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My Dearest Sinophobes:

Your knee-jerk downvoting of anything that features any hint of Chinese content doesn’t hurt my feelings. It just makes me point an laugh, Nelson Muntz style as you demonstrate time and again just how weak American snowflake culture really is.

Hugs & Kisses, 张殿李

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  • What I did in an old C&S campaign was purloined lettered the Hell out of the lab.

    The PCs invaded the wizard’s keep. They quickly searched the grounds, kicking down doors and making sure all the guards were subdued before hitting the main tower. There they fought their way up the tower to where the most defended room in the keep was. After disabling most (not all!) of the traps, magickal and physical both on the entrance way, and taking their lumps for the traps they missed, they broke into the proper lab, all filled with glassware and books and components and braziers and whatnot.

    Only to have it turn out that everything in there was common and useless stuff glamoured up to seem important until you touched it.

    In the mean time, while the PCs were being kept busy in the keep’s tower, the wizard came out of the basement crudely hidden under straw in the stables with all his most valuable stuff packed and carried out of the grounds to a safe distance before he triggered the final trap that turned the tower into a towering inferno.

    The fools hadn’t even rolled to check for anything in the stables; I mean it was just the place where the horses were kept, right…?

















  • You’re falling for the trap in this “sigma male” crap that astrologers and other charlatans have laid out thousands of years ago: a vaguely formless definition that is mostly-flattering but doesn’t actually nail down anything concrete nor provide any form of predictive validity. If you gave that hand-wavy definition to a hundred people selected at random, pitching it as a custom “personality profile” made by “careful psychological evaluation”, well over half the people would be amazed at how clearly you “read them”.

    Despite it being just a few sentences of glurge designed to make you feel good about yourself.

    It’s nonsense. It has zero validity at any level. (As does, in fact, the whole notion of a “personality type”.) Saying “I’m a sigma male” is about as credible and nonsensical as saying “I’m a Taurus” or “I’m a Chicken” or “I have type A- blood” or “I’m an ENTP” or “I’m high in Openness and low in Neuroticism” or “I’m a Type 8, the Challenger” or “I’m an Expressive” or “I’m a Type D personality” or “I have a ‘dominant’ personality stroke” or “I’m an ESE” or “I’m a Sunshine Yellow”.

    And yes, each one of those is a real “personality type” from some tradition or another, and each of these has millions or more who believe it applies to them perfectly, despite some of them going as low as only four types. The world is full of this kind of foolishness, and it’s all gibberish and nonsense.

    If you want a better, more scholarly take-down of all this “personality type” stupidity, look no further than Bertrand Forer who in 1948 already had the entire field tossed into the garbage can with a single, very simple experiment. The fact that post-Forer we still invent these nonsensical categories is just more evidence that human beings are too stupid to have nice things ever.