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The findings show only 11 per cent of young DMs hold a very positive view, while DMs under 30 are three times as likely to hold a negative view of players compared to DMs over 30.

According to the poll carried out by the Merlin Academy for the New Wizard, young DMs “don’t care for” young players, believing the feelings are mutual, and citing an over-focus on combat motivation and a lack of care about roleplay issues, with DMs aged between 18 and 30 found to be the most theatre kid demographic in dungeons and dragons by far.

The research found that young DMs are 26 percentage points less likely to feel positively about Wizards of the Coast compared to young players.

They were also found to be much less likely to believe the action economy works in their favor and far more pessimistic about their own and others’ future games. Even though young players are more likely to be crowd controlled, it is young DMs who are 21 points less likely to believe they will take more actions than their players.

And more privileged DMs were found to be the most pessimistic of all, with DMs with more source books less likely to believe they are valued by their players or that they will succeed as a DM when they work hard than their homebrewing counterparts.

Under-25s were also found to be twice as likely not to want to be a DM at all as young players, and said they feared the prospect of being pressured into running games by Hasbro
When asked how he felt about the players he knew, a DM called Matthew told the New Wizard: “I don’t care for them. They’re not bad people, but they refuse to call out their fellow players who make their DM uncomfortable. They’ll laugh at jokes about Fatal and Pathfinder 2e ; they don’t care about rules issues… I don’t think they like their DM a lot... I feel like a lot of them are quite combat motivated players.” He said players would discuss subjects such as the hero’s journey if they fancied his game.

The group of young DMs she was with all agreed they would not run games with players with different rp/combat ratios, with one telling the publication: “I don’t think I’d even be friends with one. They don’t see you as human.”

Brennan was the only one to admit having player friends and shared his concerns about what content they were consuming online. “The stuff that’s being said about DMs is crazy,” he told the New Wizard. “They’re getting all these reels, talking about, like, bad stuff about DMs. And I get reels of DMs saying bad stuff about players. I try to think, not all players are like this, but idk”

I had been aware of Sam Harris for about fifteen years, but never really bothered to look into his work.  He struck me as just another pop-philospher worth paying no heed to.  About two years ago he had a conversation with Robert Sapolsky, who I remembered from his lecture series Stanford uploaded to youtube, so I gave it a listen.  

The conversation was quite interesting, and I spent the next two years reading all of Harris’s books and listening to hundreds more hours of his podcasts and many talks he has given over the years.  I will admit I had a hard time understanding him, that is, until recently.

I stumbled across an article of his from 2005 “In defense of torture”.  And it just clicked.

He is not a philosopher; he is a performance artist.  All of his speeches, writings and his podcast are meant not to be contributions to philosophy.  They are meant to be torture, and we are the victims. 

Like Babe Ruth calling his shot, he told us what he was going to do, and then did it.  I can’t believe it took me this long to figure it out.

5. Antonio Cromartie - Despite significant financial cost to himself, he helped eight different women achieve their dreams of become mothers. Some of them more than once. Such selfless behavior in advancing women's interests gets him the number five spot on my list.

6. Deshaun Watson - Allowed over two dozen women to perform experimental massage techniques on him, helping them to advance their careers. Even gave each of them money to open new spas! What a great feminist.

7. Ben Roethlisberger - Tirelessly patrolled women's restrooms to keep creeps and perverts out, so women can relieve themselves safely. It's a shame he retired we could use him now more than ever!

2 Jim Brown - Valiantly saved a woman who fell below a deck at his apartment. Also known for testing the structural integrity of women's cars to ensure they are safe to drive, earning him the number two spot on my list.

1. Rae Carruth - A stalwart soldier in the fight for abortion rights, he even helped his own girlfriend get on back in 1999, a time in which funding for abortions was being scaled back in North Carolina. A true feminist icon, and the number one spot on my list.

Do you think anyone on my list shouldn't be there? Who would you replace them with? Let me know in the comments!

Much like Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian Knot in half, I have come to believe that all of the worlds ethical problems can be solved with cutting things in half.

Climate change

How much pollution is it ethical to create in pursuit of economic growth?  Just cut the earth in half, the increased surface area will let it cool faster. Now we can pollute all we want.

Strait of Hormuz

What is the most ethical to do to get it open again, and help poorer nations avoid the pain of high oil prices?  Just cut it in half long ways.  Now with two Straits Iran will never be able to blockade both.

Wealth Inequality

How do you solve the destabilizing nature of high wealth inequality? Just cut everyone’s wealth in half.  Elon Musk currently has 782 billion dollars and I have five thousand.  If we cut both of those in half, the gap shrinks considerably. 

Water Scarcity

Nestle trying to privatize water? Concerned about arid nations starting water wars? Just cut the atoms in half and have twice as much.

Male loneliness epidemic

Concerned about isolated young men being drawn towards radical ideas or doing really stupid shit? Just cut them in half, now they will have a new friend to keep them company!

I challenge any of you to come up with any ethical concern that can't be fixed with this old idea made new!

I have a self-created module I run from time to time called “Corellon’s Angels”.  The name is a play on the old T.V. show Charlie’s angels.  For the youngsters, the show involved a group of women getting “missions” from a male voice over the radio.

I run the game online, so when I saw a group of four women looking for a dm I reached out to set up a discord call so we could get to know each other a bit, talk about my game and their characters, and see if it would be a good fit.  I thought it would be funny given the name of the game for me, a male dm, to have four female players. Especially in an online game where it's just my voice and a VTT.

During this conversation they asked me if I was a feminist and I said no.  I explained that feminism has been plagued with a meme that they are “man-haters” all the way back to the days of Susan B. Anthony.  I hate myself, so if I identified as feminist, I would just be proving that idea right.  For that reason, I don’t.

The ladies were silent for about 15 seconds, and then said the game wouldn’t be right for them and left the call.  I can’t help but feel that they weren’t willing to play because I’m not a feminist, but I’d like to hear y’alls opinions.

1. Andy Reid.

He would slurp that shit up like it's his last meal. All you'd have to do is put a little ketchup on it. If you tell him your balls are nuggies, he'd gargle those too.

2. Kevin Stefanski. He did it all the time in Cleveland to try to keep Deshaun Waston out of the massage parlors. He became quite proficient at it with all the practice.

3. Brian Schottenheimer. We all know how he got the job in Dallas. Just dye your hair gray and you are in the for best time of your life.

4. Mike Vrabel. Has said he would cut his dick off to win a superbowl, so maybe he's actually trans and wants to finally be his true self. Also known to not care about cheating on his wife.

5. Todd Bowles. Is an expert at sucking dick as coach, so it follows that he'd be an expert at actually sucking dick as well.

There is my top five. Do you have any coaches you think I snubbed?

Many people hear or read this sentence from Albert Camus’s “The myth of Sisyphus” and imagine it to mean finding meaning in life’s struggles.  That the juxtaposition of a meaningless universe and man’s search for meaning can be resolved by finding meaning in the absurd.  That the struggle to reach higher places is in and of itself meaningful.

This is clearly a mistake.  Albert Camus was French, and the French are fucking freaks.  To them, “happy” means horny. Camus is clearly saying we should all be Lithophiliacs and we should all get sexual gratification by pushing stones around.

I submit this new interpretation to badphilosphy for peer review.