

 

[DarkCrisis]

I have a visceral dislike of "influencers" as well. A lot of them feel like paid adverts. I have a real issue with the fact that so many young people seem to aspire to this as a lifestyle.

Then again, I have a feeling that once AI really gets going and combines with VR, then most "work" will be in VR where people will be characters etc in a large video game and earning regulated bitcoin.....

I have a nephew who has never had a real job and keeps hoping to break into streaming. Since his grades were naughty word, I kind of hope he makes it.

 

[Tonguez]

Capoeira... capoeira...

back in 3e I homebrewed a Prestige Class called "Storm-dancers of Al-Qamar" who were able to use a spinning unarmed fighting style (ie capoeira) to stir up whirlwinds, make mighty leaps and throw lightning spears.

I never really thought of them as bardic though, definitely more monk (although in 3e having the Performance prereq did make them easier for Bard to qualify)

 

[Zaukrie]

I'm very tempted to make a mime subclass, with the warning that I didn't like mimes, so it will be a class that annoys enemies, and maybe allies....

 

[MGibster]

I'm very tempted to make a mime subclass, with the warning that I didn't like mimes, so it will be a class that annoys enemies, and maybe allies....

When they get to a higher level, they can cast Hold Person by placing a medium sized creature or smaller in an imaginary box.

 

[Zaukrie]

When they get to a higher level, they can cast Hold Person by placing a medium sized creature or smaller in an imaginary box.

Maybe they can confuse also, because who the hell has any idea what they're doing? they likely can turn invisible in that box too

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Nothing against her personally, I just don’t like when someone who releases a video every once in awhile tells me they work just as hard as someone working 9-5 every day at a job they hate to barely make enough to get by.

Ranks up there with rich CEOs et. who think they work as hard as the plebs in the cubicles.

I’m sure and others put out great content and they deserve the money they make but I’ll never believe they work as hard as my dad who worked manual labor 9-5 for most of his life. Or heck even me who does endless paperwork all day until I can finally go home and sleep but never feel rested.

To be real most people who get called "influencers" actually put in 70-150% as much work as you average "email job" worker. Sure, it's not 1960s manual labour or whatever, but relatively little is if you get to a certain portion of the economy. Saying it's "not a real job" when you're not saying the same to actors or musicians because you have a clearer idea of how much time/effort they put in is kinda silly.

Like, there are a lot of ridiculously overpaid influencers, but that "a lot", is like 1% of total influencers or less. And really most of them are spending 6 to 12 hours per day on their job, working again, at least as hard as most people with "email jobs" do. The vast majority of them make money that's low enough that they still need a "real" job. I dunno how much Ginny Di makes, but I'm guessing it's not megabucks.

I don't say this to praise influencers and it is unfortunate how many of Gen Z seem to believe they can become that (but not so different to so many Boomers and Gen Xers who thought they could become rock stars and movie actors), but it's not as slack as you seem to think.

 

[Remathilis]

I'm very tempted to make a mime subclass, with the warning that I didn't like mimes, so it will be a class that annoys enemies, and maybe allies....

I say do it. A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

 

[Zaukrie]

I say do it. A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Brutal....

 

[Oofta]

I say do it. A mime is a terrible thing to waste.

Isn't that what the vampire said? Wait no that wasn't quite it ... it was that a mime is a terrible thing to taste. Never mind.