Sorry. late response, questionable phrasing. I read a book full of Yiddish jokes once and the punchlines often involved subverting your expectations of the premise.

Like, “What’s red, wet, and hangs on a wall?” the answer is a Herring or something similar and when someone questions that, you simply explain that you can paint a Herring and hang it wherever. Possibly add other nonsense to further confuse.

It’s dry, I love it

Hebrew-ass joke

the one group I was defacto DM for my players would do this knowing the more off guard they caught me the more likely somebody was likely to be called Chungus or Squinton or some shit

Knocked my mona lavender off my window ledge and most of the stalks broke besides one. plz pray for it

the old Dr Manhattan finguh blast

don’t mog me like that, weevil. I’m not built like you dog

well thanks. I’m trying to be less of the person I turned into towards the end of my stay on reddit. this place feels like a chance for social media to be okay again so I want to be better to it. thanks for being chill too and hearing me out 😊

Okay, thanks. That’s fair, I guess that’s why OP made this post and why we’re talking, right? Yeah. I definitely mean forced positivity that we’re not supposed to question. I’m onboard with trying to remove schadenfreude though. It makes sense that there are people who just get a kick out of ruining things for people. That results in negativity and also misinformation sometimes too.

I guess that’s what OP is proposing, but they’re asking everyone for criteria to judge a post by for removing it. If I’m being heard and they did decide to allow discussion in the comments about what is or isn’t right about the post, yeah it would make sense to have that discussion also try to stay positive. Assuming people coming to the comments know to do that. As for how to keep a good tone over the internet when pointing something out, I don’t think I know how to. I can’t advocate for that because I tend to have pretty bad tone most of the time. But it seems like a sensible thing to require, you know, constructive criticism?

You’re right about the comments in question though. I saw the comment ahead of me talk about prohibiting “politics and orphan crushing machines” and needed more context. Maybe I shouldn’t have assumed they meant people who use the phrase “orphan crushing machine” to point out that a post isn’t really positive. That would be silly. I think I was projecting my experience with Reddit onto this community.

Yeah, I didn’t think you were far off. I wish I could give some better insight to OP though instead of just “here’s how I use the comm plz don’t ban me”

Because I do actually enjoy having this on my main feed. I like positive content, I just really don’t like when negative content is repackaged to be hope-porn. Makes me feel more dismal than if I hadn’t seen it at all. Unfortunately I don’t usually have positive things to add verbally, and if you say that’s a Me problem then I say: Fair. I want to be better.

For adding context to a post, it helps to have the viewpoints of somebody who might be closer to a topic? I’d rather hear a sad correction from somebody who knows than be fed bullshit. Pretty sure most people would. And that’s not even the pessimist in me talking. I’m just pretty certain there’s enough legit good things in the world to report on that we shouldn’t have to lie.

All this to stress that I don’t think I’m the arbiter of truth or not. Rereading my comment I definitely was talking like I was. Which was stupid. But I would rather encounter this community under conditions where somebody can say “hey this is complicated or bad actually”. If it looks like that’s not on the table, I’m sure I will block it and you will have lost nothing. But keeping this sub in my feed is worth leaving my 2 cents and risking sounding like an asshole

This is a toy company. In America. they ain’t leaving shit. and why even would they? it was a tweet. ya’ll gotta stop treating twitter like it’s legally binding just because a while ago it was easy to bully somebody into making a flaccid apology video. No toy company is going to spend money in a court room on that, the legal team is for handling individuals smaller than Nintendo

do you mean posts that are an “orphan crushing machine” or comments that say the post is an “orphan crushing machine”?

these seem like serious discussions that should be had in either way. one person going “I know it when I see it” is going to be highly inaccurate and if commenters can’t talk it out nobody can give the info that would be needed to make a decision.

I’m not a regular or anything. Just don’t want lose my comment priveledges if I pop in and go “hey guys I know there’s a darker side to this particular good news”

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there was a comic? I saved a bunch of summoning and wild shape cheatsheats. hold up maybe I’m thinking of something else and said the wrong place

edit: no wait it was Giantintheplayground. there was just a forum where people congregated guides for various ttrpgs. but I was being presumptuous

you probably have the same couple giantintheplayground pages saved that I do.

Wild shape was hard to read as a new player. Full casters are intimidating too. I love them too but they’re just hard to explain to newcommers.

Cleric alignment requesites go largely unnoticed by the player. staying within one step of diety is pretty easy, probably comes automatically to most people who would be interested in the class on the first place. Alignment gets complicated for them in considering if it’s appropriate to cast magic circle or not or holy word or not. but usually it’s safe to assume for those.

Paladin is responsible for I think almost all alignment hangups at the table. sure, there are others but not as often.

Druid probably would be because communicating the concept of neutrality is full of hangups but I think druids are pretty underplayed.

fuck I forgot about monks and druids. okay, I guess no wonder it turned into such a big misunderstanding. that is a wider amount of people that were expected to think in terms of the alignment axis

woah. sick cyberpunk concept. I’m this into the next game I run even if it isn’t cyberpunk

*teeny tiny voice* alignment was never supposed to be for players consideration. it was only supposed to interact discretely with the spells and effects of Planar-type monsters and Detect/Smite Evil