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Trend Alert: Frilly Spring Blouses
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The romantics have arrived. However, one must be aware of the abundant femme flavor of these frilly Spring blouses. Clearly a trickle down from the Romanza trend, the way to wear these for today is sans skirt and with a leaner silhouette. So a sleek pair of skinnies will suffice or a cool pair of high waisted trousers. As for a jacket, you don't want to crush these precious frills so something light and airy - a blazer would look too suit-ish.
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The ones on the runways were a bit muted, to see some more colorful blouses, read more
MARC BY MARC JACOBS 'Shooting Star' Dobby Top, $228.
Banana Republic Pleat-front ruffle blouse, on sale for $45 (originally $60).
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JKe895 7 years
I like the frill, it's very feminine.
flutterpie 7 years
i love the marc one, why is it harder to believe keith richards didnt snort his father?
flutterpie 7 years
i love the marc one, why is it harder to believe keith richards didnt snort his father?
lilxmissxmolly 7 years
i like all but hte last. they look great with pencil skirts.
diva_22 7 years
So cute! Plus, I already have a couple!
Megatron 7 years
OMG, I am trendy! I have a frilly Spring blouse.
karmapunch 7 years
That Marc Jacobs top is gorgeous!! Loving this ruffly/frilly trend..
brokenbracelet 7 years
wow bigestivediscuit!! 2 bucks is a freakin steal!!! lol They always have the best sales there
Fashiondiva91 7 years
I LOVE frilly tops they are SOO feminine!!My fave is the purple one sooo cute!!
Fashiondiva91 7 years
I LOVE frilly tops they are SOO feminine!! My fave is the purple one sooo cute!!
Wicked 7 years
I liked this Chloe one that I saw on Kate Bosworth;
bigestivediscuit 7 years
Haha, brokenbracelet - that reminds me - I used to work at Aeropostale and I bought a frilly top last year like the ones pictured here with my employee discount for 2 bucks! Bargain!
brokenbracelet 7 years
Awww so cute, I picked up some adorable frilly-ish tops at Aeropostale for like 10 bucks the other day.
bhilb 7 years
I hate that Marc Jacobs one. It reminds me of something I wore in jr. high school in the (very) early 90's. And I am not ready to relive those days. Love the BR one, though!
PrissyLilBadAss 7 years
I have the Banana one and its even cuter in person!"Party like a rock star, pound like a porn star, play like an all star!"
PrissyLilBadAss 7 years
I have the Banana one and its even cuter in person! "Party like a rock star, pound like a porn star, play like an all star!"
SaRaH-22 7 years
i dont like the green one...maybe if it was a little tighter??
ash_marisa 7 years
The purple CR is beautiful...wish it was a bit cheaper though, id settle for $100....
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By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
5/15/2013 (1 year ago)
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Ciudad Blanca, or the "White City," according to legend, was full of gold and had been sought out by explorers and treasure hunters ever since conquistador Hernando Cortes first made reference to it in a 1526 letter to King Charles V of Spain. To date, no confirmation of the existence of the city has ever been provided. Researchers now believe they may finally have found the fabled city in Honduras using high-tech scanners that let aircraft "see" through dense forest.
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Keywords: White City of Gold, LiDar, archaeology, Honduras, Ciudad Blanca
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Books have cited the city as the birthplace of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. Previous reported sightings over the years have described golden idols and elaborately carved white stones, which led to the lost city's name.
Researchers from the University of Houston and the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping have flown over the Mosquitia region in a small plane shooting billions of laser pulses at the ground to create a 3D digital map of the topology beneath the jungle canopy.
Analysts revealed what appears to be man-made elevation changes to reveal what they say is a forgotten city plaza dotted with pyramids reclaimed by the jungle.
Cinematographer and Ciudad Blanca enthusiast Steven Elkins sought backing from private investors to pay for the team at NCLAM to use their laser mapping technology to chart the forest floor of Mosquitia. Engineers flew over 60 square miles of forest in their dual-engine Cessna planes over the course of a week.
LiDAR's computer-generated images have allowed researchers to "see" through the forest canopy to the ground surface, revealing any evidence of ancient settlements or human-engineered landscapes.
"The LiDAR point cloud data clearly show the remains of large settlements that can be characterized as ancient cities based on their spatial complexity, size and organization,' Colorado State University professors Christopher Fisher says.
"We may never be able to tell whether any of these are Ciudad Blanca, or whether the legendary city ever existed, but we can clearly see in the UTL data evidence that there was a densely settled region with a human modified environment.
"These conclusions provide important new insights into the pre-Hispanic settlement of this largely unexplored region."
If confirmed, the discovery of Ciudad Blanca would be comparable to the popularization of forgotten sites such as Machu Picchu, which lay ruined for hundreds of years until reintroduced to western eyes in 1911 by American historian Hiram Bingham.
However - if the myth remains a myth, any positive identification of the fabled "White City" of Ciudad Blanca would reignite hopes of finding the legendary "Lost City of Gold," El Dorado. Archaeologists will now have to undertake a journey through the dense forest to visit the site in person.
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Expo 2015 is being held just northwest of Milan's city center under the theme "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life." It is the first world's fair with a food theme.
Unlike previous expositions where smaller countries or countries with fewer resources would be grouped together geographically, Expo 2015 is creating food-theme clusters that will allow countries to address various issues that are not necessarily bound by geography.
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They probably meant "also", but seriously, doesn't *anyone* proof-read anymore?
I know you're joking, but I think a number of slashdot readers are thinking, "yeah, why can't they just shield them".
I'm not sure I see the point of even going to Mars in the first place; like Kennedy's moon trip, going to Mars will get us nothing. Things are just too impractical to get anything useful done on either planet. The futurists all argue, "well, SOME day it'll be practical". Wasn't this the same group that predicted we'd have, ten years ago, flying cars, transporters, faster than light travel, etc?
In fact, many things that don't have to do with Mars have become problems, because Mars has been leaching dollars from other programs. So, for example, the Hubble Space Telescope, the single most scientifically valuable instrument in space, has become too expensive to re
So even if they cannot solve the cosmic radiation problem entirely, there is a possibility that could get them safely to Mars and back. Of course first we'd need that Moon base I've been reading about in SF stories written as far back as forever...
Thanks a lot, Murdoch...very helpful. Are you sure you haven't soaked up too many RADs yourself?"Radiation exposure is certainly one of the major problems facing future interplanetary space travellers," says Murdoch Baxter, founding editor of the Journal of Environmental Radioactivity. "Unless we can develop instantaneous time and space transfer technologies like Dr Who's TARDIS."
So, out of 10 astronauts, one dies of cancer that he or she wouldn't have gotten had she or she stayed at home.
For each astronaut, there's a 90% chance of suffering no ill effects from the increased radiation exposure. (That is, they'll get to die of a heart attack, stroke, of an injury after a fall, in an auto wreck, or of a cancer they were going to ge
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Sinophobes are not exclusively white. In fact, many whites are sinophiles. Amongst other things, sinophobes of various colours simply fear the scale of China. Some fear the repeat of their own history of colonialism, imperialism and genocide where they are the victims, instead of the aggressors. They think their future is the linear extrapolation of their past backwards.
Ultra-sinophobes prefer the world destroyed now than one where China could have a major influence in global affairs.
Most sinophobes overlook the fact that Chinese people do not have eternal truths or universal values to shove down the throats of others by violence, starvation or subversion. Historically, a prosperous and powerful China had seen those who could not appreciate Chinese culture and values as "barbarians" deserving their "backwardness" and be kept outside the "Great Wall" even it takes a thousand years to build. They preferred to leave the "barbarians" alone so long as the "barbarians" do not do things that harm them. Sinophobes who mind their own business could have all the freedoms and human rights to live their lives their own way.
This has been true for millenniums in Chinese history. It could be the secret why the Chinese civilization is the only one that is still thriving today after so many thousands of years. It did not suffer imperial overreach, bankruptcy and total collapse.
"A CHANGING China has long been a mirror in which visitors can see their expectations and their own character reflected."
Look, I am Chinese. I know how white people view China, and the Chinese. They( the west ) see China, and its people as alien, or foreign to them. They don 't understand the country, people, and civilization, so they come up with sinister explanations as to the true intent of these people. The intentions, and "gut reactions" is always negative. One can compare this associated feeling with a mix of white supremacy thinking, Xenophobia, and fear. The expression, "they fear what they do not know" comes to mind.
People have cognitive biases. They want to prove what they want to believe. Some people want to believe chinese want to take over the world, so they try to look evidence for that. Another cognitive bias is that the west is always good,and that it stands for higher ideals. It is not true, but they want to believe it, and they so look for evidence for that.
Here is something surprising for the west. Chinese are "human beings". Yes, it is actually important to say that with all the dehumanizing that is going on. They want a better live, and better future for themselves, and their offsprings. This desire is fundamental, and in the long rum trump all foreplay. It is really stupid suppose that Chinese want to do evil, but that most people in the west want to be believe. What can I say.
It's the hypocrisy, self-righteousness and lack of knowledge/sensitivity about other cultures/religions (especially the non-Western ones) of the Chinese Communist government (and most Han-Chinese) that makes the rest of the world feel uneasy. It's great to be patriotic about this "Great Economic Leapfrog Forward", but it might just scare people from other less powerful countries (not everyone is an American or Chinese), especially if you are 1.5 billion strong (including the millions of expatriate Chinese) and have grandiose plans to be the dominating hegemon. I was living in Burma, when China tried to forcefully impose Mao's "Cultural Revolution" to Burma. Now it's something else but ambitious they are, still marching strong, with better guns and a lot of money looking for "Lebensraum".
Most Chinese, even if they are citizens of other nations, are very defensive and sensitive about any criticism of their "motherland". Loyalty to the "Han Civilization" seems to override even the loyalty to the country where they live. They also typically assume that all other non-Western countries would automatically be pro-Chinese and anti-US/UK because they believe China is engaging in an "epic historic struggle" against the West for global dominance. The rest of Asia, Africa and South America is of course, just populated by "underdeveloped and uncultured barbarians" but very useful for natural resources.
I think the theory that China is a benevolent power interested only in trade had more adherents a decade ago than it does now. That view always ignored, for example, Vietnam's thousand-year experience of warfare with China, and recently the Senkaku, Spratly and nine-dash line developments are putting the frighteners on China's neighbors.
In the past China could be ignored if not abused by colonial powers such as Britain, because it was internally divided and militarily weak. No more. China increases defense expenditure at 10% annually, and is determined not to be abused again. But a result of China's growing power can be seen in the Senkakus. These islands have been under Japanese control since 1895, and until now, did not cause much friction between the two nations.
But now China has a military which (it thinks) can take on Japan, and so is pushing to establish ownership of the Senkakus. Why would the Senkakus be so important to China that they are willing to provoke conflict with Japan?
It makes sense if you look at a map of China's Southern coast and the 'first island chain' that encircles it: Ryukyus (including Okinawa), Japan, Taiwan. From China's point of view, it cannot control it's own seaboard without being able to deny access to these islands and the waters between them and China's coast.
So the Senkaku dispute is probably the first objectives in a campaign to absorb the entire Ryukyu chain. What is strange about China's other territorial claim, the nine-dash line, is that they should make that claim before the first objective, Senkaku, is acheived. By doing so they give notice of their wider intentions which results in the nations of South East Asia allying with Uncle Sam in a containment strategy against them.
Maybe this apparent ineptitude is a result of China's foreign policy apparatus ranking so low in the Communist party hierarchy? Luttwak's "The Rise of China and the Logic of Strategy" puts it down to China's traditional view of itself as 'The Middle Kingdom', sufficent in itself and not dependent upon others, even for goodwill.
Actually it's two books on China's influence abroad, so it seems only right that people outside of China should write them.
you are so wrong. You can see Chinese influence every where you go in Asia for thousand years. Korean used to Chinese empire as empire of haven kingdom. Most westerners forget 4 important Chinese inventions(paper, printing ,gun power and compact). I can say that spread of knowledge and discovery of new worlds all depended on those great inventions.
As always, the truth is somewhere in the middle of two opposing views. It has to be something significant, otherwise people wouldn't be writing books about it. It can't be the only thing, because many are still not convinced. Some perhaps never will. In the meantime, Chinese should keep doing what has been good for China and the world for the last two decades - business over ideology, peace over war, development over revolution.
"To be Rich is glorious." But unlike the hegemonic West who likes to invade other countries to control and loot their treasures, the Chinese often have to offer a higher than market price to buy the commodities. Nevertheless the West don't like its operand modus and fingers China to frame it as the neo-Colonialist.
"Loyalty to the "Han Civilization" seems to override even the loyalty to the country where they live"
I think this is might be true in Indonesia and the Philippines where the ethnic Chinese diaspora has (historically, if not so much now) been victimized. So they might look to China as a potential protector.
Burma is a special case because although ethnic Chinese are in the minority, many are recent immigrants and may still feel allegience to the motherland, although it is unlikely they will be victimised since the Burmese government would crack down hard on their persecutors in anticipation of punishment from China. This does not mean the Burmese necessarily welcome them.
Thailand is an interesting case. Ethnic Chinese Thais are well integrated having been there for generations and having adopted Thai names. Thaksin is ethnic Chinese. I think Thailand is the SEAsian country least likely to see anti-China violence, with the exception of Singapore, which is SEAsia's only ethnic Chinese-majority country.
Malaysia is another interesting case. Ethnic Chinese are a large minority (more than 20%) and have been the victims of violence on several occasions, most recently in the 1960's. Malaysian Chinese must tolerate pro-Malay policies which have institutionalized racism and ethnic tension is just below the surface, so Chinese Malaysians are careful not to voice any pro-China sentiments if they have any, since that might be used by the Malay-dominated government as 'evidence' of disloyalty.
The uneasy peace described in the examples above could be turned upside-down in the event of hostilitities breaking out over the nine-dash line or Senkakus. Whether or not China attempts to develop fifth columns (which they might be tempted to do), government's fear of them might be enough to destabilize ethnic relations.
Regarding the diaspora in the US, Australasia, Europe etc, I am sure they want nothing to do with China's government. Most are well integrated and rarely experience racism let alone violence as happens in, for example, Indonesia.
Thought provoking books are worthy of reading for Chinese and their government. The time is ripe when China should take into consideration all consequences brought about during the last three decades long reform at home to its ecology in order not to bring shame onto the rest of the world with the same approach. On the other hand, Chinese posters should calm down while probing between lines that China can not and should follow the way the US climbs to the top since time changes and the world changes too. China approach should not be powered only by Confucius even though there are hundreds of Confucius Institutes scattering the world. Chinese culture is an integration of three parts. Aside from Confucianism, there are Taoism and Buddhism that are complemented to be adjusted to local situations. In other word, both resistance and accommodation are held on when it comes to going globe the same time drawing lessons from the US with regard to 'soft power' accompanying sphere of influence on economy.
'A CHANGING China has long been a mirror in which visitors can see their expectations and their own character reflected. Glass-half-full people argue that hundreds of millions have been lifted out of poverty and millions are now being empowered by their use of the internet and their increased spending power. The less positive point out that human rights are routinely abused, freedom of speech is restricted and corruption endemic. Both are right. It just depends where you look and what you want to see.'
How to view China depends on where you stand. From economic achievements, it seems no one denies the fact that there is 'China miracle'while out of political perspective, human rights, freedom of speech and corruption are utilized to condemn the country.
Is there 'universal values' treasured by all human beings around the world? Can 'freedom of speech' be limitless? Is there any country free from corruption? If only human species remain, diversity stays unchanged.
2 books on China by non-Chinese. Hmm...
Well, in the long run, you're dead, so who cares what you think?
It is not surprising then that you hold these views and you believe them to be correct. A prudent approach is to read what the other side, the Chinese side, have to say regarding the Diaoyu/Senkaku dispute. Invariably the Chinese side will have a view that is very different from what Japan have to say. Dismissing outright the other side's point of view without even hearing it seems a little bit too
Here are links from a Westerner who is fluent both in Chinese and Japanese and has studied this subject in some depth.
Hope you have the time to check it out.
Message from the rest of the world to the Chinese: stay home. The only place anyone wants to see a Chinese person is inside China.
I don't know whether Chinese have a word for "gratitude".
Burma has always accepted and helped out refugees and immigrants from China. Without going too far back in history, it is well known that the Burmese monarch accepted some fleeing Ming Dynasty princelings and their followers as political refugees in Burma during the 17th century. They were even given a piece of land to settle (Kokang region). In the 18th century, the Qing launched a big campaign to conquer Burma unsuccessfully. The British were more successful during the next century. Coming to the 20th century, there was a lot of turmoil, fighting (CPC against KMT) and famine in China after WWII and a lot of starving Chinese refugees and immigrants moved into Burma, especially in the Shan States. Of course, in those days China was a very poor country and most Chinese were thankful that they can escape the communist regime and the Burmese understood that, because the Burmese government in those days had to fight first against the KMT (supported by the US) and then for three decades against armed communist insurgents supported by China (I was living in Burma during that period). UWSA, presently, the biggest ethnic rebel group in Burma, supported by China (it's basically a PLA proxy) is a remnant of the BCP, the Burmese communists.
Well, this is the 21st century now and it is obvious that the Chinese are still attempting to colonise Burma but with a very different strategy (the 2Y-strategy as I call it, Yuan and Y-chromosomes). Burmese are normally quite tolerant and passive (maybe even fatalistic) in general, a bit like the Tibetans (who many ethnic groups in Burma are related to), but there is a limit how much a bigger country can bully a smaller one without causing resentment.
...I have a sneaking feeling your passport is American rather than Chinese. Regardless, much of the ill will generated by China is self-created, some is political; journalists (like us Chinese!) are people too and if constantly frustrated and impeded by a government will not view said entity kindly and hence write about it negatively.
Contemporary (mainland) China is both parochial and frankly xenophobic. I loose count of the times I've listened to people expounding at length about the evil westerners, filthy Indians, degenerate blacks and the soon to be exterminated Japanese. (For less partial evidence just search for a foreign term on one of the Chinese twitter clones). Not ripping off or exploiting the foreigner is frankly considered to verge on the immoral. I recall one very animated discussion started by a (Chinese) immigrant to Shanghai where he laid into the native Shanghainese for both discriminating against him and not discriminating enough against the foreigner. The centrepiece of his argument was that a shop keep charged him the same price for a pound of apples as he did a foreigner. In two thousand replies I was the first to suggest that this might not be an entirely reasonable view and was immediately shouted down as a race traitor.
Such attitudes make the Chinese genuinely difficult to like as a people.
You are right. US' and China's economies are highly integrated and interdependent. Any surgery to part them would be a major one. The US is one of China's most important export markets and US' export to China has crossed the US$100 billion milestone in 2012. Moreover, despite trade and investment barriers on the US side, China is the US' fastest growing export market too. So a secured, confident and prosperous America is very much in China's national interests. What is good for America is not only good for China, but also good for the world too.
What makes you say Chinese people do not have civil liberty and freedom? If you know Chinese history and have been to China or have met Chinese students and tourists roaming the world, you will know that Chinese people have not enjoyed so much civil liberty and freedom in the last 5,000 years. That is tremendous progress in the last 30 years. The explosive growth in internet and mobile phone users in China is good evidence of the advancement in civil liberty and freedom in China.
However, if you are thinking of the US standard of civil liberty and freedom, then you have not taken into account China's current national conditions. China is still a developing country with a per capita GDP of around 100th in the world. So China needs stability and a peaceful global environment for further development and lifting another 650 million people out of rural poverty. These requirements have become very serious Chinese weaknesses. Sinophobes have been and are exploiting them fully. Sinophobia is a reality that is silly to deny.
Nevertheless, there are serious doubts amongst thoughtful people whether the Americans have taken civil liberty and freedom beyond the point that is good for society and country.
Thousands of years ago, when the Chinese people settled down and became peaceful farmers, people periodically came from north, west and south on horsebacks and from the east in boats, to raid them and their villages, killed their men, raped their women and robbed them of their grains and livestock. In more recent past, they drugged the Chinese people with opium. To the Chinese people, these peoples were the original barbarians. Later, "barbarians" included those who attacked Chinese culture and values when these people had not the slight idea about what they were attacking.
One side note about this "hopscotching": a lot of the "Burmese diaspora" in the US, especially in California, are actually Chinese or half-Chinese ethnically. It is (or at last was) easier to get political asylum or refugee status in Western countries if you say you are discriminated against in Burma (or say you are a political dissident). None of these Chinese-Burmese actually want to go back to mainland China, although some go to Taiwan. Of course, the same strategy is used also by the other people from Burma to settle in the West (except that no country wants to have the wretched Rohingyas lol).
Actually the Western, especially US economic and social values are more and more prevalent and dominating in China - the ubiqitous KFC restaurants, P & G shamppoo, Holywood 3D films to the financial and manangement theories in curriculums of Chinese universities. The Western influence has weakened a bit in the recent years mainly due to their own decadence both in economy and social developments. A country can not become a conquror of the world should it has no its own lasting values both in economic and social respects. A real conquror is the one who sets the rule of games. China is too far from reaching such a status. And probablly never will.
utter drivel. concocting a theory where you assume the traits and thoughts of the entirety one far-flung and dispersed ethnic group based on what has to be limited knowledge, is nothing more than utter drivel.
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You know what kind of sucks? Oversensitivity to strong flavors. A lot of Autistic people have this, but I have it worse than most. I have to be extremely careful about tasting anything I didn't grow up with, and I grew up with processed frozen food and fast food, so I only eat very mild things, and if an ethnic cuisine hasn't been Americanized it might well make me sick. I can eat Americanized Chinese food amd stuff like that, at least.
It's part of why I love the Japanese. Most of their cooking is so mild that it tastes just right to me.
This is all the argument I need against allowing businesses to discriminate. I'm perfectly happy letting people's ability to know they can shop as they desire regardless of race, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, or nationality override the freedom of businesses to decide not to sell to certain groups.
I'm on a bus. I like this bus. I can totally zone out and not pay attention to the road because I'm busy texting, and who cares? I can also get drunk and Still get places safely. I got disposable income, too, because I don't buy gas or insurance. So I can give Paizo more money. Public transportation for life (No, seriously, that's why I study urban planning).
mechaPoet wrote:
That doesn't prove that gendering isn't a natural human inclination, though. Many human inclinations do not apply to the full species, and our natural inclinations can and do cause harm.
Homosexuality itself should demonstrate that. We are hardwired to find the opposite sex romantically desirable, but there is a segment of humanity that instead finds the same sex romantically desirable, or that finds both sexes romantically desirable. There is no reason to believe that homosexuality is abnormal or undesirable rather than just the act of existing outside the majority inclination towards heterosexuality, but its existence shows that a human inclination towards something is not a universal trait that every human will have.
The evidence I've seen does suggest that gender is similar, in that we do have a natural inclination to fall into an identity as either male or female, and that this does usually match our sex. Just look at how pretty much every single culture has a concept of male and female. It is not, however, a universal rule. We have people who do not identify as male or female, or who identify as both, and we have people who's gender does not match sex. To go back to my statement of every culture having a concept of male and female, many cultures do have concepts of other genders. That does not disprove the overall inclination any more than the existence of homosexuality disproves the preponderance of opposite sex attraction. In cultures with multiple genders, the majority still fall into male or female, and those definitions of male and female exist. It is also known that testosterone and estrogen do cause some behavioral differences, and that these differences have a tendency to factor into gender roles. The issue is that we are talking about extremely broad trends here, and any trend so broad has a massive number of outliers. It is also very easy to misstate exactly how deep these trends go. We don't actually know the answer to that. We do know that there are tangible differences between male, female, and gender variant brains, but we cannot explain how big an effect those differences actually are and where culture steps in. Every human culture genders people in some way or another, but concepts of what is feminine and what is masculine do not fully line up across cultures, which Anthropology tells us means a mix of biology and culture is responsible, and you can't just throw the whole thing at culture. Nor can you discount a human inclination because that inclination is harmful. A lot of human inclinations are harmful.
The problem doesn't lay with the fact that we gender, the problem lies with the fact that society acts bigoted against those who do not fit the majority's gender system. That's what we need to address. Women need to be free to act masculine if it suits their personality, men need to be free to act feminine, and we need to understand that some people will be both or neither, and some others will have a sex and a gender that do not match.
Take it from somebody who's seen multiple members of her family use alcohol as a coping mechanism - it almost never ends well. I have enough depression issues and stress not to mess with that. I do love my liquor, but I only drink when I'm in a good mood. Like when watching really stupid SyFy movies. Those are pretty much tailor made for drunkenly mocking with a group of friends.
I do not do always evil or usually evil races, and I feel every culture needs to have both good and bad aspects, including its own set of bigotries. I also like taking classical cliches and twisting them a bit without totally throwing them out. Here's what I did with Elves. Important to know that all playable races are considered human beings, with Magni being the race closest to us here on Earth. So, Elves are a variety of Human, not a separate race.
Elves see themselves as the children of the Sun, open and energetic. They are sociable and full of ideas, and their art is characterized by bold, broad strokes, brand new ideas, and bright colors. If you look at their treetop cities, they show little planning or subtlety. Elves throw up what looks cool and what is nice to live in, and have a thing for bold architecture. Elven social interactions are pretty direct, and elves can be considered somewhat flighty. As a race with magic in their veins, they are more likely have the blood of a sorcerer than any other race except the Drow, and sorcerers make up the majority of Elven arcane spellcasters. With the advent of industrialization, urbanization, explosive population growth, and technology such as trains, factories, and running water, Elven cities have proven quite inadequate to housing a modern population. The rich can keep their cities as they traditionally have been, at the cost of shutting the poor out to slums that aren't even able to provide the poor quality of life one could find in slums in non-forest dwelling races. This has led to a big rift between those who get to live in the beautiful tree cities and those who don't, and massive numbers of Elves are leaving the slums for the cities of the Magni, Dwarves, and Drow. Hence there is a split between Aboreal Elves and City Elves. Elven society preaches environmentalism, though City Elves would say that Aboreal Elves don't know the first damn thing about environmentally friendly city design and that forest cities just aren't sustainable and can't be the basis of Elven society anymore, whereas Aboreal Elves would concede past mistakes and talk about the need for smaller populations and a less technologically reliant lifestyle while deriding the places City Elves live as wasteful, concrete Hells with no connection to nature. Elves value education, but not formal schooling. They like their learning in pieces the size of their attention spans.
They are commonly considered promiscuous by other races, which doesn't fully reflect Elven sexual mores. Elves do attach a degree of importance to sex, but they don't restrict themselves to one partner, even though they practice monogamous marriage. Elves feel that love naturally comes in a spectrum, and your spouse should be that person you love above all others. Having sex with someone other than that spouse is both acceptable and perfectly normal (in fact, it'd be seen as unjustly controlling and a sign of an abusive relationship for an Elf to demand their spouse not have sex with other people), but giving another partner more love and attention than your spouse is adultery, which is an extremely serious offense that will ruin not only a marriage, but one's friendships and other romantic relationships. Divorce has a huge social stigma attached to it. Gay sex has no almost no stigma in Elven culture, as Elves don't see any problem with a man having a male lover or a woman having a female lover, but being exclusively homosexual leads to a lot of anger and ridicule from other Elves, and gay marriage is considered downright ridiculous. Many Elves do not accept the fact that some people do love others of the same gender as much as one loves a spouse. Other Elves don't understand why a gay man wouldn't just become a woman. If a child is born to the union of an unmarried partner and a married partner, the married partner gets full custody and their spouse is considered the opposite sex parent of the child. Elven society teaches that spouse should raise the child as their own without stigma, though society's rules aren't necessarily always followed. The unmarried partner has no parental rights and is not considered related to the child in any way. If both lovers are married, one must get full custody and the other will not be considered related to the child at all. Traditionally the family with fewer children will get the child, with the mother's family getting the child if both have the same number of children. If that arrangement is somehow unworkable, the two sides either come to an agreement as to who's child it is (joint custody would be considered unacceptable) or it turns into a court fight. If both lovers are unmarried, they either get married or the child is taken away and given to a suitable family. A gay couple would never be allowed to raise a child.
Male to female or female to male gender transition has little stigma, but Elven culture does not understand the fact that somebody can be born with the body of one gender and the mind of another. To an Elf, a person who transitions is changing their gender (which most Elves don't see as bad, just weird), not bringing their body over the gender of the mind. Elves do have poorly defined gender roles, as feminine acting men and masculine acting women aren't stigmatized, but they have a feeling that everybody needs to identify with one or the other, even if they can't explain exactly what feminine or masculine is.
Elves are a bit shorter than Magni (think Earth people), and only have body hair on their scalp. Their ears are noticeably pointed, and actually droop or perk up slightly based on emotion. They are light skinned, with red, pink, brown, blonde, orange, green, blue, black, or purple hair and blue, green, brown, orange, or purple eyes. Lighter hair and eyes are more common than darker hair and eyes. Faint colored stripes or spots are not uncommon, though not in the majority either, and can come in any color.
The basic idea here is something that feels similar enough to the classic idea of what an Elf is, while having unique aspects, some desirable cultural attitudes, and some really bigoted and harmful social attitudes. This is the level of complexity I want to have for other races in my world.
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Easy enough to do. Kinda hard to make it really Hitleresque, though.
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When I was 18, I moved away from California to Colorado. At 20, I moved to Montana. At 22, I tried to go to college in Montana, and they classified me as nonresident (yes, there was a logical reason why). That means $35,000 a year to attend, and Colorado was charge about the same.
California charged me in state and gave me enough state aid to be set, despite me not having stepped foot in the state in four years. Obamacare mandate comes in? Free state health insurance. Public transit? Actually fairly reliable. It gets me where I want to go every day with a minimum of displeasure. Environmental policies? Well, we're trying. Our government is very far from perfection, and I could rant a long time on several glaring flaws, but damned if I'm not better off back in my home state than anywhere else I could have gone, and damned if I don't love and appreciate my home state.
Move to California. It's bloody Spring weather already. F$#+ing climate change.
Oh, and from what I understand the polar vortex is being intensified by warming sea ice dumping ice melt into the ocean. So getting warmer can make winters colder. I'd exult the amazing and fascinating wonders of science if it wasn't causing damage to infrastructure, making people freeze, and convincing some people that global warming must be fake because it's freakishly cold out.
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There's something perversely amusing about doing it in Grand Theft Auto, though.
I am seriously considering letting advanced firearms permeate my setting (Simple weapons! DEX to damage for everybody!) and introducing defense bonuses to replace armor (Thank you for doing the math on that, Pure Steam authors!), while keeping the swords around. Somehow there needs to be a way to let players stop bullets with a sword, because fantasy. If you can learn to throw fireballs from your hands or forge a magic sword, you can learn to do this. Sure, everything about that scene is physically impossible or at least implausible in the extreme, but it's not like anything else in Pathfinder combat has any degree of realism, even without the magic.
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In that case, read the latest Oglaf. Just remember to click the next page button to the right, because the story is two pages. Also, VERY NSFW (sexies). Hilarious, though, and I love the casual acceptance of homosexuality in the strip.
Freehold DM wrote:
Why have realism when you can have this? Or this? Or this? Or anything involving Shenhua?
Limeylongears wrote:
Super fun day at the all-North of England HEMA conference. Learnt lots of things and did some sparring, too. I do now have issues with PF/3E's classification of rapiers as 'light' weapons, though. No they bloody well aren't.
Trust me - the last thing you want is realistic weapon and armor design in Pathfinder. All the fun goes out the window.
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I am having fun, and I always nevel up my companions and give them new equipment. I just feel like both Cassandra and Varric do really crappy damage. A shame, because Varric was good in Dragon Age 2, and as a companion I enjoy his personality. He likes to pretend to be a greedy criminal, but you can tell he really does care about people. And that snark.
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The only references to hayaikaze-kai Google can find are from this thread. What type of bike is it?
I have a Specialized Hard Rock mountain bike. I believe it is a 1987 model, with a chromoly steel frame. My earlier use of the phrase hardtail was wrong. It doesn't have any suspension. I keep it fit with front and rear lights. Soon, it shall be a commuter/cargo Frankenbike for college use, with the addition of 5 1/4" raised handlebars, front basket, seat mounted rear rack, panniers, water bottle cage, rear view mirrors, 1.5" road tires with kevlar bands and reflective walls, and a cup holder.
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It is also a neat observation that there ARE ability score minimums in the game already, only now they go for feats instead... And should reasonably block cocepts just as well. So, should I whine about how unfair it is that I can't make my character who has learned not to get hit through combat expertise without 13 Int?
Some of us have complained mightily on that note, and there are GMs like me who took the feat away altogether and just made it how fighting defensively works.
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I don't think those kinds of GMs would like me. I don't just like Asian flavors, I watch anime and wuxia and let some of it creep into my setting and house ruling style. I feel like one of the few who actually wants anime in my Pathfinder.
Okay, some of you guys are being way too heated towards the OP. Seriously, this sort of thing isn't necessary. You can disagree without being aggressive about it.
Onto the idea itself, I strongly disagree with the idea of ability score minimums. It doesn't really add anything to the game except a high level of complexity. Power gamers are going to power game, and people not skilled with mechanics aren't going to be taught much. Meanwhile, multiclassing or using unusual ideas for what a class could represent suffer. I don't like that. Reflavoring a class to fit a totally different fluff is cool. A while back, somebody reflavored a Ninja into something not Japanese at all. It sounds amazing. I want players to do stuff like that, and don't quite feel like trying to enforce the default flavor of the class with entry requirements will help with that.
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A lot of it is that, in some areas, the public defender is working between 300 and 1200 cases per year. Average turnover time is within 12 months, and public defenders tend to be working their first job as a lawyer, so the average public defender is very inexperienced. Throw on that massive caseload, and you have a situation where the lawyer isn't just new, but way overworked. Also, maybe 10%-5% of people charged are actually going to see trial, and even then it takes over a year to get a lot of people into a courtroom because the system is so massively backlogged. If 90%-95% of defendants didn't plead out, the system would literally collapse under the pressure. It can't handle trying even 20% of cases. All of this means that the public defender is probably green and scared and doesn't know what to do and is juggling a completely overwhelming load of clients at the moment, the prosecution is pressing hard to plead the case out, and the court can't get him in for trial for over a year. Plus, the defendant is black. That right there means a jury is more likely to convict and a judge is likely to give a harsher sentence. Read for more. Just be aware that Cracked is an entertainment network first and foremost.
All of that said, I would like to point out that the kid is going to serve out the full term for this. Far as I can dig up, under Georgia state law the requirements necessary to file an appeal are not met in this case (The DA's office would have to have acted illegally, which it did not [immoral behavior doesn't count, and even if their behavior should be unconstitutional it is not recognized as such at the moment, and this just isn't a case that would sway SCOTUS to rule otherwise], the police would have to have acted illegally [if they did, you aren't going to be able to get a court to actually acknowledge it, so this option is dead in the water], or evidence not submitted to the court would have to exist that casts serious doubt as to the verdict [there is no reason to believe such evidence exists]. The fact that there is a guilty plea also makes an appeal astronomically harder to get if one of those three conditions is met.). An appeal just isn't going to happen. It is important to note that there is nothing in the Constitution of the US or any state Constitution I know of that entitles anyone to an appeal, except in the case of capital crimes. From a legal point of view, getting an appeal is a privilege, not a right. All of that aside, the sentence of 15 to 20 years is higher than the minimum sentence for Involuntary Manslaughter in Georgia. Under Georgia state law, that means the defendant is ineligible for early release, such as parole, and has to serve out every single day of the 15 years. A pardon is necessary, but there is no way that is happening, because the political backlash is something the Governor does not want. Since this is a state offense, Obama cannot legally issue a pardon.
To sum, this battle is already lost. Kid is not getting an appeal, is not getting the conviction overturned, is not getting pardoned, and this is going to continue happening to other people. We've fought this exact battle thousands of times, and win barely a fraction of a percent of the time. This one just doesn't look like a winner, even though the victim was most likely justified under Georgia self defense laws.
Since this is the house rule thread, I will say that, while I do prefer perma-death (sorry, but I like death to be ultimate and inviolate), I do love resuscitation. I even got the idea from real life: if someone's heart stops, but you get it restarted within a few minutes, you might be able to preserve their life. I went with the exact same logic, just with healing magic. If you can get the dead character's HP above their death threshold within a few minutes of death, you can bring that character back. After a few minutes, it's just too late. It nicely reconciles perma-death and being able to keep characters, since a few minutes gives you at least 30 rounds.
The visual of a Paladin or Cleric defibrillating somebody with healing magic is also just plain awesome.
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I'm borrowing these, and Flanked should be a condition, too.
Firearms and bows in the same setting. At first, I was strongly in the camp of having guns either be the primary weapon of the setting or not having guns at all, with no in between. Mixing guns with longbows and crossbows made me unhappy. Now mixing guns with bows and crossbows is exactly what I do in my campaign setting. Not really sure what changed my mind.
Summoners. Used to ban them completely. Then I watched Fairy Tail, and now I don't ban them, even if I'm unlikely to play one myself.
Anything that doesn't have a full BAB. Back when I played 3.5, I wouldn't play anything that was missing even one point of BAB. That changed when I switched over to Pathfinder and saw how cool the Witch and Sorcerer were.
The biggest one, however, is Psionics/Rune Mages. Originally wasn't too interested in psionics, despite having the Dreamscarred Press books. Thought about refluffing psionics, saw the rune mage suggestion, and rejected it as not particularly good and went looking for other fluff. See, to me runes are Germanic writing, like so. I do think that picture looks pretty cool, but using Germanic writing as the basis for an entire magic system? That just doesn't work for me. Then I had the thought that since, to me, runes come from a language, they are a means for a spellcaster to communicate intent. Which in turn means that a spellcaster who's language does not use runes should use their own alphabet and language. So, the first picture remains a completely valid choice for how a rune mage might use runes, but this is just as valid. If you speak a Latin based language, it even makes more sense. Likewise, you can do this, this, this, this, or this. There isn't a set alphabet. Even those who use the same alphabet may use very different art styles. Of course, runes drawn in the air during combat are not so fancy as the runes one would use when enchanting an item. No time for that kind of detail. Rune mages should be the best when it comes to magic items, in fact, because flavor.
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In America we have very poor provisions for trade educations. We have a (quite disgusting, honestly) tendency to look down on people who work in the trades, and, while we certainly have trade schools, they don't really get much in the way of support. Most of the big ones you see advertised like ITT Tech or Devry are showing off their computer technology and medical programs and maybe automotive or welding, with construction and maintenance and the like not really getting attention. Plus, ITT Tech and Devry are both extremely shady institutions, with ITT Tech having been sued by the Feds last year and both having an absolute laundry list of complaints against them. America's trade school scene is pretty bad, and we need to stop looking down on trades workers and laborers.
In fact, you know who seems to do a lot of trade schooling? The community colleges. That might we an angle worth looking into. Free community college plus buffing up the resources for the trade programs and making an effort to teach HS students that trade careers are worthwhile. Boom. Now young people have an accessible alternative path to academia.
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I see students get failed in every single class I take. In fact, it is in every instructor's contract that they get to grade as they wish, and it is grounds for a lawsuit if the college tries to interfere outside of equal opportunity violations. Since we are a CC, we have a lot of transfer students. If transfer students start failing university courses, the universities take a look at our standards of education (yes, the universities actually do keep track of the academic performance of CC students by both CC of origin and major). That leads to articulation getting pulled or students from our college being less likely to be accepted for transfer by those universities, and that would hurt us worse than failing students getting thrown out and not bringing in money would. So, we have more interest in not bumping an F to a C.
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I guess I can see family being involved, but actually investigating something involving them would be a bit much.
I do like being part of the world, but more in the manner of having a position in the local area than in my backstory being used as adventure fuel. If I am the sheriff of a region, that makes my character important to the greater area. If the entire group works for the King, we have a vital role to play within the nation. That is better than being a wandering adventurer, in fact. I like having actual duties.
On that subject, players who join a themed game when they don't want to play under its themes. If I start up a game about the King's special agents, and one player is the type who does not take orders from others and doesn't give a damn what some King thinks or says, it raises the question of why that player chose this game. It is a game all about carrying out dangerous but essential missions for the King. If that does not interest the player, why play the game at all? By a similar token, players who intentionally derail things are also frustrating. I'm talking about finding ways not to pursue the King's missions or screw those missions up on a consistent basis, not taking approaches to the mission that the GM didn't expect. Again, if the player doesn't want to go around doing missions for the King, why is that player playing a game that was advertised as exactly that?
Eldrata is a magitech Old West/Victoriana setting that focuses on monster hunting and exploring the unknown in a world characterized by epic scale, fantastic terrain, and wondrous devices. It is not Steampunk, but it shares a lot of tropes and imagery with the genre. The game takes place during a magic-fueled industrial revolution, as the secrets to using arcane magic have recently been unlocked. The world of Eldrata is one that, despite its diversity, is actually rather closely integrated. In the past divine churches spanned the globe, and now mass communication, large global trade networks, and railroads and self propelled ships have tied people ever closely together.
This is a continuation of Thyressa - American Magitech. Some things have changed, and the world has expended beyond just being an America based fantasy, but what themes were originally in Thyressa are still here.
Here is the main setting document.
Currently, I am focusing on fleshing out Castara and then an important region of a different country, and moving out from there. The sample name sections are not finished yet, but I don't have time to finish them now. I've procrastinated too much on my homework already. Eventually, each ethnic group should have at least ten sample names per gender, plus names for dwarves and drow. Magni, elves, and seraphim name children based on ethnicity, not race. Races don't generally have their own languages do to how interreliant they are.
Here is where it starts getting a little weird. Eldrata doesn't really have much in the way of heavy armor, and even breastplates aren't that common. To avoid throwing off game balance, armor was shifted between categories, so a breastplate in Eldrata is equivalent stat wise to full plate in Golarion. Likewise, large swords like the greatsword are also not really a thing, but wielding a longsword two handed will produce equivalent damage. The shortbow is gone, replaced by the recurve bow, which is on par with the longbow. I don't play below level 4, so small monetary amounts aren't something I worry about and I don't have cost values for basic weapons. Some weapons got buffed, Eastern and Western weapons go on the same table, those names in italic are alternate weapons that mimic the listed stats, and there are no small sized player races in Eldrata.
So, how is it so far? Questions? Questions are incredibly useful, because they make me think about things I would not have considered if I weren't asked, and in general greatly speed up my worldbuilding.
Not until August, though. Still. San Francisco! O(≧▽≦)O I've been studying at community college in my native Silicon Valley since I left Montana two summers ago, and in June I finish my lower division courses. In August, I get to enter San Francisco State University's Urban Studies and Planning program as a Junior. ヾ(●⌒∇⌒●)ノ It took me until the age of 24, but I'm finally packing off to university! My acceptance letter is so shiny. Metaphorically, of course. Because that would be weird otherwise.
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Still experimenting to find the right thing for my world. Explaining the divine casters is the hardest thing, because I dislike classic Forgotten Realms/Golarion style cosmology. Historically, I would typically kill the gods off, but I've been taking a Philosophy class and it gave me the idea of leaving things more open ended and nebulous. How does this work (Humanity refers to any character race. An elf is a race of human, not a separate species.):
These are powerful beings that exist on a separate level from humanity (what this level is isn't clear, because nobody has ever seen the realm of the divines). Precisely what they are is also a matter of debate. They have powerful magics and wished worship from followers, but whether or not they created the world and why they wanted worship is a mystery. They were commonly called gods, though nowadays many scholars dispute the accuracy of such a term. There were once hundreds of them, who organized themselves into pantheons that looked over specific ethnic groups and organized religions among them. They had some sort of council among themselves to keep each other in some degree of check, but it didn't seem to work very well considering the wealth of conquerors this world has had. The council ended up completely fracturing during the Colonial Era, breaking out into some sort of cosmological war. The sky darkened around the world and the most horrendous storms in history raged amid the deafening cacophony of battle from the skies above, and when the clouds finally dispersed the divines were gone. That was over a century ago, and nobody knows what happened in the war, where the divines went, or how many are still alive (assuming they can die).
Divine Magic
A form of magic taught to humanity by the divines. It taps in to the power of Gaia or spirit realms, and requires a great deal of spiritual self discipline to use. For some reason, all the hundreds of divines worldwide had strict rules that only priests, shamans, holy warriors, druids, or other servants of the divines should ever be allowed to learn divine magic. As a result, the use of this magic has a strong relationship with religion, even though the magic itself does not come from the divines. The churches that await the return of the divines have tried to maintain control over who can learn divine magic, but they have lost their hold over Druidism and their support base is shrinking.
Witchcraft is divine magic, since it taps into the power of Gaia or spirit realms, but most people distinguish if from divine magic in practice because the divines almost universally opposed witchcraft, seemingly because it existed outside the religious structures they had control over. Knowledge was passed via coven from master to apprentice, rather than through the clergy. It has historically been something of an underground movement as a result, with witches being hunted and killed, though modern day sensibilities generally oppose that now. Witchcraft is often still controversial, but now that you can openly practice it without being executed the number of practitioners is increasing. A lot of the old guard actually find this vexing, and don't like the way their traditions are changing and new witches don't always seem to fully appreciate those traditions.
Arcane Magic
Arcane magic is the manipulation of the magic of Aether, that which rests above Gaia. This is something humanity has understood how to do for less than a century (before this discovery, Sorcerers were a massive danger to themselves and others that nobody understood, and they couldn't much control their powers), but it was such a groundbreaking discovery that the world has changed massively. Industrialization, urbanization, mass communication, railroads, and the beginnings of global economic structures are revolutionizing how people live, all because humans now understand something of how Aether works. By far the most common arcane magic user is the alchemist (who are the single most common magic user in the world), as it is the easiest and safest way to use Aether, but Wizardry and the like are up and coming traditions and Sorcerers can learn to control their powers now.
Common Religions
People are fairly torn on whether the divines were or are actually gods or not. Some common religions believe:
They are gods, and left the world because humans deeply angered them by starting a gigantic cosmic war over colonialism and genocide. Humans have to be good and follow strict rules if they are to calm down and come back. These churches are the remnants of the original divine churches, and remain quite powerful, though they are slipping.
Whether they are gods is irrelevant. The divines started the cosmic war and inflamed colonial attitudes, were kind of jerks, they ruled over humans unfairly, and we are glad they are gone.
There is a supreme god who ruled over the divines, and the cosmic war the divines started over colonialism angered this god so much that it smote them. We should all pay homage to this god and avoid angering it.
The divines are now irrelevant. God is the energy that resides in all things.
The divines are now irrelevant. The spirits of the world and Gaia are much better allies, and we should honor them instead.
The divines were not gods, and they were killed by God. God is Aether, and to use arcane magic is to touch God.
There is no god, and the divines were oppressors. Humanity now controls its own destiny and must do so with benevolence towards all.
Atheism and Agnosticism are fairly common.
51) The PCs are all part of the national government's monster hunting and mage control force. Their superior officer formed them into a squad, and sent them forth to destroy high powered magical threats to the people of the realm.
This is basically how my campaign setting works. As a worldbuilder I naturally lean towards strong governments that have the best intentions, and relatively high levels of infrastructure and technology. This does not lend itself to traditional adventuring. So I don't use traditional adventuring.


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