Recent content by TWRule

A little late to the party here, but as someone who has never watched the movies or read the comics but read several of the books and short stories (and also played the Age of Conan MMO), I heartily recommend the series for anyone interested in low fantasy settings with adult themes. I say 'low'...

I haven't played pathfinder, so I imagine the context is a bit different, but I was given similar advice for 5e and also ignored it, making a healing-heavy support cleric. I was a new DM and my players were also all fairly new to the game. We were playing through the starter set, which...

I was curious about this, so I looked it up. From what I can tell, it's not clear that 'awful' and 'offal' have any etymological relation; they have different roots, with the first being related to "that which inspires fear" and the second being related to "to fall off" (i.e. that which 'falls...

I don't know the author's reasons for the series' name, but if I had to speculate: The series is called "Berzerk" after Guts, who fights without any sense of meaning or desire to continue living (especially prior to his relationship with Casca and the original band of the Hawk) - and later as...

As far back as I can remember, I've only really cared about the personal conflicts and relationships characters had in games; sure I found some of the settings fascinating too, but only if the characters were also interesting (or it was the sort of game where the character was just an avatar for...

The first arc was flawed but overall enjoyable and even a little thoughtful at times, the rest ranged from having a few interesting moments but being mostly uninspired to provoking the same sort of audible 'ugh' everyone let go at the second arc. Spoilers, they even re-use the same...

Basically anytime I encounter another cliched half-baked ideology being propagandized (which is near constantly) - but the worst of it is when I even get bored of my own reactions to that or even to my own internal narrative about my life (i.e. when I get bored of being bored, and tired of being...

When most people use the term 'happy', they mean a psychological feeling only, or some confused combination of mere 'contentment' and a more complete/holistic fulfillment. 'Happy feelings' come and go in any psychologically healthy human being, so those should be considered irrelevant to the...

As others have pointed out, there is a sex/gender conceptual divide. What makes that difficult to accept for some people is that gender happens to be closely culturally associated with sex (even those claiming to be somewhere on a 'spectrum' between man and woman are making used of those ideas...

Well, within the context of the universe, the Jedi probably got it right since they apparently get not only eternal life and the ability to still consciously interact with the world after death (force ghost), but apparently the promise of eternal serenity following that, whereas the Sith...

No, thanks - I'd rather leave you to your superior knowledge of those philosophers. Clearly I am just going to 'get the basics wrong' in my fumbling about. I had better work out these concepts with other wretched plebs like myself, since I apparently can't hope to approach anything like your...

I'm having an extreme amount of difficulty following your ideas because of the way you're choosing to try to express them... If (and I admit I'm reaching here) you mean to say that the world is not as a philosophy says it is but just projected meaning on what is alien and meaningless...that...

I'm honestly not sure what you mean to imply here...how is this relevant to what I've said?

Every philosophy insists that it applies totally to the real world, otherwise it would not be philosophy. This is a different view from any 'sociological' view, true, but that doesn't mean it ignores the phenomena of the social world. I'm still not sure what you think I'm supposedly leaving out...

I've been focusing here on self-understanding - that shouldn't imply that I was neglecting the social aspect of existence. The problem here is that 'the social', in the way you and other posters here invoke it, is being reduced to a very specific way language can be used - where categorical...