I made a new D&D campaign in my world. Haven’t had inspiration in a while but I am having a great time with it.

I am hoping to eventually publish some of it more as inspiration for other DMs than to make much money.

In the process of making the map and history for this campaign, I made an unrelated place on the map that is worthy of its own adventure. That kind of unintentional synergy is greatly satisfying, and if I do want to publish the damned thing, a nice bonus.

Also, my players are loving it and unknowingly made a perfect party for my shenanigans.

That’s the basis for a decent standup bit if you’re that type of fat guy.

In my world, wood elves, of buried within a year in a grove, become a part of it (sorta like in Speaker for the Dead) and high elves choose to enact this ritual living separately.

These majestic trees grow to great heights, akin to redwoods. When such a tree dies of old age, the heartwood animates but has only the vaguest memory of its prior lives. That’s the origin of warforged for my world. Incredibly rare, filled with history but oddly disconnected from it.

Haven’t invented new races yet, only twists on existing ones.

Lizardfolk? Eat their dead with reverence, carve their stories onto their bones and then reanimate then for labor or battle. Their dead never truly die and remain a respected part of their culture.

Dwarves care about achieving immortality through craftsmanship, humans through magic. It’s only halflings, and gnomes to a lesser extent, that have simply accepted death and lived their lives.

I assumed and mostly meant the question as a joke about the prevalence of those toxic markets.

Is this projections or the betting market?

I never saw the original movie but it was on HBO and watched it with my wife the other day.

It surprised me, much better than I expected, and it held my interest throughout.

They did that by opening the movie with terrible characatures that the second act fleshes out into people you can relate to, even when they’re being terrible.

The only furry I’ve known is also trans, fwiw.

I mostly agree with you that I do not get the subcultures at fucking all, only to know that they are distinct. I don’t think most furries actually think that they are actually spiritually that animal in any way. Thats otherkin; you’re conflating two weird subcultures.

So the otherkin folk are really weird to me, but I dunno that they are clinically weird unless they truly believe their own shit.

Furries who like to get into suits and party, hey, do your thing, and sorry the real perverts make your existence harder. I don’t wanna yuck anyone else’s yum, just keep them at arms length.

I barely have enough spare cash for my hobbies. I can’t afford fursuits even if I wanted them. It’s weird! (Just mostly harmlessly so.)

I do love that it’s set in Bikini Bottom.

We nuked the hell out of the Bikini Islands for nuclear tests.

SpongeBob and his friends are all mutants.

I actually saw a minute or two of SpongeBob and was surprised/annoyed they didn’t seem to be moving underwater.

I think I expected the show to be more sophisticated in a useless way.

Oh I definitely got the genetic reference already, just wanted to know if I was reading it appropriately as a laugh.

Never having watched SpongeBob, I hear Popeye laughing and think that’s the joke. Am I right?

Oof. I hope there is at least a great story.

But you may get moments where you realize you are a very different person and start to mature or develop more deliberately.

To reply more to the OP, settling into a routine is definitely not the same thing as growing up, although they can happen at the same time.

Routines are fine but also limiting, and maybe that’s what you’re feeling. Breaking out of routines tends to lead to growth and change, but at a cost.

With oil, barrels is the normal unit of measure. Changing that makes it more difficult to compare to other oil spills.

Equivalent to about 5,302 barrels of oil. Did the conversion because I had no idea. Bad headline.

Good but not great. They dump the battlesuits entirely. For budget reasons this makes sense at the time but that investment in equipment (and to a lesser extent the soldiers within) shows the cost of space travel and how we are spending insane amounts to kill space bugs that are on most worlds.

But they, in turn, use the infantry rush of unarmored soliders pretty well to show the cost of war.

The use of propaganda in the media mirrors the indoctrination well enough. It keeps the audience from completely getting on board with the propaganda since it’s so on the nose. (Some will still swallow it, the same way some people saw The Boondock Saints as an awesome hero flick rather than an over-the-top action comedy.)

The book is fine. The opening pages tell us clearly that we are nuking bugs on planets with intelligent beings, using all the ammo (because it’s too expensive to return with nukes) and leaving for another planet with bugs.

After that we jump to our protagonist, who is being brainwashed in high school.

Finally, Heinlein was writing his father’s worldview and wanted to take it to its logical end.

I love that book and movie.

There’s a theory that the main character actually is suffering from cancer and that the love interest is also a lens for him to confront who he really is.

Fascinating how that upends it all, but I am not sure I believe it.

It’d be even more amazing if the original owner was still around and then it was stolen.

SCP was kinda my entrypoint into creepypasta, so I appreciate the clarification. Wouldn’t have known there was a prior inspiration to it.

Looks like the IKEA SCP as a movie.