u/keifergr33n

It's my first time playing this game.
I have zero experience with Pathfinder but I've played lots of other CRPG games.

I have made it past act three >!and I'm now in the Abyss demon city thing.!<

My main character is a human two-handed fighter. I know nothing about crafting builds in Pathfinder, so I just looked for all the melee buffs and chose those.

He is unstoppable. He never misses, crits constantly, and gets so many attacks per turn with haste. I love him.

Meanwhile, the rest of my party are crash test dummies that miss everything and die the moment an enemy looks at them. I understand that I need to lower enemy AC, but I'm struggling to find consistent ways of doing that.

And yes, I am auto-leveling my party. I understand that may have been a mistake, but I hoped that the premade builds would be useful.

Any help? What am I doing wrong?

CMV: Monetized fake content presented as real should be a bannable offense on social media platforms and deserves regulatory attention.

This isn't about censorship or policing speech. It's about fraud.

What I'm actually arguing for

Content that meets all three of these criteria should result in a permanent ban and, at scale, regulatory consequences:

1. Staged or fabricated
2. Presented as authentic (not labeled as satire, comedy, or fiction)
3. Monetized through views, followers, or ad revenue

The Onion isn't a problem. SNL isn't a problem. Clearly labeled skits aren't a problem. The problem is content designed to be mistaken for reality in order to generate engagement and income.

Examples:

1.) Recently, I saw an example of this on Tik Tok. A creator films a young man on a stoop as he tells her to get off his block while she argues that he should be in school. She posts it as a genuine street encounter. The comments fill with exactly the intended outrage, all the greatest hits about "fatigue" and "YN's".

One click-through to her profile reveals the same young man appearing in multiple videos playing a scripted "thug" character opposite her "concerned citizen." None of it is labeled as fiction. It's manufactured to look real because real generates more engagement than scripted.

2.) I just saw this Reddit post. Nothing about it appears to be legitimate. There is no news story, no videos of it happening and no witnesses reporting on it. This is a manufactured story where a social media operative slapped some pictures together and invented context for the purposes of ragebait and virality. It is presented as real and authentic.

Thankfully, one of the top comments calls it out for what it is. Not so thankfully, most of the comments took it at face value and expectedly fell in line for the gender wars. While some will walk away more skeptical of Reddit posts, it seems that most walked away confirming their pre-existing ideas of how women behave.

That segues nicely into my most important point:

It takes seconds to post a fabricated story and reach millions of people. It takes enormous effort, often more than is even possible, to effectively debunk it. The result is that lies about entire groups of people spread at scale, stereotypes are reinforced, and people become more isolated, hateful and bigoted... all while the person responsible profits with zero consequences.

Before you attack me for being "anti-free spech" or "pro-censorship", consider this:

Free speech doesn't protect fraud. If you sell a counterfeit product, you can be prosecuted. If a company runs a demonstrably false advertisement, it faces regulatory consequences. This is the same principle. This is not about edgy opinions, satire, or uncomfortable ideas. The topic is manufactured deception sold as authentic content for profit.

Leaving this entirely unaddressed is a market failure. Right now the incentives reward lying. That needs to change.

You can change my mind by proving that this practice isn't harmful or that the harm caused by regulation would outweigh the harm of this practice continuing.