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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

Running gag in my group: player "are there any traps?" - dm "looks clear"

[–] ninja 40 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

player: rolls stealth check

DM: you think you're hiding

[–] samus12345 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The DM tells you what you perceive, not what actually is.

[–] Maggoty 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I get that, but at a certain level of roll it needs to be a definitive answer. Even if you don't beat the DC, a roll like 25 should at least get something back like, "You don't know why but you're getting bad vibes."

Otherwise players just feel lost and like the character's expertise means nothing.

[–] porl 2 points 5 months ago

This is one reason I love Pathfinder 2e's degrees of success.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago

Respond to the player with a question, "Are you searching for traps?"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

"None that you can see" is a fun response. Especially on a high roll, if you're rolling knowledge and perception checks in the open. Gets 'em good and weirded out.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That should always be the response. It keeps it consistent. It should never be "there are no traps" because it's a comment on their characters knowledge, which is just that they can't see any. There's never a guarantee.

[+] PriorityMotif -17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, this isn't a Linux sub, so no.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I'm sure you mean well, but that's not a word you should refer to people with

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

That's an awfully kind response to someone who decided hate was on the menu today...

The world needs more people like you :)

[–] PriorityMotif 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Explain this

https://lemmy.world/post/13784916

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm not saying that Linux communities aren't full of queer people (they absolutely are), I'm saying that "trap" is used as a transphobic slur and shouldn't be used to refer to people unless they explicitly want you to

[–] PriorityMotif -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's just a subgenre of "it's not gay if" fetish pornography for bi curious cis males who want to be "trapped" by the cute girl next door.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

sure, but it's also a derogatory term used as an actual insult against real trans women implying they're a) not real women and b) trying to deceive men

[–] PriorityMotif -4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The op in the thread I linked is definitely trying to attract male attention with that image. They know what they're doing, either guys won't read and up vote or it attracts guys with a fetish. Either way they're looking for validation for having feminine features and being trans. I guess I could be more inclusive and call them an attention whore like I would anybody else who posts stuff like that.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

trying to attract attention, feeling confident in their looks or simply cute, there are many reasons they might've posted that. Even if it was only meant for attention (which it likely wasn't, posting on a niche community on a small instance on an obscure platform. posts on unixsocks are mostly by queer people for other queer people), that'd be no different from the millions of other posts in communities like Roast Me or Gone Wild.

Why do you say guys can only like this content if they're ignorant or have a fetish? There is nothing strange about liking feminity, and for that it doesn't matter if the OP is cis or trans. This is exactly the sort of harmful stereotype I was talking about earlier. Trans people are not trying to trick anybody, but just live their lives.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

@itslilith It seems like cishet men really thinks everything posted on the internet has to be directed at them 😭

[–] PriorityMotif -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I would prefer not to be included in other people's fetish. That includes woman posting pictures of themselves in thiugh highs and those videos where woman are intentionally showing cleavage in order to get people to watch their video longer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Then don't consume that content? The community you linked to is specifically about people posting pictures in thigh highs. There's also a lot of content I can't stand, but I've curated my media consumption so I rarely if ever need to encounter it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Then dont watch it.