Okay so this is my third post. This time showcasing two more items I've created. One weapon mod, one core bonus. Last post I swear.
The other two images are the final version of the items I created before.
These items are supposed to be a package for my players as a reward for a mission in our campaign taking place in the Dawnline Shore.
I quite enjoyed getting feedback from my first post so for that reason alone, I decided to try and be creative and create some homebrew again. Hopefully a post like this is as welcome as a repeat as it is as a one off.
What do you think of the design?
Too much going on? Don't like the number of damage types?
Any feedback is helpful.
I don't care about verbal abuse from people online. I don't care if someone diagnoses me as a maniac and uses that as a reason to disregard me. All the other shortcuts people take to discrediting my point of view, I can take that. What I can't fucking take is the parent talk people lay on you when they disagree with you. Like they're doing you a favour by teaching you how to not displease them again.
The way they try to talk to you with an absolutely unearned level of familiarity like they're your mother or your boss at work who sadly has to crack down on you for your misbehaviour or failure.
It stops being a disagreement or contradiction. They try to frame it like they're correcting your mistake.
"I think if you take some time, you'll come to understand where you went wrong. You're not doing yourself any favors." type shit.
Preface every single reply with "Look," like you're cutting past all the banter and double-talk to give solid advice when all you're about to hit me with is your contradicting opinion or some tone policing.
If you honestly think someone coming in with bravado and throwing around their opinion of some absolutely inconsequential shit (like video games) is problematic but believe that this manipulatives cuntery is good, your brain is just wired wrong.
Pic unrelated.
When someone tells me they don't believe 10/10 is possible or even that they personally have never rated a song, movie or game 10/10 I instantly have no interest in building a close relationship with that person nor will I ever take their opinion on absolutely anything seriously. Political, philosophical, artistic. Nothing.
I believe that these people are fundamentally miserable. Not miserable because of anything that happened in their life but that their brain is hard wired to live life miserably.
10 should be a spectrum that stretches into infinity. We all know taste is subjective but I believe a scaling should aim to be objective and then the distinction between a 9 and a 10 being that the piece personally speaks to you.
9 denotes flawlessness and 10 is a vast golf of all the flawless media that genuinely sits with you.
I don't even think that something being flawless necessarily means it's going to sit with you for ever and that you're going to replay it over and over. I really don't get why people have such a high bar for "perfection".
Like if you honestly can't name a flaw but refuse to call something perfect because there's got to be a potential flaw you're missing. That is just a fundamentally miserable outlook on life. It's not even the pessimistic outlook of believing the euphoria of first enjoying something will wear off and you will start to see the flaws, it's believing that anything aside from that being true being impossible.
Everyone should be able to name one thing they consider 10/10 within 2 minutes of being asked. If you can't, you're just soulless.
In solidarity to my fallen brother who's post was deemed too fun for r/twice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/twice/comments/1tarh3g/comment/olbcpe8/?context=3
Someone posts one of these and it it always does a better job shutting down any bullshit than any paragraph.
>!the implication that even after 800 years let alone 8, that Ashley could do what Josh did. !<
I've seen this numerous times. When a fandom or subculture is small enough, it can get completely dominated.
What happens is someone can simply be the first to put together a page for something and then as it grows and they bring on equally as tyrannical and disrespectful mods to help them manage it, they can completely dictate the culture and even the opinions of the people within the fandom and ban and silence any dissenting voices. These absolute pieces of human dog shit have absolutely zero self awareness about it either.
Take a subreddit called Kpop Nior. In the Kpop space, minority voices are conveniently buried and our opinions and observations about things are entirely ignored. Obsessing with something Asian and disrespecting brown people goes together like peanut butter and jelly. Yet due to the musical influences in kpop, there's a ton of fans that are minorities. Yet the creators of Kpop Nior got the idea to put together a place for PoC fans first, and they just happened to be the absolute most performative and hypocritical, cynical and morally bankrupt golems the Earth has ever seen and they police thoughts. I've seen so many echo chambers in my life but this is by far the worst. Just having the most innocent contradicting opinion will get your post removed if not get you outright banned. Furthermore, what will get people to dogpile pop group A will get completely ignored for pop group B because pop group B belongs to the kpop company that the mods love and trying to apply the scrutiny routinely applied to other groups in mass to pop group B will result in you getting banned very shortly after being berated.
What's worse is that because these spaces become a designated spot for a section of the greater community to go to, a lot of the most snarky and needlessly hateful things can become seeded into the greater community and people act as though regurgitating those things is woke because it comes from a PoC community. Things like acting like one idol who likes to tan is culturally appropriating black culture while again, ironically giving others a pass for no reason. These idols often have naturally tanned skin and have often suffered through bulling for not having perfect white skin like Asians like and then tan their skin further to actually normalize it and then you have a bunch of people trying to demonize them and accuse them of trying to steal black culture just for sitting in the sun.
"So just make a new place."
That's the thing, you can't split a community that small. You need a mass exodus. Without a diaspora of people leaving, making an alternative is practically useless because people will simply stick to the place with the most activity.
"If it's so bad there, why do people stick around?"
Because people can be conditioned to perceive anything as normal and will put up with a lot just so long as they get to be a part of a collective they identify with. They will shape their own personality to better adapt to the environment.