Quote from: SHARK on April 23, 2024, 05:32:16 PM

Quote from: Brad on April 23, 2024, 12:35:52 PMAs I am wont to say whenever these sorts of situations manifest, "It's nothing a shotgun wouldn't fix." Kill all the communists and you fix 99% of the problem. Tolkien isn't to blame for anything other than being an excellent writer who just so happened to write a British-inspired myth.

Greetings!

Damn right, Brad! I have been saying this forever. Gradually, more and more Americans are coming around to embracing this conclusion. Still, though, there are far too many people that naively believe that somehow, it is better and good to tolerate these terrible people within our communities. As one aspect of culture after another becomes corrupted and destroyed by the Communists, people are beginning to cry and worry about it. These nice, naive sheep though seem to be too stupid to realise that it might be too late, and America is fucked. The Communists have a chance to achieve total victory because too many Americans were passive, naive, and weak. More eager to hold onto cherished fantasies from days long gone than to actually face the truth and grapple with the reality that is destroying everything that they value right in front of them.

The Communists and other PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL morons have declared that Tolkien is racist, and Misogynist. Ergo, he must also then be a Hu-White Supremacist. *Rolls eyes* I wish I was making this up, but it is very real. I've read that these Liberal morons actually have said this kind of stuff about Tolkien.

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

SHARK, the problem the Wokists exploit here is that seeing one's kind reflected on the Screen or in Print is a Good Thing. Tolkien presents his Secondary World drawing on principles from European (British) civilization, tradition, religion and myth. His story is (implicitly) Christian, and White and Male, because such is the main and traditional driver of European history.

Because the latter-day West's primary commandment is "ontological security!" wherein freedom from harm is the greatest good, the Wokists seize on the idea that all groups not prominently represented (or represented at all) in Tolkien are thus being deprived of their own Good, and so harmed.

Since the West is the best civilization ever created, in principle, faults and warts aside, it behooves us to preserve that which has traditionally driven its history. Preserving Tolkien is part of this, as it puts Christians-before-Christ, European racial stock, and heroic Masculinity into center stage.

Without this, the West, including America as its best and last defense against all external (Chinese) and internal (Islam, Wokism) threats, will crumple into multicultural confusion and demoralization, which the Oligarchal Blob seeks as a method of control.

It's true that Tolkien's viewpoint deprives Blacks, Women, Homosexuals, etc. of representational Goods. University-trained Leftists/Wokists therefore can't help but perceive Tolkien as racist and misogynist, when he is writing about White Traditionalist societies where racial mixtures are vanishingly rare, homosexuals unmentioned, and traditional sex roles are almost universal.

But this is a necessary feature of the West. The Wokists want to deface 20,000 years of European history and replace it with a Communist Year Zero. Anyone with a good heart can enjoy and even treasure Tolkien, but it takes a resentful, envious, and destructive heart to try to tear Tolkien down because he wrote a European myth.

The stumbling block for us, is that the Wokists want everything to be political, and so long as we play like it's not,  they win. Not just traditional representation on the Screen and Print is a Good, but the essence of Middle Earth is itself a Good, a sublime Good, and that means that Government Policies that move the West further from the traditions and axioms embedded in authors such as Tolkien, are destroying "all that is green and good in the world" by replacing it with the Wokist slag and rubble that you and I see and warn others about.

Tell a man he is something long enough, he starts to believe it. At this point in the West's intended and ongoing decline, if your heroes aren't called White Supremacists and Sexists, you're not trying hard enough. And if you're not trying to be like your heroes, then they aren't really your heroes. Tolkien wouldn't like being called what the Wokists call him, but Tolkien didn't live to see what we have lived to see, with much worse to come if we spend our energies peeling off labels rather than fighting for the Western tradition.

Neoplatonist1

Quote from: SHARK on April 24, 2024, 01:28:10 AMI hope that I have encouraged you, brother!

Semper Fidelis,

SHARK

I find your response and exhortation heartening, SHARK, and thank you for it.

Without giving us the right to defend ourselves and our loved ones God becomes a moral monster, and I'm happy to meet someone who sees a Christian way to avoid that horrible conclusion.

What Bible version do you use? Whom do you consult for Scriptural advice?

Neoplatonist1

Quote from: Omega on April 25, 2024, 11:31:54 PM

Quote from: yosemitemike on April 20, 2024, 06:11:34 PMFlaws in sets that were hidden in SD are suddenly visible in 1080p.  That floor outlet where the sci-fi panel plugs in was hidden in shadow in SD but now you can see it.  Some things were clearly never meant to be seen in 1080p.

No, it is not that at all. You could see that stuff without HD.

Not always. There are cases where shows were shot on 35 mm film at a 3:2 aspect ratio, and then cropped on both sides to 4:3 for broadcast. Sometimes when those shows are processed for HD, they take the original film negatives and crop them top and bottom to make a widescreen version of the show. This can lead to things that were originally intended to be cropped out appearing on screen.

There are also cases where the HD stream of a show is missing scenes, either by mistake or deliberate omission.

I see some problems with this approach.

1) Why does it matter whether you succeeded or not? You can learn just as much from failure. And as a starting character, you'll be failing a lot, and as GM there is good reason to reward failure.

2) Having to roll to see if your skills advance completely sucks. I say this from experience as a former Runequest player. It's hard enough to be a starting character without being unable to spend your xp. Especially when you then lose that xp.

3) By its nature, this will cause some players to advance faster than others, for no reason other than sheer dumb luck. That's not good. And if you say "over time it will all even out," you're wrong. The odds are exactly the same for each roll. The dice have no memory, and someone who pulls ahead because of a streak of lucky rolls is likely to stay ahead. And someone who falls behind is unlikely to catch up.

4) If you think it's bad when people get shafted once on advancement, wait until it happens twice right out of the gate. And it will happen twice to somebody. I wouldn't expect that player to come back.

5) How do you buy up new skills that you don't already have? What if nobody bought Cartography?

6) In Runequest, this encouraged what was called the "golf bag" approach, where players carried around a (figurative) golf bag full of different weapons, each of which they would use exactly once per session, to maximize their chances of getting a successful advancement check.

7) Some find the extra bookkeeping during play to be distracting. And the time spent rolling skill advancement checks comes out of game time.

Basically, this is point buy with extra steps. And those extra steps are problematic.

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