It's easy to lose perspective when talking about Trump; always has been. But right now, four people are dead because he directed his supporters to literally attack Congress.
I don't think he's ever understood (or cared) that people live or die based on his decisions.
*Four people* are dead because he told the MAGA crowd to storm the Capitol and raise hell. They're gone.
I get vertigo just trying to comprehend the death toll from his idiot non-response to the coronavirus. They didn't have to die. He killed them. Over a quarter-million people.
And all he had to do was *something.*
A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G.
But no, don't test, don't worry. It'll all go away. Can you even imagine having nearly 300,000 deaths on your conscience? Can you even imagine ONE?
The man is such a seething, belching cretin that he stopped testing for the virus because if you don't test, nobody tests positive! Therefore, nobody is sick.
It's the same logic as avoiding the dentist because whenever you go, you get cavities.
It's like on the Simpsons when they're alerted by scientists that the Earth will be destroyed by an asteroid, and when it turns out to be nothing major, the mob burns down the observatory so this never happens again.
The only time that moron logic would ever work is if you were trying to get away from the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal, who *still* would've been a better president.
Hell, Zaphod Beeblebrox got elected President of the Galaxy and fled his own inauguration to steal a starship and go joyriding. Worthless, yeah, but at least nobody got fucking KILLED.
But anyway, I doubt Trump will ever face any real consequence for murdering nearly 300,000 people. Ignoring everything else illegal that he's done. But everyone is acting like they're just happy he's going away.
Life. Don't talk to me about life.
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I am reminded of the time Angry Joe and I were in D.C., and Joe wanted to film a sketch in front of the Supreme Court, dressed as Corporate Commander. I made him wait while I went to the nearest policeman and told him what we were up to, fearing a sharpshooter would take Joe out.
I put myself in the mind of one of the rooftop snipers, idly scouting for threats when suddenly, he sees COBRA Commander, and instincts hardwired in since childhood take over, and without even thinking, the trigger is pulled.
I mean, think about it: this is why you became a sharpshooter *in the first place* was fantasies of drilling a hole in COBRA Commander's head from half-a-click out with a gun that shoots bullets the size of bananas.
All that stuff about "hang on to your humanity," "blend in with mortals, work with them?" You know what they're doing?
They're trying to make fucking daywalkers so they can take over the fucking world. They don't give a shit about mortals or any Masquerade. Daywalkers.
So basically, your vampire character dutifully works their way up in rank, being inducted ever-higher in the circles of the Ordo Dracul, until one day you walk in and everyone is wearing robes and weird freaking masks and paddling each other while chanting at the mothership.
Ironically, the only group that (in my opinion) got it right were the Lancea Sanctum-- also the group I had the most trouble with. The Sanctum acted ABHORRENTLY, their reasoning being to SCARE people into believing in God.
As in "we will act like the most evil, sadistic, unholy monsters you picture in your nightmares. By doing so, by showing you true demonic capital-E EVIL, therefore a righteous God must exist."
It's a great motivation. It is also completely psychotic, and not suitable for a PC.
The Lancea Sanctum are *perfect* examples of "Lawful Good" villains, because their sense of righteousness, their approach to "saving" you and ushering you into YHVH's flock is twisted, but they think they're doing the right thing by doing the wrong thing, so you don't have to.
With a good DM, sure, Werewolf is fine. That's the real problem with most World of Darkness settings: your DM has to be *sharp* to present any kind of meaningful story and create a bond between characters who are all (let's be fair) violent, unrepentant murderers.
You'd be surprised at how many confused looks I'd get around the table when I explained to my VtM group that they *are* supposed to be the good guys, or at least antiheroes. There's a reason Humanity is tracked so closely in that game; it's to make you NOT want to be a monster.
But that's always been a firm rule in any game I play: we can argue alignment, Good/Evil all night, every night. And believe me, I have.
You can be whatever you want to be, act however you want to act, but *you are the protagonist*.
One time I won a game of scrabble with the word "CRWTH."
Yes. It is a word.
I only knew that because I studied bardic stuff to get in character. My opponent was... rather vulgar.
A crwth is a pile of crap bowed string instrument, and beside bagpipes, the most likely instrument to get a bard lynched within seconds was the crwth.
I presume the crwth is of Welsh design, mainly because it's horrible and the Welsh have not yet invented vowels.
The Welsh language can be charitably described as what would happen if a Klingon tried eating a handful of powdered chalk and suddenly took a truncheon to the larynx while trying to swallow it.