I keep hearing about revanced, but I never end up checking it out because there’s always another option. I used to use Invidious for everything, then I used Newpipe for everything, and now I use Grayjay for everything. I have faith that if Revanced goes down, there will be another Revanced in days.

1. Thanks, I will look into it
2. She can but it would make her sad. I don’t get it, but since this is the only thing we fight over I count myself lucky

Normally thats a good option but my wife really likes watching Disney+, Dropout, and football on the NFL app, so if I did that I think I would be sleeping on the couch. Besides, I don’t mind the ads, they’re all in Spanish anyway

I mean, their algo might be shit already. All its ads for me have been in Spanish for a while now. I do not speak Spanish nor do I have any interest in telenovellas lol

That’s what I’m doing now, but I have to go through the Roku part to get to it. Also roku scans everything coming through the HDMI ports to try and recognize media so it knows what ads to give you

Sick! I wanna check that out

In Trail of Cthulhu, if you suffer madness you must leave the room while the other players and DM debate the most appropriate manner in which to gaslight you. They may, for example, pass notes to each other and exchange meaningful glances. Or, they could all agree that some important recent event didnt happen and will react with confusion when you bring it up. Or they could come up with any number of other thjngs.

Random Trivia: I gotta start doing this in all my comments

Truly tragic. I wonder if pokemon would look different if it was created by a gen alpha kid

No, really. That’s what most people do.

You know how most people would think you are a hacker if you started running commands in terminal/CLI? Same thing with torrenting. Torrenting is this scary program that hackers use to put malware on your computer.

My wife was raised by an IT guy and uses firefox for everything, and she is also scared by torrenting. She’s more educated on it, sure, but she’s still scared of it because she thinks the FBI will arrest her for downloading pirated software. She’s much more comfortable going to one of those sketchy streaming sites behind the protection of a good adblocker.

Especially since a good ad blocker gets rid of all those ads.

It’s what I do. I know for myself that torrenting would be my personal rubicon. I wouldnt be able to do it, morally speaking, without reseeding, and then I would have to start investing in a home server and get really stuck-in. I’m just not ready to do that until I’m willing to fully commit.

I am looking it up right now. Thanks!

So, first off, Satanists dont actually believe in magic, but they do believe that people need religion to some extent, that people need to live in a world of wonders. So, they turn things under their control into magick. For example, you combine some ingredients correctly in a baking pan, nurture it with heat for the correct amount of time, and you transmute these base ingredients with the power of life and death into bread. That’s magic. You enacted your agency upon the world to transform it in a manner that you will it to.

LaVey had some very insightful descriptions in the Satanic Bible, which otherwise is fairly useless beyond being an edgy bookshelf decoration, about how ceremonial magick works. (I tend to refer to this as ritual magic, since I think he was rather limited in his imagination). As he puts it, every ceremony needs an appropriate ritual space to invoke the correct state of mind in your audience, a leader (you) dressed in the appropriate vestments, a wand to direct the attention of your audience, and an altar to act as the focal point. You may also need a throne or crown to perform your authority.

When I started DMing, this was how I approached my task. The ritual space is the table with the map and the minis, the DM screen was my altar, my metal dice (or rather their rolling sound) was my wand, my vestments were the stack of rulebooks directly to my left, and the one nice chair I possessed was my throne. Each helped convey a message that supported my authority. My DM screen has transparent pockets that I would put art into that was appropriate to the vibe I wanted. My books, which i would gesture to whenever I made a ruling, had three meanings: first, the rules are what the game derives its authority from since the published rules feel more official; second, I had read them all and my players knew it, so I could usually imply any given rule was in the books somewhere; third, they were mine, but the players could also use them, as I am a generous and benevolent god. The dice also give legitimacy, but I had also found that (if used sparingly) nothing instilled greater dread in the hearts of gamers than the sound the the DM rolling on tables behind the DM screen, which is why i used metal dice rolled on a dice tray I had made by taping two plates back-to-back. Additionally, lending my metal dice to my players was a literally weightier display of my benevolence.

Teaching can be interpreted similarly. The ritual space is the classroom; it should be decorated to go along with your curriculum, and the desks and items in the room should be arranged in a way that encourages behaviors you want and discourages unwanted behaviors. Your vestments are your teacher clothes, because you need to look like a teacher to be respected. The altar is the whiteboard for obvious reasons. Every teacher has their opinion on what kind of wand is best, but I prefer a yardstick over a laser pointer. And finally, the throne is the teacher desk.

This is also why I am really opposed to virtual learning. I cannot create my ritual circle when I am not in the same room as my students. If I am physically present but don’t have a classroom, I can just put more work into my appearance and performance. But I guess i will have to adapt. Besides, I also realized that adhering strictly to Satanic ritual practice made my DMing rather rigid and encouraged me to act like an asshole sometimes, so these days I’m more focused on creating a space having where my friends can have fun with me.

This is sort of the reverse, but I learned how to DM from Satanism. I’m not a Satanist anymore but I still use the framework of magick to talk about the practice of authority. It has come in pretty handy as a teacher.

Where’s jupiter

That’s actually a good point. I forgot that armor is a work of art, sort of like a statue that you wear.

Sorry. I just got excited and ran off with it.

I agree. In fact, already took the idea. Of course, more things is more gooder. I did a quick survey of my feats and realized the amount of features available to the lawful alignment is rather anemic.

Chaotic cleric is basically a druid, so honestly i should also give them animal troops. They already have an at-will speak with animals.