Spyke
discuss.online

You mean to tell me that someone conducted independent research to verify what they saw on TV, and then choose not to believe what they saw on TV based on a real life experience?

I don't believe it.

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There wasn't a storm of internet influencers and news media telling people it wasn't acceptable, so it was by default.

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I can see this happen the following way:

Grandma is influenced by TV or the local church or whatever and wants to forbid their grandchild DnD. Her son-in-law hates her and tells her to fuck off, explicitly allowing his son to do as he pleases (regarding DnD). His wife wants to pour oil on troubled waters and allows her mother to watch without disturbing the kids unless the satanism shows.

Then the math induced rage commences.

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And her anger actually sounds like it was directed at the satan-preachers, like she was storming off to give them a piece of her mind: "These kids are choosing to play a game that reinforces their math and higher-level thinking skills better than their homework and you want me to stop them!?"

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Does it mean she knows what Satanism is to be able to tell if it is Satanism ? What is grams up to ? 🤔

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mander.xyz

It's math but with enough consulting of books and argumentation about rule mechanics that I swear lawyers would probably make better dnd players than mathematicians

so far all the sessions I've been to have at least one american chopper energy moment over rule disagreements and I love it

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lemmy.ca

every maths professor I've had in college told me to use the simplest numbers possible in my answers because arithmetic is annoying.

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startrek.website

Imagine if you had one of the greatest piano players in history offering to play you something, and you ask him to play the opening bars of "Heart and Soul", three times in a row.

Yes, they could do it, and do it perfectly.... But why would they want to do that when Claire De Lune or Für Elise exist. And yes, those are still fairly basic in the grand scheme of things but heart and soul is boring AF.

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Noob, not even using bayesian probability to determine if certs dice rolls should be done /s

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sh.itjust.works

Okay, so playing D&D could be helpful to a child interested in a nursing career? Getting the arithmetic fully automatic, since they also have a lot of other details to think about.

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lemmy.zip

A great DnD player is the perfect confluence of math nerd, obnoxious lawyer, and theater kid.

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Can confirm. I like math, I consider myself a decent debator and I was in drama class...

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mander.xyz

This meme is the American chopper meme. Now picture these guys arguing about spells and DnD lore

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Basically the same show except instead of buying interesting things, they build interesting motorcycles. There's another show more related to pawn stars. I can't recall the name, but there was a "car expert" they brought on the show regularly who ended up with his own spinoff show. If I recall correctly, the younger guy in the American Choppers meme got his own spinoff show too. Americans really can't get enough of their workplace drama television.

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I've summoned a demon, AND been to MULTIPLE hells.

LPT: don't summon a demon if you aren't certain you can control it.

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It's everywhere in hell, yet everyone cancels still.

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