Definetely weird.

I can not resist the joke.

And deserve the exact same punishment.

I like your point of view but that’s an ever dwindling information base. Most catholics don’t go to confession and a good portion of humans on this rock isn’t one.

But besides that, spot on.

I just suggested a more neutral expression, for future use. That expression doesn’t have an equivalent in my language but I understood your words. Carrying around bagage of that sort just weighs us down; I went through a similar situation in my life and it was not pleasant.

How about a good enough cook? Because knowing how to cook without trashing the kitchen in process is a feat worthy of respect. Took me a few years to achieve.

Can you guess what is the basic flaw for me in AD&D, which eventually led me to walk away from it? How the game builds up expectations for the player.

The average person just flips open a player’s book, a monster manual or some other tome on the game lore and instantly the person thinks their character will be, from the start, like the model characters they’re reading upon, which they never will or even can be, as the game does not permit it, in my understanding and experience.

As a player, it was extremely frustrating to handle DMs that expected a newbie mage/ranger/fighter/whatever to take risks as if they were seasoned veterans and had high capabilities from the start. That is nonsense.

No class in AD&D is (or was; I speak from years of distance) capable of great feats from the get go, as the way the characters are built forces a level 0/1 into basically discarding any capabilities a trained individual into a specific profession would already have. It would be better to just say the characters are slightly above average commoners.

As a DM, I was quick to get fed up with players that wanted to pull stunts that would be barely feaseable to high level characters/professionals, regardless me going through the basics as I did above.

People are idiots but the game was set up by morons and others just tried to build on top of it to improve it, with mixed results at best.

That’s a pretty metal description of what transitioning is. Bang on.

Catholics and all christians by extension are also bound to do good and protect those who can’t defend themselves.

I’m going to risk that denouncing and delivering to secular authoroties those who practice one of the most heinous acts we can think of falls under that responsibility.

Or because the church has lost its power to deliver “justice” of their accord (read inquisition and the follow up torture and mutilation) it has also lost the will to persecute evil deeds?

Someone already did the math and the rolling garbage can is even worst than the infamous Pinto.

Skeletal structure.

This implies stronger bones and stronger joints. With a stronger framework to hold your muscles, you get a sturdier body.

Where is the loop hole? Emancipation?

That’s the role of the de facto union. But the civil union usually grants you special conditions, along with your spouse.

This is all about standard issues.

We all do. And we make it better as well. It is just a matter of the moment.

Oh, they do. More than you might think and much more than you want to accept.

Undead armies are easier to raise by going to a cemetery.

And power can only be gained by sacrificing something you value. By your statement, you’re just expending purpose made discardables. No barganing value there.

You know why I specifically mention condoms? Because it’s usually worn by men; if a guy doesn’t respect himself enough to wear one, unprompted, he’s not worth it.

Safe sex and all that.

My body, my choice actually applies to both parties in a sexual encounter.

Don’t want kids? Fine, your body, your choice. But try using condoms, at the bare minimum.

NWN still calls home?

Azores Cattle Dogs

The girls I currently care for were taken, one too early from her mother, at six weeks old, and because I was to overprotective of her, as there was a declaration of an infecto-contagious disease, fatal for puppies, and for which she could not be vaccinated before being six months old, in the least, she lost that very important early socialization window and became a very stressed and fearful dog. Even today, some gestures like rubbing her belly can trigger a growling reaction. She is lovely, otherwise and will bark and lunge but will gladly run off at first chance.

The other one, was the last one leaving her mother, at 12 weeks, but she was very underweight and skittish when coming home. Even today she stresses over food very easily. I risk she was poorly fed and had to fight for every piece she managed to get. She is very territorial and often is the first aggressor when they fight as she does not trust her sister around the family when she starts barking or fretting over anything.

Things have been easier later, as we introduced somw grounds rules to the family, especially my kids, that easily get into panic mode and start screaming for anything, which is a very clear trigger for them. If the kids are scared, there is a potential danger. When they don’t find it, they turn on each other and these are vicious dogs when engaged in a fight.

My male would enter a full kill-or-be-killed attitude when any threat presented itself. I never had any problems with him because we worked very well as a unit and I was always ready to take the first step to send away another dog before things got out of control. But this breed has gladiator spirit: outnumbered, out muscled, they fight to the death, if need be.

I hope I’m understanding your angle of approach on this.

Crowd control dogs are highly trained and don’t go out on a rampage unless commanded to. It’s their handler that triggers the response. Otherwise, the dogs do not exhibit arbitrary aggression behaviour. Even military trained dogs must not demonstrate aggressive tendencies; if so, they would be a danger for their handlers and other allies. The attack behaviour is developed and triggered under specific conditions and commands.

You can train a dog in the same manner. Dog trainning is an open knowledge base and I personally think everyone should work with their dogs in order to give them the best outcome possible for their lives. It’s the closest symbiotic relation our species has with another, in my understanding. And it’s fun.

From this point forward, I’m going to talk from personal experience.

I was lucky enough to have the perfect dog in a very bad point of my life. That dog forced me out of my house, to go on long walks and think on something other than my misery. I never taught a single thing to him beyond sitting and laying down on request. I never taught him to wait for me, keep an eye out when I was foraging for something or being protective of my family.

This was dog that, still not fully grown, took on two other, bigger than him, to protect my infant child, out of his own vollition. And that when called by name returned. This would be the same dog, that years later, would stare down another> , known for being unreliable around children, into submission, a dog the person responsible for feared and kept chained. I had a lord by my side and I was lucky for it.

When that dog died in my arms, of old age, I lost a brother and a son. I’m crying as I write these words.

Today I have two dogs of the same breed but I have severely failed them, by allowing another person to force me to take them to under the wrong conditions: separatly and too early. This created a vicious beggining for their lives, making them fearful and wary of everyone, which made them prone to be aggressive out of fear and aggressive towards each other. Things have been better with some measures but I feel as I failed them.

Most dogs show aggressive behaviour out of improper care, be it by negligence or abuse.

I’ve been studying and working, actively, to be a dog trainer. I have scars, from my own dogs, for mistakes I’ve done. I hold no anger against them. It was my mistakes that made them react to the world as they do today. I’ve helped other people not make the same mistakes with their dogs; it’s my small contribution for a better world, I hope.

I’ve only met two dogs beyond any reach. One diminished from birth causes, making the dog effectively uncapable of acquiring any modulation to his behaviour; besides eating, nothing mattered and he would attack anything he viewed as potentially edible and attack to keep others from food, even after being fed to satisfaction. The other had been severely abused, being given alcohol as a pup, which stunted his development, both physical and mental. The dog would attack out of nothing, anything, and would not calm down until passing out of exhaustion. I believe he suffered from allucinations. Both had to be put to rest, as their lives would never be happy.

So, you can have a dog prepared to defend you. You just need to prove you can take care of the dog properly.