“I cast that wish at level 9” I had to check the context to make sure that was a DnD thing and not some bizarre sovcit trend.
It’s also already a ninth level spell, so saying he’ll cast it at level nine is meaningless and a failed attempt to establish nerd cred.
It’s referring to a scene involving Sam Riegel in the first Critical Role campaign. He’s basically establishing he’s a ‘fan’, though also being a Nazi is weird af.
these are so cringe lol. It sounds like it is coming from someone who once read something on the internet and pretends like he has been part of this since college
I remember some YouTuber ranting about this. About how none of these people yelling about how their favorite games are going woke are actual players. I don’t have any evidence either way, but it wouldn’t surprise me if a lot of these folks are just random alt-right wingnuts trying to stir shit up. (Or nowadays AI wingnuts.)
Kinda like ranting about movies and games “go woke, go broke” and yet these media end up being blockbusters. These alt right and AI shit stirrers have huge backing from billionaires who want to world to end up in fascism.
Can’t cast Wish @ level 9. Gotta be at least level 17. Git good newb
But it’s a 9th level spell. Don’t make me bust out the chart.
Then you don’t need to specify what level it’s cast at, it’s level 9 by default. Get outnerded 🤓
It’s wish. There are no level modifiers. At least not back when I played. A wish of a wish. 17th level wizard or 34th level wizard makes no difference.
Agree with antifascist stuff. Just nitpicking the fascist idiot’s idiotic words: what the hell is an example of a non-politically-motivated assassination?? isn’t every assassination politically motivated?
isn’t every assassination politically motivated?
We can go further and describe everything we do and every way in which we interact with others as “politically motivated” because politics is literally just dealing with someone else. If there were two people left on earth, there would be politics. If there was only one person left, there would finally be no politics.
And that’s my platform when I run: no more politics 2028! lets gooooo!
Honestly yeah. My understanding of politics is power dynamics, which is just built into everything
I don’t know what level of irony you’re on, but seriously, isn’t the political motivation what makes it different from a (paid) murder?
“Political motivation” is just the term we use to describe something that happened that we haven’t codified into law yet because it hasn’t become the widespread, social norm.
Are you doing a Peterson move and just asking me to define my terms? Anyway, I’m off to bed, maybe I’il expand on that tomorrow.
Assassination of passion.
I suddenly realised I don’t actually know the difference of somebody being murdered or assassinated. I searched it, turns out there’s various definitions. Most have either sneaky-peaky or prominent (political?) meanings.
Just to be clear: neither do I.
If we’re moving away from elections and governments, corporations could assassinate each others leaders.
Often, I think being an important person or person in position of power is an important factor that makes it different than just a murder.
Mob hits.
Internal politics or killing people that threaten their position?
Financially-motivated assassinations? Having someone killed before they can disown you?
This is one of my favorite parts of sitting out playing music by my “resist fascism” sign.
And I cast that wish at level 9
Well no duh. It’s a level 9 spell. Can’t cast it lower than that.
“Politically motivated assassinations”? Should we bring up the comparative list of politically-motivated extremist incidents in the US and see which side is enacting most of the violence?
“politically motivated assassinations?” like the two Democratic politicians who were just murdered yesterday in Minnesota?
No no, that’s like school shootings in the USA, part of their apolitical culture!
It’s mental illness!
I like how it’s “politically motivated assassinations” while graffiti on a Tesla is terrorism.
Including the ones in Minnesota today?
well the FBI said there’s not enough evidence…
/s
The Minnesota ones are particularly interesting. The Democrats had a one-seat advantage in both chambers of the Minnesota legislature. The assassin specifically targeted one Democratic member of each chamber. The Minnesota House is now tied, and the Senate will be tied until Hoffman is able to work or (or Minnesota allows it, I’m not sure) is about to designate someone to vote for him.
There should be rules that disincentive assassination so this doesn’t happen again.
Like, “murder is illegal”? Cuz, that’s one lol
Obviously there is still enough incentive. Maybe the legislature should still get her vote, from like a deputy or assistant of some kind.
Specifically, any one party shouldn’t be able to take advantage of a momentary shift in power due to an assassination of a member in the other party.
And how do you incentivise politicians to follow that rule?
All they ever do is “No, u…!”
Haven’t had an original thought since 1936.
Reactionary politics in a nutshell
it’s in the name
Um, actually Wish is always cast at level 9.
As of this month I am 31 years clean from D&D. And even I knew that wish is always cast at level 9.
Um acktshually you can cast Limited Wish as a 7th level in Pathfinder 🤓
Um, actually Limited Wish is not Wish.
The old 3.5e Epic Level Handbook had 10th level spells, and the rules surrounding their use.
So, maybe you could use a 10th level spell slot to stengthen Wish?
I haven’t played D&D this century, and the last Pathfinder I ran was lower level and we only did 1 or 2 actual play sessions before scheduling fell apart. (Also, I’m a pretty bad DM, even working from an existing published campaign; people just want me to be GM because I can remember rules.)
Yeah this happened once during the 2020 July protests in Serbia. As we walked, we passed a WW2 memorial and the guy leading the group took a moment to stop, comment on it and chant “death to fascism” a few times. Then out of the blue two guys started yelling “death to communism”.
To be fair, “death to fascism, freedom to the people” is a communist slogan known by everyone from ex-Yugoslavia, but getting triggered by someone disavowing fascism right next to a statue that shows how fascists murdered civilians in raids in your own city is… worrying.
For some reason there seems to be this idea that everything must either be fascist or communist or somewhere between. Like they don’t believe in the existence of other political philosophies.
They’re obsessed with the political spectrum being one-dimensional, it isn’t.
Ah yes, the two genders
Binary thinking is inherently limiting for complex issues, we aren’t computers we don’t need to look at everything like a boolean
Weird how every anticommunism turns out to be fascism putting on a performance for libs.
Not in Eastern Europe. People hate the communists here. They have ruined their countries, basically occupied them.
Which eastern European country, and how many monuments to nazi collaborators have they put up since the fall of communism?
None. But plenty of communist monuments that were forced on us that we tore down the second Russia effed off back to home.
Communism is a disease and the Soviet Union was an imperialist country continuing on with Russia.
Which eastern European country didnt build monuments to nazi collaborators as part of its anticommunist national project?
Mine didn’t. Stop whatabouting, I don’t remotely care about opinions of a tankie.
What is the name of that country?
Maybe we should stop listening, and start doing.
The next chant should be “death to fascism, death to capitalism”
Fascism is a feature of capitalism, not a bug. We need to go back to the correct timeline. Socialism was the improvable system. Capitalism is social darwinism (read: a lie)
Either one taken to its extreme ends with some sort of despotism. You really need both working together to keep each other in check.
feel free to prove that point. it is insane. capitalism has never worked for the people, in any country. whereas socialism has worked by itself and for the people very well. the red scare propaganda of “big bad communism” is a hoax. but besides that, the western states had to kill many socialist leaders and destablize many socialist countries (please read about it, its disgusting) to make them seem “unable to work”.
Socialism taken to the extreme ends in anarchism. Now if you decide to muddle “giving power to the workers” and “giving power to the workers’ party” things reach type 3 fun very fast.
Not by accident, Serbia is like the MAGA lovin’ south of Europe, complete with the ignorant meat-heads gargling Putin’s balls.
“I cast that wish at level 9” is a weird phrasing. So far as I know Wish is already level 9, so there’s no other level to cast it at. Older editions had “limited wish” but I don’t believe they had upcasting. It feels very “how do you do fellow children”
It’s kinda “fellow kids” but also a lot people don’t know the rules of the games they play.
This one’s a fascist tho, so fuck them.
DnD is also a game that utilizes table rules pretty much all the time. It’s possible that his DM gave more flexible rules, I know my DM will if you have a convincing argument.
But also, buddy definitely says “you’re one of the good ones” to his black coworkers
I love threads where there’s the one person downvoting a benign comment, like “fuck fascists.” It must be lonely on Lemmy for those people. I sure hope it is.
Suffer being ostracized, downvoting fascist.
Unfortunately there seem to be a not-insignificant number of accelerationist tankies on various instances, so I’m sure fascists habe someone to hold hands with and trash on the rest of the political spectrum.
Hell yeah, Scanlan Shorthalt et al!
One hell of a mouth on that one
This has many valid interpretations
Giggety
and he has joked about all of those interpretations on camera!
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Probably hot take, but from the point of view of a conservative the “fascist” OOP just mentioned is a strawman and a very unpleasant one to be associated with at that, so no wonder they would attack the very idea of association after everyone starts spreading it.
You’re right natzi rolls off the tongue better
If you looked inside their mind, that’s probably what you’d see. They’re conditioned to be in this perpetual state of persecution. It’s sad, really, they don’t even get that there’s fascism happening so they think any mentions of it are insults.
But that doesn’t excuse anything, they should know better. They’re bad people helping a bad cause and there’s nothing wrong with being mean to them.
If you’re offended by the word “fascist” maybe stop being a fascist.
Is it really a strawman when a number of people within a party can be equated to fascists without that being an exaggeration?
You probably wouldn’t feel so triggered if you weren’t aware, deep down on some subliminal level, that you’re acting like a fascist.
If you don’t want to be associated with fascism, MAYBE DON’T ACT LIKE A FUCKING NAZI
Not my choice of words, but the sentiment is spot on.
Nice concern trolling
Even if that was the case, the conservatives’ counter argument never addresses why the association with facism, white supremacy, Nazism would supposedly be false. It’s always a knee-jerk “actually you guys are bad.” Not doing much to counter the association.
Strawman arguments are misrepresentations of a position or an insult towards specific people or groups for being devoid of substance.
Saying “down with fascism” is nowhere close to being a strawman. No “man” is even being spoken of, nor is anything being misrepresented.
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