play It gets so lonely here by ebi-hime

i need to update it. we still are looking for housing in Portland but now we have medicaid to tide us over and that will be easy to switch to OHP once there. our current housing is no longer safe and we need out asap.

If you do tastefully suggestive lingerie pics and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

If you're a barista and you think you're better than someone who does full service sex work then you're a fool and a traitor.

In that way, it's very similar to NieR Automata in that a significant number of people that are "fans" of it, are only interested in the pornography of the main character.

I spent an hour and a half looking up Stellar Blade smut, and 90% of it is just bland, uninspired blender/SFM renders of Eve with faceless muscular men, usually alongside 2B solely because they're both action game robot women.

Thousands of pieces but the art or animations inspired by actual scenes or interactions in game? Pictures that paired her with the myriad women that flirt with her/she flirts with, or otherwise bond with? I could count on my fingers.

If you don't like WotC due to the recent scandals they've been involved in (such as the OGL thing and sending the Pinkertons to someone's house) and you are serious about disrupting the economic and cultural stranglehold they have over the entire tabletop hobby, pirating D&D products is infinitely less important than exploring, discussing and platforming games and creators outside of the D&D 5e ecosystem.

D&D is a crunchy, combat-centric game built for dungeon crawling that is primarily played by people who don't want any of that. If they were choosing a game, they would choose something else. So the 5e social ecosystem is built to create the illusion that 5e can do anything, that it's an easy game --the easiest game!-- and learning anything else would be too difficult, and other games are for gatekeeping nerds.

But that illusion is really fragile. Reading a single other game is often enough to shatter it. Playing something else, something that actually suits the gameplay you're going for or brings new and exciting ideas to the table, can change someone's view of TTRPGs forever.