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unreality 

no one else send to react so I guess I'm hallucinating lmao

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unreality I guess? 

this reads like the start of a creepypasta but I swear to god in the middle of writing the "haha that was disorienting" post, what sounded like a melody built from the non painful part of squealing breaks just kinda

existed in the air!

came right through my headphones!

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unreality I guess? 

my bus is presently going in circles around the Denver performing arts complex. i became extremely disoriented when we drove through what appeared to be a tunnel in a pace I've never seen a tunnel

uh

what the fuck was that high pitched sound

dress up real nice and find someone 

who's ready to run

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uspol 

Biden seems to actually be doing some pretty decent shit so far? i know it won't last and is balanced out by shit like the tear gas last night, the deafening silence on the concentration camps, and so many of the cabinet etc appointments and pre-emptive ceding of power to Republicans, and...

wait what was I saying again

why is there a new beta version for baldur's gate 1, what the fuck is this

pathfinder, alignment, worldbuilding, and moral philosophy; light structural spoilers for my players 

angels are inherently good aligned, because that's a fundamentally elemental thing in the structure of pathfinder. but their aasimar descendents aren't, though that elemental touch does nudge them towards goodness.

but in my view, Good is different from good. stern commitment to good can be destructive. though it isn't inherently so, either.

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pathfinder, alignment, worldbuilding, and moral philosophy 

(I already am reconciling how some things work. necromancy is not inherently evil, it just lends itself to evil because of the disrespect to people's wishes, and undead are usually evil because violating the boundaries between life and death involves touching a dangerous space in between the two. orcs were seen as evil because they were constantly enthralled to evil lords; they have been free now for 300 years.)

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pathfinder, alignment, worldbuilding, and moral philosophy 

... but the fantasy world I'm making is one that has been in my head for over 10 years, and I won't excise what I believe from its structure.

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pathfinder, alignment, worldbuilding, and moral philosophy 

it's not really at all important to reconcile a fictional morality system with my real world views, which I hope is obvious. but I'm building a fantasy world with the particular/immediate intent of being used in the pathfinder game that I'm running. I want to respect the mechanics, because that's something that's important to jade, who is one of the players...

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pathfinder, alignment, worldbuilding, and moral philosophy 

I'm of the opinion that utilitarianism is compatible with lawful and good, *but* I also have a pretty limited understanding of how alignment works

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