Dr.Device

As an autistic, queer trans woman, my response to this group is not suitable for this board.

As an autistic, queer trans woman, my response to this group is not suitable for this board.

Personally I would not allow it for one main reason. That is that it is going to over complicate things.   It significantly reduces the chance of rolling low and increases the chance of a high roll.  This ends up throwing the averages off by quite a bit. This makes things like penetrating more efficient.  How do you handle increasing the DC of the attack?  If I add 3 DC to the attack does it become a 5d6 drop the lowest or does it become 5d6 drop the two lowest?  Also how do you deal with damage negation?  If I have 3 levels of damage negation does the attack become a normal 3d5 or does it become a 3d6 drop the lowest dice?  Then there is the extra step of checking to see what the lowest.  It is too easy for a player to forget to drop the lowest die. 

As an autistic, queer trans woman, my response to this group is not suitable for this board.

As an autistic, queer trans woman, my response to this group is not suitable for this board.

As an autistic, queer trans woman, my response to this group is not suitable for this board.

As an autistic, queer trans woman, my response to this group is not suitable for this board.

We cannot just blanket pardon Trump. If the highest officials in the land aren't held accountable to the law, why should ANYONE obey the law?

I'm afraid I have to disagree.  I would describe this position as appeasement if not outright surrender.  If there are no consequences for breaking the law then conservatives will continue to break the law, and if they don't have a convenient excuse they'll invent one.

Trump should be given the harshest sentence we can give him and be made an example for everyone like him. It doesn't matter about conservatives are evil, or anything like that. If we do that to the poor, we should do it to the rich too
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I'd be satisfied with 10 years in prison under 18 USC 793, plus forfeiture of Mar a Lago and any other properties where he ever stored those documents, or assets he might have used to transport them,  under 21 USC 853, as referred to by 18 USC 793.

I'd be satisfied with 10 years in prison under 18 USC 793, plus forfeiture of Mar a Lago and any other properties where he ever stored those documents, or assets he might have used to transport them,  under 21 USC 853, as referred to by 18 USC 793.

Quite possibly the most justified F-Bomb this year

Mulan did not make $240M on its opening weekend. There was some messed up analysis going on shortly after its release that said that, but no one in the industry believes that now. It may have made 80-90 million dollars (citation) in its first week of streaming, but keep in mind, it was streaming only. Black Widow made $60M streaming on opening weekend, plus $80M in theaters. So Black Widow easily outperformed Mulan.
 
 

The counter argument to not packing the courts is that just letting them run amok is going to do lasting harm right now. In real time.
 
If you limit their ability to erode human rights now, at least it kicks the can down the road and opens up the possibility that things might actually improve. Sure, they could undo things if they ever regain power, but that was going to be the case anyway. 
 
If you're not going to use your temporary advantage to change the situation to redress the obvious injustices done by the other side by refusing to even give Garland a hearing and to ramrod their candidate in record time, what is even the point?

He does now that he doesn't have Scalia to speak for him.  Also he's married to an insurrectionist.
 
 
This is a little unfair; Kagan and Sotomayor were highly regarded in the field by the time of their nominations.  Contrast this with the "token Conservative woman" who literally didn't know the rights enumerated in the First Amendment during her confirmation hearing.
 
 
The evisceration of our Miranda rights?

Today is the eighteenth anniversary of me joining this forum. My forum membership is old enough to vote!
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I find the idea that there's something unrealistic or inappropriate about established characters being revealed to be gay or bi hilarious. I made it it to fifty years old without realizing that I'm trans. I was married with two kids. No one (including me) suspected that I was anything other than a straight, cisgender man. And I know a ton of people in the same (or a similar) boat.
 
As long as society keeps moving in the right direction, I think this will happen less and less, but it's not going  go away, at least not in my lifetime. People figure out they're different at their own pace. Or they just don't reveal certain aspects of themselves until they're ready. It's the world we live in. Even though comic book worlds aren't our world, there's no reason to expect them to be different in that particular regard.
 
Just because you don't want to see something doesn't make it unrealistic or inappropriate.

I find the idea that there's something unrealistic or inappropriate about established characters being revealed to be gay or bi hilarious. I made it it to fifty years old without realizing that I'm trans. I was married with two kids. No one (including me) suspected that I was anything other than a straight, cisgender man. And I know a ton of people in the same (or a similar) boat.
 
As long as society keeps moving in the right direction, I think this will happen less and less, but it's not going  go away, at least not in my lifetime. People figure out they're different at their own pace. Or they just don't reveal certain aspects of themselves until they're ready. It's the world we live in. Even though comic book worlds aren't our world, there's no reason to expect them to be different in that particular regard.
 
Just because you don't want to see something doesn't make it unrealistic or inappropriate.

So, if we reveal that Ben Grimm is Jewish, it';s just hack writing.   Never mind that he grew up in an area with a high Jewish population, his name ("Benjamin Jacob Grimm") is quite consistent with being Jewish and his religion (Jewish or otherwise) has never cropped up, it's "hack writing"?  Ditto Colossal Boy, a character in an ensemble cast where we have never seen any indication of religion (especially being a thousand years in the future), turning out to be Jewish is "hack writing".
 
Would it have been better writing for everyone to be Anglican, or Roman Catholic, or agnostic, or atheist, because that is what you, one reader, imputed from the fact their religion had never been mentioned?  Maybe LSH should have assumed that religions which have already survived 2+ millennia would not make it another thousand years?  Black Manta should have been white because we'd never seen under  the helmet, and lots of people are white, so he must be white?
 
If a character is solidly straight (or Catholic) one issue, then securely bisexual (or Jewish) in the next, followed by being confidently homosexual (or an uncertain agnostic), and has been all his life, six months later, I'd call that hack writing.  Diving into character attributes that have never been solidly defined in past appearances?  Not so much.  Especially when a lot of that character's appearances have either been as a secondary character (Robin to Bruce's Batman) or part of an ensemble cast (the many Teen Titans books), not a solo star whose psyche and relationships have typically been front & center.
 
But we are back to the constant criticism of comics.  "Nothing ever changes - how boring!"  "You changed that?  YOU CAN'T CHANGE THAT!!!"

I find the idea that there's something unrealistic or inappropriate about established characters being revealed to be gay or bi hilarious. I made it it to fifty years old without realizing that I'm trans. I was married with two kids. No one (including me) suspected that I was anything other than a straight, cisgender man. And I know a ton of people in the same (or a similar) boat.
 
As long as society keeps moving in the right direction, I think this will happen less and less, but it's not going  go away, at least not in my lifetime. People figure out they're different at their own pace. Or they just don't reveal certain aspects of themselves until they're ready. It's the world we live in. Even though comic book worlds aren't our world, there's no reason to expect them to be different in that particular regard.
 
Just because you don't want to see something doesn't make it unrealistic or inappropriate.

I find the idea that there's something unrealistic or inappropriate about established characters being revealed to be gay or bi hilarious. I made it it to fifty years old without realizing that I'm trans. I was married with two kids. No one (including me) suspected that I was anything other than a straight, cisgender man. And I know a ton of people in the same (or a similar) boat.
 
As long as society keeps moving in the right direction, I think this will happen less and less, but it's not going  go away, at least not in my lifetime. People figure out they're different at their own pace. Or they just don't reveal certain aspects of themselves until they're ready. It's the world we live in. Even though comic book worlds aren't our world, there's no reason to expect them to be different in that particular regard.
 
Just because you don't want to see something doesn't make it unrealistic or inappropriate.

I find the idea that there's something unrealistic or inappropriate about established characters being revealed to be gay or bi hilarious. I made it it to fifty years old without realizing that I'm trans. I was married with two kids. No one (including me) suspected that I was anything other than a straight, cisgender man. And I know a ton of people in the same (or a similar) boat.
 
As long as society keeps moving in the right direction, I think this will happen less and less, but it's not going  go away, at least not in my lifetime. People figure out they're different at their own pace. Or they just don't reveal certain aspects of themselves until they're ready. It's the world we live in. Even though comic book worlds aren't our world, there's no reason to expect them to be different in that particular regard.
 
Just because you don't want to see something doesn't make it unrealistic or inappropriate.

I find the idea that there's something unrealistic or inappropriate about established characters being revealed to be gay or bi hilarious. I made it it to fifty years old without realizing that I'm trans. I was married with two kids. No one (including me) suspected that I was anything other than a straight, cisgender man. And I know a ton of people in the same (or a similar) boat.
 
As long as society keeps moving in the right direction, I think this will happen less and less, but it's not going  go away, at least not in my lifetime. People figure out they're different at their own pace. Or they just don't reveal certain aspects of themselves until they're ready. It's the world we live in. Even though comic book worlds aren't our world, there's no reason to expect them to be different in that particular regard.
 
Just because you don't want to see something doesn't make it unrealistic or inappropriate.