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1. I had been teaching a little girl for several months, when one day she said to me: “My mother says you’re a real person, not an app. If you’re a real person, show me your husband.”

2. I was about to end a class, but the little girl I was teaching didn’t want the class to end. She turned to her mom and asked if she could please watch one more episode. Turns out she was under the impression that I was a very interactive TV program.

3. I couldn’t find my marker in class today. The boy I was teaching was like, “What’s your apartment number? I’ll come up and help you find it!” The boy lives in China and I live in the United States. I guess most people he knows live in the same building as him, so he assumed I did too.

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Like. If you find my opinions so insufferable then good news! you aren’t forced to look at my blog or the blog of any of the handful of intense weirdos who agree with me. Blogs that post nothing but 5e content outnumber us dozens to one, go follow those instead.

WotC has largely succeeded in getting every mainstream space within this hobby to cater to people who think exactly like you. The idea that it’s okay to never branch out from d&d and you can hack d&d for any setting you wanna play doesn’t need to be defended, it’s the default opinion in this hobby.

Go to any popular tabletop space and the most common response you’ll find to “i want to play a game set in ______” is “here’s how to reskin d&d for it”. Many publishers are releasing 5e conversions of their non-d&d games, or straight up ditching their own in-house systems in favor of 5e because they know they won’t sell enough to stay afloat otherwise. Go to the RPG section of a bookstore and non-5e material will take up at best a tiny fraction of the shelf space if there is any at all.

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They're trying to win this by swaying public opinion. That's why they're doing movie deals about it and staging ridiculous photo ops.

They're gonna try to give this kid the death penalty to cover up for their own gross incompetence and in the hopes that they scare the working class out of trying to fight back.

Camoran is a conman. Claims to worship the prince of violent change/revolution: however his bloodline is tantamount. His heritage and what he's "owed" the major point of pride. Claims to want to liberate Tamriel but the first city attacked (and the most violently destroyed) is Kvatch - the city that had also been sacked by his own tyrant father who had tried to conquer the entire continent in a majorly bloody war. Kvatch was a vanity project. To the point he saw extra resources put in to open a great gate there, specifically. It's not that the Empire is corrupt (it is) or colonialist (it is) and changes need to be made for the betterment of everyone - it's that the royal line that currently runs the Empire, the Septims, aren't HIS. Camoran fully believes he deserves to be in their place instead, and that includes all of - if not more - of the oppressive systems that make an empire an empire. To the point that he literally throws his own men into the metaphysical meat grinder because he deluded them into thinking they're somehow not going to be victims like everyone else.

He's not a jock. He's not a screaming angry animal, not openly.

He's a schemer, a plotter, an urbane, well-spoken gentleman, a philosopher- or so he thinks.

Haskill describes him as the most imcompetant schemer in the Realms, but he is a schemer.

In Battlespire, we speak to him, and he's urbane and polite, or least seemingly urbane and polite.

That word, 'seeming.' Dagon seems polite, even when trying to kill you. Dagon seems philosophical when quoted by Camoran. He seems a skilled plotter when we look at the Mythic Dawn assassinating the Emperor and invading Mundus. Seems.

But consider. He's polite, when trying to kill you. His quotes seem philosophical, but they're just 'Neener neener, everyone's gonna see I'm toughest and I'll crush them, you'll see.' His plots fall apart because he didn't reallize the famously-adulterous Uriel Septim would have bastards.

Dagon's not a drooling barbarian, he's worse- a pretentious, pseudointellectual midwit might-makes-right asshole. He's every alt-right 'dark enlightenment' statue PFP, all fake intelligence and mangled philosophy and sloppy 'plotting' over a complete lack of emotional control and a deep desire to just smash everything complicated while bitterly envying and desiring the sophistication he mocks, but can only fumble the performance of and then crush in a rage.

the argonian slave revolt and sacking of Morrowind by argonian forces wouldn't have been possible without Mehrunes Dagon and his oblivion gates. the rise of the reformed Aldmeri Dominion wouldn't have been possible without Mehrunes Dagon and his oblivion gates. the secession of most of Tamriel's provinces from the Empire wouldn't have been possible without Mehrunes Dagon and his Oblivion gates. Ulfric's rebellion wouldn't have been possible without Mehrunes Dagon and his Oblivion gates.

in TESV, pretty much every faction you see is a shadow of their TESIV counterparts. Tamriel as we know it is radically different in Skyrim than it was in all previous Elder Scrolls games, and that's almost entirely either directly or indirectly because of the daedric prince of revolution and the plots he pulls off in Oblivion. you can't handwave that away by being like "he's just like joe rogan, guys!!" just because he doesn't succeed in completely burning Tamriel to the ground which, arguably, was never even his goal in the first place, merely something he convinced Mankar Camoran he wished to do in order to manipulate him into carrying out his will, and in doing so, bringing ruin to both his own dynasty, and the Septim empire.

That same poll also shows that nearly half, 47%, approve of the genocide and believe every Palestinian in Gaza should be killed.

The survey was conducted in March by Israeli scholar Tamir Sorek, a professor at Pennsylvania State University. He worked with the Israeli polling firm Geocartography Knowledge Group.

Most of the Israelis you come across are bad people. Almost all of them approve of the genocide in some shape or form.

Local teen James Nelson went no-contact with his father after he became an active ICE agent again this year when he heard about the unchecked force he’d be encouraged to use under President Trump.