Different tables have different objectives for sure. Some groups are in it for the collaborative storytelling (more role-playing than game). Others want the combat and builds and strategy (more game than role-playing).

Helps to iron that sort of thing out in session 0, but definitely frustrating when not everyone is upfront about what they want.

I’ve literally had someone ask me what makes me think I deserve to live more than Palestinian kids.

This is where we’re at.

LEAVE LITTLE BRITAIN ALONE!

Don’t apologize for the shitty music, I think it heightens the no thoughts head empty vibe.

Oh yeah, not to defend it because it is OP as hell, but there’s a lot more at the core of 5E that needs fixing, it just seems odd to single out a spell from a sourcebook most tables don’t use anyways, given that it’s setting-specific and was never compiled into later core books like Tasha’s.

To me it just read more like MTG power creep making its way into an MTG setting. I don’t know if that indicates that it was developed by a separate team entirely but the entire thing was definitely just a cash grab to leverage their other properties.

That’s just one spell in an optional sourcebook that’s just an MTG cash-in, though. I’ve never been in a campaign that allowed players to use content from non-core books with abandon.

To put it a different way, centaurs have 6 limbs. I think it’s not so much about making creatures out of the “missing” parts as much as it is swapping which part is the horse and which part is the human, so these also still have 6 limbs.

Erdogan changed it because he is a nationalist and took offense to the name of his country being compared to the bird. So now the country is on a PR campaign to get the international community on board with Türkiye, which is supposedly a more accurate phonetic rendering of the country’s name (if your language has the same phonetics as Turkish).

Personally, while I do think it’s a bit silly for countries to try to mandate what they are called in other languages (e.g. you don’t see Germany getting upset that not a single one of their neighbors save Austria calls them “Deutschland”), I know Turkey is not the first to do so and I generally respect attempts to “reclaim” identities (such as changing Kiev to Kyiv for Ukraine). But I think the umlaut is where I draw the line.

When I heard them announce Turkey during the opening ceremony of the Olympics, it sounded more like “Turkia” to me, so I don’t know why we don’t just use that, since my mind keeps reading Türkiye as “Toork-yay”.

Plus when I type Türkiye, my phone’s keyboard still auto-suggests the 🦃 emoji anyways so I’d say it was a lost battle from the start.

Just a nitpick, Turkeys are ground birds, not water fowl.

Some days it just be like that huh

This sounds like ghaik sympathizing.

Lae’zel disapproves.

You arrive in a new town where everyone thinks they’re in charge, and they each use a funny accent to assert themselves. The sign at the front gate reads “Welcome to Bosston”

I suppose this scenario is actually somewhat reassuring, because the guy who killed 12 people deserves whatever misfortune falls upon him. You wouldn’t have to feel bad stealing his knowledge and memories, and could also go to the local guards to turn him in with the knowledge you’ve obtained.

Though good luck sleeping at night with the knowledge of what it felt like to murder 12 people with your own hands and see the life fade from their eyes.

Seldarine/surface-dwelling Drow are the Kiwis.

Could this be a dog?

They let in Australia as well. It’s basically “if your population is white enough and not in the Americas, you can join.”

May as well, if it means rejoining the EU following the disaster that was Brexit.

FWIW several of the hostages taken by Hamas were Americans.

Well I’m glad it wasn’t the KMT who won, but the margin was a lot slimmer this time around. The DPP has a lot of ground to cover to maintain momentum, and this time they also have a lot more opposition along with mounting tensions with the mainland that are causing further problems.

台灣 No. 1!

And yet US news is the only category which is singled out in this community, so the US gets to be the defining factor in terms of what this community is about.

I get why that is, because for some reason US news tends to dominate the conversation wherever it is, hence why the “news” community on Lemmy.world is mostly filled by US news. Despite that community having no stipulation on country of origin, despite this not being an American-hosted site, and despite Americans not even being the majority of users here.

I just think it’s just regrettable that the idea of “world news” is defined chiefly by whether or not it takes place in America, and not by a measure of global significance. For example, the post right next to this one in this community is about a bar shooting in Ireland, yet the “not world news” crowd is completely absent in the comments.