Buglefingers

Man still even has his gloves on!

Damn, well at least my state is in the top 25

Hatchet was great! Still a favorite to this day! Sort of, MC was in a plane crash and has to do survival stuff and basically learn it all ad-libbed.

I had to read a book about rape in school called “Speak” it was pretty messed up and I don’t think it had all that good an ending either

That entirely depends on YOU

All I can say is I’m not a bad person (I’d like to think)

Not sure if you’re looking for a legitimate answer or not but I can provide my take: to me, looking at that standard, I cannot make heads or tales of the pronunciation at a glance. Learning a whole new set of symbols and standards is simply more effort and less efficient in the long run when considering the amount of necessity actually required. I.E. it is not an incredibly common everyday issue. It can also be meaningfully resolved with something more linguistically universal (the known and taught alphabet), so the time spent, the effort expended, does not pay dividends and ultimately the half measure typically works near equivocally.

I am aware of Ghoti (fish) and Ptoughneigh (Tony) but really, those a more fun experimental ways to twist pronunciations and examples given generally sick to things people would know and understand the way to pronounce, and if not, could also be easily fixed. Even so many would not even second guess because the importance is usually of such low value that it can be wrong until corrected, further diminishing the value of learning a more rare and nonstandard (for general communication) standard.

Different dialects do tend to have slights to the pronunciation but again, it just feels like such a non-issue.

That’s simply my layman take as to why I wouldn’t learn it. I can’t speak for anyone else

“Fur reel” that’s phonetically how I pronounce it

I feel like this is a great statment on how “meritocracy” works IRL

I just got hit with that in reverse. I was a an absolute chad last week, got all my stuff done, feeling great. Now I’m perpetually exhausted, dream of sleep and death. Zero motivation. Depression a real mood killer that.

Gotta figure out how to even the curves.

I’ve killed deer, chickens, chipmunks, squirrel, and some other small pests. Yes, I did gut and clean the deer and chickens myself. And yes, I did eat their tasty fleshy meat.

Yes yes, firebolt is a cantrip so use any first level spell for this example instead. I was just trying to provide something off memory for people to use

Can trips are kinda their own thing

“The monk is dodging a rave!?”

“I am the ring of ram, now strap me to the ballista”

“The paladin doesn’t know, put it on his tab”

“How many rats can I keep on me?”

A couple things from the way I understand magic in the universe, the example of fireball: some spells will come with a minimum quanta because in order to make that spell that spell you need to add mana (energy) to a minimum level to give it certain attribute(s). This is why you can always cast at higher level, using way more energy, but not less. There are other fire spells at a lower level, such as [Insert 1st level spell with fire attribute] but it lacks the explosive attribute. The explosive attribute requires way more energy than just creating flames just to acquire so a closer example would be more like, why can’t I make it ice ball? Change the elemental attribute (much easier to change and lower costing. Probably just a restriction of game mechanics than world restriction, but potentially an issue with attribute matching)

So I regards to the difference between fireball and [Insert 1st level spell with fire attribute] level , you’d start off casting [Insert 1st level spell with fire attribute] and you can increase it’s power until you may as well just spend that energy on the explosive attribute. Though if you didn’t want that explosive attribute you still could cast [Insert 1st level spell with fire attribute] with the same energy as fireball. I’d also assume the value coefficient for spells changes as you scale and the more efficient use of high energy costs would be the high level spells. I.E. you get more value in damage from 5th lvl fireball than 5th level [Insert 1st level spell with fire attribute].

Another way to imagine it would be like summoning. I cast “summon frog”. I get a frog. Why can I not get a smaller frog? Because this is the size of frogs. But if I add even more energy to it I can add a growth attribute to the spell, so when I cast summon Giant frog, I get a big boi frog. If I try to reduce it, I get a French delicacy rather than a summoned frog. Alternatively I could do, summon tadpole and get something different, and weaker, but still a frog-ish attribute

Edited for clarity, removed cantrip.

And in both real world and that world, you have arch users/wizards

Pfffffft of course I know what C is. It’s the third letter of the English alphabet! CC is for needles and CCC is probably boobs or something. And Cs is what allows people go get degrees. (/J)

That’s exactly correct, and they still associate themselves with whatever group. They usually do believe their methods justify the means and that allows them to subscribe to an ideology while doing things an outside perspective might consider against that ideology.

So if subscribing to the ideology is the only bar to entry, feel free to consider her an extremest or the like, but that’d make her a feminist still, no?

That’s a good question for the person who we’re talking about. I can’t speak on behalf of their reasoning but they seem to feel justified in it, somehow.

Sure does, but as far as I’m aware, subscription to the ideology is the only bar to entry. Just because someone uses distasteful methods does not mean they do not subscribe to the ideology. So in this case, I would argue that stating it does make it.

Unsure what that quote is supposed to imply. Either she does associate herself with the movement or she does not. I don’t know the person or follow any of their social stuff. So if she does not, in fact, self associate with that group than I misremembered and I’m wrong. If she does than she is.

Ah, well I apologize for not recognizing the original source. I was going off memory from where I saw the tweet of the question. I hadn’t realized it was from a response video. Though I still feel it was made to get a rise from people

There was a woman (IIRC a feminist) who posted a rage bait question of “women if you had to choose to be in the woods with a bear or a strange man, what would you choose?” (Paraphrasing)

Then got a bunch of hate mail from men and used that to exclaim that the hate mail was the exact reason women would choose a bear over a man in the woods.