u/Outrageous-Thing3957

Something I've been struggling with for a long time. this is not a hypothetical scenario, it happened more time than one can count. One of the most notable examples is Northern Ireland, where England drove out native population and then sponsored English settlers to settle. A few centuries later descendents of those English settlers voted to remain in the UK while the rest of Ireland left.

Basically if a nation uses such actions as genocide, ethnic cleansing, mass displacement of population or anything similar, and then settles this newly depopulated land with it's own people. Let's say those people remain there for several generations then, is it ethically wrong for them to consider that land theirs at that point, including being allowed to decide which country that land should belong to?

On the one hand, everyone who participated in that original attrocity is probably dead, and their descendents have been born and raised on that land.

On the other hand it introduces a pretty huge loophole where you get to keep what you take, no matter what means you used, as long as you can hold on to it long enough.

Since I am myself from Croatia it was the first game I played. Since then I played plenty of other factions, but non so far offered the same potential for expansion from almost nothing.

Try to defeat the other Croatian duke ASAP, one alliance should suffice to give you that extra kick.

If you can manage to fight off Avaria and Hungary and get most of your De-Jure territories you can become strong enough to start gobbling up your neighbors to the east. Italian and Byzantine provinces give you a pretty fat, juicy target for raiding, providing 1 gold every 4 days.

Key is to convert to Christianity in the fist 50 years, it needs to be timed just right. Then you can go ahead and purge your lands of the pagan lords and grab their lands for yourself.

Now you have a very strong tribal blob combined with holy war casus belli for every neighbor around you. Just wait until they are distracted by something else and snatch a few juicy provinces off them. This way you can blob out really fast. You will know when it's time to convert to Feudalism. I was able to do it before 867.

By the time crusades start you should have land not too far from the target areas, so you can safely keep the conquered land to yourself, and make a pretty fat profit doing it.

Eventually 4th crusade will destroy Byzantium leavling it's remaining lands ripe for your picking, then it comes down to taking all the muslim lands to the south. Make sure you don't expand too far to the east so you won't become a bulkwark against the mongol horde. They should fall apart into small realms eventually, leaving you with another set of easy pickings.

I've yet to find another faction that offers the same opportunities for expansion while also being able to catch up with major European powers in record time. And at the same time isn't also constantly picked on by numerous neighbors.

I'm thinking of an instance I heard about where players made exploding arrows by basically making some sort of explosive. Also a funny sketch by "XP to Level 3" YT channel where a character makes mustard gas by mixing urine with some salvaged components.

Now if that's the type of game you are playing then fine, but I bet not a small number of players came up with the idea to mix up some sort of explosive based on the knowledge they have but their character couldn't possibly posess.

Beyond this I'm sure this extends to all sorts of things. As 21st century people we are really well informed on a wide variety of topics a person in the equivalent of time periods DnD takes place in wouldn't know anything about.

How would you rule this kind of thing as a DM? When is it ok? When is it not?

Since my brother gave me this laptop about a year ago bluetooth earbuds never functioned properly on it. Sometimes they just lag so much they are unintelligable. Sometimes they just won't produce any sound, and very rarely, they actually work just fine but there seems to be no rhyme or reason for any of it.

I tried multiple different sets of earbuds and I also use the same earbuds with other devices without issue.

I tried updating drivers but it says that the drivers are already up to date. Right now the earbuds just refuse to work, when they connect, which takes some effort, they are simply silent.

IDK why I'm so drawn to this idea, but I really like the concept of more traditional type of dragon. Guard Drakes such as this ones created by MZ4250, are really nice base for this creature.

Stats wise I would take a wyrmling and remove it's wings, then drop it's int to animal level, but smart animal.

Such creatures may not be nuke level threat like actual dragons, but could still be a serious threat to any poor peasant that crosses their path. As well as any low level character they encounter.

One of my favorite things is taking threats most players would scoff at and making them seem like actual nightmare fuel. A small village community does not need to be burned to the ground for there to be a sense of danger, a few deaths here and there would be enough to put everyone on edge, and has the advantage of cuting deeper, and avoid the "it's a statistic" concept that can happen when you describe a lot of people dying all at once.

So I saw people give Sweet a lot of crap, and I get it, CJ does a lot to get Sweet out of jail, and Sweet seems to be 100% ungrateful. But hear me out.

What people don't take into account is that to Sweet, the Hood isn't just a place, it's a community, one he feels responsible for as the leader. Everyone talks about how Sweet can't see outside his own small neighborhood. But I think for Sweet, the important thing are all the kids living in and around Grove.

You see, Sweet is an eldest brother, and seeing as how Jonson family didn't have a father, he was probably trust in that role from very early age, and felt responsible for his siblings. Once he became the leader of Grove his mind naturally expanded to all memebers of the Grove.

CJ on the other hand ditched Grove not once but twice. In Sweet's mind, when he ended up in jail and Smoke turned out to be a traitor, CJ should have stepped up to the position of the leader and rallied the homies to fight back against the Ballas, Tenpenny and Smoke. But instead he got busy opening casinos in Las Venturas and being a manager for some washed out rapper.

In Sweet's eyes Grove is his extended family. Sweet didn't just abandon the place, he abandoned the family, just when it needed him the most, and he did it twice. That's why Sweet is constantly pissed off.

Is that justified, that's up to everyone to decide, but I never saw anyone talk about it this way so I thought it needed to be said.

I'd say it's patently obvious that SQ42 is going to miss another release date. If GTA 6 gets released later this year that's going to provide a pretty nice excuse for CIG to say "we have to delay it to not be in Rockstar's shadow". I wonder what they will say if Rockstar delays GTA 6 however. Then they would have no excuse when the 31st of December arrives. Frankly, judging by what happened in the past, I suspect they will just go radio silence again, like they did in 2022. And pretend nothing happened.

I know this question could be posited to most DnD settings, but I think it goes especially for the FR because it's the most developed one.

The truth is, most of the material is set roughly around the same time period. Meaning there's a world ending threat knocking on your door practically every other week.

Between that and all the hostile creatures like dragons, goblins, drow, Ilithids and literally hundreds of others, the world is so hostile it's unbelievable.

Every campaign seems to have at least a few villages burned to the ground. Those take a long time to build up. Many also see large cities destroyed, ones that presumably took centuries to build.

So how in the world have humans not gone extinct yet? It seems that the writers just conjure up populations from thin air.

I mean fantasy settings like LOTR have huge, apocalyptic events, but those are spread out over thousands of years, not a few decades like it seems to be for FR. And the consequences are suitably long lasting.

My absolute favorite thing when playing this games, bring a few Comanches up to tier 3 veterancy. Those things run roughshod over literally everything. There's an old PS1 game series called Strike, and controling a Comanche gave me very similar vibes, especially in how you can mow down waves upon waves of the enemy. Hell one well micromanaged Comanche can wipe out a whole enemy base as long as you drop in a sniper or two to take care of Sam sites and missile troops.

Does that mean that symbolically, willpower is a combination of fear and hope? Since green light is a combination of blue and yellow light?

Not only are you living in post capitalist hellscape, oh, no, but if you want to have a tiny fur companion as one bright thing in your life, well screw you, that's gonna be 1000 eddies, not once, but per month. Why? Because screw you, that's why.

Well ingame prices don't make a lot of sense, 5 eddies for a snack, 10 000 eddies for a car, 8000 eddies for a priceless painting. Seems all over the place.

But my explanation for all this is that eddies really are worth a lot more than we think, a few thousand eddies can buy you a comfortable life, perhaps even for a year, anywhere other than Night City.

Night City is basically like New York on steroids, everyting costs 20 times more there. YOu can strike it rich if you are lucky, but cost of living is liable to drive you down into the gutter instead.

Let's set aside all the conspiracy theories about how this or that group planned to flatline us from the start. If everything went smooth and the job was done, how much did V and Jackie stand to walk away with.

Personally, I don't think it was more than a few million for the whole job, so perhaps a million, split between the both of them, if you bargained for the better payout. And I think even here I might be pushing it, perhaps the full payout would have been less than a million.

Some people are throwing around sums of hundreds of millions, or billions even. But I don't buy that, and here's why. If the payout truly was expected to be that huge then nothing really matters. You get a few hundred million and you can afford to retire in some Villa on a tropical island, and hire an army of bodyguards to protect you.

It doesn't really matter at that point if you get 30 or 40%, and it especially doesn't matter if you screwed over your fixer, cuz you never have to work again. You have been instantly promoted from a merc to someone who hires mercs.

But the way Jackie and V talk about it, it sounds like they are looking at it as a ticket to the top of mercenary gig. Certainly not their last job.

T.bug thinks of it as her retirement, but I just chalk it up to it being final piece of the puzzle for her.

My guess is, with heat closing in on them, Dex would always have to give the relic away at a fraction of it's true value. Not many people brave enough to buy something stolen from Arasaka, meaning the leverage isn't on Dex's side.

They are both ostensibly fighting the same enemy, and considering the forces arrayed against them they need every ally they can get. It's unfortunate that you can't tell either of them about the other one.

As a straight male V my only romance option is Panam, and it's a pretty cool option for a Nomad V, but one thing that is bothering me is that you can't just admit to her you are dying. She's working on incomplete set of information. For one, if she knew your time together is going to be extremely limited she might not do the whole "will they, won't they" dance. For two, you are holding from her a key piece of information that would allow her to make an informed decision about whether or not she wants to get involved with you. Having someone you just fell in love with die on you mere weeks, or at best months, after you got together, is nothing if not devastating.

It just seems wrong.

A few years ago I listened to a creepypasta where a grandson inherited the house of his abusive grandmother obsessed with the rules. On the condition that he spends 12 days in the house and follow all her rules, if he didn't then the trustee's company would get the house instead.

I remember wondering, first can you actually legally do something like this? Compel someone to behave a certain way basically holding their inheritence hostage? And if yes, what if the grandma got even more creative and didn't set the time limit? Simply stating that as long as the grandson followed the rules he would be the owner of the house, but the moment he broke any the house would be forfit?

Extrapolating from this, could a parent who never accepted their child's sexuality make a condition that forces that child to behave in a heteronormative way, such as a gay man having to marry a woman, or merely being barred from ever marrying another man?

What about religious person who's inheritor converted to another religion or became an atheist? Could someone compel their atheist child to attend church every Sunday or lose their inheritence?

I enjoyed all the previous titles, some less than others. But GTA 5 just didn't grip me at all and I think a major part of that was the setting, it's just too.... current.

IDK, I think modern world is just too drab and uniform to provide an interesting setting, I hope for GTA 6 they return to golden age of Mafia or the 80es or something. I don't want the same 3 shades of grey i see everywhere around me IRL to also make up most of my game world, I play games for escapism.

The issues the game is satirizing also hit a bit too close to home. It's easy to have fun with a game that is tackling societal problems from 50 years ago, when most of the target audience wasn't even born. Not so much tackling issues from 5 years ago. Most of us lived trough that.

And the modern day setting seems to also have stiffled what the player can do, IIRC Niko Bellic never really changed his life around. Part of the reason I liked older GTA games was the whole advancing trough the ranks of local criminal organization. None of the protagonists in the last 2 games seem to have gotten very far.

It seems to me that recent games traded that quirky unhinged satire for more grim realism, and I suspect that was because being set in modern day means people would notice the discrepencies too much.

I got two in the last 2 days. First time I told Youtube to block it, and then I got another one just now. I went to my Ad center and made sure to minus it everywhere I could so hopefully YT will get a hint.

In light of what is happening in the world right now I find adds from any religious group to be deeply offensive.

Still haven't completely worked it out, if I ever actually write it, but the basic idea is such. You can time travel into the past, but only to your own past. That is you can transplant your current mind into your past self.

Still pretty great deal, depending on how old you are, you could go back and make a fortune with your knowledge of the future.

Slight issue, since you are changing the past the timeline splits, and, like BTTF movie, you get deposited into alternative timeline. Not a huge deal, only issue is anyone else who time travels changes the timeline in a different way, meaning you and them can't share the same timeline.

By the time people realize what is going on pretty much everyone has been shifted into their own timeline, alone. And the time machine is one use only, because time traveling twice would cause a paradox.

What do you think about this idea?