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    Cuban Revolution 67th Anniversary- Novo General Megathread for the 1st-5th of January 2026

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  • it's not until a high level that it's accessible and it's one of the most common mechanics hacked into either having stricter limitations than the rules as they're written, or just axed altogether.

    but yeah d&d doesn't innately do stuff outside of "superheroic high fantasy focused on combat" super well (you can modify it to be better at other types of narratives/scenarios but that's pretty laborious). other types of RPGs are designed for stuff outside of that, there's like a million different systems/rule sets out there.

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  • damn Return of the King is super short if you don't include the appendices.

    also rewatched half of Fellowship extended edition with my partner (her first time) and i have become the kind of dweeb who has strong opinions about LOTR book-to-movie changes

    Fellowship is easily the truest to the spirit & tone of the book, most of the changes were necessary cuts/condenses for pacing and runtime, reluctant sensitive sadboy Aragorn who gradually learns to be a leader as an act of service to others works well for the film imo, a perfect mythic hero works in a novel that's heavily inspired by myth/that feels like a more modern take on those myths but would feel super jarring in a film (and the movie arguably just moves character development/an arc Aragorn had that was hinted at offpage/in the appendices before the events of LOTR into the events of LOTR), Glorfindel being replaced by Arwen also better for the format for a number of reasons. (It would have been fun if they'd found a way to keep some of book Aragorn's prankster side though lol)

    the worst changes IMO are that you see the beginnings of the flattening of Frodo (and less importantly Gimli and Legolas), which only intensifies as the movies go on - you at least see some of book Frodo's resourcefulness/cleverness in the first movie (e.g. solving the riddle outside Moria) before he's turned into a much more wholly passive character, and Gimli is at least allowed a moment of actual grief/pathos in the mines before becoming more pure comic relief. (Idk if Orlando Bloom would have had the chops to bring book Legolas's mix of playfulness/joie de vivre and world-wise pensiveness even if the script tried to retain that aspect of him so idk).

  • Like most of you I had (and still have) a lot of doubts about Mamdani, but I'd at least consider this a small initial win

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  • it should be “how can the socialist movement leverage figure X?”

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • but wait…if everybody’s 12 then 30-somethings also 12 and 30-somethings are old so 12 y/o are old so everybody’s…….

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • "what would you tell your younger self" thought experiment except it's me to myself a few months ago (a week or so before my 35th birthday (when i was still Officially Young))

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  • 30s = old

    discourse has gotten out of hand, the algo just fed me a D-tier dogshit meme of Uncle Iroh from Avatar hanging out with literal children that said "me being early 30s hanging out with my friends in their late 20s" like dawg those are barely even different life stages if at all.

    i have early-mid 20s friends through organizing and it doesn't even really feel like that, like yeah it's different hanging out with them in a lot of ways but not to that degree. am i getting excessively riled up about bottom of the barrel engagement bait slop? idk maybe probably but this is the general mega (better known as "PowerLurker's journal") so u gotta deal with it, Jack!

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • ey thank you thank you

    hoping to keep it up in the new year!!

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • oooooh i getchu now. so i have a witness to my precognitive struggle session prediction abilities

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • do i sense the premise for a Last Ringbearer-esque takedown of the Witcher brewing?? 

    tbh i tend to avoid fictional media based struggle sessions/site drama (and used to steer clear of site drama in general before things got kinda bad here the past year and change) but i think something that gets lost in these discussions is that you can (and generally should?) critique aspects of a work of fiction for being potentially problematic while still allowing yourself to overall enjoy the work if you enjoy it. it's also fine for some audiences to not be able to look past certain arguably problematic dimensions because it makes them too uncomfortable or upset, while others can look past them - that's fine and doesn't have a particularly moral dimension, enjoying or not enjoying fictional media is far from any kind of praxis. (like I love LOTR but it's no mystery to me why that's easier to do as a white guy).

    the impression i get is that people on one side of this type of struggle session feel judged on a personal level for something they feel is innocuous (enjoying a particular story), and the other side (including many POC users) feel like their critiques that come from a lived experience of heightened oppression are being downplayed and dismissed by people who on average come from a more privileged position. but idk, if people could take a step back from media consumption as any kind of particularly moral or political act these convos could be had in a less heated way (i guess what i'm saying is reject UlyssesT thought and its consequences)

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • finished We Have Always Lived in the Castle (good but evil book) and The Two Towers just in the nick of time to have completed 8 fictions in the year 2025, which isn't all that much but before this year i was lucky if i finished like 1-2 books so i'm gonna give myself a lil pat on the back.

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • i hate to be the guy who responds to a bitpost with sincerity but you got me thinking and i feel like the common canon fodder monsters (drowners, ghouls, etc) in the Witcher are depicted more like fantastical (& gross) wild animals than actual sapient/self aware creatures so it's closer to killing an aggressive wolf or bear or some shit.

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  • old enough to remember the frieren struggle sessions or me pining for a d&d group on and off for like over 5 years now??

  • Peak masculinity

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  • Aragorn son of Arathorn ass list (affectionate)

  • Mao Zedong - Novo General Megathread for the 25th-31st of December 2025

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  • oh btw my fantasy races question wasn’t a response to the sites…6th? 7th? Frieren struggle sesh i literally just saw that sorry if it came across that way.

    (i just happened to be daydreaming about running d&d again which im sure will go nowhere like the other…6? 7? times in the past half decade

    )

  • "My significant other is literally the worst human being on planet Earth, every waking moment I am around them I am filled with anger and dread. No being could ever bring such darkness to my life!"

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  • no i don’t disagree im just shitpostin’ and been drinkin a little

    i think the grain or two or three of truth is that hetero ones tend to have a higher baseline of harmful shit ya gotta unlearn. but the trope can easily veer into model minority type shit and also just like minimize the bad (or even abusive like you said) experiences queer people can have in relationships.

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  • no…you don’t get it, dad, when i said fellxs i was being ironic. nobody even says “woke” anymore!! 🙄

  • "My significant other is literally the worst human being on planet Earth, every waking moment I am around them I am filled with anger and dread. No being could ever bring such darkness to my life!"

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  • for the record fellxs: i fr*ggin love my gf!!

  • "My significant other is literally the worst human being on planet Earth, every waking moment I am around them I am filled with anger and dread. No being could ever bring such darkness to my life!"

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  • in this economy, it’s not just the straights who aren’t OK

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  • 🎶 grillman….aaaaAAAAaaaaah…

    fighter of the woke mxn…aaaaaAAAAAaaaah 🎶

    (to the tune of day man from always sunny, if that wasn’t obvious

    )

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    lenin, my GOAT

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    NYC hexbears riding the Zohran high: get involved w/ the ICE Out of NY coalition!!

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    help

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    the true reason i started organizing…

  • electoralism @hexbear.net
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    PSL Statement on Zohran's Win

    liberationnews.org /psl-statement-mamdanis-victory-and-the-movement-for-socialism/
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    !! Vote Socialist in the Bronx - PSL candidate Andre Easton launches campaign for NY-15 Congressional District !!