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Very well said rinjin.

As a matter of interpretation of the word "person" in the Fourteenth Amendment, U.S. courts have extended certain constitutional protections to corporations.

Well if the business is a corporation, it has most of the same rights as a person.

And that's pretty much garbage and I can't wait until we get rid of that ruling. The decision is always made by a person, an actual living sentient person, not a legal fiction.

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Fun with social mores. I don't get the whole anti-tattoo thing, but I am presently working somewhere where you're not allowed to have any visible.

You don't get the fact that you are a representative of the company while you are on the job.

You don't get the fact that the company just might have an "image" that they want to project to the world at large.

You don't get that some people's attitude towards tattoo's might be different that others?

Oh, I understand some people don't like tattoos and that businesses cater to them because business is business. I just don't like other people's attitudes indirectly affect ownership of my own body if I want to do things like pay rent.

Edit: if one don't like tattoos, fine, don't get them. But someone else's opinion shouldn't affect what I can do with my body so long as I'm not hurting anybody.

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Fun with social mores. I don't get the whole anti-tattoo thing, but I am presently working somewhere where you're not allowed to have any visible.

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It's because an-caps aren't anarchists. Anarchists believe in an abolition of hierarchy. Capitalism requires hierarchy. It's a fundamental problem that can't be resolved.

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I was replying to you. Please don't tell us what or how we discuss ethics.

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So we're not allowed to debate the ethics of situations we've never been a part of?

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It's 0640 here and I'm awake. I want my beta test because entitlement!

(hype train goes choo choo)

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But we're not talking about differences, we're talking about privileges. Things like women making less because employers assume they'll leave the workforce to have children, etc.

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Except you also get health care, etc. in Denmark.

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Amen to all the folks speaking out against this #gamergate garbage.

Also, since when is it bad to fight for social justice?

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In Buddhism, a female monk is called Bhikkuni (males are called Bhikkhus). They have a pretty strict gender divide there as well.

My wife once considered becoming a Buddhist monk until she learned about all the sexist baggage that came with.

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The thing about the cultists wasn't that they were rambling, crazy fools. They were dangerously intelligent and psychotic power-mongers who traded away their humanity to a corrupt god-to-be to pursue their ambitions; they chaired Senate committees, directed major corporations, and led religious movements. The cult was deadly not only because it was powerful, but because the people in it were ruthless and smart (and they had to be, to survive in the organization).

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I once developed a US-as-enemy for a now-defunct company's now-defunct fan club. The premise was that a corrupt war spirit born from the colonialist massacre of the Pequot at Mystic River guided the formation of the country and that the founding fathers were the core of its cult. It guided the American people through genocides and wars to increase its power, until it surpassed any of the other nation-spirits in the world; the game's plot was about its attempt to achieve godhood and the players attempting to prevent that without leading to the collapse of the United States.

Of course, in the intervening centuries, it had expanded its power and control through the nation's government and infrastructure and had plenty of proxies and influences to interfere with PCs, which is where most of the conflict lay.

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Mark Moreland wrote:
I predict an "Economy of Golarion" book in the next batch of announcements. With the current state of affairs in the real world, I think it'd be a big seller.

Thread necromancy go!

I would really love an Economics of Golarion book, but that might just be me.

In my game, I'm trying to run a more complex international currency system than just the default universal gold/silver/copper. I was inspired after I watched Spice and Wolf. The names for each national currency would be good flavor for Golarion, as would knowing standard exchange rates.

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Remco Sommeling wrote:

Just because people accept their parents are having sex doesn't mean they wan to be confronted with it directly. I suspect most people that do not wish LGBT content in Paizo books are much the same, it doesn't make them wrong or haters.

I am fine with a middleground and leave sexuality mostly in the bacckground but easy to adjust to a table's likes or dislikes, but some hints at a character's proposed sexuality are completely fine with me, it is a modest and fitting statement and as far as I'd go as a company's default religion.

Except nobody's actually having on-page sex in Paizo products. All they're doing is explaining the relationships NPCs are in so said NPCs have some literary flesh on them for when the PCs come to interact.

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I'd rather have it be browser-based than client-based, actually.

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gunslingeraz wrote:

If that was a PFS ruling I would have to go with the OP.

I have never carried to a table nor have I had any inclination to do so but I have seen it done and not been offended or threatened. You will never need to fear a law abiding citizen. Any organization that ostracizes members for expressing their legal rights does not need me.

You haven't had a previously law-abiding citizen bring a gun and shoot up a room full of people you know.

Everybody's sane and fine and rational until they're not.

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The Beard wrote:

Well, I will tell you one thing. I have not been present for it, personally (since I am noooooowhere near that state), but a friend of mine has actually been the subject of discrimination by a group of feminists at his game store down in Florida. I suppose I should say it WAS his favored game store, as he has since stopped playing PFS all together as a result of the treatment he received there. It was te only applicable game store for quite a distance around his location. Apparently, several people in that area have.

Thus far it's looking like people are working off the assumption sexism can only flow in one direction, so I thought I'd toss out that tidbit of information. There are plenty of men that are forced to endure humiliation after humiliation just for the sake of avoiding the debacle they'd start if they told a bunch of enraged women to shove off.

Pretty much what thejeff said. Your descriptions are super vague and seems loaded. I would like some details as to what actually happened.

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BigNorseWolf wrote:

Society gives women a glass ceiling and a safety net and they rail against it.

Society gives men an open sky above and sharp rocks below and they revel in it.

People are strange.

Whoa whoa whoa. What is this supposed safety net that women get that men don't? Last I checked, poverty rates for women are worse the world over and here in the states.

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I'd also like to see more prestige classes. I know they don't really fit Paizo's design philosophy, but having those sorts of options appeal to me (and hopefully others).

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A male or female personality exists independently of culture? It's universal across all societies and peoples?

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christos gurd wrote:
in the heroes of the east supplement by little red goblin games there was a taoist that had a yin/yang mechanic along those lines.

That's more than a little tasteless toward Taoism.

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Blood of Time (for offspring of Time Elementals).

Also, any other Chronomancy-related books would be super mega ultra awesome.

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mdt wrote:
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mdt wrote:
The term Moral and Immoral are inherently linked to religious debates. Giving charity to the poor is Moral. Stealing is Immoral. Sex out of marriage is Immoral.
Your usage is at odds with e.g. how wikipedia uses the terms.

My usage is consistent with the way it's used in the US, and everywhere I've ever lived, and most of the places I've visited that spoke english.

How wikipedia uses it probably has a lot to do with it being different cultures contributing to it.

Everywhere I've lived in the US (and that's quite a few places) Ethics and Morals are two completely different animals. Same when I was in London. Never came up when I was in Singapore or Hong Kong.

It's pretty disgusting and prejudicial to claim that morals are derived from religion. That some people make the connection only shows how deep the prejudice against the irreligious goes. While you may not believe Wikipedia's authority to define a word, both dictionary.com and Mirriam Webster agree.

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Adamantine Dragon wrote:

LOL, next time you are in a grocery store, take a good look at the front covers of mens' magazines. Then take a good look at the front covers of womens' magazines.

Tell me how different you find the women pictured on those covers to be.

Next, go to google and research the amount of money spent on plastic surgery and cosmetics by women.

Then tell me how men are the ones consumed by looks.

I think you're confusing cause and effect.

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Adamantine Dragon wrote:
However, this does fit into the general realm of the tyranny of good intentions. Which is what political correctness is all about. Which is why it's on topic to post that quote.

I like that we're entering a time when seeing the phrase "political correctness" in someone's argument is the new Godwin's Law; anybody using it to refute a position is automatically wrong.

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Yep! Regularly. Combat is OK as an occasional flavor, but I can go a while without it.