Politics is Downstream From Culture
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BOP
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Jesus, she's ugly.
Wait, do I take out the comma, or leave it in? Jesus she's ugly. Jesus she's an ugly Jesus. Jesus, she's an ugly Jesus. Pronounce Jesus however you want, but Jesus, she's ugly.
If she were my dog, I'd shave her ass and make her walk backward. Wait....maybe somebody already did.
She's so ugly, she could be twins; Ugh, and Lee.
I'm not sure what Jesus (or Jesus) looked like. A lot of painters thought he looked like a long-haired hippie type pinko fag, sans the Commie flag tacked up on the wall inside his garage.
But I'm willing to bet Jesus wasn't that ugly. Jesus.
But, as they say about the left: "Ugly is as ugly does."
And Spoon says culture is downstream from power.
Some of these movie warnings are hilarious - "Depicts smoking! 
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The discord was long on big-text underlined rules about inclusivity and diversity, with no hate-speech allowed, short on descriptions of how to be ready for game or what to expect. Upon IRL arrival I did note that the gender ratio was surprisingly balanced, which is probably why I gave it a few more tries before writing it off as not for me. There were two big tables, and a third overflow table where they stuck leftovers and newcomers. Three out of three times, this table was all conventional-looking dudes.
There seemed to be an odd preponderance of Tiefling PCs, and people kept bringing up that their character was queer or non-binary, as if this was really important, moreso than, say, Background. Once more, cultural differences. A lot of the conversational snippets I caught stuck out at me as being kinda...toxic. I could see the organizer guy made a point of being welcoming and positive, but I think I heard the phrase "Disgusting Bigot" three times in one night from other attendees. I said hello to who I assumed was the organizer's significant other, and she quickly brought up how someone had tried to gatekeep her and mansplain her. One person pulled out Hinge on her phone during downtime, making snarky comments about the guys’ profiles as she swiped.
Games weren't being run particularly well, either; twice, an entire hour of gametime (which was by necessity short; slightly more than three hours at best when you factor in setup and breaks) was taken up with getting the party to agree to go on the quest; because there was always one guy who had to be convinced in-character to participate or otherwise held things up. Given the one-shot/episodic, drop-in context of this sort of game, it would have made way more sense to just pick up the adventure in medias res or with a cold open. To be fair, this was the leftovers table and some of the DMs were new. I never got into the big tables full of fabulous tieflings, so I don't know firsthand how those were run, but they were definitely raucous. I think I overheard something about beads and/or dildos at one point.