OnlyAwfulNamesLeft
Just another face in the crowd… I hope. He/him or whatever. I have the luxury of not having to be fussed.
I think Jordies wording of “police terror units to prosecute and intimidate me was deeply unsettling” was very smart. When anti-terror units are used in the way they were against him and his editor, they themselves become the source of the terror.
Selfishness is coded into us by evolution. It’s genetic. Lots of people will agree with me on this.
What I get a lot of pushback on, is that selflessness is the same. It has evolutionary benefits for a familial group, and so gets selected for.
I loved the “anyone can be special” message, even when rammed down our throat by having the slave stable boy force pull the broom to himself at the end of the movie.
I hated them undoing that and going “hahahaha, no, you’re actually one of the two special families!!” in Rise of Skywalker.
I was in a group that were all “officers of the watch”. Some idea was proposed that my character would have no reason to go along with, but rather than stop the group engaging in something fun, I say so, and follow up with “my character probably has some paperwork they need to catch up on anyway.”
Our chaotic player, who has the attention span of a slightly concussed goldfish goes “wait, we have to do paperwork?” and our GM, the goddamned sadist, gets that evil gleam in his eye.
Long story short, that session we role-played the sheer amount of paperwork our last session of kicking in the door and stopping a cultist ritual (by force in some cases) would have generated.
I admire that GM, but I was almost screaming in frustration by the end.
My Sa’cea Tau were always supposed to be night fighters. Sa’cea is the closest thing to a “hive world” that the Tau Empire has, and in one paragraph in the third ed codex it mentioned that they were skilled night fighters. But the grey armour Sa’cea wear is very close to Tau flesh, and I wanted helmet less Tau to stand out, so I figured out what Tau, Kroot, and Vespid would look like with severe vitamin D deficiency (and this is back when Tau had cyan, cobalt-based blood) so my Fire Warriors are an unhealthy grey-green, the Kroot are a really dark green-brown, and my Vespid are a calcinated beige/white. It’s explained that they spend too much time in the training grounds, and too little under mandated-use UV lamps. Also, bright orange and white markings aren’t the best for night fighting, so the Cadre uses a deep red and grey instead. But the Ethereal attached didn’t know this before deploying with them, so is covered in garish orange and has a healthy skin tone, which actually helps them blend visually with the army when it’s on the board, but still stand out.